A/N: Whoa, you guys fell in love with this story rather quickly huh? That's okay, I'm glad that you guys like it. Now I must say, this will be a dual paring story with an A/C endgame, but there will also be a fair amount of Casey/JJ romance in the future, hope everyone will be okay with that, just push through, I promise you'll like the story. If you can read Game of Obsession and Dangerous Collisions, you can read this one :3

The Very Next Day

"This is ridiculous; I cannot believe that she sent me here by myself." Casey grumbles irritably as she and Serena make their way into the elevator of the precinct.

Serena makes a face and puts a hand over her heart in mock hurt. "So what…am I literally nothing to you? Jesus, I only decided to come because I didn't want you to be here alone, but since my presence is not appreciated."

"C'mon Serena, you know that's not what I meant. I just meant that Alex should have at least had the decency to come with me. I mean, she's the EADA, she's the one that needs the file, why couldn't she have just done this herself? I knew that I shouldn't have come into work this morning." Casey grumbles, leaning against the steel wall of the lift.

Rolling her eyes, Serena makes a noise that is a cross between a scoff and a snort. "You're so melodramatic sometimes, you know that? You realize that all you do is complain about Alex? 'Oh Alex made me do this, oh Alex made me do that, oh my god, Alex is to stubborn to blah, blah, blah,' You sound like a broken record. If she bothers you so much then why don't you just tell her? Then maybe you two will have hot steamy sex in her office and all will be well."

Casey's eyes bulge out of their sockets and she looks at the blonde with a look of utter shock and confusion. "Wh-what?!"

"Nothing, nothing, I didn't say anything." Serena recovers quickly as she steps off of the elevator with a confused Casey in tow.

"That didn't sound like nothing! What did you say!? And why are you so vulgar sometimes?!"

"Hey, I am a very mild mannered lil lady." Serena teases in a faux southern accent as she gives a little curtsey.

Casey stops walking and raises her eyebrows at Serena's way of speaking. "It sounds real and authentic when Abbie says it. It just sounds plain gross when you do it." she deadpans seriously.

"If you're going to compare my southern accent to someone else's, don't do it to someone who has a real one. A real one that is incredibly sexy…a real one that is incredibly sexy and gets heavier and heavier when she's mad…or when we're having sex and…god, is it getting hot in here to you?" Serena pants, her cheeks flushed a light pink as she fans herself with her hand.

"Something is wrong with you." Casey says shaking her head, as she takes the lead into the squad room, with the flushed blonde following close behind. Upon stepping into the squad room, the two attorneys notice about seven people that they've never seen before, and most of them appear to have guns.

"Whoa, I've never seen an FBI agent up close before." Serena says sarcastically as she takes a seat on Olivia's desk, earning her a scowl from the detective.

"You comfortable?" Liv mumbles sarcastically before she leans back in her chair, rolling her eyes when Serena sticks her tongue out at her. "Anyway, they got here this morning, and I already wish they'd leave. I personally think we could've solved this on our own, but of course the captain had other intentions. So now we have a bunch of Feds with sticks up their asses in our squad room. And to think I already didn't look forward coming to work."

Casey snickers quietly and shakes her head at Olivia's bluntness. "I'm sure that it won't be that bad. If anything just imagine you're working with Alex…and multiply that by seven."

Serena rolls her eyes and glances around the squad room once more. "What is she wearing…" she mumbles referring to the flamboyant blonde sitting at a table in the corner amidst several computers. "I've never seen so many colors in…I don't even know."

Casey glances up to see who Serena is talking about but instead of looking at the blonde at the table, her gaze is caught by the woman standing next to the table, having a conversation with a lean brunette. She involuntarily takes a sharp intake of breath when she sees the woman smile and run her hand through her straight, shiny blonde hair.

She's so captivated by this woman, that she doesn't realize that Olivia and Serena are speaking to her until she feels a pen connect with the side of her face. "Um, I-I'm sorry, wh-what'd you say?" she stutters out miserably, not exactly having any kind of clue on who was speaking.

"What were you staring at?" Olivia asks curiously.

"More like who were you staring at…" Serena says smirking as she follows Casey's former line of vision.

Casey shakes her head and turns back to busying herself with the file on the detective's desk. "Nothing…no one." She mumbles shaking her head once more.

Meanwhile…

"She still looking?" Garcia asks smugly with out looking away from her computer.

JJ glances at the redhead across the room out of her peripheral vision and shakes her head before turning back to Emily, presumably having a 'conversation'. "No, but she was though."

"It wasn't looking, it was more like gazing." The older agent teases snickering, causing JJ to scowl and swat her on the arm. "Hey, I'm just stating a fact. She was checking you out Jayje."

"Whatever. We're here to solve a case, not to find me a date." JJ mutters, folding her arms and shaking her head.

"Though that would be a bonus. When's the last time you went on a real date?" Garcia asks raising her eyebrows in question. "But all cheap shots at your pathetic loneliness aside, look at her, she's gorgeous."

Emily snorts and decides to add in her two cents. "Yeah, and you know you're a leg woman, and she's got legs that go on…and on…and on…and o-"

"Will you two shut up?!" JJ hisses, feeling like her two best friends have decided that it's more than acceptable to gang up on her. She turns her head again and sshe eyes the woman up and down. She's dressed in a knee length black skirt with a blue button down and a matching black blazer. Though JJ would never admit it to her best friends, the woman does have amazing legs and her heels seem to compliment them perfectly. In addition to her attire and posture, JJ eventually deduces that the woman is an attorney.

