Homicide

Disclaimer: I do not own Law and Order SVU or anyone you may recognize from Homicide: Life on the Streets. (Yes there will be character appearances.)

Summery: Fin only knew Lake for two years. It wasn't as if he had the time to get to know his ex partner. He at least knew bits of his ex partner of five years Sergeant John Munch.

Authors Notes: Although I have never actually seen the episode this plot bunny wont leave me alone. It plays homage to an episode off Homicide Life On The Streets, which stared our little Munchkin.

Chapter Two

"Cap, what the hell was that? Because it looked like Munch being walked out by two rats in handcuffs?" Elliot exploded walking into Cragan's office with the other two detectives following, in a stunned silence. Don looked up from the bit of paper he had been rereading wearily and looking much older than Elliot had ever seen him.

"That would be about the size of it Detective," There was a minute silence before anyone dared to speak again.

"What was he arrested for?" Elliot looked over at his partner and quite honestly he didn't know who looked more stunned, her or Fin.

"For the murder of: Gordon Pratt." There was a sharp intake of breath and Elliot knew it was Fin's. This was almost too similar to Detective Lake.

"Who the hell was that?" Fin quickly recovered, looking almost as blank as Olivia. However the name did ring small bells in Elliot's head but he couldn't for the life of him remember where from.

"It was a case that John did back in Baltimore a perp managed to shot all off a squad except for one, the guy who done it managed to get away with it and…" Suddenly Elliot remembered the story.

"The next day he was found dead... that was Munch's squad? I remember hearing it around the squad room apparently they suspected a few cops but the case remained unsolved."

"John was the one that didn't get shot." Don said simply, "and he was suspected for it yes but nothing ever happened with it."

"Until, today." Fin pointed out his voice turning dry.

"They never had enough evidence to convict anyone of that case. You lot really do need me to keep you out of trouble don't you?" A voice spoke up somewhat amused at the door. Olivia's eyes widened.

"Casey." She breathed. Casey nodded briefly at her and then turned her full attention to the captain.

"Alex was currently in trial when you called," Casey apologized, "she will be the primary lawyer on this case I'm just here saving Munch's arse temporary." The Captain nodded, never taking his eyes off his detectives.

"You're not to talk to any one what so ever about John, without Casey present." The three detectives nodded.

"So how are we going to get him out?" Fin questioned and Don started to say something but Casey spoke up before he could.

"You don't."

The silence was almost deafening as four pairs of eyes stared at her in disbelief.

"What the hell?" Casey's face turned almost pleading.

"Olivia-"

"No Casey answer, the damn question. What. The. Hell?"

"I'd answer it if you give me time to finish." She snapped back. The three men in the room where silent, watching the two females almost as if it was a tennis match. Olivia glared at the woman in front of her.

"If we want to get John out of this mess quickly and painlessly we've got to do this by the book. The less you guys are involved physically the more help you are to John."

"Bull shit. We know him, we've listened to his damn conspiracy theories for longer than you've been in SVU you know as well as I do that we're the best people to get John out"

"Olivia." This time there wasn't one voice there was two, in surprise she turned to the other.

"Don't tell me you're agreeing with this. He's your partner Fin."

"And that's the problem isn't it? You're worried we'll get too emotionally involved like we did with Lake" The last bit was directed at Casey who nodded.

"We'll help in anyway we can." Don finally spoke up. Elliot watched as his partner looked steadily at them all and then stormed out of the room without a word. He sighed.

"I'll go."

John was staring at the window where he knew two IBA's where watching him on the other side. He tapped his fingers somewhat impatiently.

"Would you people just come and question me?" He finally questioned out loud knowing fully well that they could hear him, "Or do you want my lawyer to stop you from getting answers?" Knowing full well he was going against his Captain's orders. He however tensed when he heard the door open and close.

"Well I'm glad one thing hasn't changed. You still can't follow your Captain's orders can you, Sergeant?" Munch inwardly groaned. Only he would be heading this investigation.

"Why am I not surprised you're heading this investigation."

"Why ever would you think that, Sergeant Munch?"

"Because only you're sadist enough to do so" He snapped letting his temper get the better of him. The door opened and closed with a bang causing the other two men to jump.

"Don't say another word, Sergeant." The brisk female voice caused John to nearly sigh in relief. Instead he just gave a smug smile at the Detective in front of him.

"Sergeant Gharty-"

"You made Sergeant? Didn't think you had it in you." John couldn't help but quip at the man in front of him.

"Could say the same about you Sergeant Munch,"

"What part of not saying another word don't you understand, Munch?" Casey snapped a moment later, "anyway as I was saying Sergeant Gharty, you will find that Sergeant Munch was cleared against all possible charges for this so called crime."

"New technology has been able to bring this case to light again and a testing of Sergeant Munch's gun used at the time of the murder has found that it was used in the shooting of Mr. Pratt." His mouth couldn't help but fall open.

"What?" He had tried to keep his voice in control. He hadn't thought about his gun in Baltimore. The one he had turned in when he originally left the force.

"Exactly what I said, Sergeant Munch would you like a hearing aid?" John couldn't help but bristle. He needed to keep control. Channel Olivia, not Elliot.

"I can hear perfectly fine." He finally got out, ignoring the warning look he got from, Casey. She however spoke before he could say anything else.

"Did you have a search warrant for Sergeant Munch's previous gun, Sergeant Gharty?"

"We didn't need to; Sergeant Munch's gun was already in the system due to a previous shooting. We came across a match when comparing the results." John froze, this wasn't supposed to have happened, "It was done by the book Ms. Novak."

John bit his lip. There was no doubt about it he had made a mistake and he was screwed in a big way.

To Be Continued.

Authors Note 2: Detective Gharty was a character from Homicide Life On the streets that had a rocky relationship with John. It's sort have grown since then.