AN Yup it's true I am influenced by all of your lovely reviews. How can I not write more when you all ask so nicely? ;) So I hope this was worth the wait...ya'll let me know all right:)
Disclaimer No owning going on here, just fantasizing and it's ever so pretty in my mind. I hope CBS doesn't mind me borrowing and manipulating their characters. They'll come back unharmed I promise. ;)
Danny showed up at Lindsay's place a couple of minutes early. He was slightly disconcerted and wildly amused by the woman who answered the door. She looked him over in a way that made him feel; well it was certainly more overt than Lindsay that's for damn sure. "Yup I was right." She said and moved aside to let him in.
"I take it you're the sister." He said with an amused smile.
She winked at him, "Yeah, you can call me Mandy. You must be the hottie."
He shook his head and merely chuckled, "You can call me Danny."
"If you insist," She said with a dramatic sigh, "Make yourself at home, I'll go get her."
He just nodded and started wandering around the living taking in the framed pictures on the bookshelf and looking at what she might be reading these days.
Mandy walked into her sister's bedroom and smacked her. "Ow," Lindsay looked at her, "What was that for?"
"Why in the name of heaven have you NOT jumped that man yet?" Mandy hissed, "Are you stupid?"
Lindsay's stomach did a quick flip, "I work with him! Jumping isn't part of the job description."
"Well it should be," Mandy sighed, "Cause dang."
"Behave," Lindsay warned.
"Only if you promise not to, now don't keep the man waiting. You look particularly scrumptious I can't wait for his reaction."
"Okay you know how you said I need to find a life?"
"We're not talking about me now come on."
Danny was looking at a framed picture of Lindsay with three other women that he presumed were best friends. It looked a couple of years old, Lindsay was laughing. He couldn't recall ever seeing her laugh like that, she was always so serious at work. He scared himself cause he was already trying to figure out a way to make her laugh.
She cleared her throat, "Sorry to keep you waiting."
He turned around and just stared at her. She was, damn. He inhaled slowly; much to Mandy's delight, blinked a couple of times and said, "You should dress like that more often."
"Oh right I'm gonna process a scene in these jeans." Lindsay scoffed, although she blushed at the comment, "Squatting, amongst other things, is not an option."
He licked his lips and shook his head, "Well then I should see you outside the lab more often, cause damn."
Mandy giggled, "You two are walking sexual tension you know that right?"
Both had completely forgotten she was there, they both slowly turned to look at her. "Uh, we were going?" Lindsay prompted.
"Right," Danny nodded, "Come with me. Are you sure she's gonna behave?" He asked with a smirk at Mandy.
"As long as you two…" Lindsay clapped a hand over her sister's mouth.
"She'd better if she knows what's good for her." She jumped back when Mandy licked her hand, "That's gross."
"Go, get out of here both of you and I don't want to see either of your faces, although yours is rather pleasant," She smiled at Danny who just shook his head and laughed, "for a long time." She ushered them to the door.
Once they were in the elevator Danny looked over at Lindsay, "So your sister is umm…forward."
"Forward is putting it mildly." She smiled with a shake of her head.
"She is the polar opposite of you." He observed.
Lindsay walked out of the elevator and looked over her shoulder, "You think you have me all figured out don't you?"
"Completely," He smirked.
She shook her head and walked back toward him. Grabbing the lapels of his jacket she pulled him to her, "Then I gave you too much credit." She said very close to his face then stepped back, "So where are we going?"
He inhaled and exhaled slowly then licked is lips, "Uh a restaurant a friend of mine owns."
"Good I'm starving."
"Danny!" An older gentleman greeted him once the two of them arrived, "I have a quaint table in the back, just for you!"
"Thanks Carlos," Danny gave the man a one armed hug, "This is Lindsay."
"Ah me," The man took her hand and kissed it, "What is a beautiful gem like you doing with the likes of this one?"
"I've asked myself the same thing many times since we left my apartment." She said with a wink at the older man.
"Charming!" Carlos exclaimed with a smile, "I like her."
"I did too until that last comment." Danny grinned as the man lead them through the restaurant.
She managed to pretend that she didn't hear him, mainly cause she wasn't ready to admit that she liked it. "This place is absolutely adorable," Lindsay gushed as Carlos sat them down.
"Oh, for you tonight all drinks are free." He smiled.
"Well then we'll have your best wine." Danny said.
The older man chided him with a twinkle in his eye, "I said for her it's free, for you it's double."
"Yeah you're a regular comedian," Danny laughed.
"Wine for two coming right up," Carlos left.
"How do you know him?" Lindsay asked.
"I mentored his grandson for a bit, he's taken a liking to me since then."
"You? A mentor?"
"What you can't see it?"
"Nah, it makes sense."
"How?" He was confused.
