"Come on Montana you have to give me something here, I just bare my soul and all." Danny said after a minute of silence after his confession.

"You're an idiot." Lindsay stated.

"Jeez thanks, I guess that's better than being a jerk." He sank back against the couch.

Lindsay moved and kissed him, mental cursing her broken foot.

"Just for the record I love you too." She told him.

"How come you never mentioned that before?" Danny asked.

"How come you never mentioned it before?" Lindsay countered.

"Because I only realised it earlier."

"Exactly." Lindsay stated.

"What?"

"It took you 24 hours to figure out why you were annoyed that I had lunch with your mother yesterday. If I told you I loved you before you would have probably bolted out the door. You weren't ready to hear it."

"So you were waiting for me to say it first?" He guessed.

"Maybe." Lindsay admitted.

"What would you have done if I said I wanted out?" Danny asked.

"Let you go."

"Seriously?"

"Danny people shouldn't be in relationships they don't want to be in. In the end it will be worse and people end up completely hating each other. At least this way it hurts for a while, but at least you can both have a little dignity."

"Sounds like you're speaking from experience."

"Not me, my college roommate. Her boyfriend dumped her, she couldn't let it go. It ended up with a restraining order and her downing a bottle of pills. Thankfully my class got cancelled and I found her in time, but she was never the same after that."

"That must have been hard." He tucked her hair behind her ear. "I do love you."

"I know. Me too." She kissed him. "But there are a few things we still need to talk about."

"I know."

CSI NY CSI NY

Lindsay was sat at her desk doing paperwork when Stella entered.

"Hey Lindsay."

"Hey Stella."

"Danny seems in a better mood did you two work things out?"

"We were up until 2am talking but we're good." Lindsay replied.

"Good. So he got over you having lunch with his mother?"

"It turns out it wasn't really that was what was bothering him. It was just a catalyst."

"I'm glad you sorted things out." Stella told her.

"So do you have anything I can process? I've been doing paperwork for three hours."

"I have a few things that need to go through QD which would really help out. While I go to trace."

"Why don't you tell me what you're working so I have some context?" Lindsay suggested.

CSI NY CSI NY

"Danny is in a creepily good mood." Flack commented to Hawkes.

"He got over what was bothering him." Hawkes replied. "I know Stella and Lindsay went and saw a couple movies last night, so I'm guessing he had some time to figure it out."

"Good."

"I got those results back." Danny walked in. "Hey Flack."

"Hey Danny. How's Lindsay doing?"

"She's fine. She's in QD if you want to say hello."

"What do the results say?" Hawkes inquired.

"The blood is female, no hits in the database. But she's pregnant."

"Pregnant?" Flack questioned.

"That's what the test results say."

"How pregnant?" Hawkes asked taking the results from him.

"You know HCG levels better than me."

"HCG?" Flack questioned.

"Human Chorionic Gonadotropin. It's a hormone made by the placenta and is detected in urine and blood work. It's what home pregnancy tests test for." Hawkes explained. "It reaches a peak at around 12 weeks and reduces slightly and levels off at about 25 weeks. Looking at this I'd say we're looking for someone who is visibly pregnant."

"Someone who is about to pop?" Flack asked.

"No, it's not exact because every woman's level is different but I'd say around five or six months."

"That should be easier to spot." Danny pointed out.

TBC