A/N: Hey all here is my next chapter, I hope you all enjoy it. I had fun writing this chapter and I hope you all enjoy reading it. Please let me know what you think.

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Chapter 8

"Well that was a fun dinner," Hawkes said as he finished washing a plate and handed it over to Lindsay to dry and put away.

"Yeah they were all too busy trying to get us in trouble with Mac that they didn't even fight with each other." Lindsay said remembering the conversation that had been happening when they had rejoined the group at camp, which involved everyone trying to convince Mac that Hawkes and Lindsay had been pulling a prank on them. When Mac asked Hawkes and Lindsay if they had they denied all prior knowledge of any funny going ons in the woods. Stella called them both big fat liars at this Lindsay asked if they had any evidence of this so prank that she and Hawkes had supposedly pulled. When they could produce none Mac settled the group down and dinner was served.

"Well they did have one fight," Hawkes said remembering the very end of the meal as everyone was enjoying their second helping.

FLASHBACK

"This food is really good." Flack said between mouthfuls.

Lesley who was sitting opposite Flack looked up at this comment before shooting him a look before saying, "Of course it's good that's because a female made it."

Flack slowly and calmly put down his fork and looked over at Lesley as he said, "Wait a minute Lesley are you saying that us males can't cook?"

"If the shoe fits," She shot back, by now everyone else had stopped eating and were watching the exchange going on in front of them with great interest.

"Now wait a minute Lesley males can cook," Don said giving her a dirty look.

"Yeah they can cook two minute noodles." Stella retorted sending the glare straight back at Don.

"Yeah but that's only if they know where the boiling water's kept." Donna said looking at the rest of the women who all started laughing at this comment.

"I'll have you now that I can cook reasonably well thank you very much." Carmine said with as much self righteousness as he could manage.

This caused the women to start laughing, but it was Jess who said. "Yeah Carmine microwave dinners don't count." This caused even more laughing from Donna, Stella, and Lesley. Whereas Danny, Don, Flack, and Carmine all shot the females dirty looks, Mac, Hawkes, and Lindsay all shared a knowing look.

"Oh you're so very funny Jess that I forgot to laugh," Carmine said.

"Well why don't you do it now then?" Jess asked as Carmine rolled his eyes at him, and the girls sniggered.

"Because I wasn't being serious," Carmine said in a voice he would use on a little child.

"Come on Carmine you should know that women have no sense of humour." Danny said deciding to help Carmine out and get a little of his own teasing in.

"I'll have you know Messer that our sense of humour is ten thousand times better than male's sense of humour." Stella shot back at him.

"Yeah right, whatever," Danny said dismissing what Stella said

"And what do you mean by that Messer?" Stella asked

"Who said I meant anything by it," Danny shot back.

"That's true males do say stupid and pointless things I forgot about that." Jess said rejoining the conversation.

"Yeah well at least we don't have mindless, pointless and ridiculous conversations about the most stupidest subjects unlike females." Flack said also deciding that it was time for him to rejoin the conversation as he couldn't let Danny and Carmine have all the fun.

"Yeah well at least..." With this dinner lay forgotten as another fight broke out.

Mac, Hawkes, and Lindsay all shared a look that quite clearly showed that they were really starting to get annoyed at the rest of the teams behaviour. Mac gave Lindsay a quick nod indicating her to stop the fight before it got worse.

END OF FLASHBACK

"I don't think I've seen Mac get that pissed off before." Hawkes said, now washing the cups that the team had used for dinner, and handing them over to Lindsay.

"What about that time you were working on a case when you had a connection to the victim?" Lindsay asked picking up a drier tea towel before continuing with the dishes.

"Yeah but he didn't send me out the lab, he just sent them all to their tents and they hadn't even finished eating," Hawkes said.

"Yeah that's true and they were making no effort to eat they were too busy arguing," Lindsay said as she carefully stacked a cup making sure that it wouldn't make the whole pile come crashing down.

"Yeah hey do you want me to finish the dishes?" Hawkes asked, then upon seeing Lindsay's questioning look he went on to say, "because Stella has gone into the tent with the rest of the women, probably waiting for the reaction from the guys that will never come and you need to get rid of the evidence of what we did to them or else she could show it to Mac as proof."

"Yeah that's a good point are you sure you don't mind doing the dishes?" Lindsay asked remembering that she had left all the stuff on her mattress

"Sure it's no problem, now hurry up before Stella comes out," Hawkes said taking the tea towel from Lindsay and shooing her away

"I'm gone." Lindsay said laughing as she walked away.

