Goren POV
I got a new partner today. Eames is now the Captain of the Major Case Squad. My new partner is Eames's cousin, Lucille Smith. The minute she told me her name, she told me to never call her Lucille. She said she hates her name, but she doesn't want to pay to change it. So I'm going to try to call her Luce. I asked Eames where she worked before but she said it's "classified". Whatever that means. All I know is that she's 29, blonde, and tall considering she's related to Eames. Oh, and those eyes. They're blue, but they have tints of green and gold in them. You can call me crazy, but I thought I saw a hint of pain in them, and the rest seemed like it all healed over time. Eames tells me she's really good at being a cop, and that every case she's had went down with an arrest. So that's all I know about her previous work. I've only seen her smile once, and it seemed forced. I have so many questions I want to ask her, but I don't want to seem rude.
Smith POV
I've heard what everyone's heard about this city, it's a nice place to see, but not necessarily to live. I moved because I just went undercover for a prostitution ring and it sucked. In the end, there was nothing I could really do, so I ran from the pimp, and called California's SVU. (That's where I was at the time.) I told them about the things I dealt with (for two years) and the pimp got arrested. I had a major (ha) choice: either go back to the FBI I'd been with for seven years before, or go to New York City and be part of the Major Case Squad. I chose Major Case, because to be honest, I was sick of working with the FBI. I hated traveling. I wanted to settle down (by myself) and New York City is the only ideal place for a cop who actually wants to solve cases instead of eating doughnuts. Eames told me Goren was eccentric and it might take a while for me to get used to his habits. I just told her, "No one is more eccentric than me." I met him today. God was he tall. He must have been over 6 feet. He seemed pretty normal to me. But I'm not the best judge of normal. When I told him where I've been working, he said, "Well, that's not what I expected." I laughed and said, "Well, sorry to disappoint you." He seems like a good guy. Eames told me his whole life story, which means she told him mine.
Goren POV
"So Eames probably told you about my stepfather, right?" Lucy said while we were doing paperwork.
"No." Of course she didn't. "What about him?"
"You really want to know?" I nodded. "Well, when I was 10, my parents divorced. My mother remarried to this man that I really didn't like from the start. She died when I was twelve, from an overdose. My mother was a lot of things, and not many of them were good, but she was no junkie. That bastard probably killed her. Well, my father and stepfather had a custody battle over me and my brother. Half the month I was with my dad, the other with my stepdad. When I was 13, he started… um, molesting me. I didn't say anything because he threatened to kill me. It went on until I was fifteen, when I drank myself into an almost coma. My stepsister found me on the floor and I went to the hospital. I told the nurses everything and then they had me on suicidal watch. He was convicted after they sent him to trial." She sighs and I realize where that pain I saw came from.
"Oh, I'm sorry—"
She cuts me off. "Everyone says that. It's not your fault. It's my mother's fault, and his. And mine. But I can't do anything about it now. At least he was nice enough to use protection."
"You know that was probably because he didn't want a kid, right?"
"Yeah, yeah. I was trying to make a joke out of it. Geesh." And she goes back to her paperwork. She seems so tough but really, I can see what will break her down now.
