AN I don't know if I like this chapter but here it is non then less...I hope you guys find some good in it...lol I'll go try and write a better one. :)
Disclaimer I unfortunately do not own Danny or Flack, if I did believe me I'd have to sensor the stuff I'd be writing. Since they belong to CBS you'll have to make due with what I've written. Mandy is mine, you can't have her, the other characters belong to Anthony Zuiker, I'm just borrowing them and will return them when I'm done.
A lot of thoughts ran through Danny's head in the millisecond he had to give Lindsay some sort of response, "We just started shift." Was all he could come up with, yeah it was lame but it was something. He had to gather his thoughts first, he hadn't expected a talk right then!
"Mac gave us an hour off," Lindsay let him go and looked at him with a stern expression, "I said it would impede our concentration if he didn't."
"He just let you dictate two of his CSI's having an hour off?" Danny was incredulous, who was this woman? He'd only see Stella manage to influence Mac at all.
"I can be very persistent when I need to be, we're going to the coffee place around the corner, I can holda gun on you if I have to."
If she didn't look so damn serious Danny would have laughed at the comedy of the situation, but this wasn't funny. "No need to get threatening Montana I'll go."
"My name is Lindsay," She said through gritted teeth, "I'm surprised you haven't had to remind yourself so you don't get caught saying the wrong name in a precarious position."
"Hey, hey," He looked at her, "You're losing your high ground here sweetness. Yeah I got some stuff to tell you, but don't you go jumping all over conclusions before you hear all the evidence."
She just crossed her arms, "We're taking this out of the lab. Now move."
He muttered stuff in Italian as they walked down the hall. Hawkes passed them, "Where are you two going?"
"Out," Was all Danny would say as they got onto the elevator.
Hawkes whistled, "Trouble in paradise." He muttered to himself then continued on his way.
They didn't say a word until they were seated at a table and had ordered their food. Finally Danny had to ask, "So who told you about Cindy?"
Lindsay raised her eyebrow, "Who's Cindy?" She leaned across the table, "I'm back on the high ground."
Danny shifted uncomfortably. This was not going well for him, not going well at all.
Mandy turned the water for her shower on and waited for it to warm.
Flack yelled from the other side of the door, "Last time you took a shower at my place you stole all my hot water."
She stepped into the shower and closed her eyes enjoying the warmth then responded, "The door's unlocked."
"That's what created the problem last time," He said as he entered the bathroom.
"Well then I guess you need to focus more on cleaning yourself then me." She said coyly.
"Fat chance," He said against the base of her neck as he joined her.
Flack and Mandy sat sipping their coffees, enjoying their favourite sections of the New York Times, in comfortable silence.
"So," Mandy put the sports section down she was keeping up on her favourite football team, "What's up for today?"
Looking over the entertainment section at her Flack smiled, "I don't care I have a rare day off so we can do anything."
"Sweet can we start by going to my apartment, I have to change."
"What you don't like what you're wearing?" He asked with a half smile.
"As hot as I'm sure I look in your shirt," Mandy said with a shake of her head, "Unless you want the male half of Manhattan on me you'll take me to my apartment."
"Hmm, when you put it that way I'd have to pointlessly beat a lot of people," Flack mused.
"Exactly my point."
"Fine, but we don't have to go yet do we?"
"Oh no I have full intentions of allowing you to get me out of this shirt at least once more before we go." She said with a gleam in her eye.
He smirked at her, "I am really loving my day off."
"I kinda figured you would." She smiled then looked back down at her section of the paper.
She was barely through reading a full sentence when he picked her up, "Oh no, you have full intentions to carry through."
"You don't know about Cindy?" Danny asked confused, "Then why did you ask about…" He stopped, she was smirking at him.
"My sister met someone when we went out to the pub last night," Lindsay explained as she leaned back. "You planning to dig yourself out of this hole?" She wasn't even pissed, because deep down she figured there was a logical explanation or that it would at least be amusing watching him try to explain.
He held his hands up expecting some sort of blow out, "Wait, wait you were at a pub last night?"
"Yup," She nodded, "Mandy met someone named Aiden."
"Oh!" He smiled, "That was Aiden Burn, my old partner. We're still friends, I needed her advice."
"For what?" She asked.
He leaned forward, "I needed advice on how to get through to a stubborn woman it's a bit of a minefield going blind."
She nodded, "Touché, so that's it you were talking to her about me?"
"She wants to meet you actually, which frightens me on a number of levels." He admitted.
"And Cindy?" She figured as much when it came to Aiden, mostly cause Stella had talked about Aiden dating a teacher she was working with when Lindsay had asked about her.
"Cindy was my girlfriend I guess." He said plainly.
"What?" Lindsay straightened up.
"She umm," He cleared his throat and rubbed the back of his neck, "I was dating her before you."
"Before me?" She raised an eyebrow, "How much earlier before me."
"Uh," He licked his lips, "Two days."
Lindsay inhaled and closed her eyes. "Okay, all right so then why me?"
"What?" He asked.
"This woman hasn't contacted you since we started dating;this leads me to conclude thatyou weren't that close, so thenif you had her why askme out?"
"I don't know," He realized that was the wrong answer as soon as it left his mouth, "and umm I talked to her a couple of nights ago."
She cleared her throat and just stared at him waiting for the information to settle. It wasn't settling all that nicely, she looked down. "You have a reputation you know."
He licked his lips again and tried to ignore that comment, "I was playing pool with the guys, it's not like I was looking for her."
"I know, I know," She sighed, "I'm sure you're a saint and that you've never dated more than one person at a time."
He opened and closed his mouth then looked at her, "Is there any way I can get out of this gracefully?"
She shook her head he couldn't even deny it, "You make no comment about your reputation and you kept rebuffing me when I asked about your dad…"
Danny cut her off, "I told you the next time you asked me about…"
Lindsay cut him off, "You should have told me the third time I asked. I don't want to tie you down Danny and I'm not trying to hook you into marriage," She stood and gave him a sad smile, "I just wanted to know you."
He watched her walk away, "Damnit Messer." He mumbled to himself, "This is why you don't do this."
Mandy leaned back on Flack and sighed, "I like this whole doing nothing idea."
"I know I'm a genius." He flipped through the channels.
She was going to say more when her phone rang. "Get that for me would you?" She pointed at the table, "Your arms are longer."
"Hey there Igor here, my master is indisposed at the moment can I take a…" He paused, "I'm sorry Lindsay, one sec."
Mandy had been laughing, "Linds?"
"I'm an idiot," Lindsay said still desperately trying not to cry, "Don't ever get involved with your co-workers they say, well they were right…"
"Whoa slow down there Sparky," Mandy sat up, "What's going on?"
"I have to get back to work," Lindsay said abruptly, "Don't bring Danny Messer up to me okay? He's a guy I work with, that's it. Ask Flack about Cindy," She hung up the phone.
"Damnit!" Mandy dropped her phone and glared at Flack, "Why is your friend a moron?"
"Why is it that this is instantly Danny's fault?" Flack asked.
Mandy crossed her arms and raised an eyebrow, "Who's Cindy?"
Flack groaned, he knew Danny should tell her, but knowing Danny he probably didn't do it in the slickest way, "He's a moron."
AN I know, I know, I'm into cruel and unusual punishment! I'm sorry...another cliff hanger...will this ever end? Will Dream EVER get these two back together? Yes...I promise...I will...but it's Danny...have you ever noticed that nothing runs smoothly for that man? I'm just saying...anyway...uh review:)