A/N - I don't know where I am going with this chapter, so I am apologising in advance.

Chapter Nine

Mac was sitting in the hospital still with Lindsay, she had fallen asleep again, Mac couldn't bring himself to tell her that Danny might not be coming back, she was still to delicate.

Mac sighed and put his head in his hands, when Flack came in.

"Mac I need to speak to you, its about Danny!"

Mac stood up and walked out of the room silently.

"What have you got?"

"We have located an abandoned warehouse on the upper east side, we have reason to believe that there is where Danny has been taking, it's the usual haunt for the Tanglewood Boys."

"Have you sent teams down there, because I'm going aswell, Stella stay here with Lindsay."

Stella nodded she had been stood next to Flack while he broke the news.

"Right lets go."

Mac and Flack ran down towards the exit of the hospital, got into the squad car and drove to their location, they were in silence for most of the journey until Flack spoke.

"Do you think he is still alive?"

"I don't know Flack, I really don't know."

Mac prayed to God that Danny was still alive, he had so much to tell him, he had to tell him that no matter what he had done, Mac had always been proud of Danny, always. Even if he hadn't shown it all the time.

In the warehouse…

Danny was still standing with the gun facing his father.

"Its now or never Danny, can you hear that, it's the sound of police cars, you can shoot me before they arrive and tell them it was self defence!"

Danny was still silent, his father was right he could. His emotions were playing on his chest, he was finding it harder and harder to breath, something was taking over him. The tears were still falling down his face. He was face to face with the man who had made him feel so unloved, the man who, no matter how he puts it, put the only person Danny has really truly loved in hospital, hanging onto life.

"Danny what are you going to do?"

His father was looking Danny dead in the eyes, searching for an answer, an answer that wasn't there.

"No matter how you try and defend yourself, you ordered all of this, you wanted this, YOU MADE THIS HAPPEN!"

Danny let his arm fall to his side, he looked up to the ceiling, looking for an explination, he breathed in deep and pulled the gun towards his father again, his eyes filled with something he had never felt before, pure hate.

Mac and Flack had arrived at the building and were standing outside, guns drawn.

"Looks like you missed your chance Daniel, you could have ended your pain so easily, I was wrong, you are a disappointment to me!"

"YOU BASTERD!"

Without thinking Danny pulled the trigger on the gun and his father lay bleeding on the floor, he had shit him in the neck. Danny stood silently holding the gun, what had he done?

Flack and Mac heard the gunshot and stormed the building no questions, they arrived to see Danny holding a gun still aimed in the direction of a body laying in front of him, blood pouring from the neck. Danny was battered and bruised, glasses broken, shirt torn, covered in dirt, and tears falling.

"Danny!"

Mac and Flack ran over to Danny, Flack checked the pulse of the man in front of Danny, there wasn't one.

Mac walked towards Danny slowly.

"Danny, I need you to give me the gun."

"Mac, I'm sorry, I wasn't supposed to, I didn't mean to…"

Mac was now beside Danny, he reached his hand towards the gun and took it slowly out of Danny's hands. Flack was ready with a evidence bag, Mac dropped the gun in the bag and turned his attention back to Danny.

"Its ok Danny, your safe now."

Danny collapsed into Mac's arms, he ad forgotten to try and hide the tears, he let them fall, he let himself become open.

"We're going to get you to hospital, there is someone there who has been asking for you."

"Lindsay!"

Flack and Mac helped support Danny as they walked towards the ambulance parked outside, Flack and Mac told Danny they would be there as soon as possible. Danny was going into shock, the toll of the situation and what had happened was now getting to him.

As the ambulance drove off, with a sedated Danny in tow, Flack and Mac made their way back into the warehouse and surveyed the room, something went on in there.

Flack turned to face Mac.

"What happened in here?"

"I don't know, there's only 3 people who know the answer, 2 are laying in front of us and the other, is in a state of shock and sedated. I don't think we will ever truly understand what happened."

"Mac, Danny killed someone, and I am going to make sure that there isn't going to be an investigation."

"There wont be, he did what he had to, he was kidnapped, and given an opportunity, he wont lose his badge over this."

Flack looked at the warehouse.

"We got him back Mac, he is alive, that's more than we thought we would get."

"Yeah that's the important thing, they are both safe."

In the hospital Stella is sitting with Lindsay, she is still sleeping, when she suddenly wakes up.

"Danny!"

"Lindsay its ok, its just me."

"I want Danny."

She started to get teary when Stella's cell rang, she saw it was Mac.

"Mac?…he is that's brilliant…yeah she has just woken up, I will tell her, see you soon bye."

Lindsay was looking at Stella, Stella closed her cell and looked at Lindsay and smiled.

"He's here, he came back Lindsay."

Lindsay smiled.

"I knew he would."

TBC

A/N - There you have it Danny doesn't die, but his dad did, did you really think I would kill him off lol that's a joke lol THANKS FOR THE REVIEWS I will update again soon.