"Hey Hawkes where did Lindsay go?" Mac asked walking over to him and helping him rinse off the last of the dishes.

"She went to go and put away the chalk that we used earlier," Hawkes said avoiding Mac's eyes so that he couldn't see that he wasn't telling the whole truth.

"Ah uh so how did you two manage to find this lot?"

"Well apparently little miss country girl in there..."Hawkes said indicating to Stella and Lindsay's tent before saying "Comes out here and goes hiking on her days off."

"Of course she does," Mac said rolling his eyes

"What you don't believe her Mac?" Hawkes asked

"Of course I believe her I was just thinking I should have known Lindsay would come hiking out here she loves being outside." Mac said which caused them both to start laughing

Once they had finished laughing and the dishes Hawkes said "I guess that's what happens when you come from the country." This caused both of them to start laughing again.

Both CSI's looked over in time to see Stella storming back to her tent with a murderous look across her face.

Mac and Hawkes shared an amused look at the look they had seen on Stella's face and were wondering what the rest of the teams faces looked like.

"I think she might be a little upset that there was no reaction from the guy's tent," Hawkes said turning to look at Mac as he voiced both their thoughts.

"Well if that's the case I'm sure the guys are as equally disappointed as the girls," Mac said, which caused Hawkes to laugh at the fake disappointment in Mac's voice. Man he wished he could be a fly on the wall in their tents.

"You know what Mac I give it another 30 seconds." Looking at his watch and then in the direction that Lindsay had gone.

"What do you give another 30 seconds?" Mac asked Hawkes puzzled at what the doctor had just said.

"You'll see," Hawkes said giving Mac a knowing smile before looking down at his watch and counting down from 30.

Just as he reached zero Lindsay came storming over looking totally pissed off.

"Permission to shoot Stella?" She asked as she flopped down between Mac and Hawkes and looked up at Mac.

"Permission denied," Mac said looking down at Lindsay, his eyes showing a tiny glint of humour beneath the amused look he was shooting at her and asked "What has she done now?"

Lindsay sighed and looked over at the tents before meeting Macs eyes as she answered.

"She keeps complaining that there was no response from the guys about the stuff that the girls put in their tent." Lindsay complained this caused Mac to roll his eye's he was really starting to wonder why his team had taken it upon themselves to start acting like a bunch of pre schoolers who needed constant adult supervision.

"Well I think that it's time I had a group meeting with them and let them know why there was no reaction from the other group Hawkes can you help me get the stuff out of our tent please?" Mac said looking over at Hawkes.

"Yeah sure thing Mac," Hawkes answered folding up the tea towel and handing it over to Lindsay for her to put away as there was absolutely no way on the planet earth that he was going to go in the tent with Stella in that mood. He headed for his tent and the two boxes that he and Mac had hidden.

"Lindsay can you please gather the rest of the team for me?" Mac asked looking down at the only reasonable sensible and sane woman he had left on his team.

"Yeah sure Mac," Lindsay said taking the hand Mac held out to her to help pull herself up as she headed in the direction of the tents to gather her team mates thinking that it might be best if she got Hawkes to go into the males tent for her own safety and the fact that she really didn't feel like dealing with the guys tonight.

Five minutes later the rest of the team had been gathered and were sitting on the ground a couple of metres away from where Mac, Lindsay and Hawkes were busy making sure that all the objects that they had gathered from the tents were hidden under a towel so that they couldn't be seen.

"Thank you Lindsay and Hawkes for your help," Mac said as the last item was safely hidden under the towel. Hawkes was about to tell Mac not to mention it when Lindsay quickly and quietly whispered something in his ear. They shared a quick smile and Hawkes gave Lindsay a quick barely noticeable nod.

"That's ok, Mac if you don't need us to hang around then we will head off and make some hot chocolate." Lindsay said wiping her hands onto her jeans.

"No that's fine Lindsay you two can go," Mac said. He had seen the silent exchange between them and knew that they had more plans in store, but in seeing that they were taking the proper precautions to ensure that no one got hurt Mac decided that he would let them be after all they had, had to put up with constant bickering the last two weeks they deserved a little comic relief.

With that Mac started the meeting with the rest of the team whilst Lindsay and Hawkes headed to get some water not just for their hot chocolates but also for phase two of their plan.

A/N: Well that is chapter eight; I hope you all enjoyed it. Please let me know what you thought about this chapter. I apologise for any spelling mistakes I try to make sure there are none but the occasional one will slip through.