The promise

Here is a new short story for all you Goren/Eames shippers out there. Enjoy!!!

The Promise

by aprilspring

They lowered the coffin into the ground and it was all she could do not to cry. Her partner was gone and she wasn't sure how to go on without him. They gave him a twenty-one gun salute for all his years in the precinct.

He deserved to live, damn it, Alex Eames thought still holding back tears. It should have been me, her thoughts continued as she finally allowed the tears to fall down her cheeks.

Dressed in her informal officer attire, she could barely look at all who had attended. Captain Ross was there, along with Mike Logan and his partner, Wheeler. Even their old captain came to pay his respects.

Eames' thoughts went back to two days ago, when she and her partner, Robert Goren had busted in on a slavery ring. She had wanted him to wait for back-up, but she also knew that he was not one for technicalities.

It was her who had opened that door without thinking and it was Bobby who had pushed her out of the way of a bullet that was heading straight towards her. Bobby had heard the gun cocked and knew what would come after that.

He took the bullet that was meant for her.

They rushed him to the hospital with a bullet in his chest. Blood was flowing freely from the wound and although they tried to stop it, it just wasn't enough. He died in her arms, on route.

And now two days later, they were burying her best friend and partner. She should have told him how she really felt, how much she loved him, and then maybe he would have had something to fight for.

Someone gently touched her shoulder and she looked up. Mike stood there with his condolences. It pissed her off. Here he was standing with his partner, while hers was cold and in a dark box, but all she could do was stare straight ahead.

She wanted this to be over, so she could go back to work and forget everything, but Captain Ross had insisted she go to therapy.

Damn it! Why couldn't they just leave her alone? Damn you Bobby. Why did you have to leave me? Alex just couldn't take it anymore, so she screamed. She screamed at the top of her lungs and no one even bothered to look her way. NO ONE!!!

Suddenly someone was shaking her and she wanted him to stop, so she punched him.

"Ouch!" he yelled.

She opened her eyes and looked into those infamous brown eyes. Bobby was looking at her while holding his nose.

"You were having a bad dream." He said rubbing his hurt nose.

Alex began to cry and Bobby gave her a baffled look. She was so releived that it was only a dream. She took his lovely face in her hands and kissed him.

As she held him close she had never felt so thanksful. Bobby Goren willnever know hos close she was to losing him forever.

Alex held the man in her arms, refusing to let him go. She laid onhis bed and kissed him tenderly.

Bobby couldn't understand what it was that Eames had dreamt, but he was grateful, as he kissed her back.

"I love you! eames murmured into Bobby's neck and he smiled.

He had always know, and it made his heart sing. "I love you too!" He whispered against her ear, as he trailed kisses down her neck.

Soon alex's dream was temporalily forgotten as the two of them surrendered to their fervor's sultry moment.

"Promise me, that you will never take a bullet that is meant for me?" Eames asked holding Bobby in her arms, minutes after their passion had subsided.

Bobby rolled onto his side, so he could see her in the pale moonlight and what he saw made him sad: tears welling up in her eyes. "I never want to make you cry." He said holding her close to her chest.

"Then promise!" She said again, taking in his masculine scent and listening to his heartbeat.

"I promise!" Bobby said and he wondered what it was that had her so terrified of losing him.

She was never going to tell him that in her dream, he had died adn she had to go through the rest of her life without him. This was something she did not want to think about, EVER. She snuggled against him, listening to his steady heartbeat and thanking God that it was only a dream.

The End!!