Lights and Sirens

Stop Sign

"God, back so soon lieutenant?" Herrmann asked as he watched Gabby and Matt walk hand in hand though the doors of the common room.

After the wedding, Matt and Gabby decided that going on a proper honeymoon wasn't exactly what they wanted. Their ideal option was to stay at home with Jamie over his break from school. Stefan had constantly been staring  at his computer because now that his brother was married he thought that having his own place would be a good thing. However, Matt and Gabby still had no idea what he was planning to do. After Stefan had picked Jamie up from school the day before the wedding (now three weeks ago) he had sworn Jamie to secrecy about the job change. Up until this point, Stefan still wasn't sure how he was going to tell his bother, and how he would react to him moving to live in Chicago.

Putting his bag on the rectangular table, Gabby's hand still interlinked with his, he let out a sigh as he turned to face his company. "God, coming back today really reminded me how much I didn't miss all your ugly faces!"

Digging her husband in his ribs, Gabby laughed. "Matt you can't say that!" She exclaimed kissing him on the cheek and letting go of his hand. "I'm going to go and change out then tell Boden we're back." Gabby said over her shoulder as she walked towards the door that led to the locker room.

She was gone before Matt had a chance to answer. Already in his uniform, he took a seat at the table and pulled the mornings paper onto his lap. His eyes scanned over the words as he tried to concentrate but the fact that he'd spent three weeks with his family was slowly getting to him. Jamie had gone back to school and so the only thing they'd be doing at home was cleaning and watching TV. In fact, Gabby was the one who had had the idea to go back to work this shift. Still concentrating on trying to read the paper, Matt heard footsteps and looked up. As soon as he did the face of his best friend was beaming back at him. "What're you doing here?!" Kelly exclaimed grasping Matt's hand as he rose from his seat.

"Well we thought we'd start contributing to society again." Matt replied making everyone laugh. "No but seriously there was nothing at home we could have done."

"Oh yeah?" Kelly asked as he walked casually over to the coffee machine and pulled off a mug from the rack. "Didn't Jamie go back to school yesterday?"

"Yeah, that's partly the reason we came back." Casey answered taking his seat again. "Honestly, four weeks went by so quickly." He sighed.

"You where on your honeymoon!" Cruz exclaimed looking over towards his boss. He paused for thought as he took a mouthful of orange juice. "If it where me, that's like a free pass to be out drinking for four weeks straight!" A murmur of agreement floated around the common room as Cruz came to an end of his rant.

"Cruz I got married, not got told I'd won the lottery, besides Jamie's not old enough to be left on his own over night." Casey replied standing up and grabbing his bag from the table beside him. "To be honest I wasn't really thinking about it as a honeymoon, it was just more of an extended vacation."

Kelly gave an over exaggerated gasp and he lowered the mug from his mouth. A cheeky childish grim was appearing on his face as Matt looked round and glared at him. "Heaven forbid that Jamie, our lieutenant's little monkey, be left on his own for an hour." He called after Casey as he headed out of the room. He was only teasing and they all knew that.

In reality they where all just happy that Casey was back; mainly for the fact that the relief lieutenant that had been put at 51 to cover was the most annoying person anyone could have ever known. After Herrmann threw out his back on the second call after Casey left, Boden took him off lieutenants duty and called in Lieutenant Andy McBrine. McBrine was the lieutenant of Truck 49 over in West Town and had a very known reputation among the firefighters in the city. Back in his early days he was an easy going leader of men but as he grew older, his tone towards the job changed completely. Dawson had always compared him to McCally that was the stand in paramedics when 61 was down a man (or woman). McBrine was a pessimist, clear and simple. Therefore, when Casey walked in the joy in everyone's hearts that their old lieutenant wasn't coming back was the most amazing feeling they'd felt.
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"Morning Chief." Gabby said as she tapped Boden's door before stepping inside. The sun was still rising outside, it was casting a beautiful picky red colour across the inside of the office. Boden was sitting at his desk reading the last run form, that McBrine had completed before he was placed back into circulation, when she walked in.