Lindsay woke up extra early and exited her apartment building to find a surprise outside. "Messer," she said, as she looked up to find Danny standing outside with two coffee cups. "What are you doing here?" She took the cup he offered her, and he just smirked as they headed for the subway. "I'm way out of your normal way to work."
"Oh, I know, but going to bed at like seven, threw my normal sleeping habit out of the window at I was up super early so I thought I would swing by and pick you up," he answered, before taking a sip of his drink. "Plus I wanted to make sure that you were okay this morning."
"I'm fine, Danny." She shot him a smile, as she took a drink. "Thanks for worrying about me though. It's been a while since someone has."
"Well, I'm happy to do it. Come on, let's get to work, before Mac starts to worry about us, and when that happens. It's not a good thing." They headed off to work.
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Hawkes was working in the lab when Danny and Lindsay came up beside him. "Hey," Lindsay called out to him, as she came up next to him, and he jumped. "Jumpy?"
"Hey guys," Hawkes said, as he looked over at them. "It's good to see that you both you look rested and back to normal."
"Yeah, it's good to be back to normal," Lindsay said as she looked over at the safety deposit boxes. "Any of those got snakes in them?"
"Don't know. We're still missing the jewels, drugs, and the hand, that your buddy Stan said were supposed to be in them."
"Hmm, sounds like Stan's doing," Danny said, as he looked over at the boxes. "No explosives right?" Hawkes nodded as he looked over at Danny. "Hey, I didn't know that there were any in there when I kicked the box." That got a smile from Lindsay. "It got rid of the snake problem, at least."
"And that was a good thing," Mac's voice called out from the door, and they looked up to see him coming in with Stella. "It's good to see you both up and in good spirits."
"Well, it's good to be here," Danny replied, as he looked up at them. "So what do you want us to do?"
"You are going to first go through those lovely boxes, while Stella and I go back to the bank," Mac started. "Hawkes is going to work with you. Then you get to talk to your buddy, Stan, later."
"Oh, yeah," Lindsay muttered, causing everyone to smile. "He's such a lovely person."
"Well, we'll leave you to your work. We'll be back later to check. Flack will swing by later to check in as well." Then they were gone.
"Okay, let's get this party started," Danny said, as he snapped on a pair of gloves and reached for a box. "And hope that there are not live creatures in these boxes. I've all ready had my fill."
"Ah, how can you say that, Messer?" Hawkes asked, as he looked over as Danny grabbed on a crowbar to pry open the top of the box. "I thought you liked animals."
"Oh, I do, don't get me wrong. Just not ones who can kill you." That got a smile from Lindsay as she came up to his side. "Okay, you want to see what's inside the box?"
"Yeah. Open it," she replied, as she watched him opened the box. Inside was diamonds. "Oh, no, diamonds."
"Step back." Lindsay did as she was told and Danny tipped the box on the table and diamonds flowed out on the table, but this time no snake. "Okay, just diamonds this time."
"That's good," Hawkes said, as he looked at the diamonds. "Cause I really didn't want to deal with a snake. I'll process the diamonds. You guys keep working on the boxes."
"Oh, right, you get the diamonds, we break in the boxes, is that how it is?" Danny asked, as he picked up the crowbar and looked at his fellow CSI.
"You're having fun, so I'm not going to stop you. Go on."
"Okay." Danny then turned his attention back towards the remaining boxes. "Okay, let's do this." He cracked opened another one and they were automatically taken back by a horrible smell. "Oh, god."
"I think we may have found the hand," Lindsay said, as she peered into the box, with a hand over her mouth. She reached into the box with her other hand and pulled out a plastic wrapped object. Sure enough it was a severed hand. "Yeah, it's the hand. Um, Hawkes, can you take a look at this."
"Sure, what ya got?" he asked, as he came up to their sides.
"A severed hand," Lindsay replied, as she handed it over to him. "All yours." Danny smirked, as he checked the box to see if there was anything else in the box and finding nothing went on to the next one. "Looks kinda gross."
"Well, severed hands, never look anything other than gross, Lindsay," Hawkes replied, as he began to look at the hand. "Ah, a female hand."
"Creepy, that one is," Lindsay whispered to Danny, as she moved over to his side, as he began to open another box, only to have him freeze. "What's wrong?"
"This one started to smoke," he said, as he set down the crowbar. "Hawkes, I thought you said there were no explosives in the boxes."
"Yeah, the bomb squad went through the boxes."
"Okay, then why is this one smoking?" Hawkes turned around to face them with the hand and frowned. "You have no idea?" Hawkes nodded. "Okay, let's do this a simple and safe way. Lindsay grab that fire extinguisher. We don't want to start a fire. Mac would have our heads if we set the lab on fire." She grabbed it and came back to his side. "Okay, let's hope that we don't have a fire."
"Yeah, let's hope," Lindsay replied, as she watched as he continued to open the box and more smoke came from it. Danny quickly moved away from the box and Hawkes took the extinguisher from her and dosed the box. Lindsay moved over to Danny's side and placed her hand on his arm. "You all right?"
"Yeah, I think I know why the box was smoking," he said, as he coughed. "It was a trick trigger on the top. There were drugs in the box. No body wanted anybody to get those drugs but them. So anybody but the owner going in to get them, set off the trigger and it set a small fire, setting off the drugs."
"You all right?" Hawkes asked, as he came up to their side. "We really don't need you high right now?"
Danny smirked, as he looked over at him. "I'm fine. As soon as I saw the drugs, I moved away. We need to get back to work. You need to work on the identifying that hand."
"Right. Let's get back to work." Hawkes then turned and went back to the hand. "Come on, sweety. Let's go see if we can figure out who you belong to."
"That's just creepy," Lindsay muttered, as she watched him walk away.
Danny then reached out and touched Lindsay's arm. "And later, we can go talk to Stan and see if he knows were his friends are," he said, as he picked up the crowbar and went over to the boxes.
"Of how fun that conversation is going to be," she replied, as she looked over at the boxes. "Come on, it's not ever day, we get to break into safety deposit boxes."
TBC
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