Danny opened the apartment door just as Becky was about to knock.

"Hey, I don't know what it says about timing, but I was just about to take her for a walk around the block." Danny said.

"Is Mom still shopping?" Becky asked.

"She's with my mother, of course she is. They're buying all the non-pink baby clothes in Manhattan."

"Lindsay is on an anti-pink kick." Becky explained. "Lindsay awake?"

"She's sat on the couch putting her feet up."

"Mind if I come with you?" Matt asked Danny.

"Sure." Danny replied. "Be back soon Montana." He called.

With Danny and Matt leaving Becky closed the door and went to join her sister on the couch.

"Everything okay?" Lindsay asked.

"I don't think he heard me."

"What exactly did you say?"

"You were right about subtle not working, so I blurted it out."

"What did Matt say?" Lindsay inquired.

"Not a lot for a while and then basically okay, he was going to take a shower and could I check over his lecture notes for tomorrow."

"Ouch." Lindsay pulled a face. "Maybe it's just going in."

"I know he processes things in his head but I don't know I wanted him to say something."

"Want me to call Clay?" Lindsay offered. "Or I'm sure I could get Flack to arrest him for something maybe a night in jail would help?"

"Thanks but I think this something I need to figure out on my own."

"He'll be happy about it once he gets his head around it. It took Danny a while, I ended up calling Hawkes to get him to explain the facts of life to Danny to get him to react."

"I hope you're right."

CSI NY CSI NY

"Can I ask you something?" Matt inquired as he and Danny walked down the block.

"Sure." Danny had gotten to know his brother-in-law a lot better in the past year and a half and they had become friends.

"How did you react when Lindsay told you she was pregnant?"

"It took a while to sink in, I wasn't expecting it. She'll say I freak out, and I didn't stop the whole time she was pregnant. Why?"

"Becky's pregnant."

"Hey man, congratulations." Danny patted him on the back. "That's great news."

"Yeah, I think I screwed up."

"Screwed up how?"

"When she told me she was pregnant."

"What did you do?" Danny asked.

"I said, okay and asked her to look at my lecture notes while I took shower."

"Okay, I'd say that was only mildly better than the woman at Lamaze."

"What?" It was Matt's turn to be confused.

"There was a woman, Maddy, at Lindsay's Lamaze class. When she told her husband she was pregnant, he categorically denied it was his walked out and she hasn't seen him since."

"Any advice?" Matt asked.

"One pregnant Monroe's are never easy to deal with but two I think the bigger question right now is are you happy about this?"

"I am, now I'm getting my head around it." Matt said.

"Then we're going to have to come up with a way for you to convince Becky of that. Because I'm telling you it is definitely worth it." He looked at Olivia.

"All the sleepless nights, the cost, the worry?"

"Trust me the first time they curl their little fingers around yours you know it's worth it. She is the best thing I ever did in my life, even though I'm going to spend the rest of my life annoyed that I didn't build that tower to protect her."

"You know towers are penetrable by all sorts of methods."

"So I keep getting informed. What I'm saying is that it's worth everything. You just have to convince Becky that you believe that."

"How do I do that?"

"She's your wife." Danny reminded him. "Any ideas?"

"It took all my best ideas to convince her to marry me."

"You could have asked her straight out. When I asked Lindsay I had the ring and had been planning out for it to be perfect, in the end I just went with my gut. Becky loves you we'll figure this out."

"Where do we start?" Matt asked.

"There is a card store about a block away, and depending on how much cash you have I might have a friend who can help"

TBC