The monkey cage
Pulling here earphones out of her ears, Aiko sighed. Not only was the battery nearly dead on her ipod, but the whole lab was dead. No one was doing anything. There were no cases, so why shouldn't anyone be doing something entertaining? Stretching her arms out wide she yawned and thought about wasting time sleeping, at least that way she wouldn't have to think of being bored. But just as she was about to close her eyes, a certain Staten Island accent forced them open again.
"Hey Aiks." Danny smiled as he walked into the surprisingly dark room, even though there were three lamps on. Aiko was cut off from replying to him by another yawn. She placed her hand over and held up one finger to tell him she'll just be a second. He grinned. She opened her eyes again and rolled them.
"Someone must have been up all night." Aiko would do anything to wipe the smug "Messer" grin that was plastered over Danny's face as he taunted her.
"Actually, I'm bored stiff in this Cesspit." She stuck out her tongue and swirled around in her chair, not caring how dizzy she became.
Leaning back in the chair Danny screwed up his face as he thought about something. Aiko laughed at the face.
"No wonder you don't think that much with that face that you pull." She teased. He ignored her and glared at her, but Aiko smiled at him widely.
"You wanna do summit fun?" he suggested, knowing the answer already. Aiko's sapphire eyes widened and her smile grew, bearing pearly white teeth.
"Of course!" she exclaimed getting up even before knowing the plan. She walked out into the corridor before being pulled back into her office, a large, strong hand wrapped around her smaller one.
"You don't want others to hear our plan now do you?" Danny whispered and Aiko shook her head, her brown hair, which had dried, shaking infront of her face. She blew the strands away before turning to Danny to hear his plan.
"I have some silly string left after our Halloween bash last year," he began, and Aiko already liked the sound of the plan the minute silly string left his mouth.
"And Flack is alone. What do you say, a little pay back time for Mr Donald Flack after all those times he's called you Rookie, even though we have a new lab tech."
Aiko's eyes narrowed as she thought about what Danny said.
"We have a new Lab tech?" she questioned. Danny sighed.
"Yes…side tracking Aiko." If he had a dollar for every time Aiko sidetracked, he wouldn't have to get up so early in the morning to work a double.
"How come I didn't know that?" She pressed on the topic, her voice gradually getting higher like a teenage girl. Danny looked around him; he was looking either for an escape route, or for anything to shut her up. He couldn't find both so instead; he turned her around and pushed her out of the office. Which, in the end shut her up. She growled and they walked down the corridor.
"So, is it a good plan?" Danny was wondering why Aiko was smiling so weirdly, until he turned around and Stella was standing infront of them, with the face like a principal who had just caught some students skipping class.
"What sounds like a good plan Messer?" Stella put him on the spot. She could tell from the glint in his eye that he was keeping a secret, and she knew that Danny's nature was to have a little fun in life. He gulped silently and tried his best to find "Stella buying" words, because he knew that she wouldn't buy the normal crap that he gave Mac.
Aiko turned and rolled her eyes and grinned.
"He was just telling me about his idea for a surprise party for Lindsay for her birthday."
Luckily, not only did Aiko dig Danny out of a deep hole, she also gave Stella a reasonable excuse, seeing as Lindsay's birthday was in a couple of weeks. Stella smiled and almost sighed, as the "idea" didn't hold any monkey business in it.
"You want to know it?"
Aiko threw that in for fun, seeing as she assumed Stella might say yes, meaning that Danny would have to show his improvisation skills. But, to Aiko's disappointment but to Danny's relief, Stella shook her head.
"We'll have to have a rain check on that guys, sorry."
She gave both of them a smile before passing by them. They stood there and waited until the sound of her heels on the floor became distant, before both exhaled deeply in relief.
"You can thank me later." Aiko started to walk again, meaning she couldn't see the Danny's eyes narrowed at her.
