Chapter: Bad News

Rating: ( M )

Disclaimer: I do not own Law & Order CI, nor do I own any of the characters from the show. If I did, there would be a lot of changes and A LOT more angst/drama.

Warnings: This chapter contains descriptions of a fight, however, they are not very graphic.

A Special Thanks To: Emily Sim, gerfan, ladybrin, Shellster, StrawberryGregLover, and to everyone else who has read my story.

ladybrin: I like happy endings... I just like making the characters suffer a little first... well maybe a lot lol. Thank you for reading and reviewing. I will be posting warnings that say what's going to happen in the chapter, so you will know ahead of time.

Shellster: If I was better at writting, I would have wrote a big fight scene, but because i'm not I decided not to write a big detailed fight scene. I did, however, try to write it better then I did the attack scenes in " Fears ", which were pretty bad. I wrote the fight in smaller paragraphs. Hope it's easier to read. Thanks for reading and reviewing. I'll " Rock on "!

A/N Hello, i'm sorry it took a little bit longer to post this chapter. I was working on a fic I am writting/co writting for a member here and have been busy with that this weekend. I changed the rating to ( M ) this chapter, as I said I was going to. This chapter's a little dark but it's nothing compaired to what it's going to be in the future. There's not nothing too bad in it... yet. I know, I know... i'm evil lol. I don't know if prisons have medical wards for sure or not, but I think they/some do. Sorry, if i'm wrong. Well, here's chapter 11. I hope you all like it. Enjoy!

Now, on with the story.

Bobby Goren had found himself in an extremely dangerous sittuation, which there was litterally no way out of. He was trapped, trapped in the center of angry inmates, who obviously wanted him dead.

Bobby punched the inmate who first attacked him, however, he had almost no chance of deffending himself when the 6 other men jumped in.

The inmates hit, punched, and kicked Bobby, meanwhile the guards and Kaiden tried to get to him. However, many of the inmates in the large room were doing their best to keep them away, they also wanted to see the cop either killed or seriously hurt.

Within a minute, the inmates had pushed Bobby to the floor, now they had full advantage of him. There was no way in the world for Bobby to get up, not with 6 inmates beating him.

Bobby tried to fight, he really did but there was just no way, it was impossible. He heard the guards call for backup, and he heard them yelling for the inmates to move out of the way, but they weren't listening. They stood their ground, preventing any help from getting to him.

All Bobby felt was terrible pain, pain everywhere. He looked up into the inmates eyes, and all he saw was hate, he could see that they hated him, that they wanted him dead and they were determined to get their way.

After what seemed like forever, but was really only about 5 minutes, Bobby was about ready to give up, he really thought he was going to die right there. His mind drifted off to Alex. God, he hoped she wouldn't try to investigate his death, for he did not want her to have to see him that way, not in the condition he was in right now. He didn't want her to have to go through that. However, he didn't have much choice, there was nothing he could do.

Suddenly things turned from very bad to worse, when one of the inmates put his large hands around Bobby's neck and began to strangle him. Bobby tried to fight the inmate off, but there was no use, he was just too weak from the horrible beating he had just taken. Then, everything went black.

Captain Deakins was sitting at his desk when the phone range.

" Captain Deakins speaking, " he said into the phone.

" Deakins, this is Sergent Kimble, " the sergent said.

Deakins heart began to pound, he knew something must be wrong, something must have happened to Bobby.

" W-What happened to Goren, " he asked, his voice full of concern for the detective that he believed had been framed for murder.

" I'm afraid there was a fight in the prison. Mr. Goren was badly beaten and almost killed. He's been transfured to the medicalward at the prison, " Sergent Kimble replied.

" Just how bad is he, " Deakins asked.

" I'm afraid he stopped breathing before the guards could get to him, but they did get to him in time to save him, " the Sergent replied.

" He stopped breathing? Why the hell did it take the guards that long to get to him, " Deakins asked angrly.

" There were a lot of inmates involved, the guards broke it up as soon as they could, " Sergent Kimble replied.

" Can he have visitors, " Deakins asked, a trace of anger could still be heard in his voice.

" Yes, " the Sergent replied.

" Alright, thanks for calling me, " Deakins said.

" Anytime. Well, I do have to be going, " Sergent Kimble replied.

" Alright, good bye, " Deakins said.

" Good bye, " Sergent Kimble.

Deakins hung up the phone and leaned back into his chair. He ran his hands through his hair and sighed, before finally picking up the phone once again. This time, he was the one who would have to spread the bad news. He dialed the number, the phone rang several times before a sleepy voice finally picked up.

" Eames, " Alex said, into the phone.

" Eames, it's Deakins... I have some bad news, " he said.

Alex's heart began to pound, something must have happened to Bobby, otherwise the captain wouldn't have called her, not after telling her to go home and get some sleep.

" What... what happened, sir, " she asked in a fear filled voice.

" It's... about Detective Goren, " Deakins said.

" Oh God, something happened to Bobby, didn't it, " Alex asked.

Deakins didn't answer, he didn't say a word. This was even harder then he thought it would be.

" Didn't it, " Alex repeated louder this time, she sounded as though she were about to cry.

" I... I'm afraid so, Detective Goren was... " Deakins started, but then paused again.

" Was what, " Alex asked, her mind was whirling, she hoped for the best, but feared the worst.

" He was... in a fight, and beaten pretty badly, " Deakins replied, finally.

" H-How badly, " Alex asked.

" I'm not positive but... " Deakins started again.

" But what, " Alex cut in quickly.

" Well... I was told that he... stopped breathing, " Deakins said.

Now Alex was really worried. " Is... is he..., " she started to ask, but this time Deakins cut her off.

" He's alive, " Deakins replied, already knowing what she was going to ask. He heard Alex let out a sigh of relief.

" Did they send him to a hospital, " Alex asked.

" No, he's at the medical ward in the prison, " replied the captain.

" Is he allowed to havevisitors, Alex asked.

" Yes, " Deakins replied.

" I... I'm going to go see him, " Alex said.

" I figured you'd want to... that's why I called, " Deakins said.

" Thank you, sir, " Alex said.

" You're welcome,now I have to get back to work, " he said.

" Alright, i'm gonna get ready and head to the prison, " Alex said.

" Okay, have a safe trip and make sure you pull over if you start getting tired. I don't want you sleep driving, " said the captain.

" I won't get tired, " Alex replied.

" Uh huh, anyway have a save trip, "

" I will, sir, " Alex said.

With that, she hung up the phone, quickly got ready and then she got in her car and started off on the several hour drive to the prison.

TBC.

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A/N: Just an interesting fact I thought i'd ad. I know some people sleep drive because my dad used to have a REALLY BAD habit of sleep driving while we did a long newspaper rout. We delivered the papers to the local carriers in several different towns, it was a long rout. One time he drove through a pretty large town and later said that he didn't remember driving threw it. What he remembers is waking up in the wrong lane with a semi truck coming at him! I was like OMG!Luckly, he doesn't drive much anymore. The family got on him about that one.Anyway, I know that some people really dosleep dive LOL.