Lindsay handed Danny the gift to carry, she'd had it delivered to the lab because she knew it was too big for her mail slot and she didn't want to run around having to collect parcels, when they left the lab.
Danny took the first shower when they got back and left Lindsay to do whatever it was that women did in the bathroom while he sat on the couch.
"Come on Montana we need to leave soon."
"Danny do you really want me to go in my underwear?"
"How about we just stay here and see where that idea takes us?" Danny suggested.
"We're going; I need to get out for the night and I need five more minutes."
"Okay okay."
Danny was pacing slightly when Lindsay appeared in the bedroom doorway.
"Wow!" Danny stopped and looked at her.
"You think it's okay for meeting the rest of your family?" Lindsay asked.
She was wearing a white dress covered in large red roses with a red sweater, her hair curling at her shoulders. She had on cute red kitten healed shoes, her foot still not quite up to anything higher.
"You look gorgeous."
Lindsay blushed.
"We should get going." Lindsay suggested.
"Are you sure you don't want to stay?" Danny asked.
"I'm going with or without you."
"Let's go." He grabbed the gift from the table.
CSI NY CSI NY
"Yo NYPD open up." Danny banged on the door of his parents place.
"Danny." Lindsay sighed.
Carrie opened the door.
"You have to stop doing that." Carrie informed Danny. "Hey Lindsay, you look great."
"Thanks, so do you." Lindsay gave her a hug.
"Come on in."
"No hug for me?" Danny asked.
"Maybe if you stop scaring half the guests." Carrie told him.
"Hey Lindsay." Danny's father came to see who it was.
"Hey Mr Messer happy birthday." She gave him a hug.
"I've told you before to call me Howie. You look great."
"Thank you."
"Hey Dad happy birthday." Danny said. "This is for you." Danny handed him the beautifully wrapped gift.
"Thank you son. Lindsay, just ignore my nephews."
"Okay." Lindsay smiled.
"Food and drinks are in there." Carrie told them. "Help yourself."
"Thank you."
"Dad's right about my cousins." Danny told her.
"Danny I can handle your cousins."
"Some of them look like the mob guys you see on TV." Danny pointed out.
"I've laid a 400lb trucker out on the floor before; I think I can handle your cousins."
"A 400lb trucker?"
"Vice sting."
"You worked vice?" Danny questioned.
"For five days." Lindsay replied.
"Do I want to know what you were doing?"
"No." Lindsay answered. "Let's grab something to eat and then you can introduce me to people."
"Are you sure you want to talk to them? Half my family have a criminal record."
"So? As long as you don't want me to arrest them because I left my handcuffs at home I don't really care, they are your family."
"You're really something Montana." Danny told her.
"I know, but it's nice to hear every now and again."
"Modest too. Stay away from Aunt Liliana's guacamole, she puts too much garlic in it, so unless you want to be eating breath mints by the ton for a week."
"Got it. You should try my aunt's tamales; I'm the only one who can eat them without having to reach for a gallon of water."
TBC