TITLE: The Pursuits of Jonathan Glasnow

RATING: PG for now

CATEGORY: Romance, Drama

PAIRING: Bobby/Alex

Disclaimer: Law and Order: Criminal Intent and the characters of Bobby Goren and Alex Eames belong to Dick Wolf, who may be the luckiest man the in the world….

Authors Note: I plan on the beginning of the story being where the story ends. This entire story will happen in the course of one day, so bear with me as some things may seem to be resolved rather quickly. It's a hard time frame to stay within, but seemed like a good idea at the time….and don't they always….also, I have only been to New York a couple of times, so I am taking liberties with many of the store names and such. Please don't hate me!

Chapter 1

"Some days I hate this job." Alex stated as she stared out of the window of the SUV.

It had been one of those days. You know, the ones where everything seems to go wrong and no one wants to cooperate and you just want to shoot yourself by the end of it. That was today for Detective Alexandra Eames.

The day started out like any other. She got up, got dressed, and headed into work. Waiting for her there was a coffee and danish complements of her partner, Detective Robert "Bobby" Goren. Him bringing her breakfast had been a longstanding tradition. It originally started about three weeks into their partnership. Bobby had gone through many different partners at this point and after a particularly hard case, he could tell he was about to lose Alex as well. So, the next morning when she showed up, her breakfast was already waiting for her on her desk. It was his peace offering for staying as long as she did. However, that day she did not ask to be transferred, and he has been bringing her breakfast ever since, just to show that he remembers how hard he can be to work with.

So on this particularly bad day, she ate her coffee and danish as usual. They caught a case about 9:30am and headed out to the crime scene.

Meadow Heights Apartment Building

10:00am

It had been a bad one. The woman was found hanging from the window of the 53rd story of an apartment building. Bobby tried to inspect the body from where she was hanging, but finally gave up after Alex tried to pull him back in for the fourth time. It was clear he was making her very nervous.

"Please try and bring the body in as gently as possible…" Bobby pleaded with CSU. The body was pulled in and set on the floor directly beside the window. Bobby approached the corpse and leaned over her to smell around her mouth.

"Vodka." He said to no one in particular. Alex made a note of it and proceeded to move to where the man that had found her was standing.

"You said you saw her from the street?" she asked the man that had identified himself as Jonathan Glasnow.

"Yea." He started before a slight hesitation. "I work the night shift down at the shipyard. I was coming home from work about 8:45 this morning and happened to be admiring how beautiful the sun was today. I was looking up when all the sudden I noticed something hanging from one of the windows. I live on the 49th floor and I know my windows don't open very easily, so I assumed the ones above me don't either. That's why I came up here to check it out."

"And you could tell from the ground that it was the 53rd floor?" Bobby jumped into Eames' questioning.

"Um…..well, I could see the light from my aquarium and just counted up how many floors above me it was hanging from." Jon stated, trying to reason with the detective.

"Do you know the victim Mr. Glasnow?"

"Yea, her name is Janie Masterson. I've seen her a few times in passing, but never really sat down and had a conversation with her. I'm not really sure how much help I could be if you had anymore questions about her."

"Of course Mr. Glasnow. Well, please stay in town for the next few days as we may need to get in touch with you. Also, these officers are going to take you down to our station to take your official statement." Bobby said, indicating the officers at the front door of the apartment.

"Sure! Not a problem. Anything else you need, just give me a call!"

"Don't worry, we will." Alex stated blandly.

Alex gauged Bobby's reaction to Jon's statement as he was ushered out of the apartment. She could tell they were thinking the same thing.

"Funny how Mr. Glasnow could see the light from his aquarium while he was admiring the sunlight." Alex said.

"I love how well you read my mind." Bobby said, smiling as they headed out of the apartment. "So what do you think really happened?"

"She was a pretty woman. Glasnow's not bad looking either. They live four floors apart. Are we thinking building romance gone bad?" Alex asked her partner as they exited the elevator.

"It's definitely where I would like to start. I say we head down to the shipyard that Glasnow works at and see exactly what time he left work this morning." Bobby finished as Alex started the SUV.

Northrop Grumman Shipyard

11:15am

"And you said he left work at 6:00 this morning, Mr. Richards?" Alex asked Griffin Richards, night supervisor at the shipyard.

"Yes. He usually has to stay until 8:30, but we had a couple of our morning shift come in early, so I sent him home."

"You had people come in early? For any particular reason?"

"Well, we sent a couple of our employees from the day shift to a conference in Virginia. The were supposed to get back last night, but their flight got switched to this morning and as a "courtesy" they flew them back at 5:00 this morning. They wouldn't have had enough time to go home and sleep before coming in, so they just came in early."

"Well, thank you for your time Mr. Richards, I know that you are anxious to get home now, but would it be alright if we called you if we had any more questions?"

"Not a problem. I get here around 9:00 most nights. I usually stay until 7:00 the next morning or longer if there is a meeting I have to attend like today."

"Thank you again, and like I said, we will be in touch."

Alex watched the man walk away and looked around to try and figure out where her partner had wandered off to.

"…and then I dropped the drill right on his foot! He screamed like a girl, he did!" Thomas Smith finished in his thick southern drawl.

"Well that is just too funny! Hey Eames! Did you hear that? Apparently Glasnow screams like a girl!" Bobby yelled across the room to Alex.

"Yes, so I heard. I got the statement from Richards; you want to head out of here?"

"Oh, okay. Well, thanks so much Mr. Smith. You are as funny as a barrel of monkeys, let me tell you. Have a great day!" Bobby said, mocking the man's accent.

"You too Bobby!" Thomas waved as Bobby and Alex headed out of the building.

Jason's Deli

12:00pm

"So, I figure it's a 30 minute drive from the shipyard to Glasnow's apartment building. He left work at 6:00, but said he didn't see the body hanging from the window until 8:45. The route he would take wouldn't even have traffic, so where was he for two hours and fifteen minutes?" Alex asked as they waited for their lunches.

"That's what we need to figure out." Bobby started, but was soon cut off by the ringing of Alex's cell phone.

Alex flipped open the phone and answered. "Eames…yes…uuuummm, how do you know that?…you know, I'm really quite busy. Some other time maybe…okay, that sounds great…Sure…Bye."

Bobby stared worriedly as he watched Alex close the phone with her hands still shaking. Whatever the conversation on the phone was about, it made Alex very nervous.

"That was Jonathan Glasnow. He said that with so little food in my fridge, it might be nice for me to go out to dinner. With him specifically."

"Wait, how does Jonathan Glasnow know how much food you have in your fridge?"

"Because he's standing in my kitchen looking at it."

To Be Continued…