Here's the sequel to Tiredness: hope you all like it. Also Danny and Lindsay have made up and going out again in this story.
I still don't own any of the characters- shame but oh well.
At first, they'd tried to keep their relationship hidden and for a while it worked, even though they worked with a team of CSIs and detectives. It became a running joke between them that evidently the team wasn't as good as Mac had hoped they were when he'd hired them.
In fact, their relationship would have carried on being secret if it weren't for the other couple in the lab.
Stereotypically, it was Valentines Day (about six months after events of Tiredness) and Mac had decided to take Stella to a new Italian restaurant that had opened about a block away from the lab. He'd reasoned that she'd look past it's all too close proximity to their workplace and enjoy some good quality Italian, rather than the take-aways that she'd seemed to become rather too accustomed to after the Frankie incident.
However, what neither of them knew was that Danny, after working a case in the shop opposite the restaurant the previous week, had also decided to take Lindsay there so that he could introduce her to proper Italian food, because like Stella, the nearest she got was take-aways, which in the Messer dictionary did not count as Italian cuisine.
Danny and Lindsay had managed to get out of the lab promptly so had already changed, seated and ordered their meals by the time that Mac and Stella had entered the restaurant, still in the clothes that they'd worn to work because Gerrard was on his back again so, in order to keep their reservation, they didn't have time to get changed.
Still, Danny and Lindsay didn't see them as they were seated the opposite side of the restaurant and Mac and Stella (having now dropped back into being a couple as they were outside of work) were too besotted with each other to notice who was sitting the other side of the room.
Nevertheless, Mac and Stella had been seated right near to the toilets and so when Lindsay went to re-apply her make up just before dessert, she saw the two people she least expected to be on a date. Of course, she was far too polite to interrupt them, but as soon as she returned to the table, she was desperate to tell Danny and would have done if it wasn't for what Danny did next. As soon as she sat down, Danny started to speak, or rather mutter, whilst looking decidedly pale "Lindsay, we both know that we've been through some hard times…"
"What are you doing, Danny?" Lindsay said, as she couldn't quite hear what he was saying and could see him getting more and more nervous. For all she knew, he was going to break up with her again, and on Valentine's Day too. As she thought this, tears started to form in her eyes and Danny instantly knew what she was thinking. The speech that he had planned for weeks went out of the window as he got down on one knee by the table and got out his grandmother's engagement ring.
"Montana, will you…" he started to say before being cut off by Lindsay saying rather too loudly for a restaurant "yes, of course, I love you" in between sobs (now of happiness).
This of course meant that Mac and Stella, along with the rest of the restaurant, heard the proposal. Whilst Stella looked shocked at the fact that Danny and Lindsay were in the same restaurant and so the secret relationship would probably now not be a secret anymore, Mac just grinned and said "I think we should go congratulate them, don't you think?"
However, by the time that they had got round to Danny and Lindsay's table, the couple were seemingly in the middle of a make out session so when they broke up, Danny looked just like a naughty schoolboy.
"Hey, I was right all along, love could happen to Danny Messer," Mac said, half laughing, "congratulations."
"Are you two spying on me?" was Danny's reaction, in his typical Italian jokey manner.
"Erm, well…" even Stella struggled to come up with a reaction.
"Danny, you're a CSI, work it out" Lindsay butted in
There was all of about a two second pause before Danny exclaimed "OH. MY. GOODNESS. You two- you're, you're…"
"… Together?" Mac answered. Danny nodded.
"So, are you?" Lindsay screeched. Even though she already knew the answer, she still wanted to hear it from the horse's mouth.
"Well, erm, yes actually" Stella replied.
"Oh, how long?" Now Lindsay was in full gossip mode.
"First of all let me see the ring." Stella demanded before Lindsay held out her left hand for Stella to gawp over.
Meanwhile Mac and Danny were having a chat mano a mano.
"You know, I can see it in her eyes, you've made her the happiest woman alive today Danny, even if you were once adamant that you didn't do love."
"Don't go off subject, Mac, how on earth did you keep THAT a secret?"
"Guess my CSIs aren't as good as I thought they were."
"I resent that, man, it hurt me deep inside"
"I'm sure it did, somewhere way down deep inside." Stella interrupted after she'd finished examining the ring.
Sorry this was a bit Danatana centric, future chapters will have more Smacked, I promise so please R&R