Hi guys. This one is short and sweet but I couldn't help throwing in a little moment at the end. Adam fans don't hate me for embellishing a bit. I only do it for a laugh. I'll do better by him in later chapters, I promise. As for later chapters, this one was hard because it was so short. I have much better ones coming. Thanks for the reviews, and I promise to have another chapter as soon as I can. Thanks for all the reviews. It's been really fun sharing my work. I'm glad that you like them. A special thanks to my beta- heulenwolf. Thanks for always correcting my spelling and offering me suggestions after endless viewings of this show. Love you more than Danny loves Lindsay ;)

Chapter 4- Bad Beat - Episode 2.8

Lindsay sat in her office late on a Friday night attempting to do paperwork from her latest case. She sighed and pushed her hair out of her eyes as she reviewed her case report. Sometime she wished that she could just throw her paperwork in the Hudson. The science was what interested her, but failure to doa case report properly could cost them a conviction, no matter what the evidence said. Not to mention she wantedto stay on her bosses good side, and she didn't think Mac would appreciate anyone slacking off on the job.

As though he was somewhere reading her mind her phone rang with the caller ID showing Mac's name.

"Monroe." she answered.

"Lindsay," Mac answers. "Grab your gear. We've got a DB at 1097 47th Street. Make sure you grab a mess kit as well."

Lindsay's brows furrow as she tries to remember what that is, and says quickly to cover her confusion " I'm on my way." and then disconnects.

She stares at her phone for a minute and absently chews on her lower lip. What the heck was a mess kit? She shrugged and grabbed some things from her desk and saved the case file she'd been working on before heading down to the lab. Hawkes should be in, and he'd know what it was.

She finally found him in the kitchen grabbing a quick snack. She was a little relieved to find him alone.

"Hey Hawkes,"she began as she came up to the table he was sitting at. "Mac just called and I'm heading out to a scene." She hesitated for a second, hating to admit that she didn't know something, but figured Hawkes was recently a rookie and he'd be kinder than some of the others. "Mac wants me to bring a mess kit, any idea what that is?"

Hawkes nodded and held up a finger as he finished swallowing his food, but a voice answered from behind her.

"A mess kit is a jumpsuit and a garbage bag. You'll need it because you'll be a 'mess' when you're done with whatever awaits you at the scene."

Lindsay managed to barely hold in a groan as she turned around and met the smilinggaze of the one person she was hoping to avoid most. Messer.He stood leaning against the doorway grinning at her as though she was the newest office joke. He had a wayoflooking at her that made her feel like she was being studied. Probably looking for flaws she thought irritably then steeled her gaze refusing to let himfind any.

She turned back to Hawkes looking for confirmation of this fact. It would have been totally just like Danny to send her to a field with the wrong equipment as a joke, but found Hawkes nodding. "You can find the clean jumpsuits in the corner closet of the locker room," then looking down at her sneakers, "and I'd bring whatever extra pair of shoes you have that you don't mind throwing away after."

Lindsay contemplated her shoes for a second, and then nodded at Hawkes giving him a smile. "Thanks." she said.

Danny stood there watching Lindsay smile at Hawkes. She was friendly to just about everyone but him. He wasn't sure why he did it, but needling her was just so much fun. "Messy job ahead of you tonight Montana?" he asked her as she turned around to leave.

"Not sure," she admitted. "Mac just called and he told me to meet him at the scene."

Dannygave a look to Sheldon then said with a grin"Probably Sewer crawling. You know sometimes valuable evidence canleak down a storm sewer. It was raining pretty heavy earlier."

Lindsay crossed her arms in front of her and gave Danny a cold look.

Hawkes stood up from finishing his sandwich and threw away his trash. "I'm thinking dumpster diving. That was my first mess kit assignment." He grinned as though remembering the experience fondly.

"Either way I wouldn't expect to find you smelling so pretty later there, Montana."

Lindsay rolled her eyes at her two coworkers and tossed a 'Thanks' over her shoulder as she went in search of the jumpsuits.

"Happy Hunting." Danny calls after her, and watched her walk away. He looks back to see Sheldon grinning at him. "What?" he asked.

Sheldon turned his head to see Lindsay's retreating form, and then gives Danny a curiouslook that spoke volumes.

"Stop goofing off." Danny says to him. "Dispatch just called. DB in Central Park, we're on it." and they head out tograb their gear.

