A/N: DEEPLY sorry for the numerous errors in this chapter, I'm sort of in a hurry. I'm going to try my absolute hardest and do everything within my power to get another update out today. If I was naming my chapters this one would definitely be called 'revelations' Hehehe. But anyway, hope you enjoy!

Casey opens and closes her mouth several times before she responds to her mother.

"Mom what made you…why did you…I don't get why…why so soon?!"

"Honey it would be the greatest birthday present you could ever give me. Please Casey?" Grammy says innocently.

Casey glances at Alex who is breathing harder than normal and looks like she's about to throw up. She then glances back at her mother and grandmother and decides that she needs to get rid of them quickly.

"Oh god…um…can Alex and I talk about this before any final decisions are made?" she pleads. The other two women nod happily and tells them to take all the time they need.

Casey watches them head out of the doorway and a few seconds later she hears her mother shout.

"Oh my god Katherine!"

Casey quickly moves to the doorway where she sees her mother and father trying to wake her sister who seems to have passed out in the hallway. She's willing to put money on the fact that Katherine fainted was because she heard the sudden wedding suggestion from their mother. If Alex wasn't in the room, Casey probably would have fainted too.

"Is she alright?" Alex asks shakily and still oddly green once Casey walks back into the room.

"She'll be fine…are you alright? You look like you're about to be sick…"

Alex slowly nods her head and tries and fails to steady her breathing. "I-I think…I…Casey this is soon….like…really soon…I don't know if…Is it the right decision? To do it this weekend?"

Casey takes both of Alex's hands in her own in an attempt to calm the blonde, and keep her from hyperventilating.

"We don't have to do anything that you don't want to. I agree that it is very sudden and to be honest I wasn't expecting it either." Casey responds, still pretty much in shock herself.

Alex takes a few deep breaths and the color actually returns to her face after a few moments. "If…you want to we can. If it would make your family happy, we can. I just didn't think about it, that's all..." and that she didn't. Alex has quickly found out that saying you're getting married, and actually getting married, are two totally different feelings.

"Yes my mom spontaneously announced that we get married this weekend….when I got home Abbie, it was a shock to me too…Alex? Oh my god she looked like she was about to be sick, literally. I swear to you she turned green…..she said if I wanted to we can and my vote is sort of annulled by my mother and my grandmother, so we probably will….gosh Abs, I mean, I'm fine right now but what about when…..please don't say that…yeah…we'll talk more tonight…no she doesn't suspect anything….hang up the phone Carmichael…." Casey hangs up her phone and collapses on to the couch from mental exhaustion.

Alex is sitting on the back porch gazing out at the large expanse of land when Grammy joins her.

"I hope I'm not interrupting." Grammy says hopefully. Even if she was interrupting something, she had no intentions of leaving anyway. But she is however grateful that Alex says that she wasn't.

"You're a very quiet young lady you know…" Grammy says honestly.

Alex snorts at the comment but she resists the urge to burst in to laughter. Not once in her life can she ever remember someone saying that she was quiet. Maybe it's because she's had some things on her mind lately…or someone…

"That is probably the first time I've ever heard someone say that I'm quiet…But thank you I suppose."

"Well I was only stating the obvious…I can understand why you're quiet around here though. Especially around Richard, that bastard. Not once have I seen that knucklehead do anything other than grill his daughters and try to make them in to things that they're not. He didn't want them to follow their dreams, but he wanted to morph their dreams in to his. He's a bastard you know."

Alex chuckles lightly and nods her head. "I figured as much. Is that why he hates me?"

"Most likely dear, he probably hates you because he sees you as a threat to him. The way you carry yourself shows that you're very proud, probably a little arrogant even. He doesn't intimidate you and he hates that. He likes being scary." Grammy states, her tone showing obvious distaste for her son in law.

Alex nods and decides not to voice the fact that Mr. Novak does actually intimidate her a little bit, but not anymore than a perp on a stand does, so the intimidation is very little.

"Glad to know that it wasn't anything that I've done." Alex says visibly relaxing into her seat.

"No dear it wasn't anything you've done. I in fact really like you, and I know Christine does too. It would be really lovely if you and Casey got married this weekend. Just give it some thought." And with that, Grammy makes her way back inside leaving Alex alone to her thoughts again.

Her loneliness is short lived, for probably not even a second later, Katherine steps outside and sits in the chair Grammy once occupied.

Alex eyes the teenager cautiously, and she's actually wondering if she should get up and make a run for it or not. Katherine sees Alex's curiosity and she shakes her head.

"I'm not going to murder you while we're out here, you can relax. I just wanted to talk. Can we um…do that?" she asks awkwardly.

