Yes I do, I believe That one day I will be, where I was

Right there, right next to you And it's hard, the days just seem so dark

The moon, and the stars, are nothing without you

Your touch, your skin, where do I begin?

No words can explain, the way i'm missing you

Deny this emptiness, this hole that i'm inside

These tears, they tell their own story.

Lay Me Down ~ Sam Smith

*ring ring*

The sound of his alarm startled Danny awake, his eyes fluttering open in alarm before relaxing and shifting to turn of the disturbing noise with a sigh. He laid back down on his warm pillow and closed his eyes again, they remained closed for all of ten seconds before Danny sighed again and started his day.

It was currently 6am which meant time for his morning run, he brushed his teeth and washed his face before stripping out of his checkered pajama pants and putting on his running shorts and sneakers. Grabbing a cold water bottle and his headphones on his way out his apartment before making his way out of his building and to the nearby forest that offered a running trail-path.

As he was running up a hill his mind kept flashing back to the last time he saw Margot. The smile she gave him as they teased each other as well as the small hopeful smile she had painted on her lips when she asked him to go with her, the longing he saw lacing her gorgeous blue orbs when she told him to not fall in love with anyone until she gets back.

The private detective huffed at the mere thought of him ever loving anyone the way he fell in love with the blond criminal. He could still see the exact moment his brain caught up with his heart, letting him finally see what his heart had known from the moment he kissed her at the threshold of her hotel room.

The moment he had realized the intensity of his love for her was the moment she had stepped out of his reach and into the jet, that was the moment he felt his heart shatter in his chest. That was the moment he realized, that without any warnings, completely unexpectedly, he had fallen in love with her. He had falling in love with her flaws, her snarky comments, her irritating sense of authority, her irresistible body and her tender heart that he had known she tried so hard to protect under all the armor she puts on.

It had been an astonishing self revelation, something he could not suppress or erase from his being. That women will forever be carved on every part of his body, heart and soul and that is something that throughout these ten months, Danny has learned to live with. "Try not to fall in love with anyone until I get back" those words rang through Danny's head with every rapid step he took. He could barely take her out of his mind as it is, how was he supposed to fall in love or even be attracted to anyone. The mere thought was absurd to him.

Just as he climbed fully up the hill and started taking in the view of Los Angeles his phone rang. With a sigh Danny fished out his phone from the inside of his hoodie and greeted the person on the other end, "hello."

"Danny, you need to get to work right away. We have a new client and Alice is going to need you soon." Said the voice of Sophie at the other end of the call.

"Ok, thanks. I'll be there in 20." Danny responded before hanging up the phone and started the journey back down the hill. After Danny made the journey back to his apartment and took a long hit shower, he dressed himself fast before making his way to AVI.

By the time he got to the private investigation offices, he quickly walked into the conference room where Alice, Val and Sophie were accompanied by a young blond woman whom was seated at the end of the glass table. "Sorry I am late. Traffic." Danny quickly said before seating himself next to Val and opened the laptop he had in his hands.

"It's alright, traffic in LA can be a real nightmare." The blond stranger said, her southern accent laced with a layer of seduction that Danny chose to ignore. After an awkward silence, Alice cleared her throats and began to give a brief summary of the case at hand as well as everyone's first job on having it resolved. All throughout the meeting, Danny felt the woman that he now knows is named Sarah Hathers eyes on him. He kept ignoring her stares as well as her not so subtle flirtation, opting to keep his gaze on the screen in front of him or on everybody else.

Once Alice concluded the meeting, Danny closed his laptop and was about to make his way out when he heard his name being called. Turning to Alice he asked, "yes?"

"Nothing, I just wanted to ask how you're holding up? I realized I haven't asked you that as often as I should after what happened." Alice responded as she twirled her chair around to face him fully.

Danny moved to sit in the sit next to hers, resting the laptop on the table and with a sigh responded to Alice's questions as honestly as he could. "I'm managing."

Alice nodded her head in agreement before asking the question she was etching to know the answer to. "Do you miss her?" Her question was asked softly, in a whisper as she took to gaze upon his face, waiting for his response.

'Do I miss her?' Danny asked himself as the image of Margot's soft smile as she made their relationship official invaded his mind, he took a deep breath and tried albeit unsuccessfully to get rid of her memory before saying out loud and with an ache in his soul. "I miss her every day."

Once again Alice nodded in silent agreement. The pair sat quietly for a while, both lost in their thoughts. Both thinking of their respective criminals that they've willingly or unwillingly in Danny's case gave their hearts to. Both sharing similar wounds and regrets.

After all of three minutes of solemn silence, Danny decided to say what his heart had known for all of ten months. He felt that he owed it to Alice to actually know the extent of his feelings for the blond Brit, he owed it to himself to say it out loud at least once.

