Disclaimer: I do not own the CSI:NY characters or the FRIENDS storylines. If I did own CSI:NY, Mac and Stella would be together.

Notes: Okay, they fought. Not my best fight, I will admit that. They are never done fighting. Now it might take a little more for them to blow up, but I swear I will have a true shouting match for you. Like always, enjoy!

The One With The Interrogation and After

Kelly was still furious at Mac. She wasn't even working that case, but she had to interrogate the suspect. All she had done was give Mac the trace report for Adam. Her sarcasm had finally come back and bit her in the butt. She wouldn't learn from this fight. Maybe the next one, but she would still speak her mind. Nothing would keep her from that.

"What happened?" Flack asked.

"Nothing. Where's Daniel Spade?" Kelly asked.

"Interrogation," Flack pointed. Kelly quickly yanked the case file from Mac's outstretched hand and entered the room. Don and Mac went into the room behind the glass to watch.

"Do you think it's a good thing to put her in an interrogation room while she is ticked?" Flack asked. Mac shook his head. She would get the guy to talk. That was what they needed to give them a good lead to work on.

"We found your DNA under Kelsey Bryant's fingernails. Do you want to tell me how it got there?" she asked. He said nothing.

"It says here that you served time for aggravated assault. I guess you jumped up to murder," Kelly read. Still, Daniel said nothing.

"How about we trade stories? Tell me your story, and I will tell you mine," Kelly suggested. Daniel gave a slight nod.

"We had a fight. I didn't want her to leave. I grabbed her arm. She scratched my arm. I let her go. That was the last time I saw her," he told her. She started to put the case file up. She put it on a corner on the table.

"Okay, my partner is a good CSI. Soon enough we will find out if you are telling me the truth. I guess I need to tell you my story. Okay, it involves three detectives. I was having a bad day so I was excited when I got to stick things in a pig to find out the murder weapon. Well, obviously I wasn't expecting what I saw," she told Spade.

"What? Did you see?" he asked. Kelly smiled.

"Two detectives on third base if you know what I mean. Right now one of those detectives is going to try to explain it to my supervisor. Then he will try to tell my boss about a relationship I have. What he doesn't know, is that my boss already knows," Kelly walked out with the case file. She was smiling. She had been waiting to tell about Flack and Angell. She could imagine the look on his face. Then she decided why imagine it when she could see it. She walked into the room behind the glass. Flack was enraged.

"Did I say something?" she asked. She handed Mac the case file. She was still mad at him so it wasn't exactly handing him the file. She pushed it as hard as she could into his hands. She walked out.

"Sometimes, I get this feeling that she doesn't like us," Flack stressed the sarcasm in the phrase. Mac looked at him rolling his eyes.

"Really?" Mac asked. He walked out with the case file. Flack rolled his eyes and took his cue to follow. They went back to the layout room. Kelly and Hawkes were in there. Stella joined the two of them. Mac and Flack walked in.

"I think this guy is telling the truth. There is no other evidence linking him to the stabbing," Kelly told Hawkes and Stella. She looked at her watch. It was ten o'clock. Flack yawned.

"Flack, why don't you go home and get some sleep? Don't stay here. You're not Mac. You have a life," Kelly said when she saw him yawn. Mac bit his bottom lip to keep himself from retaliating. Stella gave Mac a comforting look. Mac gripped the file so hard that his knuckles were bright white.

"Anything?" Mac asked Stella.

"I don't think that Daniel killed her. There is no other evidence connecting him to the crime," Stella said. Mac nodded.

"So we don't have a lead," Hawkes said.

"Maybe Kelly's right, Flack. Just about going home," Mac added very quickly.

"I don't know. I thought my second point was true," Kelly told Mac. He really wanted to say something.

"Need some Orbit, Mac?" Flack asked. Kelly laughed getting the reference to the gum campaign. Mac rolled his eyes.

"You keep doing that, and your eyes will get stuck there, Mac," Kelly said. Hawkes smiled. Stella gave an inaudible laugh. Flack chuckled. Mac was angry, but he didn't want another fight so he didn't say anything. Actually, he was more than angry. He was furious. He walked out of the layout room.

"That was pretty good, Kelly," Flack told her.

"Not bad yourself," she replied. They got back to the case when they realized that Mac had the file.

"I am not getting it from him," Kelly said at once. Hawkes agreed with Kelly. Flack refused so Stella had to go confront Mac and get the case file. Hawkes' and Kelly's pagers buzzed. Adam had the trace results. They walked in on him singing I'll Be There For You by The Rembrandts.

"So no one told you life was going to be this way," Adam sang.

"Job's a joke, you're broke, love life's DOA," Kelly joined in.

"It's like you're always stuck in second gear. Well, it hasn't been your day, week, month, or even your year. But, I'll be there for you when the rain starts to pour. I'll be there for you, like I've been there before. I'll be there for you, cause you're there for me too," Adam and Kelly sang together. Hawkes laughed and got the print off from the printer.

"Thanks, Adam," Hawkes said as he left with Kelly. Mac was back in the lay out room. Kelly was already thinking of something to say.

"Mac, can we go home? I mean people with social lives are normally out by now. But, I guess you don't know what that's like, do you?" Kelly asked when they walked in. Mac was still angry, but was still trying not to fight. Kelly smirked. Flack had a huge grin on his face. Stella was trying not to smile.

"What did I tell you?" Mac said to Stella as he walked out. Kelly laughed. She was getting very good at this making Mac angry thing.

"Okay, Kelly, you can stop it. You have officially made him mad," Hawkes told her. Kelly shrugged.

"Just because you won't stand up to him, doesn't mean I can't stand up to him," Kelly replied. Hawkes looked shocked. Did she just call him a coward?

"I am not a coward," Hawkes said.

"So if he walked through that door, you wouldn't say anything to him?" Kelly asked.

"Well, that's just rude to say something," Hawkes defended himself. Kelly laughed at this.

"Look, I understand. I really do," Kelly told him with a smile on her face.

"If Mac walked in here right now, I would do something," Hawkes said. Kelly was still laughing. Hawkes wouldn't do anything. She was sure of that.

"Stella, you said that we got the trace results before Kelly thought it would be funny to make fun of me," Mac said walking in.

"Hawkes, he's here. Do something," Kelly mocked. Hawkes looked at her. He stopped leaning on the table and walked over to her. He kissed her full on the mouth.

"That what you had in mind?" he asked her. She blushed a little while he walked out of the room.

"Wow," she breathed as she watched him walk away.

"Stop checking him out," Mac told her.

"Right," she mumbled. She still watched Hawkes leave.

After Notes: How was that? Did Hawkes just kiss her in front of everyone? Talk about a shocker. I didn't know that Hawkes had it in him. If you liked the story or disliked it, let me know. Just press the irresistible button. I would like to thank my reviewers: lily moonlight, Sarryb, CSIMiami17, GregRox, and Blue Shadowdancer! You guys are amazing!