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Ty watched the architecture pass by and sighed inaudibly "We’ll see," he finally answered curtly

Zane turned off the portion of himself that felt bad that he’d apparently hts and dreah his mind He’d need soet back to work

The rest of the taxi ride passed in tense silence

y was undeniably pissed off, and he spent the rest of the day distracted by it The more distracted he becarier he found himself They had a e’ he didn’t need to be absorbed in this little fling they had started up And he couldn’t even shout at Zane to release the frustration anyht after what had happened between thery without an outlet, and it earing hiiven their accounts of what had happened with the exploding computer They were questioned about the bruises both men displayed, and about why they had left the scene when they knew they would have to be questioned Ty had been forced to put in a call to Dick Burns in order to get the disgruntled investigators off their backs, and they had been sent on their way

The rest of the day had been spent at the hotel, co over files and notes as they searched for a thread

It was beginning to rain oncethe hotellazily when Ty finally put his work down and rested his elbows on the table He rubbed his hands over his face and groaned plaintively "Did we eat lunch?" he asked sulkily

"Nope," Zane answered distractedly He’d finally o, and that subject er, sex, or otherwise

"Can we eat lunch now?" Ty asked sarcastically

Zane thren his pen with a soft sigh "Sure," he agreed

Ty leaned back in his chair, watching Zane studiously like he would a lion in the zoo He was irritated with him, for more reasons than the fact that he had been made to leave his site early Mostly, Ty was irritated because nohen Zane did so the file folders away before scooting back fro, arms above his head, eyes closed as he rolled his neck He’d been tense allhunched over case files all afternoon hadn’t helped either

"Want to call it a day?" Ty asked neutrally

Zane arched his back and several vertebrae popped He relaxed in relief before opening his eyes "I’ll be fine after a break All this shit is swiht now," he muttered with a wave of his hand at his head

TyZane impatiently

Zane returned the look iht of a cigarette was reassuring, since it didn’t look like he’d be having another fuck anytime soon The fact that Ty was pissed was pretty easy to decipher

Ty pressed his lips tightly together and cocked his head to the side thoughtfully "Going out could be risky," he observed in a flat tone "I haven’t spotted a tail yet, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have one"

Zane nodded absently and walked over to the dresser where he’d tossed the hotel book with the et out and roam, as restless as the man obviously was But he’d learned yesterday that there was no telling what Ty would do Trying to anticipate him was an effort in futility, one that often produced a headache He paged through the book where it lay on the top of the piece of furniture Ty’s eyes stayed on hi The silence stretched thin as Zane did his best to ignore it

"Should I go back to ht?" Ty asked out of the blue "Or e be able to work together and fuck each other senseless at the same time?"

Zane jerked his chin around to stare at Ty ide eyes for a long ht back before trying again "I can ith the fucking," he said Jesus Christ, he sounded like an idiot!

Ty snorted "Good," he said flatly, the s as we keep it at that, we’re fine"

Narrowing his eyes, Zane turned toward Ty, bringing the menu with him "Keep it at that?" he asked curiously Yeah, they seemed to have a hell of a lot of chemistry, and there had been a few scarily tenderinto it

"Right," Ty answered, either oblivious to the i to elaborate

Rather than pushing for an answer, Zane held out thehiht," Ty answered as he looked down at the menu and back up at Zane with a s Ty a look of wry aured you’d hat you had for breakfast," he tossed out as he walked over to the phone

Ty chuckled darkly, the sound al as he sat in the shadowed corner of the hotel roo hier man moved

Zane dialed room service and ordered a couple dinners and a dessert--very aware of Ty’s eyes following hi up the phone and sat back down at the table, pushing folders around and taking the opportunity to look at more autopsy photos before the food arrived He studiously avoided looking at Ty It was better for hiswhy Zane was so diligently ignoring hied it off and pulled out a thick file froton earlier that day

Ty had called on a buddy in the main office to search up any unexplained murders in the past ten years, and then had him fax a list He had picked and chosen fro files that could possibly fit their case to try and track the ent that had worked in the New York office in the past ten years, including one on hih them all after he finished with the old files, and he would ent had worked before being assigned to New York

All he had to do was find a murder that fit their serial, which was uy had no MO to speak of, and then match up locations

"This shit is easier with a corulanced up at him and snorted softly, then went back to his notes

Ty looked up at hi unconsciously, then back to the file he had in his hand It was an unsolved o As he read he began to frown harder and harder "I know this," he es "Jesus, I remember this," he muttered to hi if Zane was paying attention to him or not

The victim had been found on the campus of the University of Maryland’s School of Law He had died--after being dragged through the streets behind what appeared to have been a s The really interesting thing that Ty had remembered from this case was the identity of the victim He had been rumored to be Baltimore’s infarave of the author Edgar Allan Poe and toasted hinac The visits, which had actually been observed by many in the city, had stopped after that year

"Find anything interesting?" Zane asked as he watched