So, this is dedicated to all my shippy peeps who are devastated at VDO's insistance that there never has been nor will there ever be anything other than friendship between Goren and Eames.
May they live on together (like that) in Fan Fiction
I don't own them because if I did, VDO would be begging me to keep his job now.
The Look of…..love?
"Goren, quit it."
He looked at her and tilted his head. "Quit what?"
"Stop looking at me like that."
"Like what?"
Eames sighed. 'Like you're in love with me or something."
Goren cleared his throat. "I don't do that. That's ridiculous".
She sighed again and looked him in the eye. "Yes, you do. And you're giving people the wrong idea about us."
"What people?"
She waved her arms around wildly. "I don't know. People. They think we have 'feelings' for each other."
"Really?" He laughed
"And while you're at it, watch how you behave around others, I've heard things."
Goren put his papers down on his desk and leaned in. "What things"
" Like, when I was pregnant…I heard you threw a wad of paper at my chair ,all the while explaining how your perp 'yearned for his partner'.'
He sighed. "What else?"
"Well, there was the time you looked like a hurt puppy when Eame's was having lunch with that translator guy". Jeffries added as he walked by.
"See?" Eames was getting more exasperated.
"Well, he was a pissant." Goren grumbled.
"You sound jealous. And by the way , if I ever get kidnapped again, don't act like your world is ending".
"Hmph. I was upset, at the prospect of losing my partner. Besides, Eames, I know exactly how I act. I've been doing this a long time, you know. If people are getting the wrong idea, it's not my fault."
"Bobby, even your brother thought you were in love with me."
"My brother was a drug addict, Eames."
"Whatever, all I'm saying is…"
"And what about you?" He pointed to her
She stepped back a little and pointed back at herself. "What about me?"
"I think you have some unresolved feelings about me going on."
"Oh please." She looked down.
"No, No, I think I'm onto something. Don't think I don't know how desperate you were when I was in Tates."
She kept looking down, pretending to straighten out her desk.
"And.. you wouldn't answer me when I asked if slept with Mulrooney…and you were totally jealous that I went out with that Lezard woman….you passed up the captain position for me…"
"Don't flatter yourself, Goren". She finally looked up. "I'm just saying, I don't want people to get the wrong idea. We're partners. Friends even"
Goren nodded. "Yes, exactly. close friends.'
She nodded along and he added, "Close friends without significant others. Close friends who have stayed together through thick and thin. Close, fairly decent looking people who seem to have no social life whatsoever."
"Hey, speak for yourself. I have a social life…"
He smirked. "You never talk about it."
"Well", she added "that's a conversation for another day."