Mac pauses what he's doing when he hears how urgent Stella's voice is. Mac looks up eyeing Stella.

"What's wrong?" Mac asks Stella

"I was talking to Lucy, and she told me something kind of troubling."

"What did she tell you?"

"She told me that… Danny started drinking after Lindsay died"

"What? She did?" Mac asked in complete disbelief.

"Danny doesn't know she told me," Stella said

"I'll talk to him later today, after he takes Lucy home" Mac tells Stella.

"Good, I just thought I would tell you" Stella says.

"Thank you for telling me. Hopefully we can help him before it gets too serious. "

Four hours later, when Danny gets back to the lab after taking Lucy home, Mac calls Danny into his office.

"You wanted to see me Mac"

"Yes, I did, have a seat"

"Ok," Danny sits down, a little nervous about what Mac wants to talk about.

"There's no easy way to say this, so I'm just going to say it. When Lucy was talking to Stella, she told Stella something very interesting and troubling."

"What did she say?"

"She said that you started drinking after Lindsay died," Mac said looking at Danny, waiting for a response.

Danny looks at his hands in his lap; he can't bear to look at Mac. "She did?"

"Yes, she did."

"I didn't even know she knew." Danny says so quietly, it's almost to himself

"Well, she notices more than you think."

"She pays close attention to detail. She learned that from Lindsay and I. She said she wanted to become a CSI one day."

"I'm sure she would make a great one. About your drinking, why did you start drinking Danny?"

"I don't know, mostly because it made me not think about Lindsay's death as much. It made me think about the guilt a lot less, and how I'm going to live without her. I'm so lost Mac, and I don't know how to find my way. I know I need to do it fast because Lucy's depending on me, but I don't know how."

Mac got up from behind his desk and sat on the couch next to Danny

"When Claire died, it was really difficult for me to get over it. How I got over it is I took it one day at a time. I got out of bed every morning... breathe in and out all day long. Then, after a while I won't have to remind myself to get out of bed every morning and breathe in and out... and, then after a while, I won't have to think about how I had it great and perfect for a while. It takes a long time to get over it, even today when I think about her it still stings a little."

"I know, but I don't know how to begin to get over her."

"The first thing you need to do is stop drinking. Drinking doesn't make anything better, if anything it makes it worse. Remember when Angel died and Don started to drink? He started skipping work and he got in fights when he was drunk, it made the situation worse when he started drinking. After, he stopped; he started to cope with it. You especially can't start drinking because of Lucy, Lucy needs you Danny, now more than ever."

Danny finally looked up at Mac "You're right, I need to stop drinking and getting my life back together."

"And Danny, one more thing," Mac said a little cautiously

"Yes?" Danny asked

"Lucy also told Stella that you were having nightmares."

"She notices everything, doesn't she?"

"Don't worry, that's normal. It happened to me too."

"How long does it last?" Danny asked.

"It depends on the person. It lasted a few months for me"

"Hopefully it won't last too long. I hate it."

"Don't worry, I did too." Mac said smiling a little and knowing that Danny will eventually be ok.