CHAPTER ONE:

AN: This is my first CSI New York fiction, I hope you like it. Please R&R  it's a bit short, but the next chapter will be a bit longer, I promise.

A tired Aiden sat down next to her oven where her delicious lasagne was warming up. She became more relaxed when she started to smell the sent of the warm Italian dish. She had been looking forward to her dinner all day especially since it was such a hard one: a 6 year old girl was found raped and murdered in her own garden. At first she had to process the body and later in company of detective Flack, tell the young girl's parents the devastating news. It was a heartbreaking scene and it definitely made her rethink her choice of wanting children someday. Anyway she was more determined than ever to find the man responsible for the crime and she did. It turned out to be the guy who lived next door. It was the first time they were able to solve a case that quick but then again every one of the team was working on the case and they had a lot of luck.

After getting her dinner out of the oven, she went to her living room and watched some tv. She almost fell asleep when she heard someone knock on her door a few times. She wondered who it could, it was already 1.30 am. When she opened her door she was surprised to see Danny standing on her doorstep. His shirt was missing some of it's buttons and was torn at his sleeve and shoulder. He also had a head wound, his lip and knuckles were bleeding. He definitely had been in a fight. "I hope I didn't wake you."

"Oh my God, Danny? What happened? Are you okay?" She moved his chin up so she could take a closer look at the scratch in his neck. Then she took him by the arm, let him in and made him sit on her couch. While she was fetching some bandages, ointment and other things he told her what happened.

"I was out with this beautiful girl and everything went well till her ex- boyfriend shows up. They start yelling at each other." Aiden sat on her knees in front of him and started to wipe away the blood from his mouth. "Auw" Aiden apologized and went on while Danny kept telling the story. "So I interfered. I wasn't going to but he wanted to get physical. So I tried to calm him down, instead he punches me. When I punch him back Stephanie, the girl gets angry with me for hitting her ex- boyfriend, then she hits me and takes off."

"Quit the night" Aiden winked and gave her college a comforting smile. She continued to take care of him. "Anyway…" a silent pause fell "Thank you for.. you know"

"I know" she replied. " Maybe you should go to the hospital to get some stitches." But Danny shook his head and said that a bandage would do. After she finished and putted everything back where it belonged she took a seat next to him. But not before she gave him a boxershort and a clean t-shirt which he happily accepted. It meant that he could stay the night with the girl that he really, really wanted.

They sat there for more than an half an hour, just watching tv when Aiden moved closer to Danny. He rapped his arm around her and she let her head rest in his neck where she fell asleep. It was Danny that carried her to bed and tucked her in. He stayed with her for a while just looking how she slept before he went back to her couch and got some sleep of his own.

Somewhere not far from where Aiden lived, a body of a young girl was discovered in a garbage container …