Here is another chapter for you all to enjoy :)

Flack sat at the Messer's kitchen table, he felt a lot more awake and refreshed after sleeping on the air bed. He was also pleased that he had managed to sleep the whole night through as Lindsay hadn't woken up with anymore nightmares. He'd gone to make them both breakfast that morning but had found the milk was all gone and the little bit of bread that was left was starting to grow green mould. So after much convincing and persuasion he had finally got Lindsay to agree to come to the shop with him to get some more. She had wanted to stay at home, told him she felt safe there, no one was going to get her in her own home but he had told her that she needed some fresh air and he wouldn't let anything happen to her while they were out. So after they each had a bowl of Lucy's coco pops, she had finally gone off to get dressed.

Flack looked at his watch, she'd been getting dressed now for the past half an hour and as a bloke her knew that girls took forever when it came to getting dressed, but he also remembered Danny saying once how he loved that Lindsay wasn't like typical girls, how it'd only take her fifteen minutes tops to get ready. Standing up Flack walked over to Lindsay's bedroom door and gave it a gentle knock "Linds?"

"Sorry, I'm coming I just can't find a necklace" Lindsay called back.

"Can I come in?"

"Yeah"

Flack pushed open the door and found Lindsay sat on her bed with a small pile of necklaces in front of her "Need some help?" he asked kneeling on the floor next to the bed.

"I just... I wanted to wear the 'Mum' necklace Lucy got me but I can't find it" she sighed.

"What happened to that L one you had? You know the one with the gem on it"

"I lost it a few weeks back, I took Lucy swimming and put it in my shoe to keep it safe and then put all our clothes in the locker. I guess when I pulled everything from the locker after we got out of the pool it must have fallen out and got kicked under the lockers or something"

"Oh Linds" Flack replied as he searched through the necklaces "I know how much that one meant to you"

"Yeah, I'm trying to save up to get a new one before Danny notices it's gone"

Flack nodded as he pulled a necklace from the pile "Is this the one you were looking for?"

"Yes, that's it"

"here you go" he smiled passing it to her. He waited for her to put it on "Ready to go?" he asked once she'd done the clasp up.

"Yeah, I guess so" she told him standing up "I just need to put my shoes on"

"Same here" he replied wiggling his sock covered toes.

Twenty minutes later Lindsay and Flack walked down the street, her arm linked through his. "Hey, it's Jo's birthday soon, isn't it?" he asked her trying to start a conversation.

"Erm.. yeah, I think it's sometime next month" Lindsay replied "Why?"

"Well I just wondered as we are out, shall we do a bit of birthday shopping?"

"Birthday shopping? Flack I can't think about birthday shopping knowing my husband and daughter are out there, with god knows what happening to them"

"I know that but I just thought it might take your mind off it for a little bit, but if you don't want to that's fine"

Lindsay sighed "I guess if we see anything while we are out for her we could pick it up but I don't want to go looking especially"

"Okay" Flack smiled "So, what do we need to buy? Milk, bread, anything else?"

"Cookies, the raisin ones"

"They're Lucy's favourite aren't they?"

Lindsay nodded "I want them in for when she comes home"

"Okay, we can add cookies to the list, is that it?"

Lindsay thought for a moment "I think so"

"Okay, bread, milk and cookies it is" Flack replied as they entered the Bodega. He picked up a basket and the two of them made their way around the small shop.

"Shall we get some more coffee too?" Flack asked as the passed the shelf "You've only got a quarter of a jar left"

Lindsay nodded.

Flack placed a jar in the basket with the rest of the shopping and then they went to the till and paid. Leaving the shop, Flack thought that the fresh air was doing Lindsay good, her cheeks were looking pinker and she just looked more herself. So he decided to take the slightly longer way back to her apartment, passing through a small market that was going on.

"Why are we going this way?" Lindsay asked linking her arm back through his.

"I just thought it'd make a nice change" Flack smiled.

"Oh okay" Lindsay replied.

Walking through the market, Flack took in all the little knick knacks that were around him, jewellery, clothes, cards and toys. He tried to point a few things out to Lindsay but she just nodded or mumbled 'that's nice' with a weak smile. "Look at this Linds, you've got to find this funny" he laughed pulling her into one of the stall and pointing to a picture. It had a FBI badge at the top with 'female body inspector' written underneath. "Can you imagine Jo's face if I gave her that?" he turned around when he didn't get a reply from the younger woman "Linds?" walking over to where she now was he saw she was staring at a picture of a bluebell field, it was a beautiful picture with the rays of sun light shimmering through the trees and the bluebells in full bloom "Do you like that for Jo?"

Lindsay shook her head "No. I now know, Flack"

"Know what?"

"I know who she is, I know who Belle is"