RP Thread | Taking Things Into Her Own Hands

[detalex_eames]

Eames sighed as she stepped off the elevator. Her coat was already off by the time she reached her desk. After spending an hour in Queens to find out more about Marcus Woll, she was ready for a coffee or something stronger. It hadn't exactly given her any answer she'd been looking for, not that she knew what she had expected to find. But it would

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[lao_npc]

Danny Ross walked out of his office and spotted his detective.

"Eames." It was less of a greeting and more of a command.

[detalex_eames]

She looked up and sighed. So much for coffee.

Alex walked over to his office.

[lao_npc]

"What did you find out?" Ross asked.

[detalex_eames]

Alex sighed. "Not a great deal. I did get to see that he's got that winning personality most lawyers have - they have to win, or else."

[lao_npc]

"Anything pathological about his desire to win?" Ross wanted to know.

[detalex_eames]

"Well. It seems he has had outbursts of anger in the past when he's been close to losing."

[lao_npc]

"Nothing automatically damning," Ross noted. "And you're sure that Rubirosa told you everything she knows about him?"

[detalex_eames]

Alex stared at him for a moment before recovering and nodding her head. "I don't think she has a reason to hold anything back."

[lao_npc]

"Right." He didn't look entirely convinced, or maybe it was just that as a captain, he was forced to be a bit skeptical no matter what.

[detalex_eames]

Alex frowned, and then pinched the bridge of her nose out of frustration.

[lao_npc]

"You and your partner are the ones smelling a rat here," Ross reminded her. "If he's involved, we need more to go on than 'he liked to win.' Is that seriously all you found out? Anything more about his personality? Anything at all that Rubirosa told you that you overlooked?"

[detalex_eames]

She really didn't want to remind him that you can't find evidence just because you wish it to be so. "Firstly, no. He's slept around with colleagues, thinks he's a charmer, and leaves people with the opinion that he's a general jackass. Secondly, if he is involved, we'll find it. It just wasn't there. I needed a starting point, and that was it."

[lao_npc]

"Great," Ross said, not hiding the impatience in his voice. "You've got a starting point. Fantastic. Where's Nichols?"

[detalex_eames]

Alex shook her head, annoyed that he was impatient when she'd just been doing this for a couple of hours. She coudn't help but wonder if when you hit Captain, you forget what detective work is. "He's not here, and I just got back so I've yet to be able to catch up with him."

[lao_npc]

"Well, find out where he is..."

[detalex_eames]

To keep herself from telling him that he was pretty much stating the obvious whilst stopping her from doing just that, she turned and went back to her desk. What part of 'just got back' did that man not get? Moments like this made her wish she was old enough to retire.