It had been three hours since Lindsay had fallen asleep. He moved around her familiar apartment with ease. Remembering all the times they made love on the various surfaces in her small place. The kitchen counter, her heels digging into his back. The night they barely made it through her front door, let alone thinking about making it past the other side of the door, so he just made love to her against the front door. Then again on the floor. Then again on the couch. He just hoped someday she would allow him to make love to her again, before or after their child is born.

He moved to the stove to make sure the tea he had brewing was ready. Lindsay had a thing about caffeine free teas. She liked to drink tea to calm her nerves and to help her sleep, so she said the caffeine didn't help with that.

He had called his Ma to find out what would help settle a pregnant woman's belly.

"Hey ma," he spoke into the phone.

"Daniel!" his mom cried into the phone, "Come siete?"

"Buon," he hesitated. How exactly was he going to explain to his mother that her only son was having a baby, but he screwed up, cheated on the mother and now he has to fight his way back in? "Che cosa date una donna incinta per depositare il suo stomaco?"

He had to hold the phone away from his ear as his mother squealed into the phone. She had been waiting a long time for a call like this and he knew it. He just never thought he would be able to give to her, never thought he would find a woman he would want to have children with.

"L'OH Daniel! Ciò è così meravigliosa! Lindsay è così dolce! Il mio grandbaby sta andando essere così bello! Lascilo dirle come eccitato sono!"

"Sta dormendo ora. E realmente non siamo insieme più, almeno non ancora comunque. Sto lavorando esso, ma ho scopato su grande, ma," he said softly into the phone.

His mother told him that crackers and toast were good to settle her stomach. Also that ginger and clear fruit juices might help, but she didn't have any of those, he would have to go pick them up later.

After about another half an hour, he heard her throwing up again. He walked into the bedroom and handed her the washcloth he held and the cup of tea he had prepared.

He left the room again, taking the garbage bucket with him. She smiled softly at him, before sipping on the tea he handed her. When he came back in he had a pack of crackers in one hand and a plate of toast in the other.

"Ma said this will help," he smiled slightly, at the questioning look in her eye. "And you need to keep 

your energy up to heal properly. And I'm sure bein' a Messer, he's got to be hungry too."

She wanted to cry again. How many times, when she had realized she was in love with him, had she thought about starting a family with him? Now they were and the circumstances were far from ideal.

Laying a hand on her barely visible bump, she ran her hand over it, "Yeah we are," she admitted. Taking a piece of toast, she nibbled on it for a minute, as he sat on the edge of the bed. "What did your mother say?" she asked quietly.

"Are you mad that I told her?" he so badly wanted to lay his hand on top of hers, feel the life growing inside her.

She shook her head no, "She is going to be a grandmother."

Sighing with relief that she wasn't mad about that at least, "She's excited, she wanted to talk to you, but you were asleep," he paused and cleared his throat this truth always burning when it was spoken, "I uh, I told her we weren't together anymore. That I screwed it up really bad, and I was gonna try to do good by you. Make things right with us again."

Lindsay held the mug up to her lips, sipping the liquid to swallow the lump in her throat. She blinked her eyes to blink back the fresh round of tears she felt coming on, "Danny can I ask you something?"

"Yeah."

"You and Rikki," she paused, not exactly sure why she was asking this question but it nagged at her, "you two used a condom right?"

In order to get past this, they had to be completely honest about everything.

Dropping his gaze from hers, "Yes. Both times."

"At least you cared about that," she said before she could stop it from coming out. "I want you to have STD tests done."

"Okay," was his simple reply, anything she wanted him to do, he would do.

come siete - how are you


buon - good

che cosa date una donna incinta per depositare il suo stomaco? - what do you give a pregnant woman to settle her stomach?

L'OH Daniel! Ciò è così meravigliosa! Lindsay è così dolce! Il mio grandbaby sta andando essere così bello! Lascilo dirle come eccitato sono! - Oh Daniel! This is so wonderful! Lindsay is so sweet! My grandbaby is going to be so beautiful! Let me tell her how excited I am!

Sta dormendo ora. E realmente non siamo insieme più, almeno non ancora comunque. Sto lavorando esso, ma ho scopato su grande, ma. - She's sleeping right now. And we really aren't together anymore, at least not yet anyway. I'm working on it, but I screwed up big, ma.