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A/N: thank you all for reading. It makes me happy to see that you guys are following this story. As for all those concerned: I have no intention of selling the pool table. None what so ever. It might not reappear for awhile, but it will, eventually. =)

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She's not There

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Lindsay was making her way through the morgue to see Sid, the sex trafficking case had just wrapped up and she was chasing leads on a case that had gone cold a few days ago, and wanted to run some stuff by him.

She found him just as Deputy Inspector Whitford was ushering the Russian girl out of the room. Sid looked distraught. Upset. Whatever that girl had said; it got to him.

"Sid, you okay?"

"Yea Linds, I'm fine." He said trying to control his emotions "What can I do for you bumpkin?"

"Sid." She said sternly.

"What."

"I have a father, I have uncles, I have brother-in-laws, I'm making my boyfriend a Daddy …I know you guys, what's up?" She asked with a slight smile.

"It's nothing it's just that daughters shouldn't have to bury their fathers. I just can't help but think about my girls."

"So call them." Lindsay said through a slight smile

"I can't, they have their own lives, they don't need to hear from Dad." Sid said.

"Sid, as a daughter, I can tell you, a surprise call from Pops, it's welcomed. Especially with a dad like you."

"Creepy?"

"In some ways, but overall pretty cool. You got the glasses to prove it." She smiled as she pulled Sid into the best hug she could muster with the baby growing in her belly. "Call them, hey even go visit them, Beth is what a day trip? Just as a hint though: good food."

"Thanks Linds, someone is gonna be a good Mommy."

"Well thank you back." She smiled as she stepped away.

"So what was the real reason you came down here? I mean it wasn't just to comfort an old M.E."

"And, how would you know?"

"I'm just that good."

"Sure you are, but I was wondering if I could talk to you about the Williamson murder from last week." She said holding up a manila folder.

"Shoot."

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Danny stood in the hallway between washroom and autopsy watching his girlfriend comfort a friend. He was mesmerized. She was perfect. He watched as they got into details on a case before tearing his eyes away from Lindsay and left the morgue before he was caught gawking at his girlfriend while on city time.

Only he was caught by Sid, looking up from the file he spotted Danny through the glass walls nodded and waved him in. Lindsay looked back over her shoulder. Her face lit up when she saw Danny. Sure he'd been around all day, but the fact that Sid caught him looking at them, at her no less made things so much better. Danny wasn't one to stare down any random attractive woman, actually Lindsay noticed some women more than he did, mostly because they were staring at him, them, whatever.

"Hey, I thought you, Flack, and Adam would be gone by now." She said as he wrapped his arms around her.

"Nah, had to see you first. And we have an extra ticket, so I was coming to see if Sid was free for a night of angry toothless men hitting each other with sticks."

"Ranger game?"

"Yea, you interested?"

"Could be a good time." Sid smirked. "Just let me call the misses." He said as he turned towards the land line to call home.

"That was nice." Lindsay said intertwining her fingers with his.

"Yea well he has us over enough, and the guy is a hoot at sporting events, that thing last May about straying away from organized sports: lying through his teeth."

"Ha, good to know."

"So what are your plans for tonight?" He asked his girlfriend, this was going to be one of the first nights in awhile that they would be spending the evening apart that didn't involve work.

"Um me and some friends are gonna go out for dinner and then a movie." She smiled. She hadn't had a night out with her girlfriends in awhile.

"Lisa says I'm good to go." Sid bounced back in with his jacket.

"Alright Sid, let's get going." The group headed toward the elevator then descended down into the lobby where the rest of the group was waiting.

"See ya later Linds." Danny said as he kissed her goodnight. "See ya later."

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Later that night Danny slightly intoxicated entered the apartment as quietly as possible. It was late and he half expected to find all but one of the hall lights off and Lindsay asleep in the bed, curled up in all the blankets, forcing him to pull a fleece from the closet.

But instead he found her curled up on the couch, a sweatshirt material blanket from her college draped over her, and 'The Breakup' playing in the background. She must have fallen asleep soon after it started because they were currently in the middle of the movie, and Lindsay was out. He quietly locked the door, and then moved to the bedroom to pull back the covers.

Coming back to the living room he crouched down next to Lindsay and softly nudged her awake with a push to her button nose. She woke rubbing her nose, then noticing her company smiled at Danny.

"Hey, the rangers, win?"

"Yea they did babe." He said with a soft kiss. "How were your friends?"

"Good, their envious."

"Why's that?"

