AN: Thanks to those who are still reading this story and to those who are reviewing. Thanks as always to my beta. No, I don't own CSI:NY. Only the epilogue is left after this. Anything else? No? Carry on then.

Chapter Seven: Don't Worry, Be Happy / Bobby McFerrin

Sheldon smiled at the scene before him. He knew everything would work out once things were out in the open. His friends were just too good at holding things in sometimes. He lifted an eyebrow as he noticed Sid holding out his hand towards Marty Pino. The younger man groaned, pulled out his wallet, extracted a twenty and slapped it into Sid's palm. Hawkes was incredulous. "You have got to be kidding me. You guys had a bet on this?"

Hammerback shrugged his shoulders. "When I told Marty what was going on, he didn't believe me and bet me twenty bucks that I was wrong. How could I refuse?"

Hawkes shook his head. What a cast of characters he worked with.

Half an hour ago…

Sid walked in before Lindsay could elaborate further on the current situation between her and Danny. "Your husband is on his way." He looked down at his watch. "Should be here any minute actually."

Lindsay shot up out of her chair. "What?! Sid, I'm not ready to talk to him!"

"No time like the present," Sid replied. "Marty called from the scene he was at to ask if I could get some things ready for the body he was bringing in and I asked him if he had seen Danny lately. Just so happened that Danny was there, so I told Marty to bring him back here in the M.E. van because you had something to tell him." Sid didn't mention that the conversation had been a little more involved than that, with Sid going into a little more detail than he probably should have about the current situation. But the younger man had been curious and Sid couldn't help himself.

"Oh, God," Lindsay moaned as she began to pace back and forth across Sheldon's office. Considering how small the space was, it didn't take more than a few steps each way before she had to make a turn.

"It's going to be okay, Lindsay, don't worry," Sheldon reassured her. "I'm sure everything will work out fine." He wanted to say that it was probably just the hormones making her overreact, but if he hadn't already learned the lesson that saying anything like that to a woman was tantamount to rooting for the Red Sox in Yankee Stadium, he had certainly learned it lately what with being married to a currently pregnant woman.

"You can't know that," Lindsay shot back. She visibly paled as they all heard Danny outside calling for her. "Oh, God, he's here."

Sheldon and Sid shared another look. Sid opened the door and headed out to get Danny while Hawkes laid a hand on Lindsay's arm. "Everything is going to be fine. But if you need a friend, I'll be right outside in the hallway, okay?" She nodded and Sheldon left as Danny entered, shutting the door to give the couple some privacy.

"Are you okay?" Danny asked, gripping Lindsay's shoulders. Pino had scared the crap out of him when he said that Danny should come back to the morgue with him, that Lindsay needed to talk to him. The way Pino made it sound, it involved something personal rather than professional and for the life of him Danny couldn't think of any good reasons why Lindsay would call him away from a scene to talk about personal things, only bad ones. But despite practically threatening the man with arrest, Pino had refused to give Danny any more details even though it was obvious that he knew more about what was going on.

"Yeah, I'm fine." She took a deep breath and decided that she needed to stop avoiding the situation and just get her confession over with. Blurt it out quickly, like ripping off a band-aid. "Actually, I'm not completely fine." She reached into the plastic bag she was still holding and pulled out the test that Sid had bought her. She hadn't even looked at it, but she didn't need to because she already knew what it said. She held it up to Danny's eye level and said the words that she had been avoiding ever since Sheldon had confronted her about what was going on. "I'm pregnant."

Danny stared at the test, Lindsay's words reverberating around his head. She was pregnant? "You're pregnant?" he asked, shock and confusion apparent in his voice.

She put the pregnancy test back in the bag and dropped it on the chair, not able to bring her eyes up to Danny's. "Yeah. I didn't recognize the signs for a long time because it's not like we planned on this happening, but I've known about it for awhile."

