AN I'm trying my darndest to keep up with this...I don't wanna hit that writers block...cause I fear some of you would hunt me down...so for my own saftey and also because I just love writing it...here is some more! I hope you can follow...I do have a plot line I swear...hahaha :)
Disclaimer If I owned him I wouldn't spend my time writing about him believe me! As for the rest of the CSI:NY cast they of course belong to whomever they belong to, and it sure as heck ain't me. I'm just borrowing them...however all the originals are mine.
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Mac was talking to the doctor when Stella and Danny got there. "Thank you Doctor," He said as a way of dismissal then looked at Danny, "She's going to be all right."
Danny nodded, "I want to see her."
"Lindsay is with her now," Mac said, "I need a statement from both of you about what happened at dinner the other night."
Danny ran his hand over his face and sighed, "Nothing really, the six of us were chatting, Sonny came over and talked some shit, Stella made him leave, then Nix and I left about a minute later cause her cousin was in labour."
Mac looked at Stella who nodded her agreement, "That's about it; Sonny was really cocky and made his familiarity with Danny apparent. I think he was trying to get a rise out of Danny," She smiled, "but it didn't work."
"I had nothing to say to him." Danny said brushing off her off handed compliment with a shrug.
"Do you have any idea why he would want to do this to Phoenix?" Mac asked.
Danny's hand was in his pocket again, fingering Lou's card, "Except for dinner, I haven't talked to that piece of shit since I," He cleared his throat, "left."
Lindsay came out then, she shot a sympathetic look at Danny then spoke to Mac, "I'm finished, that is a brave woman. She gave us enough evidence to get Sassone for this, not to mention a pretty clear memory of the incident."
Mac nodded, "Good, you go to the lab and start processing, get Hawkes to help you." When she left his face was stern but his eyes were a bit softer then they had been, "We aren't finished talking about this Danny."
"I know." Danny mumbled.
"Okay, meet me in my office in two hours." He instructed then looked at Stella.
She understood, "I'll ride back to the lab with you, here." She gave Danny her keys, "I'll see you later."
He took them, "Thanks."
"No problem." She squeezed his arm as they walked away leaving him standing in the corridor just staring at the hospital room door.
He contemplated just leaving, calling Lou and making sure Sonny paid for this, but he had to see Nix first. So finally he pushed open the door.
She looked over at him and smiled in spite of her fat lip, "I was wondering where you were."
Slowly he made his way over to her bed trying not to be affected by the fact that her arm was in a cast and that her face looked like it had gone a couple rounds with Mike Tyson, "I, uh," he cleared his throat, ""I had to talk to Mac."
She reached her good hand out to him, when he took it she squeezed his lightly, "I'm fine."
"You got the shit beat outta you Nix," He sighed, "You aren't fine."
"If you think this is the first time I've been beat up then you're too wrapped up in your own secrets." She said looking at him gravely.
Mac and Stella were going over what they knew as they drove back to the lab. "The doctor told me that she has a number of scars and it appears her right leg, both arms and one hand have been broken before, not to mention a few cracked and broken ribs, on top of tonight's injuries."
Stella looked over at him, "Domestic abuse?"
"It looks like it to me, probably her father or an old boyfriend." Mac confirmed his suspicions.
"This girl just keeps getting more interesting." Stella mused.
Danny just stared at her, "What?"
She shook her head, "The first time I actually thought I fell down the stairs. By the time I was ten I just learned what to shield and what to just let him hit." She sighed with a smile, "I'd even try to pad myself, wearing extra layers and stuff, until I learned it pissed him off more, broke both arms that time."
It was a good thing there was a chair sitting right next to her bed because he fell into it, staring at her the whole time. "Wow, I thought, I mean I just…"
"Figured you were the only with deep dark secrets?" She said with a smile.
"There's a big difference between my secrets and yours Nix," He said with a sigh, "Mine are the direct result of choices I made."
She shook her head, "You were only sixteen when you got your, what's it called, in date?" He nodded, "I don't believe you just woke up one day, that young and thought, I wanna be in a gang."
"Well," He cleared his throat, "My family, is kinda, well, sort of connected and uh…let's just say it was in my best interests to join."
"So not really your choice," She concluded.
He thought about it for a minute then reluctantly nodded, "No I guess not but," He sighed, "Nix this isn't about me. I'm not the one in a hospital bed as direct result of dating you."
"Oh cut the dramatics," She scoffed and smiled when he looked at her with a slightly shocked expression, "I'm here as a direct result of a moron with delusions of grandeur, that's it."
He stood up and started pacing, "Stop it!"
"Stop what?"
"Stop being so damn strong about this! How do you do that? You come from this background that gets more intricate the more you reveal to me and…" He ran a hand over his face, "You shouldn't be this…put together."
She watched him pace for a few minutes then sighed, "Danny there are two ways for people to deal with our pasts. In your case a guy become a Sonny Sassone or you. In my case I become a perpetual victim that never gets over it, or I move on. I wasn't going to waste my life pondering and whining about the shit that had happened to me. It's already happened, how can I change it? Besides, the bastard wins if I stay a victim."