"You've probably got a sketchy past, you mentor to make up for some juvenile thing you may have done as a kid," She shrugged, "That's how."
He regarded her with his head tilted to the side, "You are a very intriguing woman Lindsay Monroe."
"That," She smiled, "Is the nicest thing you've ever said to me."
"Stick around; I can come up with more."
She picked up her menu, "Well I'm still hungry, so I have no plans to go anywhere soon."
"Good," He looked over his menu. Carlos arrived then with the wine, after he had poured and left with their orders Danny looked at her quizzically, "What do you miss most?"
She was a bit shocked by the question, "From back home?"
"Yeah."
There didn't need to be any thought she knew exactly what it was, "The sky." She said.
He gazed at her with a smirk, "In case you hadn't noticed we have sky in New York too."
"Yeah but you have to look at it with buildings and smog clouding your view. There is nothing like watching a sunset or sunrise on a huge horizon doted with distant mountains." She said wistfully.
"So then why did you leave?"
"The sky isn't remotely gorgeous enough to keep me there." She said firmly, then switched gears "And you know with that whole Bill thing…"
"Which got me stabbed," He interjected with a smile.
"Which got you stitches," She returned his smile, "I think I've done enough confessing to you lately. I also think it's about time you explained to me why you needed to push me up against a building to avoid being seen by your father."
Danny leaned forward and smiled at her in a way that made her extremely nervous, "What makes you think I didn't just want to have you up against a building?"
She was going to maintain her composure if it killed her, and at the rate her heart was beating it just might. "You're avoiding the question."
He sighed, "I don't have anything to say to him and I'm done with him trying to make me feel guilty by saying I've abandoned the family."
"Why would he say that?" She was insanely curious and didn't care that he could tell.
His smile was disarming, "That my dear is way more than I'm willing to divulge at this point in time."
"Fine remain a mystery."
"Fine, I will."
Carlos returned a few minutes later to bring them their orders; after that the conversation stayed light. They talked about their years at school, what got them into forensic science and various bits of office talk.
Three hours later Lindsay walked into her apartment with a half smile on her face and a far away look in her eye.
Mandy was sitting on the couch watching TV, but promptly turned it off when she saw her sister, "Tell me that you kissed him, please dear god in heaven tell me you kissed him."
Lindsay shook her head, "I didn't kiss him."
Mandy groaned and threw her face into a couch cushion to scream, "You are a friggin' coward! I can't believe…"
Flopping down on the couch next to her sister Lindsay clamped a hand over her mouth again. "He kissed me."
Mandy's eyes widened as she pushed the hand away, "And you're telling me details right?"
Lindsay nodded.
A few minutes earlier
Getting out of the car Danny walked Lindsay to the front of her building. She pulled out her keys and looked down, "I have to begrudgingly admit that I had a good time."
He chuckled, "Thanks for the compliment Montana. I think I'm wounded, oh wait I AM wounded thanks to your stalker."
Lindsay reached out slowly and ran her hand gently over his stomach and then the gauze that covered his stitches, "You didn't have to be the hero you know."
He looked down at her hand then back at her, she was finally giving him eye contact, "Sure I did," He said with a shrug, "I hate getting used to new partners and I've finally taken a liking to you."
She kept her hand there and brought the other one up to rest on his arm. She smiled when he followed suit and put both of his hands gently around her waist pulling her closer to him, "Just a liking?" She asked.
"Yeah well I'm slow at admitting things so that's all you're getting out of me for the time being." He said while watching her hands as they ran up his chest and around his neck.
"That's fine with me." She whispered not breaking eye contact with him, just waiting.
He inhaled and licked his lips. He shouldn't be doing this but at this point he really could care less about what he should and shouldn't do. Slowly he bent down and kissed her. She met his mouth eagerly pushing her body up against his. Yup, he was right, she tasted fantastic.
A few moments later she had to giggle. "What?" He asked, quite breathless.
She reached down and grabbed the lapels of his jacket to pull him closer, "It seems you have me up against a building." She said against his mouth.
He laughed, "That was my plan all along." He kissed her lightly as he spoke.
She pulled back slightly, "Brilliant plan," And then traced his lips with her tongue before kissing him again.
"OH DAMN!" Mandy squealed, "See I KNEW I had to come out here before anything would happen."
Lindsay grabbed a pillow and smacked her sister with it, "You being here had nothing to do with it, besides we're co-workers, nothing can come of this."
"Yeah okay," Mandy scoffed, "you go right ahead and convince yourself of that."
Danny was a little freaked out. In fact that wasn't true, he was a lot freaked out. When had this happened? He shouldn't be going out on dates and kissing his co-workers! This wasn't right damnit! Mac would not approve, he really wouldn't and Mac would find out, he always did. So why was he already trying to figure out a way that he could see her again. Oh damn this was not good, this was so NOT good!