Hi everyone its been awhile I know sorry about that its been a bit crazy. I've had a few things going one and plus my state is on fire whoo, not. It may be another couple weeks till I get another chapter out just because of the holidays and my brother is getting married. Hope you like this chapter, ^_^.
"Mom this is Danny, he's my fiancé."
The smile from Jackie's face fades and she looks at Danny, then looks at Maria, then to the two little girls.
Jackie walks closer to Danny, she hugs him and whispers in his ear. Danny nods
Jackie pulls away.
"Welcome to our family Danny." Jackie says
she looks at Grace, and gives a hug.
Maria hugs her mother again and then the rest of the welcoming party.
Instead of going home after leaving the airport they head to the NM Headquarters for a welcome home party.
The rest of the team was waiting for their leaders to come home.
A few hours into the party and the returning team was getting tired. They decided to call it a night and head home, not having to return to work for a couple days.
Maria takes Danny and Grace to Kiana's and her's house.
Once inside Kiana pulls Grace to show her her room.
Danny and Maria finish unloading the bags from the car and Maria starts putting things away and making some room for Danny's clothes yawing as she works.
"Come on babe you can do that later, lets just sleep." Danny says pulling Maria to bed.
"I know but can I at least go check on the girls."
Danny nods
The two go to check on their daughters and find the two fast asleep on the bed, each girl holding onto their individual stuffed animal.
The two adults head back to Maria's room and collapses into the bed.
Danny holds Maria as they sleep.
In the morning Maria wakes to an empty bed and the smell of coffee and conversation.
After rolling out of bed and finding her slippers Maria walks into the kitchen.
Danny and the girls are eating cereal and her mom is sitting talking.
"Well look whose up finally." He mom says
Maria just gives an angry glare.
Danny hands her a cup of coffee and Maria smiles and kisses him.
"So I know you to have a lot to do these next few weeks so I thought I'd take the girls today. Oh and I brought over some boxes for you too."
"Thanks mom."
When the girls are gone Maria and Danny start making a list of people to invite, both teams and families will be attending, now it was just friends to invite.
"Hey did you let your parents know you were getting married?" Maria asks Danny.
"Of course I told them the day before, I've even sent them your picture." Danny says
"Oh ok."
"Oh and my mother and sister will be here next week to help us." Danny says looking out the window.
"What, when, why?" Maria asks
"Calm down they just want to help, and Monday. We have so much to get done in so little time, I even asked Steve and the others to look for a house for us. Don't worry I told him to send pictures of places he finds."
"I'm sorry I didn't mean to freak out I was just surprised is all." Maria smiles.
So after were done with this what are we gonna do today." Danny asks
"Well I thought I'd show you around town, it's not much but still. Then we have dinner at my moms house tonight."
Danny groans
"Come one lets get cleaned up and ready to go." Maria says
The two shower and get ready to leave.
They climb into Maria's car and head into town.
Maria shows Danny were she went to school and places she would hang out with her friends.
At noon Maria takes Danny to her favorite restaurant The Diner.
There Maria was finally able to have her green chili again, the two order their food and wait.
When their food arrives Danny just stares as Maria's is covered in green chili.
"Your really gonna eat that." Danny asks
"Of course I am." Maria smiles and takes a bite.
The two eat in silence for a while until Maria shoves a piece of the food in Danny's mouth, laughing when he starts choking on the hot food.
He reaches for his soda, but Maria takes it away and hands him her water instead.
"The soda will make it worse." Maria says hiding her smile
Danny finishes the water wanting more.
"That was hot, why did you give that to me."
"For you to try duh."
"It was to hot."
"Naw, this is mild you want hot, I'll have mom send us some during chili season."
"I think I can live with out it."
Maria just shrugs her shoulders and the two finish their food.
After their done eating they leave.
"So what else is there to do here?" Danny asks
"Nothing really, I showed you just about everywhere." Maria smiles
"Just about, what else is there?" Danny asks
"Yeah see that's my secret, plus we need to barrow a truck last time I went there, Emily and Misty didn't stop laughing for at me for weeks."
Danny looks at Maria waiting for the rest of the story, but she just shakes her head and smiles.
Maria takes Danny to one of the parks and they lay under a tree.
"You know I've never just laid in the park before, the ones in Jersey I just never really liked them. In Hawaii I'm always busy with work or taking Grace places, we never just sit still." Danny says running his fingers though Maria's hair.
Maria looks at Danny and smiles
"When we go back to Hawaii we'll have a tree just like this so we can lay under it when ever we can.
Just lying together in a park Maria feels at peace.
A half hour later the couple start to get sleepy so they decide to head back to the house.
They lie down on the couch and fall asleep with the TV on for back round noise.
At five Danny and Maria were woken up by two small bodies jumping on top of them.
"Momma grandma says to get your butt up now or she'll tell Danny about the time you came home covered in …" The young girls mouth is covered by her mothers hand.
"Wait, wait what happen?" Danny asks wanting to know.
"Never that is a vow all of us took when it happen, not to say anything."
