Re: CSI:NY FanFic Challenge!
Fruit's Supposed to be Healthy...Right? by Lost2MuchSpeed
Sitting on her newly purchased sofa that she had bought after the whole Frankie disaster, Stella sighed wistfully. She had replaced pretty much everything he had made any sort of contact with, no matter how small. But she wasn’t thinking about him nearly as much now, she had her friends to thank for that, Mac especially. Now there’s a real man.
She sighed again, out of exhaustion this time, and went over to the kitchen to make a cup of coffee.
Today had been one whacked out day. Some would day the case had been funny. If you could even call it a case! Just…stupidity? Insanity? Just frickin weird.
She had arrived at the scene, a penthouse apartment, and had found Mac already standing over the body; studying it and looking rather bewildered. Kind of cute…was her initial reaction to the out of place expression gracing Mac’s features. However, she quickly scolded herself mentally, mind on the job, mind on the job!
There had been no obvious C.O.D, so they had to wait until Sid had performed the autopsy. Turns out the vic had been poisoned. Ok, that wasn’t anything Stella hadn’t heard before. But Sid hadn’t finished yet. No sir.
“Apples,” he’d stated simply.
After a long silence, Mac and Stella looked at one another; both expressions speaking for themselves. What the hell?!
“The cyanide. In the apple seeds. God knows why the vic was eating apple seeds in the first place, but she’s eaten so many that she’s overdosed on the cyanide contained in them. Bizarre isn’t it?”
Bizarre was one way of putting it. Stella was thinking more along the lines of insane. Apples are nice, sure. Apple seeds? Not so sure about them. Even Lindsay hadn’t bothered trying them, and she’d eaten fried spider for crying out loud!
Mac had been pretty surprised at the outcome too. Well, maybe surprised wasn’t the best word for it. Disturbed more like. She’d been seeing a different side of Mac today. He hadn’t been his usual self. Which was a good thing. Usually he’d be so absorbed in the case he wouldn’t notice the funny side of anything. This side of Mac took years off of him which suited Stella fine.
She finished making her coffee, sipping it and letting the caffeine run through her bloodstream, giving her a much welcomed boost.
Speaking of Mac, she still had to call him to let him know she’d arrived home in the same state she’d left the lab in. Since her struggle with Frankie, he had insisted that she call him every day when she got into her apartment so he knew she was alright. You’d think, “Oh that’s sweet of him”, but Stella wouldn’t. Or rather, wouldn’t let herself think that. Nah, that was just Mac being Mac. Being all protective over his colleagues. He’d do it for any of us.
But there was a little bit of her that, even though she wouldn’t let herself dwell on it, hoped it was just her.
Her thoughts were interrupted by her cell phone blaring, it’s vibrations propelling it across the surface of the coffee table in front of her. It was the very man she’d been thinking of before the call.
“Hey, Mac. Sorry, I was just about to call, got a little side-tracked that’s all. Nothing to worry about,” she got out before Mac could assume the worst, that something had happened to her.
‘Why were you gonna- oh right! Yeah! I mean...uh…obviously, as it was me who arranged this calling me...uh…thing’
What the hell? Fair enough Mac was acting differently today, but this was a little too different. Mac? Stuttering? This day was getting even more whacked out and Stella just wanted to sit with a cup of coffee and a book. Probably thinking of Mac too, as she incorporated herself into the love story she was currently reading, feeling like a teenager and wishing it was her and the man on her cell. Realising she’d been silent for a good few seconds now, she spoke up.
“Um, is there something wrong? You sound a little weird if I’m being honest”.
‘Uh n-no no, nothing wrong. Not at all! I was just uh…well…’ he clears his throat, ‘I was wondering if maybe…maybe you’d like to come over…for coffee?’
Stella stared at the steaming mug in her hands and let out a small chuckle, which Mac took as a bad sign, and assumed she was laughing at him.
‘Oh. Well. Yes, I was just uh…well, yes anyway, glad you’re home in one piece. I’ll uh…just be um...’
“Oh shut up you idiot! Of course I’ll come over, I still haven’t had my usual caffeine boost yet anyway.” She quietly emptied her mug and placed the mug in the sink.
‘Great! Well, uh, you know where it is…I even bought pie. Well, not that I had any plans for it…anyway, I thought maybe we’d share it if your hungry’
She was starving. And Mac was finally taking action! Her stomach flipped. Must act as if you’ve not been waiting for this for years.
“That sounds just fine. What kind of pie is it?”
She grabbed her coat, and things, and headed out the door.
‘Apple.”
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