Danny tried to convince Lindsay to go home but she insisted she was going back to work. When she got back to the lab she handed Flack his coat back and headed straight to the locker room.
She changed into some clean warm clothes and grabbed her hair dryer out of the bottom of her locker and plugged it in.
She used the sound to drown out her tears.
When her hair was finally dry, she put the hairdryer away pulled her hair up into a messy ponytail and washed her face while trying to come up with an excuse for her puffy eyes.
Danny was leaning against the wall of the locker room waiting for her.
"Are you okay?" Danny inquired.
"I'm fine." Lindsay sighed.
"You sure?"
"Danny, can we just leave it I'd like to just get back to work. I have to try and get my phone, pager and gun back from the decontamination people since we know I didn't get contamination with anything."
"Okay." Danny agreed knowing pushing wouldn't be a good idea.
CSI NY CSI NY
It took Lindsay an hour to get her items back.
"Stella." Lindsay stood in the door to the lab where Stella was trying to find fingerprints from the inside of the brown paper since the outside would have been touched by numerous people.
"Hey Lindsay, how are you doing?"
"I'm definitely warmer now." Lindsay replied.
"Did you talk to the FBI guy?"
"Yes. He seems to be under the impression it was the guillotine guy."
"Doesn't seem to fit his pattern." Stella stated.
"That's what I told him. I have to make a list of anyone who could have a grudge against me."
"That could take a while."
"I'll do it later. I need your help."
"With what?" Stella asked.
"I originally went to my office to get a file. It's still on my desk and office is a…"
"Crime scene." Stella finished for her.
"Any chance of getting it?" Lindsay inquired.
"Just tell me where it is and stand here with this and I'll grab it."
"It's the second file in the stack on the right hand side." Lindsay explained.
"I'll be right back." Stella told her.
"Thanks Stella."
…
"Stella." Mac walked into the lab looking at the file.
"She'll be back in a minute." Lindsay told him.
"Lindsay." He looked up. "How are you holding up?"
"I'm fine. It took a while to convince them to give me my gun back but I'm good."
"Good." Mac said.
"I talked to the FBI Agent, gave him my contact details and I'm going to make him a list of anyone who could have a grudge."
"That could be a long list." Mac said.
"I know."
"Where's Stella?" Mac inquired.
"She went to get me a file from my desk since I can't actually go in my office." Lindsay explained.
"You could take the rest of the day off." Mac suggested.
"I'd rather be working." Lindsay stated. "But thanks for the offer."
"Okay." Mac agreed.
TBC