A/N: Thanks to everyone who keeps on reading my fic and especially to those that review. I love reading your comments. Here's the next chapter. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: They belong to CBS, I just play around with the characters for my own amusement.

Thanks to SallyJetson for the beta.

Chapter 11: Man About a Dwarf

It had been three days and Danny had not seen Lindsay once. Either he was out on a call, or she was, and since he was always working with either Grissom or Catherine, it was never just the two of them on a case.

He was now pacing his apartment (well Greg's apartment) trying to think about what his next move should be. I kind of assumed that flying halfway across the country and rearranging the schedules of two labs for a girl would have had more of an effect.

He still couldn't believe what he had heard and kept trying to push it from his mind until he heard it directly from the horse's mouth, so to speak. This was much easier said then done.

His cell phone ringing brought him out of his thoughts. The call display read Grissom and Danny was thankful for a further distraction.

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Danny approached the scene just outside of the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino. One would think that the sight of a 7-foot clown, stuffed into a 2-foot toy car, with a warrior axe stuck 6 inches into his skull would have captured his attention, but all Danny saw was who else was at the scene.

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Lindsay turned from the officer detailing the scene as she heard her name, but not her given one. "Montana, together again I see. What happened to Bozo? His car run out of gas or something?"

"Hey Danny. Officer Clements was just telling me that witnesses place our clown's time of death around 11." That's it stay on work. Focus on Work, and not the fact that your heart is now beating a thousand times a second.

"Any idea where the axe came from?" That's it. Stay with work. Don't scare her off.

"Well there is a Lord of the Rings convention happening inside. Didn't one of the characters in the movie have an axe?" God, he looks great.

"So you're saying our giant clown was killed by a dwarf. Perfect."

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Danny and Lindsay were now strolling through the casino, on their way to ask a man about a dwarf. Danny couldn't help but look over at Lindsay every few seconds. He decided it was now or never.

"So in the last month you met some random guy, and boom, you're engaged?"

"Danny we're at work. I won't have this conversation with you here," and with that Lindsay walked faster, but Danny soon caught up with her and grab her gently by the wrist. "No, if it was up to you, we wouldn't have this conversation at all."

Lindsay glared at the floor, unsure of what to do. She finally decided that he deserved to hear the truth, "I didn't get engaged in the last month to some random guy."

A look of hope entered Danny's face. I knew it. I knew she wasn't engaged!

Seeing her mistake Lindsay quickly corrected herself, "But, Dan, Jason wasn't lying. He IS my fiancée."

Confusion had now taken over as Danny shook his head slightly for it all to make sense. Suddenly it did. "How long Lindsay? How long have you been engaged?"

When Lindsay didn't immediately respond, Danny snapped and his grip on her arm tightened, "How FUCKING long have you been engaged to THAT… to that… BOZO?"

"Four years. Four years this summer. I'm sorry Danny," Lindsay replied quietly as tears filled her eyes.

Danny released her arm and stared at the woman in front of him. The woman he didn't know. The woman he wasn't sure he wanted to know.