Lindsay was taken back at the fact that Danny was kissing her and that Danny was finally kissing her. Danny slowly broke the kiss off and looked down into her eyes. "You all right?" he asked as he stroked the side of her face. "Feeling any better?"
A small blush crept up her face and she quickly ducked her face to hide it. "Yeah, I am," she answered, as she raised up her head to look up into his eyes. "Took you long enough do that, Danny Messer. You just had to take your time."
"Yeah, you know me. I'm a very patient person." He ran his thumb along her jaw and she looked up at him. "I had to wait for the perfect time."
"And being locked in a vault with one of the suspects of the robbery was the perfect time? I can't believe you, Danny..." He cut her off with another kiss. He broke this one off as he did with the first one. "You can't keep doing that. Using those to cut me off."
Danny smirked as he looked down at her. "Wouldn't dream out of it, LInds."
"Good." She took a step towards him and put her hands on his chest. "Because you're not the only one who gets to be in charge of this situation."
"Oh, really?" He slid his arms around her waist, as he was pushed back into the wall. "Just remember to watch the walls."
"I'll remember," Lindsay whispered, as she looked up at him. "I have a good memory."
"I have no questions about your memory." Just then a loud noise caused them to pull apart. "What the..."
"What was that?" Danny pulled Lindsay back, as he moved in front of her. "Danny?"
"I don't know, I'm going to go check it out."
"Um, CSIs we got a problem," Stan muttered, causing them to look over at him.
"And what is it this time?" Lindsay asked as she went up to his side.
"The walls are smoking," Stan said, as he gestured towards the wall with his head. Lindsay spun around towards the wall and grabbed her flashlight from her pocket. Sure enough the walls were smoking. "See, I was joking."
"No, you weren't," Lindsay said in disbelief as she looked at the smoking wall. "Danny, we got trouble."
"Like what kind?" he asked, as he continued to walk towards the sound.
"Smoking wall," Lindsay offered, as she walked towards the wall.
"What?" Danny said, as he stopped in his tracks and turned to look at the wall. "Oh, that can't be good."
"I didn't think so either." Lindsay stepped back away from the wall, as the smoke began to get thicker. "Okay, that's not good."
"No, it's not." Danny grabbed for his cell phone. "Let's hope that Mac is about to tell us that the door is about to open, 'cause I don't think the we're going to make it in here for very much longer with that smoke."
"Oh, nice job being positive, dude," Stan growled at him, as they backed away as the smoke grew stronger. "Why is it getting stronger?"
"We have no idea," Lindsay answered, as she looked over at Stan, her eyes were watering from the smoke. She quickly hid a cough with the back of her hand and went over to check on Stan. "You all right?"
"I've been better, darling," he sneered, as he looked up at her. "Can we get now?"
"We wish we could," she replied, as she looked over at the door. "But it will take them a few more hours to get the door open."
"And by then, we would be dead. Great."
"Stan, shut it, or I will knock you out myself."
"Having fun chatting, Linds?" Danny asked, as he looked over as he looked over at them.
"Of course," she replied, as she looked up at him. "Any idea where the smoke is coming from?"
"The walls?" Danny put out, as he looked over at her. "It looks like the boxes."
The sound came again, and they looked towards again. "Okay, what the hell is that?" Stan asked, as he looked towards the sound. "Somebody better tell me what's going on?"
"We don't know," Lindsay said, as she got up and went over to Danny's side. "Okay, smoke from the walls. Bomb in the boxes?"
"Don't know, Linds." He shot a glance over at her, to see that there was a touch of fear I her eyes. "You all right?"
"As good as I'll be." She coughed and he moved over to her side. "It's nothing. Just the smoke is getting to me, that's all."
"It's gonna get really smokey in here, I'm afraid."
"I figured that." She shivered and looked over at where the sound was coming again. "Okay that's getting creepy." Just then sparks came through the door and Lindsay stepped towards Danny and he put a hand on her lower back. "Is that what I think that is?"
"They're cutting through the door," Stan said, with a touch of relief in this tone. "Thank heavens. About god damn time."
"Didn't your mother teach you not to swear," Lindsay ask him, as she turned to face him.
"Back up!" Danny said, as he slid an arm around her waist and yanked her back. Lindsay turned to see that the boxes and caught on fire. "That's not a good sign."
"No, it's not." They backed away as the flames leaped up along the boxes. "And we don't have any way of putting out the fires."
"Yeah, I know." Lindsay looked up at him. "Well, we won't be cold."
That got Danny to chuckle. "Let's just hope that they get the door open soon."
"Yeah, sooner would better than later."
"You said it, darling," Stan said, as the flame grew bigger from the door. "They're getting closer."
"We see that, Stan," Danny said, as he moved from Lindsay's side to grab their kits. "This is not the time to panic."
"I'm not panicking."
"Of course not." Just then the door let out a horrid sound as it was yanked opened and a bright light filled a small gap.
"It opened," Stan cried out.
"Stating the obvious, Stan." Through the gap, came Mac, Flack, and Hawkes. "Hiya Guys."
"There's a fire in here," Flack said, as Hawkes went up to Lindsay's side to check her wound.
"Yeah, you're as observant as Stan here," Lindsay said, as she hissed as Hawkes touched her wound. "I'm okay, just soar, that's all."
"We need to get those fires out," Mac said, as a fire man came into the vault. "And get those bodies out of here."
"We'll be outside," Danny said to Mac, as he took up Lindsay's elbow and ushered her towards the door. They slipped through the opening and outside into the foyer of the bank. Stella looked up at them with at them with concern on her face as she came towards them. "Nice to see you two, Stella." Hawkes soon was at their sides setting down their cases, as Flack hauled Stan out of the vault.
"You guys okay?" Stella asked, as she looked them over.
"Yeah, just glad to be out of the vault," Lindsay replied, as she looked back at the vault. "Glad to be out of there."
TBC
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