Don Flack was staring up at the roster board whistling a jaunty tune; he was a bit surprised that he was hang over free this morning to be honest, after the night that he and boys had put in. A few beers watching the game had quickly become a lot of alcohol and funny kind of confessional.

"What are you up detective??" the voice seemed to have snuck up behind him.

"Nothing" he said a bit too quickly as he spun to face Jessica Angell.

"Hmmm well... "She didn't look convinced but "...Anyway we've got a DB, let's go"

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Later that day they were over at the lab, going through the case with the CSI's. Flack was talking to Messer when he looked up and spotted Ross watching Angell talking to Kendel.

"Yo Ross!! Got a second??" Flack shouted across the lab earning him a few disgruntled looks.

Adam Ross seemed to take moment to join everyone else back down on planted earth, then walked over to Messer and Flack. "Yeah sure guys, what's up?? I'm telling you my head was banging this morning!! That'll teach me to come over to yours on a school night"

"Haha! Yeah, so anyway about that. I found out something interesting this morning. Angell has tonight off" Wiggling his eyebrows for emphasis.

Adam looked over to where Angell was now talking to Stella, "You know guys I was joking last night when I said I liked her..."

"Ah ha yeah, "Danny Messer looked at Adam with a look of Pity... "Just go ask her to dinner!"

"Yeah, you won't know if you don't ask" Flack puts in.

"Look at her! Why would she even look at me!" At their blank stares he says"What would I even say??" a slight edge of panic in his voice and his big eyes.

"You go over there and say 'hey Jess how are you?' and she'll respond along the lines of 'Oh hey Adam I'm good, you?' with a smile she seems to use only with you. Then you say 'so I was wondering if you'd let me take you to dinner?' or somthing along those lines then you smile at her until she says yes" ha-ha...The blue eyed detectives laugh seemed to bellow in the now quite lab.

"Ok, 'hey Jess', I can manage that..." Adam mumbles to himself as he walked away from the sound of Flack and Messer's laughing.

"You know you could take your own advice there Flack! You'll never know if you don't ask."

"Shut up Messer!" Flack wonders off "I'm out in the field if you need me."

Danny shakes his head with a tsk then leans back in to what he was doing before the interruption, also to try and keep himself from staring at Adam and Angell.

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Angell headed toward the lift on her way back out, she knew she'd been stalling, hoping she'd see him; she was like a school girl with a crush. But he was so cute and it tended to perk her day up when she saw him, if he'd smile at her with that shy smile of his but oh well... back to the real world. There are criminals to catch.

"Hey Jess wait up a second." Adam jogged towards her. He was one of the few people she knew who called her Jess.

\She turned to him. Smiling the brightest of smiles, it blew him away sometimes, that smile. "Hi Adam, what's up?"

"Erm... How are you?" Nerves were going to get the better of him again. Why did he think he could do this?? Why would she say yes??

"Good. Good. You?? "

"Yeah good" They both looked at each other then at the floor.

"That's real good Ross I'll catch you later"

"Yeah sure." Adam kicked himself as he went to walk back "no wait... would you have dinner with me? Maybe tonight?? Like a Date??" there he'd asked. Adam was full of fear he realised he'd actually just asked Jessica Angell out on a date!!

"I love too. Pick me up at 7." With a wicked grin she stepped in to the lift.

Adam did a little victory kind of dance then went back to work.

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Beep Beep.

To: Don Flack

From: Adam Ross

She said yes!! She said Yes!! Going for dinner tonight. If you don't ask you'll never know!

"Anyone I know??" Stella asked.

"Oh just Ross, we watched the game over at mine last night, he's still feeling a bit rough this morning" Don looked up at Stella, man, she had a face!

"It's nice that you guys took him under your wings, I was a bit worried for him at first. You two can be a pair of trouble makers... but you seem to be getting along just fine" The mothering side of Stella worried for Adam. He was such a nice boy, they all were and he'd not had the best of upbringings. Though he didn't dwell on it, it had left him a little shy and socially awkward. Something Flack and Messer were not!

"Ross is a funny guy, a bit of a geek sometimes but you know we all have our own inner geek." Flack felt defensive of Ross. Which was odd, as Stella hadn't said anything mean. Plus this was Stella.

"So anyway Stell. What you got planned for your weekend off??" Flack was hoping she didn't mention any dates. He loved being her friend and all but most of the time he was waiting for some kind of sign from her she wouldn't knock him back if he asked her out. "We're all still wondering how you managed to scam that anyway"

Stella laughed in a way Flack found hot. "I didn't scam anything; I was owed the time off…" Stella was repeating a little mantra in her head. He's too young for you. You work together. He doesnt look at you that way. You'll lose a friend. He's too young for you. Etc etc. But then he smiled at her and she forgot what she was thinking let alone saying. "Anyway I was just planning on a little retail therapy with some girlfriends then a few glasses of wine on Saturday, and a blissful day of pampering on Sunday."

"No plans for tonight?" Flack wanted to kick himself he doesn't need to hear about her dates.

"No maybe a soak in the bath, watch a movie eat something really bad for me..." Stella felt a little worried he would think her an old maid at her lack of date so had decided to leave tonight out...

"Maybe I could bring over some Chinese when I get off shift and we could watch a movie??" He hoped that sounded friendly rather than asking for a date. Neither of them wanted to go through her knocking him back.

"Don't have a date for tonight? I thought you were seeing that blond girl"

"Nah we decided to call it quits a while back"

"That's a shame she seemed nice" for an air head.

"Well we knew early on we weren't the one for each other... "

"Maybe if you didn't look for giraffes you'd have better luck finding her... the one" Stella wished they could get off this...

"Their not giraffes Stell... well... "Then Flack laughed "Jeez I'm starving are we going to stop for food on this trek?!" and everything was ok again.

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Danny and Lindsey were out reprocessing a scene they had already gone over twice. Danny was sure they were missing something.

"So my parents were asking if we wanted to go spend some time with them over the holidays." Lindsey said while walking around the outside of the room torch pointing at the floor so she missed the flinch that Danny's body made involuntarily.

"Oh erm, I was looking forward to maybe just the 2 off us this year?? Maybe a few friends for dinner but just us for the most part"

"Well it's still a while away yet, so we'll have a think. We'll need to ask Mac for the time off if that's what we're going to do." Lindsey looked up at him. "So how come you guys didn't ask Hawkes to your little party last night??"

"Why would we do that?" Danny asked actually perplexed. "He doesn't enjoy watching sports or drinking, particularly"

"Well i just think you could have asked him, now he probably feels like an outsider which is a horrible feeling" Lindsey felt for Hawkes, obviously enough to mention it. But Danny, Flack and Adam seemed to have there little musketeer thing going on. What could she do about it? Nada! "I think he's got a thing for Angell"

Danny stopped in his tracks and looked up at her then, "Hawkes??"

"Yeah, think there's a chance she might like him too?? Maybe you could get Flack to dig around?? Are you sure he hasn't by the way?? They seem pretty close?"

"Oh Montana. You know nothing!"

"Well tell me""

"Cant. Sorry guy code!!" Danny got back on with serching the floor.

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