Title: How could you?

Summary: What if Mary kept a life changing event secret from Danny?

Author: Mikesh

AN: Ok this takes place four months after Danny and Mary called off the wedding. Yes from that point on it's going to be AU b/c for what I had to do I couldn't make Ed's daughter out to be the bad guy…I couldn't as much as I wanted to.

Part: 2

Once Mary arrived at the Casino, she went in search of Danny. Since it was already 8:30 she thought maybe he'd already be at work. He was usually there by 7:30 at the latest. Thankfully she didn't have any pressing matters until 10 this morning.

She was going to tell him just exactly what she thought of his girlfriend. It was her way of making sure that once she left, he wouldn't go in search of her. She knew that if she pissed him off enough then he'd be happy to have her gone, or so she thought. She didn't realize that the only reason Danny ignored her and threw himself into his work was that he still loved her very much. He wanted to take her away and lock her up until she agreed to marry him. He wasn't happy with Sarah, he was only marring her because she'd told him that she was pregnant with his child. Hell he'd seen the doctor results so he knew she wasn't lying. Or so he thought she wasn't. Really she'd taken someone else's results and used them as her own. Someone who Danny held very close to his heart.

Had he known the truth of those results he'd drop Sarah like a ton of bricks and go to Mary and make her see that they were meant to be together. He wanted Mary more then he ever thought possible.

The only problem with Mary's plan was trying to find Danny. She'd checked everywhere she could think of to check, but all had turned up nothing. Mike had said though that he'd seen Danny and Sarah leaving last night, so who knew where he could be at this present moment.

If Ed wasn't worried then Mary shouldn't be either. But she was because try as she might, something just didn't feel right about Danny and Sarah. It wasn't all because she hated the woman, there was something else there too. Maybe it was just Mary being jealous because she'd always dreamed of ending up with Danny. When she'd had her chance she'd blown it…well not really blown it but she didn't say yes like she had wanted to.

So why not say yes if she had wanted to? Really not even she could answer that question. Her heart and her mind weren't telling her the same thing. Now she realized that yes both were telling her the same thing. She just didn't want to believe that she could finally be truly happy with the man she'd dreamed about her whole life. She was afraid that it would all be a dream, it would have, it'd been her dream come true. Now it was too late. Even if he wasn't with Sarah she couldn't tell him because there was no way he'd forgive her for not telling him her secret.

Little did Mary realize as she continued her search of Danny that if she'd just said yes four short months ago she could have saved both her and Danny a lot of heartache and headaches that were sure to rise in the next 72 hours. No all she knew was that A. Danny was a dead man when she found him and B. she really needed to go to the bathroom right now.

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