A/N. Love and Hate, people. This idea's been stewing in my brain for forever. Like, forever. CI belongs to Dick Wolf (lucky S.O.B.)
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He loves how she says his name like it's some kind of secret, one that just the two of them know.
He loves the way she walks, in short, strong, almost comically tough strides.Herswagger reminds himof a feminized mobster, though he would never tell her that that's how he thinks of it.
He loves that they can sometimes tell what the other is thinking, how sometimes he'll open his mouth to say something and she'll say it just before he gets the chance. And he loves what comes after, that little spark that passes from his eyes to hers, and the crooked smile that she'll shoot him as if to say, 'Hah, got there first' when in actuality she really shouldn't have known what he was going to say at all but somehow did.
He loves smell of her hair, like lemons and ginger and jasmine, spicy and exotic, and the way that it gets when she runs her hands through it too many times on a particularly rough case. Mussed. Fluffy. Lovely.
There are so many things about her… just a myriad of personality quirks and individual traits that make up the enigma that is Alex Eames. She's a puzzle, his partner. And what Robert Goren loves more than anything else in the world is a good puzzle.
And Alex? Alex is the best puzzle of them all.