"Rain, rain, go away, come again another day..."

"Are you serious?"

"Why not? We're stuck in traffic going nowhere fast, the only thing on the radio is news about the approaching storm, and my usually prepared Captain forgot to get a weather report before we headed to the East Coast. What else am I supposed to do?"

"It's the East Coast in October. Weather is in the South in the Fall, and the North in the Winter, Midwest in the Summer, and never in our area of the country. How was I supposed to know I should listen for a report? The flight left LA without a problem, didn't it? Surely they would have know."

"Fine... but I still think you should have been better prepared."

"Me? And what about you, Detective? I thought your job was to investigate. Didn't it cross your mind to check to see what kind of situation we were getting ourselves in to?"

"Situation? We were only going to a conference, which, may I remind you, was last minute because you ignored your email. Getting everyone to pull straws to see who the victims - rather 'attenders' - would be, was not exactly a show of good management."

"Tell me smart guy, who in our team would really want to be at this conference anyway? Besides, I didn't give myself an easy out on this one."

"Well, you have a point there."

"Exactly. So here we sit."

"Yeah, here we sit."

"How much further to the turn off, anyway?"

"You want to drive now?"

"Are you always this testy?"

"I used to be worse."

"Oh joy. I bet that was fun."

"You always this sarcastic?"

"Sorry. I'm letting my frustration get the better of me. I should know better."

"You know, once upon a time I didn't think anything could flap you."

"Humph, you'd be surprised."

"I am. Pleasantly, mind you."

"Pleasantly surprised that I'm letting a small car in a downpour bring out my nasty side?"

"Lady, if this is your nasty, you're all right."

"Lady?"

"Okay, what do you want me to call you? I can't keep calling you Captain. Besides, we're going to be in here for a while, I think, so we might as well get past the titles. Before this is over I have the feeling we are going to know a lot more about each other than we ever thought we would."

"Why does that sounds so ominous?"

"What? You think you can keep up the pretense of professionalism in an Audi going 0.5 miles an hour in the middle of a rainstorm?"

"Point taken."

"So what do you want to know?"

"You're offering?"

"You going to start making conversation or just spend the time reacting to me?"

"You have no idea..."

"No idea what?"

"No idea how much time I spend reacting to you... Andy."

"Really? I'm liking the sound of that."

"Don't get cocky."

"But 'cocky' is my charming side."

"No ego there."

"Don't change the subject, how are you always reacting to me."

"We really shouldn't be having this conversation."

"Come on, don't quit on my now."

"Don't you have something better to do than goad me?"

"Nope. Nothing better that I can think of."

"You will be the death of me yet."

"We do murder for a living, let's keep that metaphor out of casual conversation."

"This isn't casual."

"Well it could be, if you'd just tell me why you keep reacting to me."

"We work well together, that's all. I feel sometimes you finish my thoughts."

"Tell me what I'm thinking now."

"That's not funny."

"Hey! You got that one."

"Detective!"

"You can try to laugh your way out of this, but you know what I'm thinking."

"I'm thinking you are overtired and perhaps I should be driving."

"You're always in the driver's seat. Time for you to be a passenger for a change."

"I'll ignore the innuendo in that one."

"Your loss."

"Clearly."

"For the record, I react to you too, Sharon."

"What?"

"I said..."

"I heard what you said. What did you mean by it?"

"Oh, now look who's getting interested in this conversation."

"Well when you start something, I like to finish it."

"Now that the shoe is on the other foot, you mean."

"You really enjoy being difficult, don't you, Lieutenant."

"Oh, so now it's 'Lieutenant'. That's convenient."

"And what does that mean?"

"It just means the Captain likes things her way, but she's not prepared for the gander to be on equal footing."

"Seriously? How old are you?"

"Old enough to know when a beautiful woman is trying to avoid a direct question."

"Now flattery?"

"It was a risk. It was either you'd be flattered or I'd be facing harassment charges."

"You really like to toy with fire, don't you."

"What can you do to me from here?"

"I could report you once we get back to the office."

"It would be he-said-she-said."

"You'd really go there?"

"Would you?"

"Honestly?"

"Yeah, honestly."

"No, I wouldn't go there. You like to push my buttons, but I know who you are."

"You do, do you?"

"Yes... Andy. I know who you are, and I know why we finish each other's thoughts."

"You think so? Tell me."

"Really?"

"Yes, really. This Audi still isn't going anywhere, we're alone, and unless you've turned on your phone to record this conversation, no one but us will ever know what we say in the privacy of this storm."

"I don't know."

"You do know, you just won't say it out loud."

"If I say it out loud, I can't take it back and it could jeopardize our working relationship. I don't want to risk that."

"So our work is more important to you than acknowledging out loud the reason we are on the same wavelength?"

"Don't twist my words."

"Fine. Then I'll say it. We're good together, really good. More than boss-employee good."

"Yeah."

"You don't have to sound so wistful."

"It's one of those things were I want it all, you know what I'm saying? Can we have it all?"

"I don't know. But we can't have it all if we don't try to have it all."

"How long to our next exit?"

"You trying to change the subject again?"

"No, I'm just wondering how long to the next exit? How long until we can head towards our hotel."

"Oh."

"Yes, 'oh'. If it doesn't work, we can always blame it on the rain."