Alright, I'm back. And I think it's time again for some StellaMac stuff. What do you think? Okay, this story is a bit different from what I posted so far. It's gonna be VERY long - and it's actually three stories that I will post under the same name since they are connected. So this is the beginning of part one.

Please let me know what you think about it - I LOVE getting reviews and your comments help to get more creative (and maybe post faster GGG ) - so let me know how you like it, please?

Disclaimer: All the original characters belong to their owners - except for Mac. Mac belongs to Stella.

Chapter 1 – Danger, High Voltage!

"Hey Lindsay, how's it goin'?" Stella asked when she entered the break room and spotted Lindsay sitting at the table.

"Fine…" Lindsay replied.

"What are you eating there?"

"Bran cookies – it says they have no fat, no sugar…."

"Don't trust anyone who says 'No calories' – 'Free of charge' - 'Let's just lay on the bed and watch TV' or 'Can I offer you a ride in my car'," Stella commented without looking up from the coffee machine.

Then she heard a chuckle coming from the door.

"Hey Mac," Lindsay greeted. "I was just taking a short break, waiting for the test results on…"

"Relax, I was just looking for Stella," Mac answered with a smile.

"Me? What do you want?"

He grinned.

"Actually, um… offer you a ride in my car… We got a DOA…"

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Ten minutes later, they arrived at the crime scene.

Danny was awaiting them inside of the apartment. Mac took a quick look around. They were standing in a large room, couch and coffee table along with TV and hi-fi equipment to their right, a door leading towards the kitchen and another, obviously the bathroom at the other end. To the left, on a king-sized bed, he spotted the victim.

Female, long blonde hair, beautifully made up. No sign of struggle or fight, no defense wounds visible. She was lying on her back as if she were sleeping.

He turned to Danny.

"What have we got here?"

"So far DOA with no ID, apartment is registered to a Riley Moormann. This doesn't seem to be him. Had a brief look around, no pictures of her or any other sign of a woman living here. Didn't check on the body yet," Danny reported briefly, but with details. "ME already left again, estimated TOD is between 4 and 5 a.m."

Mac nodded and leaned over the body from the right side of the bed and carefully took the victim's right shoulder to turn the body around. All of a sudden, a large amount of blood spread out of a small wound at the back. Below it, the blade of a spring knife stuck out of the mattress.

"Whoops! Look at what we got here... The knife snapped into the body when it fell backwards and closed the wound track so that hardly any blood exited the wound. She probably just dropped herself on the bed and…"

"… never saw it coming," Stella finished his conclusion from the door where she was dusting the door handle for prints.

Mac rolled the body over to its front to remove the knife from the mattress. He picked a glove from his jacket to wrap it around the knife and wanted to prop himself on the bed with his left hand.

Suddenly he gave a yelp.

Stella looked up in surprise. The only thing she noticed after his cry was that he bounced up and landed hard on the floor next to the bed on his back. She froze for a second, then shook her head in disbelief and ran over to him.

"MAC!?!"

When she reached him, she noticed that his eyes were open. He looked at her completely puzzled.

With a mixture of relief and laughter, she heaved "What are you doing??"

He made an attempt to get up, but felt too dizzy from knocking his head against the floor.

"Ouch…" he slowly stated.

Stella helped him to sit up and checked the back of his head.

"Everything's fine here!" she announced. "What happened?"

Mac tried to sort out himself and his thoughts. Being basically in her arms didn't exactly help him to focus as he figured very quickly.

"I... I don't know... I was just about to get the knife out of the mattress and – GET AWAY FROM THE BED!" he shouted when he noticed that Danny was about to do the same thing.

Danny jumped back startled and looked at him.

"Electrical shock," Mac started to explain, now fully focused again.

"There must be some sort of electric circuit that gets closed when you have your feet on the ground and touch the knife at the same time. And it's not just a little power..."

"Yeah, that figures…" Stella mumbled.

He shook his head and shoulders as if that could make the tingly feeling in his body from the shock go away and made another attempt to get up from the floor.

Stella helped him up, glad that he seemed to be okay.

"You were pretty lucky here, you know that?"

He nodded.

"Everyone stays away from the bed, we need to figure out how to shut the power circuit down first."

TBC