A/N: Hey guys. I got this idea, and realized it just had to happen. Since I am almost done with Secrets That We Keep, this will be what will possibly be worked on with 'The Vow' since that one is moving a little slow due to idea issues.

Anyway, here's a little sneak preview to my upcoming story. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own any unoriginal character in this story. The originals are in fact mine.

Casey groans as the sun shines brightly through the window and directly into her face. God, she can't even begin express how much she absolutely hates morning; especially Friday mornings.

Okay so that might be a little weird, considering people typically hate Monday mornings, but for Casey, the fault does in fact lie with Fridays. Her reason being that it is the end of the week so she's more tired than usual and its like a taunting day. A day that is almost the weekend but not quiet. All in all on Fridays she just wants to sleep; and that it is exactly what she does.

Trying to get away from the horrid sunrays, she shifts one of the pillows to block the light and she begins to fall back into the oh so peaceful slumber she once occupied.

She then feels the bed shift a little and it lets her know that her girlfriend is stirring from her own slumber. Which means that she's probably going to have to get up pretty soon.

"Casey what time is it…" Alex mumbles groggily, her voice still laced with sleep.

Casey cracks an eye open and moves to where she can just barely see that clock. She red numbers on the object look blurry and she can just barely make out what it says.

"8:45…" She grumbles before she drops her head back on to her pillow, not thinking anything at all about the given time.

Upon hearing what time it is, Alex's eyes snap open and she quickly sits up in bed, staring at her sleeping heap of a girlfriend.

"Eight forty- Casey! We were supposed to be at work an hour ago!" she shrieks as she scrambles out of bed and begins running around the room.

Casey groans again and covers her head with a pillow, not liking being disturbed by Alex's noise, or just being woken up in general.

"No work…Casey sleep." she mumbles out, her words muffled by the pillows.

Alex huffs and stalks over to the bed before she violently yanks to covers and pillows off of Casey.

"Casey get up, we are almost and a half late! Why didn't the alarm go off?!"

Casey slowly sits up and yawns greatly before trying to remember whether or not she set their alarm before they went to bed.

"Um…I guess I forgot to set it?"

"You forgot to set it…" Alex repeats.

Casey smiles nervously and shrugs. "Oops?"

Alex groans loudly as she stalks away and begins to quickly throw her things together.

"I cannot believe that we are over an hour late, and I can't believe that YOU forgot to set the alarm. I still need to shower then I have to dry my hair. I was planning on getting gas this morning but obviously that is not happening because I have a meeting with Liz at…nine thirty." She rambles off as she realizes that Casey is still trying to wake up.

"Casey are you seriously still sitting in bed?! Maybe you didn't hear me the first time…WE. ARE. LATE. Get out of bed, go take a shower in the other bathroom, and get your stuff together. We are taking your car this morning because I need gas and I really don't have time to stop. Get up!" she says one last time before disappearing into the bathroom.

Casey groans again and rubs the sleep from her eyes. She glances at the clock once more and realizes that its nine minutes until nine o clock. And low and behold ladies and gentlemen, the reason that Casey Novak hates Friday mornings.

About fifteen minutes later, Casey all but sluggishly makes her way downstairs only to be met with Alex tapping her foot and continuously checking her watch.

It will never cease to amaze her how the blonde is able to do the impossible and become absolutely flawless in less than twenty minutes. Obviously if you look up time management in the dictionary you are bound to find a picture of Alex Cabot next to it.

"Are you ready, because we really need to go. I'm already going to be late for my meeting." Alex sighs for she hates being late to anything.

Casey nods and gives her girlfriend a peck on the lips as if to ease her tension. Obviously it does the trick for she feels Alex relax into the kiss but not to relaxed as to make them even later than they already are.

"I'm ready. And you worry to much." Casey says as she retrieves her car keys from the counter and makes her way to the door.

