Trailing Behind

Fandom: Law and Order: Criminal Intent

Summary: He'd bolted from the room, lumbering forward, ready to save the day.

Genre: Angst

A.N. A post-ep to a season 2 episode. A double-drabble especially for sensnita – not so much Angry!Eames as SadEames. May become part of a longer fic. Also, thanks to crouchingmajor who suggested that Angry!Eames could kill Goren in the heat of the moment. If anyone wants to write that, I would totally read it :D


--pacing and pausing, mild confusion over his eyes, his hands gesturing, never ever still--

He'd bolted from the room, lumbering forward, ready to save the day.

--muttering, twitching, mumbling to himself; eyes lowered but flickering constantly from side to side--

She'd followed him just as quickly but some part of her, some finely honed sense of foreboding had pervaded her mind. She knew it was too late.

--angry, furious, self-loathing pouring from his skin, hazy like an aura of dissent--

She knew that frustration too, that annoyance, but that didn't change the endgame. Turner was dead. Julie had killed him. And here was Goren, an hour later, still falling apart.

--I know that I know it not ready too soon too angry I know that can't dammit too soon--

Alex has patience, but only so much. Recently it's wearing thin. She's not sure why but the constant inconstants catch her unawares and she realises – in flashes of despair – that she's just like everyone else, trailing miles and miles behind.

She sighs, gets him coffee. Tentatively approaches—"Bobby?"

He looks up. Pauses. "I should have known."

"We should have known."

(And then she knows, clearer than ever before. This isn't working anymore).

FIN