January 8, 2008
Mac and Don had finally finished their case. They walked through the door to hear Danny on the phone with someone.
"We're home," Don called.
"Hey guys!" Danny answered, "so anyway, we had this one case with a naked scientist showing up at the precinct. Turns out, 'he built a time machine'."
As Danny continued talking, Mac went into the office for a sticky note and a pen. He quickly scribbled, "He built a time machine lyrics?" and walked over to the blond on the couch. He held up the note, and watched as the other man nodded.
Mac wracked his brain, he'd listened to all the songs, yes, but after a long day at work, he was having a hard time remembering which songs were which. Thirty-one songs tended to blend together every once in a while.
Mac grabbed his list and looked over it. He remembered that it wasn't a band he'd heard of before, and it wasn't his latest like, Fall Out Boy. Once he saw the title, he didn't get why he hadn't thought of it before. Still holding the pen, he wrote "Year 3000" on the back.
"Who were you talking to?" Don asked once Danny had hung up.
"Erin, I was letting her know we were gonna try to plan a trip out there this summer. She says we should try to come for the solstice; they have a big festival in town. She's already started making a list of all the stuff we should do while we're out there."
"Oh yeah? Like what?" Mac asked.
"Uh, canoeing down the river, watching the sled dogs practice, take a trip up to the hot springs if it's cold enough, go to the ice bar, go to the ice museum, go to the university museum, the solstice festival if we're there, riverboat cruise. She said if we're there long enough we might visit Denali or Anchorage or something. She's got a plane if we want to go to Anchorage since it's a long drive and a longer train ride."
"Sounds like a lot of fun, we'll be thanking her for months," Don said, already sounding excited.
"Yeah, it'll be just what we need," Mac said, standing up, "I'm gonna start on dinner, what sounds good?" As he passed Danny he dropped the note in the other CSI's lap.
"Whatever you wanna make is fine," Don replied.
"I'll help since I got home early," Danny offered.
Once Mac and Danny were in the kitchen Danny turned to the older man and said, "You got it, babe."
"I thought so, and don't call me babe."
Don noticed that a note dropped out of Danny's lap as he'd stood up. The black haired detective retrieved the note and saw that it had Mac's handwriting.
'So that's why Danny wanted to help, to give Mac his answer,' he thought.
Don followed the other two into the kitchen. It appeared as though Mac was going to be making stir-fry, one of Don's favorites. Don snuck up behind Danny and whispered in his ear, "I know what today's is. Year 3000."
"And here I thought you weren't paying attention."
"I didn't have to, Mac did for me."
"I think you're turning into a CSI, been spendin' too much time with us."
"Not enough time if you ask me."
"That's why we're plannin' this vacation. A couple a weeks all to ourselves."
"If you two would quit whispering and set the table, I'd be grateful," Mac cut in.
"Love you too, Mac," Danny quipped.
"I love you both and you know it, now set the table."
After a delicious dinner, the three sat in the living room discussing the trip they hoped to take.
"So, first off, when do we wanna go, and for how long?" Don asked.
"Erin recommended going during the solstice. As for how long, I'd say two or three weeks. It's gonna take us a full day to get there, and another to get back, so we'll have to arrange it so we have time when we get back to sleep off the jet lag and unpack and all that."
"How about we get there a week before the solstice, then leave a week or two after?" Mac suggested.
"That works for me, lemme grab a calendar so we can check the dates," Danny said, going into the office.
When he returned he opened the calendar up to June. "A'right, according to this the solstice is the 20th, so we should get there around the 13th or 14th."
"What day of the week is that?" Don asked.
"The 13th is a Friday, I vote we leave Saturday," Danny said, surprisingly superstitious.
"Works for me. Ok, so we leave the 14th, when do we wanna get back?"
"Well, two weeks after the solstice is July 4th, so no. Do we wanna go a week and a half? Leave like, Wednesday?" Danny questioned.
"That would get us back the 2nd, and we could still have the rest of the week off to recuperate," Mac said.
"We've all got enough vacation time saved up for it, should we go check out flights?"
Danny got on his computer in the office and started checking various travel sites. "From what it looks like here, it's gonna run us about $715 a person leaving from JFK."
"Sounds reasonable," Don commented.
"Yeah, that seems alright," Mac said.
"You wanna do it? I'll make sure we get changeable tickets, knowing our schedules."
"Yeah, let's do it," Mac and Don said in unison.
"This is gonna be awesome," Danny stated, making the transactions.
Mac and Don just smiled, glad that their lover was happy.