Logan walked into the lab that morning, knowing she was most likely going to have a major session with Lindsay about the past couple of days.
"Hey Logan, what are you doing here already?" Danny asked as she walked past him.
She turned to look at him and gave him a confused look.
"I was supposed to be in about an hour ago," she responded.
"No, you're spose to be here when Stella get here, which she hasn't even got here yet," Danny answered.
"You've got to be kidding me. I'm gonna have to beat him when I get home," Logan said, hands on her hips.
"Do I even wanna know?" Danny asked, cracking a smile.
"Ah, it's not like that. My son was playing in my bedroom so I bet he messed with the clocks. Is Lindsay around?" Logan asked.
"Ah, I didn't know you had a kid. Yea she should be in Mac's office," Danny answered.
"Just one of the many things nobody around here knows about me, Messer," Logan smiled walking off.
"Hey Logan, what are you doing here already?" Hawkes asked.
"I know I'm early, Hawkes. Danny just stopped me to tell me that. My clocks are wrong due to my son thinking it's fun to mess with the clocks in my bedroom. I'm gonna see if Mac needs me to help on anything until my shift is supposed to start," Logan answered.
"That's always fun. I've had that happen before with my niece," Hawkes replied smiling.
"So you feel my pain," Logan asked jokingly.
"Definitely," Hawkes laughed, shaking his head in amusement.
"Well, I'll see you around," she stated, continuing in her walk towards Mac's office.
"Nice to see you here early," Mac said as she opened the door to his office.
"Yea, I hope that's not too much of a problem," Logan replied, giving a small smile, leaning against the wall.
"You ok?" he asked, noticing she wasn't her normal self.
"Yea, Mac, I'll be fine," she answered.
"If you say so, so anything in particular you need?" he asked, picking up a file from his desk.
"Danny told me Lindsay was in here, and I'm just looking for her," she answered.
"Yea, she just left. She went to look through evidence on her case. Since you're here early, why don't you go help her?" Mac suggested.
"Alright. I'll be sure to do that," she replied, leaving his office.
"Good lord, you are a hard person to find," Logan stated, standing next to Lindsay in the room.
Lindsay looked at her and laughed.
"Don't even mention that I'm early. I've heard it from Danny, Hawkes, and Mac," she said before anything else.
"It's been a rough weekend hasn't it?" Lindsay asked, giving her friend a sympathetic look.
"Like you wouldn't believe," Logan answered.
"Shoot it to me, while I process this stuff," Lindsay offered.
"Well, let's see. My parents finally left the house on Saturday morning. Lucas was a pain and got into everything again. And to top it all off, he screws with my clocks, rips the attic into pieces pretty much, and I still don't know what to do with this whole new situation and him adjusting to everything," Logan explained, handing Lindsay the evidence bags.
"He'll adjust eventually. Just give it some more time, and if needed you might need to actually bring him into the city every now and then, instead of letting your parents pretty much raise him. You know you can bring him here and leave him in the daycare center next door. Atleast he could see where you work and everything. Maybe even get him to meet some of us. He's gonna be freaked when all of us come over sooner or later," Lindsay replied, giving a friendly smile.
"Yea, that's gonna happen so smoothly, Linds. So yea, I have a question for you. I know you said you were going to try to go home for Thanksgiving and everything, but if you don't, you think you could come over and celebrate it with me and Lucas?" Logan asked.
"It doesn't look like I'm going to be able to go home for Thanksgiving and Christmas, and I'd rather spend Christmas at home, so why not?" Lindsay answered, relieving Logan.
"You're the best. So what are we looking at?" Logan asked, referring to the evidence.
"Fibers from vic's wounds, blood spatter pattern on the clothing, and there was substance on the vic's hands," Lindsay explained.
"Alright, where's the substance, I'll take care of that," Logan stated, as Lindsay handed it to her.
"So back to your crazy weekend, what ever happened to that invite for me to come over and do the hick girl stuff?" Lindsay joked.
"Whenever you want to and we both have the time. Anyways, I was thinking about asking the whole team eventually to come out, since it's away from the city and it's so open and everything," Logan responded.
"Good luck with getting Messer to get away from the city," Don Flack stated laughing, emerging into the room.
"Geez, Flack you know you could atleast make a sound when you enter a room," Lindsay muttered.
"What's that, Lindsay?" Flack asked smartly.
"Flack, really, I thought it'd be tougher getting you away from the city than it would Danny," Logan countered, looking to Lindsay.
"Naw, not as hard as you think," Flack answered, smirk on his face.
"So anyways, Flack. What brings you by?" Lindsay asked, taking over for Logan who had walked out of the room.
"Just went by Mac's office when a new call just came in. Since I was already here he told me to just go ahead and collect two of you guys. Said to definitely pick Logan and then choose whoever had the least amount of stuff to do," Flack explained.
"She's gonna love that," Lindsay replied lowly.
"What was that?" Flack asked.
"Nothing. Looks like you're gonna have to pick Hawkes. Danny and I have evidence to process on the case that we got yesterday and Stella isn't here yet," Lindsay spat.
"Well then, I guess it is her and Hawkes," Flack replied.
"I'll go get her while you go get Hawkes," Lindsay offered, before he could respond.
Lindsay walked to the room next door, and tapped her friend on the shoulder.
"Well, it looks like your gonna be with him today," Lindsay said, offering a small smile.
"You've got to be kidding me. I can't… no way… how am I going to function?" Logan asked, trying to keep it cool.
"You'll be fine. Just don't think about the resemblance between him and Michael, and you'll be fine. If things get to rough, just give me a call and I'll see what I can do. You know it might not hurt if you're forced to be around him for a couple hours," Lindsay suggested.
Logan gave a small laugh and pushed Lindsay away, "You're nuts, you know that?"
"Yea. That's why you keep me around as you're best friend in New York," Lindsay laughed as the two walked back into the room that Flack was standing in.
"That's what you think. It's only cause we're both hicks," Logan joked.
"Well, you ready or what? Hawkes is already waiting on both of us," Flack asked, interrupting the two.
"Yea, I'm ready, just let me grab my kit. So damn impatient are these New Yorkers," Logan stated, looking at Lindsay, who was trying to suppress her laughter.
"Grab your kit and let's go," Flack grumbled.
Logan looked at Lindsay again and laughed while walking out of the room, knowing full well her kit was in her locker.
"Just one second Flack, it's in my locker since I'm here early," Logan explained, not paying attention to Flack's grumblings.
Walking towards Flack and Hawkes, Logan smiled and let out a deep breath.
"Awesome, we can get to work now," Hawkes joked, smiling at Logan.
"Well, hey, atleast someone who understands my franticness this morning," Logan replied, slapping a hand on Hawkes' shoulder.
Flack looked between the two like they were completely crazy.