Messer Ties

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A/N: Thanks to everyone who has R&R and to Shan for beta’ing.

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Lindsay sat at her desk staring into her cup of coffee. In an attempt to cool the coffee, every now and again she would blow into the cup making small ripples. The events of yesterday were running through her mind, most thoughts were on what Regan had said about Danny. When Lindsay first joined the lab she had heard that Danny Messer was a player and that every two weeks he’d have a different girlfriend, but Lindsay thought she had changed him.

Her thoughts were interrupted when she heard someone clear their throat behind her. She turned as saw Mac staring back at her.

“You called me and said you needed to talk” Mac said as he walked into Lindsay and Danny’s office.

“Look I told Danny yesterday that you called me in. If he asks you anything about it can you say that it was an open and shut case, nothing big” Lindsay pleaded “Please”

“Lindsay…” Mac said but was cut off by Lindsay

“Mac it’s…I will deal with what’s going on with me and Danny and I won’t let it distract me. Just Please”

“Morning all” Danny announced as he walked into his and Lindsay’s office. “How was the case you called Montana in for? Danny asked as he sat down on his chair.

Mac looked over at Lindsay then back to Danny “It was open and shut”

“Oh good. So it didn’t take to long?”

“Nope a couple hours max” Lindsay replied miming a thank-you to Mac as he left the office.

“So I couldn’t get a hold of you last night” Danny started

“Oh yeah…my Mum called. To catching up, you know”

“Okay so you wanna go out tonight, see a bad movie?” Danny asked

“Uh can’t my Mum’s calling me again tonight. We didn’t get to fully catch up last night…so we’re going to continue more tonight. How about I call you when I’m free”

Danny gave a small nod to Lindsay’s pathetic excuse.

“I’ve got to go process evidence” Lindsay said as she grabbed her coffee and walked quickly out of the office.

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It was two day later and Lindsay had been avoiding Danny like the plague. She had just stepped into her apartment and noticed a flashing red light coming from her answering machine. She went over and pressed the play button.

‘Hey Montana, it’s me. Uh I haven’t seen you in a couple of days. You must be really busy. Call me’

Lindsay looked down and pressed the delete button quickly. She began to walk out the room when she heard a woman’s voice come through the small speakers of the answering machine.

‘Hello Lindsay. You might remember me I’m Samantha, Danny’s brother Anthony’s wife. You know the pregnant one. Anyway I called to say hi and that I want to meet up with you tomorrow for lunch. If you say no and do not call me back I will hunt you down. You can call Danny or anyone from the Messer family for my number. Bye

Lindsay turned around with a smile on her face. She took out her cell and scrolled through her contacts. She came to Danny’s number took a deep breath, and then continued scrolling until she reached Louie’s number. Louie gave Lindsay his number when he had first met her, he said that if Danny was giving her any grief to call him and he would knock some sense into him.

“Hello” Louie answered, the ruff sound of sleep evident in his voice.

“Hey Louie its Lindsay. Did I wake you?”

“Ah yeah but I needed to wake up anyway, fell asleep on the couch it’s bad for my neck. Anyway what can I do for you?”

“Um can you please give my Samantha and Anthony’s phone number” Lindsay asked as Louie rattled off the numbers. “Thanks Louie. I’ll see ya. Bye”

Lindsay then called Samantha and set up their lunch date for the next day.

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Samantha sat in a small café staring at her watch. She looked up and saw Lindsay coming her way.

“Sorry I’m late…work” Lindsay stated as she sat down.

“No problem. Now you probably want to know why I ask you to come for lunch.” Lindsay gave a small nod “I want to get to know you.”

“Okay.” Lindsay replied. An hour later Lindsay and Samantha had gone through a list of different topics, including where they were both originally from, what Samantha did for a living, how long she and

Anthony had been married, football and fashion. Lindsay looked down at her watch and noticed she was supposed to be back at work ten minutes ago.

“Can I ask you a favour?” Samantha asked as Lindsay nodded. “Well I go to these pre-natal yoga classes, and I find them incredibly boring, would you go with me? I’m sure it would be more fun if I had a friend with me.”

“Of course I will go with you. Okay give my a day, address and time” Lindsay replied as she grabbed a scrap piece of paper from her bag and wrote down the information. “You know we should make this a thing, have lunch every Tuesday”

“Good idea. We’ll meet every Tuesday at the same time and place.”

“Great. I’ll see you at yoga” Lindsay said with a laugh as she and Samantha went there separate ways.

TBC