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A/N: Here's the next chappie!! Thanks to all who reviewed. As always, please R&R. My muse loves the attention. :D

Chapter 4.

New York in the Summer

When Danny woke up the next morning, he smiled down at Cory. She lay snuggled in his arms, sleeping peacefully. He looked at the clock and sighed. It was six a.m. and he knew that Cory needed to get up to get ready for work. He softly stroked her cheek. "Bella? Come on, sweetheart. It's time to get up."

Cory murmured in her sleep. "Just five more minutes, please?"

Danny smiled. "Come on. You'll kill me if I let you oversleep. Come on baby, wake up."

Cory frowned as she began to wake up. "Okay. Okay. I'm awake. Is it morning already?"

Danny laughed. "Yes, bella. It's morning."

"Damn. I'll let you have the shower, I'll go make coffee."

"Okay."

Cory crawled out of bed and made her way to the kitchen. She started the coffee brewing and decided to cook some eggs for breakfast. By the time Danny was out of the shower, breakfast was ready and Cory had drunk a Dr. Pepper to wake up. When Danny walked into the kitchen, she smiled. "Breakfast is ready."

"I'm getting spoiled! Breakfast two days in a row?"

Cory smiled. "It's only fair. You cooked dinner last night. I want the sports section of the paper first."

Danny pretended to mope. "But, honey. I'm a man. I need to be up to date on all the sports facts."

Cory just snorted. "Okay. Who watched the end of the game last night? You. I need to find out how bad the Texas Rangers are doing."

Danny conceded the argument and they quietly read the paper while they finished breakfast. While Danny was picking up the dishes, he turned to Cory. "So have you thought about how to get to Texas, yet?"

Cory paused. "Not really. I'm going to think about it today. If I come up with something, I'll let you know. I'd better go get ready and then we can leave for work."

(Crime Lab)

As soon as Danny walked into the lab, he was ambushed by Hawkes. "Danny! We have another case. Fits the same description of our dead girl at the staged scene. Mac wants us there ASAP."

"Okay. Let me get my gear and we'll head out." Quickly, Danny grabbed his gear and met Hawkes at the SUV.

(Crime Scene)

When Danny and Hawkes walked into the crime scene they were both surprised. Danny looked at Hawkes. "Man, this is eerie. Am I going crazy or is even the furniture the same?"

Hawkes looked around. "I think your right. I'll check the body."

Danny nodded. "I'll check for trace and photograph everything."

"Well. The blood is fake. Just like the other murder."

Danny just grunted and continued to look for trace. This just gets stranger and stranger.

(FBI Headquarters)

When Cory got to her office, she began to make a list of ways that she could get to Texas undetected. She knew that she could not fly or take a train. That would leave a paper trail. Huh. I wonder if I could rent a car. No, wait. You have to have a credit card to rent a car. Thus a paper trail. Damn. I could borrow a car. Then take a roundabout car ride there. It would take come extra time, but it would be worth it.

The first list she created was one of possible friends that she could borrow a car from. Once that was created, she looked it over. She had lots of friends listed from New York. Then an idea hit her. I know. I can ask Rebecca to borrow her car. I can go to California under the pretense of visiting my family, then borrow her car and drive to Texas. It will only take two days to drive to Dallas from there. Hell, I could do it in one if I really had to push myself. Now I just need to call her and set it up.

Satisfied that she was heading in the right direction, she put aside her list and went over her emails to see if any new information had come up on the Martinez Brothers. Glancing through them she noticed one from Lydia. She opened it up, smiled and picked up her phone. "Hey, Lydia. I would love to go to lunch with you."

"I'm glad. I want you to tell me more about that dream you had. Plus, Sheldon and I were wondering if you and Danny want to go on a double date with us?"

"We'll talk about it at lunch. I promise. You want to go to that little Mexican place?"

"Yes. I'll come by your office at noon. Be ready!"

Cory agreed and hung up her phone. Scanning her other emails, she sighed in frustration. The Martinez Brothers were still MIA. She thought that it was a real possibility that they had gone to Venezuela. She had some contacts in Interpol and was trying to track them down through that. Unfortunately, she had not received a response from any of them yet.

