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The First Attempt

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"Last night was fun," I murmured sleepily from beside Danny, snuggling further into his warm arms.

"It was. Reminded me how much I really loved dancing with you." He whispered, his grip tightening around my waist.

"Mmm." I said lazily, smiling, as his fingers began to trace small circles on my hipbone.

"We should try to go out more often." Danny continued gruffly.

"You mean dancing?" I smirked at him, raising an eyebrow.

"Yes" Danny replied slowly, leaning down towards me. "Because dancing with you always makes me feel so…" he trailed off, and as I closed my eyes, I was blissfully aware of his lips kissing mine gently, his arms snaking around my waist, and his body rolling on top of my own.

"MUMMY, UNCLE DON IS SNORING ON THE COUCH AGAIN" A voice screamed from the living room.

I giggled as Danny mocked sighed, before rolling off me onto his side of our large double bed.

"That's right, we have kids."

"Whom you love and adore with every fiber of your being" I said sternly.

"Not at times like this I don't" He replied as his lips caught my own in a heated kiss.

"We've got nine year old twin girls," I breathed heavily when we finally broke apart.

"And a twelve year old son" A voice said from the doorway. "Gross. Can't you two stay off one another for at least five minutes?"

I looked up to see Louie, our twelve-year-old son, standing in the doorway.

"Funny that," Danny said, as he kissed my cheek softly before jumping out of bed "If your mother and I had of done that, you wouldn't be here to bare witness to all the grossness that is parents lives" He finished, ruffling Louie's hair as he walked past.

I let out a horrified gasp, as Danny walked out of the room, yelling after him "He doesn't need to hear stuff like that"

"He already knows stuff like that" came the faint reply, followed by screams of delight as Jade and Sam attacked their father, who had attacked Don.

Such was the manner of our chaotic lives.

Louie was still standing at the doorway, looking very nervous about something.

"Penny for your thoughts?" I asked him, as he looked up, sighed, then looked back down again.

"Come on." I said, motioning for him to join me in the bed.

He slowly walked over and sat at the opposite end of my bed. Louie was like his father in so many ways. The similarities in their appearance were uncanny, and from a young age he'd proven he could be a charmer, just like his father.

Louie was the strong, silent type too, who, even at twelve, had built a wall high around him to protect himself. Sometimes I worried he was too much like Danny, and would push everyone away from him, never letting anyone get close.

"Louie" I warned, "I'm your mother. I'll get it out of you one way or another."

He let out another heavy sigh, before mumbling "Theresthisgirl"

I was so not ready for this. Louie was still my baby boy, who smiled up at me with those big blue eyes when he was born.

"Ohhh a girl" Danny said in a high-pitched voice from the doorway. Jade and Sam were clinging onto his legs as he walked slowly into the room, picking them up one by one and throwing them onto the bed, both of them in fits of giggles.

"Not exactly helping Danny." I mumbled under my breath, as he sat back down into bed and kissed me on the top of my head.

"Sure I am." He smiled brightly, tugging Jade and Sam onto his lap. "We're waiting for it." He said to Louie.

"For what?" Louie asked, almost as confused as I was.

"For the story." Jade said, rolling her eyes, something a nine year old should not know how to do.

"You teach her that too?" I nudged Danny, who pretended not to have heard me.

"Daddy says there is always a good story that goes along with falling in love, and everything that comes with it, right Daddy?" Sam explained, looking up at Danny with her huge brown eyes, who nodded in response

If Louie was the spitting image of Danny, than Jade and Sam were little duplicates of me. Their identical features were delicate, their body shapes similar to mine as a child. But their smiles, well, they had the Messer smile. It was a devil of a smile, and both these girls knew how to use it already, having wormed their way into the hearts of Flack, Hawkes and Mac from a very young age.

That smile could get them just about anything from those men, and I pitied those who would dare fall for them when they were older.

"So tell us the story" Jade finished for Sam, as they both smiled towards their big brother.

"I'm working with her on an assignment, and any time I even attempt to make an offer about simply 'hanging out' she brushes it off and says we need to get the work finished." Louie finished, sighing again. Jade and Sam shared one of their special twin looks before crawling off Danny's lap towards Louie.

"Oh Lu," Jade said sympathetically "She'll come around once the Messer charm begins to kick in."

Sometimes I couldn't help but think those two girls were too mature for their age.

"Persistence is the key," Danny piped up from next to me, "Your mother was exactly like this girl. All work and no play." He teased, as I poked my tongue out at him. "It took me three times until she actually listened to me when I asked her to marry me."

"Mum, what were you thinking?" Sam said from her lying position. "How could you keep Danny Messer waiting like that?" Jade added.

"What lies have you been telling our children Danny Messer?" I asked incredulously.

"No not lies" Sam said, shaking her head "Stories" Jade finished for her. "He tells us lots of stories about you two." Sam continued "They are much more romantic than those stupid fairy tales you tried to read us."

