Vacation

Chapter 4

Hesitantly Flack made his way back to his designated seat next Danny. The movement of him sitting back down casued Danny to shift in his sleep and wake up and take in his surroundings. Noticing that Flack was back, from gossiping to Stella and the others, they started to talk about the Giants chances of winning the superbowl again in the forthcoming season. The sports talk caused Lindsay to stir and silent shift so she was facing the window effectively blocking out most of the noise from their discussion

"Hey Dan can I ask you something?" Flack spoke cautiously waiting for Dannys reaction to that simple question using the reaction to that to determine what his answer to the next question would be.

"Sure Don. What's up?" Danny answered becoming more confused by the second as he watched a range of emotions pass over Flack's face.

"The thing is I kind of like Lindsay and I was wondering if ya still had a thing for her."

" Ya know you are so lucky her father isn't on this plane right now. Cause i'm tellin' ya that man would do anything to protect his 'lil princess' as he calls her. Oh and just so you know if her father didn't set ya straight i'm sure her boyfriend would love that job." Danny reasoned with a dark look on his face causing Flack to visibly squirm in his seat and search for the nearest escape route, if the conversation started to rapidly go down hill far too fast for his liking.

Neither of them knew that once they had finished droning on about sports, that Lindsay had woken up and was covertly listening in on everything that was passed between the two men. After suceeding to stifle her laughter of the 3rd time in the space of ten minutes, she decided to save Flack, from any further torture thanks to Danny's words, by fake waking up and stop Danny before he managed to make Flack soil himself in fear of the threats Danny was laying thick, heavy and fast on the poor bloke.

"Heys guys. Whats going on?" She asked suspiciously in a sleepy voice.

"Nothing Linds just asking Danny's opinion on whether or not the Giants will make it two years in a row, but I guesss that doesn't matter as weknow they will do better than the 49er's anyway." Flack announced , but before she could retort the pilot called over the speaker phone that they would be landing in 10 minutes.

"Welcome home Montana." Danny leaned over and whispered in her ear.

"No Danny this stopped being my home a long time ago. My home now is where ever you happen to be." She whispered back, once again getting lost in their own world leaving Flack to listen in again, gathering gossip for the mother's meeting he was sure he would be attending later on that very same day.

Eventually when the plane landed and they had sucessfully located all their luggage, without too much hassel just Flack's suitcase being the very last one to appear on the turn table. Mac disappeared only to return 15 minutes later with two sets of keys and a road map. He decided to announce just where in fact they were going to be staying for the next two weeks.

"Lindsay, your parents have kindly agreed to let us stay with them in the farm house. So that means your driving." Mac said as he delivered the fatal blow on the last string of private life Lindsay had. Begrudgingly she took the keys, inwardlt groaning all the while.

"Hey it's not so bad, I mean Mac said that we would be staying in the farm house which means my dear Montana that you still have your house, which means we will be sneaking away as much as possible." Danny said winking at her.

"I suppose, but to make sure I miss the overzealous welcoming i'm gonna go ride Shadow around the paddock for a while. I'll let Mom come find me. I just need time to think, last time I was here I put away the man who destroyed my life, it's just nice to be back and not worry about seeing the disappointed faces fo my friends mothers faces." Lindsay answered with a slight frown maring her face.

"Come on Montana this vacation starts the faster we get to go rolling in the hay as ya say." Danny replied huskily in her ear causing Lindsay to shiver and moan.

Raising her voice so the others could hear she called. "Alright lets get going i'm sure my Mom will be having kittens if we don't get to the ranch before dinner." Moving back to the first car she opened the door and turned shouted. "Mac."

"Yeah Linds."

"I'm gonna kill you."

"Love you too Linds." Mac teasingly returned with a fully amused grin on his face.

45 minutes later the 2 cars pulled up outside the Monroe ranch house, Lindsay got out of the first car and proceded to head towards the barn doors, as everyone looked on wondering what she was doing. "She just wants to clear her head. Last time she was here it wasn't the most happy of reasons." Danny explained as he looked towards the barn and the paddock which even 3 months later the sight and memory of what happened in there still managed to make him shudder.

With Danny at the front of the group they unloaded the cars and marched towards the porch doors. Knocking on the thin screen door, rustling was the only sound that could be heard on the other side of the door, just before a women who looked like an older version of Lindsay emerged with a contagious smile on her face that would put the most nervous of people at ease in her presence.

"Danny how are you?" Beth Monroe asked as she made her way forward to take him in her arms for one of her famous bear hugs.

"I'm fine Beth. These are mine and Lindsay's colleagues. Our boss Mac Taylor. Second in command Stella Bonesara, our resident Doctor Sheldon Hawkes and our legal counterpart Detective Don Flack Jnr." Danny said as he introduced Beth to everyone.

Stepping froward to each of them she repeated the same thing she had done to Danny.

"Well it's nice to finally put a face with the name as Lindsay talks about you all so much when we talk over the phone." She greeted. "Come on then Jackson is inside. The game is on so I woudn't put much on a greeting just yet. Lets get you all inside and settled down in your rooms. Dinner will be ready in 30 minutes so that should give you some time to unpack and get settled in. Danny be a dear and show them where the everything is stored." Beth rabbited on as the team entered the house and made their way upstairs following Beth as she showed where each of them would be staying, before going back downstairs to check on her pot-roast.

"Okay the bathroom is the last door on the left, towels are in the closet opposite." Danny explained as he showed them where everything was.