Elliot, Rebecca, Munch and Fin were in the captain's office for a meeting.
"Since Olivia won't be with us for another six days, someone needs to take her spot as senior detective" Cragen explained as he sat at his desk.
"Was she suspended?" Munch asked
"It's for me to know and for you to never find out."
"We'll find out eventually" Elliot said "We rarely keep secrets."
"I decided that someone who has made improvement since she got here should take Olivia's place until she got back."
The three detectives looked at Rebecca and saw that she was stunned.
"What? You can't be serious."
"You've done a lot of things for this job, Turner. I think it's time to step it up a notch in your career, don't you agree?"
"I guess so..."
"Great" the captain interrupted "Fin and Munch, you'll be working with each other for the next six days."
"Yes, Funch is back in action!" Munch said happily
"Funch? What the hell is Funch?" Fin asked
"It's our names combined. Do you know that they do that with the fan fictions that they write about on the internet?" Munch asked
"No I don't, because I never go online."
The four of them walked out of the office and went back into the squad room as they continued to discuss fan fiction.
"Well if Rebecca was a popular character, the two of you would be called Beckin."
"Beckin?" Rebecca asked. She started laughing as she sat down at her desk "You're crazy, Munch."
"I wonder what you and the captain would be called, Munch" Fin joked "Wouldn't it be called Cragench?"
"No, that sounds lame" Rebecca said "How about Mungen?"
"Yeah, that one sounds better."
Munch only shook his head and went on the computer while Fin and Rebecca started laughing.
Rebecca helped Casey into her apartment. She didn't think Casey could leave the hospital today, but then again, anything is possible these days. Casey made herself comfortable on the couch while Rebecca sat next to her. She could only stay with Casey for her lunch hour, and then it was back to work.
"How's work?" Casey asked "I'm asking since I'm not there and won't be there for a few days."
"Olivia got suspended, apparently."
"What? Why?"
"I don't know. I know that I was defending your ass because Olivia was talking shit" Rebecca said "And I almost beat her up, but Munch stopped me."
"Good old Munch. I'm surprised that you didn't get suspended."
"I guess Benson got suspended because she started the fight and she started the altercation with the both of us."
"Well, she deserves what she got. I don't know why she was mad with me in the first place" Casey said "It was nice of you to defend me when I wasn't there."
"It's not a problem."
Rebecca's phone started to ring. She took it out of her pocket and flipped it open.
"Turner"
"Becky, it's Elliot. Where are you?"
"I'm at Casey's"
"The captain wants you back here in a few minutes. We have a case."
"Okay, I'll be there in a few minutes."
She shut her phone and looked at Casey.
"I need to go; I'm working with Elliot..."
"What do you mean you're working with Elliot?" Casey asked as Rebecca got up from the couch.
"I'm taking over Olivia's place for the next six days."
"That's an interesting thought; you and Elliot working together."
"I got to go. I'll check on you later, okay?"
Rebecca and Elliot were in the cop car, driving to their destinations. They were supposed to go to a couple's house to talk to them about their kidnapped child.
"I never thought that I could be a senior detective" Rebecca said "I never thought you were good enough."
"You proved yourself to Cragen, or else he wouldn't have asked you to fill Olivia's position."
"But I'm not Olivia. I'm not the person who can be compassionate with the victims but tough on the suspects. I'm tough on everyone."
"I think you can be compassionate outside of work"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean you've been there for Casey when she was in the hospital" Elliot explained "You helped her, I think. I wasn't there, so I couldn't say what went on or anything..."
Elliot parked the car and shut the engine off. They were at the house, and they walked towards it after they got out of the car. Rebecca was unsure of herself, because she knew she wasn't half the detective that Olivia was.
Elliot knocked on the door. A woman with brown hair and green eyes opened the door. She looked like she has been crying.
"Can I help you?" she asked quietly.
"Yes, I'm detective Stabler and this is detective Turner."
"You're here about our boy Chris, aren't you?"
"We'd like to ask you and your partner a few questions" Rebecca said.
"Okay, let me find her. Come on in."
The woman opened the door all the way and let the detectives in.
"I'm Samantha, by the way" she said as she led the way "You can sit in our kitchen while I try to find Allie."
Elliot and Rebecca sat at the kitchen table while Samantha walked out of the room to find Allie.
"This has to be the first time we worked on a case with a lesbian couple" Rebecca commented.
"Yes, it is. Do you have a problem with the fact that they're dating?" Elliot asked "I know that some detectives are against or uncomfortable with homosexual."
"No, I don't. I just think that this is going to be an interesting case."
The next day, Casey was back to work. She was sitting at her desk doing paperwork. As she was writing, she was thinking about how she was going to get back on track and treat her eating disorder. She was still under a lot of stress, and her disorder was the only thing that made the stress go away.
She heard the door knock. She looked and saw that it was Rebecca through the blind.
"Come in" Casey said as she looked down at her paperwork. Rebecca opened the door with a brown paper bag in her hand.
"You always make a great entrance in my office" Casey said laughing "What did you do, get me left -overs from your lunch with the guys?"
"You read my mind. I figured that you wanted something to eat."
Rebecca walked over to Casey's desk, put the bag on her desk, and sat down in the seat in front of the desk.
"Please tell me it's not your favorite dish" Casey said as she looked in the bag.
"Of course it is. I thought you liked the chicken caesar sand which that place makes" Rebecca said as Casey took the sand which out of the bag.
"So how's your job being Elliot's partner?"
"It's different" Rebecca said "Especially when you deal with the victims more than the suspects. I'm not as sympathetic as Olivia is."
"You have to admit that you're sympathetic though. I mean, you were right there with me in that hospital" Casey explained "I think the sympathy you do show is in your friendships."
"I think you're right...Casey, why aren't you eating the sand which I gave you?"Rebecca asked
Casey looked at the sand which when Rebecca asked that questions. There are so many calories and it will make me look fatter than I already am...
"Casey?"
Casey looked up at Rebecca. It looked like Casey was going to cry.
"Casey, what's wrong?"
"Nothing, I'm fine."
"You don't want to admit that you don't want to get help, right?"
"I don't want you to get mad at me..."
"I'm not going to get mad at you, but you're still making me worry about you" Rebecca explained "You have to be the closest friend I have here at work. If we were paired up detectives, we would be like Elliot and Olivia. I don't want you to go down the path that I went down when I started here."
"I know."
"What's really bothering you lately?"
"It's the talk about Alex Cabot, and how I'm second best here..."
"Geez, that Alex wasn't the best ADA when she was here" Rebecca said "I didn't like working with her. Believe me Casey; you're better than Alex Cabot."
"That's not what everyone else thinks."
"It's not worth losing weight if you're trying to have everyone shift their thoughts from Alex to Casey. You're a good ADA. Hell, if I needed a lawyer I'd ask you to defend me."
"Don't even think about asking me for a discount" Casey said with a small smile appearing from her face.
"I guess that's not my point. You can do this, Casey. Show that entire squad what you have in that courtroom. So far, the only case I've seen blown up in front of you was the Picard case."
"That was for a good reason" Casey said as she took a bite of her sand which "The only reason why I let Picard go like that was because I didn't want him in Louisiana."
"I see that you're eating the sand which."
"And I see that you're nagging me about it" Casey said "What else is new?"