"Thank you? For digging a huge hole for me at the end?" Danny exclaimed, his hands even flying up in the air dramatically. He then ran up to catch up to her, and she hit him on the side of his head, causing him to hiss at her, and rub his head.
"Actually…I got you out of a big hole Messer, one bigger than your ego. So shut it and tell me where the silly string is."
Danny sighed and knew that he wouldn't win. Aiko was just like Lindsay. And when it came to debates, all the women in the labs won. They pawned all. Even if the ratio of men to women was in favour for the men.
Meanwhile, Adam was talking to his agony aunt…uncle. He sat opposite Hawkes on the stool in the Tox lab. He sighed and tried to erase the fact that he felt like he was in an interrogation room, seeing as the rain outside had made the room dark, and the only light was a light hanging above the table. He chewed on his raspberry, blackcurrant and grapefruit flavoured chewing gum and began to tell Hawkes his problem.
"I'm not exactly experienced in relationships anyway." He sighed.
Hawkes laughed and hoped Adam wouldn't think that he was laughing at him.
"Well, you've not exactly come to New York's playboy." He stated.
Even a small grin formed on Adam's face. "Well, I couldn't find Danny." This time, Adam mirrored the huge grin, which was on Hawkes's lips. From the outside, people would think that Adam's statement was true, that he was implying that Danny was New York's playboy. But deep inside, everyone knew that it was a little country girl who wiped away that shell of his to reveal a soft little teddy bear who loved to be hugged.
All jokes aside, Hawkes wanted to solve Adam's problem.
"Aiko likes you, you do know that don't you?"
Adam scoffed at him and grunted. He shook his head in denial.
"As a friend. Infact, sometimes I can tell that she just wants to be somewhere else when she's with me, with someone else." He let his head flop down. Hawkes sighed. It was going to take more than that to convince this tough guy.
"Why do you not think she likes you Adam. You're a cute guy." Adam looked up suddenly, taking the compliment from Hawkes the wrong way.
"I mean, girls seem to like you and think you're funny and stuff…" Hawkes choked out and could see the relief settle back in Adam's eyes. Adam shrugged.
"Maybe I'm just geeky funny and they laugh at me and not with me." he pouted and sadness flooded back into him, as the rain poured down against the window. Hawkes was about to reply, before a loud shout echoed down the corridor and a grunt followed it. Two cried of laughter shortly followed and a tall sting monster slowly stomped down the corridor. Adam and Hawkes curiously made there way out to where the commotion was, and saw that underneath the mass amount of string was Flack. And he wasn't amused.
"Wha…who did that to you?" Hawkes could barely speak though all his laughter, and a chuckle escaped Adam, even if he was feeling depressed.
A clump of string rose, and it took some time to realise it was Flack's arm, and he pointed behind himself, two the culprits. Aiko and Danny stood there waving the cans of silly string in the air with smug faces and they could hardly stand due to the laughing fits that they were having. Adam tensed up as he saw how much fun Aiko was having with Danny, as he watched her laughing with him and doing a victory dance with him. She even had a secret victory high five or something, and this made him even more jealous of the many relationships she had with everyone…but him. he quickly left the group and made his way to his refuge…anywhere quiet and where he could be alone.
Halfway through their celebration dance, Stella interrupted Aiko and Danny with a stern cough. They froze and glanced at each other before turning to her. Next to her was a grinning Lindsay who couldn't help but laugh at Flack, which her boyfriend and best friend had turned into string. Stella however, was not amused that she leaves the group unattended for a while and she comes back to a kindergarten. Placing a finger on the bridge of her nose, she really can't deal with a headache forming too. Frustrated, with all her energy taking out of her, she really can't be bothered to tell them off, seeing as deep inside she was laughing at the state of Flack, that he was walking around like he was drunk because he couldn't see. So she just out her hands up in defeat.
"Just play nice or go back to your cages!" She walked off and Lindsay kissed Danny, and hugged him too, before they pulled away and joined Aiko and Hawkes, and the Mummy.