The baby was screaming Lindsay was trying desperately to calm her. She bounced and rocked her, tried feeding her, changed her. Danny walked in the front door, looking dead on his feet after an almost two day shift.
He grimaced at the screeching, and looked at Lindsay. When she noticed he had entered the apartment, she went to him with the baby cradled in her arms.
"Look, Daddy's home," she tried cooing at the baby.
"Why is she crying now?" he practically snarled at her.
"I don't know. I can't get her to stop, I've tried everything," Lindsay was practically hysterical herself, "Here, maybe she just missed you," she passed the baby in his direction.
Reluctantly, he took the screaming infant. He stood there with her for a minute, then he pushed the baby back in Lindsay's direction.
He turned around, and put his hand on the door knob.
Lindsay looked at him. She suddenly had a feeling of déjà vu. Fear shot through her. "What are you doing?"
"I don't need this!! I never wanted children! This whole thing was a mistake!" he screamed and walked out the door.
"Danny!! Oh god! Please! We need you!" she began sobbing and screaming along with her screaming daughter. "Please come back!" she wailed, her fears becoming a reality for a second time.
He had walked out on her for a second time.
"Danny!! Please Danny, don't leave! Come back!!" she screamed over and over again, sobbing.
"Montana!" Danny yelled at her, shaking her to wake up her up.
But she just kept screaming and crying, "Lindsay, baby please wake up!" he shook her again.
Finally her tear stained red eyes popped open, the fear and desperation he saw in them almost knocked him off the bed.
"Danny?" she gasped out, through her tight throat. "You left me," she sobbed out.
He wrapped his arms around her, rocking her, "Never again. I'm right here. I'm not going anywhere again. I love you so much."
Holding her and rocking her was the only thing he knew to do. He never fully understood the impact his leaving her would have, until now. He knew that he had made the biggest mistake of his life when had done it, and he was going to spend every day for the rest of his life, making it up to her.
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