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This all takes place some time after Lindsay leaves for Montana. After the trial she decides to stay there and not return to NY. Sheldon Hawkes, the ME has now replaced her as a CSI. Danny was upset for a while, especially since he went out there to be with her, but they talked it out and after a few weeks of moping, he decided that he was no use to anyone in such a depressing state and started to move on, that plus he got one of those talks from Mac. After that he knew he had to get his life back on track. He's still guarded, a few walls built up but he's getting there.
Michelle Spencer is a 5'4 brunette with medium length brown slightly wavy hair, lightly olive/tan skin, brown eyes. ½ Greek and ½ mix of a bunch of other European countries. Grew up in Brooklyn, best friends with Don Flack Jr., both went to college together and families have been friends since they were babies. After graduating top five of her class at the police academy she were offered one of the head CSI positions in Albany, NY where she worked for three more years. But after an incident at a crime scene she transferred back to the city as a homicide detective.
Michelle's hair was down, slightly wavy, she were wearing black dress pants, heels and a burgundy button down. It was pretty early, around 7am, and yet the precinct was crowded people rushing around everywhere. Michelle wasn't even supposed to be in today but apparently there was some kind of crime explosion the past week and everyone was needed, even if it meant just sitting around and doing paper work. Michelle knew exactly who she was looking for, about six foot tall, dark hair, blue-eyed Detective Don Flack Jr. She were supposed to be shadowing him for the week, despite being the same ranking, it was "city protocol" as the lieutenant had explained to her this morning. She had tried to get a hold of Don for weeks, Michelle had mentioned she was moving back to the city, but never really got any further, like the whole thing about working with him. Apparently he was a hard guy to get a hold of, Michelle just hoped he got at least one of her messages.
"Michelle? Michelle Spencer?!"
She turned abruptly at the sound of her name. "CJ?" Michelle hugged the detective. "How are you?"
"Good! And you? What are you doing here Miss Albany?" he teased.
"I'm working here now. Missed the city too much. Anyway, have you seen Flack?"
"So you're the newb? That's fantastic! It'll be like having the whole academy gang back together. And Flack…hmm…he was called out to a scene yesterday and has been working on it ever since. He's probably across at the crime lab"
"Thanks CJ! I'll see you later"
"No prob! Hey we gotta go out for drinks later." He shouted back at Michelle as he walked towards his desk and she headed for the lab.
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"Excuse me, is a Detective Flack here?" she asked the receptionist
"Third floor, Chem Lab."
"thanks"
When Michelle got to the third floor she just stood outside the elevator, completely lost. "this place is like a freaking maze" she mumbled trying to decide which direction would be the most productive.
"Looking for something?"
Michelle jumped, lost in her own thoughts, the voice startled her. "More like someone actually. I heard he was here, Detective Don Flack?"
"Ahh Flack, you must be the new girl."
She laughed. "It seems my reputation precedes me, Detective Michelle Spencer" Michelle smiled giving him her hand.
"Detective Mac Taylor, head CSI." He responded, returning the gesture. "You wouldn't happen to be the same Detective Spencer from the Upstate Crime Lab?"
"Actually I would. But now I'm here and working homicide with you 'city folk'"
He smiled. "Flack should be in Danny's office, they're just wrapping up a case. I'll take you."
"Thanks." They continued the conversation through the lab until they reached a glass office which contained two men. One clearly Don, who was far too big for the chair and table hunched uncomfortably over some papers, the other was shorter, dirty blonde, and had glasses, he sat chin in his hand, carefully scanning the material in front of him. Mac opened the door and knocked.
"Don, you have a visitor."
"Huh? Oh, uh ok Mac, who is it?" he said not looking up from his papers
"It's a Detective Spencer." At the mention of the name Flack's head shot up.
"Miche?"
Michelle smiled at the use of his nickname for her "Hey, Don" was all she could get out before he crushed her with a hug.
"What are you doing here? It's not a holiday?" he joked
"I'm the newb"
"You're the newb?"
"Yes, I'm the newb." Michelle confirmed again laughing.
"But…what? How? Michelle Spencer, explain." He scolded.
"I left you a bunch of messages, it turns out you're not that easy to track down there Donny".
He smiled sheepishly, rubbing the back if his head with his hand "Big case, what can I say?"
"Well, I have some paperwork of my own to get done. Spencer, you're always welcome to join the lab, if you ever decide to come back to the world of CSIs, I know we'd love to have you."
"Thank you, Detective Taylor, I might take you up on that. Sometimes I just have to urge to play with chemicals."
"Anytime, and please call me Mac. Oh and Danny, when you're done with this, the Menendez case work needs one more going over, before it gets sent to the DA's."
"You got it Mac." Michelle had almost forgotten someone else was there, his thick NY accent drew her in, made her curious and she decided to get a better look at him. He was a little bit on the shorter side for a guy, but not by much. Michelle could tell he was kinda muscular, and toned, his slightly snug green shirt showed it off. He wasn't too big though, just the right size for his body. And he had some pretty blue eyes hidden slightly behind his glasses. Needless to say, he was pretty attractive.
"Miche, this is Detective Danny Messer, CSI. Messer, this is Detective Michelle Spencer, she used to be one of the head CSI's in Albany and is now apparently working homicide with me." Don said introducing the two of you.
