Title: One Night on Sunset Bld

Spoilers: Masquerade

Pairing: Goren and Eames

A/N: Pure fluff after watching watching the Liza episode! Love that woman she was perfect!

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Alex was brushing her teeth when she heard the soft snick of the key in her front door. Rinsing then setting her toothrush in the holder next to it's mate she padded out to the living room hearing a set of keys softly hit the table near the door.

Alex stood in the entrance way hands on her hips and watched as the tall man who just entered her home went straight to the kitchen and opened the refrigerator and pulled out a beer.

"Tough night detective", she asked with a hint of a smirk on her face.

"Very funny", Bobby smirked back. He placed the bottle on the counter and went straight to his partner saying only two words, "hold me".

Alex laughed, and wrapped her arms around her lover. "That bad?"

"I was starting to feel a little like William Holden in Sunset Boulevard", he setting himself after a moment on the couch.

"She wasn't very obvious was she", Alex asked sarcastically, with a touch of humor. Sitting down next to him she leaned in close as he rested his head on the back of the couch and layed one arm along the back of the couch so it was around her.

"Nice woman….just, uh, sad I guess", Bobby said aloud.

"Hmmm, why didn't you call? I would have come and got you", she asked.

"I figured you'd be asleep by now. I just got a cab", he said honestly.

"5 hours ago I dropped my boyfriend off so he could go on a date with another woman and you figured I'd just be asleep? What kind of girl do you think I am", she asked jokingly. This case had been stressing the both of them out and she didn't want him to think about to much more tonight if he didn't have to. They were already having enough problems personally lately with his mom being sick.

"The kind of girl who drops her boyfriend off for a date with another woman?", he asked back teasingly. He was rewarded with a soft punch to the arm for his comment.

"Well if that's how you feel then you can back and share Nora's bed then. I'm sure she'll be happy to accommodate you", Alex said rising from the couch and heading back towards the bedroom.

Bobby turned his body so he could watch her walk, "Love you", he called out in a low voice, that he knew she would understand was heartfelt.

"Mmm hmm, I suggest you come prove it Billy and maybe you won't end up face down in a swimming pool", she called back disappearing into the bedroom as she pulled off her t-shirt and exposing her back to him.

Bobby got up from the couch and checked the front door to make sure it was locked and turned out the lights, all the while thinking sometimes and man has to do what a man has to do.

FIN