"Danny, how did you do all this?"
"I'm still not quite sure myself. I saw you sleeping, and you have been so unhappy lately, so I just thought..." He trailed off with a shrug.
She walked up to him, kissed him on the cheek and grinned at him."Thank you, and I guess this is the surprise that you wrote about"She looked around, and that table was covered in a cloth, a bottle of wine was sat in the middle with two glasses sat next to it. There were also two places set for a meal.
"Sit down", Danny gestured, pulling out her chair.
"I don't mind if I do. So what is for dinner?"
"Well , I thought about deep fried bugs, but I guessed that you might want something a little more...conventional", he said, recounting the bet he made with Mac over Lindsay and bugs.
"Hmm,maybe you're right", she said with a chuckle.
"Yeah, so I went with take out lasagne, but it is the best take out lasagne in New York,and as a person of italian descent, I am qualified to say that!".
Danny lifted a bag off the side and emptied out steaming cartons and placed the contents on to two plates.He carried them to the table, and Lindsay realized just how hungry she really was.
"So", she said taking a mouthful of lasagne, "how did you know all this stuff?, it was a little like you were reading my mind".
"Well, when I saw you sleeping, the first word that came in to my mind was angel, so that was the first one. What was next?... Oh yeah,the post card. I remember when we was on a case a while ago. You had been really down for about a wee, but when we walked into that guys office and you saw that picture of Montana, and you just cheeres up straight away. And you kept looking at it with that sad smile, so I went with a hunch."He finished his sentence and started eating.
"Man, I never knew that I was so obvious", she said with an embarrassed smile.
"Only to the people that know you", Danny said softly.Their eyes caught and silence hung in the air as they kept looking at each other.
"So what about the rest?", Lindsay asked breaking both the silence and the eye contact.
"Well,once again,on a case.We stopped at starbucks, and you went and got coffee. When I picked up my cup, it had hot chocolate and so I switched them. When I asked you what you had, you said that you had and indulgence, but you didn't say exactly what it was, so that was that".
"Ok, and the photo frame".
"Well, I bought the frame a while back to give to you for the photo because one day, it was going to get covered in coffee, with it just lying on your desk like that, but I haven't seen you in so long, and in the odd moments that I did see you, it was only for a few minutes.So when I was thinking about what to do next, I was stood in our office, and I saw the photo and thought, why not?".
"Ok, so now that you have explained all of them,I can see where you have otten all the ideas from, but the lilly, how did you know that they are my favourite type of flower?"
His face softened."Well,one night when we all went out for a drink, you were talking with Stella about weddings, and you said how you would have a bouquet of white lillies on your wedding day because it was something that you had always wanted. Then on another case, the one with the dead groom, I said that thistles were an odd flower to have at a wedding, and you said that every woman wants their favourite flowers on their wedding day.So I put two and two together,and by the sounds of it I came up with four!".
"Lord, and to end all my running about,I get a lovely meal.Thank you,Danny,it is just so sweet!".
"And you got great company with your meal", he said with a chuckle."But do you know what my conclusion is?".
"What?",She asked,clearing the last of her pasta off her plate.
"You work too much.I found out all that stuff on cases, and even then it was by chance. So the most you open up is by chance to some dummy at work.Surely there has to be someone out there who you want to open up to totally too?".
"The reason that I spend so much time at work is because you are right.There is a person I wasnt to open up to, and he is sat right in front of me".She looked Danny straight in the eyes
She continued."Ever since my first day, it has been you and only you, but what is in my head isn't the kind of stuff that should be shared.But,by the look of things,I have been letting things drop like crazy".
Danny was speechless and he just sat there,stunned.
"Ok,so I have made a total idiot of myself so I am going to go now".She got up and walked out of the break room.
"Hey wait!".Danny shouted after her.She stopped but she didn't turn around.He stood in fron of her.
"Linds, I am so glad that it is me that you want to be open and honest with, and whatever it is going on in here",he said,tapping her head lightly,"can be shared as well.None of it matters now.We are going to get you through whatever is going on,and we are going to come out the other side.And I know this for sure,because I love you Lindsay Monroe!",he said as he pulled her in to his arms.
A tear slowly fell down Lindsay's cheek.But it was a tear of happiness,because she knew that everything was going to be alright.
"Good",she said smiling,"I thought for a moment back there that I was the only one with them kind of feelings".With that Danny pulled Lindsay in to his arms and kissed her.It was a kiss that they would both remember for the rest of their lives,because that kiss was the start of a new and great story in their lives.