Disclaimer: CI not mine / Dr. Lovett ... I don't know who he is!
I hope you like chap.2 Peace -- Judeey
So Bobby Says …
Bobby sits back against the couch and makes himself comfortable, he crosses his arms over his chest and has a wide smile on his face.
"Detective Peter Lyons."
"Oh geez … are you serious Bobby? Nothing happened between Peter an I."
Bobby waves one finger at her keeping the other arm across his chest and still has the "Goren smirk."
"Ah, but you were flirting with him and he was pressing hard with you."
"Oh … just get on with it Goren!" Now Alex has the "Goren smirk" on.
"Why did you just call him Goren, Alex?"
"No worries Doc … she's just being playful. May I continue?"
"Please."
"You were with him having coffee … I guess … and I was sitting at my desk doing paper work. Now, mind you … this is probably not the first time I had these types of thoughts about my partner, I already knew I was in love with her … this is just one of the more recent times. Anyway, I was staring at your empty desk and feeling jealous … what did she see in him? I could sign … I was a better cop … he wasn't even a real cop. Crazy thoughts, like that. Then I thought … you don't look at me like you were looking at him."
"How was I looking at him?"
"Like he was a man and not your geeky partner. So … I wanted to take you back to my apartment and show you who the man really was. That I could actually shut off my geeky brain and just make love to you and make you forget who Detective Robert Goren was and you could meet Bobby Goren … lover extraordinaire." He says this with a slight chuckle.
"Wow, you were thinking all that and you had such a serious look on your face."
"Well, that and I wanted to kill him and we were working on the case."
"I was also already in love with you then … Peter was the geek not you. I love that dark suit … you never wear it anymore. I also remember leaning in to whisper something in your ear in the interrogation room … ooh … your aftershave … sooo nice … what happened to that?"
"The suit doesn't fit and I ran out of the aftershave … I can't believe you remembered that."
"Bobby … we've been together for eight years … we have the same memories."
Bobby and Alex have once again moved closer together on Dr. Lovett's couch, Bobby wrapping his big arms around her petite frame and Alex lying her head on his chest. Encouraged by this, Dr. Lovett once again feels this is a relationship worth saving.
"Alex, would you like to share a time with Bobby when you wanted to "jump Detective Goren's bones."
"Oh yeah … that's easy. We were working a murder case that lead us to a poker game. I was interviewing a potential suspected when something caught Bobby's eye and he wondered off. The man I was talking with … all of the sudden … started to get aggressive towards me. Bobby ran over threw his binder at him and pinned him up against the wall. Partners do protect each other, but that was very … ah … sexy … it made me … hot!"
Bobby looks bewildered. "That made you hot? You didn't even like me then … let alone love me."
"It was lust Bobby … and we were friends … I did like you."
With his arms still wrapped tightly around her, Bobby has some unfinished business before they leave Dr. Lovett's office.
"Dr. Lovett, I know you like us to leave on a positive note but there is still the unfinished business about the engagement ring."
"This is my take on a ring … my opinion only. A ring is a symbol of fidelity and eternity … it has no past only a future. Whatever ring you choose Alex … Bobby wants you to have that symbol from him … which ever ring. You can wear it around your neck until you're both ready to share this with the rest of the world and by that I mean the NYPD."
Bobby and Alex leave Dr. Lovett's office on that note … Bobby still has a smirk on his face an begins to tell Alex about his lustful thoughts throughout their partnership. They decide to take a walk through Central Park and share stories. Hand and hand as they walk, talk and laugh recounting the different times for each, their love for each other is evident to all around them.
There was the time for Bobby when Alex first called him Bobby … it was during a case involving an abortion Doctor's murder … they became closer on that case. For Alex, when Bobby hiked up his shoe on the table in the interrogation room and explained his "size 13" theory … which she now knows was true. Bobby countered with the case of the Judge gunned down in a duel re-enactment … and how they were sitting at the bar. He was afraid the case did damage to their relationship. He wanted them to be "alright" and more. She laughed at the thought of him dancing at JoJo's and he wished she would have joined him. They sat on a bench facing each other and Bobby draped his arm around the back of the bench, when Captain Ross approached them with his two boys.
"Detectives? I'm surprised to see the two of you together on your day off. I thought you weren't getting along?"
Smiling and laughing seconds before, the detectives … fiancées, look up at the Captain and try to stay composed.
"Yes Sir … we decided to try and be friends again …ww …we were friends once sir."
Alex tries to recover quickly. "How are you are guys doing … we haven't seen you since that awful day … the day the Judge was shot. Bobby and I were just talking about that, actually."