If this were a cartoon, multiple light bulbs would have been going off over Danny's head. "That's why you haven't been feeling well for weeks. And this is what you haven't been able to figure out how to tell me?" She nodded and it suddenly hit him that she was nervous about how he was going to react to the news. He held her face in his hands and gently forced her to look up at him. "Honey, this isn't a bad thing. Is it?" God knew it wasn't something she needed, being the first female head of the New York City Crime Lab.

"No, God no, Danny, being pregnant with our child could never be a bad thing. I just…" Tears welled in her eyes as she tried to put her jumbled thoughts and emotions into words. "It's just, it's so crazy! By the time this baby is born the twins will be eight and Dominic will be ten. How will they handle having a new brother or sister? And we just figured out how to balance everything in our lives, how is this going to work? And I know I should have told you weeks ago when I first figured this out at Sheldon and Tessa's party, but I couldn't bring myself to say the words, and then you were getting job offers, and then we had our big fight…"

"Shhh," Danny soothed, pulling her up against his chest. Now all of a sudden her various mood swings made sense. He was an idiot for not putting it together before now, but he guessed that he had had the same issue as Lindsay. It had been forever since they had brought a new child into the world and so he had forgotten some of his memories of how Lindsay was when she was pregnant. She was mostly okay, but she did tend to agonize and worry more. His practical Montana, always calm in a professional crisis, was a bit of a mother hen when it came to their children, and that maternal instinct went into overdrive when she was pregnant. He remembered figuring out that Lindsay was pregnant the second time by her behavior. But then, there had been less than two years between Dominic and the twins, a much smaller interval than this time.

"Okay first thing I need to know is, are you okay?" Lindsay nodded as she pulled back slightly and wiped her eyes.

"Yeah, now that I realize my worry was for nothing. I've just had the usual morning sickness that I had the other two times, but add on the stress of trying to figure out how to tell you, and I guess I went a little crazy there for awhile."

Danny smiled. A part of him might agree with her on that, but he would never admit it. "You weren't crazy." His grin got bigger as things started settling in his mind a bit more. At first he had been in shock, and then he was just concerned with how Lindsay was doing. But now he had had time to let the news sink in a little and it was starting to really dawn on him that he was going to be a father to another child. "So, we're really going to have another baby?"

Lindsay smiled. Now that the weight was lifted off of her shoulders, she felt like she could finally be happy about her pregnancy. "Yeah. God help us, there's going to be another little Messer running around."

Danny laughed and pulled his wife to him and for awhile no words were spoken.

Several minutes later when they finally came up for air, Danny asked Lindsay why she decided to tell him the news down here in the morgue. That prompted Lindsay to tell him the whole sequence of events, from almost throwing up over a body to Sid buying a pregnancy test and finally to Danny being brought down there. Danny suddenly had the thought that there were people outside the office probably waiting to hear about what was going on. What better way to prove to Lindsay once and for all that he considered this a good thing than to proclaim it to the masses? "Come on," he urged her, grabbing her hand and pulling her out of the office. "Follow us," he said to Sid and Sheldon who were in the hallway, and they did, all going with Danny into the morgue.

Lindsay didn't realize what Danny had in mind until he had brought them to the middle of the morgue and shouted to get everyone's attention. She didn't have time to do more than blush before he made the announcement. "Everybody, I want you all to be the first ones to officially hear the news: Lindsay is pregnant! We're having another kid!"

A round of cheers went up from everyone there, most clapping as well and some even whistling loudly. Danny had a moment of inspiration and put up his hand to get them to quiet down. "All of you have been such an important part of this experience that Lindsay and I, well…" He briefly looked at his wife and he could tell by her smile that she had somehow figured out where he was going with this, and the squeeze she gave his hand indicated her agreement with the decision. "We'd like all of you, the whole M.E.'s office, to be the godparents of our new son or daughter. You guys good with that?"

They got another round of raucous cheers, this one even louder. Lindsay accepted hugs of congratulations from some and assurances from others that she wouldn't regret making their whole group the godparents of their new child. She looked over at Hawkes and smiled at him in thanks. He had been right all along, and now she wouldn't worry and could just concentrate on being happy about the new child she had growing inside of her.