"We went to see 'He's just not that into you', and babe, you're kinda into me, unlike the jerks some of them are dating." She smiled and kissed him again. "Mmmm, you had rum." Lindsay said pressing her lips together and savoring the taste for a second.

"Yea, sorry babe, is that okay?"

"More than okay. Just because I have to lay off doesn't mean you have to."

Danny rubbed her tummy where his baby slept. "Well, soon enough you can join us again….then again, we'll have a little one running around, we won't have time to go out."

"Going out will be over rated after this kid is born." She smiled. "God, our lives are gonna change." She laughed

"Linds, sweetheart, our lives have already changed and he's not even here yet."

"He?"

"What you call the baby she, and I can't call it he?"

"You want a boy?"

"I don't know, I just have a feeling it's a boy, really, I just want this kid to get more of your looks."

"Yea me too." Lindsay said in a dead serious voice.

"What!"

"Ha, you should see your face honey." Lindsay laughed as she pushed herself up into a sitting position so Danny could take a seat next to her…well really so she could cuddle up to him.

"You're a riot Montana."

"I know."

"Ego trip Monroe?"

"I've been learning from you Messer." She said cuddling closer to him and placing a kiss on the side of his neck.

"Well then, I taught you well." He said as he placed a kiss to her forehead and they started to watch the movie until they both drifted off to sleep.

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The Party's Over

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"Danny what are you doing back here?" Lindsay asked as Danny came back into the apartment, having been called in about an hour ago.

"I got the flu." He groaned as he flopped down onto the loveseat

"Oh Dan, really? Blue Flu?" She said wiping her hands with a dish towel as she had just finished doing some dishes.

"I wasn't going to. I swear Linds, but my uncle called me." He said his head dropping, looking into his lap, almost ashamed, he should be processing right now. Lindsay seeing him beat himself up sat down next to him. He wouldn't look at her, so she placed a hand on leg her thumb drawing circles on his knee. "Linds, I know I should be there, I mean look at you."

"Look at me Danny? I'm a big girl I can take care of myself, bigger now thanks to you." He let out a slight smile at that. Yea year of the ox and all, the kid was getting big, almost too big for her tiny frame and she still had another 3 months to go.

"You know what I mean, her you are carrying my kid, and I'm ditching work. What'll happen if I get suspended or better yet fired."

"Then you can play Mr. Mom." She shrugged. "Danny, you take after your mom, and I know I've only met her a handful of times, and well, you stand on principle."

"I have 3 uncles on the force, then a father and brother that played for the other team, I'm in the middle ground here."

"Yea, and Danny, you spent how many years on the force before switching over to the lab? You don't have to explain yourself to me. You do what you have to do."

"Stella's disappointed in me, Hawkes is in disbelief, god only knows about Mac, and Adam, I'm sure he's in the field now."

"He wants more field work. And Dan, like I said, you stand on principle, that's one of the things I love about you, you're passionate, you actually believe in things. Don't start changing that, you won't be you." She said squeezing his hand, "now come on, lets get to bed, I have to be at work early tomorrow." She said pulling him up and in the general direction of the bedroom.

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"You feeling better Babe?" Lindsay asked as she came into the apartment with a bag of groceries. Which Danny immediately jumped up and grabbed from her.

"Linds, what are you doing?" They had food; they had gone shopping just the other day. Looking in the bag he got even more confused. "Linds what is this stuff?"

"Just this and that."

"It's all junk snack food."

"Yea, now get dressed, we're going to cheer Adam up."

"What, what happened?"

"Tough case, apparently the Deputy Mayor wasn't the greatest dad, and his son took a liking to Adam, to many resemblances, you know, his dad was"

"Yea his dad was a jack ass, alright, what are we doing?"

"Well, Stella mentioned him playing guitar hero and grabbing a slice, she's meeting us there with pizza."

"Does this mean I have ta let him win?"

"No, but give him a fighting chance." Lindsay smiled as she ducked out of her work clothes and into a pair of jeans and a plain gray t-shirt, then slipped into a pair of keds. "Come on Messer, I'm hungry and she's picking up Rays." Lindsay said as she flung a bag over her shoulder as Danny threw on his own t-shirt, grabbed his wallet, keys, and the grocery bag.

"Well Lindsay, you have several cans of frosting in this bag if you need it on the ride." He said as they made their way downstairs.

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"What are you guys doing here?" Adam asked as he opened the door to find two of his friends standing there with a bag of groceries.

