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: 4
AN: THANKS TO THOSE OF YOU HAVE READ/REVIEWED
Just as Danny was pulling into the parking lot his cell started going off in his pocket. Looking down at the caller ID, Danny saw that it was Ed calling.
"Yeah I'm in the parking lot now," Danny said removing the wedding band.
He knew there'd be questions and didn't want to deal with them right now.
"Good now you listen to me Danny. Next time you decide to go party all night make sure you don't do it at a hotel that I have connections to!" Ed said before hanging up with a smirk on his face.
As he'd been talking he'd gradually been getting louder and louder.
"Oh shit," Danny said not even thinking of that last night.
Inside hotel
Mary had just turned the corner when she saw Danny walking inside. She started heading his way when a man stepped into her pathway.
"Can I help you sir?" Mary asked trying to be polite but also trying to keep an eye on Danny.
"Yes I was wondering if you can tell me if a Danny McCoy works here?" the man asked.
"Yes he does. May I ask how you two know each other?" Mary asked.
"Oh we're just old Army buddies," the man said.
"Oh well if you want to wait here I'll go see if I can't track him down," Mary said.
"No that's fine Mary. I don't want to bother him. If you happen to talk to him just tell him that we'll be seeing each other quite soon," the man said walking off.
'That was weird,' Mary thought to herself thinking that it was probably just some guy Danny had pissed off in the past.
Mary then headed off to try and find Danny so they could finally have that talk they needed to have. She ended up locating Danny in Ed's office.
Ed's office
"Danny?" Mary asked stepping into Ed's office when he beaked her in.
"Yeah?" Danny asked turning to face her.
"Can we talk?" Mary asked.
"Now's not really a good time," Danny said.
"Go ahead we can finish our discussion later," Ed said.
"Are you sure?" Danny asked really not wanting to talk to the love of his life.
"Yeah," Ed said.
"Ok," Danny said leaving.
"What did you need?" Danny asked as they were walking back into the main part of the casino.
"Can we talk in private?" Mary asked.
"Just tell me now Mary," Danny said stopping and facing Mary.
"I…" Mary said before Mike came up to them.
"I see you two kids found each other," Mike said smiling at Danny.
"Yeah we did," Danny said not smiling also.
"Ok I'll be going," Mike said seeing that Danny wasn't in a great mood.
"Now what is you needed?" Danny asked.
"I don't think Sarah is right for you," Mary said.
"Really? And who would be? Someone like you?" Danny asked.
"I didn't say that," Mary said.
"No but you were hinting at it, weren't you?" Danny asked.
"Why would I say that when I'm the one that broke it off?" Mary asked.
"Oh I don't know maybe because of the fact that you're jealous that I moved on from you," Danny said.
"You're acting like a child," Mary said.
"At least I've grown up and moved on, unlike you," Danny said.
"And what's that supposed to mean?" Mary asked.
Either realized just how much of a scene they were making.
"HEY! You're both acting like children," Sam said.
"This doesn't concern you," Danny said.
"Oh I think it does," Sam said.
"And why's that?" Danny asked.
"You're scaring off future clients of mine," Sam said.
"We'll finish this conversation later," Danny said walking off pissed off.
"Hey you ok?" Sam asked when Mary looked ready to cry.
"Yeah just you know," Mary said.
"Ah yes that," Sam said.
"Did you need something?" Mary asked rubbing her eyes.
"Just to let you know that his girl is asking for you," Sam said pointing to where she was standing.
"Ok thanks," Mary said walking over towards Sarah.
"Hey Sarah," Mary said trying to be friendly.
"Listen up bitch I'm marring Danny in 6 days time. Don't think you're little plan is going to work. He's loyal to me now. So stay the hell away from him or you'll pay," Sarah said walking away.
Mary turned around and ran…well as best as any woman can in high heels to the lady's room and cried her heart out. She couldn't believe how fucked up things had become in just 4 short months. If she could she'd turn the clock back but she couldn't. She had to live with her decision and hope if Danny ever found out he could somehow forgive her.