"Thank you two for the vote of confidence," I said, crawling down the bed and tickling them until they were both gasping for air.

"You win, you win," They screamed happily, as I say back satisfied.

"So, Jade, Sam, would you like to share with me your fathers version of how he proposed to me?"

"Only if you let us tell the story without any interruptions." Jade said solemnly.

"Because this story is very serious, and needs to be told with all the right adjectives and nouns." Sam said "And we can't have people correcting us on our use of verbs." She continued. "It'll ruin the atmosphere," Jade added.

"Are they smarter than us Danny?" I asked, as he moved his arm around me and pulled me into him.

"It would appear that way." He whispered back, kissing my neck head gently as we settled in to hear the girls story.

"It all began…" Jade said dramatically "In the CSI Labs"

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"Right" Mac had said, coming into the break room "We've got two cases. A drowning victim, and a suicide, both of which have suspicious circumstances surrounding them, and now they look like they are both related." He finished, as I shared a look with Danny. This could only mean one thing.

"So we're all in this together." Hawkes supplied for Mac, taking a large sip of the coffee he had in front of him.

"You, Stella and Lindsay will be working the suicide, while Danny, Flack and I work the drowning. Any evidence that joins the two together, I want it sent through to me ASAP. Get ready for a long night."

"Glad we already organized for your mum to baby sit Louie tonight." I sighed as I walked out of the break room beside Danny. "Organizing a sitter for tonight would have been a total nightmare."

"Are you kidding? Mum would keep Louie at her house if she could. I swear she's more in love with that kid than she ever was with me." Danny replied, instinctively grabbing my hand.

"Because he's her first grandchild. She will spoil him rotten until the next comes along." I said, laughing a little.

"Are you saying there is going to be more Montana?" Danny replied, pulling me closer to him.

"Yes Messer, there are going to be more. We're going to have baby girls. And they are going to be spoilt rotten by none other than you." I said gently, kissing the tip of his nose.

"Why is that?" Danny said smiling down at me.

"Because they'll look exactly like me." I replied happily, moving away from him and walking down the hallway.

"Looks like dinner is off tonight then." I added softly.

Danny stopped in his tracks behind me, swearing loudly.

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"Of course," Sam threw in "This is where all the problems stared. Not just for you and Daddy though" She continued "For Uncle Mac and Aunty Stella too. That was a special night for them too."

"But that's another story, right Sam?" Jade interrupted.

"Yep. So anyway…"

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"Everything okay Messer" I heard Flack ask from behind him.

"Peachy Keen" Danny had replied sarcastically.

"Oh what's wrong? Need to cancel dinner plans with Lindsay because of the case? Maybe you two can find time to get hot and heavy in the…"

I turned and walked away then. That night, that dance, Flacks face… it was all burned deep into my memory. Since then Danny and I had kept our relationship out of the Lab, well, I'd forced him to. I didn't want another incident like that happening.

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"Why are you telling it from Mum's point of view. I thought Dad told you the story." Interrupted Louie.

"Because it's easier to tell it from a female perspective." Jade sighed heavily.

"Besides, Mum's story is way more entertaining." Sam added.

"What was that about me feeding them stories and lies?" Danny asked, raising an eyebrow at me.

"I'm the innocent victim. They asked me for my version. Obviously after you told them yours." I replied back.

"ANYWAY" Jade continued

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I heard my phone beep minutes after leaving Flack and Danny. As I flipped it open, I wasn't surprised to see a message from Danny waiting for me.

Does dinner really have to be cancelled?

I laughed; I could just see his puppy dog face looking down at me.

Unless you can solve this monster of a case in three hours, then yes, yes it is.

Sometimes he was so cute. Like this dinner, he'd been planning it for weeks. He was really looking forward to it. And so was I. We didn't often get to spend nights alone together, not any more at least. Ever since Louie had come along we'd been so wrapped up in being parents, then me going back to work, we'd forgotten to spent time with one another. And I missed my alone time with Danny more than anything.

Another beep.

You're a cruel woman Montana.

How much I loved my Danny Messer.

I'll make it up to you later. I promise.

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"And that was Dad's first attempt at proposing to Mummy." Sam concluded somewhat abruptly.

"See, he was going to at dinner. He had his speech all planned, and the right meal and everything." Jade added.

"But the case got in the way. Thus creating failed attempt number one."

"But Danny you…" I started only to be shushed by Jade.

"I never said we were finished yet." She said, as Danny tutted me with his finger.

"You should've known better darling. These girls need to get everything perfect before they are satisfied. I wonder where they get such an endearing quality from?" He finished, laughing at me as I silently fumed.

"We've still got to get through the second and third attempts." Sam sighed.

"And like Daddy always says, 'Third times a charm' right?" Jade said, smiling between Danny and I.

I should've known better than to trust children created from Danny and I.

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AN: A continuance from the Dancing series. I really loved writing DL with kids. I don't know why, but I think it suits them. More soon, and I hope you guys enjoyed it :)