A/N: These plot bunnies just don't know when to stop. I'm glad it's summer! I'm writing this after reading both Madison Bellows' and Aphina's Flack/OC stories. Kinda, one after the other seeing as I love Gus(Madison Bellows) and I love Carmen(Aphina) The two of you both rock and the characters too! I want to give a big thank you to all of you who've supported me through my writers block and my constant stream of new stories. I have plot bunnies running in and out of my head reproducing at will. I swear, one more multi-chapter idea and I'm gonna blow! Anyway, I hope you like the story!!

Disclaimer: I'll do this, just cause I should. I-don't-own-CSI-NY-or-any-characters. *passes out. Looks up after reawakening* I shouldn't hyperventilate again, should I?

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Miss Independent

Miss Self Sufficient

Miss Keep Your Distance

Miss Unafraid

Miss Outta My Way

Miss Don't Let A Man Interfere

Miss On Her Own

Miss Almost Grown

Miss Never Let A Man Help Her Off Her Throne

Kelly Clarkson- Miss Independent

Caetlynn's hands brushed the bookshelves to her right as she made her way through the New York bookstore. After her move from Atlanta she hadn't a clue where anything was. Her impaired vision only worsened because of the grogginess that ensued after a two hour and fifteen minute long plane ride in the early hours of the morning. Caetlynn was blind in one eye and had tried every surgery known to man in Atlanta, and everything made it worse. She was looking for the adult/older teen novels, which were amazingly hard to find. After she had managed to find the right aisle, she walked down and, unbeknownst to her, a man came up to her blind spot.

"Miss? Can I help you?" He asked, tapping her on the shoulder.

She jumped because she couldn't see him coming. Her hands went to her sides as she stood tall and turned. She was surprised to see a normal man, nothing off at all about him, in a suit and tie, with a copy of War and Peace in his and along with a couple of novels more geared towards males. "Oh! No, I don't I was just looking for Wuthering Heights. My old copy was lost to a water main break back in Atlanta. Um, hi. I'm Caetlynn Messer." She extended her right hand towards the man so her left eye could wander and she would be able to see.

"Hi, I'm Don Flack, I actually happen to know a guy named Danny Messer. Any relation?" Don asked, shaking her extended hand.

"Actually, I'm his half sister. As well as a woman's named Stella Bonsera, I think." She noticed the NYPD badge attached to his hip. "NYPD?" She asked.

"Yeah, Detective, actually." He brought his hand back to his side. "I actually know Stella Bonasera though, I can't explain how the two of them could even be related in the slightest."

"Well, Stella's dad is my dad and Danny's mom, you must know her, had an affair with him and, boom, I'm born." She said, using her wild hand gestures.

"Hmm, for some reason I can see Mama Messer doing that. Now, I though Stella's biological father was greek?" He asked.

"He is, was. He died last year. After the water main break, I moved here. I recently realized I had lost basically every single book I owned to the break. I went down to see if there was anything left, and there wasn't. The bookstores in the area were all shut down and I had to come back here. This is home now." She explained as she looked at her feet.

"Well, if I can help with anything..." He trailed off looking down at his watch. "Oh crud, my shift starts in twenty!" He exclaimed as he rushed past.

Caetlynn grabbed his hands as she heard him whoosh past her right ear. "Hold on Don." She grabbed a pen out of her pocket and grabbed her card from her purse. " Call me at this number if you want to talk or something. I haven't really gotten to know anyone and it's been a tough two months."

"You've only been here two months? Have you done any touristing?" Don asked, suddenly very intrigued.

"Er... no. Not like I can see much anyhow." She mumbled. He looked at her, confusion spreading across his face. "I'm blind in one eye, blurred vision in the other. I can identify most letters, numbers, words and shapes. I saw your shield and immediately your attire and facial expressions clicked with police officer." She explained.

His eyes widened. "I'm so sor-"

"Save the sympathy for someone who cares. I got enough of it as a child." She said.

"Wow. You hold your own well. I can see how you're a Messer and a Bonasera."

"Yeah." The pair walked to the checkout of the bookstore and paid for their books.

"So...hmmm. Okay, do you want to meet your half brother and sister?" He asked as he walked towards his car, parked in front of her bike.

"Uhhh, DUH!" She said, sounding more like a 12 year old than a 25 year old.

