Lindsay awoke in the middle of the night to the sound of Danny's soft sobs. She glanced at the clock. It was three in the morning. She looked up to see her husband sitting on the edge of the bed, his head in his hands and his back facing her. Her heart broke as she realized that she was most likely the reason for his distress.

She sat up and rose to her knees. She then scooted over so that she was right behind him and wrapped her arms around his shoulders, resting her chin on his shoulder. She felt Danny relax slightly against her as he leaned his head on top of hers. "What's wrong?" she asked quietly.

"I never should have left you," he cried. "I should have just stayed with you and kept you safe."

"Danny, I was perfectly safe when you were gone."

"Maybe then, but you're not now!" he exclaimed. "You're in danger because I had to go and be all heroic and macho!"

"Honey, I'm fine," she assured him.

"You don't get it!" he all but shouted.

Lindsay recoiled when he yelled. She removed her arms from around his neck and began to crawl back to her side of the bed. Danny was too quick, though, and he gently caught her arm in one of his large hands before she could get too far. Crying even harder he pulled her into his lap and cradled her in his strong arms. "I'm sorry," he whispered over and over again. "I'm so sorry, Lindsay."

Every time he said the words she knew that he didn't just mean for yelling at her. She knew that he felt some guilt for leaving her for such a long time and was pretty certain that he held himself responsible for the ordeal between Lindsay and Antonio. "What don't I get, Danny?" she asked after he'd had a few minutes to calm down.

"You're all I have, Montana," he whispered, sounding very pained. "You an' the baby are all I've got. If anythin' ever happened to either of you I don't know if I'd make it! I love you so much that it hurts." He wiped away a stray tear that made its way down his cheek. "I know that sounds corny, but it's true. Every time I'm not with you all I can think about it gettin' back to you as soon as I can."

Lindsay raised her head from where it was resting on his chest and placed a tender kiss on his lips. "I love you more than anything in the whole world," she told him, shifting on his lap so that she could wrap her arms around him.

"I'm never gonna let anythin' happen to you," Danny promised. Even in the darkness of the room, Lindsay could see the fierce love in her husband's eyes.

"I never thought you would," Lindsay said quietly. She crawled off of his lap and tugged on his arm until he was reclining next to her. She grabbed both of his arms and wrapped them around her, placing her hands over them.

"Will you promise me something?" Danny asked after a moment of comfortable silence.

"Depends," Lindsay yawned.

"Promise you won't go gettin' yourself into any dangerous situations."

"Danny, it's not like I went looking for Antonio," she said.

Danny tensed and pulled her closer to his chest. "He came lookin' for me," he said bitterly.

Lindsay shifted in his arms so that she was facing him. "It's not your fault and I don't blame you." she told him bluntly. "So, I'd really appreciate it if you'd stop blaming yourself. It doesn't make anybody feel better."

"I'm sorry," he kissed her gently. "I love you, Montana."

"I love you, too, Danny." She smiled. "And your baby boy loves it when Mommy's well rested, so I strongly recommend us getting some sleep."

Danny's face split into a little kid on Christmas morning kind of grin.

"What?" Lindsay asked, thoroughly amused.

"I love it when you refer to yourself as 'mommy,'" he said, kissing her again.

Lindsay grinned right back at him. "Get used to it. You're going to be hearing it a lot from now on, Daddy." She put emphasis on her use of the word 'daddy.'

"Oh, I most definitely will," Danny said, kissing her on the forehead. "Now go to sleep."

A/N Ok, so I've spent like a billion and a half years trying to come up with an actual ending to this chapter so that it's not like 5 words long, but I couldn't. So this is all you get for now. I'm really sorry.

xoxo

Lia