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"Wakie, wakie, Casanova." Don Flack turned to his right side in an attempt to ignore the voice calling to him, but not before mumbling,
"Just five more minutes."
"What do I look like…your alarm clock? Wake up!" Flack doesn't respond.
"The British are coming! The British are coming!" Flack wakes up in a hurry and ends up sprawled on the floor.
"That was graceful" Vanessa says. Flack looks up to see Vanessa laughing.
"What are you doing here in my apartment?" Flack asks.
"Actually you are in my apartment. You slept on my sofa. Don't you remember?" Flack looks around the apartment.
"Oh right."
"Do you want anything to eat? I'm made pancakes." Vanessa says.
"Yeah sure. What time is it?"
"8:30."
"8:30! I'm gonna be late." Flack begins to search for his things.
"How long have we known each other?" Vanessa says sitting down to eat.
"We going to be late for work and you're asking me this now?"
"Easy, Casanova. I already called in. Told them you might be a little late for work today. Now answer my question."
"I don't know, a few months maybe. If you don't include the conference we both went to last spring."
"Wow and they say men don't remember dates."
"It was a conference." Flack states.
"You know what I mean so do you want breakfast or not?" Flack looks at all the food on the table. (A/N: There was more food than just pancakes.)
"How long have you been awake?"
"Since 5 in the morning. I had a whole day while you were sleeping."
"That's just crazy."
"It's a habit I never got out of. Now come and eat before we go."
"So the word going around is that you never went home." Danny says to Flack at a crime scene. They were at a fairly nice neighborhood other than the fact that a body was found stabbed to death in the courtyard of said neighborhood.
"Victim is a 34 year old female, name is Rita Symns lives in the apartment around the corner." Flack says ignoring Danny's comment.
"Aw come on man. Is it true or not?"
"That's all I got. I have another case to go to." Flack leaves Danny to process the scene.
"I don't mean to interrupt your mindless daydreaming, but I believe we have a scene to process." Vanessa says walking up to Danny.
"Well if it isn't the Karate Kid." Danny says with a smirk.
"Just help me process, city boy." Vanessa moves over to the victim to take a few pictures.
"Office gossip says Flack didn't go home last night. You wouldn't happen to know about that? You two are awfully close." Danny says picking up a piece of paper and placing it into an evidence bag.
"Didn't peg you as a gossip lover. Then again I have been proven wrong before."
Several minutes passed before either of them said anything. Vanessa was the first to break the silence.
"Where are her shoes?" Danny turns around to look at Vanessa.
"Apartment is just around the corner maybe she just stepped out for a second."
"The only time I go barefoot is in my own apartment. Too many germs."
"You scared of germs."
"Don't like getting sick." Vanessa answers.
"Same thing." Danny says as he spots the objects that started the conversation. "Seems like our vic was scared of germs, also."
"Where did you find them?" Vanessa asks.
"Over in the dirt."
"That's too far …maybe they were thrown in the struggle."
"Don't look like a struggle to me." Danny says glancing at the area around the body.
"She was stabbed repeatedly, how could there not be a struggle?"
"I guess its our jobs to figure that out." Danny's cell phone rings. "Yeah, its Messer. What? We'll be right there "
"What? What happened?" Vanessa asks with concern.
"A bomb."
"Where?"
"At Mac's scene." Nothing more needed to be said. They rushed over to the scene.
Tables, chairs, large chunks of the building littered the streets. People screaming and calling out for their loved ones. Vanessa and Danny arrived at the scene in a matter of minutes. Getting out of the vehicle, they spot Stella.
"What happened?" Vanessa asks Stella.
"I'm not sure. I just got here. Look there's Lindsay." Stella says pointing to Lindsay in the distance.
"What happened?" Vanessa asks noticing the cut across Lindsay's forehead.
"I can't reach him. I can't reach Mac."
"You should have that checked out." Danny says to Lindsay.
"Its nothing."
"What happened" Vanessa repeats.
"Someone placed a bomb in the building that Mac and I were processing. I went to get something from the car while Don went in with Mac."
"And they're both still in there?" Stella asks. Lindsay nods her head. Vanessa takes off running towards the building.
"Hey!" Danny runs after Vanessa and catches up with her. "You can't go in there its dangerous."
"Two officers are in there, not to mention our friends. We need to get them out they could be serious hurt."
"Don't worry Stella and I will take care of it. You stay with Lindsay and make sure she's okay. I'll tell Flack you said hi." Danny heads off in Stella's direction.
"Are you okay?" Vanessa says handling Lindsay a cloth to wipe the blood from the wound. Lindsay is sitting on the stairs of a nearby building.
"I'm fine."
"Have you called mom yet?"
"I don't want to worry her." Lindsay replies.
"She will find out even though she's thousands of miles away."
"I want to wait until everything calms down a bit."
"A bomb just went off. It will take a long time before 'everything calms down'"
"I'm not sure…"
"Do whatever you want you're a big girl. Now that I know you're obviously okay I'm leaving." Vanessa says and leaves Lindsay sitting on the steps alone.
Hope you like the chapter. There's still a lot more to come! I hope this chapter didn't seem too rushed. I wasn't so sure about when to tie in the episode "Charge of This Post", but I figured now was a good a time as any. I also implied that Vanessa has been there for a few months and met Don Flack a little before that. I hope I didn't confuse anyone. Please review with any questions or comments. I will tie in the other newest episodes about two chapters from now to give a little room between events. Until next time, Ancient 85.