a/n: no no you're not hallucinating, it is an update from me.lol. i know it took long and i'm sorry. this chapter took a long time coming but i'm quite happy about it, at least way happier than with the last one.
before we start, i would like to thank and credit KaitlynReynolds on the CSI NY board at for the question asked to Lindsay, though i rephrased it, her idea got my writing unstuck. anyway, on with the story.
Chapter 28
"Hey babe," Danny greeted on his phone after the caller ID displayed 'Montana'.
"Hey to you too, Danny," Stella answered him instead of Lindsay.
"Why are you calling on Lindsay's phone? Is she alright? Is the baby okay?" Danny asked holding his breath.
"Relax, my phone's dead that's all. I thought we could get everything in my car without your help but turns out I was wrong and Linds' said we needed a big strong man but Flack wasn't answering so I suggested to call you."
"You're so funny, Stell, can I talk to Lindsay now, please?" Even if he knew Stella wouldn't lie to him, he still needed to hear her voice, assuring him that everything was fine.
"I'm deeply hurt that you don't want to talk to me, Danny." She teased him. Danny rolled his eyes at her even though she couldn't see him, but he didn't say anything else.
"Hey, Dan." Lindsay's sweet voice greeted him on the other end and brought a smile to his face.
"Hey, baby. So is everything alright?"
"Everything's great. We've got amazing stuff. I can't wait to show you. So you're coming to pick us up?" she wondered, her voice betraying her excitement.
"I'll be there in 15, I'll meet you up where I left you." He answered her.
"Great. See you."
"Lov…" Danny attempted to answer before realizing she had already hung up on him. He was going to blame Stella for this. She must have hurried Lindsay and coerced her to hang up on him without an 'I love you'.
He got to his car and headed off towards the park. It took him a bit more than expected to be able to park his car. Then he made his way into the park and quickly found Lindsay and Stella surrounded by all the gifts. God there was a lot of stuff, so much that he wasn't sure they could all fit in their place.
"Knight in shining armor at your service," he announced himself making the girls laugh. He walked to Lindsay and dropped a lingering kiss to her lips to make up for the hung up. "So, how was the party?"
"Great! We had a lot of fun and even more presents!" Lindsay answered so excited than she was practically shouting.
"I can hear just fine Montana, no need to yell." Danny said chuckling until she poked him hard in the hardly there love handles. "Are you alright, Stell? You've been looking at me funny since I arrived."
He wouldn't have believed it if he hadn't just witnessed it but Stella was blushing. What could he have said or done that could make her blush. He turned to Lindsay just in time to see her throwing her friend a knowing -and was it pleading?- look. Danny had a bad feeling about this, what on earth had Lindsay told Stella?
"I'm alright, Dan, let's get these in your car," she finally said gesturing to the mountain of gifts. "Two trips should do the trick."
Stella began to walk away from them in the direction Danny had come from while Danny gathered some boxes in his arms.
"Be right back babe," Danny said before following Stella.
It took four trips to the car to get everything in it. They dropped Stella off at her place and went home. Danny still hadn't figured out how to stop Lindsay from entering the nursery without ruining the surprise but he had to try.
"We should have asked Stella to help us get all this into the apartment, she wouldn't have said no, you know." Lindsay said breaking the comfortable silence that had settled between them in the car.
"I know, it'll take longer but I'll be alright, don't worry. I just had the impression she wouldn't be able to look me in the eyes the whole time and that was getting a little bit embarrassing." He shot back, taking the chance to find out what Lindsay could have said to Stella.
"I have no idea what you're talking about, Danny. You must have been hallucinating." She answered playing innocent.
"Don't play dumb, Montana. Now, spill it, what did you tell Stella?" he firmly asked.
Lindsay was weighing her options. What was more fun, not telling him and having him wondering and obsessing or telling him and him not being able to look at any of the women present at the party in the eye? That was a tough choice. But she eventually made up her mind.
"We were playing this game. I had to guess who the gifts were from and if I was right I got to ask any question but if I was wrong they could ask me anything. And they did."
"What did Stella ask?" Danny wasn't liking where this was going, he was very much content in having the personal details of their life, personal. No one needed to know anything.
"She just asked if we had chosen a name. But she couldn't ask what the name was after that and nobody else did, so don't worry." Lindsay rushed her answer, knowing she had threatened him with dire consequences if he were to reveal the name they had chosen. "However…"
"I don't like the sound of that." Danny whispered, dreading the rest of her sentence.
"Someone did ask if …" she mumbled, making it impossible to understand.
"I'm sorry but I didn't get that." Now he was worried, if she was mumbling, that meant it was worse than he thought it was.
"…if you were the best I had ever had." She admitted reluctantly.
Danny looked at her incredulously. Had he heard her right?
"Tell me you didn't answer that," he begged her, not daring to turn his eyes away from the road, in fear of not seeing in her eyes the confirmation he was desperately needing. A couple of minutes later, Lindsay still hadn't answered, so Danny turned to her. She was smirking, at him, she was smirking at him and that just wasn't fair.
"I might have answered something." She was chuckling and he couldn't do anything about it. If Stella had been embarrassed, he couldn't imagine how he would feel when he saw her again. He figured they should avoid each other for a few days, maybe weeks even.
"Montana, are you gonna put me out of my misery here?" Danny was getting restless and wanted that conversation to be over as quickly as possible.
"I told them that you knew your way around a woman's body, especially mine. And that you just had to look at me a certain way to make my toes curl." She at last confessed. Had Danny been drinking or eating something, he would have choked.
"You're kidding?" he pleaded, still slightly hoping he had misheard or that she was indeed kidding.
"I was obligated to tell the truth." She stated like it was nothing or like she had taken an oath at the start of what Danny was thinking was a very stupid game.
"And a simple yes would have been too hard?" he grumbled. Alright, now was his chance. "Okay, Montana, I'm prepared to forgive you on this if you do a little something for me." He suggested.
"And what would that something be?" she wondered amused, expecting him to propose an activity that would revolve around a bed primarily.
"You have to promise that you will not enter the nursery for a whole two days, without asking why."
Lindsay glanced at him incredulously, that was definitely not what she was expecting him to say and she was very curious as to why she couldn't go into the nursery.
"What if I don't promise to go in there?" she inquired, deciding to play with him a little.
"Then I'll have to tell you why you can't go in there and you still won't be able to go in. So it doesn't change anything for ya." She was completely intrigued by now but she chose to accept his offer.
"Alright, cowboy, but you're gonna have to come up with ways to keep me occupied." She watched his lips curl into a smirk as his eyes were still concentrating on the road.
a/n: so what did you think??
i'm gonna try really hard to have an update ready by next wednesday. i won't have time to write this weekend because i'm gonna be really busy. but i've got some ideas and i know where i want to take the sotry in the couple of chaps so it'll be easier.
