Lights and Sirens

Returning to Normal

Matt and Gabby walked hand in hand up the path of the firehouse towards the Common room where all of their colleagues were waiting eagerly. As their reached the trucks, Casey stopped and Gabby turned round to see what was wrong. "Is everything ok baby?" she asked squeezing his hand gently making him smile.

"I miss him already." he admitted, a he looked at his hand as it was held carefully in Gabby's. 

She moved her hands up so they where rested lightly on his chest as she looked deep into his eyes. She could see every emotion that was burning brightly behind them and she could tell that being away from Jamie was hurting him, just as it was her. But they had a job to do and Jamie was fine now, safe with her brother at home. A few days after he had woken up the doctors had given them the test results before they gave them the green light for him to be able to go home. Today was the day that the firehouse were able to find out exactly what had happened and how their little Monkey was going to be in the future.

"Matt, I know exactly how you are feeling right now. The place I want to be right now is with him at home with you and Antonio." she took a deep breath. "As soon as I told him the whole situation he jumped on the first plane back to Chicago from Florida. He wants to be here for Jamie and he had put his training on hold for him, surely that proves something." she explained.

"I'm not saying that having Antonio at home with him was a bad idea, because it wasn't, what I was trying to say was that after everything our son has been through, it just tears me apart being away from him. It always has."

"I know that hunny, but you heard him, he wanted you to go back to work. He knew that it would bring you some normality after that whole experience. He is right, being at work is what you need." she finished as she rolled up onto the balls of her feet and kissed him on the cheek. "I'm starting to think that maybe Jamie knows us better than we know ourselves." she said over her shoulder with a smile as she slowly made her way towards the common room, Casey rolling his eyes playfully before jogging to catch up with her.

"Hey, look who it is!" Herrmann called stuffing the last bit of toast into his mouth as Dawson and Casey walked through the door, distant expressions on their faces making everyone feel a 'We have bad news' atmosphere.

"How is he?" Kelly asked standing up from the table, a coffee mug in his hand.

Gabby grasped her fiancé's hand as she took a deep, wavering breath. "After April came and gave us the all clear to take him home she gave us some news..." she started as she looked up to Casey to try and cover a smile that was fighting to spread across her face. It seemed strange having to fight to keep a smile off her face, she was used to biting back the tears that stung her eyes.

"News?" Cruz asked looking around the room at everyone's worried expressions.

"Yeah," Casey continued, he looked down at Gabby and met her gaze. He could see the corners of her mouth twitching as she tried to hide her happiness from the rest of the team. He turned back to the team and let his smile shine out, it was feeling that he hadn't felt in a while but it was nice to have it spreading through his body once again. "April gave us two bits of news."

As soon as she saw Casey's mouth begin to curve she couldn't hold it back anymore, the excitement, anticipation and shire joy was way to much for her heart to handle. "Jamie is going to make a full recovery!" she shouted, a slightly delayed cheer followed close behind as the news finally sunk in.

"Woah, whoa, I take it you don't want to hear the other part then?" he joked slightly raising his voice to be heard over the happy chatter as he tried to continue. "The other news is..." Matt left a long dramatic pause to really make their minds think of what the thing he was about to say could be. Then, just as Gabby had felt, he couldn't hold it back anymore, so with a proud smile he gave the news. "Jamie's is clear of cancer, the test results came back clean, the chemo worked!" he exclaimed wrapping an arm around Gabby's shoulder and pulling her close.