"Okay, let's do this," Danny said, as he turned towards Lindsay, while slipping on gloves. She was sitting on a stool in the lab, and Hawkes shot her a smile, as he came up towards her side as well. "That was really good thinking, Lindsay. Getting the fingerprints we needed."
"I know, Messer, I am a smart one," she replied, as she held out her arm towards them both. "It does take a brains sometimes to get the job done."
"True," Hawkes said, as he reached out for her arm, only to have her slightly wince, causing both him and Danny to look up at her. "Lindsay?" Hawkes reached out for her, to check her wound.
"I'm okay," she answered, as she brushed aside Hawkes hand. "It just hurts sometimes, nothing more. I'll be okay. We need to solve this case. Then we all can go home and sleep. That will make us all happy. Right?"
"Yeah," Danny said, as he began to processess her arm, to get the fingerprints off. He then chuckled, as he moved closer to her. "Okay, Montana for this to work, you have to quit squirming."
At that exact moment, Flack walked in the door with Mac and Stella. "Okay, I didn't just hear that," Mac said, as he looked over at them. "And Danny why are you fingerprinting Lindsay's arm?"
"We're getting a match of Dylan's fingerprints," Lindsay pointed out, as Danny began to lift them from her arm. "The creepy guy was nice enough to make a harsh grab of my arm and left them. So why not use them."
"Good thinking," Stella called out, while she came up to their sides. "How you guys handling everything?"
"Okay," they replied, as Danny snapped the gloves off. Danny then looked around. "Um, where's the ankle bitter?"
"Mac locked her in his office."
"Is that wise?" Lindsay asked, as she looked over at Mac. "You might not have an office left. She's not that found of police officers."
"So we've noticed." Stella then noticed the six foot python in the tank. "Oh, so this must be Carter. She looked at it and shook her head. "How can you look at that and come up with a name like Carter?"
"I'm betting he had a reason," Flack said, as he leaned on the table. "That guy has a reason for everything." You could see exhaustion on the young man's face. Talking with Dylan must be talking it's toll on him. Plus he had been talking with Stan as well. "I think I would take on Stan any day rather than this one, or his little girl. You can tell where she gets his attitude from. This guy could spit fire or nails if he got angry enough."
"Now Flack, it's not nice to talk about the potential criminal that way," Stella scowled as she turned to face him. "You know that. You're just tired."
"We are all tired, Stella," Mac said, as he looked over at her. "And Dylan knows that. He's extra smart and extra cocky. He's using Kylie to rattle our nerves to play us, so that we're edgy around him, so that he seems more upset than he really is. We can't let that get to us. We have to keep our heads in the game people. We need to solve this case."
"You're right about that one, Mac," Danny said, as he looked out the lab door and smirked. "Um, Flack do us a favor and go fetch that one."
"Huh?" Flack turned to see Kylie headed down the hallway. "Oh, man." He then took off to grab her. "Why is it I'm always stuck grabbing the little ones?"
"So, anybody have any good ideas on how we're going to get either Stan or Dylan to crack?" Danny asked, as they watched Flack leave. "Because neither of them are talking?"
"That's a good question," Hawkes muttered, as he looked down at Carter. "I have no idea."
"Then we really have a plan don't we."
"Not really," Flack said, as he came back into the room with a struggling Kylie. He plopped her down in front of Messer. "Here, I think this belongs to you."
"Ah, thanks Don," Danny muttered, as he gently grabbed onto Kylie's arm, before she got the chance to bolt. "I didn't know you cared to much. He shot him a look that said 'You'll get yours later.' He then looked down at Kylie. "How can one so little cause so much trouble?"
"It's in my genes," Kylie said, with a shrug "That's what Daddy says."
"Okay, here's what we're going to do," Mac said as he looked over at them. "Since we obviosly can't leave her, by herself. You are going to have to watch her, and do your jobs at the same time." All the CSIs faces dropped a second before they caught themselves. "Just shuffle her around while you're doing your stuff so that she's not getting into things she's not supposed to and out of the interrogation rooms."
"What we can't stick her in on of the empty ones?" Flack teased, only to have Mac give him a harsh look. "Okay, I guess not."
"No, Flack, you guess not," Stella said, as she hit the young detective on the back of the head causing the CSIs to chuckle, as Mac and Stella left the lab. "Just watch her and behave yourselves. Don't make us have to separate you all. If we have to do that, it won't be pretty."
"Yes Ma'am," they all replied, as they watched her leave.
"So what am I supposed to do while you guys work?" Kylie asked, as she looked at them all, feeling out of place among the Lab Rats. "Cause I'm sure you guys are really boring and all, being nerds and all that."
"Yeah, they are nerds," Flack said, as he looked over at the Lab Rats. "Trust me, they are. You can hang out with me. I'm sure I can find you something to read or draw on."
"We're not nerds, Flack," Danny said, as he got to his feet. "And you better watch yourself. You might find yourself handcuffed to a chair if you hang out with him. He tends to get bored very quickly."
"I do not," Flack replied, as Danny ushered Kylie past him. "Hey, where are you all going?"
"To have some fun. You can stay here and have a chat with Carter. He's such a fun being to be around."
Flack turned around to look at Hawkes and Lindsay. "Do I even want to know who's Carter?"
"That's Carter," Lindsay replied, as she pointed to the snake, as she looked up at him. "And um, you're handcuffed."
"What?" Flack looked down to see that he was indeed handcuffed to a chair. "Danny!" This was going to be a long day.
TBC
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