Lindsay pulled the clip out of her hair as she exited the elevator and began stomping through the hallways towards the locker room stripping out of her jacket as she went.
"Hey Montana." Danny who was talking to one of the lab techs as she passed greeted her.
"Not now Danny, I'm not in the mood." Lindsay kept on walking.
"Ouch what did you do to her?" The tech asked.
"I have no idea." Danny replied. "Excuse me."
Rather than go after her himself, Danny went into the near by room to where Stella was working.
"Hey Stella."
"I haven't found anything probative yet." Stella told him.
"Could you go and talk to Lindsay?" Danny inquired.
"She's back?" Stella asked.
"Yes, and she looks a little pissed off. She already snapped at me, I think she was headed towards the locker room."
"I'll go and talk to her. Keep looking for trace."
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Lindsay had dropped her jacket, badge and a hair clip onto one of the benches while she slid down the cool lockers so she was sat on the floor her eyes closed.
"Didn't go well?" Stella asked.
"I hate lawyers." Lindsay groaned.
"What happened I thought the evidence was solid?"
"It is." Lindsay replied. "When the defence lawyer couldn't argue against the evidence he turned it into a forum on me. I was involved in a case about three years; it was just after I joined CSI and a piece of crucial evidence got tainted, it wasn't anything to do with me but it got the case thrown out, he had to bring it. He wanted to go through every detail of my life and find any little imperfection that he could use to taint my reputation."
"The DA should have objected."
"He did, but the judge let him do it up to a point."
"That's the way it goes sometimes kid."
"I hate going to court." Lindsay sighed leaning her head back against the locker.
"But the jury will see through it, they are smarter than the lawyer was giving them credit for the can see that he was attacking you because he couldn't attack the evidence." Stella told her.
"I hope so. The fact that I once had a parking ticket at a crime scene which they took care of should be a reason to let a guy go."
"No." Stella agreed. "How about we go down the block and I'll buy you a decent cup of coffee and a chocolate doughnut with sprinkles?" Stella offered.
"Comfort police food."
"Of course." Stella smiled.
"Okay."
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"Feeling better?"
"My desire to shoot the lawyer is waning."
"That's a start." Stella stated.
"I think we should keep the chocolate coming." Lindsay stated.
"You might want to tell Danny you're not mad at him as well when we get back." Stella suggested.
"I'll take him some coffee, I wasn't mad at him; I just didn't want to talk right then."
"Danny's pretty easy going he'll understand." Stella pointed out.
"I know."
"So what is exactly going on between the two of you?"
"Why do you ask?" Lindsay inquired.
"Mac explained the secretary comment to me."
"We were watching a movie and I knocked his arm and spilt beer over me. I was trying to sponge it out when Mac called, which is why I told Danny to answer the phone." Lindsay explained.
"I think that could be called avoiding the question Detective."
"I don't know." Lindsay replied. "We're still trying to figure that out."
"Despite his reputation Danny's one of the good guys."
"I know." Lindsay agreed. "You know he calls me Montana to make me blush."
"I knew it had to something like that. Does it bother you?"
"It used to, but I got used it. On the odd occasion he calls me Lindsay it sounds strange."
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"Danny." Lindsay pushed open the door to the room he was working in.
"Monroe."
"I bought you some coffee as an apology. It was just bad timing, since the defence lawyer couldn't shoot down the evidence he tried to shoot down my reputation instead."
"Do you want me to have him arrested?" Danny offered.
"It's sweet of you to offer but I'll be fine. Stella's been feeding me coffee and chocolate doughnuts. I'm sorry I snapped."
"We all have bad court appearances." Danny shrugged. "I'll just packed this up there isn't any trace anyway."
"Okay." Lindsay agreed.
TBC