Samantha stood in the doorway and watched as Danny tried to figure out how to put the crib together. Of course he had thrown the instructions on the other side of the room, stating that he didn't need them and it wouldn't be that hard. He had shown up over an hour ago and Samantha wondered how he hadn't froze to death being that he was in shorts and a pullover hooded sweatshirt, but he still had not even pieced together any of the crib.

"I think it's defective," he mumbled as he eyed the pieces again.

"I don't think it's the crib that's defective,"

"Funny," he smirked and paused when he heard someone at the door. Samantha left Danny sitting in the middle of the floor and set off to answer the door. She pulled open the door to see Jack on the other side looking as if he was about to freeze.

"Hey," she stepped out of the way and watched as he entered the apartment and hung his coat over the back of the chair.

"Hey," he said returning the greeting. They were interrupted by something hitting the floor and Danny cursing.

"You okay?" Samantha called.

"Just cut myself a bit," he called back. Samantha groaned and hoped he wasn't bleeding too badly because she really didn't want to have to scrub blood out of her carpet. She and Jack walked into what was to be the nursery to see Danny sitting in the floor clutching the side of his hand; fortunately he wasn't bleeding all over the place.

"Jack, please help him,"

Jack grinned and immediately walked over to where Danny had thrown the instructions, picked them up and began reading them.

"It can't be that hard," Danny complained.

"How long have you been sitting there trying to put it together without the instructions?" he asked. Danny remained quiet. "That's what I thought."

Jack grabbed the screwdriver from Danny and sat down in the floor.

"Hand me that piece," he instructed, pointing to one of the pieces Danny had piled up.

After about an hour they had most of the crib put together. All they had left to do was to put the thin mattress in.

"After you do that, you want to put the changing table together?" Samantha teased and earned a glare from Danny and a chuckle from Jack.

"Sure. Why not?" Jack replied sarcastically. Danny glared at Jack before falling onto his back and letting out an overdramatic groan.

"How about if you do put it together, I'll buy pizza?" Samantha suggested.

"Sounds good," Jack and Danny answered together. Samantha grinned and headed to the kitchen to get both Jack and Danny a soda. While she was standing in the kitchen, she could hear Jack and Danny arguing something about Danny holding a piece to the table upside down. When she walked back into the room, she tossed each of them a can of soda.

"Thanks," they called together.

Samantha glanced around the nursery, taking in the work that Jack and Danny had done.

"Okay, I guess you deserve a pizza," she said with a shrug. So she headed back into her kitchen to grab her phone. After she placed the order for the pizza and they told her about how long it would be, she joined Jack and Danny in the living room. Jack was sitting on her couch with his feet propped onto her coffee table, which she slightly glared at, causing Jack to grin sheepishly. Danny was simply sitting on the other side of the couch with his head laid back against the back of it, almost asleep. Samantha was forced to sit between the two of them. Samantha decided to put in a movie and wait until the pizza got there. About five minutes into the movie, she could swear she heard Danny snoring.

Sometime between the time that Samantha had put the movie in and a few minutes before the pizza got there, Jack had managed to place his arm around her shoulders and she was leaning against him slightly. When the pizza finally arrived, Samantha had to wake Danny.

"If you don't wake him that's more pizza for us," Jack told her with a grin.

"Jack," she scolded lightly. "Danny. Wake up." She teasingly swatted him on the back of the head a few times before he finally woke up.

"Remind me to never go to sleep at your place again," he chuckled as the rubbed the back of his head.

"Should there really be a reason that you're sleeping here in the first place?" Jack asked with one eyebrow raised. Danny sat there a minute before blinking a few times and shaking his head.

"So about that pizza," he started as he grabbed a slice from the box. Jack and Samantha mimicked his actions and grabbed a slice themselves.

After eating their pizza, Samantha and Danny were going to watch a movie. They had asked Jack to stay but he had insisted he needed to get home and feed his dog. So they ended up watching the movie without him.

"So how is it going between you and Jack?" Danny asked, breaking the silence in the room.

"Difficult." It was an honest answer. It had always been difficult between those two, but Samantha was hoping it would get better soon.

"He loves you," Danny stated bluntly. She knew that, but how Danny knew that was another question completely. She nodded, which apparently wasn't the reaction Danny was expecting because he was looking at her doubtfully.

"I know that, Danny, and honestly I love him but it's difficult. I mean what am I going to do when the baby gets here? I can't ask Jack to wait for me."

"Why would he need to wait for you?" Danny asked.

"I can't expect him to help me raise a kid that isn't even his."

Danny looked at her and shook his head.

"He loves you and I don't think he would really mind helping you raise Martin's kid. You know he blames himself for what happened."

Samantha looked at him almost as if she was confused. She wondered why Jack would blame himself for Martin's accident. Danny was quiet a minute before asking.

"He never told you, did he?" Samantha shook her head and Danny continued. "Jack was with Martin that night. They chased the suspect into an empty warehouse and were supposed to wait for backup. But Martin said that it wasn't enough time because it was freezing and without finding the suspect they would never find the kid. So Jack and Martin went into the warehouse to find the suspect. They had gone in different directions and before Jack knew it, gunshots were ringing out through the entire warehouse."

Samantha sat there and tried to take in what Danny had just told her.

"I didn't know that…" she said in a shaky voice. Danny nodded and placed a hand on Samantha's shoulder.

"I'm here for you, Sam. You know that, right?"

"I know," she nodded.

If it was one thing she had figured out in the last five months it was that she had some of the greatest friends in the world.