AN: Well, here we are at the end of this story. But never fear, this is not the end of my series, "Everything Old is New Again." I'll be adding to the series as often as my muse gives me inspiration. :)

Thanks to all who have read this to the very end and those who have been kind enough to review. It really means a lot to hear from you.

And thanks as always to my awesome beta, Kerry Blue, who challenges me to be a better writer.

Final Disclaimer for this story: I do not own CSI:NY, nor do I own any of the songs that I have mentioned and taken inspiration from. Those are all owned by people far smarter and far luckier than I will ever be.

Epilogue: Beautiful Boy / John Lennon

"Oh, this is perfect," Lindsay said as she walked hand in hand with Danny down through the dunes of Cape Cod to the ocean. "Even if I hadn't wanted to escape that annoying woman, this still would have been a great idea. I just wish I could have a piña colada or something to calm me down, because that woman really got on my nerves."

Danny grinned. They had met another couple earlier in the day and they were pretty nice except for the fact that the woman kept trying to get Lindsay to do yoga with her. His Montana was definitely not the yoga type. Her idea of total relaxation was to get on some huge animal and gallop through a field. And while he thought that was crazy, he agreed with her on the yoga thing. You couldn't pay him a million dollars to sit in the lotus position for even five minutes.

They strolled along without talking for a few minutes, finally coming to a stop at the edge of the ocean right at the upper limits of the high tide. Lindsay kicked off her sandals so that she could sink her feet into the sand and let the water wash rhythmically over them as Danny came to stand behind her, wrapping his arms around her and laying his hands on her very pregnant belly.

"I still can't believe they did this for us," Lindsay commented.

"I know," Danny replied as he put his head on her shoulder and kissed her neck. He laughed as a thought occurred to him. "I guess I made a good choice about the godparents for our child."

Lindsay laughed with him. "Yeah, you did. They've all been incredible." And they had been. This trip that the whole M.E.'s office had chipped in to help buy for them to have a getaway, an escape, before the baby was born, along with a similar trip for Sheldon and Tessa, was just a big example of their love and generosity, but even more touching was the little things they had done ever since the announcement in the morgue. It was a little overwhelming at times, the amount of phone calls Lindsay would get, the number of times M.E. staff would stop in to the office just to check on her, the huge baby shower they threw for her and Tessa, and on and on. But it was all out of love and concern and Lindsay couldn't get upset at them for it. Well, sometimes when she was cranky she could, but overall she didn't mind. Besides, she knew that Danny appreciated knowing so many people were watching out for her. She knew he thought that she got overprotective when she was pregnant, but he didn't have a whole lot of room to talk.

They stood in silence until Lindsay just had to ask the question that had been on her mind. "Do you think we're ready for this? Are we ready to have another baby?"

"Yeah," Danny answered without hesitation. He tightened his arms around her. "As ready as we possibly can be, anyway. Just think, in a few short weeks we'll be having our fourth child."

"It is kind of crazy, isn't it? And to think, it all started with a pool table and you doubting my abilities."

Danny laughed. Oh, how he loved this woman. "Something I've never made the mistake of doing since that night." Lindsay turned her head and they kissed there in the middle of the night with only the stars and the ocean as witnesses, the thoughts of the impending birth momentarily pushed from their minds.

Several weeks later…

Sheldon handed his wife the bottle of water he had gotten for her. "You okay, you need anything else?"

"I'm fine, honey." She smiled at him. "If you're this bad now, Shel, how nervous are you going to be when I'm in labor?"

"I don't even want to think about that right now." And he really didn't. All his years of medical training and experience were doing nothing to ease his anxiety as the day of his first child's birth approached, probably because he knew just as much about what could go wrong as what could go right. He hadn't been this nervous and impatient while in the waiting room during the labor and birth of Danny and Lindsay's other kids, but he supposed this was different because he was already agitated over his own wife's condition.

"Uncle Sheldon, Uncle Sheldon!" four voices shouted as his nieces and nephew came running up to him.

