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Authors note: hey guys! Okay so this is the story that I've really been excited about! I've got an AMAZING plot and great ideas, but, as always, let me know what you want to see in my story and I'll try to incorporate it in this is written in 3rd person. I guessed at ages: casey-26, liv-38, Elliot-39, fin-40, munch-53, Cragen- 56, warner-37, huang-32. Here's we's go: D
Disclaimer: I don't own any of this. Dick wolf and NBC do.
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Casey shivered as she walked into the 1-6 precinct. "jeese" she thought, "its freezing out there." As the elevator doors opened Casey walked into the bullpen.
"Hey case! I thought you were already on leave?" Olivia said to the red head as she entered the room.
"I was supposed to be on leave as of last week, but I had a few cases I wanted to finish up" Casey replied.
"yeesh case" Elliot said, chiming in, "your 8 and a half months pregnant. Now's not the time to be a workaholic." Elliot gave her a wink to show that his comment was a joke, but it was only to cover his concern for the ADA.
Casey rolled her eyes. "well I'm finished now, and I came to return some files I borrowed."
"well," Olivia said, "you should probably head out before it starts to-"
Olivia was cut off by the entrance of munch and fin, both of which were covered heavily in fluffy, white snow.
"snow." Olivia finished, "we'll I guess mother nature beet you" Olivia added with a laugh.
"yeah, I actually wouldn't leave right now. It's a nightmare out there, case. It's a full on white out blizzard. I wouldn't feel right with you driving right now, especially considering…" john's train of thought trailed off as he gestured to Casey's now quite large baby belly.
"fine" Casey huffed. All the ADA wanted to do was curl up on her couch and try and forget the painful memories that grew with her baby. She was freezing and just wanted to take a nap. But ever since she announced her pregnancy, Elliot, being a five time father, had showered her with pregnancy and baby related tips, as well as older brother like over protectiveness. She knew that arguing with him would inevitably be pointless. She took a seat in munch's chair as he went over to make a fresh pot of coffee. Just as she was sitting Melinda and Huang came out of an interrogation room. They had spent the last 7 hours going over a family's medical records to see if they carried a certain strand of a disease that would prove a defendant guilty. They had found what they were looking for and were now looking forward to going home. As they went to say goodbye to everyone, Cragen stepped out of his office.
"sorry guys, but you're not going anywhere. It's a blizzard out there and the roads are closed down for the time being." Cragen informed them.
"ugg" they simultaneously sighed.
"pull up a chair and grab some hot coffee" munch offered with a grin on his face. Suddenly, everyone turned to Casey when they heard her yell an "oww" under her breath. When she realized that all had been staring at her, she offered an explanation.
"sorry guys. The baby keeps kicking. Hard. In the same spot. Constantly. Casey said with an exasperated expression on her face.
"daddy's little soccer player" munch said adoringly, "how sweet." That earned him a slap from fin. "what?" munch asked innocently.
"That was for putting the image of you and Novak making a baby together in my head." Everyone laughed and Casey blushed, but the mention of the baby's father soon brought everyone to an uncomfortable silence. All anyone knew about the baby's father was that he was a boyfriend of Casey's who'd left her after hearing about the pregnancy. While everyone else thought about a poor pregnant Casey being dumped, Casey flashed back to that night, and was glad that man wasn't in the picture. She shivered a bit at the memory. Olivia rubbed her back lightly, and Casey jumped at the touch. Her reaction had startled everyone, and she realized that she needed to offer them an explanation-fast.
"sorry, I guess I was way into space out mode." Casey offered.
"oh, no, my bad" Olivia responded. Everyone slowly turned back to their personal activities as Casey cursed herself for freaking out like that.
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It was now 11 pm and the roads had still not cleared. The group had been there for 4 hours, just trying to pass the time. Olivia noticed that casey was ready to fall asleep, and gave her captain a look. Picking up on it, he responded.
