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Stella and Don had been dating for 6 months until one day he broke it off. Stella didn't understand why, but she decided if they couldn't be in a relationship they could at least stay friends. So she agreed to stay friends with him. None of the team had known about their previous relationship and this is why they didn't want them to know, if they had it would've been even more awkward in the lab then it was currently.
It had been about a week and the tension between them had gone down. The team noticed but they didn't want to get into something personal. They noticed the tension getting better so they ignored it.
Stella Lindsay and Danny had been called out to a crime scene. As she was ducking under the tape she noticed Flack, taking statements but also she noticed how he flirted with the women he was interviewing. She quickly looked away before it became obvious that she was staring at the two. She decided to ignore Don all together.
Things were going smoothly until Stella began getting dizzy, and nauseated. She felt it coming up she quickly set down her things.
"Danny take over for me." She rushed out before she ran out of the crime scene area.
"Uh sure Stell. Where are you going?" He shouted after her. This caused Don's attention towards Danny and Stella.
He saw her run off. "Danny where she going?" he saw Danny shrug his shoulder. Lindsay looked at the two guys. She sighed they were clueless. Don and Flack didn't give her much credit on not knowing about their relationship. She knew they had been dating for a while just not sure how long. When the team noticed the tension in the lab, she knew something happened between them and the way they don't look at each other anymore tells Lindsay that they broke up. Knowing it was Don, since she once heard Stella crying but didn't want to ask questions.
"Danny take over for me." She spoke as she ducked under the tape.
"Hey where are all the woman going? Eh? I can't do three jobs," Lindsay ignored him.
"Flack help him."
"Linds!"
She didn't bother commenting she just threw him a look over her shoulder and followed where Stella had ran off to,
She saw her kneeling over and dumping her stomach contents in the grass. "Stell you alright?"
"Yeah Kiddo, just fine, got the flu or something. You should probably get back I wouldn't want to get you sick also."
"Alright, if you need me just shout alright?"
Stella nodded. Lindsay turned to leave until Stella's voiced stopped her. "Um Linds, do you happen to have any napkins or tissues or anything like that, breathe mints would help also."
"I do just give me on second."
She walked back to where she laid down her bag and grabbed a couple tissues and some gum and water for Stella.
"Montana she alright?"
"She's just peachy Danny."
She got back to Stella, and handed her the supplies she got.
"Thanks you're a life savor Lindsay."
"No problem we should probably get back now, Danny's have a hard time getting three jobs done.
Stella laughed and agreed.
They both got back to the crime scene and quickly headed to work this finished within half an hour, since Danny with some help from Flack get most of the evidence done.
"Alright looks like we're all done here, let's head back. " Stella spoke.
They got back into the truck and left the crime scene.
Back at the lab, they left the evidence with Adam. Lindsay and Danny started on some of the evidence, and Stella went into her office to start the report.
Half hour later Danny was knocking on her door. "Hey Stell, the teams heading off for lunch at the diner you coming?"
"Yeah you guys go ahead I'll join you in a bit."
"Alright see yeah then."
Stella let out a breathe she was holding. Should she have really agreed to that after all she's going to have to see him. It hasn't gotten any easier. The hurt in her chest grows when she's next to him, she wants this pain to just go away.
Her phone rang. 1 new text message. She opened it, it was in Greek. Stella, meet me at central park. It was from the professor. She wondered what he wanted she agreed.
She saw Adam heading out.
"Adam are you going out to lunch with the team?"
"Yeah I'm on my way now to the diner."
"good, um can you tell them that something came up and I couldn't join them for lunch. I'll be back after my lunch is over. Alright. "
"Sure Stell. Everything ok?"
"Yeah everything is great."
She waved bye to Adam and headed towards central park. She saw the professor sitting on one of the benches. She walked over to him and greeted him.
"Professor why did you want to meet?"
"Stella there is something you should know. I should've told you this a long time ago."
"What is it?"
"Your father he is um, still alive." Stella was shocked. Hadn't her parents died.
"What?"
"I'm sorry Stella, before your mother died she promised me that your father should never find you. He never did."
"Where is he?"
"He is here, in one of your jails his name is Alexander Abu."
"You lied to me."
"Stella-"
"no you lied to me all of these years, why should I even trust you. You know what professor I have to head back. good bye."
"Stella!"
Stella didn't bother to turn around. She was betrayed by a man she thought of as a father and he lied to her about her family. All these years when she kept asking him about her parents her family. He had lied to her.
