Summary: Personal Foul and on…How Danny and Lindsay reached Baby

Disclaimer: If you recognize it, I don't own it…sadly, oh well, cbs can keep them, I just borrowed. =)

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**It's a typical New York Apartment; two guys are just hanging out**

"So you and Lindsay make-up last night?" Flack asked as Danny rounded the island of his kitchen and handed Flack a beer.

"Watchu talking 'bout Don?" Danny asked taking a swig of his beer. His attention on the Empire's make-up game.

"You and Linds, you better now?" Flack asked again.

"We're getting there. Why?" Danny asked turning his attention away from the game and to his friend.

"Oh it's nothing Danno. Just wanted to make sure that brazier was hers and not yours." Flack smirked as he pointed his beer at the black lace bra flung over the book case.

Danny's eyes followed the line of Flack's beer, his eyes widened at the hap-hazard way Lindsay's bra lay strung over some of his books. His beer spluttered from his mouth as he leapt up to get the bra out of Flack's line of sight.

"Shit" he muttered as he flung it into his bedroom while Flack held his side as he laughed.

"Aw, don't be ashamed Mess. Your girlfriend's got good taste in underwear." Flack joked. He had to keep the girlfriend generic…he could not think of her as Lindsay…that was just wrong, but Danny's girlfriends had always been fair game. "Sexy, and yet not trashy, unlike what's her face, Cindy's" Flack said smirking and taking another sip.

"Yea yea laugh it up Flack." Danny shrugged flopping back down onto the couch.

"Nah, it's all good; you need someone else to hang out with, to tell ya the truth, you're starting to bore me." Flack cheered.

"Is that so."

"Yea, just a little bit." He nodded sarcastically. "But in all honesty that girl is good for you."

"Yea, she's one of a kind. I just can't screw this up again." Danny sighed finishing off his beer.

"Well good luck with that man."

The Empires continued to play and were putting on a quite a show but Danny's heart and head just wasn't in it. All he could think about was last night and the woman who had captured his heart. Sports stats be damned.

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FLASHBACK

He called her, it was worth the shot. His heart skipped a beat when she actually answered, and it literally stopped when she mentioned that she loved him or that he was difficult to love. Sure his mother had been telling him that since his kindergarten teacher had called her in for a parent teacher conference. He resorted to begging, he needed to see her again, he needed to feel her again, he just needed to be around her again, however all she did was click off.

He sat there dejected, thinking of another way to get her back. His poor heart skipped again when there was a knock at his front door, only to sink into his gut when it was Rikki on the other side of the door and not Lindsay. Sugar didn't help anything, it just coated everything in an ultra sweet illusion.

Finally, he gave up. Just Fuck it. He needed to see her, to talk to her. What was he stupid asking her to come over to his place? Some self-serving prick, he couldn't go over there? He threw on a sweatshirt, grabbed his keys, and ran down the six flights of stairs out into the pouring rain.

He stopped dead in his tracks as he saw her step out of the cab that had just pulled up. This time he swore his heart flat lined. She was here…but she took a god-damned taxi. Did she have a death wish? His anger, no annoyance, took over his joy. He stood there staring at her, what he knew to be a completely distressed look.

She shrugged her shoulders and let out a small smile. (I came now what?)

"What the hell were you thinking?" Danny cried over the rain as he made his way towards her.

"What?"

"Did you honestly take a cab over here?"

"Yea, so, I'm a big girl, I checked the cab." She said shrugging it off

"That doesn't matter you could have died." He said as he came to a halt inches in front of her.

"But I didn't"

"That doesn't mean anything, I could have lost you. I can't lose you too."

"Dan you…."

"No." He cut her off "Just.." he didn't have the words. Instead he reached out a hand, cupped the side of her face, and pulled her towards him.

Their lips crashed together in a kiss that had Danny saying the words he couldn't. They stood there in the rain tangled in each other getting all the more soaked in the process. Lindsay's hands moved to his waist as Danny's tongue slipped into her mouth. She let out a soft sigh as she felt the kiss soften. She so missed him. This Danny that gave a damn, the Danny she thought, no knew cared for her. That kiss, that kiss came from the Danny she fell in love with.

He pulled away slowly and rested his forehead on hers. They stood there in the pouring rain for a few seconds before a swift breeze made her shiver. He quickly grabbed hold of her hand and tugged her into the warm dry building.

The elevator arrived almost immediately and as they stepped in Danny pulled Lindsay into a tight embrace. She smelt of vanilla and rain, he smile, as she started toying with the hair on his neck. "I've missed you so much Lindsay." He sighed as he placed a gentle kiss to her ear.

"I miss you too, Dan, but the last few months…" she trailed off as he opened the door to his apartment.

"I know I've been an ass."

"No, Dan, you're always an ass, this went bond that." Lindsay sighed as she sat herself down on one end of his couch.

"I know, I know, and I promise you, that will never happen again. Linds, I miss you, I think I need you in my life, my life away from the lab, don't even try to counter me there." He warned as he saw her start to speak. Yea, yea he knew, he saw her at work, she was in his life. "Linds, pushing you away has got to be the stupidest thing I have ever done. And that's saying a lot. Just please, I care too much for you to let you go."

"Dan, I know the feeling. You don't know how much I wish that I hadn't stood you up that first time, I think I know it would have been so much easier to go back having you. I can't hold pulling away against you, after all, I started all that after the bombing. I kissed you, then I left you hanging, but, it really hurt. It hurt to know I couldn't help you. I know call me a hypocrite but I just…."

"Sssssh. Linds, I don't care." He said as he cupped her face with his hand. "We moved past that, and I just really want to move past this as well. Please." He said looking her straight in the eye, his thumb gently stroking her cheek.

Who leaned in first will forever be a mystery, but within seconds they were making out like teenagers. Lips, tongues, hands. Soon clothing was being discarded and thoughts of the past two months were thrown out the window. They joined and moved together as if they hadn't missed a day, an hour, a minute, let alone a second.

Afterwards they lay together on the sofa Lindsay laying on top of Danny's torso playing with his chest hair as he rubbed his hands up and down her bare back. Danny leaned up and placed a gentle kiss to Lindsay's forehead bringing her out of her own thoughts and back to reality.

"You okay Lindsay?" Danny asked slightly concerned.

"Yea just thinking is all." She murmured as she lay her head down on his chest, turning to look out the window at the rain that was starting to let up.

"Yea, about what?"

"Nothing in particular." She shrugged. Danny was about to inquire a bit more but his cell phone went off with a shrill ring. Sitting up, Lindsay rolled off him and wrapped a throw around her body as she watched Danny answer his phone: Mac. Her mind was starting to wander again as her own cell went off: Stella. There must be a lead on the cabbie killer. That would be the end of their night as it was. Now it was time to catch a killer.

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"Shit! What a shot, you see that Dan!" Flack shouted bringing Danny out of his day dream.

"What? Oh yea."

Seriously sports stats be damned, all his mind could think of was Lindsay Monroe.

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A/N: I know, I know, it's late coming, but reruns have done me in….I have the next chapter done-ish…review maybe it will get done-done faster (; winks and smiles =)