"I love her Alice. I love her and that's a feeling I never thought I would have specially with her. I mean, god! She's just so infuriating all the time, with her snarky comments and her destructive behavior. She's a criminal who is currently hiding from the FBI for gods sake. And I know it's wrong and that I should just forget about her, we weren't even together for long but I can't. I love her and I miss her like crazy and that's something I can't help. It's just something that is and it's bullshit because I can't even be with her like I want to." There, he said it. Finally, all he had buried in his heart for all these months were finally said out loud into the universe.

Danny felt like he could breath with more ease as he admitted out loud his hard truth. During his rant, Danny had stood up from his chair, all the nervous energy that was coursing through his body not letting him be in one place. He turned his gaze to Alice and saw her standing up and walking towards him before he felt her arms around his shoulders.

He hugged her gently for all of a minute before they both pulled away and Alice left the conference room without saying a word although Danny knew that this was what they both needed. She needed to know that she wasn't alone in her pain, that there was someone else who was heart broken as well. He guessed he needed that reassurance too.

After taking a deep breath, Danny moved to stand and went out the door to start working on the background check of the new case. Feeling both heavy hearted and as if a weight was lifted off of him all at once.

* A few hours later *

Danny was sitting on his desk reviewing the files for a case Alice handed to him that morning after they had their little heart to heart conversation or more precisely he poured his heart out whilst she listened. It was about 10pm and he didn't feel like going home, the last thing he wanted was to go to his apartment. Going home meant being alone with his thoughts and his thoughts were always on Margot Bishop, the woman that he has fallen so desperately in love with and whom was currently hiding and building up her new empire in some remote location. Just thinking of her made him anxious and his heart to speed up, a feeling that he has gotten used to by now.

When she had asked him to go with her, it was without a second thought that he had told her yes. He wanted to spend the rest of his life with that woman, even if it meant hiding, he didn't care as long as he was with her but the obligation and care that he felt for Alice halted him from following his heart to Margot. He had let her go with the promise to wait for her and he had been. He'd been waiting for her albeit subconsciously for the last 10 months, missing her like crazy.

Missing the way her bright blue eyes would turn a dangerous dark hue when he kissed that secret nook on her neck, or the way they lit up every time he would just randomly kiss her forehead when they spent the night together. He missed the way she would scream his name in pleasure in the comfort of her bed or in annoyance everytime he chose to defy her, he missed the way she kissed him which was the way he knew she did everything, with control, passion and all of her.

He missed everything that was Margot Bishop, all the infuriating, funny, exasperating, caring, dangerous and loving parts of her. He missed everything that was her. Danny pulled himself from his thoughts with an annoyed growl and a shake of his head.

"I need to focus, and you need to get out of my head for at least five minutes." Danny said to himself and the image of a smiling Margot which resided in the space of his mind. After taking a deep breath, Danny set to reread the same sentence from five minutes ago, his brain not grasping any of the information on the paper.

After another failed attempt at regaining focus, he gave up and went to stand and turn to the window looking at the city lights on the skyscrapers and at the full moon. "I really hope you're alright." Danny said softly into the empty dimly light office whilst bringing his hand to his face.

"I'm alright and I've missed you." Said a British accented husky voice that he knew by heart and had longed to hear for the past 10 months. Danny turned with the speed of light and came face to face with the owner of his thoughts, heart and soul.

Margot Bishop, standing in a white dress and heels, her hair a bit longer than he remembered and just as beautiful and as regal as he knew and imagined her being.

"You're here." Danny said, his voice barely a whisper as he stared at her as if she was a mirage or a beautiful dream.

"I am." Margot responded with a loving shaky smile as she walked to stand in front of him, looking into the deep brown eyes she hadn't known she missed that much until this moment. Danny stared at her for a full minute before pulling her completely into his arms, and kissing her as if she was the last glass of water in a desert.

Their first kiss after 10 months apart was all tongue and teeth; messy but in the most delicious ways. "God, I've missed you." Danny whispered into her lips as he grabbed her bottom lip with his tongue and sucked gentle, and being gifted with the soft moan he knew that action would bring out of her.

No other words were said as Danny grabbed Margot by the waist and pulled her onto his desk and started doing all he had fantasized of since the moment he saw her walk into the jet without him. Danny began kissing the familiar and dearly missed path down her neck, sucking and licking his way to her throat. Hearing her let out those delicious sighs that did nothing but spur him on.

Before long, Danny pulled back hearing her low groan of protest which caused a chuckle to escape from his throat, he swiftly moved his hands behind her back and pulled the zipper that held her dress together down revealing her creamy skin under his touch.

"Danny." Margot whispered breathlessly as she felt Danny's hands move down between her thighs. Danny pulled away from her neck at the plead of his name and brought his eyes to her passion laced orbs, giving her a questioning look. He felt her grab his face with both of her hands, as her face and whispered only inches from his lips before taking them in hers.

"Make me scream."