Title: Beautiful
Character(s): Bobby Goren, Alex Eames
Disclaimer: All rights belong to Dick Wolf, René Balcer, NBC, Universal, and all other rightful owners of the 'Law & Order' brand. I am borrowing the characters, and I promise to give them back when I'm done!
A/N: Very short piece this time! Bobby ducks out for an important message... This idea wouldn't leave me alone until i wrote it... So it looks like it won in the end xD The inspiration actually came from a picture I took at One PP of the benches and courtyard, I was just looking at it and... Well, the plot bunnies attacked.
Summary: Eames had obviously been the one to take the picture.
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A chilly winter wind swept across Robert Goren's face as he sighed, relaxing into the back of the chipped-green bench situated just outside Police Plaza. Spiny, bare trees shook their branches over him as the persistent cold wind blew through the red brick valley between two looming buildings. The passing pedestrians must have thought him insane to be sitting so leisurely outside in the biting cold - then again, most of his fellow officers thought him slightly insane anyway. That including his temporary partner, who was probably wondering where he'd gone off to, leaving her alone to mull over paperwork.
Another gust of icy wind made him quickly wish he had some coffee in his hands or pouring down his throat. As the idea of standing and walking down towards Centre Street to grab a mediocre cup of joe off a vendor occurred to him, it was quickly squelched by the buzzing in his pocket.
Quick as he could with gloved-fingers, he reached into his deep pocket and pulled out the phone, flipping it open to read the screen. As his eyes scanned the screen a wry smirk crept from the corner of his mouth, his thumb pressing the down button to view the low-quality snapshot just received.
A wide-eyed baby boy looked back at him through the tiny screen, his fresh new skin wrapped in a white hospital blanket and he was held comfortably in the arms of his mother. Eames had obviously been the one to take the picture. Underneath the grainy picture was a short phrase:
I told you he was beautiful.
Bobby couldn't disagree as his fingers went to work to dial his partner's number.