This is just a quick fic that I have been thinking about. This takes place during "Silencer". I liked this episode because I felt like it was the first truly "shippy" episode that I could recall seeing. The way Goren looked at Eames and Peter (the sign language interpreter) when they came in together, mid-morning, after tracking down the deaf director. We had just seen him staring at her empty chair with a far off look in his eyes. He hated Peter. I think it was all a product of JEALOUSY! Anyhoo, hope you enjoy.

Chapter 1: What's his name...the interpreter?

"Why do you let him call you Alexandra" he asked flatly, out of nowhere.

"What?" She looked up from across their desks, brow furrowed.

"The interpreter, you let him call you Alexandra." He tapped his pen on his portfolio.

"That is my name, Bobby." She stood, rounded her desk, and headed toward interrogation.

"Yes, but, its...disrespectful." Bobby stood to follow her, portfolio in hand. "You're a detective. He should call you Detective Eames or….just….Eames."

"OK, Bobby." They walked next to each other down the hall. "You go interrogate. I think Pete...uh, the interpreter, is waiting for you in there. I'll be in in a minute." She patted him on the shoulder as she moved away, nudging him into the interrogation room. He watched her as she disappeared into the viewing room.

"Alexandra!" Peter called as he stepped out of interrogation. Alex stopped and turned to see who called. Peter started a slow jog toward her as Bobby stepped out into the hall. He watched as Peter stood too close to Alex and touched first her elbow, then her arm.

"Looks like the help is getting friendly with your girl"

Goren peeled his eyes from Alex and Peter and met Logan with a blank stare.

Logan pulled the lollypop out of his mouth with a smack and gave Goren a wink and a grin. Bobby said nothing. When he turned to continue his observation, Peter and Alex were walking toward her desk. Bobby followed suit.

"I'll be in touch," Peter was saying as he backed away from Alex and straight into Bobby.

"Oh, excu...sorry, detective." His voice went from a good natured apology to a respectful disdain.

Bobby lifted himself to his full height. Peter instinctively took two steps back. He nodded to Bobby, "detective" and turned back to Alex. "I'll see you tomorrow."

"Goodnight" Alex offered and turned back to Bobby.

"What is with you?"

"What?" Bobby said as innocently as he could and turned away from her to sit back down at his desk.

Alex spun and landed in her own desk chair. "You've been acting weird all day."

"I have?" He kept his head buried in a file.

"Yeah, you have"

Bobby looked up, half opened his mouth to speak, but didn't, shook his head once and looked back down.

"OK then" Alex said, more to herself than to him and went back to work.

She could feel Bobby looking at her periodically, but she could never catch him in the act.

At the end of the day, Alex stood to leave. "That's it for me, Bobby. Are you about done?"

"Yeah, just one more file."

"I'll see you in the morning then." Alex stood to leave.

"You have plans tonight?" Bobby asked, thinking back to the conversation he couldn't hear between Alex and Peter.

"No, it's Thursday, right? I'll probably stop by Wong's Wok and pick up a #7 on the way home, like I do every Thursday night"

Bobby smiled. "Good," he said with a little too much cheer.

Alex started to speak, but shook her head instead and headed for the elevators.

Friday morning, 1PP

When Alex arrived at her desk, Logan and Bobby were having what looked like a fairly heavy conversation.

"Morning Gorgeous," Logan offered as Alex hung her coat on the back of her chair.

"Good morning, Mike," she said flatly.

"Where's your puppy?"

"My what?"

"Your new best friend"

Alex looked blankly at Logan.

"The interpreter………what's his name?"

He looked at Bobby and Bobby just shrugged.

"Peter………..His name is Peter. And what is with everybody? First the captain, now you, and yesterday, Bobby was all over me because he called me by my first name. Why are you over here anyway, Logan? Get your butt off my desk."

"You're a real peach first thing in the morning, Alex"

"He called me Alex, Bobby, are you gonna' take issue with him?" she snapped.

Bobby lifted his hands in surrender.

"I didn't call you Alexandra." He batted his eyes like a school girl.

"Don't you have your own desk to sit at? You're such an idiot"

"She's all your yours, friend"

"Thanks Logan...always a big help"

"I do what I can." He winked at them both. "See you later doll"

"Go!"

Alex sat down at her desk. She could again feel Bobby staring at her. Without looking up from her laptop she snapped, "What, Bobby?"

"Ah………nothing……….I…….what?"

She threw him a frustrated glance. "You're an idiot too." With that, she turned back to her laptop and started punching buttons.

"Where are we on the doctor's murder?"

They both jumped and turned to see Ross standing in their collective area.

"Captain,"Alex nodded.

"Detective Eames," he returned the nod, "Goren".

"The director is on a hunger strike," Alex began, "We're bringing his star back in today along with her boyfriend. There's something there we're missing." Bobby sat quietly while Alex filled Ross in on the latest.

"When do you expect them?"

"I have to call Peter and see when he can come in to interpret the interview. The boyfriend is completely deaf."

"Well let's get on it. There's your interpreter now."

Both Goren and Eames turned their attention toward the elevators. Peter came bouncing across the room to Alex's desk.

"He does look like a puppy," Bobby thought, "an annoying little ankle biter."

"Ready, Bobby………….Hello, Bobby."

He turned toward the voice calling his name. He had unknowingly been staring daggers through Peter, who seemed completely unaware, as his attention was totally focused on Alexandra. "Are you ready to head to the school?"

"Yeah, yeah, I'm ready."

Bobby lumbered behind as Alex and Peter chatted all the way to the SUV.