The entire team was sitting in the waiting room as they waited for news on Flack and Lindsay. Sarah sat quietly playing with her engagement ring while Danny, who could not sit still, was pacing the floor. After an hour of waiting a young doctor walked in.
"I am looking for Detective Flack's family?" Dr. Ellison asked.
"I am Detective Sarah Scott, I am his fiancé." Sarah said as she and Mac jumped up. "Is Don going to be okay?"
"Yes, Detective Flack is going to be fine. He has several cuts and bruises but nothing major. The compound fracture on his left arm will need surgery to repair but it is a common surgery and he should regain full function of his arm."
"Can I see him?" Sarah asked as a sense of relief flooded her body.
"We are prepping him for surgery. The sooner we repair the arm the less likely he is to get an infection." He explained. "The surgery should not last more than a couple hours. I will come find you when we are finished."
"Thank you Doctor." Dr. Ellison shook Sarah's hand and left the waiting room. Sarah immediately turned to Stella and fell into her arms. Tears poured from her eyes but this time they were tears of happiness.
Danny was getting more and more nervous by the minute. It had been over two hours and still no word on Lindsay.
"What am I going to do if something happens to the baby, Mac?" Danny said as he sat down.
"Don't think like that Danny. Lindsay is strong. She has been through a lot. She and the baby will be just fine." Mac tried to sounded convincing, but was not sure he was succeeding. After all he was not convinced himself. I swear to god, if she makes it through this I will never let her out of the lab again, Mac silently prayed.
Danny looked at his boss and saw something that he had never seen before. Danny always knew that Mac cared for Lindsay but he never realized how much until he saw Mac crying. The great Mac Taylor was crying. For the first time that night Danny noticed that Mac appeared to have aged 10 years in a matter of a couple hours. Mac was holding on to Peyton's hand for dear life. Peyton was not sure what was happening with Lindsay but she was sure about one thing; if something happened to Lindsay she knew that they not only would lose Danny but Mac as well.
Finally Dr. Wilson walked through the door. Everyone in the room leapt to their feet and Mac quickly wiped the tears from his face.
"Danny we have to stop meeting like this." Dr. Wilson said as he shook Danny's hand. "Detective Taylor." He said as he shook Mac's hand as well.
"Is Lindsay okay? What about the baby?" Mac could hear the desperation in Danny's voice.
"First of all the baby is fine. We did an ultrasound and confirmed that your daughter is completely healthy." Dr. Wilson paused as he let the news sink in. "As for Lindsay, she had to have 25 stitches on her forehead and she has a pretty severe concussion. We will run a CT scan in the morning to see if there is any permanent damage."
"Can I see her?" Danny asked.
"She is still unconscious. I am not sure when she will wake up. With these types of head injuries it could be a few hours or it could be a couple days. We will know more after the CT scan. I will come find you when she is settled in her room." Dr. Wilson left the room and Danny sat back down. He put his head in his hands as the tears began to fall.
"Hey Danny that is good news. Your daughter is fine and Lindsay is going to fine too, I just know it." Mac said as he tried to comfort Danny. Suddenly a light went off in Danny's head and he jumped back up.
"Wait, he said daughter. Not baby, but daughter. We are having a girl!" Danny was overcome with excitement. "Lindsay and I are having a girl!"
"I guess it is safe to say you did not know?" Stella asked as she smiled at Danny.
"No we were supposed to find out after Christmas. Lindsay is going to be so excited. This is incredible. I am going to have a daughter."
The team was still celebrating the news when Dr. Wilson returned to show Danny to Lindsay's room.
Danny walked into the room and once again felt his heart break. He really hated seeing her laying in a hospital bed. She always looked so small and fragile. He walked up to her and picked up her hand, gently kissing her knuckles.
"Montana, sweetie, I need you to wake up. I need you to fight through this. Our daughter needs you to fight through this." Danny paused as a single tear fell down his cheek. "That's right Lindsay, I said daughter. We are having a little girl." Danny sat there in silence holding his wife's hand, offering silent prays of health and strength.
