a/n: and here it is the last chapter. before we continue, i would like to thnk all of you guys who reviewed and stuck ith the story. we gave the motivation to continue and write. and your nice words mean a lot to me. so once again thank you!;)

Chapter 34

"Lindsay, you're doing just fine. Your water hasn't broken yet, so we need to wait for that. Just try and relax, it could take a while." Dr Walker told Lindsay after examining her.

"Any ideas on how I'm supposed to relax, Doc?" Lindsay asked sarcastically, making her doctor chuckle but Dr Walker didn't reply anything. She left the room promising to come back in a little while.

"Is there anything you need Montana?" Danny spoke for the first time since the doctor had entered.

"How about we try walking around like the doctor suggested," she answered smiling.

"You sure?"

"Yeah, I might as well get moving a bit before I'm confined to the bed." She threw her legs out of the bed and held out her hands for Danny to grab and help her up.

"Alright, then, left or right?" Lindsay laughed at his silly question, since the hallways were going in a circle, it didn't matter which way they went. Lindsay shrugged so Danny made the executive decision and stirred them on the left.

"Dan, are we ready to be parents?" Lindsay asked out of the blue but didn't stop walking.

"We've got everything we need. The nursery's all set, so yeah we're ready." Danny answered.

"That's not what I meant, Danny. I mean, are we ready to be responsible for another life?" she looked at him expectantly, waiting for him to reassure her, to do his job. Danny sighed and squeezed her hand.

"Montana, we're gonna learn along the way. We're not perfect and we're gonna make mistakes but we love our baby girl and that's what really matters." Danny's comforting words reassured her and made her smile. But the moment was interrupted by another contraption and a squishy sound announcing her water had just broken. Lindsay stopped moving and squeezed Danny's tight.

"We should get back to your room," Danny suggested.

"No, I'm okay, we can walk a bit more." She answered through clenched jaws.

"Alright, we finish going around and then back to the bed." He declared.

"Tell me a story to pass the time," she asked turning to him.

"What kind of story?" Danny wondered amused and already wracking his brain to find a good story to tell her.

"Anything you want, just tell me a story." She answered him.

Danny was quiet for a few seconds, thinking about a story, hesitating between making one up or embellishing something else.

"Alright, when I was about five, Louie and I went to the Central Park with Ma and on our way home, we were walking ahead of Ma. We always did that, but we'd usually wait for her at one point. But that day, Louie suggested we just got back home, Pop was already there. We arrived home and knocked on the door for Pop to open but we were so small he didn't see us in the peephole, after the third or fourth time knocking he opened the door and let us in. He asked where Ma was, we answered she was on her way and fled to our room giggling. A few minutes later, Ma came back crying and we heard her tell Pop she lost the kids. To which he replied incredulously that we were in our room. Louie blamed it all on me saying he only went along to protect me. He got grounded for a month and I got two."

"Didn't you tell your parents it was Louie's idea?" Lindsay wondered having intently listened to his childhood story. Danny didn't talk about Louie often, it still hurt and she had a feeling it always will be but she hoped he'd be able to tell stories like that to their baby girl.

"And rat him out? He was my big brother, Montana, he could do anything to me, I'd still idolize him." He recalled with mixed feeling of nostalgia and a certain fondness. Lindsay smiled and was about to stroke his cheek when her hand stopped mid-air as another contraction washed over her.

They made it back to the room where Lindsay laid back on the bed.

It was another four hours before the baby was ready to make an appearance. Danny was behind Lindsay so she could lean her back against his chest and he was gripping his hands tightly.

"Lindsay, I need one last push now, then it's over," Dr Walker announced after twenty minutes of pushing.

Lindsay sighed and threw back her head on Danny' s shoulder. She was tired and wanted to stop pushing. Danny dropped a kiss to her temple and whispered in her ear.

"It's almost done, baby. Remember you get to break my nose after that." He chuckled. Lindsay was too exhausted to smile but the hint of it played on her lips. Danny was always good at distracting her, sometimes it was a pain, especially at work but it was a real quality in moments like those.

Lindsay gathered her strength and straightened up to push one final time. Her grip on Danny's hands tighten even more, so much so that he thought she might break something.

Everything and everyone was silent until the wail of a new born resonated in the room. Lindsay's head was back on Danny's chest and she let out a relieved sigh while tears found their way down her cheeks. One of the nurses put the baby girl on Lindsay's chest. She tentatively and gently rubbed the baby's cheek whereas Danny took the small hand with his finger. Silent tears were also escaping his own eyes as he took in the sight of his daughter.

"Hey you." Lindsay whispered sobbing, overcome by a flow of emotions.

"Does she have a name?" The nurse asked, interrupting their moment.

Danny looked at the nurse and then at Lindsay who nodded at him.

"Clara Monroe-Messer, that's her name." Danny declared very proud. "Right, Clara?" he said turning his gaze back to his daughter. Clara's eyes were closed and watching Lindsay, he realized she had closed her eyes too. Mother and daughter were very much alike but he couldn't wait to see if the little girl had his eye color even if he knew that were they blue at first, they could change later on.

"We need to clean her up and took measurements." The nurse announced making Lindsay open her eyes. "We'll be very quick, I promise." She added, noticing the faint worry cross over Lindsay's face. She too a step towards the bed and lifted the baby off her mother's chest, making her whimper from the loss.

A couple of hours later met them in Lindsay's room with the team all gathered around the new family. Everyone was cooing at the little girl, amazed at her.

"You guys did good," Flack congratulated the both of them while Clara was asleep in his arms.

Lindsay and Danny's only response was to grin. Lindsay because she was way too tired to do anything else and Danny because he was beaming with joy and pride.

"She's gonna break some hearts," Mac smiled and chuckled at the horror and panic he saw in Danny's eyes.

"Sure, when she's forty and I'm dead." He glared at his boss, making everyone laugh.

"How do you feel, Linds'?" Stella asked her friend, sitting on the edge of the bed.

"Exhausted and sore but she's worth every second of it." She replied, her voice trembling from a mixture of hormones and intense emotions.

"We'll leave you three, now. You need your rest, Lindsay." Sheldon said affectionately touching Lindsay's arm on his way to the door.

Their group of friends left the room and the little family was left alone. Clara was back in her mother's arms who was dozing off.

"Montana?" Danny wanted to take Clara out of her arms so she could sleep properly but she was resisting. "I just wanna let you sleep babe. I'll sit in the armchair over there."

She finally let go of Clara and by the time Danny sat in the chair with Clara, she was already fast asleep. He looked down at the little girl cradled in his arms and smiled. She was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen and he couldn't believe she was his. She was his baby girl and he would do anything for his family and he was going to.

Lindsay and him were going to give this beauty the best life.

a/n: i hope it met your expectations.

the sequel is on the way, it's called Meeting the family. i have 4 chapters written already and they're about twice longer than this story's chaps. here is the summary:
Clara Monroe-Messer was a queen and she knew it. She was not the only kid of the lab family but she was the first to be born. And that made her the queen amongst them.
tune in next weekend for the first chapter.;)