"Cheering you up man." Danny said as he tossed the bag to Adam.

"Frosting, Doritos, Cheetoes, m&m's, Twizzlers, Oreo's, Salsa… this is sounding like one of your cravings Linds." Adam teased as he let them into his apartment.

"Or just about anything you've talked about or taken out of the vending machine at work." Lindsay laughed

"So guitar hero?" Danny said clapping his hands together and plopping down on Adam's uber macho long black leather couch.

"What, how'd you…" Adam got cut off by another knock at the door. "Stella, I should known." He smiled as he took the pile of pizza boxes she offered.

"Sid will be here with the soda in a few."

"Seconds." Sid said coming up behind her and handing Stella a 12 pack. As he shuffled the sodas. "Let's get this shindig started."

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A few hours later the pizza had been finished and the snacks were scattered, beers were gone and soda was being consumed. Adam and Danny were both up on their feet staring at the television with intensity as their hands went a mile a minute keeping up with the latest song. "Don't even think about it Messer, you're not winning this time!"

"Yea, keep thinking that, choke. Choke!"

"You guys are on the same team!" Stella shouted from her seat on the floor.

"In theory." Danny said as he star powered.

"No! Fuck you Messer!" Adam said as he started strumming as accurately as he possibly could, star powering himself.

"Ah ha, suck it Ross." Danny exclaimed as the song finished and scores were revealed. Damn that was close, and Danny was actually trying to win. Adam slumped into the spot next to Lindsay on the couch.

"Sorry Messer, my mom told me not to put small things in my mouth." There was a series of oooooooooooohs and whistles as a look of complete shock registered on Danny's face.

"Ouch, but ah, take a look at my girlfriend, then we'll talk." Danny smirked as patted Lindsay's belly before sitting on the floor resting against Lindsay's knees.

"Hey, don't bring me into this." Lindsay said wiping away tears from laughing so hard at Adam's last comment.

"Test tube baby." Adam said as shifted, she's a scientist, didn't want to hurt your feelings.

"Seriously. Guys!" Lindsay laughed. "Oh."

"What?" Adam asked dropping the subject and turning his attention to his friend, as did her boyfriend, he craned his head to watch her for a minute, she was smiling.

Lindsay grabbed Adam's hand and placed it on her tummy where the baby just kicked.

"Wow. Someone's strong." Adam smiled

"Someone thinks Uncle Adam is a hoot."

"Or just really enjoys picking on me." Danny said looking over at Lindsay and Adam.

"Aw, picking on Daddy is half the fun." Stella laughed. "Ain't that right Sid?"

"Oh yea, I remember this one time, Lisa and the girls decided to slip laxatives into my..."

"SID!" they all called telling him to stop.

"What, they wanted to keep me home for the day?"

"To hear those kinda stories?" Danny asked raising his eyebrows with a smile.

"Don't get smart Messer, she'll leave you."

"Again back to me!" Lindsay laughed

"Linds ya had to know it was coming. You're dating Messer, it comes with the territory." Adam Joked.

"Yea the only one who gets more gall is anyone Flack is dating, and yea he stopped introducing them to us for some reason." Stella piped in. "Where is he anyway?"

"I think he might have had a date tonight."

"WHAT!?" the entire room asked Danny.

"Babe, what do you know that we don't?" Lindsay asked

"Can't say."

"Oh come on Dan, you can't bring something like that up and not finish it." Stella said in an annoyed voice.

"Actually I can, by the way how's the fireman?"

"Oh, that guy from when your place burned?" Lindsay asked.

"Uh huh."

"Oh yum."

"Linds, babe, I'm right here." Danny said

"Yea so, what's your point."

"Alright, I'm gonna head home before these two get at each other's throats again." Sid said as he pushed himself up and headed home for the night.

"Yea we should get going too." Danny said as he helped Lindsay stand, "Work tomorrow should be great."

"You going in or you gonna have the blue flu again?" Adam asked

"I'm going in, I was bored stiff today. I took one day off, my ma's family has to be happy for that, but I got a family to support and cannot risk this job again."

"What about your ma's family?"

"A grandfather, 3 uncles, 2 cousins, all on the force." Danny sighed

"Wow, and here I always thought you came from some kinda mob-ish family." Adam observed

"Yea two bad eggs spoil the bunch huh. It's like I'm not even linked to the De Luca family."

"Well Messer, you get to create your own." Adam said.

"Yea, well, the night was to make you feel better Ross, did it work?"

