August 6th 9:45am-

Adam was playing Second Life again when his cell vibrated. His friend, Brandon Long, was playing against him and waited.

"Let me see who this is," he said then continued, "Hello? Hello? I can't hear you! I'm gonna have to call you back, bye." When he hung up, he noticed the time of call then looked at the clock on his cellphone.

"What's up?" Brandon asked.

"My boss is gonna murder me, I'm late for work! It's 9:45 in the morning!" Adam said.

"Whoa. I guess I better get going so I can do some stuff before going to work tonight at the fire station. Tomorrow at noon?" Brandon asked as he looked very tired.

"Yeah. Bye," Adam said as Brandon left. He ran out of the room then called Mac back since it wasn't as noisy. "Boss, I'm so sorry. I am leaving the gaming convention and on my way. Bye." He hung up then said, "Oh boy."

At the crime lab 10am-

"Show me the money!" Mac said, amused.

"I'll show you some money." Jo took some money out of her pocket and gave Mac $5.

"The easiest $5 ever." Mac smiled as Jo rolled her eyes.

Jo left Mac's office just as Danny and Sheldon came in.

"Did you get a hold of him?" They were a bit worried.

"Yes, he's on his way. He was at a gaming convention," Mac said with an annoyed look.

10:30am-

Adam walked in and went to his locker to change his clothes, where he kept a spare set in case he was late to work. He went to his workstation where he saw some folders detailing items that needed to be processed and went right to work. He ran into Sheldon.

"How was the gaming convention?" Sheldon asked as he noticed Adam was excited.

"So much fun as the time went by," Adam laughed nervously.

"I bet!" Sheldon laughed then asked, "So what are you needing to do?"

Adam didn't want to ask how mad Mac was, but he was sure Mac wasn't very happy.

"According to the file, I need to check the gun used in the shooting during a home invasion robbery a few days ago."

"Sounds fun, see ya." Sheldon walked away as he and Adam laughed.

In the ballistics room-

Adam got out some ballistics gel, and put it under the tube so he could test the gun. He looked over the gun first, then put on his eye protection and earphones. He fired the gun and the bullet went in the gel. He took his protections off then put the gel on the table and sliced it with a big knife. Each time he sliced, he checked the wound on the gel and compared it to the photo of the wound on the victim.

"This isn't the weapon."

He looked at the bullet that was fired and compared it to the bullet that had been in the victim and they didn't match. He took a picture of the two bullets then put it in the computer so it could be compared. After a few minutes it confirmed it wasn't a match. The bullet was a match to the gun used in the armed robbery. Adam made a copy of the report and put it in the file.

"Boy, I'm so hungry I can eat the whole lab, not sure I want to leave to have lunch since Mac hasn't seen me yet. Surprised he hasn't shown up, yet."

Meanwhile-

Jo and Danny watched the surveillance video of a armed robbery as they rewound the tape when they needed to.

"Nothing we can use."

"No. This is just a bad place for surveillance," Jo said annoyed as Mac walked up.

What happened with Mark Prescot, Danny?" Mac asked as Sheldon walked up with Lindsey.

"He just said that he regretted buying the gun and wishes it wasn't stolen. But I got my doubts about that," Danny said.

"Oh?"

"I don't know. He didn't even ask about the gun or why I and Flack we were there and he didn't want to give an alibi."

"Well, I guess I better go see if the MIA computer tech has come in or not," Mac said as he started to walk away.

Sheldon snickered.

"What?" Mac asked.

"He's here, and man, he looks like he had a great time last night. Check the ballistics room if he is still there," Sheldon said.

"What time did he come in?" Mac asked.

"10:30," Sheldon responded.

"Well, it's 11:30 but thanks for letting me know," Mac said.

"Well, hopefully he won't be going to any conventions after work tonight," Jo said.

Lindsay, Danny, and Sheldon laughed as Mac smiled, "That won't happen. He's gone to those after work before but this is the first time he's been so late."

"Too bad he didn't just say he overslept," Danny said with a smile.

"Why would he say that? He picked up the phone when I called and it was very loud, we couldn't hear each other. I thought he just hung up on me and I had to wait a few minutes," Mac said.

