"Hey." Don said smiling as Lindsay let him into her apartment. She'd been doing paperwork all day and he really hadn't had a chance to see her. "What's wrong?" He asked watching as she walked over and curled up on the couch.
"Nothing." She said softly fighting tears as she rested her hand on her baby bump.
"Ya lying Monroe." He said plopping down on the end of the couch watching her.
"I don't know." She whispered covering her face as she started crying.
"Oh man." He whispered heart racing, he was no good with crying women. He never knew what to say and felt like an idiot since he was no good at comforting. "Hey it's ok." He whispered scooting over and moving her so that he could hug her begging his body not to get aroused as her little body clung to him as she cried softly. "Shh." He whispered resting his head against hers as her hot wet tears soaked into his shirt. She was 22 weeks pregnant and they'd gotten pretty close. He brought over supper almost every night and they watched tv and laughed becoming good friends and he hadn't seen her cry like this before. "Tell me?" He asked as she calmed down a little.
"I'm so alone." She whispered voice thick with tears. "I know I have you." She added sighing. "It's just, I didn't think this would be my life." She whispered laying her head back on the couch. "That I'd be going through all of this alone, going to appointments and I guess I'm just disappointed." She admitted sniffling. "I don't have many friends, just you and I know Stella's my friend but she's busy." She said and he nodded still unsure of what to say. "Today I tried to ask her to co appointment tomorrow." She said staring at her hands. "It's my sonogram and I just, I wanted to have someone to share it with but I didn't even ask, she said she was going to lunch with her new boyfriend and was telling me about her plans." She said sighing. "This just isn't how I pictured doing this."
"Why didn't ya ask me to go?" He asked feeling a little hurt.
"You work." She said sniffling. "I was going to but I know you're working."
"Hang on." He said grabbing his cell phone and dialing Jessica Angel. "Hey it's Flack." He said looking down at Lindsay. "Listen can I switch ya shifts, I got some stuff to do tomorrow." He asked smiling as Lindsay watched him. "Hey thanks I'll owe ya." He said grinning as he flipped his phone closed. "Dat was easy." He said and she smiled. "Linds, dis is important, no way I'd miss it."
"Thanks." She said relieved that she'd have someone to share the day with. "Ok before I lose my nerve will you be my coach?" She asked eyes bright with nerves feeling funny about asking him but having no one else.
"Absolutely." He said grinning. "Ya got a list of ya appointments?" He asked and she nodded. "Good cause I'm goin wit ya."
"You don't have to." She said touched that he'd be willing to do this for her.
"I want to." He said softly. "I told ya I'm excited." He said smiling.
"I am too." She admitted smiling as the baby moved. "Feel." She said stretching out a bit and grabbing his big hand setting it on her bump.
"Oh wow." He whispered heart racing at the feel of the light movement under his hand. "Dat's incredible."
"I know." She said nodding.
"Ok so ya go relax and I'm gonna order food." He said after several minutes. "I rented us a movie."
"Deal." She said nodding and standing up stretching. "Thanks Don."
"Ya welcome." He said smiling as she walked to her bedroom. He called in an order for pizza and ran to his apartment pulling on sweats and a tee shirt jogging back to her place bare foot. "Comin." He called out grabbing his money as someone knocked on the door. "Oh." He said shocked as he opened the door seeing Danny and Rikki standing at her door.
"What the fuck are ya doing here?" Danny asked frowning.
"I could say da same." Don said glaring at him. He'd stayed away from Danny knowing that any foul words from the man would send him into a rage.
"We're here to talk to Lindsay." Rikki said dark hair pulled back into a pony tail her hand firmly in Danny's.
"She's in the shower." Don said staring at them. "I won't have ya upsetting her."
"I don't see how dis is any of ya business." Danny said jaw clenched in anger. "Dis is between her and us."
"No dis is between you and her." Don corrected without looking at Rikki. "I'll go see if she wants to talk to ya." He said letting them in hoping Lindsay wouldn't hurt him for it. He shut the door and walked back to her master bathroom gently tapping on the door.
"Yeah?" She asked pulling the door open a crack wrapped in a white towel.
"Hey Danny and Rikki are here." He said and she lost all color to her face. "Want me to tell them to beat it?" He asked feeling very protective of her.
"Oh man." She whispered taking a big breath. "I have to talk to them someday." She said and he nodded not letting himself look down at her wrapped in the towel her long hair still wet the soft fragrance of honeysuckle teasing his nose.
"Want me to leave?" He asked and she looked afraid for a second. "I'd like to stay." He said and she nodded relieved.
"Thanks." She said and he nodded. "Ok I'll be out."
