This was inspired by those who remained convinced that Bishop and Goren slept together, and then it was written for those who remained convinced they hadn't.

Frankly, the thought had never occurred to me until someone mentioned it, and even then my first thoughts were eww repeated over and over... and so I just had to find a way to make it plausible. What can I say? I love a challenge.

So: Picture Bishop reluctantly giving Goren a ride home after a particularly draining day at work. She has just parked the car in front of his place, but Bobby isn't getting out. The mood inside the car is uncomfortable silence.

Chapter 1

She knew it was going to be a mistake even before she'd asked. The guy was her partner, albeit temporarily, and they were supposed to maintain a professional relationship. If she'd learned anything from her colleagues' past disasters, it should have been that. Besides, she found him a singularly annoying individual, and she strongly suspected she got on one or two of his nerves herself. But dammit, after what they'd just seen, she needed some form of human contact. And he looked like he really needed to get laid. Anyway, it wasn't like their partnership could get any worse. And so she asked, in a hard yet gentle voice, "What do you want, Goren?"

In an exact replay of the scene she'd foreseen in her mind, he turned to look at her with a lost, searching look in his puppy dog eyes. Double dammit, she was a sucker for lost puppies, four-legged or otherwise.

She shifted in her driver's seat so that she could more or less face him, slightly sticking out her breasts and hiking up one high-heeled leg so that her thighs spread a little. The resulting pose was hardly provocative, but it was just enough to create a noticeable change from her habitual stiff posture. She knew full well the detail wouldn't be lost on him. She wasn't looking to seduce him; just to let him know that she understood what he needed, and that she was making it available to him should he choose to reach for it.

He did.

A/N: Want more? Tell me what you think of this! Maybe there could be some messy aftermath...