Undercover
By: supercsi4
Chapter 1
Danny and Lindsay sat waiting for Mac in his office. He had paged them to meet him in his office for a new assignment, but he wasn't there yet.
"So I guess you get the pleasure of working with me once again Montana," Danny turned to say to Lindsay to break the silence encased in the room.
"Lucky me," Lindsay looking up and smiled at Danny. 'What was it about this woman?' Danny thought to himself. He had never let any women take complete power over him, but damn if Lindsay could make him do anything with just a smile.
Mac then walked into his office and greeted them, "Sorry, I got tied up in the lab. So I've got this big assignment for you two, but I have to talk it over with you first and make sure you are both ok with doing it because you'll be working very closely together for a couple of days." Lindsay and Danny looked up at each other.
"So what? We always work together," Danny said.
"Well this is a little different," Mac started, "We need two people to go undercover to help work surveillance on this guy who has been killing newlywed couples in several hotels around the city," he paused and looked at the two in front of him. They didn't seem to put two and two together yet because they both were still too calm to have understood where he was going with this.
"So I need you two to pack your bags, stay in a hotel for a few nights and pretend to be a married couple."
"WHAT?" They both gasped. Now that's more like the reaction Mac was looking for.
"You want me to be married to Messer?"
"And you want me to be Montana's husband? No way."
"Come on, you two match the profile of the victims and think of it kinda like a vacation."
"We don't really have a choice then do we?" Lindsay asked.
"Um…no," Mac continued. He pulled out a box with some papers and files in it and slid it across his desk toward them.
"Here's everything you need to know. You check in tomorrow morning…together…and you'll be working under Detective Yokas. She's on her way down here now to speak to you. So start reading thru the files and I've got to get back down to the lab. Be safe…and be good." Mac just smiled and left them to process all this.
"Well…"
"Yeah…"
They started digging thru the box. Lindsay began reading thru the files as Danny dug around in the box to discover a small ring box. 'Oh no,' he thought. Pulling out the box, he opened it to reveal two wedding bands and a diamond ring. Lindsay saw Danny freeze out of the corner of her eye and looked over at what he was holding in his hands. If you had told her this morning that she would end up standing in her boss's office with Danny Messer holding a wedding ring in front of her, she would have laughed in your face, but here she was.
Danny was actually beginning to find the humor in the situation and thought he would try to see how far he could take this little game. He took the two wedding bands out of the box and laid them on the desk. He then got down on one knee and looked up at Lindsay who just shook her head and grinned.
"Lindsay Monroe will you marry me?" How many times since she had met this gorgeous New Yorker had she dreamed of this? And even if it was all for pretend, what's the harm in playing along?
She started waving her hands in front of her face, pretending to try and keep the tears in, "Oh my god Danny I'm gonna cry. Of course I'll marry you…for a couple days at least. And there's no way you picked out a beautiful ring like this on your own though." Danny smiled, happy she was game enough to play along and at least make this whole situation a little more bearable. He took her hand in his and slipped on the ring. Neither was expecting the jolt of electricity that passed between their fingers though.
"A beautiful ring for a beautiful woman," Danny said standing back up.
"And now time for the wedding," Danny began again, picking up the two wedding bands. "Dun dun dundun dun," Danny sang as he looped Lindsay's arm threw his and turned toward Mac's desk as if they were standing at the alter of their wedding. Lindsay just shook her head, speechless of this show Danny was putting on.
"Do you Danny take Lindsay blah blah blah…I do," he said looking over at Lindsay and slipping on the second ring. He handed her his ring and said, "And do you Lindsay take Danny blah blah blah…"
"Yeah yeah," Lindsay said slipping the ring onto Danny's finger.
Danny, still in this daze, continued, "And now you may kiss the bride." The words were out of his mouth before he even realized it and the smiles on both their faces disappeared. Realization just hit them both in the face. If they were going to have to pretend to be a couple, there would be touching, kissing, and oh god they would even be in the same bed together.
"Let's just skip that part," Danny said letting go of Lindsay and reaching back into the box to pull out their marriage license.
"I now pronounce us Mr. and Mrs. Messer." They stood there in silence for awhile after that, looking thru the files but barely focusing on them, too much racing thru their minds. Finally Detective Yokas entered the office to grab the newlywed couple and brief them on all the details of their assignment.