She decided to follow up with those contacts. Quickly she typed up a few emails requesting an update. Satisfied with her progress, she decided to look over the files that Lydia had dropped off to her. She was trying to get a good trace of money for the Martinez Brothers. Soon she was deep in thought while trying to put all the pieces of the complex puzzle together.

(Crime Lab)

When Danny and Hawkes got back to the lab, they quickly split up and dropped off their evidence in trace. Both of them walked into the computer lab to see if they had gotten an ID on the first victim yet.

Danny arrived first and looked at the lab tech in the room. "Hi, Rachel. Have we gotten an ID on the first victim?"

Rachel, who was a serious looking blonde, looked up at Danny. "Hi, Messer. Which victim was that?"

Danny tried to lay on the Messer charm. "You know. The staged murder?"

Rachel smiled. "I know which one you're talking about. I was just kidding. But, no. We haven't gotten an ID on her yet."

"Damn. We have another body. She's the same physical type as the first victim. Female Caucasian, approximately twenty years old, blonde hair. I hope we can ID her. Maybe that will help us find some commonalities. Sid said that he would get her fingerprints and some DNA to see if we can find out who she is."

Rachel said that she would try her best as Danny left the room.

(Lunch)

Lydia dropped by Cory's office at exactly noon. "Hey, girl! Ready for lunch?"

Cory looked up. "God, yes. I am so hungry. It seems like breakfast was a really long time ago. But, I've got a lot accomplished." Cory grabbed her purse and followed Lydia out of the office.

Within a couple of minutes, they were at a little hole in the wall Mexican restaurant, not far from their offices. They munched on chips and salsa while trying to decide what to eat. Finally, they both decided on enchiladas.

Lydia looked at Cory. "So. Tell me about this dream you had."

Cory sighed. "It started out in the future. Sometime during the winter. I was walking towards the subway, when a wave of people ran out from the stairwell yelling about a bomb on the train. I had just pulled a little girl to safety when the ground trembled. I looked down the tunnel and a ball of fire was racing up it. I threw myself on top of the girl and then woke up. It was really strange. It felt real. It felt like it really happened."

Lydia looked puzzled. "It felt real? Have you ever had a dream like that before?"

Cory shook her head. "No. Not like that."

"That is really weird." Lydia paused while the waitress put their food on the table. "I don't know what to think about that. Maybe it's just your anxiety on what information Ortiz has been giving you."

Cory nodded while she swallowed. "Maybe. Anyway. Changing subjects. How are you and Sheldon doing?"

Lydia blushed. "Really good. I think I'm ready to take the relationship to the next level. He's just being too much of a gentleman so I think that I am going to have to seduce him. Any suggestions?"

Cory furrowed her brow. "Well, let's see. I got Lindsay and Flack together. If I remember correctly, the first time that they had sex it was after we had gone out dancing. Danny and I didn't get together until the night before I went back to Texas. Why don't we all go out the night after Lindsay and Flack get back? I can take y'all to Trace."

"God. I love Trance!! We had so much fun there last time."

"Yeah. It's good to have connections. Let's see. Lindsay and Flack are getting back on Friday, so we can go out on Saturday."

"That sounds great."

"Cool. I'll set it up. I don't know what Stella's schedule is, but I know that Danny if off that night. What about Hawkes?"

"As far as I know, he's working the day shift and then goes on call at six am on Sunday."

"Then it shouldn't be a problem for at least six people being there." By this time, the women had finished eating. "Well, we should really get back. I'm hoping to hear back from some of my Interpol contacts today. I hope someone has an idea of where the Martinez Brother's are."

Lydia sighed. "I know what you mean. Seriously. With both of us working on this, we should have found them by now!"

"They're just slippery." Cory grabbed her purse and with Lydia began the walk back to her office.

(Crime Lab)

Danny was sitting in the break room, eating lunch, when he got a page. He looked up a Hawkes, who had just walked in. "Rachel has our results. Ready to go see her?"

