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Bringing in Hawkes
After his chat with Mac, Danny felt much better about setting things right with Lindsay. With Mac clearing up the confusion about who told who what about Lindsay's connection to the murders he felt he'd be able to get back on track with her. Whatever track that was. Mac had floored him when he had gone on about all that love nonsense. I mean, Danny knew he had so many feelings for Lindsay, that he had never had for a woman before but was it really love? He didn't know what it was like to be in love. He had never been in love before. Table the love issue Messer. Just call Montana tonight in Montana. Kinda clever, he thought to himself.
Hawkes was standing outside the briefing room watching Danny. He looked so lovesick and forlorn that Hawkes actually wanted to go in and try to cheer him up. But after the scene he witnessed today between Danny and Lindsay, he decided to play it cool. He didn't want to get Danny's ire up again.
"Hey Danny, you paged me," Hawkes said cheerfully as he strolled into the briefing room.
Danny looked up, genuinely glad to see Hawkes. Hawkes had such an easy going, upbeat manner that you couldn't help but feel your spirits lift when you were around him. Good choice, Mac.
"Yeah, let me give you a quick rundown on the case and then I think I might go canvass around the victim's apartment. I know no one said they saw anything the first time around but you never know what'll turn up the second time around. Somebody had to have seen something," muttered Danny.