Author's Note: First, let me thank whoever nominated Therefore My Silence for a fanfiction award. I'm honored that you liked it that much! Next, I've never written Nicole Wallace before, and getting past my incredibly HATE! for her to study her character and then try to write her was rather challenging, lol. So, here's some Nicole museings. Enjoy while I keep sticking pins in my little Nicole voodoo doll.

Title: Venus and Mars
Author: GusTheMoose
Theme/Set: Criminal/Criminal Intent
Rating: PG
Claim + additional character(s): Alex Eames/Bobby Goren, Nicole Wallace
Warning: NA
Summary: To be one of the guys, the mere thought made Nicole shiver.

Nicole Wallace didn't hate Bobby Goren, oh no. Actually, she was quite fond of him. He was smart, rather charming and if he wasn't such a good man, she might have enjoyed him all the more. Too bad he was a man with morals.

No, she didn't hate Bobby Goren, but she loathed Alex Eames. There weren't enough curses in any language to even touch the level of hate she had for Bobby's little partner. Little side kick, she thought disgustedly. Everything about Detective Eames rubbed Nicole the wrong way.

She was too masculine, just one of the boys. Why had she given up the power being a woman gave her? Nicole couldn't fathom life without being able to seduce and tempt a man around her finger. To be one of the guys, the mere thought made Nicole shiver.

Nicole wouldn't even start on Detective Eames' dress and hair. It was like the woman didn't even try. Well, it made sense, Nicole mused. The woman was one of the boys, after all. Of course she wouldn't know how to dress or anything else remotely feminine.

And Alex had such a sharp tongue. There was nothing clever about her, Nicole thought with disdain, anyone with half a brain could make the type of jokes Detective Eames made. There was nothing witty about anything that came out of that woman's mouth.

It was just too easy for Nicole to find fault with Detective Alexandra Eames. She was no challenge, no challenge at all.

If Nicole was honest with herself, which she rarely was, the real reason she hated Detective Eames was because she had Bobby when Nicole wanted him so badly.