A.N. Okay, so if you are still reading, I promise this is going to get better, you will find out who placed the rose in Eames apartment, and why at the begining everyone thought she was still talking and alive and all that jazz, I just couldn't help myself... read on, and feel free to review and call me names if you like :)

"God-damnit Eames, why did you have to leave with out me that night, why didn't you just shake me and say hey stupid there is a serial killer loose in this city, please take me home and make sure that they are not in my apartment. I can't do this with out you, I can't be partnered with anyone else. Why the hell did you leave me." Goren shouted at the stone that read her name in plain block letters, and two dates, her birthdate and the date that she died, the ME said within eight hours of her disappearance.

Goren stood in the cemetery looking at her marker, feeling mad at himself of yelling at her, feeling mad at himself for not insisting on taking her home. Feeling mad at himself for not simply telling her all those millions of times that opportunity had presented itself how much he loved her, how she was his other half, his better half. How when he felt himself slipping away she could always pull him right back.

"It's a shame you know." Nicole said her thick austrailian accent grating on his last nerve.

"What do you want Nicole."

"To tell you I didn't kill those women, or place a flower on your dead partner's mantel. I am many things Bobby, but deranged isn't one of them."

"Hmph"

"So you don't believe me." Nicole walked up and adjusted the drooping flowers that marked Detective Eames grave. "This wouldn't be the first time that I told you the truth and you chose not to believe me."

"You are talking about that little girl you kidnapped and took to Arizona?"

"To live with her Aunt, where she would be safe, where her father couldn't lather her down with estrogen and wait for her to die so he could cash in on her trust."

"What are you getting out of this Nicole."

"Nothing. But I know you would think it was me so I am simply here to tell you that I had nothing to do with this one. And to offer up my condolences for your loss, I know how much you loved her Bobby."

That angered him more then anything else she could have said. How dare she presume to know how Goren felt about his partner even if she was correct in her presumption.