The idea for this story came after I watched episode 1.06 - Silent Partner. The comment made by Danny that women are better liars set off a train of thought and here is the result!

I'll try and post updates regularly.

Disclaimer: I dont own WAT or the WAT characters.

Reviews: Always welcome!

Late October 2002 – San Diego, California

Danny and Martin ate in companionable silence. They had been hard at work all day chasing down leads in the Patrick Kent case and neither had eaten since breakfast; when they had driven past the diner 20 minutes ago Martin had decided enough was enough and pulled in; he hadn't heard any complaint from Danny.

Danny sat back and took a drink of his water, his mind replaying the events of the day...a memory pushed it's way to the front of his mind and a slow smile spread across his face, no way he was going to let Martin get away without some explanation of that comment….

'Sooo…. Fitzy,….. you often date two women at once?'

Martin looked up from his food and groaned inwardly; they had been talking outside Amalia Kent's apartment earlier that day just after discovering that Patrick Kent had two wives...he had known as soon as the words left his mouth he shouldn't have said anything. Danny had let it go then but he had known he wouldn't forget...

Flashback to that afternoon

'Imagine that. Keeping two wives in the dark for that long' Danny sounded impressed

Martin laughed 'I know. I can't date two women for a month without blowing my cover'

Danny pulled a face 'There are lots of women that can' he sounded faintly bitter.

Martin smiled in wry acknowledgement and climbed into the car as Danny continued 'Women are better liars than men. I mean, it's proven'

End of flashback

'No, like I said, my cover is inevitably blown and then the crap hits the fan….' Martin pulled a face and Danny laughed.

'Come on then Fitz, let's have some details….'

Martin decided that attack was the best form of defence...

'Never mind me; you sounded like you have some personal experience in the area'

The laughter faded from Danny's face. He stared down at his plate

Flashback to late July 2002

The voice at the end of the phone sounded muffled as if someone was making a crude attempt to disguise it.

'I think you should know that your bitch of a girlfriend is screwing her ex boyfriend behind your back and it's been going on for a couple of months now. Oh, and you know when she told you she had to work late last night? Well according to him he was banging her at his apartment. Apparently he's been telling everyone all about it….he says she's very 'inventive''.'

'Who the hell is this'

The dial tone greeted his words. Danny slowly put the phone down; a sense of dread creeping over him……surely she wouldn't cheat on him……..but that bastard was rich successful, good looking and came from a top drawer West Coast family……why wouldn't she prefer him over Danny…………………?.

End of flashback

'Danny?' Danny looked up to see Martin looking quizzically at him; Martin continued 'Hey man, sorry, I didn't want to open up old wounds'

'Yeh, well, its all water under the bridge. You know the usual 'love of your life cheats on you with her rich, handsome very successful ex boyfriend.' Danny grinned weakly at Martin.

'Yeh?...sounds recent'

Danny pushed his plate away ' Yeh…..still, live and learn. I won't make that mistake again.'