A/N Hey guys! Can you believe I updated so quickly! I would like to thank Mouse95 for Beta Reading this chapter you are awesome! I hope the argument between Hawkes and Mac turns out to everyone's expectations. Thanks for reading!

Chapter 9

Danny was laying on his back staring up at the bleak tiles in the hospital room. He reached up tugging at the neck brace and was rewarded with a swat on the hand.

"Come on Montana I don't need this thing and it itches," he whined.

"Leave. It. Alone.," Lindsey fussed like a mother would at her child, as she leaned in so he could see her.

"Stop being a baby Messer! If it was up to me I'd let you take that thing off and see if you could spin your head all away around," Don said grinning, even though he knew no one but Hawkes heard him.

"Hey Doc, how much longer do I have to wear this thing?" Danny asked

"Until you get your x-rays done. Then you will have to wait to see those results turn out," Hawkes said.

Danny let out a frustrated sigh and went tug at the brace again with his other hand only to have his wrist grabbed, something cold was slapped on wrist with a click. Then he wasn't able to move his hand but a few inches off the bed.

"What the hell!" Danny exclaimed.

Angell's grinning face came into his view.

"You have a listening problem Messer. She said leave it alone" she said, still grinning.

Lindsey's smiling face came into his view. She was holding his other hand firmly while her other hand reached up and was playing with his hair. She knew how much it relaxed him when she played with his hair.

He almost forgot Angell was there. He heard her come in earlier upset and started fussing at Hawkes about something. He thought she had left. Guess not, now she had him handcuffed to the bed.

"Hey Doc you're not going to let them gang up on me are ya," Danny asked, wiggling his hand again.

"Danny, Hawkes walked out of the room," Lindsey said, calmly. He could hear Angell in the room chuckling at him.



"Great," he mumbled.

Lindsey was still playing with his hair and he could feel his swollen eyelids becoming heavy. Which was probable the reason she started playing in it. He finally gave in and closed his eyes.

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Hawkes was pacing back and forth in front of the curtain that was the door to Danny's room. Don had seen him leave while the girls were picking on Danny so he followed him.

"What's wrong?" Don asked. He saw Hawkes stop and turn around quickly towards Don's voice. Anger flashed in his dark eyes.

"I know Angell was just trying to help but now Mac is going to come up here asking all kinds of questions and I don't have the answers he wants," Hawkes whispered, so that they couldn't hear him though the curtain.

"Why didn't you just call Mac when Lea called you?" Don asked, as he watched Hawkes continue to pace.

"And tell him what my sister just called and said that my dead detective friend busted through her door saying that his two friends were being robbed by the guy that shot him," Hawkes hissed at him. "Yeah that would have turned out perfectly" he added sarcastically.

"What are you going to tell Mac?" Don asked.

"I don't know," Hawkes said, sighing.

"You better come up with something quick because here he comes," Don said.

Hawkes turned to see Mac and Stella coming down the hall towards him. Mac looked worried and angry.

Don smiled when he saw Stella she looked beautiful. Her hair was pulled back and she had that pregnant glow to her. Don wanted to touch her so bad. She took a few steps ahead of Mac and hugged Hawkes.

"Tell her she looks beautiful for me" Don said.

"You're glowing Stel" Hawkes whispered, in her ear.

"Thank you but I'm not the one you need to butter up," Stella said, chuckling.

Hawkes couldn't help but smile as she pulled back smiling.

It wasn't Don's exact message he wanted Hawkes to say but it made her smile and that was what Don wanted to see.



"How's Danny?" Stella asked.

"He came in unconscious but woke up soon after they put him in a room. It has been really crazy around here tonight so they haven't even got him up to x-ray yet but they did give him something mild for the pain. I know for sure he has a broken nose but not sure about his cheek or neck until after the x-ray. He's not going to be able to look good in pictures for awhile but he is going to be fine," Hawkes said.

"I'm going to go say hi," she said, before completely pulling out of Hawkes embrace.

Stella opened the curtain and went in the room.

Mac, who had been silent the whole time put his hand on Hawkes shoulder and looked him in the eye and sternly said.

