Sorry to leave you all on a bit of a cliffhanger with the last chapter :) but here's the next, enjoy :)
Hawkes turned when he heard footsteps behind him "Lindsay?"
"Hawkes, is it him? Is it Danny?" she asked with panic in her voice, as she ran over to the body that lay covered by a sheet on the slab in front of Hawkes.
"I tried to stop her coming down" Adam squeaked from where he stood at the entrance of the morgue, not wanting to walk in any further as he didn't know what sights could be waiting for him.
"It's okay" Hawkes said to Adam "I've got it, you get back up to the lab"
Adam gave the former M.E a thankful nod before scurrying back to the lift and the safety of his AV lab.
"Lindsay" Hawkes said placing his hand on her shoulder reassuringly "I've checked his back, there's no scar there. It's not Danny"
"It's not?"
"No, it's not him"
"Oh thank you, thank you" she said as tears began to fall down her cheek "I really thought it was him... and I wouldn't know what I'd do with myself if it had been"
"I know, Lindsay. It's not him though, he's still out there and we'll find him"
Lindsay nodded and wiped her eyes.
Danny sighed and sat up against the wall holding his arm. It was bleeding, not a lot but still there was blood. He'd luckily spotted Owen's knife coming towards him and had managed to roll out of the way in time with only his arms getting nicked. Owen had gotten angry, he'd told Danny he was a worthless piece of shit and after spitting on Danny; again, he'd gone off saying he was going to spend some quality time with his daughter.
Danny was feeling like the last piece of his life were slipping through his fingers. Owen had been right when he'd told Danny that Lindsay was dead. He hadn't believed it at first but the death certificate had proved it and now this, now he'd told him the DNA results had said that Lucy wasn't his. A part of Danny wanted to believe he was lying, that he was just trying to upset him but another part was telling him it was true, that the beautiful blonde haired girl wasn't his at all. He just needed to see the DNA results with his own eyes to know that it was true. He didn't know how he could go on with his life without Lindsay and Lucy. His life wasn't much before they came into it, he had his work, his friends but that was it there was nothing in his life that really made it whole. He'd go home every night to an empty apartment with an empty bed or he'd go to a bar and pick up some random girl and sleep with her just to make himself feel good.
Then Lindsay came along, his beautiful Lindsay and she's given him a purpose and put a smile on his face, he'd slowly fallen in love with her and she'd turned him into a sensible, responsible man. Then together they'd had Lucy... well he thought it was together but now he had his doubts. Lucy made his life whole though, he enjoyed helping and watching her grow, learn and develop. He loved hearing her tell him she loved him, snuggling up with her to watch a film and running through central park with her on his shoulders and now this was all gone, how was he meant to go on with his life when the two most precious things to him were gone forever?
Ripping off the bottom of his shirt, Danny wrapped it around the cut on his arm to try and stop the bleeding, then laying down on the dirty mattress he closed his eyes and cried himself to sleep.
Adam excited the elevator and headed towards the AV lab but bumped into Jo on the way. "Oh.. I'm sorry... I should have been looking..."
"Adam, don't worry about it. I was just about to come and find you" Jo smiled.
"You were?"
"Yes, there are more of Owen possessions in the trace lab and I can't seem to find Hawkes so wondered if you could give me a hand going through it?"
"Yeah I can do that" Adam replied
Together they made their way to the trace lab where three large boxes sat on the light table "Mac had these sent back here about ten minutes ago" Jo said as she put on her disposable gloves.
"There's a lot of it" Adam replied as he did up his white lab coat.
"Yeah, not all of it will be relevant but we need to go through it and find out what is."
"Okay, well I'll start on this box" he nodded to the box nearest to him as he pulled his gloves on.
"And I guess I'll take this one" Jo said as she reached for a box.
"Hey" Flack smiled as he poked his head around the door "Don't suppose either of you have seen Lindsay?"
"Erm... she's down in the morgue" Adam replied nervously.
"What? Why on earth is she down there? That's the last place she needs to be right now" Flack sighed as he ran his fingers though his hair.
"I... she..." Adam stuttered.
"Flack?" Lindsay called interrupting Adam.
"Lindsay, what are you doing?" Flack asked making his way to her. Taking her hand he led her to the break room while she explained to him what she was doing down in the morgue.
"Right, let's get on with this" Jo said as she opened up her box.
Adam opened his and began to pull different items out, documents, photos, ornaments and pieces of clothing. "Some of these items are a bit random"
"Mac obviously put them in the box for a reason, Adam, just make sure your go over them all for finger prints and trace"
"Yeah, will do" he picked up an old photo of a house that was in a carved wooden frame "This is an odd photo to put in a nice frame like this"
"Maybe it means something to him" Jo replied as she went through some bank statements.
"Yeah I guess so" Adam said as he went began dusting the frame for prints. Finding a couple he pulled them off and placed them to one side. Turning the frame over he undid the clips that held the picture in and took the back off. "There's something written on the back of this"
"What does it say?" Jo asked looking up from the statements.
"It just says Grandma's house" Adam shrugged.
"Is there anyone in the photo?"
"No... that's what's weird Jo, it's just a house. I don't get why you'd frame a picture of just a house"
"Any idea where the house is?"
Adam shook his head "There's a few buildings in the back ground, I guess I could find out what they were and then work out from them where the house is"
"Okay, go do that now" Jo ordered.
"But what about the boxes?"
"That house obviously means something to him, Adam and a lot of suspects tend to hold people in places they feel comfortable or mean something to them"
"Oh right... I'll do this now" he mumbled before hurrying out of the room.
Flack and Lindsay were sat on the couch in the break room, both with a cup of coffee "So it wasn't him?"
"No, thank god" Lindsay replied. "After hearing Sid's description I really thought it was"
"I could see why you would Linds, but you shouldn't have gone down there"
"I needed to know Flack"
"I know that, but if you'd waited for me I'd have gone to find out for you, you didn't need to see that man lying on the table, especially if it had been Danny"
"I know" Lindsay sighed.
"Do you want to just go home? I've spoken to Mac and he's said that Lucy and Danny aren't at Owen's apartment but they're working on finding them, he just doesn't know how long it'll take"
Lindsay shook her head "I want to stay, Flack. I want to see if they find anything"
"Okay we can stay for a bit longer. I'm sorry if I got your hopes up"
"No... no, you didn't" Lindsay replied sadly. "I think I did that to myself"
An hour later Adam ran into the trace lab holding a piece of paper "I got it, I got it"
"Got what?" Jo asked.
"The address, it's in the Bronx"
"It is?"
"Yeah, 724 Vincent Street"
"Okay, I'll phone Mac and let him know, can you pack this up for me?"
Adam looked at hundreds of items that now covered the light table "Yeah... I guess" he sighed.
"Thank you" Jo grinned, she then placed a kiss on his cheek as she pulled her gloves off before going to phone Mac.
