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By the time Mac and Adam got back from their coffee run Stella had left to go to the apartment that Mac and Danny share.
"Here's coffee for anyone who wants some." Mac called out coming into the room. "Where's Stella?""She went to help process your apartment?" Lindsey said.
"Did Daniels say she could?" Mac asked. Lindsey just shrugged. "I hope she finds out. We don't need any problems with this investigation."
Sid and Sheldon both grabbed coffee. "Listen Mac we." Sheldon spoke indicating Lindsey, Sid and himself. "decided that we are going to work."
"I don't think that's a good idea. You all need to go home and get some rest." Mac said.
"You don't think me should go in?" Sid asked.
"No Arrangements have been made with other precincts to help cover for us, while this investigation is going on." Mac explained.
"So we're on leave?" Sheldon asked. Mac nodded. "And did Flack, Sr. have anything to do with this?" Again Mac nodded.
"So I guess we have no choice but to go home and get some rest." Sid jumped in.
"That's right." Mac said. "Go home take a shower, get some sleep before coming back here."
"What will you do Mac?" Adam asked.
Mac shrugged his shoulders. "Well until further notice our apartment is a crime scene. So I guess I'll just stay here. Maybe I should call Stella and ask her to bring me a couple changes of clothes."
"Then you can come stay with me?" Sheldon asked.
"I don't know if I should or not?"
"You need some place to sleep so why not?"
"You can't stay here, Mac." Lindsey said.
"OK Detective Taylor." Sid began "you have two choices, either you go and stay with Sheldon or you come stay with me."
Mac looked at Sid in disbelief. "Are you giving me an order?"
"If you want to take it that way, marine, then yes." Sid said with a little smile on his face.
"Oh that's right play the marine card." Mac griped.
"Mac listen, you need to care of yourself, if not for yourself then for Danny's sake."
Mac ended up agreeing with his friend. "I go home with you Sid let me call Stella and get her to grab some clothes for me."
"Maybe you should call Detective Daniels and ask her if it would be OK?" Sheldon suggested.
"Hmm." Mac thought for a second. "That's a very good idea Sheldon. We don't want Stella accused of sneaky evidence out of there." Mac pulled out his cell phone, flipped it open and froze.
"Mac, what is it?"
"I don't have her number, Sheldon." Mac laughed.
"I have it." Adam jumped in. "She gave me a card and said if I have anything else to add to what I told her, besides she wants my Aunt to call her to setup an appointment for an interview."
"Can I have her number, please?" Mac requested. Adam pulled out the card and read of the number. "Everyone needs to write that number down, in case you need to contact her."
Everyone quickly got out their cell phones and stored the number.
"Now remember anything having to do with this case needs to be cleared through her." Mac ordered. "Agreed?"
"Agreed." Everyone chimed in.
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"Yes sir I understand. Yes sir I agree. Yes sir I told him to be sure to have someone else there. Yes sir. Yes sir. Yes sir I'll do that. Good bye sir." Logan sighed as she hung up her phone. "Of course sir. Anything you say sir. I agree sir you're a jerk, sir."
"I'm sorry are you talking to me." A guy at the next table asked Logan.
"Oh no. I'm sorry Sir I was talking about, ah someone else."
The guy nodded. "We all of people like that in our lives, huh?"
"Yeah I guess we do." She giggled just as her phone rang.
"Daniels." "Where are you Detective? Fine, I'll be right up and then we'll talk."
"Detective? As in police?" The guy asked.
Logan just looked at him and shrugged her shoulders as if to say don't know.
"Got cha, you can't say." The man said.
Logan gathered up all her stuff and hurried off before the man could say anything else. Once she got where he was no longer she looked at her cell phone again and she smiled.
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"Sorry I wasn't here, but I walked my team to their cars so that they can go home and get some much needed rest." Mac apologized as he walked over and looks over Logan's shoulder at her laptop. "Who's that?"
"Don't know, but I plan to find out?"
"Why?"
"He seemed a little too interested in me and what I was doing."
Mac just stood behind her and watched. "Who are you sending it to?" Mac inquired.
"A friend."
"Someone you trust?"
"Of course."
"Hmm, that's good."
"What?"