"Sheldon, we need to talk," Mac said.

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Stella walked into Danny's room closing the curtain behind her. She knew the men needed to talk. Stella smiled a little when she saw Lindsey was at Danny's bedside. The bed rail was down and Lindsey was holding his hand while her other hand was stretch up to his head, her fingers were lightly twitching in his hair and her head was on her out stretched arm asleep. Danny was asleep too. Stella could see that Hawkes was right Danny didn't look like he would be ready for a photo shoot for awhile. Stella was about to leave when she heard a soft voice call her name from the corner. She looked and saw Angell get up from her chair and walk over to her.

"How are you?" Angell asked, hugging her.

"Very pregnant and not wanting to see a hospital for a while or at least until the baby is ready," Stella said chuckling.

Angell nodded understandingly.

"Stella?" Lindsey asked, sitting up.

"Hey, kiddo how are you doing?" Stella asked, giving her a hug.

"I'm ok," she said softly.

"Are you sure?" Stella asked, looking in Lindsey's eyes knowingly.

"I was really scared Stel. I thought I lost him," Lindsey said, as a few tears slipped from her eyes.

"I'm sure you were sweetie. I'm just glad both of you are ok," Stella said, hugging her again.



"Lindsey" Danny's groggy voice came from the bed

"Hey, cowboy you got a visitor," Lindsey said, walking back to the bed with Stella.

Danny saw Stella come into view.

"Stel, How you doing?" Danny asked, trying to smile at her.

"I'm fine. How are you feeling and why are you handcuffed to the bed?" Stella asked, with a smirk.

"I've felt better. This brace itches like crazy. As for being cuffed to the bed ask Angell," Danny said.

Stella turned towards Angell who was grinning.

"He wouldn't listen to Monroe when she said told him to leave the brace alone," Angell said shrugging innocently.

Stella smiled. They all turned when they heard angry voices coming from outside the curtain.

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"Sheldon, we need to talk," Mac said.

"I know Mac," Hawkes said, softly.

"Then you know I like to stay informed especially about my team," Mac said, sternly.

Hawkes nodded his head.

"Why didn't you call me the minute you got the lead on the suspect?" Mac asked.

"I just wanted to catch the guy. Mac I didn't think about calling you," Hawkes said, nervously.

"You had a lead on a suspect and you didn't think to call me?" Mac asked, his voice rising.

"I called Angell the minute I got the lead and we got the guy. I thought that is what you wanted" Hawkes said, his voice rising too.

"Who was this lead? How did you know it wasn't a setup? What if it turned out like the Shane Casey case?" Mac fired off questions angrily.

"The lead was my sister. She told me she was club hopping and she saw a man in a hood go in to the bar ahead of her and lock the door behind him. Then approached the counter and pulled a gun. That was when she called me, why she didn't call the police? I don't know. That's when I called Angell," Hawkes said.



"Ok, Sheldon I understand that part but what I don't understand is why you didn't let me know after you contacted Angell. I would liked to have known what was going on IF something went wrong instead of seeing it on the news in the morning" Mac said, his voice still rising.

"Look Mac there are no ifs. What happened happened. Don got shot and killed. You and I can't change it no matter how much we want to. But I was not going to stand around and wait for you to give orders while Danny and Lindsey died too," Hawkes said, his voice rising with every word.

"I would go crazy if they haunted me too," he mumbled under his breath.

Mac looked like he had been slapped.

"I know that I can't change what happened to Don but … Wait how did you know Danny and Lindsey were in the bar? Angell said the glass was smoky all she could see was a figure standing with a gun?" Mac asked, his anger turning to confusing.

Mac could see Hawkes was struggling with something to say. He had only heard part of what Hawkes mumbled and that left Mac with more questions.

"What's haunting you Sheldon," Mac asked, softly.

"Mac, I know that you believe in the science of things. I do to most to the time but this time you are just going to have to trust me when I say that I knew Danny and Lindsey were in that bar," Hawkes said, then turned around and started to walk away.

"You're suspended for a week Sheldon," Mac said, to Hawkes retreating back.

"What!" Hawkes said, spinning around