Okay so here is the next chapter. It was supposed to be the last and you know how it ends but I am gonna break it down into one more chapter...next one will be pretty short. Let me know what you think...and once again sorry for the grammatical errors! (Sorry Bella, I know you offered but I am too axious to post! lol)

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The Night Before the Snowday Chapter 3

Danny grasped Lindsay's hand as they exited the cab. He quickly threw a fifty to the cab driver, not waiting to receive his change. I can't believe she is coming up with me. I need this guy to leave before she changes her mind.

He the pulled her though the door of his apartment building and up the seemingly endless staircase. Danny then began taking the steps two at a time.

"Hey, can we slow down a little." Lindsay asked with a little giggle as she stopped and pulled on his hand so he turned around to face her.

Danny had not realized he was pulling Lindsay up the stairs. "I'm sorry. I am just a little surprised you wanted to come back here…with me….to my apartment. I didn't want to give you the chance to turn back I guess." He laughed as he saw the teasing sparkle in her chestnut brown eyes.

"Danny I am not going anywhere. I meant what I said earlier, we are in this now. Okay?"

"Kay." Danny smiled at her.

"Now I will race you to your door." She said as she sprinted around him and began taking the stairs two at a time herself.

Danny didn't realize what happened until she was half way up the next set of stairs. He took off after her "funny Montana."

He could hear her laughing as she raced ahead of him. "You think you can beat me huh?"

"I don't see you stopping me Cowboy."

He turned down his hallway to see Lindsay calmly standing in front of his door as if she had been waiting for him for hours. She had a smug look on her face that seemed to taunt Danny.

"I so let you win."

"Okay, if you say so." She smiled as maneuvered her body between Danny and the lock he was attempting to get his keys into.

"I can't open the door with you in the way Montana."

"I know Messer, but maybe I am not quite ready to go in." She inched closer to his body and looked up into his green eyes.

Danny shivered as he felt her breath on his neck. Lord, does this woman know what she does to me? Maybe her coming over hadn't been a good idea, I don't think I can control myself.

He looked down at her as her face turned up to meet his. Slowly, he closed the short distance she had kept between then and found her lips with his own. They were softer than he had imaged they would be. The kiss was unlike either had imagined, slow and tender at first but quickly growing in passion.

Danny shifted so that his body was pressing Lindsay's against his still locked door, forgetting momentarily that they were in fact still in the hallway of his apartment building.

Lindsay moaned into his mouth and this lit a fire inside of Danny he had never felt before, his tongue traced her lips as it begged entrance into her mouth. Lindsay yielding almost immediately as her tongue also found solace in his.

It was as if their mouths were made for only each other and both knew right then that this was what they had looked for in life. Both thought back to the last day they had had a similar experience when he had taken her hand in his on the doll case they had worked together so long ago.

Danny reluctantly left her mouth as he began a trail of kisses down the side of her neck as she shifted her head to give him full access to what she now considered his. Lindsay wrapped one arm around his neck and the other was shoved into his short hair, pulling him as close as she could get him.

They were just about to get a little too carried away when a shriek came from down the hall. Both were startled and turned to see the small boy from the next apartment down gawking at them.

"Ewww Danny, that's gross." Ruben yelled at the older man.

Danny laughed "sorry kiddo, forgot where I was. But hey come here, I want you to meet someone."

He shook his head and walked towards the older man. "Ruben, I would like you to meet Montana."

"Lindsay, this is Ruben. He and his ma' live in that apartment."

Lindsay smiled at the young boy, still flush from the kiss she had just been torn away from. "Hi Ruben."

"Hi, I guess. Isn't Montana a state?" He asked confused.

"Yeah, my name is actually Lindsay, Danny just calls me Montana because that is where I am from."

Ruben nodded then turned to Danny, "Where were you tonight? I came by earlier to see if you wanted to play baseball with me."

"Sorry Ruben, I was out with Montana, how about Saturday afternoon?"

"I guess, but just because you got a girl now doesn't mean you can't still do stuff with me right?"

Danny chuckled at the boy "No, of course I will still hang out with you."

"Okay good." He looked towards Lindsay and then pulled Danny over to the side a little. "I guess she is kinda pretty but don't let her control you. One of my friends at school started to like this girl and now I never see him, girls ruin everything."

Lindsay giggled as she heard what they boy was trying to keep from her but turned so he wouldn't notice.

Danny smiled "no problem, nothing could keep me away form hanging out with you."

Ruben seemed satisfied with the answer he had gotten from Danny and nodded. "Okay. So what are we doing tonight?" Ruben turned and walked back up to Danny's front door. "And why are we still in the hallway?"

"Well Lindsay and I were gonna hang out for a while." Danny looked over at Lindsay as she stepped into the conversation "But we would love to have you join us for a little while." She could tell that this little boy was important to Danny and didn't want to come between that. She and Danny could have plenty of time together later.

Danny looked at her, amazed once again at how sweet she was and how she seemed to have read his mind on what to do about Ruben. He was the only male figure in the boy's life and didn't want to mess that up by leaving him out of the picture now that he had found Lindsay.