"Okay then. Follow me on your bike. Lord only knows you need it." He joked.

She smacked his arm. "Don't screw with a half blind girl's head. Lord only knows YOU don't need a beating."

"Just get on the bike and follow me. We're going to the crime lab!" He exclaimed and got into his car.

She followed him, thankful that the roads were mostly clear to her right. Don would wave a hand at her when she got too close to a curb or a person was behind her. When they made it to the crime lab, she pulled her helmet off and shook out her blond curly hair and her blue-green eyes sparkled wildly.

"So, I bet you wanna know what we're doing here?" Don quipped as they walked up to the building.

She was basically speechless so she nodded her head furiously, curls bouncing up and down.

"Okay, calm down before you snap your neck. Your half sister and brother are on the 35th floor. They're both two of my best friends so I'll take you up there. You better thank the heavens above that the sweet receptionist is in tonight." He said as they walked in. He pushed her to the reception desk . "Hey Cassie, I need a visitor's pass for this girl. She's going up with me to the lab." He said and his bright turquoise eyes flashed with completely fake passion as the girl handed over the pass without a word.

"Don!" Caetlynn said as the couple stepped into the elevator.

"What? I wasn't given impressive good looks for nothing, peach." He said patting her cheek playfully.

"Oh, shut it, pompous prat." She teased.

"Ugh! I am appalled!" He imitated her almost perfectly, drawl and all.

"I ain't kiddin' bub!" She said as the elevator doors opened to the wide expanse of glass walled offices. "Um, are we on the right floor?" She asked as she saw no hustle and bustle of the labs back home.

"Yeah, everyone's probably in the break room. C'mon, let's find 'em." He said as he snuck around a glass wall to a room where everyone's backs were turned to them. "Hey guys!" He yelled and everyone jumped.

"Flack! Don't do that!!!" A red headed man said as he tried to move himself from the floor, seeing as he had freaked out the most.

"A'ight, a'ight. I brought someone with me guys. I met her at the bookstore, and before you say anything, yes, I can read and so can she." He said defensively. Caetlynn's heart swelled in her chest. "Caetlynn! C'mere and meet the team!" He yelled.

She walked in timidly. "Hi. I'm Caetlynn Messer. Before you ask questions, I am Stella Bonasera and Danny Messer's half sister." She said, her scared facial features resembling that of Stella's and her body build matching more to Danny.

"Uh, how? Flack, this better not be some freaking sick joke!" Stella snarled as she walked up to the taller Detective and poked her finger into his hard chest.

"It isn't! I swear! You can even run those freaky DNA tests! I'm not lyin'!" He yelled.

Danny finally broke his own silence. "Who?"

"What-what do you mean?" Caetlynn asked.

"Which of my parents had the affair?!" He screamed.

She winced and took a step backwards. "Mom. Your mom. My mom. Stella's dad after her mom died. My dad." She explained as she backed up towards Flack. When she bumped into him, he put his hands on her broad shoulders. "Dad-dad told me on his death bed last year." She said looking back at her feet as her tears threatened to spill over.

"I just-she-Stella-my - ACK!" Danny exclaimed and left the room, a petite blonde woman following close behind him.

"I di-didn't me-mean to-to do this!" Caetlynn exclaimed as her emotions overtook her and Stella approached her from her blindside. She touched her on the shoulder and Caetlynn jumped toward Flack again and turned so her left eye could make out the blurry shape of a woman who looked a lot like her. "Oh, Stella." She said as she touched her chest softly trying to calm her heart down.

"Why'd you freak like that, just then? You could've clearly seen me using your peripherals." Stella said.

"I'm blind in my right eye and can't see too well out of the left." Caetlynn explained for the second time that night.

"Oh, well I'll remember that. I just want to know, what was dad like? Was he sweet? Was he Greek like my mom?!" She asked, excitement and curiosity lighting her olive green eyes.

"He was the greatest. He never yelled unless I did something completely and utterly wrong or against his super strict rules. He was Greek. He'd yell at me in Greek and sang to me when I was little too. Stella, you would've loved him." Caetlynn said with a heavy sigh.

"I can tell. Did he ever talk about me or my mom?" Stella asked.