"What, what?" he asked as he was suddenly surrounded by the children, the twins each holding on to one of his legs and Dominic and Kaile holding on to his hands.

"Tell us a story!" Dominic exclaimed. "Uncle Don said that Dad once saved you when you were diving for hidden treasure, but he wouldn't tell us the story, he said that you would."

Hawkes looked across at his friend who just gave him a shrug and a smirk. Leave it to Don to turn an incident involving searching for evidence in a double murder case into an expedition for sunken treasure. But it served as a good distraction, so he sat next to his wife and pulled Ella and Ana onto his lap while Dominic and Kaile sat at his feet.

Some of his colleagues turned to listen to the story, most of them already aware of the details though some newer people had never heard about the incident. The waiting room was filled with people, probably more than was the actual capacity for the room. Every member of their family was there of course, Mac and Stella sitting over by Don, but just about every member of the morgue staff that wasn't on duty had showed up as well, and those who were on duty were calling in for updates periodically. The M.E.'s office had taken Danny's offer to be the godparents of his and Lindsay's new child seriously and they all wanted to be a part of the experience.

Just as Sheldon had finished up the story, the kids clapping as he told of how Danny had rescued him during that diving expedition over a decade ago, the hero of the story happened to walk around the corner into the waiting room. Sheldon helped the girls jump off his lap and watched as they ran along with Dominic to their father who picked the girls up.

Danny hugged his girls and looked down at his son, trying to keep the emotion down long enough to make the announcement. "Ana, Ella, Dominic, everybody," he said, looking around the room and encompassing all there into the moment. He took a breath, blinked a couple of times, and then finally told them. "It's a boy. A big, healthy baby boy."

Everyone cheered and there was much clapping and hugging. Danny assured them all that he would have the nurses bring the new baby down this way before heading on to the nursery, but first he wanted to take his kids in to meet their new brother.

Lindsay was resting her eyes as she waited for Danny to bring their other children into the room. When she heard the cries of "Mommy!" she opened her eyes and smiled. "Hey you guys," she said as she eagerly accepted their hugs when all three climbed up on her bed. She was obviously still sore, but there was no way she would let on to her kids and make them think they couldn't hug her whenever they wanted to.

"And here's your new baby brother," Danny told them as he came to sit on the bed next to his wife, their new child in his arms. All the kids were kind of nervous, like they didn't know what to do with this thing that had been growing inside of their mom for the past several months.

Ella was the first to reach out a tentative hand and touch his cheek. "He's beautiful," she said softly. She looked up at her father. "What's his name?"

"Devon Daniel Messer," Danny replied just as softly. The name Devon had been chosen weeks before along with a girl's name since they had chosen to be surprised this time about whether they were having a boy or a girl. They had known Dominic would be a boy, but they hadn't gotten the chance to decide whether to know or not with the twins because the girls had never given the doctor a good look during the ultrasounds. Lindsay and Danny had found through that experience that they liked being surprised. Danny had let Lindsay pick the middle name this time and he had gotten choked up when she gave the baby's full name to the nurse for the birth certificate.

Danny transferred Devon to his wife's arms and went to a nearby table to pick up his camera. After taking a shot of Lindsay and the kids all looking down at the baby, he told them to all look up and smile. "Go get a nurse or someone else to hold the camera," Lindsay said then. "I want you in some of these pictures."

Danny poked his head out of the door to find their family waiting outside. He waved them all in and Mac took his camera while Stella and Tessa took pictures with their own. Danny stood next to the bed and leaned over to brush a kiss on the top of Lindsay's head. As he stood there smiling down at his family he realized yet again what a lucky man he was. He had found a love like nothing else with Lindsay and she had blessed him with four perfect children. He would fight off monsters for them if necessary, but right now all he could do was look at them and hug them. Some people in life weren't so lucky and wanted to escape their families for a myriad of reasons, but not him. No, this was his life right here in this hospital room, and he wouldn't change a thing about it.