"How's that hamburger, Eames?" Bobby asks as he takes a big bite of his own. Apparently he was just as famished as his partner was and he didn't even realize it.
Alex just nods as her mouth is full. After leaving the medical examiner's office Bobby had taken her to Denver's an outside hamburger stand where people still stood in line at two-thirty in the afternoon. Sitting out at a picnic table in the middle of a sunny day eating a hamburger with Bobby was something they never did. It was too normal and she liked it.
"I told you they had the best burgers around. Aren't you glad I talked you out of that side salad? You'd be starving in an hour and you would have missed out on great tasting hamburger." Bobby was practically swooning over his burger.
"So this place has been here since you grew up here?" Alex asks, pulling a French fry out of the container they had placed between them and dipping it into the ketchup.
"Yeah, I used to come here every Saturday night during the summer." Bobby says, with a far-off look in his eyes.
"My Dad used to take all of us kids out to get ice cream every Saturday night too, when he wasn't working." Alex says, wiping her mouth off. She sighs. "It seems like just yesterday that I was trying to cram my ice-cream cone down the back of my brother, John's, tee-shirt for teasing me."
"You're family was close then?" Bobby asks her. He really didn't know much about the Eames family.
"We were as close as any family with a cop for a dad could be. I think, my brothers and I stayed close growing up only because every time the phone would ring, it was possible that it was going to be about dad being hurt or killed." Alex shrugs.
"That's the life all families lead when one of the parents, or any member, is a cop. There is always the chance that a bullet will have their name on it." Bobby says, taking her hand in his and looking her in the eye before she looks away.
Alex sighs. "I know, Bobby. She replies, finally looking up at Bobby.
Bobby drops her hand. "Now, if you are all finished eating I say we hit the road and I'll show you a couple of highlights of my small, but very quaint, little town." He stands and pulls Alex to her feet also.
"Can I kiss the tour guide?" Alex asks while giving him a sly grin.
"You think you need to ask?" Bobby asks as Alex gives him a kiss on the cheek.
"I just want you to know, Bobby, that if we move on from friendship to a relationship that you still are the best listener in the whole world." Alex says.
"What are partners for?" Bobby says, with an amused look on his face.
"That's not what I meant." Alex hits him on the arm.
"I know. I know what you meant, Eames." Replies Bobby, putting his arm around her and walking her toward their explorer. "Now on with the tour. Feel free to kiss the tour guide any time you feel like it. He can feel lonely at times..."