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Chapter 8

Lindsay was brought out of her reverie by the shrill ring of her phone. Trying to regain her normal breathing pace after getting slightly startled by her phone, she glanced down at the caller ID.

She smiled after seeing the goofy picture of her current boyfriend and partner at the lab, Mason Fray.

Apparently she had a thing for people she worked with.

"Hey Mase, where are you?" she chirped happily into the phone. "You still coming over for dinner at my place right?"

"Hey Linds, of course i'm still coming. I wouldn't want to miss out spending time with my lovely girlfriend and favourite little boy," he replied and continued, "Anyway i just arrived at the park. Where exactly are you babe? I don't fancy having to walk around the whole park looking for you guys."

"We're right by the playground baby," she told him, chuckling at his joke a moment earlier. Having relayed the information he wanted, she hung up the phone and waited for his arrival.

Lindsay and Mason had been dating for about four months. Despite knowing that she had a son, he still constantly asked her out. She had constantly turned him down, not ready for another relationship. She decided to humour him though so she said yes four months ago.

She was glad that she made that decision. Mason was an absolute angel. He never argued with her over petty things, never annoyed or frustrated her. He was such a gentleman that every girl would be lucky to have.

Then why did she feel like something was missing? That he wasn't right for her. Secretly she knew what he lacked. That was the thing that she was attracted to the most. So far she had only met one person that had that quality. And he was a million miles away.

Feeling a soft kiss being placed on her cheek, Lindsay opened her eyes to see her handsome boyfriend.

Mason Fray was the kind of guy that every girl could dream of dating. He had amazing sea green eyes that would make anyone loose themselves in. He had amazing brown hair that he always styled nicely. He had the kind of smile that could make a girl go weak in the knees.

Lindsay stared into his green eyes and gave him a chaste kiss. "Hi," she whispered.

"Hey beautiful," he replied her, making her blush. He put his arm around her and peppered kisses into her hair. Lindsay smiled at his gesture and leaned her head on his shoulder, watching Aidan play.

After letting her dear son frolick around the playground for a little while longer, she decided that its was about time that they left. Aidan, being the obedient little kid that he was, grabbed on to both the adults' hands and they were off.

Aidan had quite easily grown a relationship with Mason. Over the years that the two cliqued a lot. They did almost everything together. On his days off, they would go to the park and play for hours, giving Lindsay some time to chill.

It took the three of them around fifteen minutes to get to Lindsay's two bedroom apartment by car.

She reached her hand into her purse and brought out her keys. Unlocking the door, she dumped her bag and keys by the door.

Aidan ran in, his little hand tugging on Mason's bigger ones. "Pway wif me uncle Mase," Aidan asked excitedly.

"Sure kiddo, relax a little," Mason chuckled while being pulled to Aidan's room.

Laughing, she headed to the kitchen to start preparing dinner for the three of them.

Within the hour they were well fed and we're going about usual nightly routine.

Collapsing on their beds, the three doze off to an undisturbed slumber.

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The morning light shone through the curtains in Lindsay's room, causing her to awake from her peaceful slumber.

Checking the time on the clock on her bedside table, she groaned. They had to be in work in 2 and a half hours. Knowing how long they normally took to get ready, now was the best time to wake up.

She turned around in Mason's strong grip. Shaking his shoulders, she attempted to wake him up. "Mase, Mason, wake up. We gotta go to work," Lindsay mumbled groggily, her accent thick with slumber.

The only response she got was a mumble and him settling back to sleep. Getting annoyed, she shook his shoulders more vigorously. "It's already six. GET UP. We need to wake Aidan up too," she said.

"Alright, alright, I'm up. Quit your shaking," Mason chuckled as he pulled her into his arms for a wake up kiss. "Mornin beautiful," he greeted her. "Mornin," she replied, giggling as his arms thread around her waist.

"Pancakes, babydoll?" Lindsay grinned in reply and soon they were seated at the dining table, Mason flipping batter, the sizzling smell of butter and coffee accompanying the sounds of their banter.

In two hours, they were ready to leave. They dropped Aidan off at his daycare near the lab and headed into work, hand in hand.

They dropped their bags off in their lockers and started to process the evidence that they had on their latest case.

Unfortunately for them, most of the evidence they had had led them to a dead end. They were swimming in piles of useless evidence.

They had been processing for about two hours when their boss, Russel, to check up on their progress.

"Lindsay, Mason, what'dya got so far?" he inquired. "Not much. Minimal DNA and fingerprints. We got a bit of trace from the vic's clothes. Whether it's useful or not is yet to be determined. Other than that though, we've got nothing," Lindsay sighed, extremely frustrated that they hadn't got much.

Feeling Mason's comforting hand on the small of her back, she calmed down a little.

"Well I've got some good news for you. I cross-referenced the case to the database of other labs and got a hit. Same MO and murder weapon. They said that they would send the lead CSI on that case here. He should be here in a while," he said.

Lindsay's eyes lit up when she heard it. "Finally they might get a break through in the case," she thought.

"Which lab?" she questioned her superior enthusiastically.

"The New York Crime Lab," he replied.

When that piece of news reached her ears, the smile on her face vanished instantly.

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