"I guess I could."

Danny had just closed the door behind them when Ruben turned to Danny "You cleaned. I'm impressed." He then turned to Lindsay "You should see how the place usually looks, pizza boxes, beer bottles, everything's usually a mess. Some times I even find his dirty clothes on the floor and his bathroom is like a disa….." He didn't finish his sentence.

Lindsay laughed as Danny walked up behind Ruben and put his hand over his mouth. "I have no idea where this kid gets these things." He shrugged.

Just as Ruben pulled Danny's had from his mouth a knock sounded at the door. Thank goodness. Danny sighed and went to open the door.

"Danny, is Ruben here with you?" Ricki asked as soon as she saw Danny.

"Yeah." Danny moved to let her in the apartment and turned to Ruben who had made his way to the couch "Ruben your mom is here."

"Ruben, you shouldn't have left without telling me where you were going. Danny has company and doesn't want to be bothered by a child getting in the way." She pulled her son up from his stop next to Lindsay.

Ricki extended her hand to Lindsay. "Hi, I am Ricki."

Lindsay smiled back at the woman. "I'm Lindsay."

"Nice to meet you, I am sorry if my son interrupted your evening, we will be going now." She turned Ruben around to face Lindsay "Say goodnight Rube."

"Bye Lindsay. Bye Danny."

Goodnights were heard from all around and Danny closed the door as he turned back to Lindsay who was still seated on the couch.

"Sorry about that." Danny apologized.

"It's no problem Danny. I don't mind at all."

"So let me give you the tour." Lindsay smiled as Danny pulled her up from her seat and showed her around.

"This is the pool table."

"Interesting place to have it, in the middle of your living room."

"Yea, what can I say? I like pool." Danny shrugged and showed her the rest of the house.

"You want something to drink?" Danny asked as Lindsay went back out into the living room and picked up a cue stick.

"What do you have?"

"I got beer, wine, water, coke, whatever you want."

"Got any tequila?"

"You want tequila?" Danny asked as he peaked his head into the living room.

"I feel up for a round of pool and thought we could make it interesting."

"Your wish is my command." Danny smiled. My kind of girl.

Lindsay racked up the balls and turned when Danny came in with the first two shots. She took one in her hand and held it up as a toast. "Cheers."

He nodded to her as their glasses clinked and they both took their shots.

"You can break." Lindsay smiled at Danny. He has no idea that I know how to play. She grinned even bigger.

"You sure? I don't wanna hit them all in and you not get a shot."

"I can handle my own Danny, go ahead." He nodded at her and took his shot, knocking in both a color and a stripe.

"You care which you are?" Danny asked. Montana just shaking her head as she headed back into the kitchen. She returned moments later with the bottle of tequila and refilled the shot glasses.

"Each time we make one the other takes a shot, if we knock in our own we take it ourself."

"I don't want you gettin' drunk on me now Montana."

"Like I said Danny, I can handle my own." She smiled and took her shot for the one he had made.

Danny made the next two balls in and Lindsay took her shots.

The third ball Danny missed and Montana took over the table. Danny's eyes widened as he saw she hit two in at once that was a very hard shot, even for a pro. "You playing me Montana? That luck or you played before?"

"Must be beginner's luck." She began clearing the, sinking ball after ball. Danny took shot after shot.

"Beginner's luck my ass." Danny mused from across the table.

Lindsay winked at him, "Okay, so maybe I have played before. I will share your shots." They began alternating them as Lindsay cleared the table and just had the eight ball left.

She lined up to take her last shot as Danny walked up behind her "There is no way you're gonna make this shot too Montana."

"A Benjamin says I do." She slurred as the alcohol began racing through her body.

She then took her shot and hit the cue ball. It then forced the eight ball to hit the side wall of the pool table and back across, sinking it neatly in the left corner pocket.

She walked over to Danny, "You owe me 100 dollars."

"Eh, you know what? You're gonna have to wait till pay day."

Lindsay turned so that Danny was between her and the pool table "No, you either pay me now or you're gonna have to come up with something better."

Danny wasn't sure if she had leaned in to kiss him or if he had grabbed her but the next thing he knew she was pressing his hips into the pool table while her tongue assaulted his mouth. This is much better.

Lindsay grinned into his kiss as she reached for the hem of his shirt and tugged it over his head. He turned her so that he was away from the pool table and pushed her sweater over her shoulders. Then grabbed the hem of her shirt and tugged it over head. He sighed in awe as he looked down at her black bra thinking how much better it would look on his floor.

"You sure about this?" He whispered in between kisses.

"You owe me don't you?" She pulled him flush against her body and wrapped her legs around his waist.

That was all that Danny needed. He picked her up and sat her on the pool table as he continued to kiss her body. She threw her head back as his hands roamed around her body which he could finally freely touch.

Okay, I know I didn't get smutty, sorry but I just can't write it... hope you still enjoy this and final chapter up soon... I know you already know how it ends but I hope you will read anyway...let me know what you think!

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