This is set in Season 7, after PARTY DOWN

The main characters and this show do not belong to me.

These characters- Roland Gwynn, Earnest Finnegan, Maggie Boggs, Josh Beggars, Carol Jensen, Robert Neilson, Steven Dennis, Marian Robbs, Joanie Beggars, Travis Willows, Greg Jensen, and Leslie Graves - belong to me.

Monday, February 8th-

Jo was in her office when Danny walked in.

"Well, I'm finished for the day and I'm going to head on home with Lindsay."

"Okay, see you tomorrow. Good night," Jo said.

"Night," Danny said as he left for the locker room. Lindsay met him at the lobby.

Jo got up, put her jacket on, took her purse, then turned off the lights and left her office for the elevator. As she walked by, she noticed Mac was still at his desk looking over files while Adam was in his office. After a while, Mac and Adam left for their respective homes.

At Jo's home several hours later-

Jo's kids were in their own beds asleep, while Jo dreamt in a deep slumber in her bed.

"Danville," Jo said as she picked up her cellphone, "Okay, where? I'll meet you there." She hung up and went to a suspect's apartment. She knocked on the door, "NYPD! Open up!" She heard noises then kicked the door down.

"I'm not going to jail!" The man ran and Jo continued to run after him.

"We just need to talk to you!" Jo ran after him.

After a few minutes, they both kept running but it seemed like they were running on ice. The man didn't get farther and Jo couldn't catch up.

"You can't catch me!"

"I will!" Jo's cellphone started to ring.

February 9th, 7:00am-

Jo awoke from her slumber and picked up her cell phone. "Danville. Okay, I'm on my way." She hung up then after she got dressed, she went to the crime scene.

At an alley-

Danny and Sheldon were already taking pictures when Don walked up with Jo.

"What do we have?" Jo asked.

"Fire department was called to a fire and found this. We are tracking down the owner of the car but it might have been stolen," Don said.

"Do you have units at the home of the car owner?" Jo asked as she put her gloves on.

"Yeah. No one is home and neighbors say she was not married. She didn't have kids either," Don then looked around some more.

Jo walked up to Danny who had finished taking pictures of the car. "Have you seen any usable prints?"

"I've collected them but they might be from the driver of the car," Danny said.

Don approached them. "The victim, Marian Robb, has shown up at the hospital and she isn't doing too good."

"Where was she found?" Jo asked as she and Don walked over to Sheldon.

"Behind a store," Don said then walked away to look around some more.

"Any traces?" Jo asked.

"I don't know but I think we need to take the car back and process it more fully there," Sheldon said.

A few minutes later, Sheldon and Danny put the tarp on the burned out car so it could be towed to the police evidence lot. Jo went to the hospital to process Marian for evidence.

At the car lot-

Adam met the team so they could give him what they had collected and he went in the lab to process the evidence. He worked on the fingerprints that Sheldon had taken then after a few minutes he got the results.

"What?" Adam looked at the results then retested the prints again because they showed something that he didn't like and it made him uncomfortable. He rechecked the fingerprint machine to make sure it was working right by doing a control sample and the machine was fine. Adam turned to see Mac walk into his office then he looked over the report again. "Come on, Adam, you are nuts. I'm sure there is a reasonable explanation for this."

Mac was in his office reading over reports when Adam walked in.

"Adam, I thought maybe you'd be helping with the car that was found," Mac said as he looked at Adam who had a scared look.

"Well, I am processing some fingerprints that were collected and um...well...something weird came up. I'm sure there is a perfect explanation for it...and...and...I'm not making any suggestions whatsoever." Adam approached his desk.

"Okay?" Mac looked at him quizzically.

"I doubled checked the analysis, tripled checked it, and made sure the machine was working right and it is..."

"What is the problem with the fingerprints?" Mac asked as he had a strange feeling.

"The car belonging to Marian Robb is the car that was found and is being processed by Danny and Sheldon. She was found behind a store and taken to the hospital, and, well you see...Boss...uh...your fingerprints are on the outside door handle of the car and the trunk."

"I remember helping a woman to her car last night after I got off work. Let me see the file," Mac said.

Jo walked out of the elevator and gave the traces to an assistant at the lab for processing then walked towards Mac's office.

"Sure," Adam gave the file to Mac and Jo walked in.

"Oh, yeah. I remember her." Mac saw her picture.

"Remember who?" Jo asked as she stood near Adam.

"Marian Robb. I saw her and helped her put the groceries in her car last night. Adam was giving me this report that had only two sets of fingerprints, mine and hers."

"Actually, Sheldon hadn't finished processing the fingerprints yet, but he and Danny are still at it," Adam said.

"Oh," Jo said surprised even though she didn't like that Adam went to talk to Mac first. "Adam, if it was Danny's prints or Sheldon's, would you have told them first?"

"Yes, I would," Adam said.

"How did she seem?" Jo asked as she looked at Mac.

"Fine. I was getting out of the car when I saw her struggling putting her things in her trunk. I asked her if she needed any help and she said yes," Mac said.

"I'm going to continue on the other processing," Adam said then he left.

"Mac, don't take this personally but I don't like that Adam went to you when he saw your prints were on the car."

Mac looked at her then sighed, "Yeah. I have to admit, if I was in Adam's shoes, I would have done the same."

"Mac," Jo said disapprovingly.

"You know what this means?" Mac asked.

"You are off this case, Mister."

"That's right." Mac laughed.

Jo left Mac's office and saw Danny and Sheldon.

"Any word on Marian?" Sheldon asked.

"No, but follow me," Jo said as Sheldon and Danny looked at each other confused.

They approached Adam's workstation.

"Got more fingerprints that need to be processed. What kind of fingerprints did we get so far?" Danny asked as Adam jumped a little.

"I'm in trouble now," Adam said.

"Yes, you are. Now, Adam, you, Sheldon, and Danny are under strict orders not to talk to Mac about this case," Jo said firmly.

"What happened?" Sheldon asked.

"Tell them, Adam," Jo said as Adam turned and looked at Sheldon and Danny.

After Adam told him what he found, the men laughed at him. Jo gave them the file then they realized what Adam had said was true. Jo's cellphone rang and she picked it up.

"Danville. Okay, I'll be there." Jo hung up. She said," The victim woke up and doctors say she is ready to talk and Don is meeting me there."

"Danny, Adam, and I will continue working on this case," Sheldon said.

At the hospital, 6pm-

Jo and Don arrived in the room as they saw Marian in the bed. She had a drainage tube in her leg, bruises on her face, and a bandage around her head.

"Marian, I'm Detective Jo Danville and this is Detective Don Flack. We'd like to ask you a few questions, if you don't mind?"

"Sure," Marian said.

"Can you tell us what happened?" Don asked softly.

"Well..." Marian said nervously.