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Title: Crossing the Line
Summary: Eleven ways Robert Goren and Alexandra Eames break the no-fraternization policy.
Rating: PG
Genre: fluff, romance
Notes/Warnings: Written for 11_reasons. It looks like these stories are ending up a bit more connected than I originally thought, but not as coherent as an actually story might be, if that makes any sense.
These chapters contain general Season Six spoilers. You have been warned.
Chapter 1 - Piano
Chapter 2 - Quirks
Chapter 3 - Baseball
Chapter 4 - Official
Chapter 5 - Necklace
Chapter 6 - Smile
Prompt: Melancholy/Sadness
Chapter 7 - Release
His mother dies sometime between Wednesday and Thursday and they are both asleep when he gets the call from her doctors. They try to comfort him with all the standard platitudes but all he can hear is a buzzing in his ears and all he can feel is shock and he hardly notices when she takes the phone from his limp hand and speaks to the doctors for him. After she hangs up, she wraps her arms around him and rests her chin on his shoulder and doesn’t say a word and there aren’t enough words in all of the languages he knows to express his gratitude towards her in this moment.
He knows he should be upset or sad or angry but the only emotion he can feel about his mother’s death is relief. He is relieved that she is finally free of her demons, that he is finally free of her demons and he feels guilty for feeling relieved. He has been losing her his entire life, has had to care for her alone for longer than he should have and so he can’t feel sad or mad or angry at anyone but himself for feeling so relieved.
He doesn’t even realize that he’s started to cry until he feels her small hands upon his face wiping away his tears and caressing his stubbled cheeks. He knows that she thinks he is crying for his mother, but she is wrong. He’s crying for himself and his life spent caring for a woman who should have cared for him and because he doesn’t know how to live a life that’s not spent researching the latest cocktail of anti-psychotics and the effects they might have on his dying mother. He is scared and when he looks into her eyes, he knows that she can see his fear as clearly as if it were written there.
Her eyes tell him that they will be all right, that they will get through this together and to hell with what the department tells them is proper conduct between partners. She will hold his hand at the funeral and take leave with him and won’t go back to work until he is ready to face the worst that humanity can throw at them once again.
He kisses her then and is more in love with her in that moment than he ever thought was humanly possible. His tears wet both their faces and when she pulls away to call their captain and let him know why his best team won’t be in to work for the next while, he wraps his arms tight around her middle and doesn’t let go.
Prompt: Diligence
Chapter 8 - Anchor
It’s Monday morning and his mother’s funeral was two days ago and they are both back at work after a sleepless weekend. She tried to talk him into taking a few more days, but he threw her own history back in her face and said if she can go back to work three days after her husband’s funeral then he can go back to work two days after his mother’s. So here they are, sitting across from each other at their desks in the bullpen working on the backlog of paperwork that is always there and waiting to catch a case.
She glances up at him through her bangs and thinks that he looks like he’s aged a decade in the past few days. She’s sure that she doesn’t look her best either and suddenly realizes why none of their colleagues have tried to speak to them beside casual greetings. Everyone is scared of one of them blowing their top and she can’t say she blames them.
She is jolted out of her thoughts by the captain at her shoulder who is wondering what they hell they’re doing back at work since he gave them each a week of leave, his for bereavement, hers out of her vacation days. He didn’t even hesitate when she asked for the time; he learned very quickly after she was abducted that they don’t function well apart and he wasn’t anxious for a repeat performance.
Sarcasm rolls off her tongue as she tells the captain that they couldn’t stay away for very long or the whole department might collapse and nobody wants that so that’s why they’re back at work early. The real reason, the one she doesn’t say out loud, is that they were both going stir crazy and that if they didn’t come back to work then he would go mad in his grief and she doesn’t think she is strong enough to bring him back if he were to fall right now.
The captain is shaking his head at her flip reply and then he’s telling them that a call just came in and they’re on the case. All they know is that it involves two prominent musicians dead and that the mayor himself pushing for a solve. So they leave their paperwork behind and they manage to get the elevator car to themselves on the way down to the parking garage and she knows she’s risking getting caught but she has to let him know that she will support him and she smiles into his jacket when he holds her tight after she wraps her arms around his waist.
They pull apart as the elevator doors open but the parking garage is empty this time of day so she steps so that their arms are brushing and she can take his hand and hope that this simple contact will be able to sufficiently anchor him until they can sneak another moment alone.
