A/N: Hi, so this uses characters/ history introduced in "The Doctor Is In." This is presented from the point of view of Lucy Jones (an OC from the prior story). Each chapter in this fiction is an adage with the word friend. Thanks for reading. As always, if you would like to read more, feel free to drop a review.

Thanks to Dick Wolf et al. for the LOCI characters.

Just Friends
"So what you are saying is that you are just friends." My best friend Annie Roberts was looking at me, skeptically, over her martini.

"I don't understand how you drink that, it tastes like turpentine." I replied, referring to her drink, trying to get her to change the topic. I was tired of the topic, having gone over it at length with my sister Laura.

"Don't change the subject." She said, smiling. "Just friends?" She asked.

"Yes, Bobby Goren and I are just friends." I replied.

"Is he a good friend?" She asked, pushing my buttons a bit more.

"I don't know, he's kind of rusty at the whole friend thing." I observed, taking a sip of my club soda.

"That's not what I meant." Annie said to me, and I knew that was not what she meant. I had intentionally dodged her play on the words good friends. I knew she was simply rephrasing to see if Bobby was more than a friend.

"I know that's not what you meant." I had been best friends with Annie since about kindergarten. She was so easy, our friendship felt as natural as breathing. Bobby on the other hand, didn't exactly have a lot of long standing relationships in his life. The longest standing relationship he had was perhaps with his partner Alexandra Eames. And, over the past year, he had apparently done a lot of damage in that arena. He seemed to want to mend things with Eames. I knew that the fact that he was out of sync with his partner was putting him a bit off balance.

"It doesn't taste like turpentine. It is nectar." She smiled, finishing her second martini.

"Nectar is sweet, I think." I offered.

"OK, dry nectar." She allowed. I watched the server set another martini down in front of her.

"Compliments of the gentleman over there." The server said, referring to a tall blonde guy at the bar. He looked familiar to me, as if I had seen him before, with Annie. I watched Annie smile and wave in his direction, confirming my initial feeling that she knew the guy.

"Oh hey, that's Jonah." Annie whispered to me.

"He and I, we're just friends." She gave me a wicked smile and a gigantic wink.