Disclaimer: always the same. and, as always, thanks a lot to the marvelous people who still find the time to review my story. if you like it, i'm happy, if you don't like, i'm happy, too, because good criticism is what helps a writer to emprove his abilities. so, this is chapter 4 up for you-. an other brief chapter, i hope you will R&R IT!

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After almost 2 days, Tony finally took a decision; now she knew hot to deal with Goren and the whole kissing thing. Pretend girl, just pretend that nothing happened. Or that, at least, you don't remember it. After all, you were so drunk that you told him your entire story; maybe he will believe it's true. No, it will not work…Bobby is Bobby. He will immediately understand that I'm acting. I know it's something I usually don't whish for, but please God, in order to avoid Bobby, Logan and I need a lot of work. Make Captain Ross order us to look to a lot of cases. When we will have done, we will through with this whole thing.

Toni exited from the subway just in front of the Department. She was wearing a pair of gray pants, a sleeveless dark green blouse, a jacket in the same tone of grey of her pants and a pair of chamois leather tennis shoes. She was just entered in the office, when, going at her desk, she had an eye-contact with Bobby. Pretendshe remembered to herself, as she was that he was going in her direction; but while she was giving the mental instruction to herself, he was already arrived in front of her, ready to speak to her who, instead, was speechless.

"Listen Toni, I was wondering if…"

"Madison, duty calls! – Logan said placing an hand on one of her shoulders, he was just exited from Ross' office - we have something big."

Toni forgot everything was happening between her and Bobby, and went on "professional mode" again; she turned herself to look at Logan.

"You mean just for the 2 of us?"

"yes" he answered with a brilliant smile. It was the first time, since her arrival, that she and Logan had to work on a big case without Bobby and Alex.

She answered at his smile, smiling, too, telling him just "Ready to go". She looked at Booby again, for an interminable instant, facing him, biting her lips, not knowing what to do or to say. He smiled at her, with his dark eyes, and while she was leaving the office with Logan, he simply wished them Good Work.

Maybe next time will work he thought, looking at the already closed elevator. It must work. I must tell her the truth, I don't want see her disheartened.

"What's up with the 2 of you?- Alex, noticing that he was lost in his thoughts, went in front of him, trying to wake him up – Earth to Bobby, you here?"

"Sorry? What did you ask?" he just saw that she was in front of him.

"I asked what's up with the 2 of you. But your face already answered to my question."

"We are just friends, there's nothing between us. God Alex, I'm just coming to know her."

"You mean, as I did when I stated going out with my late husband?" Bobby immediately understood that the sentence was more an affirmation than an answer.

"No. I mean as friends. As coworkers. As people who spend the majority of their time together because thy work together… that's all."
"Bobby, I'm not going to judge you. If you like her, well, good for you. She is what you probably need. She looks good for you. I just want you to be happy. Bobby, I really don't remember the last time I saw you happy with a woman. And if you are happy with her, good, I'm happy, me too."

"Alex, it's not what you think. We are just friend. I don't love her!"

"Yes, but remember, I just want you to be happy." She looked a bit sad while she was speaking with him about an other woman.

"Alex, I…"

"Goren, Eames, in my office, there's something for you, too!"

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"What happened?" Logan and Toni were driving to their Crime Scene, speaking about the pieces of information thy had, when he suddenly come out with the question.

"What?" she pretended not know what he was talking about.

"Friday… I mean, Saturday, when Bobby drove you home…"

"Nothing" se just replied putting her black Versace sunglasses on. People always understands if I'm lying or not looking at me in the eyes. If he doesn't see my eyes, he can't understand. Can he?

"This morning, you two acted in a strange way, and Saturday you looked so grateful when he saved you, so I believed…"

"You believed that something happened? – she didn't want to him to complete the sentence, and, seeing that not only he wasn't adding something more, but also his expression, she did it. – you really believe that something happened! Logan, sometimes you look like a pervert!"

"He is man, and you are a woman. I'm not a pervert just because I asked you if you two did the most natural thing in the entire universe"

"You know, you really need a real girlfriend. Speaking of which, there's this girl…"

"Your blind date didn't work. Did you know that he left with the brunette?" Logan was talking about that night and Danny.

"His ex. But believe me, I'm really god in arrange blind dates for other persons. And then…"

"Then? Madison, what are you not telling me?"

"I need help. Just a bit. Just a little. And please, call me Toni. You know how I hate when people calls me Madison."

"Is she a cop? Because I don't date cops, ok? You… you are speaking about a she, right?"

He stopped the car in front of the building where their crème scene was; she immediately showed him a photo on her mobile: there were Toni, dressed with a pair of beige short pants and the top of a orange and brown bikini, and an other women, a bit older than her, very alike, who was hugging her at the shoulders, with a bikini and a pair of short jeans, on the seaside.

"Interior designer. And she is really a she."

"Where's the rip-off?"

"Mike, let me introduce Elle, one of my sisters."

"What? Your sister? No Toni, no. no way. I'm not going out with one of my partner's sisters. If it doesn't work…"

"Mike, I'm not asking you to marry her. I'm just asking her to go out with her once or twice while she is here in NY for I don't know what. See it as a way to save my mental sanity. I can't really stay with her for 10 long days. I'll need a break or two. I can't always have someone on my road who keeps asking me who I'm sleeping with and why and why not."

"Well, that's my role. I mean, you have already me."

"Mike, please. It's for my mental sanity. Please…"

"Listen, now we will focus on our case, then we will see."

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