Christine stays at the hospital for 2 days before she can go home. Mac is there to pick her up and drives her home to her apartment. It is late in the afternoon when they arrive at Christine's apartment. Mac is carrying the bag pack he brought to the hospital with her clothing. He places the bag on the floor.

"I think I'll go take a shower," Christine says.

"are you hungry? I could order some food?" Mac offers.

Christine looks at Mac with a smile.

"sounds good," Christine says and walks into her bedroom to find some clothing. While Christine is taking a shower, Mac orders the food. He orders food from their favorite Chinese place nearby. Afterword Mac sits and relaxes on the couch. he leans back on the couch and closes his eyes for a moment. The moment he closes his eyes he sees Christine sitting on the floor with her hands tired on her ack and that gag in her mouth. He opens his eyes right away again. He needs to find a way to get that picture out of his head. he looks around in the living room. Christine has a lot of pictures of her family on her shelf over her tv. He notices a new picture frame on the shelf next to the tv. he stands up and picks up the frame. It is a picture of the two of them together. It is not the same picture as the one he has on his desk in his office. He likes this one better. It is a picture taken one night they went to Danny and Lindsay's.

The team had just closed a big case and Danny and Lindsay invited everyone over. At first, Lucy had taken all the attention with her toys and running around but after Lucy finally had fallen asleep there had been a nice relaxing mood. Christine spends most of the time speaking with Jo and Lindsay while Mac had been talking with Flack, Danny, and Hawkes. At some point, mac remember, he had felt Christine sliding her hand into his under the table and that had made Mac turn his head towards her. He had looked right into her big blue smiling eyes. it was that moment that Lindsay had snapped a picture of them. Mac hadn't even realized that Lindsay had taken the picture. He knows Lindsay like to take pictures especially of him and Lucy together. He remembers how happy and relaxed he felt that night with his team bonding so well with Christine and having Christine, the woman he loves so much, right there next to him.

Mac gets snapped out of his memory when he feels Christine's hands sliding up his chest over his t-shirt and the heat of her body against his back.

"do you remember that night?" Christine asks when she notices which picture Mac is holding in his hand. Mac smiles and places the frame back on the shelf.

"yes, I do." He says and turns around and wraps his arms around her.

"how was your shower?" he asks and kisses her on the top of her head.

"lonely." She says. He looks surprised at her and then blushes. he looks away from her for a moment. She knows she can completely knock him out of his head whit completely unexpected comments like that because that was not the answer he was expecting. She starts laughing at his reaction. Then her facial expression turns serious she looks into his eyes. She sees something in his eyes she hasn't seen before. She sees fear and powerlessness. For the first time since he found her, she realizes how much this whole thing has affected him too. How scared he must have been. How powerless he must have felt when she was forced to make that phone call to him. She reaches her hand behind his neck and pulls him in for a long slow passionate kiss. Mac reciprocates the kiss with the same amount of feelings and passion as her. It is the first moment they have to them self since she was found. There have either been police officers, Macs team, Christine's family or doctors around them all the time. Once they break the kiss for much-needed air they just smile at each other and Mac says: "I love you too."

"I'm sorry Mac." Mac look confused at her.

"for what. This whole thing was never your fault at all."

"I think I made the situation worse for you then it had to be."

Mac look confused at her.

"What do you mean?"

"I told them that if they killed me, they would lose the only leverage they had. They asked me why and I told them that my boyfriend is a cop. After that, they started talking about that they could use that to get you away from your team so they could target you personally. I'm so sorry I never thought about that they would psychologically torture you."

Tears start forming in her eyes.

"hey hey. You did what they had to do to survive. I have been in this business a hell of a lot longer than they have. They thought they could play with the big boys but they turned out to be schoolyard bullies wetting their pants in fear." Mac says and that makes Christine smile.

"what did you do to them?"

"ever heard of a game called Russian roulette?" Mac says in a cocky tone. Christine look surprised at him.

"what if the gun had gone off?" Christine is shocked that Mac would even think about playing a game of Russian roulette with a criminal.
"not much of a game when the gun is empty. I made them think there was a bullet in it. If they had been professional crime mobsters instead of schoolyard bullies, they would have known I was bluffing." Mac says with a smile and kisses her again.

"remind me to never play poker with you," Christine says. Then it knocks on the door. That is the delivery guy with their food.

"no more talk about those scumbags. They are in custody and they can't hurt you or anyone else." Mac says and gives her a kiss on the lips before he walks to the door to get their food.

Christine can't stop thinking about how Mac must have felt about this case and how he dealt with how they tried to torture him by making her deliver the threats on her life to him.

Mac comes into the living room with a bag of food.

"come on let's have some food. You have complained about the hospital food the last few days. I ordered you're favorite Chinese."

Mac is unpacking the bag as he speaks. Christine sits down next to him. Mac opens her box and hands her the box and a pair of chopsticks.

"for you, my love," Mac says with a smile. That makes Christine smile.

"you are so sweet Mac," Christine says.

She takes the box and leans back and starts to eat. Mac also leans back and just looks at Christine as he takes the first bite. Christine looks wondering at him.

"why are you staring at me?" she asks.

"because you are so amazing and I love you."