Lindsay found Danny sitting on the steps in the alley way that he had found the day before when the crime scene made him sick. Coming up behind him she sat down behind him and rested her arm across his shoulders.

'I didn't say it before... I was in shock, but... thank you.' She said sweetly as she rested her chin on his shoulder.

'I'm sorry I scared you. You know I would never let anything happen to you again.' He said looking into her eyes.

'I know.' She replied as she reached towards him and gave him a light kiss on the lips. 'Are you OK?' She asked again.

'Yeah. Just numb I guess.' He answered looking ahead. Turning back to Lindsay, he brought his hand to her face, where it was beginning to bruise. 'How's your head?' He asked.

'This head?' Lindsay said bringing her hand to her cheek. 'This head is hard!' She smiled.

Danny smiled back, admiring her strengths. 'You know what kept me so calm?'

'What?' She asked.

'You.' His attention turned back to her brown eyes. 'The thought of loosing you again; it made me completely calm. My hands didn't shake.' His face was blank of expression.

'You shot a man in the head?' Lindsay said in shock and confusion.

'I did what I had to.' He said turning away from her once again.

'No... you didn't. We could have talked him down!' Lindsay said realizing that Danny didn't have to kill him, he did it out of spite.

'Yes I did, and I'd do it again. You know why?' Danny said as he stood up and turned to face her as his eyes glistened with tears. 'Because for once, I saved you; you didn't get hurt. Because if anything ever happens to you again and I don't do anything to stop it, I won't be able to live with myself.'

'I didn't get attacked because of you, Danny! It wasn't your fault!'

'Yes it was! He came for me!' Danny yelled, hoping she would see it how he saw it.

'No!' Lindsay said as she stood up and took a couple steps closer pointing her finger at his chest. 'I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Stop blaming yourself!' She yelled as she pressed her finger in his chest.

'I can't.' He said as his voice left him. 'I can't Linds. You lost our baby and it happened because I wasn't there to protect you.' He finished as his head dropped to his chest.

Lindsay finally understood why the stress and pain he had been blinding for him; he had been carrying around the responsibility of loosing their child.

'Danny?' Lindsay said softly taking a step towards him, she took his arms in her hands, but he pulled away.

'I'm sorry.' He said quietly as he turned away from her.

'Stop apologizing. Please! Danny, look at me.' She said bluntly. 'Look at me!' She repeated, taking a breath he turned and looked her in the eye. 'You don't have to protect me all the time. We have to get past this, we can't keep carrying it around with us everyday.' Taking his face in her hands she pulled him down and softly kissed his lips. 'It's going to kill us, and I'm not ready to loose you.'

'I know... I'm sorry... I mean.' He stopped, and smiled.

'We have to get past this. We have to put it behind us, Dan.' She said as sh pulled him into a hug, wrapping her arms around his chest and resting her cheek on his chest.

'I know.' He said as he hesitated to hug her back, but slowly pulled his arms around her small body and rested his chin on top of her head.

Pulling back so she could look up at him, Lindsay realized she would never see the man she fell in love with again, that person died with Lucas Messer, instead she had to learn how to love the damaged man she held in her arms.

'We're gonna be alright, I promise.' Lindsay said hoping he really heard her.

'I hope you're right.' He answered as he dropped his arms to his side and held her hand loosely. 'We should get back to the lab... give our statements.' He added, as he turned away from her.

'Danny?' She said as he turned back to her.

'Yeah?' He asked with a kink in his brow.

'I love you.' She said plainly as tears came to her eyes, not knowing why she was crying all of a sudden.

'I love you too, baby what's wrong?' He said moving close to her cupping her face in her hands.

'I don't know, I'm sorry!' She said as she began to sob. Danny rubbed his thumbs along the side of her face. 'I don't want to loose you again! I can't! I don't know what I would do!' She sobbed harder and harder.

'I'm not going anywhere.' He said softly as her breathing increased. 'Linds? I'm right here!'

'No! You're not... you've been gone, I miss you! I just... I just... I want you back!' She sobbed as her knees became weak and she dropped. Danny grabbed onto her body as she went, falling slowly to the ground with her. As she collapsed in his lap, he wrapped his body around hers as she cried into his shirt, soaking the front of it.

'Montana I'm here... I'm right here .' He said as he rocked her back and forth. 'What do you mean I've been gone?' He asked as holding her head in his hands.

'I've been trying Danny! I'm trying to be strong for you, but you just push me away, and I can't do it anymore. I just want what we had!' Her eyes were red and puffy from tears as she looked up into his eyes. His heart broke.

'Linds...' His voice cracked as he held her body as he gazed into his girlfriends eyes. 'I'm sorry, a thousand times I'm sorry. I didn't mean to push you away... I just didn't know how to deal. I don't want to loose you either. I love you, I promise, I'm not going anywhere.' He held her head in place, making sure she could see in his eyes that he wasn't lying.

Lindsay was at loss for words, there was nothing else she could say, so she nodded her head and squeezed her eyes shut.

Seizing the opportunity, Danny pulled her close and kissed her. Slow at first, then he pushed his tongue between her lips, forcing her to feel his presence. Lindsay moaned through tears and she brought her hands to his head and held him by his hair tight as Danny's tongue explored her mouth not letting her move. He kissed her in a way that made her feel as if she had been claimed, she was his, and he would never leave her. She reacted by kissing him back in the same feverish manor, forgetting about air, forgetting about the drugs, the shooting, the pain. She kissed him back as if it were their last kiss and they had to make it last. Danny let out a soft moan from deep in his throat as his hands moved down her back pulling her body flush against his, as her hands pulled at his hair that was trapped between the knuckles on his fists. His tongue ran over her teeth as he pulled back, gasping for breathe.

Sitting with Lindsay in his lap, still holding her just as tight, his lips never left hers as they say catching their breath.

'I love you Lindsay.' He said with his eyes closed.

'I love you too.' She whispered back, as he hands began to flatten the hair on the back of his head.

'I think we should get married.' He said plainly as the air came back to his deflated lungs.

'What?' Lindsay said finally opening her eyes, but not moving from her position.

'Marry me.' He didn't ask, he stated. He wasn't taking no for an answer. 'We love each other, we already live together, we made it through all this bullshit together, I want to have babies with you, we can't live without each other... and really, I love waking up next to you everyday. I love you. Marry me?' He finished as he opened his eyes and pulled a piece of hair away from Lindsay's eyes.

Hearing his words, she felt as if he had sewn the pieces of her heart back together, she felt whole again. Instead of answering she did the next best thing, he wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him, joyfully. He was so surprised by her reaction he fell backwards and landed on his back with Lindsay on top of him kissing him feverishly over and over.

He laughed through her reaction and managed to speak.

'So...' kiss, '...I...' kiss, '...take...' kiss, '...that...' kiss, '...as a...' kiss, '...yes?' He finished, and he began to kiss her back as she nodded in reply.

Danny smiled and kissed her back, wrapping his arms around her once more. He was happy, for the first time in months. They were both, finally, happy.