Danny, Lindsay, and Their Baby

Phone Call

DANNY’S HOLDING PLACE:

Danny groaned as he slowly regained consciousness. He hurt all over. He tried to roll over, but when he did there was a stabbing pain in his side and he bit down on his tongue to keep from screaming. He heard someone walking towards him and then felt a sharp blow to his stomach. This time, he did cry out.

"Good, you're awake," the voice said. It was a man's voice, a man Danny knew.

"I was thinking I'd already killed you, but that wouldn't be any fun now would it?" That voice, if only he could put a face with the voice. Then he thought of it, Sonny Sassone. That was who the voice belonged to, the son of a bitch.

Danny opened his eyes just a crack and saw a big sign outside a window, he knew that sign. He had seen that sign as a child almost everyday. Sonny had brought him to their home town. This was the warehouse Danny and his brother used to play in everyday, they called it their castle, they would say they'd rule the world if they were there.

"You're gonna make a little phone call, but you're not going to tell them who I am or where you are, you do that and you die. I'll also make sure your little boy dies too, and it'll be a painful death for him." Danny had a phone pressed to his ear and heard it ringing, he prayed to god he could find some way to tell them something useful without getting his five month old son killed.

MAC’S OFFICE:

Mac, Stella, Lindsay, Adam, Sid, Hawkes, Flack, and Angell were all in Mac's office. They had just finished explaining to Lindsay about what had happened. They had refrained from using Danny's name as much as possible because Josh was in the room. Even though he was only five months, he knew his daddy’s name. He was fast asleep on Flack's lap and had only woken up when the elevator had beeped when they had reached the floor of Mac's office. He had fallen asleep again after he was settled onto his uncle’s lap. It was quiet in the room until someone burst through the door. That someone was Louis Messer.

"Where is he!" he shouted, "Where the hell is my brother? Where's Danny?" Mac stood up, as did the rest of the team, Flack had Josh's head pressed gently against his shoulder and was covering his other ear with his hand so that he wouldn’t hear Louie. He couldn’t hear what Louie was saying but he still woke up and began to cry

"Louie, please, calm down," Mac glanced over at Flack and Josh. Louie followed his gaze and immediately regretted scaring the boy.

"Sorry, I just, I need to know where he is."

"How about you sit down," Mac indicated the seat next to Adam and Louie nodded his head, he sat and so did the team. Once Flack had sat down again Josh started to drift off. He was asleep in a matter of seconds and Louie continued to talk.

"Please, tell me Danny is here." They all looked at him sadly and then Mac spoke.

"Louie, he's been kidnapped, we don't know by whom, and we don't know why. But we're doing all we can to find him." Louie just nodded his head and then said to all of them.

"I got a call, saying Danny had been kidnapped.” When no one spoke, Louie continued. "They called me and said that they had Danny. They said they had him where me and Danny used to spend time as kids. I didn't know if whoever it was had been serious so I came here. I swear I didn't recognize the voice, we gotta find him, we have to find my baby brother."

Louie had tears in his eyes, on the odd occasion that the team had met Danny's older brother he had been a hard ass, Louie had never showed any emotions when they'd met him. This proved that he was completely worried about Danny, Louie Messer was actually scared.

"We will," Hawkes said, "We'll find Danny, we'll find your brother." ring ring ring The ringing of the phone made all of them jump, Mac picked it up.

"Taylor"

"Mac" a very hoarse and pain filled voice said on the other end. Mac put the phone on speaker and said.

"Danny, is that you?" everyone sat up straighter and looked at the phone.

"Yeah," they heard Danny groan in pain, "Please, please help me." Lindsay's eyes filled with tears and Stella put her hand on Lindsay's shoulder.

"Danny where are you?" Mac asked him.

"I....I can't say....he's here, right here," Danny was struggling to breathe, "Me and my brother used to have this place we would go and we called it our castle, said we were gonna rule the world as long as we stayed there. Tell him that for me, will ya?" Danny asked hoping they would do it soon. A new voice came onto the phone and spoke to everyone in the room.

"Goodbye Detective Taylor, that was the last time you'll ever get to hear your CSI's voice." The next thing they all heard was the dial tone. Lindsay had tears running down her face and Stella held her as she cried, whispered words of comfort into her ear.

"Louie, why would Danny say something like that? The one time he has to talk to us a try to tell us something he talks about you two as kids. It had to mean something."

"There was this place in our hometown, we played there everyday, it's like Danny said, we called it our castle and said when we were there we ruled the world." Louie thought for a moment then continued, "It was an old abandoned warehouse on the corner of Hayes and Littly." Mac put the address into his computer and looked at them.

“It's still abandoned and there's a car parked outside it, c'mon, we're going in.” Lindsay stood up and walked out the door with the rest of the team. Louie stood up to follow them but Mac stopped him.

"What?" Louie asked him.

"You stay here with Josh. You'd just sit outside anyway and Josh is too young to go." Mac gave Louie a look and Louie sat down again. Mac left the office and Louie stood up. He walked into the office Danny and Lindsay shared. He walked over the desk that was obviously Danny's, it was way too messy to be Lindsay's desk.

He looked at the desk and saw that he had a picture of Josh on it, he had to be only a few months in it; a picture of their team, and to Louie’s surprise, there was a picture of the two of them as kids. Louie picked up this picture and looked at it, Danny had his arm over Louie's shoulder and Louie was doing the same with Danny, they were both smiling. He put the picture down and turned around, Josh was still fast asleep. Louie sat down in his brother’s chair and prepared for the wait of his life.