He sat down again, "I don't think I've ever met anyone like you."
Taking his hand she smiled, "That's cause I'm one of a kind, lucky you."
Finally he reluctantly returned the smile, "Yeah, lucky me."
Lindsay sat across from Sonny Sassone while Mac stood behind her. She regarded his sneer with a stern look of her own, "You must really like jail Sonny."
"Nah, but I am enjoying this smorgasbord of pretty cops," He winked at Lindsay.
"If I were you I would start taking things a bit more seriously." Mac said with a cold look at the man, "Your rap sheet just keeps getting longer and our evidence keeps getting stronger."
Leaning back Sonny tried to look indifferent but his attitude wavered slightly. He put his arms up on the table. "You didn't have anything to hold me to that murder rap, what makes you think you got anything new?"
Lindsay looked at his right sleeve, then at Mac who nodded, then back to Sonny, "Mainly because you were stupid enough to beat up a smart woman." She tapped a file on the table, "You see this, this file here holds enough evidence to arrest you for beating and threatening to rape Phoenix Carter and after you give me your shirt I'm sure I'll find her blood on the sleeve there." She stood, "I'm thinking where you're going you'll be the smorgasbord."
"Don't you want to know what I have on Messer?" Sonny was grasping and both Mac and Lindsay knew it.
"No need," Mac said with a slight smirk, "We already know." They both walked out and instructed the officer by the door to take Sonny into custody.
Lindsay looked at Mac, "We know?" She asked, slightly confused.
Mac regarded her, "I'll know soon enough."
"You're sure you can trust Danny to tell you?" She asked, not wanting to sound like she would distrust her co-worker, but she had to know.
"I'm choosing to believe he'll tell me." Mac said gravely, "Let me know what those test results uncover."
She nodded and walked away while Mac went back to the lab to his office to wait for Danny. He was going out on a limb for this guy, again, he better make it worth while.
"I still can't believe you can be so calm about this." Danny said as he stood having had an almost forty-five minute conversation with Nix about their pasts. He even went so far as to tell her about Lou's visit to his car.
"Maybe I'm still in shock," She said with a shrug, "Believe me I'll need to cry about it enough in the coming weeks while I'm nursing my face back to its original form. I just don't like the idea of being a perpetual victim, so I'm not."
"You're tougher than most people I've known," He said admiration very evident in his tone.
"It takes a strong man to admit the malice you used to feel and the kind of isolation you just told me," She said with a smile, "Don't sell yourself short."
He looked down at the card that was now visibly in his hand, "You sure you want me to talk to Mac? After that this isn't an option anymore." He indicated the card.
"It wasn't an option to begin with," She said defiantly, "You're a better man than to stoop to their level. Mac believes in you, trust him."
"Believes in me?" Danny scoffed, "he puts up with me." He saw the look she gave him and pocketed the card, "Which means I'll go talk to him."
"Good, now come over here and kiss me before you leave." She instructed him.
He looked dubious then gently kissed the side of her mouth that wasn't swollen. "Oh damn, she's beat the hell up and she still makes out with him."
The couple chuckled, "Tegan." They said in unison.
"Yes it's true it's Tegan, who has to hear about her friend being the hospital by the homeless guy that wanders by the theatre!" She chastised Phoenix.
"Well I do have to go," Danny said with a nod, "I'll be back later."
"Okay," Phoenix smiled at him reassuringly, he smiled back then with a half wave to Tegan he was gone.
"What the hell happened Nix?" Tegan sat in the chair by the bed, "All Bob would tell me was 'she was bloody and got into a cab'. I've been calling hospitals for the last hour and a half!"
Phoenix grabbed her friend's hand and squeezed it tightly, "Remember that guy from dinner the other night?"
"What? The creep who tried to get a rise outta Danny? What about…wait…him?" Tegan connected the dots, "cause of Danny? What the hell have you gotten yourself into Nix?"
"Did you call Niles?"
Tegan nodded, "As soon as I found out which hospital, he should be here any minute. You're evading my question."
Phoenix inhaled deeply, feeling slightly strange about making other people feel better when she was the one in the hospital bed.
Danny was fifteen minutes early. He thought about wasting some time doing paperwork but figured the inevitable wasn't going away so he knocked lightly on the glass door. Mac looked up and motioned for him to enter. "Hi."
"How is she?" Mac asked as he indicated the seat in front of his desk.
Danny sat and rubbed his eyes under his glasses then looked at his boss, "She is the most unique person I've ever met, every time I think she's gonna zig, she zags. It's unnerving."
Mac smiled, "Women have a way of doing that."
"Yeah well I wish they'd at least do it with warning." Danny sighed, "So…" He trailed off, "Where do you want me to start?"
Leaning back in his chair Mac put his pen down, he'd take notes later, "Start from the beginning Danny."
AN I swear I only meant this to be a humor fic...it just won't stop writing itself...sigh :)