A/N: Here we have it people. The next installment of my little crazy series. Now if you're new to my little SVU world, I'll fill you in. It all started with Like Father, Like Mother, Like Me. Then we asked the question of Who Am I? Then we saw the Start of Something Good. Then we spent The Weekend From Hell. After that we were Falling Up. And then we took another look at Who Am I? Again, which answered a few questions, well ones that I had. Now we are starting our next part of this saga with Classes, Cases and Chambers.
Summary: Things continue on in the life of Olivia, she continues to grow within herself. We see how things progress with her relationships with the different people in her life. This story will also have more an emphasis on Alex, and what she is up to know that she is back.
Classes, Cases, and Chambers1.
Olivia Benson sat in the back of a lecture hall at Hudson University. The professor was going on about how the midterm would be set up.
A few stragglers came in.
Olivia noticed one of them, a young Hispanic man she kept her eye on him. He sat in the front row. Eyes fixated on the professor. A few of the other students gave him sideways glances, like they had never seen him before.
Glancing at her watch she sighed, her shift started at 11:00 it was now 9:35.
She and Fin had been partnered up all week on a low profile, but intense case. They spent long nights going over evidence and talking to the victim her family and a few suspects. Last night they nailed him. Cragen told them to come in for a late start shift on Thursday. This worked perfect for Olivia.
Another student straggled into the room through the back door and took a seat next to Olivia.
"What did I miss," she whispered.
"Midterm info, she is starting her lecture now."
The professor looked up that way and glared at them.
"Have something to say ladies?"
"No" was the simultaneous response.
Olivia blushed slightly. Damn, she though, there was no way she could do this now. She focused on the job and she could feel the heat reduce.
Olivia returned her attention back to the young Hispanic man in the front.
The suspect was moving in his seat a little, she was keeping an eye on his hands. They seem to have produced an object, she couldn't do anything until she was sure it wasn't a writing utensil.
The professor had started putting up overheads of different forms that were needed to be filled out at the police station. From what Olivia could tell, they were on the topic of processing, and what roles the District Attorney and the Defense Attorney had during the first part of the process. The midterm was about what a prosecutor was what a defense attorney was, what the different parts of the system were called and how they worked. Now they were getting into how everything worked together.
There it was, just as the professor had turned her attention to the over-head projector the kid made his move. He grabbed reached the woman and pulled a knife on her, grabbing her from behind. She let out a yelp and became rigid. The students in the class sat shocked for a moment. Then they started to scramble a bit.
Olivia got up quickly, as the event was happening.
"NYPD! Everyone just calm down."
She took a few more steps down toward the front of the hall.
"Sir your going to have to give me that knife."
"No, she has to pay."
" Sir we can talk about this, I'm sure there is another way."
"No, she sent my brother away. He got a kid, and a woman to support."
"Listen, you don't want to do this. Hurting an Assistant District Attorney is no way to take care of it."
"No! it has to be this way."
"Listen, what's your name son."
"Miguel. Miguel Sandoval"
"Alright Miguel, lets give me the knife okay."
She inched closer to the confrontation. The entire class was silent behind them, they couldn't believe what was happening.
Miguel brought the knife tighter to the ADA. Olivia drew her weapon.
"Miguel, you don't want it to go down like this, not in front of all these people."
She inched a little closer once she thought that Miguel wouldn't push the knife any further.
She grasped his hand and drew it and the knife away from the ADA's throat. His hand went limp and she was able to take the weapon away. She reached behind her and unclipped her cuffs and replaced her gun. Turning him around she placed the cuffs around his wrists.
She placed a hand on the ADA's shoulder. "Ma'am, do you need any assistance."
"No, I think I'll be okay." Olivia nodded.
"Miguel Sandoval, you have the right to remain silent, anything you say can and will…" the door shut behind Olivia and Miguel as they waited out in the hall.
"Nice job Sandoval, had me convinced." Olivia took her keys and undid his cuffs.
"Well I did minor in theater when I was in college."
"Theater?"
"Hey it came in handy didn't it."
"Yeah." Olivia's face lit up in a smile.
/Meanwhile inside the hall/
"What just happened here?" the professor asked as the door shut behind Olivia and Miguel.