Taking a shaky deep breath, the blonde agent turns back to her best friends, to find the both of them wearing similar smug expressions. "I hate you two…I'm going to the bathroom…" she grumbles before exiting the squad room.

"Isn't she cute when she's flustered?" Penelope squeals, slightly pouncing in her chair.

"It really is fun to do this to her isn't it?" Emily replies with a well known smirk.

After having met the agents, and assuring them that her incompetent boss will eventually grace them with her presence, Casey feels the need to get away from off of these people; more specifically, she needs to get away from Serena who keeps looking at her with this overly smug expression plastered on that face of hers. She slips out of the squad room, hopefully unnoticed, and begins to make her way towards the restroom.

Just as she's about halfway there, she collides with another person that sends her stumbling to where she is sure she's going to fall. Instead, she feels a set of hands grasp her arms firmly to keep her from taking the inevitable plunge to the floor, and she soon finds herself staring into the cobalt blue eyes of the agent from the squad room.

"Whoa, sorry about that." JJ apologizes, helping the attorney steady herself. "Are you alright?"

Casey jerkily nods her head and releases her tight knit hold that she had on the agent's slender yet well toned biceps. "U-um, yeah. I'm terribly sorry, I really need to watch where I'm going."

The two women stay silent for a moment before JJ clears her throat and extends her hand. "Jennifer Jareau," she says properly introducing herself.

"Casey Novak…" Casey squeaks, shaking the blonde's hand.

"What is it you do Casey? Forgive me, but you don't exactly look like a detective."

"Oh, no…I'm not a cop or anything. I'm an ADA. I just stopped by to pick up a file to take back to my boss. "

"Oh, I see, that would make a little more sense. Um…would you mind giving me my hand back?"

Casey flinches and immediately releases her grasp on JJ's hand. Of course, she was completely oblivious to the awkwardly long handshake, and she can only begin to imagine the things that are running through the blonde's head. "Sorry…" she mumbles quietly, trying and failing miserably to hide the blush making its way to her cheeks.

JJ chuckles and smiles brightly showing off her perfectly whitened teeth. "It's fine, don't worry about it. So, um, I guess I'll see you around?"

"Yeah, I'll…see you…" Casey says, mustering a smile as the agent steps around her to make her way back to the squad room. Seconds later, like a ghost, Serena appears in front of her with that same smirk on her face. "Serena, don't you dare start."

Serena pouts and attempts to put on her innocent face. "I have no idea what you're referring to." 'Oh, Alex really isn't gonna like this.'

Panera Bread Café

"I really hate this restaurant…" Alex murmurs, glancing over the menu once more.

Kim snidely mimics Alex's complaint while Abbie settles on rolling her eyes. Of course Alex would find something to complain about; she always does. It's either to restaurant, the restaurant's food, the people who work in the restaurant, hell, even sometimes it's where the restaurant is located.

"You've never been here Alex." Abbie grumbles as she reads over her own menu. "Just try it, you might like it."

"Who puts chili in a bread bowl? That's repulsive." The blonde mutters to herself more than the other women at the table.

"Why didn't you go with Casey to the precinct?" Kim asks raising her eyebrows, suddenly feeling like she just put her foot in her mouth for asking such a stupid question.

Blue eyes shoot up from the menu before she quickly glance back down, dismissing the subject at hand. Sighing, Alex puts her menu on the table, and relaxes into her chair. "I just didn't want to go. I wasn't in the mood to deal with the FBI, and I only needed one file. I'll just meet them some other time.

Abbie snorts and ducks her head down behind the menu to hide her smile. "That's code for, 'I'm hopelessly in love with Casey and I can't stand being alone with her because I'm just that awkward'.

Alex scowls deeply and smacks Abbie hard in the back of the head. The exchange causes Kim to crack a smile, while the other two women glare hard at each other.

"All jokes aside, I hear that you haven't made a move yet." Kim states, once they've given the waiter their orders. "Don't you think you've put it off long enough?"

"I'm going to tell you the same thing that I told Serena. It's inappropriate, irrational, and completely pointless to do it when I know that she's going to say no." Alex explains blandly. "Now is that clear to the both of you?"

"What's clear to me is that Alexandra Cabot is being a pussy." Abbie says with literally no shame.

Alex narrows her eyes at the unnecessary use of her first name and she clenches her teeth so hard that she's sure they'll break. "I don't appreciate the name calling, Abigail."

"Well, if you weren't being a pussy, Alexandra, then I wouldn't have the need to call you one then would I?"

"Stop calling me that!"

"I'll stop when it's not true."

"What are you two, five?" Kim groans resting her head in her hand. "Honestly, sometimes the way you two argue, is like an old married couple. No, you're worse than an old married couple because old married couples are quiet about their arguments. I came here to eat, not to baby sit the two of you. If Alex wants to be a pussy then let her be a pussy, but there is no need to start dropping first name bombs all over the place just to annoy each other. Now that that's out of the way, in all seriousness, Alex you kind of are being a pussy…"

The blonde's jaw drops and d she immediately clamps her mouth shut finding it completely pointless to argue with her friends. Though she would never admit it out loud, she is completely and utterly terrified when it comes to the subject of asking Casey on a date. Worst case scenario is that Casey says no, but that worst case scenario is also Alex's worst nightmare. She's a Cabot, and Cabot's don't get rejected. But she's already broken that rule by being scared half to death.

Having lunch with Abbie and Kim at the same time must be hell and then some. Yeah, no, Alex's denial is only futile in her friends' eyes I'm afraid. Also, I feel like I've made Serena a little too smug in this story! Where the heck did that come from? Oh well, anyway, leave a review?