Alex still doesn't take her eyes off Katherine but she nods her head nonetheless.

"Great…so…why do you and Casey have to get married? I mean, can't people stay together with out getting married?" She asks, trying not to sound too frantic with her questioning.

Alex blinks but still doesn't relax in the chair she's sitting in. This is in fact the question that she was afraid of someone asking, and now that it's been asked, she doesn't know how to answer it.

"Um…because…it's the next step in the relationship…" okay so maybe she could have said that a lot better than she did, but it was what came out.

Katherine folds her arms and quickly looks away from Alex.

"I don't want you to take my sister from me…" she says so quietly that Alex almost missed it.

This makes the blonde relax when she realizes how serious and sincere Katherine is being at the time. The younger girl actually looks sad, and sadness is a feeling that Alex had deemed Katherine void of…well sadness and every other feeling in the world.

"Sweetie, I'm not going to take Casey from you. You two are sisters and the bond that you two share is stronger than the bond that she shares with me, I promise. I'm sorry if I made you feel like I'm taking her away from you, because that's the last thing that I want to do."

"She's never home you know…and I feel like if she marries you that she'll just stop coming back all together. I'm sorry I was mean to you…it's just… with Dad and everything…do you know what it's like living in a house with a parent who expects too much from you?" Katherine asks seriously.

"Sadly I can say that I do. My family is a very powerful family and as I child I had to live up to the standards they set for me while setting my own, so in the end the standard turned out to be pretty high. My sister had to live up to that and now I'm pretty sure she's just like me, so yes I understand it's hard, but just know that you have an older sister who you can go to with anything."

Katherine nods her head and a small smile ghosts across her lips. "Can I have an older sister in law I can go to with anything too?" she asks hopefully.

Alex blinks in confusion for a moment before she realizes that Katherine is actually referring to her. "Sure, anytime you need anything I'll be here."

Katherine stands and gives Alex a sincere smile, not the evil smirk that the blonde has become accustomed to in the past two days.

"Thanks Alex." She says before heading back inside leaving a very confused Alex blinking rapidly once more. 'My god the demon child has feelings.'

Later

"Casey, I just don't understand why we're having dinner so early, I mean, it's not even five yet." Alex says as she follows Casey to a restaurant she hasn't been to. Deep down she's glad it wasn't the same one they were at the night before, a lesser chance of running in to Jenna.

"You complain about everything you know that?" Casey says as she steps inside the restaurant. "I know I said it was just going to be the two of us…but I lied, we're actually expecting someone." She adds as they continue walking.

"It's not Jenna isn't it…" Alex mumbles quietly but not quiet enough.

Casey stops and turns to Alex sharply, really not wanting to have this discussion again. "Are you really going to do this now? I thought we talked about this."

"You're right…I'm sorry. I just don't want to sit here and listen to that blonde bimbo gush over you all night…" Alex says as they approach their table, not noticing the person already seated holding a menu.

"Well I may be blonde but I highly doubt I'm a bimbo, and I supremely doubt that I will be gushing over Casey all night, my girlfriend may take offense to that." Serena says placing her menu on the table.

"Serena? Oh my god, what are you doing here?" Alex questions going to hug her best friend.

"It's a…long story. Liv is in the bathroom and Abbie actually had a phone call, I'm surprised that you guys didn't see her on your way in." Serena says spotting Olivia returning to the table.

"Yeah well Alex was too busy complaining so an atomic bomb could've been dropped and we wouldn't have known." Casey mumbles taking a seat, purposely distancing herself from the two. She isn't exactly going to let Alex's comment about Jenna slide all that easily.

Serena senses the tension at the table but it quickly vanishing when Abbie and Olivia return to the table, much to Serena's relief.

"Forgive me for asking, but why the hell are the three of you here?" Alex asks once they've ordered.

"We needed a good way to spend our weekend, duh. Why not come down here and crash a wedding?" Abbie says happily.

Casey listens to her friends talking but everything seems to be going in one ear and out the other. She doesn't really find herself having very much to say, and she fears if she does say something, it will just start her to arguing with Alex, and that is the last thing that she wants, especially in front of Serena, Abbie and Liv.

Even after the food arrives, Casey doesn't do much except quietly, absent mindedly pick at her salad. It's a gesture that doesn't go unnoticed by the rest of the table.

"Case, are you alright? You've been awfully quiet all night." Olivia states after a few minutes.

Casey shrugs and continues to stab the lettuce repeatedly with her fork, not eating any of it.

Serena stares at Casey for a moment before she turns towards Alex. "Lexie, come get a drink with me." she says standing and dragging Alex along with her.

