Three months later...

It was two in the morning when the sound of a crying baby woke them up.

"I'll get her," Danny said as he rolled out of bed.

"No, you go back to bed. You have to be at work at 8. I don't have to be in until 10." Lindsay said, not at all sounding convincing.

"No, I'll get her. You sleep. You're..." Danny stopped mid sentence when he realized that Lindsay was already asleep again. It was her first week back to work and she was exhausted.

Danny left the bed room and headed for the nursery. The reason for the cry was obvious as soon as Danny walked into the room and he quickly changed her diaper. He stood in front of the window looking out at the traffic below and slowly rocked his little baby girl back to sleep. Danny could not believe how his life had turned out. If some one would have told him 2 years ago that he would be engaged and have a beautiful baby girl, he would have laughed in their face. Mac told him it would happen to him and it did.

Flashback...

"It could happen to you, you know." Mac said in his normal monotone voice.

"What? Marriage?"

"No love."
"Don't even joke about something like that." Danny smiled his signature Messer smile.

He could not believe how lucky he was. Sometimes he worried that it was all just a dream. That he would wake up and it would all be gone. He has almost lost Lindsay once and just the thought of not having her around made him sick to his stomach. This past week, every time she was in the field he found it hard to focus. He would constantly check his phone to make sure it was on. He had to remind himself to breathe on more than one occasion. He had been standing there, swaying back and forth, for over an hour when Lindsay walked up behind him and wrapped her arms around him and the baby.

"Everything okay, you have been in here for a long time?" Lindsay asked as she laid her head on his back.

"Yeah, I was just thinking?"

"About what?"

"About how close I came to losing all of this." Lindsay placed a kiss on his back. "You know, baby, this week when you were in the field I was terrified. I was a nervous wreck. I don't know what I would do if anything happened to you or Kenzie. I guess, in the back of my mind, I am still waiting for that phone call that says you are not coming home and it scares me to death."

Lindsay did not say a word. She watched as he placed Kenzie in her crib and then followed him out of the nursery. They walked back to the bedroom in silence. Once in bed and wrapped in each others arms, Lindsay felt the need to say something.

"You know Danny, we are very lucky. We have a beautiful daughter, great friends and most importantly we have each other. We also have a job that we both love and if I do say so myself we are damn good at it. I know that there are risks but we both know that the rewards far exceed the dangers. Those risks are not going to go away just because we are parents or because we get married." She rolled over and now their faces were inches apart. "We just have to trust each other to make smarter choices, because not it is not just about us. It it about that little girl in the other room. I do not want her growing up without a father."

"Or without a mother." Danny replied as he kissed her forehead. "But we both know that sometimes the best choice is not the smartest choice."

"I am talking about chasing after a suspect with no backup." She smirked as she poked him in the chest.

"Oh! Or you mean like letting the officer who is charge of securing the scene leave to help someone change a flat tire." Danny said as he kissed the scar on her shoulder, sending chills down Lindsay's spine. Danny slowly worked his way up to her lips, kissing every inch of her neck. Each kiss become more and more passionate. Danny could the fire inside himself begin to grow as a small moan escaped from Lindsay's throat. As Lindsay ran her fingers down his back he knew that he would regret this when the alarm went off, but at that moment he did not care.