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Surprises a year after Aiden's death
Aiden's life before and during her pregnancy with Jacob Burn Messer
During the weeks after she told Danny, Aiden started to notice small change's in her eating, sleeping and working habits all thanks to junior. It wasn't really affecting her too much, she just had to make some simple little changes to accommodate for the pregnancy. Like cut back on her working hours and avoid drawing the really disgusting crime scenes at least for her stomach's sake and her morning sickness. A few people in the lab had started to get suspicious with how Aiden was acting and just brushed it off to one of two possibilities that she either finally got her self a man or was changing to make that relationship work or that she might have caught that flu-bug that was going around the lab.
She didn't mind some of the changes, except for her hormones and mood-swings because she was an absolute wreck. What didn't help her that much was the case at the diner Mac frequents because she had to cut back considerably on her coffee intake and on a lot of the delicious morning foods that she used to love snacking on and Danny knew how hard it was for her. He knew working right next to her or within a good proximity of her would help to keep her stomach from taking over and making her sick. That was something she really appreciated about Danny, his overwhelming compassion for her. It was that night when they went back to Danny's place that she noticed a major change in him and asked him about it.
"What's wrong babe?" (Aiden)
"Nothing, just thinking about something" (Danny)
"And what would that be Danny?" (Aiden)
"About how much I love you. Aid, I'm crazy about you and I know I haven't said this to you before but Aiden Burn, I am hopelessly and madlessly in love with you" (Danny)
"Ow Danny, you big idiot why say that to girl when she's all over the place?" (Aiden)
"Because it's true, I'm crazy about you and really do love you and after this diner case watching you fight back the desire to bring up I fell even more in love with you and just had to tell you, well…" (Danny)
"Well what? I'm just kidding I love you too Danny Messer" (Aiden). That in Aiden's mind was the second greatest day in her life, right next to finding out that she was pregnant.
Since that day she thought nothing could affect her until the call from her friend Regina came asking for help again, which she gave. Her good friend had been raped again and it was done more or less by the same guy and they knew it but they had no actual evidence to support it and that annoyed her so much. It took her to the point of almost tampering with evidence from her past rape case but she thought better of it. Yet still she knew she was going to be found out, so she spent that night with Danny talking about their baby.
"You thought of a name for the little one yet?" (Danny)
"Not really, have you? And we are not naming the baby Daniel junior" (Aiden)
"Never in a million years would I do that to our child" (Danny)
"Good, but have you thought of any?" (Aiden)
"Just a couple for a girl Emily or Melissa and a boy Michael or Andrew, you?" (Danny)
"None for a girl but I like Emily, what if we named the baby if it's a girl Emily Melissa?" (Aiden)
"Sounds great" (Danny)
"As for a boy I like Jacob and maybe Michael" (Aiden)
"Okay, at least we have a girl's named picked out but we still have plenty of time before we need to decide on a name for the little one" (Danny)
"So true, Danny" (Aiden)
"Aiden?" (Danny)
"Yes, Danny?" (Aiden)
"Move in with me" (Danny)
"What?" (Aiden)
"I just thought since we spend a lot of time here, that maybe you'd like to move in with me. I've got plenty of room, we can convert my spare bedroom into the baby's room…if you want" (Danny)
"Danny I'd love too, this is so amazing. I love you so much right now" (Aiden)
"I love you too babe and you baby. Mom, dad and you are going to be one big happy family" (Danny)
"And mommy loves both you and daddy so much" (Aiden). Just saying those words 'mommy' and 'daddy' made everything so much more really to her that she was having hers and her best friends baby and that they were going to be a family.
A couple days after that night Mac, had called Aiden into his office and questioned her about Regina Moore's case and about the evidence that he found missing. Aiden explained to him that she was tempted to tamper but couldn't bring herself to do it. It didn't matter to Mac, held what she did very highly. She destroyed his trust and the integrity of the lab and he had to let her go. Yet before he could fire her, she quit because she couldn't do the job anymore actually she didn't know if she could prevent herself from stepping over the line next time. Just as she was about to turn and walk away from him she asked that he gets this guy for Regina's sake, and he told her it would sit on his desk till they caught him. It was a different story once she left Mac's office and headed for the lab, she couldn't look Danny in the eyes and she walked by him she didn't even respond when he called her name.
