Chapter 14

Bobby helped Alex through Deakins' door, allowing his hand to linger on her hip as she wedged her crutches through the narrow doorframe. Her cheeks flushed slightly as she sat down in the chair.

"Well?" asked Deakins.

"There's Chris Nevil, but we told you about that over the phone," said Bobby, looking at the ceiling from his chair. Alex remembered that phone conversation very clearly.

Bobby was driving, as her foot was in its blue cast, and so Alex had been delegated the task of calling and updating Deakins while Bobby wrestled with traffic.

But despite Bobby's distraction, this had not deterred him from offering his input as he swerved through traffic.

"Holy Crap, Bobby! Slow Down!" she said, putting her hand to the mouthpiece of the cell phone.

"What! I'm only going 75!" he replied.

"Watch the road please!" Alex removed her hand from the mouthpiece. "Sorry Captain, little trouble with traffic, it's a disaster." She tried to sound conversational, but it just wasn't working; 'it' was Bobby…

Alex sat there and listened to Deakins' lengthy response, rolling her eyes and lolling her head- making Bobby look at her and laugh.

"Watch the road," she reminded him.

"Yes, ma'am," he replied. Alex threw him the bird, but that just made him laugh.

"Sorry Captain, what did you say?… Oh- well, turns out Peter borrowed the gun from Nevil, so we're almost positive-"

"I am positive!" Bobby shouted at the phone, throwing his blinker on and making a quick lane change.

"Bobby's positive that's where Peter's gonna go, so we introduced him to Logan and Barak-"

"Who were LATE!" he shouted again at the phone.

Alex closed her eyes and took a deep breath. "-who are watching the place as we speak."

There was silence as Alex listened to Deakins' response. "What's he saying?" asked Bobby.

"Shh!" Alex plugged her left ear and turned towards the door.

Bobby made a struggled noise and said, "Just put him on speaker phone."

Alex gave him a "shoo" with her left hand, then straightened up and said into the phone, "Yes, sir… yes, sir. I'll type it up and send it to you… Bye."

Alex turned off the phone and turned to Bobby, her finger pointed at him. "You-" she began, but Bobby grabbed her pointed finger, took a quick glance at traffic, then pulled her in and quickly kissed her before looking at the road again.

"Bobby- Watch the road," she said, trying in vain to suppress her smile.

Bobby smirked and returned both hands to the wheel. "What did Deakins say?"

"I don't think he heard anything. Just told me to type it up and e-mail it to him. You're a real pill sometimes, you know that?" she said, still on the edge of a smile. He smirked again as she turned around and reached for the laptop bag in the backseat.

So- Alex had typed it up, sent it to Deakins, and now here she was, sitting in his office, the past memory blurring by.

"Well?" asked Deakins again.

Bobby jumped from a stupor similar to Alex's and said, "We go back to tracking the real Samuel Engal while Logan and Barak go after Peter. Maybe we looked on the wrong end for Sam's flight records. We she check Sam's coming into New York, not leaving Nigeria, and we should also track where his e-mail account was accessed from- that should help us too."

"Why didn't you do all of this before?" asked Deakins, agitated that his two best detectives seemed to be off in la-la land.

"Peter had us sidetracked. He meant to do it- I just didn't see it…" Bobby's thoughts continued past his words. I was distracted…

"Well get on it, and let's hope Peter shows up soon…"