Chapter 6

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Carolyn Barek walked into work to find Alex sitting at Mike's desk waiting for her.

"What's going on, kid?" Carolyn put her purse in her desk and looked up at Alex.

"We're partners now. Bobby wanted a new one and he got it." Alex picked up her pen and started working on contacting witnesses for the case she and Carolyn would be working on.

"What do you mean he wanted a new partner? You two are like peanut butter and jelly. You go together." Carolyn stared over at her old partner who was poking at Bobby with a pen.

"It seems that he took what happened in court yesterday literally. He said he'd find a new partner and I beat him to it." Alex said all of this without once looking up at Carolyn, who was gaping at her. Without responding, Carolyn stomped over to Bobby and kicked his chair.

"What, oh, good morning Carolyn." Bobby looked back down at his work. Mike rolled his eyes at her.

"Seems Goren here is taking things a little too close to heart. Things were said. Now, I'm stuck with him." Logan put his feet up on his desk.

"Get your feet off her desk, Logan."

"It seems it's my desk now, Goren." Logan leaned back in his chair to add insult to injury. All of a sudden Logan fell over backwards.

"He said get your feet off my desk. Are you deaf?" Alex looked over at Mike and helped him up. "Bobby, can I talk to you? In the conference room?" She didn't wait for an answer. Bobby got up and followed her.

"Goren…stop pissing her off," Logan groaned, while he was getting up. Bobby ignored him.

"Listen, Bobby. What happened last night, I'm sorry."

"Why are you sorry? I started it. The argument, er, everything else, it was my fault." Bobby went over to her and touched her arm. "Do you really want to be separated? I won't let what happened tear us apart. What happened, happened and I'm not sorry, but, well no. I am sorry. I didn't mean – "

"Bobby, you're sorry for the accusations but not the, other stuff, is what you're saying?"

"Yeah, basically. But I can move on from it if you can.." Bobby looked at Alex hopefully.

"Yeah. Okay. But it's not going to be exactly the way it was before. It will take time." Alex squeezed his hand and looked up at him. "Lots of precious time."

"Leave it to you to quote a song. I can deal with that. Let's go let Deakins know." Bobby held the door open for her. She gave him a smile small and walked past him.