Since Lindsay had decided to spend her lunch break shopping with Stella and Becky, Danny was having lunch with Hawkes.
"So what do you thinking about marriage?" Hawkes asked.
"It's nice of you to offer buddy, but I'm straight and kind of involved right now." Danny joked.
"You know what I meant." Hawkes stated.
"It's fine why?"
"Just something Lindsay said last night."
"About marriage?" Danny questioned.
"About Becky trying to convince you that getting married wasn't such a bad idea."
"I made a joke about her marrying a math professor that's all." Danny explained.
"Right."
"I guess you didn't bring it up just because of that. What else did she say?"
"Does it matter?" Hawkes asked.
"I'd like to know."
"She said she wanted to get married in the future when people weren't sending her bombs in the mail."
"I wish she wouldn't make jokes about that."
"It's her way of coping." Hawkes pointed out.
"What else did she say that?"
"I asked her if she wanted to marry you. She said she didn't know what the future held and that you weren't ready for that kind of commitment or making that kind of life altering decision."
"She said that?" Danny didn't quite believe it.
"That's what she said."
"She really believes that?"
"That's what she said." Hawkes repeated. "She also said she was surprised when you suggested moving in together."
"Right." Danny sighed.
"It's not like you were planning on proposing anyway." Hawkes said.
"Right." Danny agreed.
"Were you?" Hawkes questioned something in Danny's tone made him think he'd thought about it.
"Not right now." Danny replied.
"It's that serious?" Hawkes asked.
"I never actually lived with a woman before and I practically moved in after our first date."
"You never did tell me how the two of you got together." Hawkes pointed out.
"Sid told her that I called her Montana because I had a crush on her, the case bothered her and she could sleep so she showed up at my door at 3am and asked me why I called her Montana. I kissed her and she stayed the night."
"You move fast."
"We both just slept, we were both tired." Danny stated.
"I believe you, only because I know Lindsay."
"Gee thanks." Danny said.
"Hey is there anything left in there?" Lindsay asked pointing to Danny's can of soda when she and Stella came in the bags of things they had bought.
"Should be." Danny replied.
"Thanks." She downed what was left of his soda and then picked up the uneaten half of his sandwich, she split it in half and hand one half to Stella.
"Didn't find time for lunch in your shopping spree so you had to eat my lunch?" Danny asked.
"We were going to stop but there was a huge queue." Stella explained.
"You should be nice to them." Hawkes told Danny. "Especially when it seems they spent their lunch hour in a lingerie store." Hawkes recognised the bags.
"Oh really, planning a little fashion show for us?"
"I don't think so." Stella replied. "Besides how often do we have to shop when we work the hours we do?"
"We'll see when Becky goes back to Boston." Lindsay whispered in his ear.
Danny smiled.
"We should go and stuff these bags in our lockers." Stella told Lindsay.
"Did Sid get back to us after I spoke to you last?" Lindsay asked Hawkes.
"He said we should head down to talk to him in about half an hour." Hawkes replied.
"Right. Thanks for lunch." She added to Danny.
TBC