ON THE ROAD WITH DANNY CONCANNON: MUNICH

Title: "Danny Concannon Left A Message."

Spoilers and Companion Piece: THE WARFARE OF GENGHIS KHAN. 5.13

Danny played with the phone cord of his hotel room phone. He paced back and forth waiting for the White House operator to connect him. On the other end Carol picked up the phone.

"White house Press office." Carol spoke with delight.

"Hey there, Carol!" Danny's soft tones caressed Carol's ear.

"Danny!" Carol said with glee. She stood up and looked around for her boss who had just left.

"She in?" Danny put some papers in his overnight bag.

"No, you just missed her. Where are you? We miss you?"

"We-?"

"Well I can't speak for any one other than myself-." She hinted.

Carol wondered if she should tell Danny about CJ's Ex - the one who was always calling. Carol wasn't supposed to know the way Danny and CJ cared for each other, but she could see they made each other happy. It was none of her business, but she saw it in their eyes. She knew her boss well, and Carol liked Danny; He was fun. There was something between them and if she could help it along Carol would. In her own way of course, because CJ had accused Carol of putting them together, and CJ didn't like that. She just wanted CJ to be happy. Carol decided it would just be odd and awkward to say anything.

It was Carol's job to be CJ's assistant, which meant being her second hand, letting her know about phone calls and keeping her business private. What bugged Carol was the fact that since CJ wouldn't talk to this Ben guy Carol was the one who had to be annoyed by his phone calls. All CJ had to do was tell him to bug off and stop taking up Carol's time with his calls and be done with it. Of course this call she didn't mind. If only her boss was around.

"Yeah, well—" Danny joked, but went on to the business at hand. "I'm on my way to catch a flight—Take down a message for me will ya?" Danny took his jacket out of the closest.

"Yeah." Carol took a pen and small paper off her desk.

"You ready?" Danny threw his jacket on his bed.

"Yeah, I'm ready."

"Ok. Here's my message—" Danny laughed at what he was about to do. He found his taunting of CJ very amusing. "Bawk!" Danny squawked like a chicken into Carol's ear. It had passion, it had enthusiasm and he continued it three more times in succession. "Bawk! Bawk! Bawk!" Carol couldn't help but laugh holding it in with more of a smirk and lowering of her head. "You got that?," Danny said in his normal voice. Even on the other end of the phone Carol knew Danny was smiling.

"Yeah, I got that. That's it?"

"That's it." Danny laughed. "She'll know what it means?"

"Yeah, I think I do too." Carol laughed having seen CJ's press conference and having a computer in which to roam the net.

"I got to go Carol."

"Yeah."

"See ya soon Carol."

"Bye Danny."

Carol hung up the phone on her end as did Danny on his. In Washington, Carol smirked thinking how Danny's Concannon's sense of humor was missed around her parts, even if his name never came up. She felt like her boss hardly smiled anymore. Now, how would she give her boss this message Carol thought?

In Munich, Danny hung up the phone smiling to himself imagining CJ's face as Carol gave her the message. Danny walked past the bed and grabbed his jacket, his coat from the chair and his bag and laptop from the door, on his way to a new stop and destination.