TITLE: Revelations
BY: sexycazzy
RATING: PG-13
CHARACTERS: Mac/Danny & Stella & Don
FANDOM: CSI: NY
GENRE: romance/friendship
SUMMARY: Secrets are revealed, will they manage to move on?
Writer's Note: I don't own any of the characters, they belong to CSI:NY and its team. :( This is the second story in the Love Triangle series which is a squeal to the Coming Out series. you can read the first story here: Quick Glances. As always, I welcome any feedback :) And I wanted to say thank you to all the readers who have commented on my past stories, your wonderful comments and votes makes me keep going on, and keep writing and thinking up some wonderful stories. :D So THANK YOU to you all!

Mac is sitting in his favourite armchair, as usual, reading, but not really reading. He is thinking about Don, and the glances he made towards him. Mac hears the door closing, knows that Danny have just arrived home from work. Sure enough, as he looks up, Danny appears at the doorway in the living room.

Danny grins, "Hi, love...” Mac smiles, he loves to hear Danny calling him love, his heart always lifts whenever Danny is in the room, and even more when Danny calls him love. He raises his head, as Danny comes to him and bends down, to kiss him on the lips.

Letting go of Mac, Danny stands up, "I need a shower! Been in the subway all day today, taking photos etc" Mac nods, he could see lots of dust on Danny's clothes.

Danny turns and walks out of the room, but before he does so, he turns to Mac, "Want to join me?" with a glint in his eyes. Mac chuckles quietly, he wishes he could join him, instead he shakes his head, "No, we need to talk."

Danny blinks, as he leans against the door's frame, "What's up, love?" "We will talk after your shower, my boy." Mac replies, smiling. Danny nods, and goes off to have his shower.

About 15 minutes later, Mac is staring out of the window, looking out to the skyscrapers in the city, when he feels Danny's arms around his waist, his lips on Mac's neck, nibbling. He turns to Danny, "I love you." Danny blinks, "Me too," then he lets go of Mac, and steps back, "What's wrong, Mac?"

Mac sighs, as he turns to gesture for Danny to sit down on the sofa. Danny sits down, and Mac sits beside him, putting a hand on his left knee.

"I have to tell you something about Don." Mac tells Danny.

"Don?" Danny is surprised. Mac nods slightly, smiling a little, "I don't know how to tell you this, so I better come to the point, love," then he pauses, his other hand running through Danny's hair, then drops it down, then he talks again, "I think Don might have feelings for me."

"Oh." Danny says, as he looks at Mac, knowing that Mac must have seen something to come to think that, and asked, seriously, "How do you know that?"

And so Mac explained about the glances Don made, when they worked at a crime scene, when Don was over at their apartment, and about that time in the lift.

Danny listened, quietly, trying to work it out himself. After a while, he looked up at Mac.

"Yeah," Danny said, slowly, "I see what you mean. But what we can do about that?"

Mac cleared his throat, oh this is going to be hard now, and “There is something else. We always said, to never keep secrets from each other, correct?" Danny nodded, "Well, there is something I have kept from you. Before I fell in love with you, Danny, and I will always love you with all my heart...." Mac told Danny, "...but I have had some feelings for Don."

Danny stared at Mac, his mouth open, "What?" Mac got worried, "Look, Danny, I...I love you so much! But sometimes, when I look at Don, there is something...something that I feel for him. But I always put these feelings at back of my mind, because I don't want to lose you." Mac said, frantically.

Danny stayed quiet for a while. Then he looked up, smiling, "Mac, thank you for telling me. Now I have to confess to you...." Mac is rather taken aback, wondering what he has got to confess..."I have some feelings for Don, too. I mean we are best buddies, almost like brothers, but there is something else that I feel for him, too."

Mac looks at Danny, his mouth open this time. Danny laughs, "Now, it looks like we both fancy Don!" Mac grins, shaking his head.

They sit in silence, wondering how to move on from this, when an idea forms in Mac's head. He turns slowly to Danny, hoping that he won't be offended by what Mac is going to suggest.

