A/N: Roughly sort of inspired by foxdvd's 11 Ways to Tip A Hat (read it, it's wonderful). But this is different character's thoughts on the D/L relationship. Each chapter will be a new speaker. Spoilers for up to Boo (maybe more since it's still in progress). I had a little trouble getting into Mac's voice. Hopefully this will work for you.
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MAC
A few years ago, I told him that it could happen to him and he scoffed at the idea, but then I had to go and hire a pretty little investigator from Bozeman. I knew I'd have to watch Danny for a little while with anyone new on the team. He doesn't accept new people well, especially when they replaced a dear friend of his. I knew he had put her up to calling me Sir, but I figured if that was the worst of it we could all live with that.
Then she went undercover as a Holly. And I thought Stella would have to have to tie him to the chair, but he knew the exact second things went bad. Then things went cold between the two. I knew the reason why. Two suits from the Montana State Police showed up early one morning with a photo lineup. I'd know about the shooting. It was in her personnel file, but it was her place to tell him not mine. And she didn't. The day she left, I saw him grinning silly over a card. While she was gone, he nearly worked himself to death and he wasn't sleeping too well either. But I don't have much room to talk about that.
I don't know exactly what happened when she came back, but suddenly the two were best friends doing everything together. Silly grins. I swear the sexual tension was building to the point I could almost cut it with a knife. Then things changed. I could see it in their body language. A hand on the small of the back when sliding past one another in the lab. The visible teasing and banter actually toned down, but just the slight touches when they passed in the lab gave them away. Their personal spaces had melded. I knew they were sleeping together. But in some strange way things were working better between them. They didn't really talk much anymore. Not the "hold this here" kind of talk anyway. They just sort of instinctively know what the other will way or want.
Although, they did start off the Great Car Debate. That went through the whole lab like wildfire. Batmobile, Mach 5, K.I.T.T., Viper, and even the Fantasy Island car was debated hotly by every lab tech in various corners of the lab. I didn't even know some of the folks were into that stuff.
So when Amityville called for CSI help, I sent the two younger detectives and prayed that I didn't hear any reports back about PDA on a crime scene. I know they are both more professional than to be extremely overt, but here in the city I think most of the homicide squad has clued into them being a couple and just overlook the teasing and goofiness that goes on. I guess in a way, it was an effort on my part to let them be together on the holiday. Lindsey got freaked out by the old woman who invaded the crime scene, but Danny managed to calm her down. In the end they put the puzzle together with facts instead of rumors and closed not only a current homicide, but a 30 year old cold case as well.