Sorry for the confusion at the end! It's been updated to hopefully clear all that up. Thanks!
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Alex lay in bed, the arm of her fiancé Jordan was draped across her waist. He was out cold and was snoring slightly.
She had met him 6 months ago at a party her sister had dragged her to. It was a birthday party for her sister's friend, and Jordan was the birthday girl's brother. He was tall, thin, and pretty good-looking, but mostly, he was extremely nice and didn't try to impose himself upon her or her job. He respected her and gave her space, which was what she needed.
Something had just clicked between them and even though Alex was in some deep part of her heart pining for Bobby, she knew Jordan would be good for her, and she genuinely grew to love him after only a matter of weeks. He was the distraction she needed. And once she started spending more of her free time with him than with Bobby, she soon was able to push Bobby far from her mind.
She loved her life. Bobby was the perfect guy to work with, and Jordan was the perfect guy to sleep with. She had found the delicate, yet perfect balance between the 2 men in her life.
Suddenly, her phone rang. She flipped it open and the screen read Robert Goren. "Great, just what I need, another case..." she hit the button and answered. "Eames."
"Eames? What's up?" he asked.
"Nothing," she answered skeptically.
"Where are you, what are you doing?"
"Uhm... I'm sitting in bed- it is 2 in the morning after all..." She was genuinely confused. "And you?" she asked cautiously.
"Lori's out of town- can you meet me at the deli by the office?" he asked.
"Sure, why- is it a case?"
"Uh, no. I just need to talk to you..."
She was thoroughly confused. "Ok...I'll meet you there."
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Bobby Goren flipped his cell phone shut and sighed. What the hell was he doing? He was perfectly happy, and so was Alex. Why was he about to stir up trouble? He wasn't sure he understood it, but he knew what was going on.
No matter how happy Alex was with Jordan, and no matter how happy Bobby was with Lori, he could not shake that feeling in the pit of his stomach that something wasn't right.
He had no desire to leave Lori; she was wonderful for him. When Alex had met Jordan and they began dating, Bobby decided to hit the circuit again too. Even though a part of him was jealous, he was happy that Alex was happy, and once he saw what Jordan was able to be for her, he thought that a presence like that in his life wouldn't be such a bad idea either. Dating different people would make them forget each other once and for all.
It had seemed to work for Alex. But Lori had been out of town now for a week, and Bobby was starting to remember the old days when it was just he and Alex against the criminal world. And the fact that she went home to someone else instead of him was incidental- he was able to devote him self completely to work… to Alex… with no distractions… ooh, this was bad.
He pulled on his nice over coat that he usually wore for work. He liked that it was nicer- somehow it made him feel warmer- even though it was not as thick as his casual coat.
He walked down the stairs of his apartment building and burst through the door onto the street where the cold air smacked him across the face- as if it knew exactly what he was about to do.
"Oh, this is not good… what am I going to do now?" he wondered as he headed down the street.
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Alex climbed out of bed as quietly as she could, but by moving Jordan's arm she had woken him.
He shifted and grunted.
"Bobby called- I have to go."
"New case?" he mumbled.
Alex hesitated. "Yah, I'll see you tomorrow. Go back to sleep." She kissed his forehead, got dressed, and left the room. She grabbed her nice work coat- by saying aloud that it was work she had put herself in that mode without even thinking about it. Besides, she liked looking nice.
She walked out of her apartment, rode the tiny smelly elevator down to the street, and as she stepped out the cold air smacked her as if to say this were a bad idea. "I know how to defend myself," she responded to the invisible warning.
She got on the subway, got off at her stop for work, and as she walked up the stairs to the street she saw the neon sign for Benny's Deli, and a dark shadow standing outside the door.
She walked up to Bobby who was shifting nervously. "Hey, Bobby." She said. "What brings you to this neck of the woods?"
"You,' he answered as though her question were a serious one.
"I know that- you called me. What's up?"
He pawed at the sidewalk with his foot. "Uh- Lori's out of town and…" he paused. Aw- to hell with it!
He stepped forward to her anxiously. "I don't know about you, but this isn't working. I… I need to see you."
Alex stepped back in surprise as if she were shocked- which she was- but… her heart began to race. "See me? What do you mean?"
"As much as I love Lori… I get jealous when I see you with Jordan; I feel dirty when I go home to Lori… I…" he stopped and looked at Alex expectantly.
She knew what he was telling her, and her heart raced. She smiled enormously and threw herself into him and hugged him tight before reality came crashing back down. She pulled away from him and was no longer holding him, but their legs brushed against each other they were still that close to each other.
"Just once…" he whispered at barely above a whisper.
"Ok," she responded cautiously, avoiding eye contact.
"We don't have to leave anything we don't already have," he said, leaning closer into her.
"Ok," she repeated, this time looking up at him. She was mesmerized. It was dark on the street across from One PP and they were standing there alone, abandoning all reality, just as she hoped that they one day would.
He leaned forward and their lips brushed lightly.
"Ok," she said once more before she stepped away from him with a delicate smile and walked backwards towards the subway watching him turn back into a shadow in the night. She could still feel the kiss on her lips.
They would probably go out after work tomorrow, she decided.
She smiled again before she turned around and headed down the subway stairs but as she did so things grew dark around her- everything thing around her began to fade into darkness. She panicked. She struggled to see the steps ahead of her… They, too, faded and the instant everything was pitch black and the world had dissolved around her-
She opened her eyes and realized that tears were leaking down her face and onto the pillow. Jordan's arm was still draped across her waist; her cell phone lay untouched on the nightstand; and her coat still hung neatly in the closet…