"We're fine thanks … Dad can we go …"
"Yeah, yeah … I'll be right along. You were discussing that case?"
"That case among others … just trying to re-connect … go over old cases, get rid of old baggage."
"Well Eames, get rid of the Testarossa case for once and for all. You have your Partner back … bottom line … if he told you, he wouldn't have gotten his badge back. You know that the Chief has it in for him."
"It's hard Sir … if I shot him …"
"Eames stop! You didn't. He's sitting right next to you. Make an appointment with Dr. Olivet and deal with this … make it together … like couples counseling or something. I've got to catch up with my boys … I'm glad to see that you're at least trying. Don't be late for work tomorrow."
"Yes Sir."
"How many counseling appointments do we have to make Alex? Are you really still pissed at me? I thought we were making progress."
"We are and we're not. The more I realize how special our life together can be the more I think about holding that gun and pointing it at you."
"But it's in the past … like so much of my shit that I can't do anything about … like Dr. Lovett said … we need to "put it to bed."
"I'm trying Bobby … I just can't believe you didn't come to me … you stayed away from me most of those five months … my mind was on overdrive. Who has clothes and where?"
"What?"
"I want to put this to bed, but not on the phone … I want to wake up in your arms tomorrow … so which one of us has clothes at who's place?"
"I have a clean suit at your house."
"Rockaway it is."
"Before we go home … the ring?"
"He's right Bobby … fidelity and eternity … our future … your Mother's ring is prettier than anything I saw at Tiffany's and I would be proud to wear it as a symbol of our love for each other."
"Are you sure? … That just seems too easy."
"I love it and you … this is one thing we can move past and put to bed … okay?"
"Okay … lets go buy a chain for it so you can wear it around your neck."
"No … I'm going to wear it on my finger where it belongs … I'll tell people that it's a family heir loom and I'm sick of getting hit on by creeps … that should work."
"I have it with me … do you want it? We can have it sized for you."
"Yes … I really want it."
Bobby looks around the park to make sure Ross is out of sight and once again drops to one knee. He pulls the ring from his pocket and brushes that stray hair from her eyes.
"Alex … would you be my wife?" Bobby slips the ring on her finger and to both their surprise, it fits her perfectly.
"Oh Bobby … look … it's perfect! Will you be my husband?"
"Oh yeah!"
He picks her off the bench and twirls her in the air. People around them have gathered and begin to clap. The two lovers smile at them and Bobby murmurs into Alex's hair that they have to stop drawing crowds at Central Park. Alex didn't appreciate the bad memory of Agent Jennifer Lake but does appreciate Bobby's humor.
Captain Ross of course, has witnessed the whole thing and sighed heavily. What was he going to do now? He didn't see that coming. How can he keep them together? Was Goren really working on all eight cylinders? What was Eames thinking and how long has this been going on … did Deakins know? The one thing he did know … if the Chief found out he would lose his two best detectives.
Bobby and Alex made their way back to Alex's home with take out and a bottle of wine, prepared to put those five months of near silence between them to bed … their first homework assignment.
Alex is staring at her ring. "Bobby … five months … you barely acknowledge my existence in you life … after what I did for you … covered for you … and you could have died there too!"
Bobby … now thinking what a long night this is going to be, starts to pace … the "Bobby routine" is in full force. "Alex you have to know that I was ashamed of what I had done to you and to your career … you had already told me that it was too late for you because of me … to advance to Captain someday … I already tainted your career in the eyes of the brass. Now you had a black mark in your jacket because of me. It was the nail in the coffin."
"Bobby … I didn't mean it the way you took it. I was happy being your partner … I'm not into playing their games, kissing ass to be Captain … that's not me … you know that."
"You know Alex … I made it out of Tates alive because of you … every time I felt my mind slipping away from me, I thought of you … I kept thinking to myself … I'm going to tell her … I'm going to tell her that I love her and let the chips fall. Then the chips fell. The guilt I felt over that mark in your jacket … the shit that I put you through over the past year and a half … you didn't need anymore from me."
"God Bobby … I wish you knew how much I needed from you … how much I missed you. We could have worked all this out … you would have gotten your shield back another way."
"No Alex … you're still not getting it! The Chief didn't want me back … he was hanging me out to dry … it was my only way back! He used us … Ross used us … he knew I was undercover and he put you on the same case. The Chief would have been happy if you blew my brains out … Ally … we need to move past this."
"You like calling me Ally, don't you?"
"Does that mean it's time to kiss and make up?"
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