AN Again thank you to my dear hogwartsalumni for doing the beta thing…you rock. Okay I hope this works for ya'll…I'm nearing the end here…a couple more chapters are kickin' around that's for sure. You guys are troopers for stickin' around this long thanks muchly…now I'll shut up so you can read. :)

Jealousy

Jealousy is a universal emotion. It is not an emotion that many want to be associated with; it indicates dissatisfaction with one's own self leading one to blame another. It's been called the green-eyed monster and can lead a person to act erratically.

Jesse O'Malley had reasons to be jealous of Danny Messer. Unbeknownst to Danny, Lindsay was not the first woman Jesse knew to be swayed by the CSI. He felt justified in his jealousy because of this and was certain that Danny was aware of what he had done. His reality was skewed by his misconceptions and this was leading him further and further away from any sort of rational thinking.

Jesse had heard that Detective Flack was going to pick up a suspect in the case that Danny and Lindsay were working so he made sure he requested to accompany him.

"Can I ask you a question detective?" He asked, once they were on their way to pick up Kyle Moore, the president of Shaheena's fan club and the owner of a pair of size eleven converse all stars.

"Yeah sure O'Malley," Flack said with a curious expression.

"How well do you know Danny Messer?"

Flack had to admit that when Jesse had offered to go with him to pick up Moore he had suspected this kind of conversation. He glanced at the officer out of the corner of his eye, "Better than most, not as well as some. Why?"

"Lindsay broke up with me." Jesse said glumly as though that were an explanation in and of itself.

Raising an eyebrow Flack slowed to stop at a light and regarded the man, "And you think Danny had something to do with that?"

"Well they work together and…he's got this reputation." Jesse tried to explain.

Flack chuckled as they pulled up to their destination, "And you believe everything you hear?"

"Do you remember Ann Berman?" Jesse decided to try a different avenue.

He racked his brain for a moment then nodded, "She worked the call lines during that huge case last year, so?" He answered his own question remembering something about Danny taking her out for drinks, "You were dating her?"

"No," Jesse shook his head, "But I was going to ask her out, then Messer gets in there and that was it she hardly noticed me."

"And based on this you think he seduced Lindsay out of a relationship with you?" Flack asked with a smirk, "That's a lot of conclusion jumping O'Malley, my advice, if you have a problem with Danny take it up with him." They got to Kyle Moore's room halting their conversation.

Lindsay tried not to watch him she really did, but for some reason the fact that she didn't have a boyfriend any more made him even more enticing to look at. She hadn't been able to bring herself to tell him that she and Jesse broke up; mainly because she was afraid he wouldn't care.

"Check this out," Danny said. He was scrolling through eBay and came across something interesting.

Lindsay did something she never would have done before, but for some reason she wanted to test out his reaction. She put a hand on the back of his chair and her other next to where he had his hand on the mouse. Leaning down close to him she looked at the monitor, "Hmm, it appears somebody was selling Shaheena's thongs online."

He licked his lips and looked at her profile out of the corner of his eye. What was she doing? He had been insanely curious about her comment the day before; it contradicted what he had seen before work. "Guess who the seller is…" He prompted forcing himself to think about work and not how badly he wanted to pull her onto his lap.

She turned to look at him, "Kyle Moore?" She watched his pupils dilate and smirked, hmm maybe she had some sex appeal of her own. However, now was not the time or place, yet she didn't move just waited for him to respond.

"That one and the same," He nodded then raised his eyebrows at her, "Are you doing this on purpose?"

She feigned ignorance, "Doing what?"

"Boxing me in," He said matter of factly then stood up, which put him dangerously in her personally space, "Not that I mind, but it's highly inappropriate." He then lifted her arm up gently to step around it.

Oh it was official she wanted the man badly. She inhaled then stared at him, "Where are you going?" Why in the name of all that was holy was she not telling him about her breaking up with Jesse? What was holding her back?

"Flack must have Moore now I'm gonna go help with the interrogation." He saw her move to join him, "You know being in a confined space with you isn't a good idea for me right now so why don't you wait on the results on those epithelials we found on the thong by the murder weapon."

She merely nodded, "I'll contact you the moment I know anything." TELL HIM! Her brain yelled yet she still said nothing.

He smiled, "Good." He said then got out of there. Something was different with her, he definitely liked it but he wasn't about to help her cheat on her boyfriend. He'd done it before, but with Lindsay it was different, he wanted to be better for her, not help her be worse.

She watched him walk down the hall toward the locker room and slammed her hand down on the table next to her. It should be illegal what that man did to her brain.

Flack had just stating talking to Kyle Moore about his whereabouts the night of the murder when Danny walked into the interrogation room, he didn't even see Jesse who was glaring at him.

Danny spoke to Flack for a moment informing him of where he wanted the interrogation to go. Flack agreed and sat down to offer assistance whenever it was needed. Danny walked around Kyle a moment making the young man nervous, "So you're the president of Shaheena's fan club?" He asked.

Kyle nodded, "She picked me herself," He said proudly.

"So then was it her idea for you to sell her underwear on eBay?" Danny asked with an eyebrow raised, "Does that sound right to you Flack?"

"I gotta say I wouldn't let the president of my fan club sell my skivvies on the internet." Flack said sarcastically, "That's just wrong."

"Exactly what I was thinking," Danny agreed and put his hand on the chair behind Kyle, "So enlighten us."

Kyle's face twitched, "She always forgot me, we've met eight times and every time she looks at me like she's never seen my face before."

