Danny, Lindsay, and Their Baby

Finding Danny

OUTSIDE THE WAREHOUSE:

Mac had never been so worried in his life, Danny was kidnapped and injured and they were on their way out to some warehouse. It was a good lead, but he wished for something a lot more solid.

They had taken two SUVs with Mac, Flack, Hawkes, and Adam in one car and Stella, Lindsay, Angell, and Sid in the other. Sid hadn’t come into the field, but as this was Danny both he and a six months pregnant Angell would be staying in the SUV. They drove in silence to the warehouse, all of them too lost in their thoughts to talk.

“Sid can you wait out here and tell the back up and EMT’s where we are when they get here?” Mac asked and Sid nodded. He and Angell watched as Mac, Flack, Adam, Stella, Hawkes, and Lindsay went inside, praying that Danny would be alright.

INSIDE THE WAREHOUSE:

They all moved cautiously, looking around and glancing over their shoulders. It was dark in the warehouse and their eyes were still adjusting, but the darkness did not stop them from hearing. And what they were hearing scared the hell out of all of them.

“You got me arrested! You and that damn Mac Taylor! You took away my freedom, now I’m gonna take away yours by killing you! Now, I know I said that as long as you didn’t tell anyone where you were or who I am that I wouldn’t harm your little brat. But guess what? I lied!” They heard him say this and then they heard Danny’s voice.

“You son of a bitch, if you go anywhere near him I swear to god I will-”

“What? Kill me? Good luck seeing as you’ll already be dead.”

“Freeze NYPD!” Mac shouted as he, Stella, Lindsay, Flack, Adam, and Hawkes all moved out from their cover holding their guns pointed at Sonny. He turned and looked at them, shock clearly written across his face. However, he wasn’t about to go down without a fight and pointed his gun at Adam, finger on the trigger. Before he could pull it, Mac fired, the bullet piercing his stomach. Both Sonny and his gun hit the ground as they all ran over. Stella kicked Sonny’s gun away from him, but Lindsay had eyes only for Danny.

“Danny, Danny can you hear me?” Lindsay murmured and Danny moaned.

“Montana?”

“Yeah, it’s me, you’re gonna be okay. We’re going to get you to a hospital and everything will be fine.” All Danny could do was groan. He was trying to concentrate on Lindsay’s voice, but he was fading in and out of consciousness. Then he heard another voice and even though he was out of it, what was being said was very clear.

“You son of a bitch, Mac Taylor. I may not have killed your CSI but I will be the death of his little boy.”

“That gonna be pretty hard when you’re locked in Rikers,” Mac said to him. Sonny opened his mouth to retort, but all that came out was a choked gasp. Blood sprayed out as he coughed and Mac put pressure on his wound to try and stop the bleeding. However, it was no use. Sonny took one last breath and then his eyes stared unseeingly at Mac. The team seemed to release a collective breath. Danny, Lindsay, and Josh were all safe now, but death seemed to be far too easy an escape for Sonny Sassone.

Footsteps approached from behind, signaling the EMTs had arrived. Danny was loaded onto a stretcher and wheeled out to an ambulance, Lindsay not letting go of his hand. They had almost made it to the hospital when he drifted off into a deep sleep.

THE HOSPITAL:

They were all sitting in the hospital room waiting for someone to tell them what was going on. Louie had arrived shortly after Danny was brought in and was now sitting next to Lindsay in an uncomfortable plastic chair. Josh was sitting contently in his mother’s lap, playing with the hem of her shirt when the doctor walked into the waiting room.

 “How is he?” Mac asked as they all stood.

“He’s going to be fine. He has some broken ribs and a concussion, a broken arm and several lacerations, but I do believe that he will make a full recovery. He is awake if you would like to go see him. I got the feeling that he didn’t like hospitals so it might be easier if someone was there with him.”

“He’s always hated hospitals, ever since we were kids.” Louie said to them.

“Well he’s in room 306 if you’d like to go see him.” They thanked the doctor and then headed down the hall toward Danny’s room. Lindsay looked at them and then pushed the door open. Danny was lying in the bed, his face swollen. When the door opened, he turned to face them and smiled widely.

“Hey,” he said and Lindsay could tell he was trying to be brave in front of the team. She sat down in the chair next to his bed, scared that if she actually sat next to him she would hurt him. But Danny didn’t really care if it hurt because he looked at Lindsay hopefully and she placed Josh on his lap. The others had followed Lindsay into the room and Danny turned to look at them.

“What happened to Sonny?” he asked looking at Mac as Josh played with the sheet of the bed.

“He’s dead. He won’t be able to hurt you or anyone else on this team ever again. He’ll never get his hands on Josh.” Danny nodded and then he saw his brother who was standing behind them all and looked at the others.

“We should go,” Stella said, “We’ll give you guys some time alone.”

“I’m going to go get some water, do you want anything?” Lindsay asked Danny.

            “No thanks,” Danny said, “Me and Josh are good.” Lindsay left the brothers alone, leaving Josh where he had fallen asleep on Danny’s chest.

He shook his head and Lindsay left, leaving Danny and Louie to talk.

“So….” Louie said.

“Yeah, so….”

“Gosh Danny, I’ve never been so worried or scared in my life. When I got that call saying that someone had kidnapped you so many things went through my mind. I thought you were dead and then I thought that it was joke but I realized it wasn’t and all I could think was that you could be dead and I don’t think I could’ve taken it if you had been.” Danny stared at his brother as he said this; Louie had never expressed any emotion towards him since he was ten. Now here he was telling him how scared he had been.

“I didn’t care if he killed me,” Danny said finally. When he saw the shocked look on Louie’s face he continued.

“It’s not that I want to die, but I’d rather he killed me than Josh. He told me he was going to kill him and I could never let that happen to this little guy. He’s everything to me.” Danny said looking down and Josh who had his hand gripping Danny shirt.

“Yeah,” Louie said absently, “But you know that I would never have let him get his hands on your little boy, right? You know I would’ve done whatever I could to protect him and Lindsay, they’re family now and Messer’s stick together.”

“Thanks Louie, and yeah I know.”

“Alright, good. Well, I should go too. I’ll see you later okay? And hey, I know you hate hospitals, but no worries, nothing’s going to happen.” Danny smiled and nodded as Louie left the room. About five minutes later Lindsay came back and saw that Danny had fallen asleep with his arm around Josh. She sat down in the chair and looked at him. He was alright. Danny was going to come home and help take care of Josh. He wasn’t dead, he was still Danny. Sarcastic, smart ass Danny, and she wouldn’t have him any other way.