These characters don't belong to me, they belong to Alliance Atlantis.
Spoilers: Maybe
Aiden Burns stops by the lab to visit old friends and sees something unexpected. From
Aidens POV
The Curtain Has Closed
Here I am at this familiar territory, my heels clicking on the cold, tile floor and pondering
what I'm going to say and what I'm doing here in the first place.
Should I tell the new secretary in the lobby that I used to work here? That I had messed up the best job that I ever had? Nah! Let her wonder. But when I tampered with the evidence in that rape case, it became my downfall and I have been in my own version of hell for 6 months.
I miss my partners, especially Danny. He was the one who made me walk a straight line, and his great quirks always kept me on my toes.
But me and Danny have always have been the best of friends, and he was just that: a friend. Of course, the man Danny is, asked me out to dinner a couple of times but I always said no. Always liked a different type of man, and that wasn't Danny.
But here I am, unemployed, having a hard time finding a job, and thinking about Danny. I'm having a hard time concentrating on anything because I keep thinking about him.
I ran into Hawkes in the hallway and after saying hello to him, asked him what was going on around the lab. He told me that Danny had a new partner. Mac had the nerve to replace me so quickly. And with another woman! He gave me the skinny on his new partner, Lindsay Monroe.
Heard she was from Montana, and that she has adjusted well in NY. How could she be so adjusted here;she was from Montana and they are all hicks anyway.
The talk around the lab is that Danny and Lindsay get along really well. I heard that they like to banter with each other. Funny thing, me and Danny had that bantering down long before Lindsay Monroe came along.
I wanted to be comfortable in familiar surroundings, so I decided to stop by the break room to see if there was someone there who I could talk to on a personal level, hoping that I would see Danny in there.
I went around the corner to the breakroom and saw Danny there. I started to go thru the entrance of the doorway when I saw Danny and Lindsay. Thought about interrupting them and letting Lindsay know that I was his original woman. But something made me stop.
They were having this little "picnic" lunch and for some reason, I couldn't help but smile at them. They were adorable together. They had this look to them like couples that have been together for 50 years. Danny had this adorable schoolboy look on his face that he has never given me.
And that's when I decided to back down. Let my feelings subside from my consiousness and let it go. And like the last act in a play, the curtain has to close.