"Hey Alex, do you want to get some lunch with me before we have to go to court later?" Olivia asked entering DA Cabot's office. Cabot looked up from her paper work and remembered she had other plans.

"Uhm actually, I have plans for lunch today."

"Oh. I didn't know you were in a relat-"

"I'm not Olivia. I'm meeting up with a new DA that wants to talk pointers with me." Olivia sat down in a chair next to Alex's desk.

"I didn't want to be rude and say no so, I said yes. Obviously."

"Really…? What's so special about 'em?" Olivia knew how to be nosey.

"Well, she has very good credentials and-"

"She?" Olivia interrupted.

"Yes Detective Benson, She." Alex raised an eyebrow. "Is that alright?"

"Yeah, yeah." Benson cleared her throat. "I'm sure she'll be really helped out with any pointers you give her."

"Thank you Olivia." Alex looked up at the clock. "Oh Hell, I'm supposed to be there right now actually." Alex got up from her chair and grabbed her coat.

"Do you want me to drive you Lex?" Olivia said getting up from her chair.

"It's right around the corner. I'm going to walk." Alex noticed Olivia's sad expression as they both stood by Alex's door. Alex leaned in and kissed Olivia on the cheek.

"Bye Liv." Alex left the room and down the stairs to the side walk outside.

At the Diner

"Ah, hello Ms. Cabot!" The new ADA said with a smile as she stood up from the diner booth to shake hands with Alex who had just walked in. She had light brown wavy hair down to her shoulders with deep green eyes and had a lean body to match her tall height that was the same as Alex's.

"Hello to you too, District Attorney Monroe." Alex smiled brightly as she shook Monroe's hand. They both sat down.

"Wow…" Monroe brightly said. "ADA Monroe… does that seem like it has a great ring to it or what!" Alex slightly chuckled.

"Yeah, I guess it does." Alex stated leaning forward with her elbows on the table.

"Thank you, Alex." It was nothing but smiles from the both of them.

"What can I get you Miss?" The waitress asked towards the new customer sitting opposite of Monroe. Alex and Monroe looked up.

"Ah...um…" Alex looked over to Monroe. "What are you going to have?" Monroe looked up at the waitress.

"I had already ordered, Alex." Her eyes darted at Alex then back at the waitress. Alex slightly blushed at the fool she just made of herself.

"I'll just have coffee…black, no cream, but with milk, not a lot though, and can I have some sugar packs on the side? I like to put the sugar in myself." The waitress looked at Alex like she was drooling out the side of her mouth. Monroe silently chuckled to herself at the sight of Alex making herself look like an ass. Alex stared at the waitress until she turned around to go get her coffee order.

"Sorry that I ordered with out you, Alex." Monroe said laughing.

"It's alright. I was late on my account, not yours." Alex seriously stated. Monroe raised her eyebrow to go along with a sly smirk.

"Just late?" Alex then looked at her wrist watch. Her eyebrows jumped, not realizing how late she really was.

"Okay, fashionably late." Alex sighed giving off a small smile.

"Great!" Monroe slammed her hand on the table. "I love your fashion sense!" Monroe giggled. Alex frowned then smiled again.

"And what does that mean? ... Oh thank you." Alex leaned back in her seat so the waitress could set her coffee down then walk away.

"That means, no harm done. I love your fashion sense so, there are no hard feelings on your arriving time." Alex sipped her coffee.

"Are you always like this?" She asked playfully. Monroe studied Alex's face.

"No." Monroe said giving a big smile as she leaned back in the seat. "It's a treat for you to see me like this." Alex didn't know what Monroe meant but she kept her calm self collected. Monroe stared at Alex for a moment. Alex noticed and opened her mouth to try to ask what.

"Now let's get down to business." Monroe leaned forward and the smile turned into a serious facial expression as she put her elbows on the table.

"Okay." Alex sipped her coffee.

"I know I'm new and potentially inexperienced as a DA, and I know I don't know your personality yet, or any other of my colleagues…" Monroe leaned in closer. "But I need to know that I can confide in you, Alex. I've got no one else to turn to that's remotely close to my situation." Alex blinked a couple times before responding.

"Okay." She set down her coffee. "What can I help you with, Rachael?" Rachael seemed to hesitate before answering Alex's question.

"Before I became an ADA for SVU and I was just a Family Case lawyer, I had this thing for a co-worker that was in my district." Monroe's eyes looked down at the table and back up at the blonde woman. "We talked to each other but never really…you know, got along."

"How so?" Alex asked paying careful attention.

"Well… That doesn't matter." Rachael spoke softly. "But what matters is that I fell in love, hard. And I never got a chance to show it." Monroe looked down opening a packet of sugar she had in her hand. "I was still a Case lawyer when my co-worker was promoted to a high rank ADA in….a different district entirely." She sighed.

"It seems like you loved your co-worker very much." Alex said stating the obvious.

"Yeah. I really do love her." Alex almost had a heart attack from hearing what Monroe just said. "But I still haven't had the chance to say anything to her about it."

"Her!" Alex asked leaning forward. Rachael looked up from the sugar packet.

"Yeah."

"Why are you telling me all this, Rachael?"

"Well, I thought you would understand since you….ya know?" Monroe replied shrugging.

"No. What?"

"Well. I heard a rumor, and I thought it was true, that you're a lesbian and you had dated a woman detective." Alex eyes widened.

"What! Who did you hear that from?"

"It's all around my DA's building, Alex. Don't you know that? Oh wait. You're really not a lesbian…I'm sorry Miss Cabot." Monroe started to get up off the seat acting really embarrassed for calling her new colleague a lesbian.

"No. no. I am a lesbian." Rachael sat back down.

"And you did go out with Olivia Benson?" Alex was shocked.

"You know her name too!"

"Sorry, news travels fast in a building full of lawyers." Alex huffed.

"I've got to go." Alex decided and grabbed her stuff.

"No! Wait please; can you put in a good word for me?" Monroe pleaded.

"To whom?" Alex asked looking puzzled.

"To Casey Novak, of course." Alex was in shock again.

"You've fallen in love with Casey Novak, the SVU's supporting DA!"

"Yes." Monroe plainly stated.

"But you two work in the same building." Alex stated confused.

"Please, Alex. I really love her." Monroe put on some set of puppy dog eyes for the DA.

"Fine." Alex said stubbornly getting up then leaving for the door. Monroe sat at the diner table and watched Alex leave. Wow. Alex has real nice legs. She thought. But not as nice as Casey's. Rachael smiled big thinking of Casey then said thank you to the waitress who brought her her food.