"well the roads still look pretty bad, why don't we all hit the hay in the cribs" cragen suggested.
"sure, cool, fine" everyone agreed as they headed upstairs. There were more than enough beds to fit the group of 8. The door to the bathroom was on the far left. Melinda sat on the bed closest to the door, followed by Casey, Olivia, Elliot, fin, Munch, Huang, and cragen. It wasn't long before all were fast asleep in their beds. At around 1:30, Melinda, Olivia, Elliot, fin, john, don, and George were awoken by screams.
" Get off me! Stop it! Your hurting me! Help! HELP!" Casey's screamed as she wreathed around in bed. The group went into cop/doctor mode and jumped out of their beds in unison, running to the source of the noise.
"che-che, what are you doing? Get OFF of me! HELP!" casey continued to scream as the tossed in her sleep. The captain ran to the lights and flicked them on as the group processed what was going on. A nightmare. Only a nightmare. Everyone turned to Olivia, unanimously voting for her to awaken the woman.
"casey" Olivia said very gently to the young ADA," casey, it's ok, it's just me, Olivia. Casey?" Olivia shook the ADA a little to wake her up. Unfortunately, the red head could not at first realize that she had been dreaming, and immediately upon waking up, she slapped Olivia across the face and jumped out of her bed, pushing herself into a corner and muttering "don't touch me, don't touch me, don't touch me" to herself. Olivia quickly recovered and knelt down to the ADA.
"case? It's just me, Olivia. I'm not gunna hurt you, okay?"
"Olivia?" casey said beginning to snap out of her trance.
"ya." Olivia replied "you're okay. It was a dream. Only a dream." Casey suddenly realized that 6 other people had also witnessed the event and now she was panic stricken. "what did I say? What do they know?" She thought. She was so embarrassed that she promptly stood up and ran into the restroom, slamming the door behind her.
"what the hell was that?"Elliot asked.
No one had an answer.
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Casey sat in the SVU bathroom curled up in as much of a ball as her pregnant stomach would permit. "how could I let myself act like that? HERE! I'm so stupid! I shouldn't have thought about it. I never have nightmare about it when there's other things on my mind. I shouldn't have thought about it. IM SO STUPID!" Casey thought as he svu group again elected Olivia to go talk to her.
"Casey?" she heard Olivia call. "case, it's Liv. Open up honey."
"shit" casey thought to herself. "what now?" she decided to just try to come up with something on the spot.
Olivia opened the door and the pregnant women made an attempt to compose herself. She failed.
"oh-um, hey Liv I just, ahh, sorry" casey said, her face reddening with embarrassment.
"hey" Olivia said in her gentle voice- the one she usually reserved for terrified victims. "whats up?"
Casey shrugged. "just had a nightmare. Sorry for waking you guys up."
"about what?"
"just, nothing"
"it didn't sound like nothing"
No response.
"case? What was your nightmare about?"
Shit. Now she had to think of something on the spot. But she was blanking.
'i-oh-ahh, the baby" she blurted out. They were both confused with her answer.
"what about the baby?"
"that ,um, someone kidnapped the baby. After it was born. And I never got to see it." Casey answered, completely lying through her teeth.
"oh. Anything else"
"no"
"you sure?"
"why"
"when you were yelling, well, um, were yelling about someone hurting you."
"oh"
"so?"
Casey shrugged. "I'm not really remembering all of it anymore."
"casey… just, get some rest. We can talk in the morning."
"I actually think I'm just gunna grab a shower and kick around" casey responded.
"ok. I have some jeans and a tee in my locker if you want then." Olivia offered.
"thanks liv, but I doubt they'll fit" casey said, gesturing to her stomach.
"oh right" Olivia said with a laugh "here, ill just see what I can do" she said with a smile.
"thanks liv"
"no problem"
"tell everyone I'm sorry"
"it's no problem. But I will" Olivia said with a smile