He knew she was hurting but, God damn, was she good at hiding it. He sighed and watched her leave his office broken hearted. The idea of getting her best friend back appealed so much to her she would have killed those drug dealing gang bangers herself. He smiled at her determination to get Alex back and took a twizler from the large bin on his desk. The ring of the phone immediately brought him out of his thoughts, he sighed and was brought back to reality
"Cragen, Special Victims Unit." He answered ready to deal with another case.
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"Shit." Alex muttered as she pulled up into the driveway in her house in Wisconsin. Two men suited up stood on her porch waiting for her. She made eye contact with the shorter one and killed the ignition. Last time the marshals came for her it was to testify against the man who had attempted to kill her, and then she was placed right back into her life as Emily Perry in Wisconsin. She picked up her purse and opened the door, ready for battle. What if they had found her? What if she needed to move? Fuck.
The nodded curtly to her as she moved passed them to open the door. She invited them in and they followed her into her living room. She motioned for them to sit down across from her. The taller, younger one sat in the overstuffed chair and put his briefcase down as he crossed his leg. The shorter one sat in a wooden chair next to his partner and took pictures out of his briefcase. He handed the pictures to her and she gasped looking through them.
"What happened?" The picture was an old abandoned warehouse on fire and the worst of thoughts flooded her head, was her family in there? Olivia? Elliot? Don? Fin? Munch? Fuck the anxiety was killing her, were they going after everyone important in her life?
"They're gone." The older one said taking the photos out of her hand and smiled at her, breaking the façade he was supposed to have at all times.
"They're gone?" She repeated slowly as if the information went through one ear and out the other. "If they're gone, and they were in that fire, what does that mean?"
"Well ma'am," The younger one said and she cringed at the use of ma'am, "Alex Cabot is no longer dead."
"I'm not dead?" She asked in the same manner as before. "I'm me. In which case I can go back to New York City, and…" She trailed off and looked up at them. She thanked them for letting her know and they told her they could arrange transportation back to her previous home. The program had sublet her apartment so she could have that back. Her life was back. Alex Cabot was born for the third time and it had never felt so good.
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"Cragen, Special Victims Unit." He answered ready to deal with another case.
He sighed, his mind still on Olivia and the way she dealt with the information given to her.
"Don, are you there?" The familiar voice prodded through the phone.
He couldn't place it until, "Alexandra?" He gasped in surprise. "Alex Cabot." He said softly, in amazement, more to himself then the person on the phone.
"Yes it's me." She said and he could hear the smile through the phone. "Alex Cabot. God does it feel good to say my own name."
"I heard about the fire, I figured it would only be time before you called me." He said leaning back in his chair attempting to grasp the situation.
"You thought I'd call you? You cocky bastard." She teased switching the phone from one ear to the other. "I was thinking about lunch, I know it's late notice but how about today?"
"How about now?"
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"Oh my god." He whispered as he embraced her, delicately as if she would vanish from too much contact. He pulled back and put a hand on each shoulder, she covered his hands with her own and smiled. "Jesus, I was so worried I was never going to see you again. And here you are."
"Don, I, just…" She was at loss for words as she saw the love in his eyes. "Thank you." She whispered squeezing his hands. "For everything, you were so good to me, I just never got a chance to thank you."
"Yeah well you were a heard headed bitch to work with sometimes." He said winking at her as he took a seat. "Sit, tell me all about your life in, where were you?"
"Please no." She said smiling. "There's really nothing to tell, I'm back. I'm back for good. I came back last night, spoke to MCoy. He said he'd let me handle sex crimes next to Casey. You're looking at the new Senior ADA for svu." She said proudly.
"When do I get to show you off to the squad?" He asked her after they ordered their drinks.
"I figured right after lunch, the sooner the better."
"Somebody missed you." He said and as he looked into her eyes he knew that she had missed Olivia just as much if not more
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"Wait here." He said excitedly pointing to a bench next to the entrance of svu. She smiled happy to comply, this was the happiest and most excited she'd ever seen him.
He put on his mean face and walked into the bull pen. Casey was at Olivia's desk discussing something, Elliot was typing up a report, Munch and Fin were arguing, everybody that mattered was accounted for. "I need your attention." He said with a hard face. Sensing the serious tone he used everybody looked up. "I found some freak loitering our halls, anybody care to explain?" He asked pulling Alex by the arm and shoving her through the doorway.
