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Chapter 5: Scarred Partners
As soon as Flack walked into the building that housed the CSI's Danny descended upon him like a little terrier. "Flack man, who is the chick answering your phone at 7 this morning? She sounded hot man". At these not very quiet outbursts the rest of the CSI's ears pricked up and they all met up in the break room.
"Danny!" Lindsay said quite harshly, "Leave Don alone would you?" He glared at Lindsay but stopped his tyrant. He wasn't going to get in her bad books.
Danny didn't have to wait long to find out the answers though because Stella was worse for gossip than what he was and she wanted answers.
"So Flack, who is this woman that none of us have even heard you mention before?" Although now that Stella thought about it Flack had been happier in the past few days then what she had seen him in a long time - since the bombing anyway. She had noticed the other morning at the murder he was smiling more than usual.
Flack spluttered trying to think of a reasonable answer. He didn't want to jinx whatever he had with Kate and they had known each other less than a week.
"Well" This was a very impatient Lindsay now. Danny looked at her "What happened to leaving Flack alone" "I just want to make sure she's right for him that's all" she replied.
Flack definitely had no way out of answering their questions.
"Well", he started "that chick" he said in air quotes directed towards Danny, "is Kate and she lives in the apartment below me and I only met her on Sunday. So at the moment I don't really know what we are or where we are heading but she makes me happy. She's gorgeous, funny and caring".
"Oh really" that was Stella who had never seen Flack look so much like a love sick little puppy "What does she look like? What does she do?"
"Well she's blonde, skinny but not stick thin, blue/green eyes and really fair skinned, tall..."
Danny interrupted "What you met her Sunday?" Flack nodded in agreement,
"You must work fast Flack if you only met her Sunday and she's answering your phone Friday morning" Danny, ever the player, stated rather than asked.
Flack looked at him confused and then got what Danny was hinting at, "What...nah man, it's not like that. I took her to dinner last night and then we went back to her apartment and watched a movie. That's all. We both want to take it slow. I stayed and she was making breakfast for us this morning". "Oh" Danny replied, "well um I kinda um said"
"What Danny spit it out. What did you kinda say to Kate?"
"Nothing really I kinda alluded to the bombing and you not having a girlfriend in a little while and I thought she would have known because of the scars but obviously she probably wouldn't have seen them".
"Oh great Danny - she probably thinks I am a scared freak or in need of care or something" Flack angrily yelled at Danny.
"Nah man she didn't say anything" "I am really sorry" Danny did look extremely sorry and Flack although angry at him couldn't really blame Danny. It was probably a fair assumption.
Flack softened "I guess she would have found out eventually anyway. She may as well know what she's in for. I guess..." He trailed off. It was Stella who spoke next
"Flack there's nothing wrong with you. You survived ok and if she doesn't see that, well then you know that she isn't the person for you anyway".
"I guess" he finally said.
"You should invite her to Sullivan's tonight?" that was Hawkes who had joined half way through the conversation. He wanted to make sure, like everyone else that she wouldn't hurt Flack.
"What is it with every male in this lab asking her out...? Apparently Messer already did this morning" Lindsay looked at Danny, glared more than anything.
"Wait on... i was just being friendly and thought it would be good for all of us to meet her and so that she could meet Flack's friends. Is she coming anyway?"
Flack replied, "Um she doesn't really know depends when she finishes work and how she's feeling tonight".
With that Mac walked in and handed out cases for everyone breaking up the gossip session. Mac being more perceptive than many give him credit for leaned in so that only Flack could hear him
"Don, everything will be fine. She found out this morning and obviously didn't treat you differently otherwise you would have noticed that she knew".
Flack smiled, Mac really did know human behaviour more than what everyone gave him credit for. After all, he was still in contention in the poll on when Danny and Lindsay would realise there feelings for each other and get together.
Meanwhile, across town Kate sat in front of a whiteboard listening to the Chief Agent.
