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Munch would not be left behind. Neither Olivia, nor Fin, nor Stabler, nor even the Captain, could make him see their reasoning. Alex stayed out of it. She agreed that he didn't need to go, but had it been someone she knew ... They could just try and stop her.

Relenting at last, the four detectives of the SVU swigged one last mouthful of coffee, slipped on their coats and headed for the door. Alex, Bobby and Sledge watched from the sidelines. They hadn't been invited, and it stung. She felt it, she knew her partner well enough to know that he felt it, even though he gave no outward sign, and Sledge watched with the envy of a boy on the wrong side of a ball park fence. She couldn't blame them, she supposed; this was their case, and Bobby couldn't exactly work a crime scene in his condition. There was no telling when the incubus would rear it's ugly head again.

She glanced at the clock - twenty 'till midnight. Over an hour since they'd ... She felt the flush creep up her neck and touch her cheeks, and she bowed her head, hoping her hair would hide it. He was watching her, she could feel it, and it took everything she had not to meet those dark eyes. If she looked at him, he'd know. She couldn't allow that, allow him to know that those few minutes still haunted her. He had to think that she'd moved past it, so that he would move past it, because dwelling on it could kill him.

She looked up when Munch stopped beside her and gently took his phone out of her hand. She'd been holding it, not even remembering it was there half the time, since she'd hung up with the officer on the scene. She reached out and lightly touched his arm. Words escaped her and, after a moment, she let him go. With Bobby, he'd have known what she was trying to say; they just had the special connection that came with working together so closely for so long. She stared mutely as the SVU filed out the door. As they were leaving, Bobby approached, nearly blocking Munch in.

"Who is Raum?" he asked. Munch tried to step around him without answering, but Bobby reached across him and planted his hand against the door frame, barring the way. "I heard - through his phone, she said, 'Is it Raum?' and you replied, 'That's what I'm ... afraid of.' You know who did this. Who did this? Who did this to me?" His voice rose to the thunderous pitch he sometimes unleashed on suspects. Alex jumped up, but she wasn't fast enough. Stabler came back through the door, grabbed Bobby by the back of his shirt and heaved him out of the way. Caught off guard, Bobby fell into a pair of desks, scattering pens and files across the floor.

"This isn't about you anymore," Stabler snarled as Bobby slowly righted himself. With his left hand, Bobby touched his back, just above the shoulder blade and to the right of center. His fingers came away smeared with blood. Alex looked at the desk, at the brassy paper spike and it's collection of blood-spattered notes, and at the dark stain slowly seeping through his shirt.

"Feel better now, Detective?" Bobby asked coldly, quietly. "Must be hard, holding all that ... rage inside, no one to take it out on since your wife left you."

"You son of a bitch," Stabler spat, launching himself at Bobby. Alex was used to seeing her partner fight with his brain and his words; it was shocking to watch him raise a hand in anger, especially against another detective. Both men landed a punch or two before she was able to force her way between them. They backed away, Stabler with a fat lip, Bobby with a cut above his left eye. "You think you know me, you freak?" Stabler hissed as Munch bodily moved him toward the door. "I've read your file. You're a nervous breakdown waiting to happen."

"As opposed to a mid-life crisis?" Bobby shot back. "Do the world a favor; get a girlfriend and a sports car and shut the hell up!"

"What is going on out here?" Captain Cragen shouted from the doorway of his office. Bobby and Stabler glared at each other.

"It's nothing, Captain," Munch said, releasing his friend. "We have to go now, they're waiting on us." Alex didn't move, nor hardly dare breathe, until they headed for the door. Stabler slammed his fist into a filing cabinet before allowing himself to be escorted outside.

"Detective Goren," Cragen said in a tone of authoritative reprimand that Deakins couldn't seem to master, "this is your only warning. Stop antagonizing my detectives, or I'll have you thrown in a cell for real." He started to return to his office, then added, "I just got off the phone with the Police Commissioner and he's mad as hell. You guys got until four am and then I have to call the next shift, or turn in my badge." Alex watched him stalk back into his office. When she turned back to Bobby, he was already walking away. Sledge stepped up beside her.

"That was both brave and stupid," he said, shaking his head. "Either one of them could have knocked you clear across the room without even meaning to."

"So what are you, my big brother?" she said, trying to step around him. He grabbed her by the arm.

"No, I'm your partner -"

"Temporarily," she reminded him.

"Even so," he said, the sting of her words as evident in his voice as his face, "I feel like I should look out for you. It's what partners do, even temporary ones." Alex tried to form a scathing rebuke, but the words died on her lips as she looked up into his kind, handsome face.

"Thanks," she said instead, "but I'm not as fragile as you may think. And Bobby would never hurt me."

"You can never tell what a person's capable of," Sledge said quietly. "As long as you've been a cop, you should know that."
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