Chapter Three

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During the week after Martin got his ticket for his trip to Lake Tahoe and before he leaves, Danny watched him getting a hotel room over the phone, got a few essentials he needed for the trip, getting Jack's permission to take that two week vacation Martin wanted, and at the meeting two days before leaving, Martin went up to Travis who runs the meetings after the meeting that day and told him that he couldn't be in New York for the next two weeks because he will be in vacation at Lake Tahoe instead.

After hearing that from Martin, Travis told him that he's fine for that and hoped that Martin will have a good time in Lake Tahoe and if he wants to, Martin can find a nearby NA meeting and will use that instead so he will don't miss out on it. In return, Martin grinned at Travis and said to him, "Thanks, Travis. I will do that."

Travis gave him a slight smile while telling him to have a good time there and in return, about to leave with Danny; Martin turned to Travis and said to him, "I will." At the moment, about ten feet away, Danny was observed it all and like Travis, he hoped that Martin will have a good time there and wished that Danny could have helped him so more about that trip but like he wanted, Martin told him to not do anything about it. He already helped him out with telling him to go on a trip and Martin liked to do the rest of the things himself like a big boy or something like that.

Danny did that for Martin because he wanted to see his friend being happy, not be a sad, miserable, a-hole but there's only one thing that Martin wanted him to do which is to bring Martin to the airport which Danny's proud to do.

After thinking about that, he walked up to Martin who was gathering his things and asked him with a grin on his face if he's ready to the bar? Martin turned to Danny when he had heard that and with a smile on his face, Martin told him yeah and in return, Danny slapped him on the back and said back to him, "Now hurry then. We don't want to be late." Martin smiled at him again and left with his friend seconds later to the bar and the next day and an half.

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On Saturday morning at around fifteen minutes before eight, about an half a hour before the plane Martin supposed to be on, Danny and Martin stopped at the metal scanners to say their good-byes there. Danny patted his friend on the back of Martin's button-down shirt and told him to have a good time in Lake Tahoe and joked to him, "You had to come back as a new man." Martin quirked at him when he told that and in return, Martin said back to him, "I will send you a postcard or two."

Danny stepped away and said back to him, "Do that, Fitz and see you in two weeks." Martin grabbed the handler on top of his suitcase and with a grin on his face, "Yeah, I'll see you soon."

Moments later, Danny watched Martin, walking to the end of the line of other travelers where he will get through security, get to his terminal, hopped on a plane to Lake Tahoe, and will have a good time there and will return in two weeks happy. After seeing that, Danny sighed to himself and turned around to go to the parking lot to get into his car to go to the house where Elena and Sofie were at, waiting for him to drive them over to go to a lake in Upstate New York with Sam and her son for the day.

Once he got to Elena's house and went inside, he saw Elena at the kitchen sink, cleaning the dishes that she and her daughter used for their breakfast, and out of the blue, Danny walked over to his girlfriend, put his arms around her waist, and put a move on her in front of the kitchen sink.

Elena laughed when Danny did that and playfully told him to do that to her because Sofie had left about ten minutes ago to get her things for today and will come back any second. In return, Danny half-stopped putting a move on her and told her in return that if he had heard Sofie's footsteps, he will ask her to don't come in because he will still be doing the same thing that he's doing now.

Giving a laugh in return, Elena turned to him and playfully planted a few kisses on Danny's lips to do a PG version of the same thing that Danny was doing to her about a minute ago. They continued doing that until Elena asked him, "How's Martin?"

Danny kissed her on the lips again and answered her question by saying to her, "Well, Martin looked excited about that trip and when I told him to have a good time there and to come back as a new man, he will send me a postcard or two while he will be there in Lake Tahoe."

Elena smiled at him for that, told him that was good, and continued doing their kissing and almost made it go up to PG-13 when Sofie was about to come into the kitchen in her shorts and t-shirt and was carrying a small pink duffel bag with her swim suit, water wings, her beach towel and other things she needed for the lake that day.

With a smile on her face, Sofie ran over to Danny when he lifted her up and gave her a hug, Sofie said to him, "Morning, Danny."

In return, Danny kissed her on the cheek and said back to her, "Good morning, Hermosoa. Are you ready to go to the lake?"

Another smile on her face had appeared on her cute face and told him back that the answer was yeah!Danny smiled at her when she told him that, put her feet on the floor, and squatted down at her level and asked her, "Got everything you needed?

Sofie nodded at him, telling Danny that she got everything she needed for the lake. Danny saw that, kissed her on the forehead and told her to go to the living room, watch some cartoons, and wait there until he and her mami were done with what they were doing and after that, they will go pick up Sam and Finn on the way up.

Sofie smiled at him again and told him okay. After that, Sofie went over to her mother to talk to her about something, kissed her, and gave Elena a hug before leaving for the living room to watch TV until it was time to go to Sam's apartment to pick up her and Finn and then up to the lake for a day of fun.

After Sofie had left, Danny smiled at himself, turned around to his girlfriend, and said to her, "and now, where were we?" Elena put her arms around Danny's neck and said to him, "This." and seconds later, she kissed him for a while, knowing it will be a good day.