"Aright." He said walking back into the living room and grabbing the door as someone knocked. He paid for the pizza ignoring Danny and Rikki as they sat on the couch as he carried the box into the kitchen. He walked in and sat down on the loveseat ignoring the glare Dan was sending his way and looking up as Lindsay walked in the soft tee shirt she was wearing with jeans clinging to her baby bump.
"You can leave." Danny said glaring at Don as Lindsay walked in.
"He's staying." Lindsay said sinking down onto the loveseat beside Don. "What do you want?"
"We want to talk." Rikki said looking a little nervous. "About the situation." She said glancing down at Lindsay's swollen belly.
"I already told Danny I didn't need anything from him." Lindsay said swallowing hard.
"You're sure that this is his child?" Rikki asked and Don rolled his eyes feeling Lindsay tense up beside him.
"I'm positive but you can have my baby tested." She said trying to relax.
"We will." Rikki said staring at her. "Are you using this pregnancy to get Danny back?"
"Are you serious?" Lindsay asked making a face seeing that Rikki was very serious. "Rikki I have no interest in Danny." She said honestly. "Things weren't good with us before he cheated." She said ignoring the glare Danny was sending her way. "I wouldn't take him back for all the money in the world."
"Good because he doesn't want you." Rikki said and Lindsay smiled and shook her head looking up at Don as if this were funny. "What happens when the baby is born?"
"You mean after you have him tested?" Lindsay asked sarcastically.
"Yes." Rikki said nodding.
"Nothing." She said shrugging. "I go on with my life, I take care of my child and I work and I'll be happy."
"If this is his child we'll want to be a part of his life." Rikki said and Lindsay nodded looking down at her hands.
"I want to say no, I want to keep him from Danny but I won't." She admitted. "I don't know how things will work out but I won't keep you from seeing him."
"I'd like to go to your appointment." Rikki said firmly. "I'm sorry but I don't trust you, how am I to know the reason you're doing this."
"The reason I'm doing this?" Lindsay asked making a face anger flaring up inside of her. "I didn't do this, you know get pregnant on purpose." She said shaking her head. "It happened and I'm going to love this baby but no you can't come to my appointment."
"What are you hiding?" She asked and Don made a face barely able to control his mouth.
"I'm not hiding anything but I don't have anything to prove to you." Lindsay said shaking her head. "I don't know you and I don't like you, I can't respect you because you knew that Danny had a girlfriend." She said. "I don't care anymore but I won't have you spoiling a happy time for me."
"How pregnant are you?" She asked jaw clenched in anger.
"22 weeks." Lindsay said.
"It can't be his." She said looking at him. "You said you ended things with her right after Ruben died."
"There was one time." He admitted closing his eyes as she shook her head in"The day after Ruben's funeral." Lindsay said since Danny just sighed. "And he came to me."
"When is your sonogram?" She asked fighting the urge to slap her husband.
"Tomorrow." She said.
"Danny can go." Rikki said and Lindsay shook her head no.
"Don's going."
"What the fuck?" Danny asked glaring at his former friend.
"Don't even Danny." Lindsay said shaking her head. "It's none of your business."
"So if this is Danny's child we have a right to be there when he's born, to be a part of that." Rikki said and Lindsay laughed.
"It's not gonna happen." She said shaking her head no. "Danny if you hadn't treated me like such a prostitute when I told you maybe." She said looking at him. "You know it's your child, that you're doing this it's just to hurt me and I'm fine with that but I'm not gonna let you come to my appointments and be in the delivery room when you're still treating me like some girl you picked up in a bar. You can both be at the hospital, maybe I'll change my mind and let Danny come but I don't know you and I don't owe you anything." She said to Rikki reaching for her belly as the baby turned tickling her. "Now I'm hungry so I'd like you to leave."
"We'll come over tomorrow after work." Rikki said standing up and Lindsay frowned but didn't say anything. "I'd like to see the sono pictures, they'll measure the baby and tell you exactly when he or she was conceived."
"Fine." She said shrugging grateful that she didn't feel anything romantic for Danny anymore. "We have to be civil, I won't have my child around anger and fighting." She stated knowing she was going to have to be the bigger person here.
"Fine." Rikki said practically dragging Danny out of the apartment.
"Well that was uncomfortable." She said glancing over at Don.
"Yeah." He said nodding glad that she didn't look upset.
"He thinks something is going on with us." Lindsay said standing up and stretching her stomach growling at the smell of the pizza.
"Lindsay, lot's of people are gonna think dat." He said following her. "I don't care."
"I don't either." She said smiling at him. "I feel ok." She said smiling as she took a slice and smiled. "I think I'm gonna be ok."