"Ok team B you will strike on my signal through the gate on the right side, team A my signal left side and we will also have coast guard in the water". "Everyone remember to check all your coms, I want helmets and vests ok? No risks out there people. 500kg of coke is out there but it isn't worth one of your lives. Got that"
"Ok team lets do this", with that they all filed out into the locker rooms for final preparation. Kate changed out of her suit into a very short mini skirt and equally skimpy top. She was to be the bait after all. She had gotten use to it working in fugitive recovery and undercover in clubs. She tucked a knife into her knee-high boots. There was not much room for anything else. Her outfit didn't leave much to the imagination at all. She smiled as she thought about what Flack would think of her outfit. Flack, she had thought about him quite a bit that day. Before she knew what she was doing she had picked up the phone and started dialing. Please pick up she thought to herself.
"Detective Flack speaking"
"Well hello Detective Flack, I was wondering if my boyfriend Don was around by any chance" she smiled
"Well miss I think I could probably locate him" she smiled again and her heart gave a little jump
"Well could you please tell him that his hot girlfriend Kate called him and just wanted to say hello and ask how his day was"
"His day has been fine, although very busy. What should I tell him about Kate's day?"
"Equally busy. About to get busier. I really have to go but tell him I care about him and will ring him later about tonight"
"Care about you to Katie girl. Keep safe for me ok?"
"Will do Don. Bye" With that Kate hung up and made her way to where her other agents were waiting for her. Although Don knew she was going on a bust of some kind she hadn't elaborated. She didn't really want him to worry and it was supposed to be kept fairly confidential anyway.
2 hours later, Kate was marching a very uncooperative suspect towards the waiting vans. The mission had been relatively successful. They had taken down the entire BloodHood gang that were guarding the drugs as well as ceasing the whole shipload of drugs which actually turned out to be more near the 700kg's of coke as well as a shipload of guns and of all things, grenades. Unfortunately, an FBI agent had been hit in the arm and was on his way to the hospital. All signs were that he was going to be ok which pleased her to no end. She hated loosing anyone. She herself had got out fairly unharmed although her upper arm was bleeding quite badly from where she had been slashed with a knife when all hell broke loose in the warehouse. She also had a bruise on her jaw. Other than that she was feeling pretty pleased with how everything had worked out. Once she finished making sure all the suspects were loaded and off to either interrogation or lock-up; she called her boss who then ordered in the CSI's to print and process the scene. She walked to the staging area and greeted the two CSI's.
"Hi I'm Special Agent Kate Scott, Thanks for coming I really appreciate it". The two detectives looked at her, like they quite didn't believe that the blonde dressed like a hooker was an FBI agent.
"Your welcome", the tall African American man finally stated, "I'm Sheldon Hawkes and this is Stella Bonasera" he said as he pointed to the woman shaking Kate's hand in the process.
"Hi it's nice to meet you as well" she said as she shook the older woman's hand.
As she turned around to point the CSI's where to go, Sheldon stepped forward
"Are you ok ma'am, I noticed that your arm is bleeding quite badly?"
"Huh", she turned to look at her arm, she had actually kind of forgotten about it with the adrenalin and all the activity "I'm fine I will get it checked out in a minute. Not the worst that's happened to me" Kate simply replied.
With that the two CSI's walked into the warehouse and Kate made her way back to the office but stopped at the medic tent first and received 5 stitches in her arm and a handful of painkiller's to stop the throbbing. All in a day's work she thought.
When Stella and Hawkes finally finished processing they returned to the Lab. They were quite tired and irritable by this point. There were bullets everywhere, drugs, blood. You name it, it was somewhere in that warehouse. How only one person got killed (a gang member) was beyond them. Even though they didn't always get along with the FBI they had to admit that they were good. As Stella and Hawkes were complaining in the break room, Flack came bounding in.
"God Flack, why you look so happy" Stella asked
"I just spoke to Kate and she's coming to Sullivan's tonight. I really want you all to meet her". Even though he was happy she was coming he was still apprehensive about what his friends would think of her and he was a little worried about whether or not he should say something about the bombing or wait for her to bring it up.
"Yep we will be there Flack" they both replied
"Hopefully we should be finished by 8ish. The Fed's just dumped all the evidence from the huge drug bust at the docks on our laps" Hawkes added
"Yeah I heard about that" Flack said. "That was a huge bust in anyone's language man". They all nodded there head in agreement. They then all went there separate ways to finish their work