TITLE: Popular Belief
AUTHOR: milak
RATING: M for future chapters
DISCLAIMER: I don't own a thing.
AUTHOR NOTES: I've never written a piece of fanfic in my life. Here goes nothing...
Despite popular belief Bobby Goren was not a genius, nor was he an angel. He was a man. He ran on logic, instinct, experience and years studying the nuances of human behaviour. He played people daily. More people than he even cared to admit to himself. The shuffling, stumbling detective was an act he had spent years perfecting and he wore it on the job the way he wore his suits. These things didn't so much cover his large frame as they were part of him.
He was a man of flesh and blood and with that he was prone to make mistakes. Bobby Goren was fallible. He may not like to admit it but it was true. Through extensive analysis and careful consideration he managed to keep the mistakes to a minimum but he had his fair share, both personally and professionally. He suffered from arrogance and ego, anger and desire. He had a history and because of his passion for his work he knew he had a future.
He was a man who kept very much to himself and although many people liked to see that being due to shyness the truth was it was just the way that Bobby Goren liked it. More thoughtful than most, he held those dear to him close and left all the others to their own business.
His partner Alex Eames was a surprise to him. A surprise in the casual ways she admitted personal details, a surprise to him in the way she could stick up for herself, a surprise that after all these years she still got squeamish and a surprise in the fact that they made a great team. It hadn't always looked like their pairing would be the success that it was. Their first case, three murders in the course of a diamond heist, he had made a promise to one of the victim's parents. She had been decidedly unimpressed. After a time he had found out that she had lost a husband in the line of duty. Promises had been made. No one had ever been caught.
But after a while he had learnt to differentiate her real input from her dry remarks and jokes and she had learnt to read his unfinished thoughts. He learnt not to piss her off too much when dealing with those above them in the food chain and she learnt to follow his lead when in the interrogation room. He learnt to let her into his life and she learnt to trust him.
People said she was his keeper. What they failed to see was that she was actually his freedom. Where most people thought that she grounded him, completed him, kept an eye on him what Alex actually did was play the practical cop. She did the leg-work, she allowed him the freedom to investigate without thought to the basics. Alex was the who, what, where and when. She let Bobby be the why.
Unfortunately it all seemed in danger now…