Danny was standing in front of her holding his gun to her.

"Danny..." she pleaded but Danny didn't let her finish, he shot her.


12 hours earlier.

By the time Danny arrived at the lab, Lindsay was devastated. Mac had called the FBI and they were closing airports and sending the photo of Sydney and Isabella to all the NYPD officers.

"Lindsay" He called as he ran to her and hugged her.

"She took Isabella, Danny"

"We are going to find her I promise" He said trying to stay calm, even if he was full of rage.

"I knew it, I saw her today"

"Lindsay, don't worry, she's not gonna go anywhere, the FBI has closed the airports and they are blocking all the exits of the city"

"How can you ask me not to worry, she's unpredictable, she's already far away"

Mac's phone rang, so he went in his office to answer. Danny looked at him, then turned his head to see Lindsay but she wasn't there anymore. He looked around but didn't see her. But he knew her too well, they have been together for five years now, and he knew that every time something horrible happen she need to be alone. Danny slowly made his way to their joint office and found her, in the dark, looking at the city outside. He entered the room and went to stand behind her, putting his hand on her hips carefully.

"Linds..." he said softly

"I'm gonna kill her, I swear, if I see her, I'll shoot her down" she spat.

Danny rarely heard Lindsay so angry, but when it concerned Sydney, she was always like that and he didn't blame her for that. He couldn't forget the unforgettable night, five years ago. Whenever he looked at Lindsay, he felt Sydney He didn't love her sister, he loved the mother of his daughter, but what he felt when I thought that he was spending for the first time the night with her, he couldn't forget. And it was killing him inside, that somehow, Lindsay knew it too.

"I know you're angry, but you're not like that, you're not a killer"

"I don't care... what if she hurts Isabella or worse, what if she kills her, I can't live without her, Danny, if something happened, it would destroy me"

"We are gonna find her, and we are gonna take Isabella home, and everything will be alright, we could have another baby"

She laughed through her tears, but it was more irony than from joy.

"I told you I don't want another kid, I don't want Isabella to have a sister"

"She'll never be like you and Sydney, she don't have a twin... wait a minute... I know how we can find her"

"What do you mean ? How ?"

"Real connections cannot be broken by time or space"

"What ?"

"It's what you said one time" he said, taking Lindsay's hand and leading her to her desk

"Yes, so what ?"

"Research have proved that identical twin, think the same... so you need to think like her"

"She's a psycho Danny, how can I think like her ?"

"Forget the psycho, think... where would you go, if you had just kidnapped her daughter"

"I don't know Danny..."

"We know that, she have money, she have connections..."

"Okay... I would ... I don't know, hide, somewhere, where no one can find me"

"Where is that... like in the middle of nowhere..."

"The best way to pass unnoticed is to be surround with a little of people, so I'll stay in a big city..."

"Like New York ?"

"Probably, yes, She probably thought that we would believe that she left the country, so..."

She turned to her computer and opened Google, she searched a list of all the hotels in Manhattan. A little more than 250 named appeared.

"Hotels ?" Danny said looking at what Lindsay was typing.

"During the past five years, I tried to locate her, each time I lost her, she was staying at an hotel"

"Every hotel has video surveillance, if she checked into one after she took Izzy, we retrieve the tape and..."

"No, when we were in that abandoned building in Brooklyn, she used a device that jam the radio signals, she must have use it"

"Then what..."

"Sheraton ..."

"Are you sure ?" he said

"No, but there's where I'll go... it's near Grand Central"

"Ok, let's go..."

Danny took his coat and his gun and Lindsay was already in front of the elevator.


Twenty minutes later they were in the lobby of the Sheraton hotel. Lindsay went to the registration counter.

"Hi, I'm Detective Messer, NYPD, we have reason to think that a dangerous..." Danny began to ask the woman behind the counter, but Lindsay interrupt him.

"Were you here yesterday around 9 pm" she asked

"Yes, I didn't let the counter why"

"Do you recognize me ?"

"I afraid not"

"Can we check your files..." Danny asked, but he noticed that Lindsay was already gone.

"Lindsay!!"

He followed her outside the hotel, she was standing there, looking around.

"Lindsay..."

"She's not there"

"We don't know that, I'm gonna take the tape back to the lab and check"

"It will take forever... " She said her tone raising with anger.

"Yeah but right now it's more than nothing, I know you're scared and angry but ..."

"I beyond scared, don't you understand..."

"I understand, Linds, she's my daughter too, don't forget that"

"Yeah, but she's my sister... I'm the one she tries to hurt"

"It's not your fault" Danny said hugging her tenderly.

"Yes it is, Every person, I care about, sooner or later, something horrible happens to them. It's like that all the time since twenty years. They are kidnapped, or tortured, even killed, because they are close to me, I feel like the plague, and I make everyone I love sick..."