"Oh my god." Olivia shrieked running up to her with tears in her eyes. Alex welcomed Olivia with open arms and embraced her. "Holy fuck, it's really you." Olivia whispered into her neck. All Alex could do was nod for fear she'd burst into tears. She was in the arms of her best friend, it couldn't get better then this.
"Now, now, don't hog her." Elliot said approaching them. Alex opened up an arm and he joined their hug. Olivia who wasn't ready to let go clung to her right side for dear life.
No, scratch this, being in the arms of your two best friends was possibly the greatest moment of her life.
Finally ready to let go Olivia stepped back and let her hug Fin and Munch.
Forgetting Casey had already met Alex Olivia introduced them.
"We've met." Alex said shortly, the tension not yet resolved from her last visit.
Once Alex was done with everyone else Olivia was back at her side, clinging.
"Go." Don said smiling, with a twinkle in his eye.
"But I've already taken lunch." Olivia said confused looking between Don and Elliot.
"I don't want you back until tomorrow morning." Don said pushing the two out. "You both have a lot of catching up to do."
Olivia smiled thankfully and laced her fingers with Alex's.
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After a day of shopping, coffee, and catching up, they ended up in Olivia's apartment. She was making some pasta for Alex and herself. Alex had borrowed sweatpants and a tank top from Olivia and was sitting on the island in the middle of the kitchen, her bare feet dangled a foot or so from the floor.
Olivia turned to Alex and smiled, suddenly her eyes filled with tears. "Sweetie? What's wrong?" Alex asked leaping from the counter top to Olivia.
"I'm sorry." She said wiping her eyes with the back of her hand. Alex was one of the few people she could actually cry in front of. "It's just, I don't know, it's stupid, I thought I wasn't going to ever be able to see you again, I thought you were gone for good this time." She said as Alex pulled her to her chest.
"I thought so too." She admitted softly into Olivia's hair. "I thought so too." She repeated.
"But you're here now." Olivia said a little more upbeat. "Let's live it up." She exclaimed, pulling two wine glasses out from the cupboard. "Pick a wine." She said grabbing the strainer from a bottom shelf.
Alex picked a wine and poured them both a generous amount. She jumped back up on the island and took a few sips of her wine. Just then the buzzer for Olivia's apartment buzzed.
"Yeah?" She asked pressing the button.
"It's me I need to drop a few files off." Casey's crackling voice came through the intercom and Olivia let her up after telling her the door was open.
"Be nice." Olivia said to Alex after she saw her face.
"I didn't say anything." She said feigning innocence.
"Al." Olivia warned sipping her own glass of wine.
Alex twisted her face and stuck her tongue out which caused Olivia to erupt into fits of giggles. "Oh god." Olivia said trying to steady herself against the wall, still laughing. Alex was laughing as well now and they both didn't notice the open and shut of her front door, signaling Casey's arrival.
"Am I interrupting something?" Casey asked as she assessed the scene, maybe Alex really wasn't the hard ass everybody thought she was.
As soon as she noticed Casey's presence Alex's face was void of emotion.
Or not…
"No, not at all." Olivia said warmly as she turned around from what she was doing.
An awkward silence presented itself and the room was suddenly full of tension. Both lawyers and the detective stood not able to address one another; suddenly Olivia's phone rang. Seeing an opportunity Alex picked it up, "Olivia Benson's phone."
"One day back and she has you answering her phone?" Elliot asked light heartedly not aware of the tension occurring in Olivia's apartment.
"Yeah, I may be answering her phone, but she's cooking me dinner." Alex said with a twinkle in her eye, happy to be back and bantering with her best friend, albeit on the phone.
"Maybe I should stop by then." He said although they both knew he had plans to anyway.
Alex smiled at his remark and walked out of the room, the phone still glued to her ear. "Look, Case, I'm sorry…" Olivia began while watching Alex's retreating figure, "She'll warm up." She said with a hopeful smile.
"Whatever." Casey mumbled putting a file on the counter.
"Look, I know her, Alex and I hated each other at first, you and I hated each other at first, it seems that every good relationship starts out in a rough patch. She's not always the way people perceive her to be."
"Yeah." Casey said sadly, she knew Alex was and always would be the ice queen.
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