Summary: Eleven ways Robert Goren and Alexandra Eames break the no-fraternization policy.
Rating: PG
Genre: fluff, romance
Notes/Warnings: Written for 11_reasons. It looks like these stories are ending up a bit more connected than I originally thought, but not as coherent as an actually story might be, if that makes any sense.
These chapters contain general Season Six spoilers. You have been warned.
Chapter 1 - Piano
Chapter 2 - Quirks
Chapter 3 - Baseball
Chapter 4 - Official
Chapter 5 - Necklace
Chapter 6 - Smile
Prompt: Melancholy/Sadness
Chapter 7 - Release
His mother dies sometime between Wednesday and Thursday and they are both asleep when he gets the call from her doctors. They try to comfort him with all the standard platitudes but all he can hear is a buzzing in his ears and all he can feel is shock and he hardly notices when she takes the phone from his limp hand and speaks to the doctors for him. After she hangs up, she wraps her arms around him and rests her chin on his shoulder and doesn’t say a word and there aren’t enough words in all of the languages he knows to express his gratitude towards her in this moment.
He knows he should be upset or sad or angry but the only emotion he can feel about his mother’s death is relief. He is relieved that she is finally free of her demons, that he is finally free of her demons and he feels guilty for feeling relieved. He has been losing her his entire life, has had to care for her alone for longer than he should have and so he can’t feel sad or mad or angry at anyone but himself for feeling so relieved.
He doesn’t even realize that he’s started to cry until he feels her small hands upon his face wiping away his tears and caressing his stubbled cheeks. He knows that she thinks he is crying for his mother, but she is wrong. He’s crying for himself and his life spent caring for a woman who should have cared for him and because he doesn’t know how to live a life that’s not spent researching the latest cocktail of anti-psychotics and the effects they might have on his dying mother. He is scared and when he looks into her eyes, he knows that she can see his fear as clearly as if it were written there.
Her eyes tell him that they will be all right, that they will get through this together and to hell with what the department tells them is proper conduct between partners. She will hold his hand at the funeral and take leave with him and won’t go back to work until he is ready to face the worst that humanity can throw at them once again.
He kisses her then and is more in love with her in that moment than he ever thought was humanly possible. His tears wet both their faces and when she pulls away to call their captain and let him know why his best team won’t be in to work for the next while, he wraps his arms tight around her middle and doesn’t let go.
Prompt: Diligence
Chapter 8 - Anchor
It’s Monday morning and his mother’s funeral was two days ago and they are both back at work after a sleepless weekend. She tried to talk him into taking a few more days, but he threw her own history back in her face and said if she can go back to work three days after her husband’s funeral then he can go back to work two days after his mother’s. So here they are, sitting across from each other at their desks in the bullpen working on the backlog of paperwork that is always there and waiting to catch a case.
She glances up at him through her bangs and thinks that he looks like he’s aged a decade in the past few days. She’s sure that she doesn’t look her best either and suddenly realizes why none of their colleagues have tried to speak to them beside casual greetings. Everyone is scared of one of them blowing their top and she can’t say she blames them.
She is jolted out of her thoughts by the captain at her shoulder who is wondering what they hell they’re doing back at work since he gave them each a week of leave, his for bereavement, hers out of her vacation days. He didn’t even hesitate when she asked for the time; he learned very quickly after she was abducted that they don’t function well apart and he wasn’t anxious for a repeat performance.
Sarcasm rolls off her tongue as she tells the captain that they couldn’t stay away for very long or the whole department might collapse and nobody wants that so that’s why they’re back at work early. The real reason, the one she doesn’t say out loud, is that they were both going stir crazy and that if they didn’t come back to work then he would go mad in his grief and she doesn’t think she is strong enough to bring him back if he were to fall right now.
The captain is shaking his head at her flip reply and then he’s telling them that a call just came in and they’re on the case. All they know is that it involves two prominent musicians dead and that the mayor himself pushing for a solve. So they leave their paperwork behind and they manage to get the elevator car to themselves on the way down to the parking garage and she knows she’s risking getting caught but she has to let him know that she will support him and she smiles into his jacket when he holds her tight after she wraps her arms around his waist.
They pull apart as the elevator doors open but the parking garage is empty this time of day so she steps so that their arms are brushing and she can take his hand and hope that this simple contact will be able to sufficiently anchor him until they can sneak another moment alone.