Maria lets go of Kiana
"Go clean up girls and Kiana get your grandma's and uncles presents."
Maria goes to her room to fix her hair and Danny follows behind.
"So your not gonna tell me."
"Nope."
"Ah come on please."
"Umm I'll tell you when were old and grey how about that. Maria kisses Danny and finishes getting ready.
Everyone gets in the car and drive the five minutes to Maria's moms
As they pull in the driveway 3 guys walk outside.
Kiana squeals with delight and Danny slightly shudders
Kiana looks at Grace who is a little nervous.
"Don't worry Grace, they wont hurt us. They're saving their energy for your dad." The two girls jump out of the car and Kiana jumps into the closest set of arms.
Hugging her uncles.
"Hey Kiki who is this." One of them asks
"This is Grace she's gonna be my new sister." Kiana pulls Grace a little closer
"Grace these are our uncles." Kiana points at them all." Uncle Jake, uncle Eli and uncle James."
Grace smiles and gives each one a shy wave. Kiana pulls Grace inside to see who else is there.
Finally Maria and Danny get out of the car.
"Hi I'm Danny." Danny says holding out his hand
"Guys I told you to be nice." Maria says coming up behind Danny.
"We haven't done anything yet." Jakes says
"Then shake his hand and say hi." Jake shakes Danny's hand
"Tell me Danny have you ever woken up in the middle of the dessert." Eli asks
"Not that I can remember." Danny says
"Come take a walk with us." James says
"Guys bring him back in one piece, remember he has a daughter too." Maria says
She leaves Danny with her brothers and goes inside to help her mother finish dinner.
Half hour later Maria is outside yelling for her brothers to come eat.
The four guys come around the corner covered in dirt and each one has a few bruises.
"What happen?" Maria asks
"Well we went and had a talk with Danny, but when we were walking this truck came out of no where and almost hit James, so we started laughing then he pushed me so I pushed him back into Jake and I think you can see were this is going. Don't worry were all fine though." Eli says
Maria just turns around and goes back inside shaking her head.
A week later Maria is preparing the guest rooms for Danny's mother and sister.
He had taken the girls to get them at the airport.
They would be going with Maria, her mom, Emily, Misty, and their friends Jamal and Carlos dress shopping the next day. While everyone was gone Maria was also suppose to go to her office to finish her resignation paper work, and hoping to work one more case with her team before she left.
Walking outside and jumping on her bike Maria rides to the office and finds that there are people running around everywhere.
"What's going on?" Maria demands
One of the interns comes up to her.
"It seems that one of the captives in the cells has gotten out and we can't find him."
"Who is it."?
"Jose Gomez we caught him about five hours ago and he got out about half ago. From what we can tell he is still in the building, the guards didn't see him leave and none of the alarms have been tripped."
"Did you check the air vents and why did you call Major Walker or myself sooner."
"Sorry, but the Major has the day off for her family and we were getting ready to call you when you walked in."
"I want this whole building on lock down, no one gets in or out with out my knowing. Make sure that if we have any more people in the cells that there is a guard in there to make sure Gomez doesn't try to break them out." After giving out further instructions Maria goes to her office and grabs her flashlight, an easy day at the office was all she wanted so she could hurry and get home. Nope. What she didn't expect to get hit in the back with something when she walked into her office. Imedently she gets back up and sees Gomez holding her bat, Maria lunges forward and grabs at the bat. While the two fight for it Maria kicks Gomez in the leg and her drops the bat. After she knocks the air out of him and cuffs him Maria calls for some one to come and put him back in the cells.
She finishes the paper work she needs to get done, but doesn't turn it in just yet. wanting a few more days with her team.
Deciding to head home Maria looks around her office and heads home telling them to call if they needed her.
Once home she collaps on the couch and falls asleep.
When Danny gets back with everyone they find her still asleep.
Danny gently wakes her up and helps her sit up.
"Ah careful, I was hit in the back today with a bat." Maria says as she sits up.
"What."
"It's a long story."
Maria stands up to welcome their guest
"Hi I'm Maria, its nice to finally meet you."
"Oh its nice to get to meet you to I'm Lisa, I'd hug you but with what you just said I don't want to hurt you." Danny's mother says
Maria smiles
"And you must be Alex, its good to get to meet you finally." Maria says
"You to Danny talked a lot about you on the way here."
"It was all good I hope." Alex nods
"Well I had hoped for a nice sit down dinner, but since I fell asleep, how about we go out to eat a my favorite place." Maria says
They go out eat and talk, getting to know each other better.
So that's it for this chapter I know its long but I had to get a lot of little things out of the way. I'll work on writing the next chapter in my notebook this week and I should start typing it by Saturday night. I hope to have it posted by next Monday that's only if i survive till then. So I know Danny doesn't have a sister, but I gave him one because its my story and I can. ^_^
Happy 4th of July to everyone in the USA I'm gonna watch the fireworks this year, my state has enough wildfires going one I don't need to be the cause of another one. Bye.