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Ties that bind
By Cat
Chapter three

Danny and Sam both rushed into the Montecito, Ed walked over to the pair when he saw the two of them enter.

"Where have the two of you been?" Ed said sternly. "Danny, we have what we think is a dice switch, on table twenty seven." He said to his young protégé. "Get the surveillance tapes and go over them." After a nod from Danny, Ed turned to Sam, "go to Nessa, she'll tell you what's going on." With a sigh, he watched as the two employees left him and went about their business.

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Danny sighed as he sat at the moderatly busy surveillance room and watched the tapes over and over again. It was a boring job, but someone had to do it.

After a while he began to let his eyes wonder, to Mary. He couldn't understand why she had broken up with him. At first he had assumed it was for the best but, twenty four hours later he was asking himself what he had done wrong. He loved her, or at least he thought he did. Finally Danny dragged his eyes away from her. He decided that if she didn't want him like that then he'd leave her alone.

Danny let his thoughts about work and the potential dice switch consume his brain for the next few moments, until he began to think about Sam. He needed to thank her for what she had done last night, she prevented him from getting hurt. Danny looked at the computer monitors until he spotted her talking to a few clients. He studied her features for a moment and began to think about what had happened the night before.

Danny thought back to what she had said to him. Somehow Danny felt that she had wanted to say more. He wanted to tell her more too. He felt like he had something he owed her. Back when he had first asked her out, he had found her sexy and he had really wanted to 'get her into bed,' as she had put it. But after two dates all he did was want her more. She had dumped him and that had been that. But as she had come to work at the Montecito, he had begun to like her, a lot.

"Danny!" Ed Deline's voice broke through his thoughts.

Danny jumped slightly and turned to look at his boss. "Huh?"

"Have you found anything?" Ed asked with a slight annoyed tone in his voice.

"Um, yeah." Danny replied and continued to show his findings to Ed.

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Sam tuned out the conversation of her clients and looked around for a distraction. Her predicament was getting a little boring, but it gave her time to think. She didn't know what had happened last night, but for some reason she had frozen up and she didn't know why. Perhaps it was the best thing, she didn't really know what she was going to say to him, something about her feelings, she assumed. Sam had always turned her feelings away from herself and her life at work, it was never good to have a relationship with a co-worker, especially one with Danny. When they met, she had considered him a skirt-chasing, egotistical guy that was only in it for the sex. But coming to work for the Montecito made her renew her feelings about everything, especially Danny. She didn't know what she wanted right now, she definatly didn't want a relationship though!

To be continued...

AN: Hope that you liked it, I look forward to any feedback. But please be constructive with your critiscism...