Dan hadn't slept; rather he'd been too excited, content and enthralled to shut his eyes. Lying on his left side, hand under his head, right hand gently resting on Serena hip while Sariah's eyes were peacefully closed right between them. In a way Dan was afraid to shut his eyes, afraid that when he re opened them it would have all just been a dream. It all being taken away quite so fast he wasn't sure was something that he could take. Both of his girls were so close to him, so peaceful and resting so calmly as he watched on. He still couldn't grasp his head around the fact that the little angel lying between them had come from both of them, a mixed, not exactly on purpose, mixture of both of them. Every bit of her was perfect, and as she grew he could see it more and more.

He had just begun shutting his eyes to consider getting a few hours of sleep when the soft gentle feeling of moving instantaneously made his eyes blink open and turn their attention to the innocence lying between him and Serena. Her little eyes were blinking them selves wide open now and her tiny hands were balled into fists as her legs began to kick. Yet as her eyes met her father's she seemed more clam and collected, not as ready to cry as she had before. Dan seemed to have a pacifier affect on his daughter, had Serena been awake she would have noticed it was something she really needed around all the time.

"Hey beautiful"

Dan whispered as he slid his hand off of Serena's waist and connected with his daughter's hand. As she had before her fingers wrapped around his finger and she attempted to pull his finger to her mouth.

"Someone hungry princess? I think we need to wake your mommy up for..."

His words and thoughts were cut off by one of Serena's eyes peaking open and half glaring at him. She wasn't exactly the waking up person if he remembered correctly. The nights that she'd snuck into the loft on the day's of school the past year, he'd had a hell of a time waking her up to leave in the mornings. But completely unlike the old Serena he watched her features soften into a slight smile as her eyes fell upon him and Sariah.

"Mommy knows her baby doesn't she"

Serena's smile was reflected on his own face as he looked back and forth from Serena to Sari a few times before Serena sat up. He helped her to move the pillows and prop herself up better.

Waking up beside him and their daughter was everything she wanted, and as she did so she refused to let her mind wonder to any of the bad. Not that there was even a thought in her mind, she was to focused on Dan's sleep matted hair, his perfect coffee eyes, and his blissed out smile. Everything about him felt like home.

"Nope, I can feel it"

In a sleepy voice she responded as she picked up the baby and Dan helped her settle Sari in her lap as she unbuttoned a few of the buttons on the shirt she'd stolen from Dan's draw after her shower. She didn't think anything of it as she got Sari settled until Dan pulled away and began to stand up from the bed. That's when the contentment she'd felt started to waver and she began to panic.

"Where are you…"

Dan holding his hands up cut her off as her emerald eyes looked at him with a mixture of pain, confusion, and worry. The last thing Serena wanted was for the moment to be broken. So far it had been the best night Serena had had in months.

"I didn't think you wanted me here… to, you know… I mean"

She felt herself actually slightly giggle in her four year old way as his cheeks flushed a light shade of pink and he tripped over his words. He was her sweet, adorkable Dan, just as he had been from the day in Barney's with Jenny. Only now they'd come so far since then. They'd come so far since exchanging a few words at a birthday party.

"Dan it's not like it's anything you haven't seen before. I mean, we did get her somehow didn't we?"

Her light teasing made him smile and relax a little bit more as he began to get back into the bed only to pause for a moment when he saw it, saw the way the moon's eerie bright light flowed in from the crack in the blinds and illuminated the messy blonde strands that fell in her face, her perfect green eyes looking at him full of hope and need. She was every bit as beautiful to him as the first time he laid eyes on her. The first time they'd held hands, he'd taken a chance, the first time they'd kissed he'd offered her his heart. The night they innocently laid in bed almost completely naked he'd given her all of him to do what she pleased. Christmas when they'd made love she'd put the seal on it, and when he'd told her he loved her he meant every word and he still did mean every word. She was his perfect everything.

Still cautiously he slipped back into the bed beside her, entranced in the moonlight that shown her beauty. She smiled at him as she watched him look at her; it reminded her of the night she'd known for sure that he wasn't like the rest of them. He wasn't going to hurt her as they had, he was her forever.

Feeling overwhelmed by it all she hesitantly tore her eyes from his and looked down at their daughter as she felt him do the same. His eyes were glued to their little girl now, as he watched her little jaw move and the way her tiny hands rested on Serena's soft skin. He was in admiration for Serena and the relationship that was already greatly established with their child he couldn't help but feel a little left out and jealous. That was until he felt Serena move her body closer to his and carefully inch into his lap.

He felt so good to have her sitting right in the middle of his lap,