A tear slid down her cheek. She needed to get her mind off of what she just found out. She decided to walk around the city for the rest of her half hour. She turned her head and noticed she was across the street from the diner. She was about to cross the street but then she saw Don kiss Jessica Angell his partner. She saw the team smiling at the two.
Don and Jess? Together? They already told the team. They just been broken up for about a week, and he already moved on. He didn't want to tell the team about their relationship she thought she knew why, it looks like she didn't. She guessed he was ashamed of her. After all their age difference.
Stella sighed who would want to be with her anyways. She saw Lindsay looked out the window at her. Stella smiled and quickly wiped her wet cheeks. She waved at her and continued on her way.
"Hey guys." Adam spoke as he walked into the diner, the whole team was already there.
"Hey Adam, have you seen Stella?" Mac asked.
"Uh yeah." he paused. "She told me to tell you that something came up and she wouldn't be able to meet up for lunch."
"Was it about a case?" Danny asked.
"Umm, I don't know she ran off pretty quickly after she checked her phone. Personal I think."
The team let it go, they didn't want to go into Stella's private life.
"So Donny, what happened to that girl you were dating?" Danny asked.
"What?"
"Don't play dumb, you came in every day with a big old grin on your face, now I've been patient for several months you going to tell me or what?"
"There is no one Danny. We recently broke up."
"Why?"
"He met me." Jess jokily spoke.
"Yeah sure did." he laughed, the team laughed except for Lindsay.
"Really?" Danny spoke. "Well why don't you lay one on her."
Don turned and kissed Jess, a quick peck nothing more.
"Aww!" Danny joked.
Lindsay felt someone watching them and turned to look out the window. She saw Stella.
'Oh no.' She thought. 'Stella must've seen the kiss between Don and Angell.' She saw Stella's tear stricken cheeks. She felt awful for her friend. She was probably thinking now that Don had moved on.
She saw Stella waving bye to her and saw her quickly leave. Lindsey sighed she put her head in her hands thinking if she should go after her friend.
"You alright?" Sheldon asked.
"Yeah just getting a headache that's all." She smiled.
They chatted about their recent cases and headed back to the lab.
The team noticed Stella already working in her office on something. They decided not to bother her and quickly got to work.
When Stella had arrived at the crime lab she did some research on the name the professor had given her. She was being blocked by someone. It wouldn't allow her access to his file.
'this is strange' she muttered to herself.
She noticed the team come back from lunch. She sighed and finished some of the paperwork she needed to get done. The evidence on their recent case, wasn't good there was barely anything to work with at the scene.
She felt herself getting nauseated once again. And quickly headed towards the ladies room. She emptied her stomach which there wasn't really that much in there to begin with since she skipped lunch and puked earlier in the morning.
She decided to head to the woman's clinic, to figure out what was going on with her.
She went back on her computer to check why they were blocking her out of his file. She figured out that it was the F.B.I , she just didn't understand why they were blocking her out. She was beginning to get frustrated.
She heard her cell phone beep. She opened it up, 1 text message. She already knew who it was from. The professor, it read.
Stella I'm sorry that I didn't tell you the truth, I just hope one day you will forgive me.
She didn't even bother to say anything, she just chucked her for in one of her desk drawers and left it there. To get her mind off of everything in her personal life, she headed to the lab to get some work done on her and Danny's case. She put her lab coat on and began to work.
She wasn't getting anywhere with the evidence, the perp was very careful to not leave any evidence. She gave up after 2 hours. It worked to get her mind off of her personal life, but for only so long, her shift ended in 1 hour. She walked into her office and grabbed the phone she chucked and put it in her pocket.
She walked into the break room to get a cup of coffee. When she saw the team drinking coffee and laughing. Don and Angell were there too.
'Does she ever leave his side.' Stella thought. Then she remembered all the times when she felt so safe and comfortable just being near Don. She sighed, this was too much stress on her. She took a big gulp of her coffee, and set it on the counter. She rested her hands on there and her back was turned towards the teams table.
She felt her phone ringing. She looked at the caller ID and it was blocked. She had a feeling on who might be calling, she decided to answer.
"Bonasera."
"Stella, I'm so glad that you answered. I'm very sorry."
"Yeah I know your sorry but that doesn't excuse you for lying to me for so long."
"I know Stella, but did you look your father up?"
"I did."
"And?"
"I couldn't access his file, I was being blocked. What did he do?"
"I can not tell you Stella, that is something you must figure out on your own."
She didn't realize that Danny was a couple feet away.
"Are you serious, you can't give me anything. Nothing. You owe me." she sighed. "I need some good news, I'm sick of all these bad things I'm figuring out."
"Stella I can't."
