The Results
Disclaimer: I do not own CSI: NY or any characters.
A/N: I wrote most of the first two chapters in one sitting. I didn't post the first one until I was typing the second. I did this because I have a tendency not to finish stories. I'll be working on the fourth chapter pretty soon. I don't want this story to be too long but I want to get everything out. This chapter is shorter than earlier ones. But I did that on purpose. You'll see. Reviews please.
TWO AND A HALF WEEKS LATER
Mac sat in his office reading a DNA report. It was the report comparing Claire and Janice's DNA. Stella happened to be walking past Mac's office and looked in. She saw Mac's expression change from curiosity to shock to scared in a manner of seconds. This made her worry so she went and lightly knocked on his door, she didn't wait for him to respond before entering.
"Mac, what's wrong?" Stella asked cautiously.
Mac looked up startled by Stella's sudden appearance. He thought a moment and replied, "You know the woman I've been seeing the last few weeks?" Stella nodded. "Well how I met her is quite interesting… She came and knocked on my front door. She explained that she'd been in the towers on 9-11 and had been taken to Bellevue Hospital. She was in a coma for three months, she never had any visitors and when she woke she couldn't remember anything. The hospital tried to find out who she was but they had no luck. They eventually gave her a new name and everything. With her therapist she remembered small details but not much else, no names or places. Finally just a few months ago she saw a newspaper article on one of our cases. It happened to have a picture of me in it. She recognized my name and face. So she did some research on me and eventually Claire. She noticed a lot of similarities between her and Claire. So she came to me hoping to fill in more blanks. When I mentioned your name she recognized it too. So I took a sample of her DNA to compare with Claire's DNA and had them tested. These are the results." He finally stopped talking and handed the file to Stella he didn't think he could physically tell her what it said.
Stella, still in shock, took the report and read its contents. Surprised she said, "It's Claire… but how did you not find her when you were searching the area hospitals?"
Mac shrugged, at a loss for words.
Stella asked, "Are you going to be ok? Do you want me to be there when you tell her? Do you…"
Mac interrupted, "I'll be ok. No but I do know she'll want to see you eventually."
Stella nodded and suggested, "Why don't you take the rest of the day. Go home and collect your thoughts and figure out what you want to tell her."
Mac nodded and gathered his things. He stopped just before leaving and turned to Stella, "Thanks Stella, for everything." He hugged her and left.
Stella smiled a small smile thinking, 'Just about seven years ago he lost everything. Now he's getting it back, I hope he can handle it.'
Back at Mac's place, he's sitting on his couch thinking. He's happy Claire's not dead but he's been so long without her he's not sure what to do. He never stopped loving her but he'd accepted that Claire was lost. But now she's back. He'd been meeting her for the last 2 ½ weeks. He'd come to enjoy her company and liked her as a person. But could he handle her not having all of her memories, he wasn't sure. He was willing to give it a try. He needed to call her and either have her come over or meet him somewhere.
He'd called Janice, well now Claire; he'd decided to just have her come over. He left out that he'd gotten the DNA results. He didn't want her to worry too much one way or the other.
A/N: More to come… hopefully very soon.