AN: This is my first Intelligence Fanfiction, and my first attempt at a crime fanfic. I do not own any of the characters or anything.

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Riley flicked off the light in her bathroom, leaving her wet towel hanging over the drying rack as she slipped her feet into her black leather boots. Her morning dishes already washed, dried and put away, Riley tucked her gun into her holster, her phone into her back pocket and picked the coffee up off the bench before leaving her apartment.

Water dripping down her back, Riley knocked for the second time of Gabriel's door, her knuckles just below the '143' gold lettering marking his apartment. Pressing her ear against the door, she couldn't hear a sound from within. Yanking her keys out of her pocket, she unlocked the door, unsure of what she would find in the apartment submerged in silence.

Quietly shutting the door behind her, Riley placed the coffee and keys on the floor before straightening up as her eyes scanned the room, assessing, and analysing. Grabbing her gun out of her holster, Riley held it up in front of her as she moved through his apartment, her eyes now sweeping the living room, before she noticed shards of glass on the kitchen floor, a few splotches of blood covering them.

"Gabriel?" Riley asked, her eyes scanning for any signs of life as she swiftly made her way to his bedroom. Pushing the door open with her foot, she sighed at the sight that lay before her. Asleep on his bed, still fully clothed as he lay over the covers, was Gabriel.

Curtains drawn, the room was sheltered from all the morning sun except one crack of it, which still fought its way through the curtains, and shined, unwanted, down on Gabriel who was spread out over his bed. His shoes still on, his gun still tucked into the back of his jeans, his sun glasses dropped onto the floor beside his bed, and his eyes clamped shut, Gabriel remained asleep, oblivious to the chorus of sirens that blared outside of his closed window down on the street below.

Gabriel's hand was covered in a makeshift bandage, leading Riley to assume it was his blood on the floor, not an intruder's. Holstering her gun, she smiled at his peaceful face for a second before she kicked his bedroom door shut loudly behind her, causing him to stir.

"Come on, princess rise and shine." Riley grinned as she nudged his foot as she walked past him and towards his window. She had been up for two hours already, she had gone for a run and had a quick sparring match, which resulted in her partner needing his shoulder popped back into place, she was full of energy.

"Shh." Gabriel muttered as he pushed his face deeper into his pillows, not wanting to wake up. His body ached all over, his stitches were still healing, and his bruise had stretched over his ribs now, rendering his stomach the worst place to be lying on, but he was lying on it all the same, he was accustomed to pain, this was no different. Gabriel groaned as Riley pulled open the curtains, letting the light shine into the room, as Gabriel kept his eyes closed, trying to block out the sun for another few seconds.

"What did it ever do to you?" Riley inquired as she picked the largest piece of what was left of his alarm clock, beside the window the wall had a small black mark and a dent, obviously the last place that the alarm clock was whole.

"I couldn't find the snooze button." Gabriel groaned. Lifting his face off his pillow, he opened his eyes just a fraction as he looked over at Riley whose eyes were scanning the floor, an amused expression on her face. She was looked at the shards of his alarm clock scattered around her feet. For a second she was worried but she didn't show it, Gabriel wasn't a morning person but this was still unusual behaviour, and after what happened last night, she was far more concerned by this than she would have been if it wasn't for the incident.

"And you couldn't just shut it off with you chip?" Riley grinned, covering her anxious expression carefully as she placed the bit of alarm clock she held on the window ledge. Stepping over the shards of left over alarm she lowered herself onto the end of Gabriel's bed as she pushed his feet out of the way.

"What time is it?" Gabriel asked, his face pushed back into the pillow as he felt the dip in the bed. He didn't need cctv footage of the supermarket to know what conditioner Riley was wearing, he could smell it from where he lay. Slightly unwillingly clearing his head of all thoughts of Riley in the shower, Gabriel buried his head deeper into his pillow as he focused on the pain in his stomach, attempting to force it to cloud his other thoughts that were not fading fast enough.

"6.30." Riley replied, her eyes sweeping the room, checking to see if anything was noticeably out of place, it wasn't like Gabriel to leave a broken glass on the kitchen floor or throw an alarm clock at the wall to stop it from beeping.

Pulling out his gun from the back of his jeans before rolling onto his back, Gabriel kicked Riley lightly with his foot as he stared up at the ceiling, trying to let his eyes get used to the brightness of the room as he placed his gun beside him. Staring up above him his eyes scanned the images popping up in front of him as he searched for something, while Riley's eyes stopped scanning the room and she shuffled backwards, unconsciously moving closer to Gabriel as she made herself more comfortable as her anxiousness subsided.

"Pass me my double shot espresso and I'll get up." Gabriel had found just what he had been searching for.

"I paid in cash for that!" Riley responded, turning to look at him as he smiled mischievously, his eyes focused, but not on anything that Riley could see.

"But your smiling face is still on the cctv." Gabriel grinned, as he continued to watch the video. "Oh he's definitely the one." Gabriel added as the barrister wrote his number on Riley's cup, he had obviously missed Riley's disinterested expression when he had flirted with her as she ordered.

"He spelt my name with an 'ie'." Riley groaned which made Gabriel's smile widen, as he used facial recognition to learn a little about Jason Tiller, using this conversation to postpone Gabriel having to get up out of bed, and distract Riley from worrying about his unwillingness to get up, who no doubt thought his tiredness was associated with the chip somehow.

"And he still lives at home, and was arrested last month for indecent exposure. But he did give you his cellphone number which is nice, he obviously doesn't want his Mum picking up." Gabriel laughed. Riley couldn't help but laugh in response as she moved slightly closer to Gabriel, she watched his expression as he read more on Jason, no longer watching the cctv video which continued to run.

"How thoughtful, he sounds like a catch." Riley smiled, not letting on that she was still thinking about the smashed alarm clock and the broken glass in the kitchen. "The double shot mightn't even be yours." Riley added with a grin.

"You better not have gotten the soy latte for me, you know I hate those damn things." Gabriel replied as he sat up and cleared Jason Tiller's files from his view as he focused on the cttv video of Riley in the coffee shop, her mind still in secret service mode, as she discretely scanned the room. His eyes moving from her back to the counter he smiled before adding, "You're just saying that because he put his name of three other cups while you were still in the shop."

"It could be for someone el.." Riley started off, knowing full well that Gabriel would know almost instantly if she ever actually went on a date again, let alone bought them coffee in the morning, she was not only too busy but she didn't need anyone else in her life, she was content with Gabriel. As an afterthought she quickly added Chris, the Cassidy's and even Lillian to that list.

"You spent you entire Saturday night at the shooting range with me and Jameson, your Friday night sparring down at the gym and your Thursday night with the Cassidy's as they checked my chip again, doesn't leave a lot of dating time." Gabriel retorted. Sighing in response Riley bit back a retort as she hit Gabriel's leg before she stood up and left the room.

Resisting the urge to roll back over and pull his pillow over his head, Gabriel swung his legs over the edge of the bed and sat up, cracked his neck and then closed his eyes. Riley's phone rang once before it fell silent, before he could even think about whether or not he should scan the number he already had, and he recognised the number immediately, it was Lillian.

"Drink you coffee and have a shower, we leave in five minutes." Riley announced as she entered the room. Pushing the coffee into Gabriel's open palm, she turned and walked out of the room. Leaving the door open behind her, Riley dropped onto Gabriel's couch, leaning back she closed her eyes, listening to the sound of the traffic outside, and the shower water running while she waited, wondering what case they would be assigned to today.

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AN: I would love to know what you think, and I hope that you like the start, the next chapter should be up soon, so please review.