"It's good that you have someone you trust without question."
"Just like you, right?"
"Yeah, just like all of us."
"Point taken Detective." Logan said closing her laptop. "Now you had a question to ask me?"
"I want to know if I could call Stella and ask her to grab me some a couple of change of clothes as well as my razor and other things."
Logan thought for a moment. "Yeah I guess it's all right, being you won't be able to go back there for awhile. Just be sure to give me a list of everything she brings to you."
"Don't worry she won't try to remove any alleged evidence."
"I didn't say she would, it's just I have to be able to justify letting her do this to Don Flack, Sr. if and that's a big if - he were to ask, why."
Mac waved her off.
"I'm guessing you have dealt with him."
"Yes I have."
"What do you think of him?"
Mac tilted his head and looked at her for a moment. "As a police officer he's one of the best. As a father he leaves a lot to be desired."
"I agree with you on both accounts."
Mac raised an eyebrow at that.
"What you've always gotten along with your bosses?"
"There were several I disagreed with a different levels."
Logan nodded.
"Well since we're here alone. Why don't we go over what happened between you and Messer?"
"Fine by me."
Logan reached into her briefcase and pulled out a tape recorder. Clicking it on she began. "I am speaking with Detective/CSI Mac, ah is that your full first name?"
Mac just stared at her.
"OK, ah Mac Taylor. Now Detective, tell me about last night and what occurred between you and Detective/CSI Daniel Messer?"
"Where do you want me to begin?"
"You're a police officer where do you think?"
"The beginning."
Logan nodded.
Mac cleared his throat. "It began with a suspected hostage situation, that myself and my entire team responded to."
"List them, please."
"Ah OK, hmm, Detectives/CSI's Stella Bonasera, Danny Messer, Lindsey Monroe and Dr./CSI Sheldon Hawkes."
"Go on."
"We arrived at the scene and Detective Donald Flack, Jr. was there and filled us in on the situation. After which we waited on the SWAT team to try to talk him out. It didn't work, but Danny seemed to think he could talk the suspect out of letting go of the hostage."
"And you let him try?"
"No I wasn't even aware that he had gone to the head of SWAT and talked the captain into letting him try."
"So you weren't aware of what one of your team was doing?"
"I can only try to control my team, unfortunately sometimes Danny can be hard to control."
"In what ways?"
"He lets his heart rule him sometimes."
"In what ways?"
"He counts a lot on his 'instincts'."
"Do you think there is a place in police work for instincts or heart?"
"Not in our line of work."
"So how did you find out that Danny was going to talk to the suspect."
"When I saw him walking toward the man, unarmed and in a very dangerous situation."
"So you were angry?"
"Of course he could have been killed."
"What ended up happening?"
"He, ah, Danny finally talked the suspect out of his gun and the situation was solved."
"And yet when you got back to the lab you were still angry at Messer?"
"Wouldn't you have been?"
"I'm not the one answering questions here?"
Mac nodded "Of course. Yes I was still angry and I confront Danny about what happened. He still didn't see that he didn't do anything wrong. We argued about that and rather then let it continue I sent him home."
"How long before you went home to confront Messer? Oh by the way how long have the two of you been sharing an apartment?"
"Second question first – Danny's apartment lost it's heating one winter, so I asked him to come to my place. We got along and being I had a second bedroom and it was cheaper in the long run to share a place rather than having two places. We agreed to be room mates."
"Nothing else?"
"Excuse me?"
"What exactly is your relationship with Messer?" Logan asked with her voice dripping with accusations.
Mac took a deep breath and continued. "Danny had a father who verbally and physically abused him. The one thing I missed in my life was having children, especially a son. Danny needs someone to lean on and I needed some on to lean on me. So I guess you can say we have a father and son relationship."
"Go on."
"All right back to the first question you asked. I would say it was about two hours, before I went to talk to him."
"What happened when you got home?"
"I, I try to talk to him, but we were both too angry. He ended up storming out of the apartment."
"Did you follow him?"
"Yes, it was about seven pm. I noticed his motorcycle was missing so I got in my car and went to several place I knew that he hung out when he got stressed."
"Was he at any of those places?"
Mac shook his head. "No, he wasn't."
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