By the end of the day they had an APB out for a suspect who had disappeared, and there wasn't much the CSIs could do.
In the end Mac sent them home since they had an early start, so they could pick up in the morning.
"Come over around 7.30." Lindsay told Danny. "I'll order Chinese."
"How about I just pick some up on the way?" Danny suggested. "Anything you don't eat?"
"I ate deep fried spiders." She reminded him.
"Good point."
"I'll see you later." Danny closed his locker.
"Bye." Lindsay agreed.
CSI NY CSI NY
"Come in." Lindsay called when Danny tapped on the door. She'd already buzzed him in.
"You know you shouldn't leave your door open, just anyone could walk in." Danny warned her.
"I knew you were on your way up, and my gun is right there, I was just putting it away."
"You look great." Danny told her.
"I wasn't exactly sure what you wear for this kind of discussion." She'd finally settled on her favourite pair of jeans and peasant style top.
"You could just take everything off and negate the need for the discussion in the first place." Danny suggested.
"I'll just get some plates." Lindsay said ignoring his comment.
"You have objections to eating out of cartoons?" Danny asked.
"No, I have objections to dropping food all over my couch. Take a seat, do you want a beer?"
"That would be good." Danny looked around Lindsay's apartment while she getting the drinks.
The apartment had shelves of books, lots of them about forensics and a healthy stack of New York guide books. There were a large selection novels too from a variety of genres and some autobiographies. There were lots of pictures which Danny guessed of her friends and family back in Montana. The place looked and felt like Lindsay should live there.
"Do you need me to give you another few minutes to look around?" Lindsay asked watching him.
"Sorry." He apologised.
"It's okay. If you start trying to process it then I'll start to worry."
"It's a nice place." Danny commented.
"Considering what I paid just to move in would be enough for a down payment on a house back home it ought to be."
"New York is one of the most expensive cities to live in; you just have to avoid the crappy neighbourhoods."
"Good thing this place is rent controlled."
"You managed to get rent controlled?" Danny questioned.
"Sub-leased rent control." Lindsay replied. "A cousin of a friend of a friend got transferred to Helsinki. I had good timing." Lindsay handed him one of the two open bottles of beer and set the plates and napkins on the table.
"Ah."
"So what did you get?"
"A little bit of everything and some barbeque chicken."
"Barbeque chicken?"
"I was walking past and it smelt good." He shrugged.
"So do you want to eat first then talk?" Lindsay suggested.
"How about we do a little of both?" Danny countered.
Lindsay nodded, when they sat down with cartoons of food and chopsticks Danny looked at her.
"Where do we start?"
"I told you that Sid says you call me Montana because you have a crush on me, you didn't say anything so I was leaving and you kissed me. You said we needed to talk and that it would be better in the morning. Then we slept together in the non-biblical sense."
"You know for the whole non-biblical thing you slept awfully close to me."
"I didn't."
"I had to extract myself so I take a very cold shower."
"I'm sorry." Lindsay apologised.
"It's okay; it wasn't a bad way to wake up, ignoring the whole need for a cold shower." Danny replied.
"That's where we were." Lindsay said blushing.
"I guess you want me to start." Lindsay nodded. "I like you a lot, you're smart, funny, beautiful and you didn't try to shoot me for all the crap I put you through after you got here."
"Someone tried to shoot you?" Lindsay questioned.
"An ex-girlfriend didn't like the fact that I had to work a triple and missed the dinner I was supposed to take her to, so she tried to shoot me with my gun when I got out of the shower, fortunately she didn't quite understand the concept of a safety."
"I'm guessing that didn't last much longer."
"No." He paused. "I'd like to figure out what's going on with us, but if you want me to leave and just stick to being friends then I'm fine with that too."
Lindsay looked at him.
"Now would be a good time to say something." Danny prompted.
Lindsay set her food down on the table and then took Danny's carton from him and set that next to it.
"We're scientists lets try a little experiment." Lindsay suggested. She kissed him before Danny had a chance to ask what kind of experiment.
"How did it turn out for you?" Danny asked trying to catch his breath.
"I think it needs to be repeated just to be safe." Lindsay kissed him again as she climbed into his lap. Danny wrapped his arms around her to hold her in place. "We need to take this slowly, we still have to work together."
"You need to get off my lap if you want to take it that slowly."
"Sorry." Lindsay moved off of him.
"It's okay." Danny assured. "So you're really going to let me take you out some time?"
"Well you did tell Stella you'd take me to the Empire State Building." Lindsay reminded him.
TBC