4.

Donald Flack sat in the meeting room of the New York City Crime-lab and looked from his mug to Sheldon Hawkes, to Sid Hammerback and back to his steaming coffee.

"Messer and Monroe are late," he said finally.

"Lets hope that they talked it out," answered Hawkes," I´m not sure how long they can carry on like this, without ending up killing each other."

"What would you say, Sid, "asked Don, "Will they kiss or kill each other in the end."

Sid had a sly little smile on his face.

"Oh, I would hate the idea of having those two on my table.."

"Whatever," sighed Don, "I´m on that dealer case with them, and we should be reinvestigating that scene by.. now!"

"Stella and Mac are late, too," remarked Sid.

Nobody had missed the fact that they usually arrived together in the last months.

"Perhaps they went straight to a scene," said Hawkes.

"Yeah," laughted Don, "the Monroe-Messer-crime-of-passion-scene."

Hawkes stood up and streched.

"If you dont mind. I have an appointment with a lot of evidence."

Don looked once again into his coffee and pulled a face.

"I´m off to Starbucks, for the real stuff."

"I´ll give you a call if Monroe or Messer show up at the morgue."

Don turned and raised both eyebrows at Sid, who gave him a calm smile in return.

"Alive, Detective, of course alive."

A/N: So, thats it. The end. Please review and tell me what you think. Did you like it? Hated it? Printed it just to burn it?