Kylie broke the eerie silence in the room with a chuckle. "Do I even want to know?" she asked, as she gazed over at him. "Kid-snatching?" She shot the others a look. "And you left him alone with a kid? Is that safe?"
"Yeah, it's Danny," they all muttered all about the same time. "What's the worst that he can do?"
Just then Adam popped his head into the lab. "Um, Mac, there's a woman here for you guys," he said, as he glanced at them with a worried look.
"Did she say for which one?" Mac said, as he looked over at Adam, shooting a glance over at Kylie, before heading toward the door.
"Her exact words were 'The SOB CSI who has my daughter'," Adam said, as he arched a brow at them. "Who upset the 'mom' off?" Fingers were pointed to Messer before he could even flinch. "Wow, Messer, remind me not to invite you to Thanksgiving. I'd hate to see what you'd do around real family."
"Thanks, Adam," Messer replied, as he moved past him, gently grabbing Kylie by the elbow as he went past her. "I betting you're going to be wanting to see Mommy dearest."
"Not really," she replied, as she looked up at him. "But since you want to, I'll go along and introduce you to her. Since the two of you got along, so well in the first place."
"Ah thanks," he muttered, as he pointed toward the way. "Let's go." He then shot the others a smirk. "I'll see you guys later at my funeral." He shot Flack a glare, as he followed Kylie out the door.
"Oh, he's gonna be such a joy when it's his turn to be a father," Flack said, as he watched them walk down the corridor to where Adam had left her mother. "I can just imagine what Messer's kids are gonna be like."
"Trouble," Hawkes said, as he picked up the remains of the teddy and shot Lindsay a look, as bit down on her bottom lip. "Linds you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine," she replied before going to the door. "I'm just going to get a drink of water." Then she was gone.
Flack and Hawkes exchanged a look before moving to the door. "What was that about?" Adam asked as he followed them. "Is something going on between them?"
"Yeah, we all knew that," Flack muttered, as he turned to look at the Lab Rat, but something else happened in there that they're not telling us."
"But she's okay, right?" Adam asked, as they watched her take a drink and put her hand to her side, wincing in pain.
"Yeah, like she getting hurt," Hawkes said, as he pushed past Flack. "She's tired and hurting. She's pushing herself too much. She needs to rest, which she's not doing. I don't want to be the one to force her to go home."
"Then don't," Flack said, reaching out for Hawkes' arm. "She'll tell us when she's tired. She's a big girl. She'll tell us when she's not up for the job."
"YOU SON OF A..." a loud voice caused them to spin around as a body came crashing through a plane of glass.
"DANNY!" Lindsay cried out as she rushed toward him, as a flurry of fabric rushed at him as well. "Kylie!"
The three guys moved when Lindsay cried out, moving toward Danny and Kylie. Hawkes was down next to Danny as Flack moved to look into the room where he was shoved through to face Kylie's mother who was sitting on the table just looking at her nails. "Ma'am," he said, as he carefully made his way through the broken glass. "Ma'am."
"Are you one of them?" she asked in an icy tone, as she tore her gaze away from her nails.
"Are you gonna shove him out a window too?" Kylie asked her as she came up to Flack's side. "Cause that's mean." She had tears running down her face. "All Danny was doing was asking you questions about Daddy."
She hissed at Kylie, before glancing up at Flack. "Don't you even think about it Ma'am," Flack said, as he put a hand on Kylie's arm. "Adam!"
"Yeah," Adam called out from looking at all the broken glass around Danny. He then came over to their side. "What's up?"
"Adam, will you look after this young lady for a few minutes, while I have a chat with her mom?"
"Sure," Adam said glancing down at Kylie giving her a small wink. "Come on, we can join in on the Doc/patient talk that Hawkes about to give Danny."
"Okay," she replied joining him, as they joined Lindsay and Hawkes at Danny's side. "Is he gonna be okay?"
"Yeah, I'll be fine," Danny muttered, as he pushed himself up off the floor. "Nothing like being pushed through a window to wake you up or bring you to your senses."
"You're lucky you're not hurt." They shot Kylie a look as Hawkes ran a hand over his arms checking for cuts and the such.
"Yes, Danny, you're lucky," a voice called out from above them, causing them to look up to see Mac and Stella. Stella gave the broken glass a look before looking down at Danny. "Wanna explain?"
"Yeah, I had a very interesting chat with Kylie's mother, seems that she thinks her idiot husband maybe spending too much time with Stan," Danny started as sat up with Hawkes help. "Oh, and she also thinks that I may have kidnaped her daughter." He let out a groan as he rubbed the back of his head. "That seems to be one of the few charges that has been going around today."
"Why don't we put her and Stan in a room together," Mac said as he looked over at the woman who now was trying to chew Flack back down to his shoes. "See how they react to each other and go from there." He shot a glance at them. "Who wants to do it?"
"We will?" All three CSIs replied, causing them to look at each other.
Mac and Stella chuckled. "Well since you all seem to like Stan so much, you can all go."
"Thanks Mac," Danny said, as he rubbed the back of his head where he had hit the floor and shot a glance over at Kylie's mother. "Now the fun really is gonna begin, when they see each others."
"Oh, no kidding," Hawkes muttered as a smile crossed his face. "But it should be interesting." They watched as Mac ventured into the room to talk to Flack and they saw a smile cross his face. "Why is it when he smiles it doesn't seem like that's never a good thing?"