"Danny, we could...I mean...we could ask Don out?"

Danny turns his head, sharp to Mac, "What? You mean...both of us...or..?" Mac nods, "Both of us." Danny squeezes Mac's hand, and grins. They lean in, about to kiss, when they hear a noise at the door.
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Earlier that day....

Stella and Don arranged to meet, after work, for a coffee. Stella told Don on the phone that she needed to talk to him about something, which made Don wonder what she wanted to talk about.

Don arrives at a Starbucks cafe, just around the corner from the building where they work. He sees Stella at a table, and having ordered coffee for himself, he sits down at the table. Stella already has a latte in her hand.

"Hello, Stella. So, what's this is about?" Don comes straight to the point. Stella is taken aback, and then she nodded.

"I just wanted to ask about how you are, after what happened with Mac and Danny," Stella explained, and Don waited for Stella to explain further.

 

Stella was wondering how she would bring the subject up. Finally she decided to bring up Don’s responses first. “I wonder if there's any reason behind your reactions. I mean, Danny is your best buddy. Is there another reason?" Stella asked. Don frowned, confused, "What do you mean?"

Stella sighed, oh, god it is hard, she thinks to herself, "Well, I have noticed the glances between you and Mac; I just wondered why you kept looking at him that way."

Don looked at Stella, his cheeks slightly blushing, "Wh..what do you mean? I never....don't be silly, Stella. I am FINE with it."

Stella just looked at him, waiting. Don looked down, then looked up after a while, "I am in love with Mac." then he revealed something else that shocked Stella.

Stella put a hand over her mouth and gasped.
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At Mac's apartment...

After talking with Stella, who told Don, that Mac might know, and she suggested that Mac might have noticed the glances, Don decided to come to Mac’s apartment, to talk to Mac, and maybe Danny if he is there.


Mac is at the door, surprised to see Don, "Don?" he asked. "Oh, how did you know I was here?" Don blushed. "We heard a noise...." when Don realized that he was banging on the door, and not on the wall. He blushed even redder. "Oh..sorry!" he apologized, "erm..can I come in? I need to talk to you."

Mac nodded, gestured for him to come in. Don came in, and Mac closed the door behind them, then he walks towards the living room, Don follows in, to find Danny sitting on the sofa. Danny looks up and finds Don at the doorway, he is shocked, "Don? What are you doing here?"

Don waves at Danny, and smiles, “Well, I came to talk to the both of you about something. I think Mac might have noticed something different about me.”

Mac gestures for Don to sit down, he declines. Mac raises an eyebrow and shrugged, then sits back down next to Danny.

"OK, Mac, Danny, I have feelings." Don is out of breath now, "For Mac...and for you too, Danny." He remembers back to when he then confessed about his feelings for Danny, which shocked Stella. She didn’t realize that. She thought it was just Mac, but oh no, for some strange reason, Don developed feelings for Danny as well.

Mac and Danny look at each other then to Don. Don stands there, feeling silly, and his cheeks are burning red. Finally Danny gets up and walks over to Don, "We were just talking about you, Don. As it seems, we both have feelings for you."

Don blinks, not understanding at first, and then it dawned on him, ‘oh my god, they have feelings for me!’ Mac then stands up, "Look, I love Danny very much, but I must admit that I have some feelings for you, Don. I don't know what are they, but Danny and I want to explore them with you."

Danny smiles, puts a hand on Don's shoulder, while Mac comes closer to the both of them. Don is confused, "You..you mean you both want me?" Mac and Danny nods, "Oh. And you want to explore this thing?" Again they nod, "Oh." Don says again.

Mac and Danny waits. Then Don looks at the both of them, his heart beating quickly, "I..I need more time to think about this. I mean, I am glad I came here, but this is even quicker, and not what I expected."

Mac nods, and agrees, "Don, take your time. Whatever your answer is, we are still friends, yeah?" Don nods, smiling at the both of them.