Disclaimer: I do not own CSI:NY. I wish I did.

Summary: Danny Messer's life is in danger. The past even he had forgot isn't a secret anymore, neither is the future he doesn't want to embrace. Danny/Don friendship. Set some months after Snow Day. No season four. Please read and review.

Warning: Rated for violence and mature references.

Danny gaped as Lindsay was shoved inside the room. "What the fuck?", he shouted as the four masked men entered the bedroom.

"Quiet or she'll take a round to the brain!", one of them hissed. "Well, well, well. I'll be damned. She's not just hot but she's kinky too. You're a lucky man, Messer. Too bad I'm in a tight schedule.", he sneered, eyeing Lindsay up and down.

"Shut up! Don't you dare put your fucking hands on her!", Danny barked, tugging the handcuffs frantically.

"You shut up, Messer boy, or I will shut her up for good.", he threatened and turned back to Lindsay. "Thank you, sweetheart. You made our job so much easier!", he laughed and Lindsay scowled.

"What do you want?", Danny growled, fighting futilely against the handcuffs restraining him.

"For now, I want the handcuffs' key. Where is it?", he asked and one of the others pressed his gun to Lindsay's head again.

"It's inside my bag in the living room.", she blurted out.

"B, go get it.", he commanded and one of the thugs left the bedroom.

Seconds later he was back, Lindsay's 9 mm in one hand, the key in the other. "She's got a piece in her bag."

"And he's got one here too.", another perp stated, picking up Danny's gun from the bedside table.

"Good. Take both. Guns are always welcomed.", the guy sneered, retrieving a small bottle from his coat's inner pocket and opening it. He doused a handkerchief with the liquid, closed the bottle and pocketed it again.

"Now, Messer boy, we're going for a little trip to see an old friend. Night, night...", he smirked and covered Danny's mouth and nose with the kerchief until he stopped struggling and blacked out.

"Well, we can tell him the facts, leave the rumors aside. Maybe he knows already...", Flack said. "I feel awful hiding it. These last days, I can't even look him in the eyes."

"Flack's right, Mac. We'll tell him what we know and see if he has something to say. Let him know we're here for him.", Stella agreed.

Mac, Stella and Flack were in Mac's apartment talking about Danny when Stella's cell phone rang. "Bonasera...Yeah, okay... Wait a sec...". She grabbed a pen and a piece of paper that were on the table to write the address down. "Go ahead... uhum... Got it. Have you called anyone else?... No, there's no need, he's here with me. Yeah. See you in twenty."

"Work?", Mac asked, standing up.

"Yeah. That was Angell. She said that looks like a mob hit.", Stella answered.

"Let me see the address.", Flack stretched his arm and picked the paper up. He looked at the address and murmured "Fuck... it's around the corner from Danny's."

Flack took his cell phone from his pocket and dialed while they where leaving Mac's apartment building. "Angell?... Flack. Do you have an ID on the vic?... I know it's not my case... It's important! Have you found any ID on the vic?..." Flack paled. "Are you positive? How many cops with you?... Only one?... No... Call Hawkes and Lindsay. Ask them to process this scene... Mac and Stella are coming with me... I'll explain later.", he hung up.

"She said the vic is John Tubkeren, Mac! I couldn't send her to his apartment, she's practically alone and has to secure the crime scene.", Flack panicked, dialing Danny's number and muttering "Pick up, pick up!"

"John Tubkeren?", Stella asked.

"One of the guys that were tailing Danny, Stella.", Mac said while putting the lights on top of the car, looking through the mirror at Flack who just shook his head and closed his cell phone.

Mac, Flack and Stella took their guns from their holsters and banged on Danny's door. When no answer came, Flack kicked it open. Immediately, they knew something was wrong. The pizza boy was sprawled on the floor.

They divided and went, room after room, checking and shouting "Clear!" until Stella arrived at the bedroom and screamed "Oh my God!"

Mac and Flack were there in seconds, finding Stella holding an unconscious Lindsay in her arms. "Lindsay! Lindsay! Call a bus! Lindsay, wake up!"

While Flack radioed asking for an ambulance, Mac went to check on the pizza boy. "He's alive too. Hey, kid, wake up!"

Both Lindsay and the guy regained consciousness at roughly the same time the EMTs arrived. They led him to the ambulance but Lindsay refused to go. "They took him, Mac! They kidnapped him!", she shouted distressed.

"Who? What happened, Lindsay?", Mac questioned.

"Four guys. Armed, masked and gloved. All wearing black. They took our guns and took Danny! They came just to get him, Mac! They called him 'Messer boy'. They must've ambushed the pizza guy because they used him to get me to open the door. Then they knocked him out and brought me here, where Danny was. They told him to be quiet or they'd kill me. The one that seemed to be the boss chloroformed him, handcuffed Danny's hands on his back and left through the window, carrying him off like a rag doll over his shoulder, down the fire escape. After that, I didn't see anything else, they knocked me out too."

"Flack, put an APB out and see if there's any surveillance camera that has a view of the fire escape surroundings or the front of the building. They did enter through the door.", Mac ordered.

"I'm on it.", Flack said, leaving the room to talk in his radio again.

"Go to the hospital, Lindsay. Check out this concussion on your head. It's an order.", Mac commanded. "Stell, go with her. Make sure she and the kid get examined."

"Will do. Come, Linds.", Stella grabbed her hand and pulled her towards the door.

"It's all my fault!", Lindsay shouted.

"It's not your fault, kiddo.", Stella said in a soothing voice.

"It is! I didn't give him a chance to defend himself! I cuffed him before they came!", Lindsay yelled.

"What do you mean?", Mac frowned.

"I cuffed him to the bed. He was asleep and I cuffed him. I thought it would be exciting, a good foreplay.", she groaned. "When they came, they even thanked me for making things easier for them!", she cried out.

"Lindsay, you couldn't possibly know. It's not your fault. I'm sure Danny enjoyed the idea.", Mac told her. "Now, go to the hospital. I'll process here."

After they left, he dialed Hawkes' number. "It's Mac. Are you at Angell's crime scene yet?... No, Lindsay's not going. I sent her to the hospital... She'll be okay... I'll tell you at the lab. Look, Danny's been abducted, Sheldon... I'll give you the details later. Now, I'm calling because I want you to be thorough and I want the results on the bullet that killed your vic ASAP. It may have a connection with Danny's abduction... Yeah... I'll call the lab and ask a CSI from another team to go and help you... Are you sure? Okay... Keep me posted."
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