"Oh my God Professor Cabot are you okay?" One student in the front row asked with panic in her voice.
"Yes I'm fine." Alex smiled at her students. "What just happened here?"
"You were attacked. And that police officer got him." Another student spoke up.
"Right, what do you suppose she was doing here."
"She was tracking him I bet." A young man from the back surmised.
"Alright, so our officer was following a lead?" Alex questioned her students.
"Yeah." The students answered.
"Okay, what is going to happen now?"
"She like takes him down to the station place and like start questioning and processing him." A girl from the second row gave the answer. Alex cringed, she was a really smart girl but she needed to learn how to articulate if she was going to be a lawyer.
"That's right."
"Okay guys lets have them back in here shall we." Alex knocked on the door, as if it were the interrogation door.
"You mean they are still here?" the girl who asked if she was okay, said as the door opened again and Olivia and Miguel re-entered the room.
"This here is Detective Olivia Benson with NYPD SVU Manhattan." She walked up to Olivia.
Then she moved over to Miguel.
"And this, Is Detective Miguel Sandoval with NYPD Narcotics Manhattan."
"You tricked us?" a student asked.
"No, I was doing a demonstration about how officers react to situations. We talked about last class about how an arrest was made, this is one scenario that could happen."
"What about the knife?" A student asked.
"It was an Academy training tool." Miguel took out the knife again and displayed that it was a fake, a realistic looking fake.
"Was the gun really loaded?"
"No, this is also an Academy training tool, if I were to fire it there would just be some smoke from a reaction that simulates the kickback of a gun." Olivia answered the student.
"What is the rest of the speech you were giving as you were leaving."
Olivia looked at Alex with a questioning gaze.
"We talked about it three weeks ago. You tell me." Alex told the student.
"I wasn't here." The kid looked down at his feet, caught.
"Well maybe your classmates could help you out."
"They were the Miranda Rights." Another student spoke up from the back.
"Right." Olivia told them. "We have to carry a card with us, and produce it when we are giving them the rights. It says here on the card: 'You have the right to remain silent, anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law, you have the right to an attorney, if you can not afford that right one will be appointed to you, do you understand these rights."
"Do you have to memorize them."
"It helps." Miguel answered.
"Well class is almost over so why don't you go a little early today and I'll see you next Tuesday, keep up with the reading" Alex added quickly as almost everyone fled the lecture hall at once. Others stayed behind taking their time.
Alex started gathering up her things. She turned to Olivia.
"Thank you so much for doing this."
"Hey it was fun, and besides nice excuse to see you. We haven't seen each other is days."
"Yeah I know, do you have time for a late lunch?"
"No actually I don't I got a call from Cragen that when my shift starts I have to meet Elliot on the lower east side to question a new case, he is gathering the info right now."
"How about dinner?" Alex asked hopefully, she felt that they needed to talk, just see each other.
Olivia thought for a moment leaving Alex in suspense, "Yeah, my place, yours, out?"
"Your place sounds good, mines a mess."
"What makes you think mine is any better."
"I know how you are after a bad case, clean then bath then bed."
"Alright, you got me." Olivia swatted at Alex's arm.
Alex looked at her watch. "SHIT."
"What's wrong?" Olivia asked alarmed.
"I have to be in Judge Petrovsky's chambers in 30 minutes about Munch and Elliot's case from last week, we finally made it through jury selection and now there is a problem with some of our evidence according to the defense and were are having an in-chambers meeting, ahhh, I have to go, I'll leave a message on your cell about later." Alex said in one big breath and breezed out of the room.
"Okay," Olivia called out to the fleeing ADA.
"Ready Benson." Miguel asked.
"As ever."
The two of them headed out side and climbed into a sedan. Heading back to first Narcotics for Miguel then over to SVU for Olivia. The day was going to drag, she could feel it already.
A/N: Well its kinda short compared to some of the stuff I write. I just wanted to get this out I guess. Don't worry the story is not going to be three or four (as I'm known for) chapters of just one day, however the next chapter will start with…. Cabot getting to Petrovsky's chambers (You know I have to have that conversation in there.) so in other words stay tuned.