Another short chapter. I decided to skip the trial because of my very very limited knowledge of courtroom proceedings, but this is second best to being there.

Finally! The Senior Prom Incident revealed! Bam-ba-ba-ba-ba-BA!

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Chapter Nine: Olivia

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Olivia knocked sharply on the ADA's door, absently straightening her jacket. "Come in," Casey's voice called, and Olivia pushed the door open and shut it behind her.

"Yes, Olivia?" Casey said, closing a book she'd been reading and standing up to put it back on it's shelf.

"You heard about the trial?" Olivia shoved her hands into her pockets and leaned against one of the bookcases that lined the room.

"I did." Casey grinned hugely in triumph. "Gina called me. Guilty on all counts."

"Yeah, he'll be in Rikers for the rest of his natural life, if the People don't appeal for the death penalty."

Casey shook her head at that possibility. "Gina's exact words were, 'I hope to God he gets raped everyday there.'" Casey smiled at her sister's usual blunt way of speaking. "That's Gina's idea of justice, and I admit, it's not a bad one. Homophobic asshole actually called her a dyke while he was on the stand."

"Yeah, he really did jump into his own hole, didn't he?" Olivia said, regarding Casey with a slightly bemused expression.

Finally, Casey took the bait. "All right. What?"

Olivia grinned. "You kissed the football captain's prom date? You?"

Casey groaned and turned away, but not before Olivia caught the blush that spread over her face. "I'm gonna kill Gina."

"Oh, I won't tell anybody. This is too good of a blackmail to pass up. Gina has pictures, by the way." Olivia grinned even wider at Casey's discomfort. "I'm sorry, but doing something that bold really doesn't strike me as the kind of thing you'd do."

Casey shrugged and leaned against her desk. "If you must know, I had been eyeing Heidi Matthews since freshman year, and it was worth the black eye her date gave me just to have her kiss me back. Of course, I did get suspended for fighting on school grounds, and had to miss graduation, but still... worth it." Casey nodded, with a smug expression on her face, then looked at Olivia. "So. Now you owe me a secret."

"I do?" Olivia's eyes widened. "Says who?"

"Says Gina's laws of secret keeping. And since it was Gina that told you my secret, we have to stick to her laws." Casey grinned in satisfaction, for Olivia knew she had to be blushing.

"Okay," she said, figuring two could play at the discomfort game, "You want a secret?" She took a couple of steps foward, until the desk was the only divider between them. "I'll tell you where I got my first kiss."

Casey cocked her head so that she was looking up at Olivia, an attitude Olivia found cat-like and alluring. "Do tell."

"Janie Stratford lived down the block from me when I was in eigth grade. Her little brother had a tree house in their backyard. One day, he took Janie's diary and hid it in there, and she convinced me to help her look for it." Olivia grinned, remembering. "It was a very small treehouse."

"The little minx!" Casey said, chuckling. "Was there ever really a diary?"

Olivia raised her eyebrows suggestively. "Well, we never found it."

"I wouldn't have either," Casey said, with a devilish look in her eyes. That was all the warning Olivia had before the ADA leaned over the desk and kissed her.

Heaven. Olivia seriously considered not ever moving for the rest of her life, food water and oxygen be damned. Then Casey's phone rang, and they jumped apart like startled teenagers. Casey gave her a look that went straight to her knees, cleared her throat, and picked up the phone.

"Casey Novak," she said, more than a little breathless, and Olivia hoped that whoever it was would ignore it.

But the person on the other line knew Casey a little too well for that, and Gina's crow of delight caused Casey to hold the phone away from her ear. "I knew it! I knew it! I knew it!" she yelled so loudly that Olivia heard. "Ha!"

"You knew what?" Casey asked, giving Olivia an amused glance. Deciding that it was safe enough, Olivia skirted around the desk and kissed Casey again, swiftly, then trailed light kisses down her neck.

"You know exactly what I'm talking about, and so does Olivia, who I know is standing right there. Hi, Olivia!"

"Hey, Gina," Olivia said into the phone. "Do you think you could call back later? Casey's a little busy right now." There was an audible click as Gina hung up as fast as she could.

"My sister has the worst timing," Casey muttered.

Olivia chuckled. "At least she knows when to shut up." And Olivia proceeded to shut Casey up.

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