Six months since Danny was released from the hospital, he entered the white doors of Bellevue Hospital. The walls were white and the floors were cold, the short walk felt like to took an hour as Danny and Lindsay walked hand in hand to the receptionist at the end of the hall.

As they approached the desk, the fear Danny had been denying started to rise in his throat like bile. Squeezing his eyes shut and focusing on his breathing, he started to relax. Feeling Lindsay next to him made him feel stronger.

"Hi, how can I help you?" The small woman at reception asked with a smile.

"We are here to see Colleen Miller." Lindsay asked, squeezing Danny's hand tighter.

"Alright, I'll check with her doctors. Please have a seat in the waiting area." She answer pointing to the group of chairs behind them.

Danny and Lindsay gave the woman and nod and went to the chairs. Danny sat down and his leg began to bounce up and down beneath him. He was nervous, and there was no point in trying to hide it from Lindsay.

"It's going to be fine, I'll be with you the whole time." Lindsay said seeing Danny's leg.

"Yeah, I know. Thanks." he replied picking up Lindsay's hand and squeezing it again.

After a couple of minutes a doctor came out two large doors behind reception with a clip board and walked up to the waiting area.

"Mr. Messer?" He said looking at Danny and Lindsay.

"Yeah, that's me." Danny said standing up and shaking the doctors hand.

"Hi, I'm Dr. Gibson, we spoke on the phone?" He said flipping through some papers on the clip board. "Ok, so everything looks good. She's had a good morning, she's been taking her medication, today is a good day. Would you like me to sit in with you?" He asked looking over his small framed glasses, Danny could tell he wasn't very old but he seemed to be well trained.

"No. That's alright. I want to do this alone." He said letting out a deep breath; he felt like he had been holding it for months.

"Danny, I want to be with you?" Lindsay said as she held onto my shoulder. "At least at first."

"Fine, but I want some time alone with her." He answered, as he leaned down and kissed her forehead. "I'll be ok." He reassured her.

"Alright, come with me." Dr. Gibson said leading them through the doors behind reception.

They followed him into a large room with white walls, there were long tables throughout the room with white plastic chairs seated beside them. The room was warm but felt cold from the lack of windows. Danny felt a shiver run up his spine as he sat down. Lindsay sat down next to him and once again took his hand.

"I'll be right back with her." Dr. Gibson said as he turned and walked away.

"It's not too late to change your mind Dan." Lindsay said quietly.

"No, it is. I'm six months too late." Danny said looking around the room.

"I'll stay as long as you want me to." She said leaning into him, as he kissed her gently.

Danny heard the doors open and felt her enter the room, he turned his head to see Colleen Miller and Dr. Gibson walking towards their table. Taking a deep breath he attempted to slow his heart, but was failing, the fear that he felt seven months ago was returning and he no longer felt safe. Lindsay felt the change in Danny, and squeezed his hand tighter and pulled his body a little closer.

Colleen walked close to the table and stood in front of it looking at the ground. Dr. Gibson put a hand on her shoulder and guided her to the seat. She continued to stare at the ground.

"I'll be close if you need anything." Dr. Gibson said as he turned a walked away, giving Danny and encouraging nod on the way.

They sat silently for a couple of minutes before anyone got the courage to speak. Danny decided he needed to take control of this situation and end it on his terms.

"Look at me." He said harsher then he planned.

Colleen ignored. He repeated.

"I said look at me." This time she looked up. Danny saw the tears in her eyes, she looked very young, very small.

"I'm sorry." She said quietly.

"That's not why I'm here." He said, hiding his emotions was harder then he thought. He had spent so many nights lying awake wanting to kill this woman and now she was sitting in front of him.

"Then why are you?" She said calmly, it was apparent that she was on stabilizing drugs.

"I want to know why. That's it. Why me?" Danny's hands were shaking with rage.

"No you don't." She said.

"Excuse me?"

"That's not why you're here." She was looking him straight in the eyes now.

"No, no, no, you don't think I'm here to replenish our fucking relationship do you? You disgust me!" Danny said as tears came to his eyes. Lindsay squeezed tighter.

"No, I'm crazy but I'm not stupid. You're here because you think it will be easier to understand why I did it, that it'll help you sleep at night, or that the fear will go away. I'm sorry but it won't." She was calm, and she was secure. Mostly, she was right.

"Why did you choose me?" A tear slipped from his eye and rolled down his cheek.

"Danny," she said leaning closer to the table crossing her arms in front of her, "I'm sorry for what I did to you. I wish I had an explanation, but I don't. I'm just sorry."

Danny leaned back in his own chair, and turned to Lindsay. "Can you?" He asked, Lindsay already knew the question and gave him a nod and a kiss on the cheek. Getting up she looked from Danny to Colleen and spoke.

"I'll be with Dr. Gibson, if you need me call." She said walking away.

Colleen stared at her as she went.

"She's pregnant. That's good." She said looking down at the table.

"That's none of your business." Danny said staring at her.

"I know, I'm happy you're happy." She smiled looking up at him.

"So, are you getting the help you need here?" He asked, actually interested in the answer.

"Yeah, some times. I'm on medication now, so I am stable. I'm going to be here a long time though so hopefully by the time I can get out of here, you know, I will be ok." She said coolly. Danny nodded.

"Danny, can I ask you something?" She said turning her head to the side.

"Maybe."

"Do you love her?" She looked at the table as she asked.

