"Roger, are you OK?" Gina asked coming out of the bedroom seeing Roger sitting on the window sill holding his 6 month old daughter.
"Yeah, she woke up so I came out here to feed her." he said smiling up at her.
"Sweetheart, is everything OK?" she asked sitting next to him.
"Yeah, I'm just watching her sleep." he said smiling at her.
"She is beautiful, isn't she?" Gina said laying her head on Roger's shoulder.
"She is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. Other than her mother, of course." he told her leaning down to kiss her.
"Yes she is." Gina agreed caressing his cheek.
"I'm gonna put her back in her crib, OK?" he told her getting up and putting the baby in her crib.
"Roger, are you sure you're OK? You look weird." she asked as he come back to the window seat.
"Yeah, just thinking of what Lynda's gonna be like when she grows up." he said putting his arm around her to bring her close to him.
"She's gonna be a daddy's girl." she told him laughing.
"You know what I mean, Sweetie." he told her smiling at her.
"Yeah, I know. But Baby, you're healthy now and there's no reason not to believe you're gonna be healthy for the next 15 or 20 years." she said sitting up to face him.
"I know Baby. I just worry sometimes, you know?" he told her kissing her head.
"I know. Come on. Let's go back to bed." she told him as they went to bed and fell asleep in each others arms. The next morning there was a knock at the door that woke them up. "Who could that be?" Gina asked looking up at the clock. "It's 7:30. I better get it before they wake Lynda up." she told him getting out of bed as the baby started crying.
"I'll get her." Roger said getting out ot bed and getting the baby as Gina got the door.
"Daddy? What are you doing here?" she asked standing in front of her father.
"I wanted to see you. I see you had the baby." he said quietly looking down at his daughter.
"Yeah, she was born prematurely a few months ago." she said looking back at Roger as he held the baby in his arms.
"She? You have a daughter. That's wonderful. Congratulations." he said smiling down at her.
"Yes, her name is Lynda Marianna Davis." Roger said approaching them.
"Is she OK? Do you need anything?" Mr. Darrien asked looking at Roger.
"No dad, she's fine. Roger and I have everything under control." she told him looking up at Roger.
"You don't have to do this alone you know. You have a family." he told her looking at his granddaughter.
"Yeah, Roger and Lynda. They're my family dad." she said taking her daughter from Roger.
"I understand that and we respect that. Your mother and I would like to see you and Roger. We want to make amends with you." he told her as Gina brought Lynda over to the couch.
"You want to make amends? After all these years and all that's happened? How are you gonna make up for that?" she asked cradling the baby in her arms.
"I know we've made a lot of mistakes. We tried to keep you and Roger apart just to push you into the arms of Glenn who didn't treat you right..." he started as Gina got up to give the baby back to Roger.
"Didn't treat me right? Dad, he abused me and got me hooked on drugs to keep me from leaving him. And you and mom knew everything. Roger was the only man I ever loved and who ever loved me, but it didn't stop you from using his love for me to talk him into breaking up with me because you knew he would what was best for me. And then trying to have my marriage to him annulled because you thought I had to be high to marry Roger. But now that you have a grand child, you want to make amends? I'm not gonna have you try to turn my daughter against her father." she told him as Roger brought the baby back to her crib.
"We don't want to turn Lynda against Roger. We just want to be a part of her life. A part of your lives. All of you. We're sorry Gina." he said coming into the apartment.
"I don't know. I need to think. If we do this, there will be major ground rules. I'm not gonna have my husband and daughter used to hurt me." she said as Roger wrapped his arms around her.
"Agreed." he told her smiling up at Roger.
"We'll call you to get together." Gina told him looking up at her father.
"How about we get together for lunch? Your mother is at the hotel. We'll go wherever you're comfortable." he told her as the baby cried again.
"I got her Baby." Roger said kissing her head.
"OK lunch. But we meet at the Life Cafe." she told him as he began to leave.
"OK that's the place I met with Roger last year, right?" he said turning to her.
"Yes it is." she told him as Roger went to the kitchen to get the baby a bottle.
"OK we'll meet you about noon at the Life Cafe. You look very good Gina. I'm very proud of you." he told her as she stood by the door.
"Thanks dad. We'll see you at noon." she said before she closed the door.
"Baby are you OK?" Roger asked feeding the baby.
"Yeah, I'm fine. It's like they know, you know? I mean, our life is so great and they come in here and want to apologize for everything they put me through for 7 years." she said starting to cry.
"Baby, they realize what they did was wrong." he told her as she sat on the couch.
"Wrong. That's an understatement. Roger they cost us 7 years. 7 years we could have been married. 7 years that all the hell we went through apart could have been prevented. Glenn, April, HIV. All of it." she told him putting her head in her hands.
"Gina, you can't think that. Everyone makes mistakes. You and I are proof of that. Just give them a chance." Roger told her sitting next to her.
"I don't know Roger. You know how they are. They manipulate and scheme to get their way. They just want to get to Lynda. Their grandchild." she said taking the baby from him.
"We won't let that happen. We'll protect her, just like I'll protect you." he said leaning over to kiss her head.
"OK. But Roger I'm not gonna have them running our lives. We're doing fine on our own." she told him looking up at him.
"Would you feel better if we had everyone there for moral support?" he asked playing with her hair.
"That would be great. I need everyone there." she told him as she handed him the half empty bottle so she could burp the baby.
"I'm gonna get dressed so we can get upstairs for breakfast." he told her before kissing her head.
"OK. I'm gonna get Lynda dressed." she said getting up to dress the baby.