"Fine don't, I'll just figure it out on my own. Good bye" Stella slammed her phone shut, and exhaled the breathe that she was holding.
Stella felt tears welding up in her eyes, she quickly pushed them back and took a big sip of her coffee. She swallowed the lump that was in her throat. She had to get out of there. She was so angry that she wanted to scream cry anything. She noticed someone staring at her she turned to her left and saw Danny about 2 feet away.
She jumped. "Jesus Danny."
"Sorry Stell. Didn't mean to scare you" He chuckled. She smiled back at him.
"No problem." She looked down at her watch she had 50 minutes left of her shift. "Listen Danny I'm going to go to the gym for the rest of my shift, if any of you need me I'll have my cell phone on me."
He nodded, she smiled once more at him, before she turned out to walk out the door. Danny stared after her, he was wondering what was bother his boss, his co worker and most importantly his friend. He walked back to the table and sat next to Lindsey. He would go up to the gym in a bit to figure out what was bothering her. She use to be so happy before, happy as Don. They usually had the same identical grin on their faces.
Danny choked on his coffee. 'holy shit' he thought ' how could I have missed this before' She felt someone patting him on the back. He noticed all eyes were on him.
He cleared his throat. "Thanks Linds."
She smiled. " You ok?"
"Ugh yeah peachy, well ugh-" He began to stutter. "Don my man you want to come with me to the gym for a little one on one."
Don gave him a -what -are - you - up - to - now- Messer. "Sure Messer. We'll catch up with you all later at the bar."
They all nodded. Danny and Don headed up to the NYPD gym. Danny noticed Stella in the corner of the room beating the crap out of a bag.
Don noticed her before he saw her. He could always tell when Stella walked into the room.
Him and Danny began to warm up. Then they began boxing with each other.
"So Don, that mystery girl that you recently broke up with, wouldn't be Stella would it?"
Don froze, which caused Danny to get a clear shot and punch him in the jaw.
"No it's not Danny." Don horribly lied.
"For a cop, you suck at lying. I know its her I put two and two together Don. You guys seemed very happy before, and now look miserable."
"Danny I'll admit we were seeing each other, but I just can't talk about it yet, I'm still trying to get over it."
"Maybe the reason your still trying to get over it, is because you don't want to be over her. Don I see the way you two look at each other when you think the other isn't looking. You guys should definitely try to work it out."
"Danny not now please. Maybe after I've had a couple of scotches at the bar."
Danny nodded. They boxed for a little while more and stopped. Danny looked to the corner to see if Stella was still there, she wasn't.
"She left a little bit ago." Don spoke.
Danny gave him a look.
"Don't start Messer. I don't want to have this conversation right now, I just want to go home shower and get ready for tonight alright."
Danny nodded. Don gave him a rise home to him and Lindsey's apartment and quickly drove to his.
Don got home and went straight to getting ready for tonight.
Stella was at home drinking some wine and watching t.v. When her phone rang..
"Bonasera."
"Hey Stell." Lindsey spoke. "Some of us are heading to the bar tonight, join us please.?"
Stella thought about it, she did ditch them at lunch. "Sure Lindsey, where and when?"
"The usual bar and at 7." Stella looked at her clock and saw that it was 6, she had an hour to get ready.
"Alright I'll meet you guys there."
She hopped into the shower, and quickly got ready. When she was finally finished getting dressed she looked in the mirror. Her curls were as curly as ever, and the natural highlights showed. Her make up was done lightly and beautifully bringing out her green eyes. She wore a purple low cut shirt, that was one of Don's favorites, with her favorite pare of dark jeans. She put her shoes on and headed out she was already running 5 minutes late.
She hailed a taxi, and gave him the street. 15 minutes later she arrived in front of the bar and saw Linds and Jess sitting at a table.
She walked into the bar and headed over to the two of them. "Hey, where are the guys."
"Running late. Danny got back from working out with Don 15 minutes ago so he's still getting ready. Mac Sheldon and Adam got held up at the lab but are on their way."
Stella nodded and ordered her drink.
"So Jess any guys in your life." Lindsey asked.
"No, not really. But I'm sort of crushing really hard on a certain detective."
"Who?" Stella asked.
"Donnie."
Stella almost choked on her drink but didn't.
"Since when?" Lindsey nervously asked, she glanced at Stella.
"For a while now, but I didn't try anything when he was dating his mystery girl, then two weeks ago he started flirting with me, and I thought they were broken up so I flirted back and then one night we kissed."
"You said two weeks ago right?" Stella asked.
"Yup."