"Uh huh," Danny nodded pretending to understand, "And for that you decide to sell her undies on eBay, so what, did Kristopher get in the way?"

"She was willing to bone anyone except you so…" Flack started but Kyle cut him off.

"Not anyone, she didn't know me well enough yet!" He protested.

"Hey Danny?"

"Yeah Flack?"

"How long do you think it would have taken you to convince her to sleep with you?"

Kyle started getting mad but the two men pretended they didn't see him.

"About a second, and you?"

"I'd say about the same." They both looked at Kyle.

Danny leaned across the table at him, "You weren't good enough for her were you Kyle?"

"No!" He slammed his hands down, "I just stole her underwear I didn't kill that guy."

Just then Danny's phone rang; he looked down at the name and smiled, "Talk to me Monroe."

Lindsay's heart should not have jumped damn heart. "I have results."

"Whatcha got?" He prompted not evening noticing Jesse clenching and unclenching his fist in the corner.

"The epithelials belong to a Kyle Moore," She read off the information, "Who was up on an assault charge last year for apparently punching a guy who got a kiss from Shaheena."

"You're beautiful, thanks." Danny hung up the phone before he realized what he'd said. He was way too into the zone though so he glazed over it and smiled manically at Kyle.

Jesse was more convinced than he had been that Danny had some hand in Lindsay breaking up with him.

Flack smirked, "Just so you know, that smile on his face means life ain't gonna go well for you."

"Do you know what epithelials are Kyle?" Danny asked.

"I look like a nerd to you?" Kyle rolled his eyes.

Danny got up and went around Kyle's chair again and leaned down to speak into his ear, "From what Shaheena said to me she likes nerds." He stood up again, "Epithelials are little skin cells that hold DNA, you followin' me?"

"Yeah." Kyle's voice was getting shaky.

"A whole bunch of those skin cells were found on a pair of Shaheena's underwear right next to the light that killed Kristopher, put this with the fact that your shoes match the prints we found on the speaker directly under the light and the fact that you just admitted that you stole her underwear, you see where I'm going with this Kyle. It can only mean one thing…" He trailed off.

"He should have just let me leave!" Kyle exclaimed.

"I was gonna go with you killed him," Flack said wryly.

They got a full confession out of Kyle who maintained the whole time that if Shaheena had just paid attention to him nothing would have happened.

Flack pulled the guy up with a shake of his head, "You give pathetic a whole new meaning, come on genius."

Danny was about to leave the interrogation room when Jesse finally spoke, "You think you're all that don't you?"

"O'Malley?" Danny looked at him stunned that the guy had been standing there the whole time. He tended not to pay attention to the officer that usually stood in the corner of the interrogation room; they rarely gave him a reason to.

"We were fine," Jesse continued, "Lindsay and I, we were doing fine and then you had to go and be…I don't know what the hell you did but she broke up with me over it."

Danny's mind was swimming, they broke up? Lindsay and Jesse broke up? Maybe that was why she had acted the way she had earlier. Oh wait a minute…he looked up at Jesse, "You think I had something to do with that?"

"Don't even pretend you didn't do it on purpose!"

"Do what on purpose? I have no idea what you are talking about O'Malley. I didn't even know you guys broke up." He said honestly and leaned against the table in the room. His head was still swimming for some reason. They broke up?

Jesse was slowly losing this and he knew it, he was actually entertaining the idea that maybe it didn't have everything to do with Danny Messer. Maybe he was to blame for some of this, "You've done it before." He said.

"What? Broke you and Lindsay up?" This was almost amusing except that Danny still couldn't get it out of his head…they broke up?

"No!" Jesse was exasperated, Danny was acting too innocent. This wasn't how it was supposed to happen. Danny was supposed to act like an egotistical ass so that his thoughts about him were right. "Ann Berman." He finally said.

Danny thought for a moment then looked over at Jesse, "You were dating her?" He really had no idea where Jesse was going with this; he'd just gone out for drinks with that chick. He hardly remembered what she looked like.

He realized defeat when he saw it. Whatever Lindsay's reasons were for breaking up with him they certainly weren't fuelled by Danny. At least not intentionally, "You didn't try to convince Lindsay to break up with me?" He finally asked lamely.

Danny shook his head very glad that he could honestly answer this question, "Nope." Although he had wanted to, had he ever and he probably could have if he had let himself give in to the temptation. He had to applaud his self restraint in the locker room it was really helping his case here, "Is there anything else?"

Jesse just shook his head so Danny left.

Lindsay got to her car with a smile, she was glad they had been able to finish that case so cleanly. She unlocked the door and pulled it open when an arm went over her shoulder and a hand went to her waist and spun her around, "So why didn't you tell me?" Danny asked shutting the door so she was leaning up against her car and he was close up against her.

She licked her lips and swallowed slowly, "I didn't know if you'd care." She finally said knowing exactly what he was talking about.

He rolled his eyes, "You're kidding me right?" Leaning down he slowly and deliberately kissed her lips. She was just savouring the taste of him when he pulled away, "Right I don't care." He said with a smirk then turned and walked away.

Jealousy breeds contempt and can skew one's view of the truth. Jesse was so blind to his disdain for Danny that he didn't realize he was sabotaging his own relationship.

However he wasn't entirely wrong, she did say 'insane sex appeal' after all.

AN So yeah I have been informed that I am mean…come on at least now they've kissed outside of their dreams! lol