Lindsay was taking a shower a few days after she'd had her cast off, they had just got home from work and Lindsay was still trying to get the smell of decomp out of her pores after four showers and all the lemons Danny could find.
When there was a knock on the door Danny got up to answer it.
He opened the door.
"Hello."
"I'm sorry, I'm must have the wrong apartment I was looking Lindsay Monroe."
"You have the right place." It dawned on Danny who she was. "Come in Mrs Monroe."
"Thank you."
"Lindsay your Mom is here." Danny called out.
"Funny." Lindsay came out of the bathroom dressed in her bath robe drying her hair on a towel. "Hey Mom."
"Lindsay."
"Have you met Danny?" Lindsay asked slightly in shock.
"Not formally."
"Mom this is Detective Danny Messer, we work together, Danny, this is my mother Lynne Monroe." Lindsay introduced them. "Don't make jokes." She whispered.
"It's nice to meet you Mrs Monroe. I should get going; I'll see you in the morning Lindsay." Danny told her.
"Okay, thanks for the lemons." Lindsay told him.
"It was nice to have met you Mrs Monroe, I'll see myself out." Danny grabbed his keys and wallet from the table and headed out the door.
"So what are you doing here Mom? Why didn't you call and let me know you were coming?"
"Your father is driving me crazy, so I packed a bag and caught the first plane to New York even thought I had to stop in Minneapolis." Lynne explained.
"Does Daddy know you're here?" Lindsay inquired.
"I left him a note."
"I'm going to call him and tell him you're here." Lindsay moved to pick up the phone. "How long are you staying?"
"A week should be enough for him to miss me."
"Mom, Dad loves you. He'll be missing you by now."
"If he notices I'm gone." Lynne muttered.
"I'm going to call Daddy. Make yourself at home."
"Then you can tell me why that young man was here." Lynne suggested.
"He was bringing me lemons, I worked a decomp today and I'm still trying to get the smell out of my skin."
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"I'm really sorry." Lindsay apologised as she poured both her and Danny some coffee at work the next morning. "I didn't know she would be turning up like that."
"It's okay." Danny assured her.
"She normally calls people before she visits."
"Who visits?" Stella asked.
"My Mom came to visit last night."
"Your Mom?" Stella questioned.
"Apparently my Dad is driving her crazy so when he left to go out to work, she packed a bag and went to the airport and caught the first plane to New York via Minneapolis." Lindsay explained. "She's staying for a week."
"Does your father know she's here?" Stella asked.
"He did after I called him; he hadn't found her note at that point."
"So he's just going to wait for her to come home?" Stella inquired.
"No. If it's anything like the past two years, he'll brood for a day, then spend a couple days trying to find people to cover for him, then come out and they'll have a nice couple of days and then go back home."
"They've done this before?" Danny questioned.
"They've been married 36 years. This seems to have been an annual thing for about the last ten years. Dad gets on Mom's nerves, she packs a bag and leaves for a week he goes after her they talk and everything is fine. Mom went to Boston last year, and to visit Clay the year before. Honestly I think it's her way of making him take a vacation for a few days."
"Well it's nice of her to visit." Stella said optimistically.
"It's nice to see both my parents." Lindsay said. "But I was just working up to telling Danny something."
"What?" Danny asked.
"My mother is making dinner tonight, she wants you to come. She'd like to meet you 'for more than two seconds while you're trying to make a run for the door' I believe were her exact words. She didn't believe whole lemons story even if it was true."
"She's your mother she'll have a keen nose for these things." Stella pointed out. "And Danny, think of it as reciprocity since Lindsay had lunch with your mother you can have dinner with hers."
"Can't I just send her up the Empire State Building like I did Becky?" Danny asked.
"My mother is more of a Central Park Zoo woman." Lindsay pointed out.
TBC