Lindsay arrives on the address that Mac had given her. The uniform on the scene told her Mac was inside, but before she could even enter the building she found herself being hailed by Mac as he came out of the building.

"What do we have?" she asked him.

"33 year old male shotthrough a peephole. Witnesses say he was shot by someone they just threwout of the game aminute or two prior. I've got Stella bagging evidence and Flacks interviewing the neighbors."

"Where do you need me?" Lindsay asked confused.

Mac grins and crooks his finger at her to follow him. He walks around the corner of the building towards one of the largest garbage dumpsters Lindsay had seen in the city.

"Blood on the garbage depot showed that the shooter threw something down the chute. I'm thinking its the gun, and we need to find it and anything else that might help us ID our guy."

Trying to be a good sport she turns and asks Mac pertly, "Care tooffer a girl a leg up?"

After gearing up in the clean jumpsuit, Mac helps Lindsay crawl up the side and into the dumpster.

A short while laterhe circles back to check on Lindsay. They hadn't found very much in the apartment. Just a cigar smoked by thesuspect. They needed alot more to connect this guy to the shooting. As he drew nearer to the dumpster he could hear movement inside. "Lindsay?" he hollered.

She pops up in response to her namecovered in grime and garbage and says with a wry look,"This new girl stuff has got to stop".

"What have you found?" Mac asks her, putting on gloves.

"Not enough people recycle." she quippedandwent back to digging through garbage. She worked methodically from front to back sifting garbage looking for any trace of blood.As she pulled aside a piece of cardboard, something wet and gleamingcaught her eye. "This looks fresh." she said aloudto herself as she picked up a discarded leatherjacket.She leaned over the side and handed it to mac to be bagged. As she digs deeper near where she found the jacket she sawthe real prize. "Now this is a shame." she hollered out to Mac.

"What is?"he asks her absently.

She stands up and holdsher prize aloft with a big grin. "Some one threw out a perfectly good shotgun."

They return to the lab with their evidence. Stella focuses on a cigar that she found at the scene that belonged to the suspect, while Lindsay focuses on the blood from the jacket that they found. As they run it through trace, Flack gets a tip about the Cigar that was smoked and takes Stella down to the store with him, while Lindsay stays behind to match DNA samples from the cigar and the jacket to ablood smear found just outside the scene.

After a quick lunch break Lindsay headed back to the lab to check on her results. She was almost to her office when shewalked past the AV lab where she spotted Adam, Hawkes and Danny working on a case. A local weather girl had been murdered and her body left in Central Park. Sid had told her the body had drowned by in the middle of a field, so the boys were working on different angles of the case. She gave a quick glance into the lab, stopped in her tracks and then did a double take as she saw all three viewing what looked like porn on the main video feed. All three had their heads turned sideways. She figured thatmust bethe best way to'examine the angles' properly. She couldn't help herself. She walked up behind them, but it was Messer who was her target. "Footage from your 30th birthday party Messer?" she asked sardonically.

"Its a Walrus Documentary, actually."he quipped back over his shoulder, his eyes never even leaving the screen.

Sheldon explained further. "We found this video in the vic's desk that had been taped over with this."

"Whose the other Walrus?" Lindsay asked. Then before she could get an answer the duo on the screen did an impressive finishing move and Lindsay found herself tilting her head to 'examine' closely.

The tape ended and the detectives were treated to a shot of the vic posing provocatively in front of a weather map. 'Weather girls gone wild.'

Adam piped up, his voice full of awe and his head still turned to the side"I think that we need to view that again, just to confirm that itreally was the vic."

Sheldonreached overand tookthe tape out of the machine and handed it to Dannyas Adamtries to get his hands back on it.

Danny and Sheldon passedit back and forth discussing theories, while Adam plays monkey in the middle trying to convince them that hecan clean up the image and even zoom in.

Lindsay watched the boys for a minute more and then shook her head slightly and turned to walk out.

Danny noticed her leaving and decided to have the last word. "Hey Monroe, if you want to join us later we'llbe watching the next installment- Lab tech girls gone wild."

Lindsay threw him a look over her shoulder as she headed back to work.

Danny smirked at his humor, it really was so much fun to mess with her. His thoughts ofLindsay were interrupted by the glee filled voice ofAdam asking, "Really?"

Hawkesand Dannyturn and giveAdam a look and then glance at each other beforewalking out of the lab to question their other walrus.