Title: Day
Summary: A sequel to Night, a story that I wrote after the SVU episode Ghost; and to The Talk, the most recent in a series of stories that I wrote after the ER episode Just as I Am.

Spoilers: ER - Just As I Am; L&O:SVU - Ghost

Disclaimer: I don't own any of these delightful characters.

Author Notes: a) I have no clue at all about how the Witness Protection Program works. So just a warning that probably most everything regarding the WPP will be wrong I'd bet... (Plus, I never really liked the Skinner character on X-Files) :)
b) I'm really trying to resist my urge to use Original Characters. We'll see how I do.
c) I'm making Judge Petrovsky younger than I guess what her age is on L&O. :)
d) Takes place about a week after the end of my ER fic entitled "The Talk". And a little while after my Law and Order: SVU fic "Night".


Susan frowned, and caught Kerry's eye as her boss practically flew by. "Kerry, you swapped shifts with Luka?"

Kerry nodded, "Feeling oddly motivated lately. Why? He had some thing or other to do with Alex, Sam's kid. He's really taken a shining to that boy. Can't be a bad thing."

Susan's frown didn't go away, but she mentally shrugged, "Just been a while since you've done any hard hours."

Kerry had started to move away, but paused at this and looked back, "It's a bit quieter in the ER at the moment."

Susan raised her eyebrows, "You don't have to tell me that. Cosmo is the most talkative baby in the world it seems. Now, if only I understood him..." She smiled. "Well, I'm not on for those shifts, but I believe that you'll have a gaggle of Interns and Med Students to do your bidding..."

Kerry raised an eyebrow, shook her head, and made her way towards the elevator.


Detective Olivia Benson wiped the rain out of her eyes again. A Yankee's hat slapped into her chest, she barely caught it before it hit the puddle and snow ridden ground. She glanced up, "Munch? Where's Elliot."

Detective John Munch shrugged, "Captain sent me over. Good thing I keep an extra hat in my backseat."

Olivia tried to get some of the water off her hair before she fit the hat to her head, "Thought you were an Orioles fan?"

One of his eyebrow's quirked, "That's why I gave it to you." Olivia nodded, "Hey, you okay?"

She gestured that Munch should precede her through the crime scene, "Five by five right?" This didn't seem to lift Munch's semi-worried frown, "I'm fine, let's get going on this."


"It's a bad idea Carl."

Carl removed his glasses, he still wasn't used to them, or to getting older. "Why? They're having difficulties with her over there. I apprised her of an opening, she..."

Kerry raised an eyebrow, "So, why do you think that she would work here...again."

"I..."

Kerry held her head in her hand, "Tell me you didn't talk to her."

Carl shrugged, "Right before this meeting. She laughed at first for some..." he shook his head, "...for some reason that she wouldn't explain. As for why she would work, she never had a problem with you... by the grapevine, you two seemed to get along swell..."

Kerry frowned, "Carl, does it occur to you that, our previous relationship is the reason that I don't think that it is the best idea to hire her."

"Would you have fired her for what she did?" Kerry shook her head negatively, "You and Robert are totally different people."

"But I would have suspended her... why am I talking about this, no, it can't work Carl."

Carl placed Kim's packet of information in front of Kerry. He tapped it twice, "Read the second cover letter..." he smiled, "It's a doosy."

Carl left the office, closing the door with only a whisper of sound. Kerry wouldn't have noticed if the entire hospital had blown up though. She had flipped past the standard fare cover letter, and was staring at the "second" one.

'Dear Kerry,' it started, 'Believe it or not, I applied for this job before your call last week.' Kerry frowned. 'I have learned from my mistakes, and believe two things to be true. One, Carl hates trudging down to the ER, which explains why he not so subtly told me of the opening. Two, my problem was never with you Kerry. Never. Kerry I don't want to get the job simply because I know you or anyone at County, but please let Carl consider my application.'

Kim had signed it with her usual flourish, and with the word love. Kerry sat back in her chair and closed her eyes. Could she start the roller coaster again. Because as much as Kim emphasized friends, friends, friends, Kerry knew that somehow they would wind up at odds, as friends or lovers. She picked up her phone and dialed Carl's extension. She didn't wait for him to say any pleasantries. "You get to consider her. Understood? And if this blows up in my face Carl, I'll replace you with Patriot."

Carl laughed, "Your dog..." there was silence from Kerry so Carl took a more serious tone. "Sorry, yes, you will replace me with your dog. Got it. Kerry, it will go fine. And thank you."

Kerry mumbled and hung up the phone.