"Ok sorry could hear yea." she lied. her and Don broke up a week ago. He kissed Jess two weeks ago.
Lindsey could feel the anger radiating off of Stella.
"So we kissed and then, well we had a few drinks and one thing led to another."
Stella felt her heart shatter into a billion pieces.
"And he ignored for the rest of that week, until next week where he started being all flirty again so I really don't know what's going on with us."
"Oh." Lindsey spoke. To her relief Danny arrived, and shortly after that Mac Adam and Sheldon arrived too.
"So what were you ladies talking about?" Mac asked.
"Oh nothing you would be interested in Mac." Lindsey spoke.
"Don't be so sure." He joked.
Soon enough Don walked into the bar and took the only available seat which was right next to Jess. He noticed Stella wore his favorite purple shirt, he couldn't tear his eyes off of her she looked so beautiful.
He noticed there was a scotch already waiting for him. "Thanks Danny."
Danny tipped his glass and winked.
Stella was quiet, she didn't know what to think of what she found out. She went through that week in her head, Don hadn't come home one night, he said he got caught up on a case. He cheated on her, then he lied to her, then he broke her heart. She felt so betrayed by him.
Lindsey felt so bad for her friend. She saw the broken look on her face, she felt so bad for her friend, she didn't deserve this, she didn't deserve Don cheating on her with Jess.
"So Don, you seeing anyone again yet?" Sheldon asked.
"Nah, I'm better off being a bachelor." he joked.
"Oh Donnie, we don't need to lie to them anymore." Jess joked.
Since Don had a few drinks and didn't realize what he was doing. "Yeah guess your right Jess."
"Me and Donnie started seeing each other a couple days ago." Jess smiled. The team congratulated them, and wished them well. Stella who hadn't said anything, since the announcement. She looked a bit tipsy, but she knew what she was doing.
"Jess did you know that when you two slept together he was still dating his mystery women." All headed turned to her. It took Jess a moment to reply.
"Yes, but since he didn't stop it I figured they weren't doing so good."
"So you knew he was dating someone for a few months, and yet you still slept with him."
Don sat there shocked. Stella knew he slept with Jess? When did she find out? Who told her? Millions of questions were going through his mind.
"He would've stopped it if he really wanted to, I guess the women he was dating didn't mean that much to him."
"Well alright, just letting you know." Stella finished the rest of her drink. She got up, and headed to the bathrooms.
"What the hell Don." Danny spoke.
"What now Messer."
"You slept with Angell?"
"Didn't you just hear Stella say that"
Danny didn't say anything he just shook his head. Conversation picked up. Don noticed Stella still hadn't come back, so he decided to go look for her.
He saw her leaning against the wall, probably waiting for someone to get out of the bathroom. He stood by her leaning against the wall.
She felt him right next to her, her right side was burning from him just standing near her. she missed him being near her. She stood there for a few minutes trying to savor this last feeling.
"I'm sorry."
"Flack don't."
"Stella let me explain; we had a few drinks and then one thing led to another, I know that's not an excuse but that is what happened."
"Flack." her voice broke. "Not now please." She opened her eyes and looked at him. Don felt something break inside of him. He saw her eyes filled with tears, that were overflowing now.
"Stell." He whispered. He reached out and pulled her towards him in a tight hug. "I'm so sorry. I love you so much, I'm so sorry I made a mistake I'm sorry." He held her tight he wasn't going to let her walk away from him.
Stella felt her body relax against him, she held tighter on him. She felt him wrapped his arms tighter around her she heard his whispers in her ear. Her tears were freely running now. She held him for a few more minutes, savoring the feeling.
She tried to pull away, but he would let her. She managed to get out of his tight hold, she stepped a couple feet back.
"You said it yourself Flack, we're over. "
"Stella I love you I'm sorry. God I love you so much. Please don't walk away from me"
"I love you too, so much Don. But you cheated I- uh just can't get over something like that. We're done over with. Good luck with Jess. " She reached up and gave him a good bye kiss on the cheek. She walked around him and walked away. Someone grabbed her hand and pulled her back.
"Stella" she heard his voice break. "Please don't leave me."
"I'm sorry Don."
"Just one last thing."
"Sure."
"One last kiss."
Stella leaned forward, and he did also. Their lips touched and were in synch. Stella melted into his kiss just like she always had, he had that effect on her. She pulled away.
She smiled sadly at him.
"Stella" his voice cracked even more, she wiped away the tears that fell from his eyes.
She kissed his forehead, and got out of his hold on her and walked away from him. Don couldn't believe it, he lost the best thing that has ever happened to him, he lost the love of his life.
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