AN: You know the drill, L&O's not mine. Deakins is the POV for chapter 6, which is here.
Chapter 6
The morning after the night Bobby "died" in the precinct...
We must have fallen asleep after staying up just staring into space, because I woke up with my head on the desk again. I looked at the clock and was surprised to see that it was 730 AM and that people would be arriving soon, if they already weren't here. I looked across the desk to see Eames slumped in her chair, and I saw Rai in the corner snoozing. I was amazed that she would still be here, considering last night it looked like this was the last place she wanted to be. She also said something, but I just couldn't remember what it was. I stood up and streched my body, then stopped when I realized that I had yet to call Angie. I walked around the desk and shook Alex awake. In her sleep deprived state, she muttered something about how it wasn't fair.
"Eames, it's time to wake up." Rai woke up in the corner.
"What's going on?"
"It's 730, and work starts in a few minutes."
"Oh." At this, Alex woke up.
"Alex," her eyes shifted to my face. "You can go home, or you can stay here in the office if you don't want to go out there."
"I think..."She cleared her throat. "I think I'll stay in here, thank you."
"Alright. I'm just going to call Angie and then I'll head out to give you some space."
I picked up the phone and watched as Rai parted the blinds, looking out at the people. I saw Logan and Barek come in before she let the shades drop.
"Hello?"
"Sorry to call so late...or early."
"It's alright Jimmy. Just tell me what happened and why you left in such a rush."I put my head into one of my hands and replied,
"The phone call last night was from a uniformed officer. He called to tell me that one of my detectives died." I watched Alex take a deep breath and let it out slowly.
"Oh no. Who?"
"Robert Goren."
"Oh honey, I'm so sorry." I was about to respond when she said, "Don't worry about the girls, I'll be sure to get them going. You just take care of Alexandra and make sure to tell her that she'll always have an ear and a shoulder with me."
"I will. Thank you honey. Bye. I love you."
"Bye. I love you, too." I hung up the phone and placed my hands on the desk.
"Make yourself comfortable, Rai and I are going out to face the masses." As I walked past, I laid my hand on Alex's shoulder and told her, "If you ever need a shoulder or ear, or both, Angie would be willing to provide, as would I." She nodded. I opened the door a crack and slipped out, followed by Rai, and she shut the door behind her. I then focused on the sight that greeted me. Both Logan and Barek were looking at me with concern in their eyes.
"Hey Cap'n, what's wrong?" Logan was the one to finally speak up. I shifted on my feet.
"I got a call last night..." I heard Rai moving around behind me and her mumbling something about a restroom. "What was that?"
"Where's the restroom?" I raised my eyebrows at her. Her face clearly said that she didn't want to be here.
"Down the hall and to the left." And she took off. I doubted I would ever see her again.
"You got a call last night about what?" This time it was Barek who spoke up.
"I got a call last night from a uniformed officer regarding a jumper." They both had exasperated looks on their face, and Logan spoke up once again.
"Not meaning to be disrespectful, but could you get to the point as to why you look like hell?" Barek nodded her head in agreement.
"Bobby jumped off a bridge last night."
"What?!" Both of them exclaimed and both were shaking their head.
"Yes."
"How's Eames?"Barek asked this, concern evident in her voice.
"Not good, but we're dealing with it..." As I said this Rai walked back into the room. She was throwing off my judgment of the situation, and for the first time I wondered what she really was doing here. "What are you doing here?"
"Me?"
"Not you Logan, Rai?"
"What do you mean?"
"Well you're not related to him, and you're not from here, so what are you doing here?"
She tilted her head to the side as if she were looking at the situation from another angle.
"Because I feel partly responsible for what happened..."
"Wait, why do you feel responsible?" Barek asked, and Logan looked like he was trying swallow a fairly large piece of meat that was too big for him.
"Because I was there and I saw him go over." Off their contemplative silence, she continued, turning back to me, "And I wanted to see what he had that I've never had."
"What's that?" Laogan snapped.
"A family."
AN: Truthfully I don't know what to do next, a Bobby, or a Rai, or an Eames? I 'll figure it out, the next chapter's probably coming out tomorrow...Review please.