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Chapter 18 short but all Alex and Bobby fluff!! Hope you like it.

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Normal Life For Robert Goren

After working all day and coming home to a very pregnant Alex, Bobby decided to take a quick shower before dinner … laughing all the way to the bedroom thinking about Mama Cass Elliot. He loved her music so he put a Mamas and The Papas CD on while he took his shower. She wasn't amused at all.

As they sat and ate dinner, Bobby kept staring at his wife with a stupid grin on his face. Not his usual "Goren" grin, the grin that she's grown to know and love … this was new … a new grin.

"What? What is that look for? You think it's funny that I'm fat like Mama Cass."

"Why are you obsessed with Mama Cass … she had a beautiful voice."

"Oh and I don't."

"Ah … Ally … honey. When you sing in the shower … you sound like a … a … a chicken … getting it's head cut off."

Alex crosses her arms over her chest … she's trying not to smile … actually … she's trying not to laugh.

"That bad, huh?"

"Yeah, but you're a great Detective."

"So I should keep my day job?"

"Yes please."

"So, what was that stupid look on your face?"

Bobby shakes his head and starts to eat his dinner again. Alex reaches across the table and rubs his hand.

"Hey, talk to me."

"You know, of all people Al, I never had a normal family life. Today was the first day of your maternity leave and it's kinda nice to come home to my wife, that's all."

"Nice? You walked through the door to me yelling at you about my feet. What's so nice about that?"

"That's just it. I came home, to our home, my wife … with three little ones on the way and I know that you're uncomfortable but I also know that you're happy and I'm happy. That's nice … really nice."

"We are happy, aren't we Bobby?"

"I've never been happy before you Alex and the babies are little bonuses."

"What do you think they're going to be like?"

"I just want them to be happy. I don't want us, especially me, to be a burden on them. I want them to be independent yet know that we'll always be there for them … day or night. I want them to feel loved and know how to love. I want them to be the opposite of me."

He abruptly gets up from the table and goes outside in their backyard where he "hides" his cigarettes. He shakes one out of the pack and lights it. Alex follows him, she knows him well enough not to let him get away with that last comment. If they were only partners that would be one thing but husbands and wives don't let things like this ride.

"Alex, go back in, you shouldn't be around second hand smoke."

"You shouldn't be around first hand smoke. When are you going to quit those nasty things?"

"When the G's come. I promise. I'll be right in."

"Okay but just so you know, I'm not letting you get away with what you just said. No one has ever loved me or made me feel as loved as you do … I want them to be just like you."

He continues to smoke his cigarette and walks around his yard. He pictures a swing set and a sandbox. A dog … he always wanted a dog growing up. A barbeque pit … he would make it himself. The Eames clan coming over for birthday parties and holidays. It really was a normal life and he really was happy.

He went back inside to tell Alex. The babies were moving and Alex was lying on the couch watching her stomach move in ways it shouldn't … in normal circumstances … be able to. She was laughing and smiling and talking to her "babies." Bobby was standing in the doorway watching her.

"How did I get so lucky?"

"How did we get so lucky? Come and talk to the babies … they can hear you."

He walks over to the couch and sits on the floor and puts his head on her stomach. He starts to tell the babies about the case that he and Bishop are working on.

"Bobby, doesn't it bother you that the detectives that investigated this before you, didn't include that detail in their report?"

"As a matter of fact, it does bother me. You see babies, that's why mama and papa make great Partners … we think alike."

"Ah … not all the time." As she rolls her eyes at the term "mama and papa."

Bobby gets a little closer to "Mama" and kisses her neck and works his way up to her ear.

"What do you think papa is thinking now?"

"That Mama looks like Cass Elliot."

"Oh my God Alex!"

"You wanted a normal life. This my friend, is a normal life with a wife pregnant with triplets, get used to it!"

"Does normal include sex? Cause a gotta tell ya, I caught Bishop looking at my ass today."

When Alex was pregnant with Nate and Bishop worked with both Bobby and Alex before she went on leave, she would often catch Bishop "checking" Bobby out. She always made it a point to tell him just to make him uncomfortable … he never did like redheads.

"She can have ya, I'm tired."

Before Bobby knew what hit him, Alex had him on his back and she was straddling him. It was the only way they could make love at this point in her pregnancy. He would never admit it but she was getting too heavy for him … he could barely breathe … but he could cum and he did and it was normal and that's what Robert Goren always wanted … a normal life.

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I'll get back to more of the case with Bishop but needed some fluff! Thanks for reading! Appreciate your thoughts ... Judeey;)