Alex sighs and follows, once again checking the time. Well, at least the morning can't get any more worse than it already is right?

"You have got to be freaking kidding me." Alex nearly shouts as she heavily rests her head against the passenger side window. Of course they would get stuck in traffic, because that's what always happens whenever Alex needs to be somewhere.

Casey taps her fingers against the steering wheel, realizing that they probably haven't moved at all for the past five minutes; and she knows for a fact that Alex is fuming because of it.

"We aren't moving…" she mutters out loud.

"Well no shit…Thank you for stating the obvious. It's your fault that we're late anyway." Alex retorts quickly, but quickly regrets it.

Casey grips the steering wheel tighter as she closes her eyes and takes a deep breath.

"I already told you I was sorry…" she mumbles irritably.

"I know…and I'm sorry I snapped at you. I just hate being late. I was supposed to be there…fifteen minutes ago, but it's not your fault. I'm sorry." she apologies. She's about to say more when her cell phone starts ringing.

"Hello…" she says curtly.

"You are laaaaaate…" Abbie says in a singsong voice only causing Alex to roll her eyes.

"Yes Abigail, I am well aware that I am late."

"Hey, don't go dropping full name bombs Alexandra, I was just saying. Did you forget our little meeting that we have with Liz this morning? You know, the meeting that was supposed to have started almost twenty minutes ago?"

"No I didn't forget I just…our alarm didn't go off this morning and now we're stuck in traffic. How mad is Liz?" Alex questions nervously knowing the DA is mad, its just a matter of how mad is she.

"She's pretty pissed. I mean, she came to work pissed and I think you being late isn't helping. I mean, she already gave me the 'wasting her time' speech and I'm the one that was here. How close are you?" Abbie questions.

Alex rests her head against the window and groans once again. "I probably ten minutes, but this traffic…"

"Is not moving…" Casey finishes off as they still remain stationary in the same spot.

Abbie shifts the phone against her ear and peers back into the meeting room where Liz is pacing and mumbling to herself.

"Well you better find a way to get here because the boss looks like she's about to blow her top. I can't stall for you, forever. You just better be ready when ever you do get here."

Alex huffs and mutters a quick goodbye before she ends to phone call. She all but tosses her phone back into her purse before she sticks her head out the window to see the intensity of the traffic build up.

"I can't do this…I'm walking." She mutters quickly as unbuckles her seatbelt, slips on her blazer, and begins gathering her stuff together.

Casey's eyes widen as she turns to her girlfriend who is obviously dead set on walking.

"Alex do you really want to walk that far in heels? Don't you think it'd be better to just sit here?" she questions trying to rationalize.

Alex shakes her head and leans across the consol before she quickly pecks Casey on the lips.

"I can't. I'm late. I'll see you at work okay?" she rambles before quickly getting out of the car.

"Alex wait!"

Casey rolls down the window and tries to call after her only to realize that its too late and she's too far away. She sighs and rests her head against the steering wheel.

"It looks like rain…"

Alex flies down the sidewalk in record time and she is probably less than a block away from the DA's office when the sky decides to open up and it begins pouring down sheets of rain.

She swears loudly earning her several looks from the people around her. She curses everything and anything that is in charge of the rain as she angrily makes her way to work.

A few minutes later she steps through the door of the office, angry and soaking wet.

"Uh…good morning Miss Cabot." Linda, the front desk secretary greets slowly. She doesn't need to know that she shouldn't strike conversation with the angry blonde who does nothing but utter a quick 'Morning' before she makes her way to the elevator.

Alex taps her foot impatiently in the elevator as it seems like its slowly creeping its way to her desired floor. When the bell dings, she flies out of the lift as soon as the doors crack open just enough for her to get through. She makes her way quickly down the hall only to almost literally run into Serena.

Serena takes one look at her soaking wet best friend who is red with probably both anger and embarrassment, with her blonde hair practically stuck to her head in soaked strands.

