Lights and Sirens

Blood Line

"What are you talking about?" Matt replied a little angry but confused at the same time. His hands where on his hips and Gabby's on the small of his back to help him stay in control. "I pulled you out of that building and now your coming to my firehouse telling me that your my brother?" his voice rose.

Gabby pulled his shoulder so he was facing her. "I think he's telling the truth Matt!" she said loudly so he would focus on her rather than his building anger.

"Gabby-" he begun.

"Matt - hear him out, he may be telling the truth." she started just as he grabbed her and and pulled her to a distance that Stefan wouldn't be able to hear them.

"But what if he's an impostor?!" he stated, still a little pissed off.

Gabby rolled her eyes and placed her hands comfortably onto her hips. "Matt please, you're overreacting. You saved his life, you can use that as a bonding exercise!"

Matt scoffed. "A bonding exercise -really? You do make me laugh Gabby."

She took a step closer to him and lent up onto the balls of her feet, her lips inched from his ear. She felt his heartbeat quicken as she whispered her words to him. "You said you wanted this. He's your brother for gods sake." she shifted her weight so she was standing in front of him again. "Give him a chance, for yourself. Besides, you said that you wouldn't punish him because of what your mother did." Gabby turned and looked at Stephan - who was casually looking at the front of 81 - and took her fiance's hand before leading him back over to his brother.

Stefan was the first one to speak. "Look, I know its one hell of a way to meet your brother and I'm sorry for that, I really am. Mum mentioned a little about you before I came this time which was weird because she hadn't talked about you in a while..."

Matt's heart sank a little and Gabby picked up on it. She squeezed his hand making him smile a little as Stefan carried on.

"...She told me that you existed. I always knew that I had a brother but I never knew why I was never able to see you. Whenever I asked Mum would just shut me off and it really did annoy me." Stefan looked up from his hands and caught Matt's glance. "The main reason I came here was to thank you for saving my life today, It was just a coincidence that you turned out to be the guy I came to Chicago to find. I'm sorry that we met like this and I know this is me just giving you one big speech about a load of crap you probably don't even care about but I will walk away from this, all of it and never bother you again." Stefan's eyes glittered with hope.

His whole life had been building up to this moment and he was sure that he'd screwed it up. Nancy had always told him, since he was a little boy, that he'd had an older brother. A brother that was no longer able to live with them for certain reasons that he may never understand and he believed her. At the exact moment in time when he was standing opposite to his brother and his friend he was kicking himself and he wasn't to sure why.

Stefan started to walk away, his head down and his shoulders slouched. Deep down Gabby knew Matt would do the right thing and whatever decision he made she was adamant that he would have made it with her and especially Jamie in mind. Although she loved him for it, she kind of wished that he would make the decision because that's what he wanted rather than what was best for everyone else. She couldn't get out of her head how he must be feeling but the thought kept taking her mind and body back to when she was told that her and Antonio's father was alive and well. It was more of a disappointed and betrayed feeling than an angered one but it still hurt. She often thought about how she'd react if her father came and knocked on her door. Would she be sad, upset, angry or even happy? She could only guess what Matt was feeling right now.