AN: Sorry it took so long to get out – I lost what I wrote while I was away and then life just got super busy and then lack of inspiration, and then as the season opener came and went I decided I wanted to get the end all out at once but then lack of inspiration and urg anyway enough excuses! This part's just a short one, I've nearly finished the story I just have to tie a few things together and stuff, so the next time I post it should be the completion! Hope you think this and sorry it's short, next part will defiantly be longer!

Part 3

Danny looked down at Mary's sleeping form and couldn't resist the urge to touch her, bending down he wiped some stray strands of hair away from her face. The answer phone beeped from the other side of the room. He'd be woken by the first call at 9, after the fifth he'd switched the phone on silent and turned on the machine. Word travelled fast in Vegas and his father was a well loved man. Going back to sleep and trying to block the reality of the world he'd been plagued with dreams of things that wouldn't be . Dreams of his father watching him achieve everything he'd hoped for him, of giving him grandchildren. Every time the surreal ness woke him he was filled with loss, something which only dulled when he walked into the other room and saw Mary lying there. He'd spent the past half an hour just watching her sleep. He wanted nothing more than to wake her and tell her how he felt, but a part of him was scared of how she'd react and if it she didn't react well he'd of truly lost everything.

"mmm" Mary moaned against his touch and opened her eyes, blinking a little when her eyes immediately starred into his.

"Hey, I thought I better wake you. It's nearly one."

"In the afternoon?" Mary asked in disbelief as she pulled herself into a seat positioning.

"Coffee?" Danny asked nodding in response to her questioning and heading for the kitchen.

"Um Yeah" Mary looked around the room for a moment before everything came rushing back to her. Why she was there. "News broke yet?" She asked as Danny placed the coffee in front of her and motioned toward the bleeping machine. "I'm sorry"

"What for?" Danny picked up Mary's legs before sitting down on the sofa, placing them across his lap.

"I wanted to get the phone before you could. Deal with all that" Danny smiled at Mary and rubbed her leg threw the sheet reassuringly.

"It was fine. As you can see I found a way to deal with it. Anyway you had as late a night as me, you deserved the sleep too"

"How are you feeling?"

"Not sure yet" Danny answered honestly and Mary shifted to hug him holding the sheet close to her as she remembered she was only wearing a t-shirt and underwear

"Well let me know." She smiled at him stroking lightly at his temple. " I need to go home and get changed but then I'm coming right back. You going to be okay?"

"What am I five?" Danny joked, picking up both their coffee mugs and taking them away. Mary slipped her jeans on quickly in his absence before following him.

"I'm serious Danny. Call me if you need me okay? I won't be more than an hour"

"Mare, I'm fine. Really. I'll be okay. Anyway I'm coming with you?"

"Well, what's the point in that?"

"Your car's over by the playground. You're going to need to go pick it up and you need a way to get home. Which one of us was drunk last night?" Danny laughed and Mary looked over concerned. He was too upbeat as far as she was concerned and it worried her. Deciding to leave it for now she pulled her hair up and motioned for Danny to lead the way out of the house.

Mary walked into her room and shed her clothes picking clean things out of the closet. She was glad she'd convinced Danny to drive her to pick up her car first so she could drive herself home, and he could go back to his place. At her door she'd been greeted by a large bouquet of flowers and a note from Jake telling her he'd tried to get in contact all morning but her phone had been switched off, and that he hoped she was okay. His voice on her machine filtered through saying things along the same line and she decided she had better call him.

"Mary?" Jake's voice answered the phone quicker than she'd expected and it took a couple of seconds for her to registered he'd answered.

"Jake, Hi. I'm sorry I didn't talk to you earlier. I haven't been up long, we didn't get to bed till late."

"You and Danny?" Jake's voice hardened and Mary wished she'd chosen her words differently.

"Um, Yeah." Twisting the phone cord around her finger Mary tried to think of something to say change the subject.

"I have to go Mary. Dinner tonight?"

"I don't know about tonight Jake, I want to make sure Danny's okay.."

"He's not a child Mary."

"Jake, please don't be like that"

"I'm sorry, I'll call you later?" Jake's voiced raised in a question and Mary smiled a little at the apologetic tone in his voice.

"Yeah, okay. Bye." Hanging the phone up Mary was startled as it started ringing almost immediately after.

"Hey.." Mary smiled at Danny's voice and tried not to notice the butterflies that started in her stomach, or compare them to the sinking feeling she'd had when she'd heard Jake pick up before.

"Are you okay?"

"Yeah. Don't worry. I'm fine. I just wondered how long you were going to be. I was going to order something in for lunch."

"Don't bother with that, I was just about to come back anyway. I'll cook us something.."

"As long as you bring the ingredients with you" Danny laughed as he looked into his bare fridge

"Deal, I'll see you in a while."