AN:Hopefully this explains what's going on, and L&O is still not mine. I can't make any promises on when I update, but this week is a good week so you'll get the chapter either tonight or tomorrow.

Chapter 3

Previously on Deception...

As we drove off I wondered what was going through the Captain's head.

And now over in the Captain's head...

Why? Why did he jump off the bridge? I wasn't expecting this. Things were fine weren't they? There was no problems that I could think of within the squad or between Goren and Eames. So why did he jump? Crap, what am I going to say to Eames. 'Sorry to tell you but you're partner took a nosedive off a bridge?' That's not going to work. 'I'm sorry but your partner finally went of the deep end?' I can't say that to her, besides I respect him too much to actually believe that he's crazy. Things got a little rough after his mom died but the waters stilled and things went back to normal, or so I had thought. What if he was just putting up a front to avoid the questions about his mother? What if he really wasn't happy with his life? If so how did I miss it? How did Eames miss it? Those two can literally read each other's minds. Before I knew it, we arrived at the station. I got and waited for Rai to catch up before I headed into the building. I punched the 11th floor button and watched the doors close.

"I'm sorry." I looked over at her.

"What for?"

"No one should go through the loss of losing one of their people." I tilted my head to the side in a very Goren-esq way.

"And how would you know?"

"I live on the streets. You have to have people to survive. It sucks when you lose them." And just like that she gave me an insight to what was going on in her head, the pain of losing one of her crew. I sighed and moved to my office, opening the door and turning the light on. I beckoned her to take a seat and sat down behind the desk. There was times I hated being on this side of the desk, and now was one of those times. I slowly pushed in the numbers for Eames' cell phone and waited for her to pick up. I rested my head on the desk, wishing that I wasn't the bearer of bad news. After each ring, I felt my stomach go deeper into my chair. Not just because of the phone call I had to make, but because it felt like I lost a son.

"Eames." I could tell I had woken her up, but now that I was talking to her, I wanted to tell her face to face.

"Eames, I need you at the precinct now."

"Why? I mean not that I don't want to but it's o'clock in the morning." Be glad you weren't told over the phone that Bobby was dead.

"Something's happened. I need you here now."

"Is Bobby there already?" I held back a sigh.

"Look I just need you here as soon as possible. Preferably now, but as soon as you can."

"I'll be right there." Smooth Jimmy, way to tip her off that something's not right. The sooner she gets here, the sooner I can go back to sleep and wake up and realize that it's all just a nightmare.

"Would you like me to be gone when you tell her?" I lifted my head off the desk and looked at Rai. She looked like she was staring at me, but her eyes seemed to look past me.

"No. You can stay. Besides, you need to give her the badge and the message, so I would prefer that you stay." She nodded her head, stood up and went into the corner. I looked at her with raised eyebrows until she responded,

"What? From this vantage point I can see the windows, door, and the whole room. I like to make sure that no one's going to sneak up on me." I shrugged and laid my head back down on the desk. That was how Alex Eames found me when she entered the room.

"Take a seat." She sat.

"What's wrong?" I could tell she looked less than happy at being pulled out of bed in the middle of the night, but I knew things were about to get much worse.

"At about 1:30 in the morning, dispatch got a phone call from a man. The man said that another man had just jumped off a bridge. He did not see the man jump, a female teenager did."

"Does this have to do with a case we're going to be getting? And where's Bobby?"

"I'm getting to it." I sighed once again, feeling like my fuel tank was below zero. "At first, dispatch didn't know who jumped off the bridge, but he had left something with the girl who saw him jump. The officers on the scene then called me, and I verified that the object did belong to the man who jumped."

"What's this got to do with me?"

"The man who jumped was one Detective Robert Goren." At this, she paled.

"No, no. He said that he would see me tomorrow. He couldn't have jumped off the bridge. He said he would see me tomorrow!" And she slumped down in her chair, with her head in her hands. "Why would he lie to me?" And my heart broke at the sight before me. There in front of me was a women who had just lost her best friend and partner.

From the corner, Rai was fidgeting on the ground. I looked over at her and could tell that she was uncomfortable in the situation.

"Alex," I started softly. "The girl who saw what happened is here."

"Really?"

"Hi." Rai weakly said. "I'm Rai, and uh, I have this for you. He said to give this only to you." She got up and handed Alex the badge and stood there as Alex looked over it. "I, uh, also have a message for you..." Alex looked up at Rai, and I could tell that she wished that this was just a dream. "He said to say that he, uh, was sorry." And with that, she retreated to the dark corner. Alex sat there on the verge of tears.

"Why?" I stood up and came around the desk and knelt in front of her.

"I don't know." And she broke down into tears. Were she not extremely tired, she would not have broken down, but I knew that we would all shed some tears in the next couple of days, and that hopefully the healing could begin, if it was possible. Seeing how broken up everyone was, Rai spoke up from the corner, but I couldn't hear her.

What she said however, was, "When that man calls he has a lot of explaining to do."

AN: Next we have Alex's POV, and after that we'll have some Bobby. Review please.