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George and Elliot sat in Captain Cragen's office, glaring at each other. They'd been working on a case involving a men serial killing gay men. George had just started his profile when they'd been told that the FBI wanted to talk to them and they were to wait here.
"'What the hell do you feds want?" Elliot grumbled.
"I don't know." Just then a burly looking agent came in.
"I'm agent Jeff Cooper. The FBI is taking over your case-" he nodded in Elliot's direction- "about the serial killings of gay men. I would like the two of you to go undercover together."
"Why the two of us?" Elliot asked.
"Agent Huang because of his profiling skills, you because you're good at undercover work and so on."
"For how long?"
"Indefinitely."
"All right." George said. "I'm in." Elliot frowned.
"I guess I'm in too."
"Ok. Both of you need to get ready. You'll move in to a temporary house tomorrow."
George felt nervous about the assignment. For the obvious reasons, and because of Elliot. He was civil to Elliot, but the detective tried his patience like no one else could. He was angry and brash, and he could really hurt anyone who set him off.
George's unprofessional feelings for the detective didn't help things much, either. He'd been attracted to the detective immediately, and the years going by hadn't made the feelings lessen. He'd told himself that it was just lust, but his heart told another story entirely. "Maybe I can warm him up some…" He thought to himself.
Elliot paced around his apartment. He didn't think this would end well. He annoyed George, he knew as much. Part of it wasn't his fault, some of it was. George pushed Elliot's buttons a lot, too. He was a shrink, and any shrink Elliot worked with was bound to clash with him, and often. He thought of the Kevin Walker case. George had put the criminal's rights before the victim's. He could understand his initial refusal- the doc could have lost his license. But once Elliot had agitated him, he shouldn't have minded doing it. The doc annoyed him sometimes.
However, Elliot had realized some time ago that he had feelings for the doctor that were the opposite of annoyance. It confused him that he could like someone who could annoy him so much. He tried to tell himself that it was impossible, that besides the fact that George was the total opposite of him, he wasn't attracted to men, but the thoughts hadn't gone away. He didn't want to be attracted to men, but George had made him fall hard. He couldn't figure out what it was.
Both of them felt certain that they were going to end up killing each other. They didn't know how they were going to pull this off.