Here's the last part of this story, sorry it took a bit longer than expected- life (and college) got in the way, lol. Hope you enjoy! : )
8:57am, Lindsay thought with relief, glancing at her watch as she and Danny walked into the lab. They made their usual rounds of arriving at work- hanging up coats and bags in the locker room, making a cup of coffee, checking up on any new results from cases they were working, and finally checking in with Mac before getting in to work.
However, Lindsay noticed, Mac seemed busy showing someone around the lab that morning. A tall, blonde, female someone, who seemed to be holding on to Mac's arm rather tightly. With a shrug, Lindsay decided just to skip her usual meeting with Mac and get back to the case she was working on the day before.
However, this proved to be harder than she had expected. Between Adam constantly turning up with new results fore her, and Danny's constant 'displays of affection'- from stealing a kiss in the break room, to leaving notes on her desk, and texting 'I love you' every five minutes- she wasn't getting much work done.
"Hey, Kiddo," Stella said as she walked in to Lindsay and Danny's shared office just before lunch.
When Lindsay through down the sheet of paper she'd been working on and through up her hands in exasperation, Stella took a step back.
"Whoa- bad day?"
Lindsay sighed. "No. Sorry. I just don't seem to be getting much work done- every time something finally starts to fall into place- boom! I get interrupted,"
Stella grinned to herself at the young CSI's use of the word boom. Danny was definitely rubbing off on her.
"Well, this might cheer you up," Stella passed Lindsay the address of a suspect in the case the two were working, "You wanna come with me?"
Lindsay shot out of her chair. "I'm there."
Danny slammed his fist on the table of the interrogation room. "Stop playing games, Drake- we know you were there!"
"Look, man, I 'ready told told ya, I wasn't no where near 25th Street yesterday. You wanna get yourself a real suspect, you talk to my man, Jessup. I'm tellin' ya, that's who knows what's goin' on."
Danny rolled his eyes and glared at the pathetic looking man in front of him. All he wanted to do at the moment was go and see Lindsay, but work came first, and he wanted this guy behind bars. Today.
"Ok," Danny said calmly, trying a different tactic, "You say you weren't there, but your pal, what's his name, Jess- whatever, knows what happened, right?"
"Right, man, that's what I'm been tellin' ya," the suspect, Drake, said, nodding his scrawny head for emphasis.
"But, you know Drake, if you confess what you know now, your time in that cell will be considerably reduced. And you give up what you know about your pal there, it'll be reduced again. You get what I'm saying now, Drake? We can place you at that scene, among others, so the sooner you confess what you know, the sooner all this will be over."
"Well, now that sounds like an alright deal. I guess I can tell you some stuff."
Hallelujah, Danny thought.
"Montana!"
At the sound of her nickname, Lindsay looked up from the case report she was typing. "Hey, Danny, what's up?"
"Oh, nothin' much, I just wrapped up my case. Funny how some of the dumbest suspects in history can often take the longest to confess.," he stated, leaning against the side of her desk.
Lindsay nodded. "Stella and I just wrapped up our case, too. I'm just doing the case report."
Danny nodded and moved round to her side of the desk. "Well, how about we take a break for a sec. There's something I wanna show you."
Lindsay grinned as he pulled her up into a hug. "As long as it doesn't involve a supply closet, I'm game."
Danny laughed. "What, you wouldn't do it in a supply closet?"
"Much as I love you, no. Sorry." She planted a soft kiss against his lips and let him lead her out of their office, both oblivious to a certain figure watching them from the other side of the glass wall.
"Lindsay!" someone called as the two of them made their way across the lab. "Would you mind having a quick look at this evidence?"
Lindsay turned to see one the lab techs, Jack his name was, holding up a scrap of something to her. Jack was new to the lab, and had helped with a lot of the evidence from the case she and Stella had just closed. Nice as he was, he idolized Lindsay, and seemed to feel the need to had her second opinion on everything he did.
Suppressing a sigh, Lindsay nodded. "Sure, Jack. I'll do it in a minute."
"Great!" Jack was hopping from one foot to the other, "Because I really need to pee, and I know you'll do a good job. Thanks again Lindsay!" he called as he dashed out the door.
Danny rolled his eyes. "What, did he just come here straight form high school of something?"
Lindsay laughed and glanced at the scrap of fabric Jack had been looking at. I'll look at it later, she thought. Jack will be back in a second.
Grabbing on to Danny's hand again, she let him lead her up to the roof of the crime lab.
"So, that's what happened," Inspector Quinn Shelby relayed to Mac.
"They kissed in their office and Lindsay left out a piece of fabric?" Mac confirmed.
Shelby nodded. "That's correct. She and Detective Messer were obviously on their way somewhere, and the evidence simply lay forgotten."
Mac nodded. "I'll have a talk to the two of them later."
Shelby nodded, satisfied. "So, how about now you and I have a talk?"
Mac shook his head. "It's over, Quinn. In fact, it barely got started. I'm sorry." With that, Mac Taylor strode out of his office in search of a certain two CSI's.
"Danny, this is beautiful!" Lindsay exclaimed. "When did you do this?"
Danny shrugged and wrapped his arms around her from behind. "You underestimate my powers."
When Lindsay rolled her eye and punched him in the stomach he laughed and squeezed her tighter. "Nah, I did it in my lunch hour."
Lindsay shook her head and took in the table set for two, and Christmas lights that had been strung up around the roof. Danny Messer never ceased to amaze her.
However, just as the two of them were about to sit down, the door to the roof opened and out walked their boss.
"Mac!" Danny exclaimed, "We were just, uh…"
Mac held up his hand. "Special occasion?"
"Well, yes, actually," Danny answered, "It's me and Lindsay's one year anniversary, toady, and I just thought I'd surprise her with dinner out her on the roof. I mean, we've both wrapped up our cases, and it's been a long day."
Mac nodded. "I'm not worried about this, Danny. I just came up to speak to you about something someone witnessed earlier today. As you may or may not have noticed, there was an inspection of the lab today. The inspector noticed a kiss between the two of you, which I must say I'm not worried about. What does slightly worry me is that she also mentioned you'd left evidence out, Lindsay."
Lindsay frowned. "What? I wasn't even working with any evidence today."
"Something about a piece of evidence about half and hour ago with a lad tech?"
"Oh, that!" Lindsay exclaimed, "No, he was just going to the bathroom. I was going to look over it for him later. But I guess I should have put it away or waited until he came back. Sorry, Mac."
Mac nodded. "Just don't let it happen again. You two have obviously gone a year now without your relationship affecting your work, so lets hope it continues. Happy anniversary, by the way," Mac said with a smile as he walked back downstairs.
Lindsay shook her head. Her boss never ceased to amaze her. Turning back to Danny, she wrapped her arms around his neck. "Well, I guess we have the bosses approval. What's next?"
Danny grinned. "Dinner, I believe. But first, Linds, I just wanted to let you know that that this had been the greatest year of my life, and I hope the next year will be even better. And the next, and the next, and- I love you Lindsay Monroe. And I sound like a Hallmark card."
Lindsay grinned. "I love you, too, Danny Messer. And I'm sure I will only love you more in the next year, and the next, and-" she was cut off as Danny pulled her close and kissed her hard on the lips.
Well, that's it! Corny ending, I know, I hope it was all ok, Sorry if it didn't quite live up to expectations, lol, I know nothing earth shattering happened, but I like fluff, so, yeah. Thanks everyone who reviewed last time- and all the people who put this on their alerts list, I'd love to hear form you! : )