Title: L is for Loss
Author: stellaluna_
Rating: PG
Pairing: Danny/Don
Summary: Written for bedlamsbard.
Disclaimer: None of these are mine. Characters are the property of Anthony Zuiker, Jerry Bruckheimer Television, CBS, and Alliance Atlantis.

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Danny feels the loss much more keenly than he'll ever admit to Flack. He feels it the most when they have to work together, whenever Flack recites facts and figures without ever cracking a smile or looking him in the eye. He thinks he should put a stop to this, that he should just ask if Flack wants to go shoot hoops one day, such a simple thing, nothing he hasn't done a hundred times before.

He's ready to do it as they're leaving a scene in Williamsburg, but then Flack turns to him and calls him "Detective Messer," and he doesn't say a word.

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