"Yea Dan, I think it did. I'll beat you next time."

"Keep practicing bud." Danny said with a friendly punch to the chest.

"Ouch." He said rubbing the place of impact.

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No Good Deed

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Danny sat slumped on a stool at the counter to his kitchen, his head was in his hands as he read the newspaper.

Lindsay walked into find him that way, he didn't even seem to take notion that she was back from picking up the Chinese food. Placing it on the coffee table she walked up behind him and encircled his waste with her arms. He had been tense all day, and for what reason she really didn't know.

He was fine while reading to the baby, and then somewhere after that he just stiffened up. Was it the crappy weather? A crappy day? A call from his brother? What? She just didn't know.

Danny stiffened for a second before breathing in the scent of her and relaxing into her form, feeling his child kick against his lower back.

"Dan, what's up?" she whispered in his ear as she rubbed his stomach, and upper thigh.

"I really don't know Linds." He sighed as he turned in his seat coming face to face with her. His one hand wrapped around her waist and the other massaged her tummy where the baby was kicking.

She started rubbing his shoulders. "Well, we got food here, we can see about changing that mood shall we?" she said tugging his arm and leading him to the sofa.

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The food was gone, the tv was on and Danny's mood hadn't changed. He got angry with commercials and kept changing channels, he couldn't pin point it. He just wasn't in a good mood, he even snapped a little at Adam, and man he could have made fun of him like crazy for that buzzard impression, but he just didn't.

"That's it." Lindsay exclaimed tossing an empty take out container onto the coffee table.

"What?"

"I can't take this mood anymore." She said as she got up then pushed him all the way back to the couch before situating herself on his lap.

"Linds, what are you doing?"

"The one thing I know always brightens your mood." She whispered into his ear as she started to undo his belt, and then unfastened his pants.

Getting up she yanked the pants down, took off her own clothes, and straddled his lap once more.

"Linds, seriously, you don't have to." Danny moaned as she started to stroke him to life.

"I know, but I want to, and well you can't say no to me." She smirked as she leaned in and kissed him fiercely. "Now get over it, and help me with this itch I need scratched." … … … … … …

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"So now can you tell me what that mood was about?" Lindsay asked coming into the bedroom as she dried her hair a towel after her shower. Danny lay sprawled out on the bed in a pair of sweat pants and a tank reading the comic from earlier

"Your dad called the office earlier, and I answered." He sighed as he dropped the book on the nightstand.

"Oh?"

"Are you going home?" he asked

"I was thinking about visiting before the baby is due. But nothing is set in stone yet, why?" she asked as she hung the towel up then crawled into bed and cuddled up next to him.

"He doesn't like me." He said draping an arm around her t-shirt clad form.

"He will, but you are the man that knocked his little girl up, he's not gonna like you until after he meets you. No matter how much I tell him about you."

"He liked me before."

"Yea, before, when you were just the guy who flew out to Montana to support me, that saved me from dying in a speeding train, not the guy who had me crying for a month and a half then well you know." She said gesturing to the baby.

"I'm sorry."

"What for?"

"Making you cry?"

"It doesn't matter anymore Danny." Lindsay said as she pulled the covers over her lap.

"So you're thinking of going back?" Danny said changing the subject; they had to get away from that past area. They talked about it; they moved on, they were in a better place now.

"Yea, for a week or so, see my mom, my sisters, my dad. My mom can't get off work till the baby is born so, this way she can see me like this." She said playing with her snooze button of a belly button she now had.

"So when would you leave?"

"The doctor said I'd be good up until about a week into the 8th month. So I'd have to leave in 2 weeks or so and be back by the 15th of April."

"Okay."

"Okay? Are you okay with it?" she asked as she played with his dog tags.

"I will be, just be sure to come back to me, oh and try and get your dad to like me, or at least not kill me."

"I'll try my best." She said and kissed him again. "Mmm, so where were we?" She asked as the kiss broke and she gestured to the book on the side of the bed.

Danny let out a smirk and grabbed the book, flipping open to where they had been interrupted earlier. He scooted down the bed so his head was near the middle of her belly and he started to read again.

"Hey there kiddo." He said kissing the tummy. "Let's continue shall we? Okay, 'Stop where you are' that's flash saying that. And right beside him is the green lantern, he's looking all rough, and tough, and green, 'surrender or we'll be forced to take action.'"… … … … …

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A/N: Hope you liked it. More to come, and a NEW EPISODE on WEDNESDAY! YAY!!!!