Catch My Breath
Title: Catch My Breath
Author: Diane
Pairing: Danny/Lindsay
Rating: Teen Rated
Disclaimer: I don’t own a thing!
Spoilers/Warnings: This is set post-Season 5 so everything up to and including it to be on the safe side.
Summary: “Tell me a secret… something no one else knows,” Danny whispered, trailing his fingertips up and down his wife’s naked back, smiling when he felt her shiver in response.
Did you know when you're around
My heart won't, it can't slow down
It beats so hard it makes it hard
To catch my breath, to catch my breath
‘Catch My Breath’ by Westlife
“Tell me a secret… something no one else knows,” Danny whispered, trailing his fingertips up and down his wife’s naked back, smiling when he felt her shiver in response.
Lindsay lifted her head from where it rested on his shoulder and looked up at him. “You know everything about me,” she replied teasingly as she played with his dog tags.
He chuckled. “There’s no way I know everything about you, Montana. And the same’ll be true even after we’ve been married for fifty years and I kinda like that. It’ll keep me on my toes.”
Her breath caught in her throat at the conviction she heard in his voice. “Fifty years, huh?”
“And then some,” he said, pressing a kiss onto her smiling lips. “So, tell me one of your many secrets.”
It was on the tip of Lindsay’s tongue to say the words she’d considered telling him a few times ever since they’d gotten married but she didn’t want to spoil the playful mood. “Um…”
Even in the muted darkness of their bedroom, he could tell there was something she wanted to say but was silently debating with herself as to whether she should do it or not.
“You can tell me anythin’, babe, you know that,” he reminded her.
“I know,” she instantly replied. “Okay… Remember when you proposed to me the first time?”
“Of course I do,” Danny answered somewhat shakily, wondering what she might be about to tell him. “I caught you outside the lab giving into one of your cravings.”
“One of my many cravings,” she kidded. Shifting over onto her front so she was now lying on top of him, she cupped his cheek in her palm, running her thumb back and forth along his cheekbone, liking the prickle of his stubble against her skin. “Your proposal took me by surprise and while I still think I did the right thing by saying no at that point in time, there was a part of me… a big part of me that really wanted to say yes, Danny.”
He breathed a sigh of relief at her admission and he couldn’t contain his grin. Wrapping his arms around her beneath the thin sheet that covered them, he pulled her up so that her face was directly in front of him and leaning forward, he captured her mouth in a sizzling hot kiss; his tongue immediately slipping inside when she parted her lips for him. The fingers of one hand tangled in her silky, honey-brown hair, holding her steady as they practically devoured one another whole.
“Danny…” Lindsay murmured long minutes later when the need for air had became too strong to ignore and drawing back from a little, she took a moment to catch her breath. God, kissing him always left her feeling so breathless and even somewhat lightheaded. Brushing her lips over his, she then began dropping butterfly kisses along his cheek until her mouth hovered by his ear. “Your turn… tell me something no one else knows.”
Without warning, Danny flipped her over onto her back and rocked his hips against hers, quickly covering her lips with his own to muffle her moans so as not to wake a certain little person in the adjacent room. When he eventually retreated, his voice was thick and husky when he spoke. “I’m going to marry you, Lindsay Messer.” He smirked at the confused look she now wore.
“Uh, I hate to break it to you, honey, but we’re already married,” she said, bringing her left hand into his line of vision and showing him the beautiful wedding band he’d slipped onto her finger not too long ago.
“I know that, wiseass,” he quipped, popping a kiss onto her nose before elaborating. “It’s just… I want us to get married in church with both our families and all of our friends there to celebrate with us, you know.”
“Wow!” Lindsay gasped. She hadn’t been expecting him to say that.
“Is that a good ‘wow’ or a bad one?”
“Good, it’s definitely good,” she said, smiling up at him, her fingers running back and forth along the back of his neck. A light-bulb suddenly went off in her head and she suddenly burst out laughing.
“What’s so funny?”
“You wanting us to get married in church wouldn’t have anything to do with your Nonna, would it?”
“No,” he quickly replied. “Well, okay, maybe a little. Ya should’ve heard her when I went over to my mom’s today to pick up Lucy. I thought I wasn’t gonna get outta there alive.”
Lindsay’s laughter got louder and she clamped a hand over her mouth. “Sorry,” she mumbled.
“Yeah, you sound it,” Danny retorted, laughing along with her. Brushing away a stray lock of hair from her face, he said, “Seriously though, Linds… I want it for us, no one else.”
Her heart melted and she nodded, too choked up to speak. Cupping the back of his head, she drew him down towards her and sighed when his mouth touched hers. The kiss started off soft and slow but soon gained momentum and turned intensely passionate.
They were both breathing heavy when they eased away from each other.
“So, how ‘bout it, Montana? You wanna marry me again?” The beaming smile she suddenly gave him threatened to split her face in two and he knew the smile he wore matched it.
“Yes!” she exclaimed, twining her arms around his neck and pulling him down for another heady kiss. A pout formed on her lips when he pulled away much too soon for her liking. “What?”
A smirk tugged at the corner of his lips. “You think it’s too late to give Nonna a call and tell her the good news?”
Fin