Lindsay wasn't sure what she felt more, anger or depression. Every time she thought about Danny she wanted to be sick. Her mind was failing her as much as Danny's body was failing him. She wanted to scream at the first person she saw; take them by the face and yell until all air in her lungs was gone. Instead she sat, once again, in the brutally uncomfortable chairs in the O.R. waiting room. Danny had been wheeled in there about twenty minutes after the nurse had pushed her out of the room. The infection in his body was bad, how bad Lindsay didn't know. What she did know is that if he needed surgery he was not in good shape.

Lindsay sat rubbing her belly when she felt some ones hand on her shoulder, she turned to see Flack staring at her. "Hey, how you holding up?"

"I've had better days... waiting for him to be out of surgery once again." Lindsay couldn't help but let out a laugh.

"He's going to be-"

"YEAH! Ok! He'll be fine, right?" Lindsay was now standing and pacing back and forth around the waiting room, Flack couldn't begin to imagine how upset she was and he knew this wasn't the time for details. "Fine fine fine, thats what he'll be. If one more person tells me that Danny is a fighter is going to get a clean upper cut to the jaw! HE IS NOT OKAY! DOES THIS LOOK LIKE SOMEONE WHO IS OKAY?"

Lindsay was at the point of hysterics when Mac stepped off the elevator. Flack put up his hand and made a 'hush' so that Mac knew not to say anything.

"Danny could die Flack. The infection was so bad it was dripping down his god damn stomach. Just because he was too FUCKING PIG HEADED to tell anyone he was in PAIN! I swear to god, if he doesn't die I am going to kill him for being so STUPID!" The sobs had turned into a fit of laughter and all of a sudden she was laughing so hard even she couldn't tell if she was laughing or crying. Flack stepped toward he and grabbed her face and pulled it onto her shoulder and she began to cry uncontrollably. He knew there was nothing to be said, they just had to wait it out.

Mac knew this wasn't his place, instead he walked to the nursing station to get a little more information.

Just as he approached he heard the announcement over the P.A. "Code Blue O.R. 4... I repeat Code Blue O.R. 4"

Doctors and nurses began to run toward the O.R., Lindsay looked up with a look of pure fear on her face.

"No, no... not again, I can't do this!" Lindsay said as she made an attempt at going into the O.R. but this time Flack stopped her.

"Linz look at me, there is nothing you can do for Danny right now. I need you to calm down." Flack did his best to calm the small shaking woman. By force he took Lindsay back to the plastic chairs and made her sit. Lindsay bent down and put her head between her legs and did her best to ease her breathing which was at the point of suffocation. There truly was nothing she could do.

Danny opened his eyes, and he was in his apartment. 'What the hell? Was that a dream?' he thought to himself as he placed his hand across him bare stomach, no scars. No bandages, nothing. He stretched and took a deep breath, got up from his bed and walked to his window.

"Looks like New York... god I need to stop drinking if these are the dreams I'm having." Danny said out loud to him apartment which he thought was empty.

"Yo D, tell me you have pants on." said the sound of a familiar voice. 'Couldn't be?' Danny thought as he pulled his PJ bottoms up. Just as he finished the dark brown locks of an old friend entered his room.

"Messer you seriously have GOT to stop giving us scares!" Aiden said as she walked toward him and gave him a hug.

"Aid, what the hell? Aren't you? ... Oh god, am I?... I have to wake up what the hell!" Aiden grabbed him by the shoulders and whipped him around to face her.

"D. You're not dead. I... I am dead. But you, no. You are sorta... paused!" She had a big smile on her face and looked happy.

"Paused? What... I don't understand?"

"Of course you don't... what is the last thing you remembered?" Aiden said as she turned and sat on the bed in front of Danny.

"Ah, it's kind of blurry... Dylan... no. Lindsay, I remember Lindsay she came into my room and... god why can't I remember!" Danny said as he scratched his head and sat in the chair across from Aiden.

"I'm sorry Danny. The infection in your wounds is bad. Right now you're heart has stopped. They are trying to revive you." Aiden said softly.

"So you're telling me I'm dead? Why are you here?" The confusion obvious in his voice, Aiden continued.

"I'm here, because I love you. You are my best friend D. I want you to know that you have two choices right now... you can either let go, and let your body die and come with me. Or you can fight, and fight your hardest and go back to that beautiful woman, who by the way is way out of your league but loves you nonetheless, and that baby. It will NOT be an easy fight, you are going to have to work hard every day, but it will be worth it when you get to do all of those things I missed out on. What'dya say D?"

Danny said nothing but stared at Aiden long and hard. Finally when his voice finally returned to him, he looked her straight in the eyes and did his best to look strong.

"Are you happy? I don't think I can do it, go back. Everything is so damn hard. The pain isn't going to stop. None of it. Maybe I need a break." It wasn't until he said it, that he realized he meant it.

Aiden let out a deep sigh and got up from the bed and crossed the room. She stood next to Danny and slapped him hard across the head.

"OW! What the Hell Aid!?"

"Thats for being a dumb ass! I'm going to show you something Danny, and trust me when I say you aren't going to like it." Aiden pulled hjim up by his hand and walked to the living room, except this was not Danny's living room. It looked like a hospital waiting room. Danny knew right away where he was; across the room he could see Flack holding Lindsay who was crying so hard she was barely breathing. Flack slowly rocked back and forth with her small frame and Aiden and Danny crossed the room to be closer to them.

"Did I die?"

"No, not yet. I told you, they are trying to revive you." Danny was shocked that he wasn't even dead yet, but Lindsay was in hysterics.

"Do you really want to leave some one who cries this hard for you, and you ain't even dead yet?"

"I love her." Once again Aiden slapped Danny upside the head.

"Then fight for her! God, you weren't this stupid when I was around."

"Hey could you please be a little nicer... I did get shot four times you know? It's painful." Aiden looked him in the eye with a crooked eyebrow.

"What's it going to be Messer? Stay or die? I wouldn't take too much time... I mean I've got all of eternity... your body on the other hand... not so much. So D, Life or Death? Which is it?" Aiden said.

Danny looked at Lindsays tears as he repeated to himself, "Life or death?"