Missing Scene for Switchman 
by R'rain 
 
"Last week?  How often does he come in?" asked one of the visiting 
detectives incredulously.  The idea of a detective being on stakeout 
for days seemed utterly foreign to him. 
 
Carolyn gave an inward groan.  "He doesn't," she said simply.  
Accusingly.  "Jim works in his own way.  He won't be in until *he* 
thinks it's over." 
 
"If you'd like to follow Detective Andresson, she'll give you a tour 
of our facilities before we get started," interrupted Simon, nodding 
and smiling at the visiting officers as they stood up and followed 
the tall, brown-haired detective out of the conference room. 
 
When he and Lieutenant Plummer were alone in the room, he closed the 
door.   
 
"Bitter much?" 
 
Carolyn sighed and let herself be enveloped by her lover's arms.  
"Even after all this time, the guy drives me nuts, Simon." 
 
"It hasn't been so long," he reassured her, "and if it's any comfort, 
he drives me nuts, too." 
 
She laughed.  "Yeah, that helps a little," she admitted.  "But it's 
not just work...I just look at him and I still remember walking into 
our apartment, seeing him fucking on the couch with some rookie on 
the force." 
 
Simon nodded.  "You never did tell me who she was," he said, kissing 
the top of Carolyn's head. 
 
She snorted indelicately.  "I also never said it was a 'she'.  If it 
had been, maybe I would have tried harder to work things out."  She 
laced her fingers through Simon's and leaned back against his solid 
chest. 
 
"Wait a minute," he said.  "Wait just a minute here.  Are you telling 
me that you caught Ellison in bed with a *man*?" 
 
She sighed.  "Maybe I shouldn't have said anything; it doesn't matter 
now.  But the guy, sometimes I want to strangle him.  Why don't you 
call him in out of the field?" 
 
Simon shook off the shock and confusion still washing over him and 
kissed her again.   
 
"Because no matter how unorthodox his methods, Jim gets results.  I'm 
not going to go and mess with that in the middle of a case, damn what 
the visiting detectives think." 
 
"You'd damn what everyone thought if you could," she said, satisfied.  
There was a comfortable silence between them for a moment.  "You 
gonna be okay with what I told you about Jim?" she asked finally. 
 
"Yeah, I will be," he sighed.  "Now I can hold out hope that if he 
finds the right guy to settle down with, it might civilize him a 
little." 
 
She laughed as she grudgingly pulled out of his embrace.  "I need to 
get back down to the lab.  Dinner tonight?" 
 
"Of course," he said with a fond smile.  "See you then." 
 
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