AN: I hope you enjoy!

CHAPTER ONE - The Anniversary

She woke up panting and in a cold sweat. Mindy had the dream again. The dream about that night a little over 4 years ago. The night when her and Danny Castellano shared more than just back and forth flirtatious banter. Ironically it was their constant bickering that brought them as close as two people could get that night. If you haven't realized it by now, she had finally done it. Dr. Mindy Lahiri had sex with Danny. Yes, Danny Castellano, who she worked with. Absurd? Maybe not!

Groaning and trying to shake the images from her mind, she glances over towards her night stand where her alarm clock displayed the ungodly hour of 3 am. Sighing, she frees herself of the sheets that her body became tangled in. Getting comfortable again she tries to get a few more hours of sleep before work.

Just before she is swallowed back into the subconscious of her sleep, her mind flashes to an image of him smiling. A smile that can make anyone undone, even her. Even now, after all this time.

3 HOURS LATER:

"Mommy! Mommy! It's time to wake up." Those words were rudely pulling Mindy out of her sleep. "Ugh!" She groaned, looking over at her alarm, the digits read 6:12am. Shaking her head, she buried her face in her pillow. "I swear they gave me the wrong child at the hospital. No child of mine would be awake this early." She mumbled into the pillow.

Yawning, she turned her head looking over at the cause of her rude awakening. Her gaze was met by a beautiful pair of dark brown eyes. Eyes that reminded her so much of his. At this thought, the dreams from the night flooded over her once again.

Today was her anniversary. 4 years ago, she walked away from everything she knew. 4 years ago today, was the last time she saw the man who her daughter got her eyes from. It had been 4 years since she last saw, Danny.

With him still on her mind she smiled over at her... no their beautiful daughter. She gently pulled the overly cheerful 3-year-old to her kissing her the top of her head gently. As they both lay in bed, Mindy slowly began running her fingers through the girls hair as her mind drifted away and back to that day that changed her life forever.

-Begin Flashback

APRIL 9, 2013 - 4 years ago:

Mindy sat on the edge of her tub nervously tapping the heel of her foot against the floor. She had just 'peed on a stick'. As her patients liked to call it. She'd suspected she might be pregnant when she missed her period a little over a week ago. However, with the stress of Danny's ex-wife showing up at the practice a little over 5 weeks ago and the fact she and Danny slept together while away at a conference in Santa Fe and coming back pretending it was a mistake and couldn't happen again, she thought she was just late. Yes she'd slept with Danny don't be so surprised, it was bound to happen, am I right? After a week of complaining to Gwen that Aunt Flo had still yet to rear her ugly head, it was Gwen, her best friend, that had convinced her to finally get one. So, she did.

And that lead her to where she was now. Nervously sitting on the edge of her tub waiting for the longest 3 minutes of her life to pass. Hearing her phone vibrate, she goes to grab it from the bathroom counter. It's a text message from Gwen. 'Have you taken IT yet?' Quickly Mindy texts back, 'yes, too freaked out to look. What if I am? Am I ready to have a little Blue Ivy running around?' She hits send. A few moments pass for Gwen to respond. 'Blue Ivy?' Rolling her eyes at Gwen's lack of pop culture knowledge. 'I'm a little saddened by your lack of knowledge of the name that Beyoncé and Jay-Z gave their offspring. but now isn't the time to explain..' Digging deep down she mustered up the courage. 'Ok I'm going to look!' She hits send.

Placing the phone down, she slowly walked over to where the test lay. She squeezed her eyes closed while slowly moving her head down to look at the test. Slowly opening her eyes, she looks down saw the tests result window and to her surprise there was a + sign.

She doesn't realize how long she'd been standing there staring at plus sign. It must have been several minutes because she was snapped out of her trance by the continuous vibration coming from her phone. She grabbed her phone and looked down at the screen, it was Gwen. Mindy answers the phone with a soft hello. Gwen instantly knew. 'Oh honey. I guess congratulations are in order?' A small 'Yeah' was all that Mindy could muster. Before she was wrapped in her thoughts once more, she thought she heard Gwen say she was on her way. She wasn't sure though. Her mind was too busy processing the news. Mindy was going to have a baby. Danny Castellano's baby. And she had no idea what she was going to do or how to tell him.

Gwen did end up showing up and provided the support that Mindy needed not with words, but just by sitting silently next to her showing her friend that if she wanted to talk, yell, scream or cry, she was there.

End flashback-

'It's going to be a very long day', she thought to herself before getting up to face what the world would throw at her today, the day of the anniversary

AN: Hi guys. So this story just, popped into my head one night. Not sure what all to do yet, i've got so many thoughts and ideas running through my mind. I hope you enjoyed the first chapter. I hope Mindy doesn't seem to OOC, right now! but I promise more of the Mindy we all know and love is to come.

This is my first fanfic..Eh, actually first fiction of any kind (if you don't count the horrible script of Buffy the vampire slayer i tried to write when I was 14 lol)

As for the flashback, it's not over. The first few chapters of the story will take place during this day, so the rest of how Mindy came to be where she is today, will be explained.

Please feel free to review, let me know what you all think. Please don't hesitate to critique this. It's my first story and I definitely want to become a much better writer. So, for all you seasoned writers out there...advice is much appreciated and accepted.

Until next time, "That's Mindy, bye bye" (haha sorry had to throw that in there. Loved that episode)

-Cheryl