"Cause it never is . . . " Lindsay and Stella said, at the same time. "You guys should know that by knowing it then, and then where would all the fun be in you guys not knowing it. It's Don, and he has motives for you guys."
"That's comforting," Danny pointed out, getting to his feet, and brushing off the dirt and glass from his clothing while Flack brought Kylie's mother forward. "But what they say about payback is always true."
"What its best served cold . . . ?" Kylie asked, as she gazed up at the adults around her.
"Yeah . . . that is true, but it's best dished out when they don't know it's coming," Danny said, as he gazed over at Kylie's mother. "Okay, Ma'am this way."
"Where am I going?" she demanded, as she tried to yank her arm away from Flack's hold. "I demand to know."
"Well here's the deal," Flack muttered to her, as he started to usher her down the hallway toward an integration room. "What you demand and get are two different things, since you struck an officer."
"I did not!"
"Yes, you did!"
"Prove it!"
"You pushed him through a window! We're not really going through the whole prove it theory when we're in their lab. It's kinda a dumb thing to do." He then opened the door. "Here you are."
"What?" She glanced around the room. "What is this?"
"Sit . . . " He pointed to the chair and she stared at him. "Now!" She then sat and looked up as the door opened, her face dropped when Stan walked in. "Aw, you two know each other, that's good. We don't have to make introductions then."
Stan froze when he saw who was in the room and looked over at Flack. "Get that witch out of here," he demanded, as he started toward the door only to slam into Danny. "You!"
"Yes, me," he replied as he pushed Stan back into the room, as Hawkes and Lindsay entered the room behind him. "Now sit down."
"No, not with her in the room."
"Why?" Lindsay asked, as she shot Kylie's mother a questionable look. "What makes her so scarey? She is just a woman. Just like me, and you did stab me."
"She's a monster." Kylie's mother rolled her eyes, before going to inspect her fingers again. "Ask her daughter, what's she's done."
"Don't you dare bring Kylie into this!" she snapped causing Stan to jump and the CSIs turned to face her. "You know better than that you, thief."
"I know what I was paid to do . . . "
"Yeah, and that wasn't to blab to the cops . . . "
"I did what I was paid to do."
"You stabbed a cop . . . "
"I stole . . . what I was supposed to . . . "
Lindsay leaned into Danny's side and whispered. "Um . . . this going any where near what you thought it would?" Her eyes flickered over to Flack to see that he was watching them very carefully, knowing that he was making sure that they wouldn't try to kill each other.
Danny shook his head no. As he looked over at Hawkes and motioned for the door. Hawkes nodded, as he slowly began to move towards the door. "And if it wasn't for your stupid daughter, we wouldn't be here!" That got them to stop to look back at them.
"What?" Lindsay said as she looked over at Kylie's mother. "What did Kylie do?"
"Nothing," Stan replied, as he glared over at the woman across from him. His face bright red with anger. "It's the bear that she has. It's got stuff in it."
"The bear?" Lindsay shot a look over at Kylie's mother. "That's why it was so important for you to find it. Not your child or your husband, but the stupid bear."
"You wouldn't understand," she replied, as she glanced up from her nails. "You are too simple minded."
"I'm simple minded. Lady, you would trade your own child in for diamonds. How more simple minded can you be?" Lindsay let out a sigh to leave but a sudden movement had her spinning around, but it was too late. Stan threw out his arm to stop Kylie's mother from coming at him with something from her pocket, and Danny and Hawkes had rushed in to pull him back. Seeing that he was no longer a liable target, she had turned on the next one in range. She lunged the object into Lindsay's side.
Lindsay let out a gasp as she went down hard. "Witch, she's already been stabbed," Stan swore, as he struggled to his knees. "How could you?"
"Why should you care?" she hissed out, as Flack quickly hauled her away and called for help. He handed her off to some uniforms to be handcuffed. "You already stabbed her once. She's just a pretty face with boobs to you. Stanley. You don't care about her."
"At least I care," he replied back through clenched teeth as officers came in to drag him away. "At least I show emotions."
"Shut up both of you!" Mac snapped as he came up toward them. "Enough bickering from the both of you." His eyes then turned toward Lindsay and Hawkes. Hawkes had her in his arms while he was looking at her side. He had taken her into his lap when she had fallen. "How is she?"
"It didn't go that deep," he replied, looking up at Mac and Danny. "But from all the stress of getting stabbed the first time and this . . . she's going to be sore and a little bit testy if that." He then shot a glance up at Danny. "Help me get her up."
"Yeah sure," Danny replied, as he help him get her up. "What do you need?"
"For you to take her home." Danny shot him a look. "Doctors' orders. You both are exhausted and you need sleep. In addition if you go with her, I know she'll sleep."
"Okay . . . " Danny shot Mac a look and he simply nodded. "I'll give ya guys a call if any things happen."
"Same here," Mac replied. "But I have a hunch that this case is almost solved now that we know the connection."
"Yeah I kinda figured that."
"Take care of our girl, she's been through enough trauma for a life time," Hawkes said, gazing down at Lindsay. "But remember to come back, we still have to get back at Flack."
"Yeah I know . . . we'll think of some really good stuff." He then took off, with Lindsay, for her place, as for Doctor's orders.
TBC
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