"Yes. I do." He was calm, but he wanted to rip her head off.

"What does it feel like? Love?" Danny didn't know how to answer this question, his head was swimming. Does she even deserve to know?

"Why?" Danny said.

"Since I've been here, people have told me that what I felt wasn't love, it was obsession. I don't know what love feels like." She looked embarrassed. Something in Danny changed in that moment, and he remembered that she was human and sick.

"I'm sorry." Danny replied in a low voice.

"That's the last thing you should have said to me. I don't deserve your forgiveness." She said with a small laugh in her throat.

"I know, but... ah. Listen, I know what happened to you was horrible. You didn't deserve it, I didn't deserve the repercussions, but it happened. A lot of people were hurt by your actions, and I'm sorry you didn't get the help you needed sooner. I'm sorry." He said sincerely.

Colleen let out a deep breathe and once again leaned forward on her elbows.

"I wasn't always like this you know? I used to play Volley Ball, I was good. All-State. Things just don't always turn out the way you plan." She smiled at Danny. The smile made him uncomfortable and he leaned back in his chair.

"How long were you watching me for?" Danny said, keeping his cool.

"Three months." The sat back, it was as if they were testing each other to see who would break first.

"What set you off? How'd you go from stalker to murderer?" Harsh.

"I hate that word. 'Murderer'." She said making bunny ears.

"Why? That's exactly what you are, you murdered Johnson in cold blood. Why? What set you off?" Danny said crossing his arms across his chest.

Letting out a deep sigh, Colleen spoke, there was an eerie tone low in her voice.

"Danny, you will never understand why. I don't know why you would want to. Everything would have been easier if you just admitted that you loved me in some way. I know you do. You selfish bastard. You ruined me. Johnson died because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. We'd both be dead and happy right now if that slut didn't ruin the perfect ending for us. Don't you get it. You will never understand until you accept it." Her chest was heaving, she was fuming with anger. Danny sat back in his chair terrified, unable to move. This time, he was going to play her game, he needed answers.

"Why didn't you tell me that to begin with?" He tried desperately to mask the fear in his tone.

"What do you mean?" Her eyes were dull.

"I mean, if you told me that before we could have saved some time. Johnson didn't have to die. We could have solved this ourselves." He leaned forward and rested his elbows on the table.

"Do you mean that?" Colleen said eagerly.

"Yes." Danny felt the urge to puke, he was disgusting himself.

"Danny, when you came to the hospital after I was raped, you made me feel safe. The only time I felt safe was when you were near me. I needed to be near you all the time. I couldn't sleep without a photo of you in my arms. I couldn't breathe when I was near you, I was so excited to be close to you I could never find the nerve to speak. When I saw you on the street, I would gasp. Breathe would leave my body and I'd freeze. I followed you home from the lab one night, you looked so tired and stressed. You shouldn't have been alone. I followed you right to your apartment and I climbed the fire escapes until I found the one by your apartment and I watched you sleep. You looked so beautiful and peaceful. You took my breathe away. I came back every night for weeks." She stopped and took a deep breathe. "In a coffee shop one morning you bumped into me and said you were sorry, and smiled at me. You looked into my eyes and I knew. We were meant to be together. You looked deep in my eyes and I felt safe again. That's when our love started to grow. Everything was perfect until she came around." She said turning her head to the corner of the room where Lindsay stood. Lindsay was staring at them, afraid for Danny, once again feeling like she lost him.

Danny stared at Colleen. Now that he knew, he didn't know how to react so he said the first thing that came to mind.

"You are completely wack." Danny had a smile across his face. "You are undeniably, completely insane."

Colleen looked shocked.

"What?" Anger present on her face and in her voice.

"You disgust me. I don't love you and even if the circumstances were changed, I still wouldn't love you. I didn't make you feel safe, I was doing my job. I was comforting you so I could get your statement, not so we could have a lifetime of love together. All you were to me was a case I had to solve. I didn't even remember you. To be completely honest, you will never be anything more then a case to me, you are fucked up and I don't want anything to do with you." Danny stood up, Colleen followed him with her eyes who now had massive amounts of tears falling from them. "Oh and another thing, that 'Slut' over there, is carrying my child so have a little respect." He turned to leave.

"No! Wait, come back. You don't mean that!" Colleen yelled. Danny stopped in his tracks and turned back.

"Yes I do. I want nothing to do with you; you need to move on. Get better, and get over this, over me. Colleen, you need to stay away from me and my family." He let out a sigh and turned around to walk back to Lindsay, "Good Bye." He said as he went.

Lindsay walked to him, not knowing what he was feeling, when he got to her, he wrapped his arms around her and kissed her passionately.

"What was that?" Lindsay said when they separated.

"Nothing. Just... nothing." He said taking her hand and walking from the room. He could hear the sound of Colleen sobbing in the background, knowing it wasn't his problem any longer. He smiled widely.

Getting to the front door of the hospital Lindsay pulled Danny around to face her, and gave him a hug.

"Are you going to tell me what you said to her?" She said when they separated.

"I just told her what she needed to hear to get over me. Over this." He smiled and kissed her again, "Now we can start to think about other important things." He said putting his hands on Lindsay's growing belly.

"I love you Danny." She said placing her hands over his.

"I love you too." He kissed her again, "Now lets get you home and off those feet!" He said lifting her up and carrying her out the front doors to the car.

"I thought you'd never ask!" She said cradling herself into his chest as the door swung closed behind them.

The End.

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