She stopped speaking, when Danny noticed it, she was looking a little back across the street.

"The Grand Wyatt..."

"It's closer to Grand Central"

"Let's go"

As they ran to the hotel, Danny called Flack to say him where they were. He was a little behind her and when he entered the hotel, she was already at the registration counter.

"Miss Montana, good morning"

When Danny heard the man at the counter calling her Montana he stayed a little behind.

"Thanks, hi... hi forgot my card and my daughter is still in the room, can you give me another one please"

"Of course, Here's the key to the penthouse"

"Thank you"

She turned to see Danny, he was on the phone. She looked at him in her eyes, and he knows. Even he didn't like what he saw in her eyes, he knew she had to deal with Sydney alone but he just couldn't let her destroyed herself over her sister.

He follow her into the elevator as the doors were closing.

"Let me handle this Danny"

"No"

"I"m not afraid to fight with her"

"You're not gonna fight with her" He said looking deep into her eyes.

"Watch me"

The doors opened on the penthouse floor and Lindsay ran to the door. She opened the door slowly and entered, scanning the room her gun in her hands, followed by Danny. They heard the shower running, and without a noise, Lindsay went into the bedroom, she found Isabella asleep in her crib. She took her, putting her hand on her mouth to stop her for crying and gave her to Danny.

"I have to finish this Danny, take Isabella somewhere safe"

"I'm not leaving you, back ups are on their way"

"Danny, please, leave now"

He looked at her, but the shower stopped and he knew he didn't have the time to fight with her. So he kissed her, with all the love and the passion he had in him, and left.

"I love you Messer"

"I love you to Montana" he said before leaving the suite just as Sydney went out the shower.

"Hi sis" Lindsay said, imitating what her sister used to say to her every time they met. But Sydney didn't seem surprised.

"Well, it's about time, what took you so long ?" She said putting her shirt on.

"Don't move" Lindsay holding her gun.

"Is Danny here ? I miss him so much"

"Don't..."

"Move, I know, you said that already"

"...Don't talk to me about your love for Danny, or Isabella" Lindsay said

"Ohh, Isabella, what a beautiful little girl, she looks a lot like me you know"

"No... she looks like me because you'll never look like me again"

"Really, what are you gonna do ? ask me politely to go away ?"

"Much can be accomplished with a smile. More can be accomplished with a smile and a gun" Lindsay smiled, stepping towards her sister

"You still don't get it do you ? you really think I'd be so stupid, to kidnap your daughter, then hide in an hotel just ten minutes away from you... I wanted you to find me, I knew you'll come alone, I bet Danny took Isabella and took her somewhere safe, it's just you and me Sis, and only one will walk out of here alive, and it won't be you"

She threw a vase at Lindsay, hitting her in the face making her drop her gun. Quickly she went beside her to strangle her, but since Sydney disappeared, Lindsay had been practicing her fight skills, she threw her elbow in Sydney's face making her step away.

"Have you ever killed anyone Linny?" she asked, using the name she had called her when they were kids. "It takes away your soul and you will never be the same again."

"No she didn't, and she won't" Danny said stepping into the suite, holding his gun to Sydney

"Danny..." Sydney said using Lindsay's voice

Suddenly Lindsay's mind blanked as a white hot rage took her when she saw how Sydney was behaving in front of Danny. But the last thing she knew, she was hearing shots. She saw Sydney's body jolting with the impact of every bullet. He thought that it would be harder to squeeze the trigger, but he was just kept pulling it until there was only a quiet clicking in his head. Tears poured down Lindsay's face as she fell to her knees. Danny came out of his daze and moved to Lindsay's side.

"Shh, Lindsay" he whispered into her ear. "It's Ok, she's gone."

Lindsay collapsed against her and he wrapped his arms around her as her shoulders trembled. She just lay there in her arms for a second. When Mac and the backup team arrived.

"You're alright ?" He asked as the team cleared the suite
"Is she really gone this time?" Lindsay finally asked, trying to regain her composure. Danny checked the pulse of the body she had at one time called sister.
"Yes, this time she is gone," he said.

They threw their arms around each other once more and held on tight. It had been a long road for them, but maybe now they could find peace. Danny pulled back and held her face in his hands, looking deep into her eyes. For a moment he just let himself be lost there and she did the same in the pools of blue that she loved so much. When he hugged her again, this time, his eyes were empty.

"Where's Isabella ?"

"I left her with Flack, they are in the lobby"

When Lindsay went out the elevator, she found Isabella standing on Flack laps, hit him playfully on the head.

"Isabella, sweetie, stop hitting uncle Flack" he said, closing his eyes each time she hit him. The little girl giggle "Fack... Fack..."

Lindsay smiled through her tears and when Flack saw her, he stood up and walked toward her.

"Your daughter is evil"

"She's a Messer" she said taking her little girl.


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