Hawkes just nodded. "You go ahead. I've got to grab a bite to eat before I fall over."

Danny just nodded and walked out of the room. Within minutes, he was back in Rachel's lab. "Whadda got for me?"

Rachel smiled. "I have an ID on the second victim. Her name is Carolina Pierre. She's an exchange student from France."

"Exchange student? Interesting. I'll see if we can get anymore information on her."

Armed with the new information, Danny walked back to the break room. "Hey, Hawkes! I think that we may have caught a break. The second victim was an exchange student from France. I know that Cory has some contacts over there, so I'm going to see if she can do us a little favor and get some more information on her."

Hawkes looked up from his sandwich in surprise. "Sounds like a plan to me. Do we know where she was going to school?"

Danny looked through the paperwork that Rachel had given him. "Looks like it was NYU. Why don't you grab Jennifer and go ask around the campus. I'll call Cory and she what kind of information we can get from the officials in France."

Hawkes stood up and threw his trash away. "Sounds like a plan. I'll catch you later."

Danny nodded and walked back to his office. He smiled as he picked up the phone and dialed Cory's office number.

"Reid."

"Bella. How are you doing?"

"Hey, Danny. I'm doing okay. How are you?"

"Good. I think I might have caught a break in my case, but I need your help."

"Good. What can I do?"

"We have a second victim that was staged just like the first one. The plus on this one is that we have an ID. Her name is Carolina Pierre. All we know is that she is a NYU exchange student from France. I was hoping that you could help get some more info on her."

"I should be able to help, but it will have to be tomorrow. I can send the emails out tonight, but France is six hours ahead of us, so I won't get any responses back until tomorrow morning."

"Well, she's not going anywhere. We have the time."

Cory just laughed. "While I have you on the phone, I was talking to Lydia today. How about we all go out Saturday to Trance? Flack and Linds will be back."

Danny thought about it. "Sounds good to me. It's been a while since we all went out together. I'll try to convince Mac and Stella to come out with us."

"Okay. Hey, I gotta go. My other line is ringing. I love you."

"I love you, too. See you at home tonight."

"Bye."

AN: Hey y'all. I hope the wait wasn't too long for this. Anyway, it's like 3am but I wanted to finish this. Next chapter will hop back to Flack and Lindsay in Paris. I hope to have another 1 or more chapter's completed this weekend, since well...the weather is being a butt. Freezing rain and ice. Yeah!!! (You just have to love Texas weather. It was 70 degrees at 4pm today and by 6:30 when I left work it was 39!) So basically I'm stuck at home for at least the next two days, so I'm going to write as much as possible. I start back to school next week, so hopefully my muse (who by the way has decided to go by the name Lexi and she is a dragon) will keep the ideas fresh. I have a feeling that I will only be able to update on weekends after this. Anyway...I've rambled long enough.

The Little Corinthian- I'm glad you didn't hate it. I was worried that I would lose people with chapter 2. If you find a way to clone Flack, can you clone Danny for me?? I would have so much fun with him!!!

chili-peppers- Thanks, Chili!!! I just had to write about them going to the top of Le Tour Eiffel. That was one of my favorite stops when I was in Paris. The views from the top are amazing! The people and cars look like ants. I have some wonderful pictures from the top!!

kasmith101- Yeah! You found the story!! Whoo-hoo! You can come to France with Danny and me! Although, I don't know if we would ever make it out of the hotel! grinning evily Paris is amazing. Absolutely the most romantic city I've ever been to.

Soccor-Bitch- I'm sorry to hear about your computer problems. I hope they are fixed now! Especially now that ff has fixed the alert system! I'm glad that you liked 2 and 3. This story seems to be a lot more lighthearted than A Time to Heal

Okay guys. See that little button below? It says Submit Review? You would really make my and Lexi's day if you hit that!!! I'm going to go to sleep now and when I wake up and think I'll take Flack and Lindsay to the Louvre! By the way...I'm still looking for a beta...If you want to take on that task, just PM me and we'll talk!