Cutter's up to his old calculating tricks again, this time abusing the fractured psych of a young witness in order to get a testimony.
Disclaimer: I do not own Law & Order and its characters. Bethany Steiner is mine.
Rating: T, for themes and language
Old Trick
By LTP-girl
Prologue
His expression was serious, almost terse, lines forming on his brow. "Murder is wrong. And the right thing to do would be to do everything to ensure that this man is penalised for his wrong doing." His tone was insistent, somewhat sardonically teasing. "You want to do the right thing don't you, Bethany?"
She paused before she spoke, taking in and considering what he had just said to her. "Of course I do," she replied solemnly, as she stared down at the floor.
He stood from his chair behind his desk, and made his way towards the young woman, who was about to make her exit through the door of his office.
"You want people to pay for their wrong doings, don't you?"
"Yes, I suppose so." She felt her heart race for the second time, as the sound of the older man's footsteps got closer and closer.
He approached her stealthily, with an air of armour about him, and cornered her against the bookcase. He ran his elongated finger along her jaw line, steal eyes steadily penetrated into her soft oceanic ones, his gaze harbouring a slight dark coldness. "Bethany, I can see that deep down you are a very strong, compassionate, principled ..." He paused to place a stray lock of hair behind her ear, the scent of his cologne playing at her senses as the cuff of his shirt lightly brushed against her now burning and rosy cheek. "And beautiful person." His voice was low and alluring. "I need your testimony to put your mother's murderer in jail."
She steered her eyes away from him shyly, self conscious, aware that his steady glance was delving inside her. "Well, you are very persuasive, Mr Cutter," she replied softly, her voice shaky and slightly elated, her discomfort showing her awkward stance. He was merely inches away from her now, his lips nearly grazing hers.
The advances of an older man, a topic she had discussed immensely in many late-night conversations with her college friends, seemed exciting and wayward, the hint of danger in it all making it all the more enthralling, sexy even. And now that she had been seduced so scathingly by this well established and attractive attorney who was bringing her mother's killer to justice, she found herself panicking, like a deer with its leg was caught in a trap, paralysed, as if her feet had been nailed to the floor, fearful of what would eventuate if she didn't tear out of his office immediately. Yet, she found herself glued to the enigma that seemed to seep from Cutter, its power absolutely unavoidable, her feelings comprised of a field of incongruence.
An amused smile played on his lips. "Well I'm a lawyer Miss Steiner. It's what I do." He cupped her face in his hand, and gently tilted her head upwards, forcing her to gaze back up at him, as he slid his other hand around her waist and firmly rested it on the small of her back.
She felt herself starting to slip. She was so tempted to kiss him...
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