Title: The One Off
By: GraciePie
Disclaimer: Listen y'all…Not mine, but Dick's. just so we're clear.
Chapter One
"Are you okay?" Bobby Goren looked at his partner, Alexandra Eames, inquisitively. It was the third time in an hour she'd gone to the bathroom. She kept coming back looking paler each time.
"Yeah…I'm…I'll be back." Alex barely got the words out of her mouth before running back towards the restroom, nearly taking out Detective Mike Logan in the process.
"Female troubles?" Mike smirked and raised his eyebrows in Bobby's direction. Bobby just looked at him.
"It's the third, excuse me, fourth time in an hour." Bobby looked back down at the file on his desk. "And it's only 10 in the morning."
"Well maybe I'll go get my partner in on this. They still go in teams, right?" Mike laughed to himself as he walked away, in search of his partner, Carolyn Barek.
Bobby shook his head and went back to his file. Alex came back in and sat back down at her desk across from him. She put her head down on her desk, hands flat out in front of her. Bobby poked her with his pen.
"How are you doing there, Detective?" He had a small grin on his face, trying to ease her into a laugh. It was not working.
"I'm going to ask Deakins if I can go home. I think I had some bad Chinese or something. Do you mind?" Alex looked pleadingly into her partner's eyes.
"Do you want me to drive you? I can get a cab back. And I can hold your hair back if you…you know…" Bobby looked off to the right of him, hearing approaching footsteps. It was Capt. Deakins.
"Alex, home now. Bobby, take her now. And make sure she's okay. Take the rest of the day off…and take your paperwork too." Deakins looked off to his right as he walked back to his office. Bobby and Alex followed his gaze. Mike winked at them before settling back into his chair.
"Well…Capt's orders." Alex pushed herself away from her desk and threw Bobby her keys.
On the drive to her apartment, Alex thought happy thoughts to herself to keep from having to have Bobby pull over – again. She smiled to herself. She thought of how nice it was to be back on speaking terms with her partner. Not since that awful night right after the case they were working on ended. Well, not that awful. Alex jumped at that thought and looked over at her partner, panicked.
"What, again!" Bobby reached for his turn signal.
"No, Bobby. You remember that night I came over…" Alex knew from the look in his eyes that he did. And he suddenly knew where this was going.