* I don't know how I thought of this, but it's very funny.*


A five month pregnant Linda stood on a stepping stool, reaching the bowls on the top shelf.

"Linda! What are you doing?!" Danny was shocked. She shouldn't be on that stool!

"Getting bowls."

"B-but you could fall!"

She placed the bowls on the counter. "Are you gonna be like this the whole pregnancy?"

"No. Only when you do dangerous stuff."


"There." Linda crossed her arms, "that oughta hold you."

"You're a mean lady, you know that?" Danny grumbled, putting his elbow on his knee and his chin in his hand.

"Serves you right." She showed him the key, then dropped it in her blouse.

"I'm gonna kill you. I'm gonna totally, completely annihilate you."

"You'll have to get me first." She walked away very smugly, leaving Danny alone.

He shook his head and stared at the front door, wondering how he ended up the way he did. The doorbell rang, "Who is it?" Danny called.

"Detective Alexa Green."

"Come on in, Alexa."

Danny's new partner, Alexa, walked through the door and immediately raised her eyebrows. She saw her partner sitting on the stairs, his right hand suspended above him and cuffed to the railing. "BDSM?"

"No." Danny answered firmly.

At that moment, Linda walked in. "Oh, hi... um, Alexa? Was it?"

"Yeah. Can Danny come out and play?"

"Hey!" Danny frowned, and Linda giggled.

"No. But you can still work with him. Here." She left and came back with a kitchen chair.

"Thanks..." Alexa said, a little hesitantly.

Once Linda was gone, Danny whispered, "unlock the cuffs."

As soon as he said that, Linda cane back in, "don't you let him be talking you into unlocking those. He knows why he's in them."

Alexa raised an eyebrow again, looking weirdly at Danny.

"It is not BDSM."

"Whatever you say..." she took a seat.

"It's not!"

"Okay... let's get to work."


About half an hour later, some one knocked on the door.

"I'll get it!" Linda called, walking towards the front door. She opened the door and smiled at her brother in law, "hey, Joe. What brings you here?"

"I came-" he stopped, looking at his brother.

"No." Danny rolled his eyes.

"Right... I came by to get that thing you wanted me to have."

"Oh yes. It's in the back, come on." She lead Joe to the backyard.

"Linda?"

"It's not that, Joe," Linda knew what he was going to ask. "It is punishment, though."

"He did yet another stupid thing?"

"Yup. Well, not exactly. He was annoying me," She handed him the tool, "Imma let him loose soon."

"What did he do?"

"He keeps hovering over me. I'm five months pregnant, not walking on one leg with flaming torches in my hands!"

"So you cuffed him to the stair railing."

"Uh huh. Like I said, Imma let him out soon."


"Do you promise not to be hovering like a vulture?" Linda asked once Alexa and Joe had gone back to their previous activities.

"Yes, okay? I promise to be less like a vulture."

"Good." She took the key from her bra and unlocked the cuffs. "You better behave yourself." She called after him as he went up the stairs.

Man, is she crazy!