Anna stormed in the house and slammed the front door shut. Danny looked up from the kitchen table in time to see his daughter stomp upstairs. Looking at the clock and realizing that his daughter was home three hours before her curfew, he knew something had happened with Andrew. Danny slowly pushed his chair away from the table and headed upstairs.

"Ladybug" Danny said knocking on Anna's door.

"Yeah daddy?"

"Can I come in?"

"Yeah." Danny opened the door and saw the tear stains on his daughters cheeks. His first thought was that he wanted to kill Andrew Flack for hurting his baby.

"What's wrong?" Danny asked sitting down next to his daughter.

"Nothing."

"You're home three hours before curfew. You normally barely get here in time." Danny said nudging her shoulder.

"I know, I'm just tired tonight. I didn't feel like staying out." Anna said grabbing her stuffed animal.

"Okay." Danny said getting up and kissing her forehead. "I'll let you go to bed. I love you Ladybug."

"I love you too." Danny walked out of his daughters room and shut the door. He went back to the kitchen table and picked up his cell phone. He pressed speed dial two and Lindsay answered on the third ring.

"Hey cowboy, are you tired of the quiet house already?" Lindsay asked when she picked up. Normally on Friday nights all the kids went out, and Danny and Lindsay got time to themselves. This week Lindsay had to take the night shift.

"It hasn't been all that quiet?"

"What do you mean?"

"Well our daughter came in about half an hour ago slamming doors and such. I went to her room and she had been crying. I think something happened with Andrew, and you know me I am no good at boy stuff."

"Did she say anything at all?" Lindsay asked, and Danny could tell that she was worrying and wishing she could be at home.

"That she was home early because she was tired."

"Uh-oh, that is never a good sign in girl world." Lindsay said and Danny started laughing. "I don't get off for at least five more hours."

"I know, I just thought I would give you a heads up. Let you get a plan in place. You and our daughter have a special bond."

"It's because we live in a house with five boys. We have to stick together or we would go crazy." Lindsay said laughing.

"We aren't that bad Montana." Lindsay just snorted in reply.

"I got to go results came back from DNA."

"Be careful Montana, and remember that I love you."

"Love you too Cowboy."

Lindsay balanced her purse and grocery sacks while trying to unlock the front door. After a few failed attempts she successfully got the front door open. She drop her purse off at the table in the hall before heading into the kitchen. She got the ice cream out of the sack and put it in the freezer before putting everything else in the fridge or pantry. She then walked to her and Danny's bedroom. She took her gun and badge and put them in the safe in Danny's closet. She then slipped out of her work clothes, and into her pajamas before heading to her daughters room.

"Anna." Lindsay said setting on the edge of her bed, and brushing the hair out of her face.

"Mom?"

"Yeah, get up and come with me." Lindsay said standing up. Anna looked at her mom like she was crazy but got up anyway.

"Mom it's three in the morning, what are you doing?" Anna said following her mom into the kitchen.

"On the way home for work I really wanted a sundae so I stopped and got ice cream. I thought you might like to share it with me." Lindsay said grabbing two bowls.

"You really woke me up at three in the morning for ice cream?" Lindsay just shook her head yes. "Good I would have been made if you ate it without me." Anna said grabbing the ice cream. The two girls made their sundaes and took them into the living room. They settled on a lifetime movie and began eating.

"So you want to tell me about your date?" Lindsay asked Anna.

"Daddy told you?"

"Of course daddy told me. He was freaking out. You were crying and he didn't know what to do."

"It was nothing really. I probably just overreacted." Anna said playing with her ice cream.

"Maybe so, but you won't ever know until you talk it out." Lindsay said.

"Why do you always have to be right?"

"It's a super power you get when you become a mom. Now what happened." Lindsay asked muting the TV and turning to her daughter.

"Well Andrew took me to the movie tonight and there were some boys from the hockey team there. Well one of them is a jerk, and picks on me all the time, and he started making fun of Andrew for being out with me. Andrew just shrugged his shoulders and said that we had been friends since we were little. We've been going out on dates for over two months, I thought that meant we were more than friends. I mean we make out a lot for goodness sakes."

"Well what happened next?"

"I slapped him and left" Anna said fidgeting with her hands.

"You slapped him?" Anna shook her head and Lindsay started laughing. "Well your daddy will be happy to hear that."

"I was just so mad at him. We've talked about our relationship before, and while we aren't going to go out and announce that we are seeing each other, I didn't think it was because he was ashamed of me." Anna said and tears started rolling down her cheeks again.

"Oh Anna, I don't think he's ashamed of you. Boys just do stupid things and don't know how to act. Take your dad for example. Tomorrow you just need to talk it out with him, and let him now that you felt hurt and embarrassed." Lindsay said pulling her daughter into a hug.

"I guess your right. Now can we turn the sound back on? That boy is fine!" Anna said pointing to the TV.

The next morning Danny walked downstairs to find Lindsay and Anna curled up on the couch asleep. He picked up the dishes from the coffee table and headed into the kitchen. A few minutes later he felt his wife walk up behind him.

"What happened last night?"

"Anna and I had sundaes at three in the morning, and we talked about what happened with her and Andrew. We then mocked lifetime movies until we fell asleep." Lindsay said wrapping her arms around her husbands waist.

"Everything okay?"

"Yeah she's going to talk to him today and get everything straightened out."

"Do I need to have a talk to him?" Danny asked becoming overprotective of his daughter.

"No you can back down. She can take care of herself. You'll be happy to know she slapped him."

"Good for her." Danny said kissing his wife.

Author's Note: So as I was writing this I couldn't help but realize this was like a fight on One Tree Hill, so OTH is my inspiration for this chapter. I really enjoyed writing this chapter, because I can totally see Lindsay being a type of mom to wake her daughter up in the middle of the night. I don't have anymore chapters written for this story at the moment, but I do have some ideas. We will see where they take me.