"Baby can I come?" Abbie asks not wanting to be left at the depressing looking table. She starts to stand but shrinks back in her chair when Serena glares hard at her over her shoulder.

At the bar, Serena orders a glass of wine, then sets her steely gaze on her best friend. "Alex, you're terrible with emotions aren't you?" she asks rhetorically.

Alex blinks rapidly and shakes her head. "I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about."

"Alex, honey, you might be able to lie to a lot of people about a lot of things, but I'm not one of those people. So…how long did it take you?" Serena asks raising her eyebrows.

"…I really don't know what you're talking about, Serena." Alex tries to deflect once more. She knows perfectly well what Serena's talking about, but she's hoping that the other blonde will catch on to the fact that she doesn't want to talk about it. No such luck.

Serena scoffs and takes a sip of her wine. "You must think I'm stupid, that hurts Alex. So I'll just come flat out and ask it, that way you can't dance around the question anymore. How long did it take you to realize that you've fallen in love with Casey?"

Alex blushes and she feels her throat go dangerously dry. Crossing her arms, she quickly breaks eye contact with Serena, feeling her best friend's eyes peering into her soul.

"I…I don't know when it happened, or why…I just know that I don't know how to deal with this." She mumbles, more to herself than to Serena.

"So…have you told her? Does she know?" Serena asks only to earn a head shake. "Well…maybe you should tell her? She told us what's going on, and if you think about it, it should make marrying her that much easier. So what's wrong?"

"What's wrong is I cannot do this to her, not when…I know that she doesn't love me. I've been selfish and foolish and it's catching up with me. I was never supposed to fall in love with her, but I did and now…she deserves better."

Serena sighs and glances over at the table before turning back to Alex. She knows for a fact that her best friend has never been in love with anyone, and it doesn't surprise her that Alex has absolutely no idea what to do about the new feeling. It's almost like learning a whole new language.

"I can't say that I know what you should do, because I don't, and I can't make you do anything. Honestly, it's just a little weird to see you look at her like a love sick puppy. What exactly did you two fight about this morning?"

Alex sighs and takes a sip of Serena's wine before handing over the glass. "Last night we went to dinner, and ran into one of her exes and I think I got jealous, so I pretty much ignored her for the rest of the night. This morning, she yelled at me, told me I was and I quote 'arrogant, ignorant, and irresponsible'. I guess it takes someone to point it out to realize what you actually are…"

"We all have a tendency to be all of those things…some of us a little more than others. But look, you do, what your heart says do, that's all I'm going to offer. I'm not Abbie, so I'm not going to try to instigate and end up making things worse." Serena says recounting the countless times her girlfriend has caused trouble with her instigation methods.

Alex laughs and agrees. "I guess, you're right. Can you do me a favor and not tell the others that we talked about this?"

"I promise Lexie."

Back at the table, Olivia and Abbie are trying and failing miserably to hold a stable conversation with Casey.

"So do you want to get married this weekend? You realize that's literally only…two days." Abbie asks curiously.

Casey shrugs and sighs heavily. "Does it matter anymore? My family is already expecting me to because they want me to, so we might as well. I'm sure Alex is going to agree, so it'll just be a quicker way to make sure she says in America. And you have no idea the kind of damage my mother can do in two days. If she were to have her way, Alex would be walking down the aisle tonight…" Casey responds cracking a small smile.

"Wooow, life is tough down here." Olivia murmurs. If anyone had told her that her two ADA's would be getting married to each other, she would have had them hauled in for psychotic question. So imagine how she felt walking in to Alex's office, only to find Abbie there filling in, and then being told why she was filling in. Olivia thought she was going to pass out that day. At least things make a lot more sense now.

"You shouldn't invite us, so we can crash the wedding." Abbie says mischievously rubbing her hands together.

"You know that won't happen. Alex is probably going to want you guys to be bridesmaids and then you'll have to wear pretty dresses and flowers in your hair." Casey says dreamily.

Abbie and Olivia look at each other and then look back at Casey with similar looks of disdain plastered across their faces.

"Yeah, about that…I don't do dresses…" Abbie says voicing her disgust.

"Oh please, I bet Serena has to fight you every morning to get you in a skirt. I don't mind a dress, it's flowers in my hair that are a no go." Olivia says, her disgust matching Abbie's.

Casey shrugs and pushes her plate away not feeling hungry any more. "You two could wear potato sacks for all I care. I just know that since we're doing this, the three of us are probably going to be spending the day doing wedding stuff tomorrow. Yes, I did say the three of us." Casey says staring at the other two women.

Both women groan and sink down in their seats. Neither of them having the intentions of being apart of the wedding party.

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