Disclaimer: I do not own Law and Order: CI.

A/N: I do not know the actual names of any of Eames' brothers/ family members or anything about them. What is said about them comes from my head. This includes names, occupation, personality, age, and anything else I decide to use. Also the forms have no meaning. If they're real then that's just a really strange coincidence.

BTW: It's Monday in case any of you are wondering.


Mind numbing. The only words that Major Case Detective Bobby Goren could use to describe doing paper work. They say that a mind is a terrible thing to waste and yet they come up with tasks like this. Form 8D- 897. Form 2K- 105/G43. Form 6F- 713. He could have sworn on the holy bible they used in the courtroom that his IQ had dropped since he had come in this morning and started on his stack.

Nothing could make him like being stuck at his desk, filling out forms. Nothing.

"All of you get the hell out of my way! Go scratch and grunt in a cave somewhere. You're all making me sick."

Bobby looked up at the sound of his partner's voice, which sounded a lot more pissed than it should have. He was so shocked at the person before him that it took him a minute to realize that it was in fact Alex. The Eames before him was not the Alex that he had left the office with the week before.

For one thing this one was wearing a black mini skirt that ended a little lower than then mid thigh rather than the customary tailored pant he was used to seeing her in. Her heels had a strap wrapped around her ankle. Next to her skirt the most surprising thing was her top. It was a black silky material that tied around her neck, mid back, and waist.

This left her front completely covered but her back basically bare. The front had an ivy pattern that ran along the bottom and then crept up the left side. Finally her right wrist had three thin silver bracelets that rang out as she pulled out her chair and at the desk across from Bobby's.

Alex was so involved with attacking her half at the paper work that she had already filled out three forms before noticing her partner's gaze. "You need something, Bobby?"

"What? Oh! No I don't need anything." Bobby was snapped out of his initial shock. Shrugging Alex went back to the paper she was working on. Bobby on the hand took a few more minuets to observe her before he opened his mouth again. "Hey, Eames?"

Not looking up she made a small grunt to show he had her attention though the pen in her hand was still writing. "Why are you dressed like that? …Not that it doesn't look good! It's just different from what you normally wear."

This time Alex did stop what she was doing. Putting down her pen she looked at Goren for a moment as she tried to figure out the best way to explain her attire but before she had a chance to answer her name was yelled at her.

"Eames! In my office now!"

Alex groaned as she pushed out her chair and headed for her captain's office, where Deakins was glaring at the doorway. Being that he was her partner and was immensely curious Bobby followed her into the lion's den, so to speak.

Deakins ignored the fact that Goren had followed Eames into his office. Instead he focused his attention on Alex who was sitting in the chair next to her partner. "What the hell are you wearing?"

"Clothes."

"I don't any of your comments right now, Detective. Why on earth would you wear something like that to work?" Deakins continued his trade. "This is a working environment! How the hell do you thinks this looks?"

"Like the male population of our department have no life and need to get laid?"

"Dammit! Out!"

"But I though you wanted to kn-"

"I've changed my mind. Just go back to your paperwork."

Deciding not to look the gift horse in the mouth She got up and headed back to her desk with Goren quickly following behind her. His long strides soon caught up with her smaller ones and he walked by her side as he tried to figure out what was going on.

Mentally he took back his earlier comment about nothing being able to make him like paperwork. He knew they weren't going to get any cases today because Deakins thought of Alex like a daughter and there was no way he was going to let Alex go to a crime scene like that. And even if he did Bobby wouldn't. That left the NYPD's best in the office filling out forms. Goren found himself warming up to the pile awaiting him at his desk.


---The inspiration for the topcame from Chapter two of Fluffy-CSI's Reunion. If you haven't already I highly recommended that you read her story and others written by her. The phrase 'Go find a cave to scratch and grunt' came from netherfield's Quietly, chapter sixteen. An equally great story.---