Chapter 4:

Sheldon walked her over to the others; they could tell something was up. Sheldon whispered something to Mac and he nodded.

Mac looked up "Lindsay why don't you take the children back down to Adam's lab"

Lindsay nodded "yea sure"

Ayden grabbed a pizza box and they all headed to Adam's lab, Lindsay knew something was up; but didn't want to ask just in case it upset the children. She knew Danny would tell her later. They just sat and talked to Adam about random things.

Ayden got back to munching on his pizza; Lucy just watched him and thought how she was related to him, Danny walked in.

"Montana" Danny smirked

Lindsay turned around "if you're going call me that even though we're married, then I'll think of a nickname for you"

Danny covered Ayden's ears "Sexy, handsome, , Awesome guy"

Lucy fell on to the floor laughing, Lindsay laughed at Lucy laughing

"I was thinking more Staten Island" Lindsay said helping Lucy up

"Clever Mrs. Messer" Danny said hugging both the children "but they're mine"

Lindsay folded her arms "Fine but I get the Harley"

Danny let go of the children "okay you get the children"

Lindsay smiled "thought so"

Ayden just looked at them "are you guys breaking up?"

Lindsay held Ayden "nooo nooo sweetie noo, I love your father very much"

"Yea kiddo, I would never leave your mom" Danny said hugging Lucy

Across The Road

Sheldon looked at the body "been dead 3 to 4 hours"

Don wrote down a description "Lucy saw this guy hanging from the ceiling"

Mac shut his cell phone "Son of a b!tch"

Don looked up "what's going on Mac?"

Mac looked p!ssed off "Sinclair is giving us pay cuts and is letting Adam go"

Sheldon looked up "Our Adam"

Mac nodded "Yea and 6 other lab techs"

Don raised his eyebrow "Does Adam know?"

Mac shook his head "not yet but he will"

Sinclair walked into the lab and found Adam, he handed him a letter and walked out of the room. Adam opened the letter. He sighed at what he saw

Mr. Adam. Ross,

Due to the budget cuts we are letting a few of our staff members go; unfortunately you fall into the staff members we are letting go.

We are sorry for the inconvenience; you will have a month left on your contract here at the New York crime lab.

Sincerely,

Bureau Chief Brigham Sinclair

Lindsay had been reading the letter over his shoulder and sighed "I'm so sorry Adam"

Adam nodded "naa it's fine Lindsay"

Lindsay saw Sinclair "no it's not"

Lindsay walked out and over to Sinclair, he ushered her into the nearest office that happened to be Mac's.

The others arrive and saw Sinclair yelling at Lindsay, Danny just wanted to walk in and defend his wife but they all saw Lindsay putting Sinclair back into his place and maybe in the corner.

Sinclair opened the door and walked over to Adam "Your rehired Adam"

Adam looked confused "bu but how"

Sinclair "You'll have to thank Detective Messer for that"

Adam looked at Lindsay who was coming out of Mac's office "Wh What happened Lindsay?"

Lindsay placed her hand on his shoulder "Welcome back Adam"

Lindsay smiled and walked back to her lab, everyone was getting worried that maybe Lindsay had quit her job so Adam could keep his. Mac and Danny followed Lindsay to make sure that wasn't the case.

"Linds what did you say to Sinclair?" Danny said pushing up his glasses

"Nothing just that I was willing to have a pay cut so that Adam could keep his job here at the lab" Lindsay smiled and nodded in agreement with her statement.

Adam had snuck into the room and heard what Lindsay had done "yo you did that for me"

Lindsay turned around "hey Adam, yes I did, it's not fair that people who hardly work get to keep their pay check and work here and you who work very hard have been let go, I don't losing $350 a month so you get to stay here"

Adam just hugged her "thank you so much Lindsay, anything you want you got it no matter what"

Mac smiled "now I suggest everyone gets back to work before you can't save your jobs or co-workers"

They all nodded and went back to work, Adam was so happy that he still had his job but shocked at the sacrifice Lindsay had taken.

Everyone was trying to figure out how the guy managed to 'hang' himself and Adam was trying to locate Shane Casey while trying to hide his smile about keeping his job.

Everyone had heard what Lindsay had done for Adam; everyone was congratulating her and about standing up to Sinclair like she did. Danny was proud of her.

Lucy "Mom is it true about Uncle Adam"

Lindsay nodded "yea baby it's true but mommy took care of him, grab you things I'm going to be taking you home soon, where's your brother?"

Lucy looked around "erm he was here a minute ago"

Lindsay got mad "Lucy you're meant to be watching him"

Lucy stuttered "sor sorry mo mom"

Lindsay left the lab and Lucy sat in the corner under the lab coats and just cried…

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