They had spent the night at his place after work yesterday. They had made dinner together and sat talking about their days while they ate. It seemed that even though spent most of their time together and had known each other for they could always find something to talk about.

She had spent the night this time.

It was an amazing night, Stella had never felt so comfortable while in bed with a man. They had continued talking late into the night. Eventually falling asleep in each others arms.

They had woken up this morning when his alarm had woken them up and made breakfast together. It was so domestic that Stella had had to pinch herself to make sure she wasn't dreaming.

After breakfast they had taken a cab together dropping her off at her apartment before he went on to work. Stella had a later start so had decided to go back to her apartment to get clean clothes and have a shower.

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Stella had a huge smile on her face, that seemed to have become permanent the last ten days, as she walked through the lab towards her office. She glanced Mac in his office on the phone and waved at him as she continued to her own. He smiled at her before looking back down at the file in front of him.

"Hey Stel!" Lindsay shouted as she waked out of one of the labs making her way toward the elevators. "Nice painting."

Before Stella could ask what Lindsay was talking about the young detective had disappeared into an elevator that had just arrived.

"Oh My God." She said to herself as she walked into her office. On the wall where her old painting from her professor had once hung was a large Maleas oil painting. She had seen this exact one in one of the art galleries she had visited in Greece when she was there, it was called Naxos and depicted some of the cliffs off of the edge of Greece. She knew it was an original. He would never get her a fake. He had known how much the old one had meant to her and how looking at the blank wall now made her heart ache. She couldn't believe he had done this for her to pay that much for a painting and have it shipped all this way.

Slipping out of her office and making sure no one was around. They weren't hiding that they were together but they were not flaunting it in fear of either of them being fired. However neither were worried if they were caught because each were to valuable to the crime lab. Stella walked into his office shutting the door softly behind her.

Mac was off of the phone now and was concentrating on a file in front of him.

Stella walked up to him grabbing the armrests of the chair and swung him around to face her.

Grabbing his face she leant down and kissed him with all of the passion, tenderness and love she could. Not stopping until both of them couldn't breath. Pulling away she rested her forehead on his and with a soft smile whispered "Thank you."

It took a couple of moments for them to gather themselves before they continued on with their day of work before they would again after their shifts dinner.

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