A/N: You've been so kind to me so here is another chapter.
Stella sat in the dark trying her hardest to figur out who this guy might be. His voice sounded familiar but she couldn't put her finger on it where she might have heard it before. It was the accent that got her attention.
Her thinking progress was interrupted by the sound of a door opening again. He was back. Before coming down the stairs he turned the lights on. Bright light blinded Stella so she had to blink several times before her eyes got used to the light. Now she had a good vision of him. Unfortunately there was nothing new. He was still wearing same overalls and ski mask.
"Why the mask? What are you hiding?"
"Being impatient are we detective?"
"Being shy are we?" Stella said sarcastically.
"Don't try be smart ass with me!" he raised his voice and his hand but then he saw Stella staring at him. Her face didn't even winced. Stella wanted to give him the expression that she's not affraid of him.
He lowered his hand and said calmly "Shall we take a look at your cut." He tried to move closer and touch Stella's forehead but she pulled her head away from him.
"Don't touch me. I can do it my self."
"Now Ms. detective if you are as smart as you think,you might notice that it's impossible."
"Then untie me."
That made him laugh. "Not a chance. I'm not that stupid. I saw how spicy you were at your appartment."
Stella stares at him and calmly says "Then forget it. I'm fine."
"Why do you have to be so difficult. You are getting on my nerves and believe me,you don't want me to loose my nerves. Someone got on my nerves and let me tell you, he's not getting on my nerves anymore."
"You give some,you get some."
Then the slap came which caused Stella to groan. "I said,don't be a smart ass with me!"
The guy turned around and walked upstairs and turned the lights off before slamming the door shut. Leaving Stella once again in the dark but this time with sore cheek.
CSI:NY CSI:NY CSI:NY CSI:NY CSI:NY
Ride to the lab was made in silence. Danny didn't want to push Mac and Mac wasn't talking voluntarily. But that wasn't unsual in Mac's case.
Mac and Danny stepped out of the elevator. "I'll start going through these." said Danny showing Mac the evidence bags.
"Good. I'll go check up on Lindsay and Hawkes."
Mac walked through the lab which was still a quite of mess. The explosion didn't make lot's of damage but there was still broken glass everywhere and some of the work stations were still unusable. But repairing grew was working as fast as they could.
Mac walked up to Hawkes who was sitting behind the table going through the evidence. "Anything new?"
"I have something. The trace I found from the shower curtain and from the floor. It turned out to be chloroform?"
"Chloroform? So he tried to knock Stella out with chloroform?"
"Yes. He didn't succeed. Stella was able to free her self and probably knocked him down. That caused the chloroform to spill down the floor and to shower curtain. The chloroform evaporate easily but because the shower was still on it made the room quite humid so I was able to find some traces."
"I see. So if Stella didn't pass out after hitting her head in the living room,he used the chloroform."
Hawkes nodded his head as saying he agreed.
"I'm progressing the mudd which I lifted from the shoe print. Maybe it will tell us something."
"Let's hope so."
Mac headed for the door but stopped when Hawkes spoke "This is going to take a while but I'll let you know when I get the results."
Mac nodded and forced a little smile. Hawkes watched Mac walking away,he couldn't help noticing the forced smile. Mac wasn't fooling anyone, well maybe only him self but not people who were close to him.
I know this chapter was short but I promise the next one will be longer.