Daniel vaguely recalled the flight, the escape from the airport or the drive to the hospital. As he stood at Betty's hospital room door he was floored to see Betty so small and fragile lying on the hospital bed. She had her back turned to the door so she had not yet noticed his arrival. She was crying soul wrenching sobs into her pillow, probably not trying to disturb anyone. Daniel did not ask John for the details behind Betty's hospitalization, he would wait for her to tell him. Seeing her now just broke his soul. She was broken but he did not know why and if he did he did not know what to do to fix it, the last time he had tried fixing it he was certain that he had destroyed their friendship. Daniel placed his bag on the floor by the door and took his coat off as quietly as possible. He walked as quietly as he could towards Betty and crouched down in front of her. Betty had her eyes squinted closed so she had not noticed him yet. He placed his shaking hand upon hers and that was the first she noticed him. She stopped her crying and looked at him, "Hi." Daniel did not say anything else because Betty enveloped him in a bone-crunching hug and kept whispering how sorry she was. He held her and kept telling her it would all work out. He did not know what would work out but he was sure that it would because he just couldn't stand to see her like this.

The moment was broken upon the entrance of the doctor, "Excuse me, I'm Dr. Walters from neo-natal, I've brought some forms for Betty to sign." At the mention of signatures Betty curled more into herself and kept on crying while muttering how sorry she was. Daniel let go of Betty's hand and walked the doctor out of Betty's room and closed the door behind them. "I don't know what you have to do with this but your presence and this papers are going to have to wait she can't sign anything." Dr. Walters looked slightly uncomfortable and did not wish to divulge more of his patient's condition to a complete stranger but a decision had to be made. Dr. Walters took his papers and walked away. Daniel returned to Betty's room where she had stopped crying and was now staring at the closed window. It was dusk now and so Daniel figured it wouldn't hurt to see the night sky once it became dark. He pulled the blinds up and noticed that Betty didn't even flinch when the new light entered the room. Daniel pulled the chair next to Betty's bed and took her hand and she still didn't respond. "Betty. Betty? Betty!!!" Daniel pressed the nurse button and began to tap Betty's cheek with his hand trying to get her to respond to his voice his presence but nothing roused her.

The nurse rushed to Betty's side and shoved Daniel out of the way. Another doctor came in followed closely by John and a security officer, "Get him out of here and keep him out." Daniel was about to protest but in no time he was facing Betty's door and John and the security were baring his entrance. Daniel swore and ran his hands thru his hair. John was curious to know who this Daniel character was, was it possible he was the farther of Betty's baby. There was only one way to answer that and in his mind it was infinitely better to ask for forgiveness than permission, "Are you the father?" Daniel turned and looked at John, "Of course I'm not Betty's father. I'm her friend. She used to work for me several months ago but then she came here for reasons I'm not going to divulge to you because they are private." John didn't say anything else because that answered one of his questions; Daniel didn't seem to know Betty was pregnant and even with Dr. Walters's misstep Daniel didn't seem to register in Daniel's brain yet that Betty had been pregnant and that the baby was currently in neo-natal. Dr. Stevens opened the door to Betty's room and only asked for John to enter. Daniel was ready to barge in but was stopped by the doctor's order, "Stay here or I will have you removed from the premises." Daniel shut up and went and found himself the first chair he could and dragged it to Betty's door. He needed to know what was going on so that meant he had to sit down and shut-up, for now.

"John I'm not going to lie to you. Betty is in shock. Nurse Doane will stay here with her but if Betty doesn't respond with-in the next eight hours we will need her family here to sign the necessary forms for her and the baby." John nodded his understanding and walked towards Betty's bed. It was so scary watching Betty just lay there breathing with her eyes open but no responding. A vacant distant look was in her eyes and somewhere inside of her Betty was lost. The accident and the trauma about finding out about her son had proven too much for her. Then this Daniel character, he must have said done something in those few moments he had been in here to have caused her to hide within herself for shelter but what? John needed to find out and soon, he walked outside in the hallway and grabbed Daniel by the shoulder, "We need to talk." Daniel detangled himself from John and in a mad whisper responded to John, "Look I don't know who you are or why the doctor and this entire hospital staff refuse to answer my questions but I'll be damned if I let you take me away from her. I am her friend and I have been there for her and she has been there for me and I'm not going to abandon her now just because some yahoo thinks he can waltz in here with out so much as an explanation. So listen to me well kid don't mess with me." Daniel was about to head back down the hall to Betty's room when John's sentence stopped him cold, "I tell you everything you want to know but you'll have to come with me." John made his way to the elevators and pressed the up button. Daniel was torn between following this stranger or going to try and see Betty but with the security standing watch that was not possible now. Daniel stepped into the elevator John had been holding for him and they headed to the top floor.

When they arrived to the designated floor John walked out first and headed the left side of the corridor. There was once again another security officer posted at the double doors in the middle of the hallway. "Hey John." John shook the officers hand, "Hey Mike, have they said anything." Mike shook his head and sat back at his desk. John opened the doors and waved Daniel in. This was another small room full of gowns, caps, shoe covers and facemasks and Daniel turned to John, "What's this?!" John proceeded to put on the items on his person, "This is the dressing room before we go into the neo-natal unit. I'm going to take you to meet Baby Suarez." Daniel tried steadying himself and grabbed a hold of the counter as he tried controlling his breathing, why hadn't Betty told him that she was pregnant. Now he understood the forms that the doctor wanted her to sign. "Come there isn't much time." Daniel donned the necessary attire and walked right behind John as they entered the darkened room. Nurses were milling about taking information from the numerous machines that surrounded all the infants in the room. There was a dim light glowing straight ahead of them and there was a little baby laying there in the soft glow. He had so many more machines than the other children that Daniel had to stifle a groan of compassion. Daniel got closer and got down on his knees so he was at eye level with the infant. He was so small and fragile. His fists and toes were curled inward and his breathing seemed labored almost forced. His eyes were covered to protect him from the harsh light. Daniel placed his hand on the pane and said hello in the smallest whisper he could muster. His voice broke when he saw the infant. No wonder Betty was so heartbroken. Her son is in here fighting for his life and she must feel so impotent at not being able to help him. Betty always so strong and courageous, little Miss fix-it; there was no problem or situation that she could not solve with her intelligence and wit. This though, there appeared so little to do but just wait.

Daniel was about to get up and ask for permission to head back to Betty's room when he noticed the baby's right leg. The baby had a unique dark birthmark shaped and Daniel had only seen that unique shaped birthmark on his father, his brother and his cousin all on his father side. It was so unique that it disturbed Daniel. He got up and grabbed John by the arm and hauled him out to where the guard was stationed. "When you asked me if I was the father you weren't asking me about Betty were you? You were asking me about the baby, weren't you?" John removed his facemask and nodded to Daniel. "Did anyone draw blood? I want to confirm that he is mine and if he is I want the doctor in charge to tell me everything." At that moment Dr. Walters came around the corner and Daniel ran to him, "Test me to confirm I am the father of baby Suarez and then when you get your results I want you to tell me everything about the baby and Betty." Dr. Walters headed to the nurse's station and informed the staff of what was going on. Nurse Peters took Daniel to the lab waiting area for his test and John went back upstairs to Betty.