A/N: Hi all this is a rewrite of the original story as I went off the plot with that one and I wasn't happy with the way it was. Please let me know what you think.

Disclaimer: I only own my OC's all original CSI characters belong to CBS.

Chapter 1

It was a quiet day in the New York Crime lab, until...

"Daniel Enrico Messer, get back in that office and clean up your filth," Detective Stella Bonasera said storming into the breakroom.

Detective Danny Messer looked around from where he had been making coffee to Stella, a puzzled look on his face.

"What the hell are you talking about Bonasera what filth?" He asked.

"Um let me think... oh yeah the rubbish that is on your desk it is absolutely disgusting," Stella said looking fully unimpressed.

Danny rolled his eyes of course she was complaining about that he should have known, "sorry mother, I didn't know it was a crime to leave scarp paper on your desk whilst you went and made a cup of coffee." He said sarcastically.

Stella rolled her eyes at Danny's come back. She was about to say something else, but Don Flack who had been sitting there listening spoke first.

"Come on Danno, you know she's a female and they are allergic to mess," Danny smirked at Don's comment before saying.

"Yeah I know I remember when me and my brothers were younger mom would always complain about the mess we were making, or about us leaving our toys lying around."

The team's newest member Lesley Hamilton had walked in to hear what both Don and Danny had said and she was not amused so coming to Stella's aid she looked at Danny and said, "Yeah that's probably because she didn't want to live in a pig sty."

Danny shot her a nasty look. "Don't tell me Lesley you always kept you house spotless," he said.

She scoffed as she replied "Of course I did, who in their right mind would want to live in a filth riddled environment?"

"Males would because they don't know the first thing about cleaning," Detective Jennifer Angell replied from where she had been sitting on the breakrooms couch listening to the conversation, tossing the book she had been reading onto the table in front of her.

"Yeah well at least it means we don't spend 200 hours of our day dusting unlike females." Flack shot back.

Stella chuckled as she said, "you know that is so not possible detective Flack since there are only 24 hours in a day."

"Yeah I know that thank you detective Bonasera I was exratting the point that all women spend most if not all of their time cleaning." He said

"Hey Don you know you shouldn't use big words when having a conversation with a female as they won't be able to follow the conversation," Carmine Goldair said walking into the breakroom and grabbing a bottle of water out of the fridge.

"Whatever at least we use words that we know the meaning to unlike males," Donna Woodburn said.

"Are you saying all males are thick?" Carmine asked after taking a drink.

"If the shoe fits," she shot back.

Danny who had been making his coffee had only just tuned back in to hear Carmines question and Donnas remark, so out of curiosity he asked, "who thinks all males are thick?"

"Donna here does," Flack said turning to look at his friend.

Danny scoffed as he said "Like she can talk I saw her in the lab earlier and swear there was smoke coming from her whilst she was trying to think." At this all the males started laughing, whilst the women shot them dirty looks.

"Well at least I have a brain," Donna shot back at Danny, who gave her a very confused look as he said.

"What the hell does having a brain have to do with thinking," at the women smiled and Stella was the one who answered.

"Well you see detective Messer you need to have a brain to think, honestly Donna is right all males are thick."

"We are not as thick as females," Carmine shot back.

"No thicker," was the reply that had Don Flack laughing as he said.

"Hey guys did you hear that Angell just said that females are thick," the guys all started laughing as Jennifer yelled back at them.

"No I did not I said..." and with that the quite peaceful atmosphere of the New York crime lab was broken once more as what was like the millionth time in two weeks, the battle of the sexes had been relit.

The crime lab supervisor and day shifts senior CSI Mac Taylor was in his office doing paperwork and waiting for a case to come in lifted his head as he heard his second in command call Danny's full named wondering what the younger man had done to piss Stella off this time.

He got back to work until Jennifer Angell started yelling which of course lead to everyone in the breakroom yelling.

Mac put down his pen and sighed, this petty bickering had been going on nonstop for two weeks and the chief of detectives wanted Mac to put an end to it or else.

Mac let out an even longer sigh as he stretched to get the kinks out of his back, and thought about the problem at hand, but like all week he still couldn't figure out how to get his detectives to start acting like adults again.

Suddenly Mac thought of idea that might just work, but he would need to make some phone calls first.

A/N: Well that was the first chapter I hope you liked it. Please R&R and let me know what you think.