You and me always

It's been over 2 years but the muse is starting to return, sincere apologies if my writing is a bit rusty.

Continuing with the adventures of Maddie and Casey.

Chapter 1

Weddings were meant to be easy, or at least that's what Maddie Madison always thought. She remembered her father's wedding, standing there in the frilly dress that her stepmother allowed her to change out of the moment the last photograph had been taken, there was nothing complicated about that day, the only real problem had been getting Maddie into the awful dress in the first place. And then came her brother's wedding, again as far as Maddie saw it was simple, the two families coming together to celebrate the special occasion, this time without the frilly dress as Mitchell had been wise enough to instruct his future wife to let his sister pick her own dress. Friends of Maddie had gotten married without any fuss at all, some eloping, some going to Vegas, others having massive parade like days without any fuss whatsoever. Which is why when sat trying to organise her own wedding Maddie was seriously considering murdering the wedding planner that her beloved had decided to consult, things just kept on getting complicated and Maddie was willing to bet her badge on the fact that it would keep getting more expensive the more complicated it got.

"You said and I quote, 'money isn't an issue.'" Casey said angrily walking out of the planners office half an hour later and hailing a cab. Raising her hands to the sky in disbelief Maddie sighed before getting into the now pulled up cab beside Casey.

"Yeah I did, but what I didn't realise was that you'd take that literally and start planning something that Elton John would consider too sparkly." Maddie hissed pulling her phone out of her pocket as she felt it start to vibrate. Casey went to argue back but Maddie held up a finger to stop her making the red head even more furious. "Madison ... Ok I'll meet you there...Driver could you stop here please?" Maddie asked before turning to Casey as the cab stopped. "We can finish this later and you can go mental at me all you want, but right now I've a case so will see you at home." Pecking Casey on the cheek Maddie got out of the cab and began jogging down the street away from the now seething attorney.

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"That bad?" Olivia asked spotting Maddie's expression as she arrived at the scene of their latest case.

"Not helped by me finally speaking my mind, shushing her and then running out of the cab." Alex admitted to Olivia's amusement, she knew Casey would be somewhere between apoplectic and furious right about now. "So, what do we have?" Olivia filled her in on the details as they entered the building where the attack had taken place, the state of the room making both women feel ill.

"I'm going to see what I can get from the vic at the hospital." Olivia said not wanting to stay in the room a moment longer than she had to.

"I'll help sort this place out, best call Casey to tell her to save the rant for the morning." Maddie replied dryly.

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Casey was fuming when she got home from the office that evening, lunch with the wedding planner had been a disaster with Maddie complaining about the cost of everything, and then she shushed her before abandoning her uptown to go work on a case. Whilst she completely understood the nature of her other halves work she didn't necessarily like it, and right now she downright hated it as she couldn't vent her anger out on anything except the batting cages.

On her way to the cages her phone beeped, Maddie was telling her she was going to be late and to not wait up, it was a bad one. The words did nothing to help calm Casey down and knocking some balls into next week didn't make any difference either. Going home she sank into a hot bath with a large glass of wine and made an early night of being home alone, the wine and exercise making her sleep soundly until she was woken up by Maddie.

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5:47am, once upon a time Maddie would have said creeping in at that time in the morning meant the night before had been a good one, not so much anymore, now she was dreading the reaction she was going to get. Finishing up at the scene had taken ages, there was so much mess, then she'd gone to the hospital to help Olivia finish up before the pair of them had wound up in interrogation with their lead suspect just after midnight, and a confession in full coming through at 1am. The case had been an open and shut one but the mess had really gotten to the two women, Maddie simply couldn't clear her head of the images, neither could Olivia as the two of them sat there writing up the paperwork. Tears of frustration began to fall down Olivia's cheeks as she closed the case file and looked up at Maddie who was sat watching her.

"I can't look at this anymore." Olivia sighed, "I need to get out of here". She added pushing her chair away from her desk and standing up.

"Ok, what do you want to do?" Maddie said mirroring Olivia's position. Olivia threw her a puzzled look before Maddie told her she wasn't going off anywhere alone at that hour.

"Just escape. Get away from here for a few hours, be normal." Olivia replied.

"At 3am?" Maddie asked and Olivia nodded. "Ok, grab your coat." Maddie answered.

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