Jane and Mac walked towards the crime lab. They stopped a street before and Mac said,

"I managed to get you your job back," Jane smiled appreciatively. "I'm sorry this had to happen to

you." Jane looked down and up again.

"It's not your fault, you didn't know my brother was going to be involved in one of your cases." Mac

nodded. They were quite close.

"Thank you for getting me through this Mac," said Jane gratefully. "I could never have done this

without you.

Mac smiled. Jane took a step forward hesitantly, now their mouths were so close together they could

feel each other's breath, and began;

"Mac, would you…" she didn't get any further because at that moment the air was filled with sirens

and police cars screeched into view. The officers tumbled out of the cars and pointed their guns at

Jane. A voice bellowed out over a megaphone;

"NYPD, put your hands in the air!" There was silence in which Mac and Jane looked around in

confusion. Stella stepped through the gap between two cars holding the megaphone.

"All right DNA lady, move away from Detective Taylor!" Silence again. Stella looked meaningfully at

Jane. "I mean it!" she yelled before handing the megaphone to Flack. She pulled out her gun and held

it up at Jane. Flack cleared his throat and yelled down the megaphone.

"Move away from Detective Taylor missus! Put your hands in the air where I can see them and back

off!" Jane stared in disbelief at Mac who turned and stared in disbelief right back at her. Flack

looked at Stella who nodded and started moving forwards. The other officers followed suite. Flack

cleared his throat again.

"Right, this is your last warning! Put your hands in the air, now!" Jane put her hands in the air and

moved away from Mac. Danny appeared from nowhere and handcuffed her hands behind her back,

while Stella kept the gun pointed at her. When Jane's hands were securely behind her back, Stella

straightened up and put her gun back in its holster.

"All right, Jane," said Stella sneeringly. "You're under arrest for the intent of asking Detective Taylor

out on a date when you know perfectly well he belongs to me. Add to that the felony of being so

close you could feel his breath and that gets you about 20 years by which time I should be married to

Mac and living far away with three children, Steld, Macarina and Stac. You have the right to remain

silent, anything you say can and definitely will be used against you in a court of law." Stella nodded to

Danny and Flack. "Take her away."

Jane was gobsmacked. Literally because Aiden also appeared form nowhere, smacked her gob and

promptly disappeared again. Stella smiled as Jane was led away and turned back to find Mac staring

at her with the really adorable cute angry look he puts on sometimes across his rugged features! (i.e.

face.)

"What?" she asked innocently.

"What the hell was that for! Jane's done nothing!" Mac said incredulously. Stella shrugged.

"Sorry," she said looking at the ground. "Sure she's done nothing, she almost asked you out!" she

hissed under her breath. Mac was too busy being incredulous and cute to notice. There was an angry

silence on the behalf of Mac between them for a while.

"Was she really going to ask me out?" Stella looked up at Mac who was looking at her as if begging

her to say no.

"Well," Stella pondered her words. "We received intelligence from a very reliable source about the

heat radiation that kept on coming off from Jane whenever you were around. I had Adam and Danny

catch and analyse it and it was found to contain traces of lustium maximaimius." Mac stared at her

questioningly. Stella spread her hands. "Lust, basically, though it did contain traces of amoroious

minimaimius. We thought it was best to get you out of the situation as quickly as possible when we

were tipped off a couple of minutes ago, since you didn't know what was about to happen you

wouldn't be able to call for backup, so we did instead." Mac nodded.

"Thanks, Stella." he said a smile spreading across his face.

"No problem." Stella smiled back. " That's what partners do, look out for each other." Mac nodded

again. Stella indicated the car.

"Wanna lift?" Mac nodded, again. They started walking to the car when Mac remarked;

"You realise the crime lab's only just around the corner?" Stella looked guilty.

"Stella." said Mac in his tell-me-or-you-are-so-going-to-get-it-whether-I-have-a-crush-on-you–or-

not really-cute –voice.

"All right, the cars were for dramatic effect." Mac shook his head at her fondly.

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