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          Danny could see that he was not finding amusement with her snarky attitude. She threw her hands up. "Fine, tell them I'm backlogged with work on the magazine. The editor I replaced left unexpectedly and I've been fighting to keep up with my workload. That ought to keep them content for a while. Although when you mention 'work' to those gold diggers their brains might explode. "
                He couldn't help but chuckle. "Danielle, what am I going to do with you? "
                 Her eyes sparkled at him from across the table. "I don't know, but hopefully something particularly nasty when you get home from work tonight."
                 "Your wish is my command milady! Go ahead and take the Bentley back to the clinic to get your car. I see Dominick at another table. I'll catch a ride back with him. I have to talk shop with him anyway."
                She walked over to him and kissed him on the forehead. "I'll see you at home tonight. "
                She was walking away from the table when he stopped her. She turned back to him .
                "Danielle." He whispered. "Wear that little thing I like tonight, okay. "
                She passed him a wink and was gone .
                 Danny decided not to return home to work but instead chose to go to her bat cave, as she called the rented apartment above the bookstore. Everything in the small apartment belonged to her or was inherited from her family. From her Grandmother's antique Tiffany lamp, to the desk that had once belonged to her father, whenever she wanted to feel at home Danny came to her apartment not only to work but relax. Her new job was just the thing she needed to silently declare her independence from Gerard .
                 Along with being her little piece of N'awlin's in Arizona, the bat cave was turning out to be a valuable office. She had talked the Bureau into giving her some pretty nice hardware. She had two top of the line computers, a portable laptop so she could work on cases away from her office and a desktop model with lots of hard drive space that stayed at her apartment. For entry into the Fed's servers, the two computers were connected to a wireless connection that was as secure as Fort Knox. A white erase board was erected in what was supposed to be the living room space. The board was used for taping photos and jotting down any info that would be pertinent to cases as she worked through them. She also was given a handy dandy smartphone that could be used to contact the Bureau or if they needed to contact her.
                 Danny took another stab at the Dizzy J's drive-by shooting case, this time focusing on the whiteboard with the four suspects and Dizzy's death photo. When Danny slipped into the spirit realm, Dizzy was patiently waiting for her.  She stood next to Dizzy in the spirit realm at the virtual recreation of the crime.   He looked at himself on the ground pointing out to her tire tracks amidst the shell casings and spilled blood.  Witnesses had reported seeing a late model Ford Econoline van flee the scene, while Dizzy was now pointing to a tricked out 1980 something or other Monte Carlo hiding out of sight around the corner from the shooting. The vehicle was well known by the victim because it had belonged to his former best friend who had become a vicious enemy when he had joined a rival gang.
                Now awake she typed up a letter to her contact in the Los Angeles Police Department with this new information. Danny unconsciously flexed the ring finger on her right hand, where Gerard had placed her engagement ring .
                No matter what she did, the ring was never comfortable on her finger. She had been to several jewelers who had sized it for her to no avail. The garish thing which Gerard insisted she wear was still an irritant to her. It got so bad that sometimes when he was