"Yeah actually. He talked about how he tried so hard to take you back to Greece but, the orphanage wouldn't let him take you. He said he was so sad that he moved but he couldn't bring himself to move back to Greece so he moved to Atlanta. That's where he met my momma. She was on a separation retreat and she thought it was love at first sight. Apparently so did he. Thing went from one to the other and I'm born ten months after they met. She left after she had me and dad never met anyone else. I was an only child. Well kind of and dad was a single parent. He worked two jobs and when I turned twelve the local bookstore hired me to work so I could bring money too. He died from a bullet wound. He was shot working at his construction job. See, the thing was, I was 23 at the time and he was 60. He didn't need to work anymore, but he did." Caetlynn said, finding nothing but emptiness and sadness in her voice as she tried not to make eye contact with her half sister.

"Caet, I'm here to help. Tell me, how do you spell your name?" Stella asked.

"C-A-E-T-L-Y-N-N. Why?"

"Would you like to share an apartment with me since we share DNA and I doubt Lindsay will let you within a mile radius of Danny. I mean, you must still be in a hotel or an inn, or renting some cheap shack somewhere." Stella rambled.

"Slow down girl. Yes, I'd love to share an apartment with you. Who is Lindsay, and I'm renting a tiny, one room condo." Caetlynn said.

"Lindsay is a good friend who seems to be changing in the slightest these past months. She's Danny's girlfriend. I wanna know something else, are you going to change your name to Bonasera or are you going to keep it Messer. Just 'cause, here, you say Messer and people attack. You say Bonasera they take notice of my mild celeb status and walk off." Stella said with a shrug.

"Dad actually only made me keep my mother's name because Bonasera gets a lot of attention in Atlanta because of his construction rep. There was a lot of construction in a couple of counties to the north, where I went to school. Got a master's in Forensics and ended up working in the Atlanta PD crime lab as a lab tech. I made a couple of friends down there. One girl, her name was Abi, spelled A-B-I, worked her ass off to get a promotion, didn't get it and moved here to work as a professor. I'm surprised her file hasn't made it's way onto your supervisor's desk." Caetlynn said, laughing.

Flack watched the half sisters interact. He smiled as Caetlynn's solemn expression turned to one of happiness as she recounted a friend from her old lab. Caetlynn came bounding over to him.

"Hey Don!" She said, Stella was hot on her heels.

"I'm taking her back to her place so she can grab her stuff. It seems as though, I get a roommate!" Stella said excitedly. The two women jumped up and down.

Mac chose that point to walk into the break room. "What the hell is going on?" He asked as he walked towards Flack.

"It seems as though I've found Stella and Danny's half sister." Flack said.

"Both of them?" Mac asked, confused.

"Yeah, turns out the Danny's mom went on a separation retreat when he was five and stayed for ten months. In that ten months she met and had Caetlynn with Stella's disappearing father. He died last year and Caetlynn moved up here two months ago when a water main break flooded her house and she ended up with nothing." Don told the older man.

"I don't think I've ever seen Stella that happy before. Except when we learned who her mother was and she wasn't that happy. She actually broke down." Mac confided in the younger man, looking him in the eye, sea green boring into cornflower blue.

"That's good. Did you hear what Caet said about her friend?"

"Yeah actually. I hired her today. She's on duty tomorrow." Mac said.

"Awesome. I was wondering, if I can talk her into it, would you consider hiring a lab rat since Adam is about to become a CSI?" Flack asked, eyes looking at Mac pleadingly.

"If you can get her to call her old supervisor and get his recommendation, I'd be happy to have her on the team." Mac said.

"Great. Well, Stella is taking Caetlynn to go get her stuff so it looks like someone's got to take her bike to her tonight or in the morning." Don said staring back at the women who were making their way into the hall. When they stepped out the door, a screech interrupted all the chatter in the room.

"Daniel Messer! You will NOT, I repeat, NOT, treat me that way! I told you I was getting the job in Albany because I wanted to get out of here." Lindsay Monroe yelled.

"Lindsay, I cannot believe you put my name in, just so I could be with you! What about my half sister? And Louie? And my family?! I belong here. If you're leaving, fine by me!" Danny shot back.

It was so quiet that you could here Lindsay's heels clicking and the ding of the elevator as she left the lab for good.

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A/N: To quote Scooby -Doo, "Ruh-Roh!" I leave you cliffy and with no pairing in the first chapter?! How odd of me!

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