"Pleased to meet ya" Danny smiled, extending his hand.
"Likewise" she said returning the smile and shaking his hand.
"Well, it looks like I have to show Miche here around, you can handle all this right Messer?" The look on Danny's face said otherwise.
"Oh come on now Flack, I know you hate paperwork, but really using me as an excuse, now? Plus the L-T gave me a tour this morning." Danny smirked as a defeated Don sighed and sat back in the chair.
"So much for loyalty Spencer."
Michelle laughed. "I also noticed you had an obscene amount of paper files on your desk, if you want I can go through them while you do this?"
"Seriously?"
"Yeah, sure Flack. I know it'll take you a month to get through, plus I can't do anything without you this week, I'm shadowing you, remember? Plus I know all the shortcuts."
"There are shortcuts to paperwork?" Danny asked.
"Yeah, there's all sorts of ways to import information from the evidence and other databases so you don't have to spend time retyping all the basic factual stuff."
"Really?" Flack asked
"Really, really. If I decide I like you boys enough, maybe I'll show ya"
"Well, I'm just naturally likeable, Flack here, that's another story." Danny mused.
"Ha ha ha….you're a regular old comedian today aren't you Messer?" Flack retorted.
"Well as much as I'd love to stay I have the Everest of all mounds of paperwork to get through." Michelle said walking towards the door. "Nice meeting you Danny, I'm sure I'll be seeing you around."
He smiled, "Can't get rid of me now."
"Don, I'll see you back at your desk whenever you finish, then again I'll probably finish first…so I'll just see meet you back here" she laughed and winked at Danny.
"What is this, rag on Flack day? Get outta here Spencer, before I start telling embarrassing college stories!"
"And with that, I'm definitely gone" Michelle said making a quick exit for the elevator.
"I think she and I are gonna get along real well" Danny said as he watched her disappear into the elevator. "So how do you know her again Flack?" he asked turning back to his colleague, trying to remember if he had mentioned her before.
"You know all those pictures I have with my brothers and a girl, or me and a girl that you guys keep asking about, and I just keep saying it's my cousin?" Danny nodded vaguely remembering him and the boys teasing Don about how hot his relative was. "Well that's Michelle…she's not really related to me by blood or anything, but we've known each other forever. Our families are really close, her uncle and my dad we partners, her dad and brother are both big in the DA's, and her other brother is one of the publicists for the precinct actually, and we both were at the academy together."
"Ahh, gotcha……So you two ever uh….you know?"
"Me and Miche? Ha, yeah…for like a week right after highschool ended. It was one of those everyone thought we should date things, so we decided to try it out. It was really weird, kinda like dating a relative, so we ended it pretty quickly, no harm done. Our moms were pretty upset about it though." Don laughed. "Alright lets get back to this, because if she finishes before I do, I'll never hear the end of it."
Danny nodded and they got back to work.
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About two hours later you stretched her arms out over her head, sore from all the typing. Haphazardly tossing the last case folder on top of the massive stack she had just gone through, Michelle mentally swore that if she got carpel tunnel Don was in some serious trouble. He had also not shown up back at his desk, figuring he still hadn't finished she decided to see if he and Danny wanted to take a lunch break. As she were heading back to the 3rd floor of the lab, Danny walked out of the elevator.
"Hey there newbie! Don't tell me you're done already?"
"Yup, I was just coming to see if you guys wanted to take a break for lunch? Im guessing you guys are still working." She said with a smile
"I finished my part, actually. Flack, however, is still going….I'm gonna go grab a slice, wanna come with?"
"Sure"
After they ordered and got theirr pizza, as well as a few slices for Don, Michelle and Danny decided to enjoy the weather and eat outside before heading back to work.
"So, Michelle Spencer, tell me about yourself" Danny said in between bites.
"Well, Daniel Messer, what do you wanna know?"
"Hmmm, just a summary will do for now I guess"
"Ok, well I'm 27, female, although if you ask Flack, CJ or any of my/their brothers, they'll deny it, about 5'4 on a good day. I grew up in Brooklyn, and Don and I have known each other since we were babies, his dad and my uncle were partners and they worked with my dad who's a DA and our mom's
are really close. I used to be one of the head CSI's in Albany, but I got into incident on a scene, explosion and it ruined the vision in my left eye, so I had surgery, got contacts that whole deal. And it made me realize that I missed the city and my family, they had an opening in homicide, so here I am….Oh and I have a dog too." Danny smiled slightly and nodded, absorbing the large amount of info she had just thrown at him.
"So did you uh-leave anyone behind back in Albany?"
"what, you mean like a boyfriend?" he shrugged "Nope, no time for one. Plus those country boys can't handle a city girl like me." Michelle said with a wink.
"It's definitely gonna be fun working with you newbie." Danny laughed.
"What can I say? I try. Be warned though, I can use awful puns and make bad jokes. And sometimes, I'm even more sarcastic than Flack."
"Not possible. But as for the bad jokes and puns, hang out with me for a week, I'll get it out of your system."
"We'll see Messer, we'll see….I guess we should get back before Don either dies from starvation or sends out a squad looking for us." She said standing up from the bench they were both sitting on.
"Oh please, you just wanna gloat that you finished before him"
"Ok, maybe that too." Danny just laughed and followed Michelle back into the building.