"You look like a wet puppy." The shorter blonde snorts trying and failing to hold in her laughter. She recoils however when she swears that she hears Alex growl in response.

"Right well…I'll just go…" She concludes shifting uncomfortably away from the glaring attorney.

Alex huffs loudly and continues to stalk down the hallway towards her office, but she thankfully runs into her assistant, Jennifer.

"Oh you're here! Um…I have been told to inform you that as soon as you got here you need to make your way to the conference room." Jennifer says nervously as she knows how upset Liz is.

Alex sighs and nearly slips on the puddle of water that her soaking wet cloths have created.

"Right…I'll be right there as soon as I change and…"

"You don't have a spare suit in your office…you used it last week remember?" Jennifer informs her.

Alex curses loudly once again only to earn her looks from several interns, attorneys, and secretaries.

"Fine…can you take my purse to my office." Alex mumbles as Jennifer takes her purse and she makes her way to the conference room.

Abbie snorts when she sees a soaking wet Alex appear in the doorway of the conference room. It takes everything within her to not burst out laughing in hysterics.

Alex enters the room and plops down in the seat next to Abbie, sending the brunette a hard glare, but not as nearly as hard as the glare that Liz is giving her.

"Glad you could finally join us, Alexandra." Liz says firmly putting emphasis on the word 'finally'. "You were not aware of our weather forecasts I see…"

"No…I was not…and I deeply apologize for being late. It was impossible to get out of the house this morning…" Alex apologizes.

Liz hums and glances at her watch. "Our meeting was supposed to have started…"

"Thirty minutes ago…" Abbie mutters as she still tries to keep from laughing at Alex who is blushing furiously.

Before anything else is said Liz speaks up and pulls her stack of papers into a stack. "Right. So shall we begin then?"

Fifteen minutes later, a very dry Casey makes it to her office. She feels horrible for being the cause of them being late to work, and she feels even worse knowing that Alex is going to get a pretty big ass chewing for being late to her meeting.

She dumps her things on the couch in her office, and plops down in her chair before she rests her head heavily on her desk.

"Rough morning?" says a voice from the doorway. Casey looks up and notices Alex's assistant entering her office.

Jennifer is a relatively nice person, though she does have a few flirtatious tendencies that Casey is completely oblivious to.

"I…yeah. I sorta forgot to set the alarm last night and it made Alex late for her meeting." Casey explains lamely.

Jennifer hums and leans against the corner of the desk. "She seemed pretty mad when she came in this morning, and Liz was pretty pissed that she was late. Not to mention she's soaking wet with out a change of clothes."

"Yeah I know…she sort of yelled at me in the car about it…I can only imagine what she's going to do to me when she gets out of her meeting."

Jennifer frowns and straightens up at Casey's dismissive comment. "She shouldn't do that. It isn't your fault that you accidentally forgot to set the alarm. You work way too hard, so you definitely deserve the sleep. She seems to yell at you a lot…"

Casey shakes her head and runs a hand through her long red locks. "Nah, that's just Alex being Alex. She's just…like that I guess. You learn to get used to it."

"Well she shouldn't yell at you the way she does. You're way too good to her." Jennifer says as she places her hand on top of Casey's. "You know if you ever need to talk about anything you can come to me."

Casey smiles at the blonde and nods her head. "Thanks Jen…"

Jennifer's smile widens as she gives the redhead's hand a squeeze. "Well you probably have a lot of work to do. So I'll get going. Back to being your girlfriend's slave." She says grinning. Her grin quickly forming into a scowl as she turns her back to Casey and exits the room.

Casey laughs at Jennifer's joke, only completely oblivious to the fact that Jennifer was only joking to humor her. That she was in fact serious. Casey is also completely oblivious to Jennifer's fascination with her, and the blonde assistant's utter distaste for her girlfriend.

Hope you guys like this little preview. Hope you look forward to the actual story. Leave a review?