Note: This is a work in progress. Thoughts?

(I own nothing. I especially don't own anything that belongs to Dick Wolf and NBC and all of those cool people.)

--------------------------------------------------------------------

They work together.

Where people have died and where suspects are born they work, smelling and staring and smiling until they know they are right.

They are right about most things and right for each other, but they are not right in the manner of friends or lovers. They fit each other but in a simple way- he is the tall to her short, she is the wit to his practicality- there is matching there. But not the caring kind.

Others might have become friends, bonding through difficulties and talking for eternities, but his oddity and her normality do not blend in a way that promotes closeness. There is too much absurdity in who he is and what he does for even her to overlook.

Sometimes there is a moment where they both think there is something more, but at their cores they know it's simply familiarity. They have their jokes and they smile at each other, but that's what people do when they work together.