Two days later there was still no change in Lindsay's condition. The CT scan showed no permanent damage and Dr. Wilson said it was just a matter of time until she woke up. Danny never left her side. There was a constant stream of visitors. Everyone from the lab had been there. Even Flack stopped by on his way out. He had been released earlier that morning, but before he left he stopped by Lindsay's room.
Flashback…
"Hey man, how is she doing?" Flack asked as Sarah pushed him into the room.
"No change. Dr. Wilson said that it should be any time now. The CT scan was normal, so we are just waiting." Danny turned to look at his friend. Flack's arm was in a cast and he looked like he had gone ten rounds with Mike Tyson. "What's up with the chair?" Danny asked pointing at the wheel chair.
"Hospital policy." Flack shrugged.
"How's the arm?"
"I am on so many pain killers, I could get hit by a bus and not feel a thing." Flack joked. "So I hear you are having a girl?"
"Yeah. I cannot wait to tell Lindsay." Danny smiled. "Hey, Sarah, do you think you could give Flack and I second alone?"
"Sure." Sarah leaned over and kissed Flack before walking out of the room.
"Flack, I wanted to thank you for everything you did." Danny felt a single tear roll down his cheek. "You saved her life and my child's life and for that I will be forever grateful."
"It was nothing that you would not have done if the roles were reversed. If it had been Sarah, you would have done everything in your power to get her out of there."
"You know I would have." Danny smiled.
"Don we really need to get home." Sarah said sticking her head back into the room.
"Yeah, the pain meds are kicking in." Flack said as he yawned. "Call me the minute she wakes up. Tell her we all love her."
"Will do man." Danny said as he turned his attention back to Lindsay.
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Later that eveving, out of the blue, Danny felt Lindsay's hand tighten around his.
"Montana?" Danny felt her squeeze his hand again. "Come on baby, open your eyes." Danny saw her eyelids start to flutter. "Let me see those big brown eyes."
After a few seconds Lindsay opened her eyes.
"Danny?" Lindsay asked confused.
"Yeah, baby its me."
"What happened? Where am I?"
"There was a bomb at your crime scene and it went off. Flack got you out but you bumped your head pretty good." Lindsay raised her hand to feel the stitches on her forehead. She winced in pain as she touched them. Danny saw her begin to panic as her hands immediately went to her stomach and she began to cry. "Shhh…. Baby it's okay. The baby is fine."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah, Dr. Wilson did an ultrasound and confirmed that our Daughter is just fine." Danny put extra emphasis on the word daughter.
"Did you say daughter?" Lindsay's eyes brightened.
"Yes, I did. We are going to have a girl." Now both Danny and Lindsay had tears in there eyes.
"And you are sure she is okay?"
"Positive." Danny smiled.
"What about Flack? Is he okay?"
"Yeah, broken arm but that is about all. Should be good as new in no time." Danny stopped talking when he heard a knock on the door. He turned around to see Mac standing there.
"Hey Mac, look who is up." Danny said with a huge grin.
"I see that. How are you feeling Lindsay?" Seeing Lindsay awake and smiling was possibly the best thing Mac had ever seen.
"Pretty good, considering."
"That's good." Mac smiled. "I swear Lindsay I think you are trying to send me to an early grave." Lindsay started to laugh but the pain in her head told her it was not a good idea. "I made a promise to god that if you pulled through this I was not letting you out of the lab again. So starting now you are restricted to the lab, no more field work. I am not taking any chances, at least not until my god daughter it born."
At first Danny thought he was joking but soon realized that he was serious. Lindsay is going to freak, he thought to himself.
"Fine by me Mac. I think that I have enough close calls to last a life time." Danny was shocked by Lindsay's admission. "But after the baby is born I will be back, full time with no limitations."
"Deal." Mac smiled at the thought that Lindsay would be safe and sound in the lab until the baby was born.
A/N- Come on people you really didn't think I would have her lose another baby did you???? I went through alot of different pairings for the bomb scene but I always came back to Lindsay and Flack. Plus I really wanted to add some more stuff about Mac and Lindsay's relationship. I wanted to show how much he really cared about her. Let me know what you think.