Adam had already left the ballistics room and went to the lab to process the fingerprints that Lindsay had collected. Once he put the fingerprints in the computer he got a match and he printed out the results. He called Lindsay who met him outside Mac's office.

"Here you go." Adam looked very tired.

"Thanks Adam," Lindsay said as he handed her a file, then she walked away.

Adam went into Mac's office, put the file on his desk then turned and saw the couch in the corner of the office.

"I hope he won't mind if I sat and waited for him." After a few minutes he fell asleep.

A few minutes later Mac walked in, noticed Adam already asleep on the couch, sat at his desk, and looked at the files. About twenty minutes later he put the files away, checked e-mails, then left the office to get something to eat with Sheldon.

2:45pm-

Adam felt refreshed after his nap, so he went to get some food at a diner because he hadn't eaten since the night before. After he finished he went back to the lab, saw Mac's truck parked in the garage, and went to see if Mac was in his office. He was in his office so Adam walked in as he wanted to get the talk over with.

"Hi, Boss."

"Hi, have a nice nap?" he chuckled.

"Yeah."

"So you were late this morning, weren't you?" Mac asked sternly.

"Yeah. I'm sorry, Boss. I was just having a lot of fun and I didn't expect it to be morning so fast," Adam replied shamefully.

"Just try not to let it happen again, okay?" Mac said sternly.

"I'll try not to."

"Good."

Adam left his office thinking the talk went a lot smoother than he thought it would.

Monday, August 9th 7:00am

Adam had a great weekend and was glad he met Shannon, who made him happy. He walked over to the diner that was close to the lab and went in when he felt something on his back.

"Don't move. Just walk out normally," the man said.

Adam looked at the waitress as she noticed the fear in his eyes and he mouthed to her to call 911. She acted like she didn't see anything as Adam turned around and walked out the door.

The man, Ronald Harrison, followed Adam out of the building and walked a few blocks to an alley. He forced Adam near the wall.

"Let me tell you something, I don't appreciate the fact that you guys talked to my son." He was very angry.

"I have no idea what you are talking about."

Adam felt the gun in his back fade then he grabbed Ronald's wrist that held the gun. Adam then elbowed Ronald and he let the gun go. While Ronald's back was to Adam, he swiped the gun away from them, then Ronald turned and lunged towards him. But Adam moved out of the way and Ronald stopped then laid a punch on Adam.

Wherethehellarethepolice!Adam asked himself then he realized they had walked a few blocks from the diner so they probably couldn't find them.

They threw punches at each other then Ronald found a pipe and swung it at Adam. Adam ducked and ran away from him.

"My son is innocent!" He swung the pipe and it hit the dumpster as Adam took out his cell.

He dialed the number as his ducked the swings then finally kicked Ronald in the stomach.

"Danny! I need help! Man with a gun took me from a diner and now is mad at me. He doesn't have his gun now but he has a pipe!" Adam gave his location then hung up. Then Ronald knocked the phone out of his hand and pushed Adam away.

Adam kicked him back as he fell back and Adam ran near the dumpster as he noticed another pipe. When he picked it up, Ronald had swiped Adam's knee with the pipe and Adam fell in pain. "Ow!"

Adam kicked him back as Ronald fell and he finally heard the sirens. Danny and a few uniformed officers finally arrived. Ronald retrieved his gun from under the dumpster as Adam realized he was no longer able to stop him.

"Freeze, NYPD! Put the gun down, now!" Danny yelled as he stood behind his door.

Ronald looked at them angrily as he noticed Danny was a bit closer, having come up beside the dumpster.

"My son is being harassed! I want this to stop!"

"Listen, Adam doesn't do the interviews, alright. And killing him or anyone else isn't going to help. I'm sure if the police-."

"That stupid bitch Mistina told them that my son did it," Ronald said.

"Now when we do interviews, we talk to everyone, not just ex's and current girl or boyfriends but everyone," Danny said as Mac arrived.

Ronald looked a bit panicked as the cops closed in on him.

"Don't do it! Don't do it!" Danny yelled as Ronald raised his gun.

Shots rang out.