A/N: Enjoy, I hope to have one more chapter posted tonight.
Monday Early Evening
Casey stood in front of her bathroom mirror putting on her make-up as she got ready for her and Alex's dinner celebration at Abbie and Kim's. As she carefully applied her mascara Alex walked into the bathroom looking a little flustered. The blonde had been on the phone in the other room when she got out of the shower not too long ago and now she wondered who had caused her fiancé so much distress. Worried Casey stopped getting ready and turned to look directly at Alex, "What's wrong?"
"You won't believe who I just got off the phone with…" Alex began. "Who?" Casey asked with concern in her voice as she leaned against the counter.
"Our mothers!"
Casey's jaw dropped at the information. Pulling it together she clarified, "What? Both of them?"
"Yes Casey both of them, as in they are together. Your mom was so excited about our engagement that she drove up from Virginia and is staying with my mom right now. They are planning Casey…planning our wedding…as we speak this minute! They are planning our wedding. I can't handle this you have to put a stop to it right now. I mean this is…" Casey stops Alex's rambling outburst with a kiss. At first Alex is caught off guard and then she kisses back. They take a minute to share a few soft kisses just enjoying each other before Casey breaks the lip lock.
"Alex, do not worry. I will take care of it. It's our wedding. We can plan it and then let them help make it how we want it to be, that way everyone goes home happy." Casey says smiling.
Alex closes her eyes while shaking her head as if she is trying to clear it. Opening them again she adds, "Casey they want us to have dinner with them tomorrow night at moms so they can start planning with us. How are we going to get out of that?"
Going back to finishing her makeup Casey assures, "Don't worry. Tomorrow morning we can go buy some wedding magazines and have breakfast at the bagel place. Over coffee and bagels we can hammer out all the important stuff like place, what colors we want, location and cake. Then we can tell them that stuff and let them take care of the rest. It's super easy that way all we have to take care of is our outfits and we are done."
"I wish I was as confident as you are but I'm not. We can try it your way though."
"Good, now start getting ready or we are going to be super late! I told you that you should have showered with me." Casey says shaking her head as she digs the hair dryer out of the drawer.
Alex laughs as she starts the shower and begins to undress, "Casey if we had showered together we would have been super late because we would be in the bedroom right now and we wouldn't be getting ready."
Laughing herself Casey looks at her lover and adds, "You better get in that shower now before I drag you to the bed."
Casey and Alex walked up to their best friends' apartment. Both were wearing beaming smiles as Alex knocked on the door. As Abbie opened the door to let their guests in the room's occupants yelled a celebratory, "Congratulations!"
Thanking their friends, they walked into the living area of the apartment. It didn't take long for the couple to be split up and soon the couple found themselves on opposite ends of the room talking to their friends on how each proposed and what their potential wedding plans would be. About an hour and a half later, Alex looked over at Casey while entertaining an overly excited Serena with the story of how Casey proposed.
"And that's when she said will you marry me?" Serena asked while pouring another glass of wine from the refreshment table.
Alex grinned making eye contact with Casey again, "Umm, it was more like 'that's why I bought you this ring,'" Alex answers while pouring two drinks herself as she catches Casey starring at her.
Serena looks at Alex funny, "So she didn't ask you to marry her?"
"Well there was really no need. We were already engaged since I had proposed the night before." Alex says as she sees Casey again and Casey subtly nods towards the kitchen Alex grins.
"Oh," Serena says shaking her head, "sorry dumb blonde moment."
Alex laughs, "No worries, we all have them. Hey, excuse me one moment I am going to run this drink to Casey."
Making her way through the apartment she finally reaches the semi-private kitchen. Kim and Casey are laughing about something as Alex walks up and hands Casey the glass of wine. "I am surprised you had wine Kim I was sure Abbie would have only bought beer."
Kim smirks, "I made her clean while prepared the food and beverages. I love her, but you can't trust her with taking care of the food or drinks."
Alex snakes her arms around Casey's waist resting her chin on the redheads shoulder as she hums in response to Kim's statement. Casey smiles turning her face to kiss Alex's cheek. Kim shakes her head at the couple, "You two are ridiculous."
"What? Why?" Casey asks with a knowing chuckle in her voice.
"You are so all over each other and your love just radiates off of you two. It's cute and nauseating at the same time." Kim laughs at Casey's faked look of hurt.
Alex turns and playfully nips Casey's neck earning a shriek from Casey and another head shake from Kim. Kim holds her hands up in surrender, "Okay, I am leaving. You two enjoy yourselves. In ten minutes we will be serving dessert so 'playtime' will be over then."
"Aw Kim you don't have to leave we were just playing with you!" Casey calls out as Kim walks from the room.
"She got the hint." Alex smirks.
"You are so bad." Casey adds before turning in Alex's arms and pushing her back against the counter kissing her passionately.
Breaking the kiss Alex looks at Casey, "I know I am going to sound ridiculous right now since I just spent the entire weekend with you in my arms, but as fun as tonight has been you have been too far away from me. Can we just snuggle on their couch the rest of the night and make everyone come to us in turns?"
Casey lets out a loud hearty laugh letting her head fall back, "You are so silly. I literally just imagined all our friends lined up like some scene from the Godfather."
Alex grins and says, "You love me for it!"
"Your right I do. Sure lets go push Abbie off the couch." Taking Alex's hand Casey leads her from the kitchen and through the living room. Arriving at the couch, Alex jokingly says, "Up Carmichael!"
Abbie feigns hurt but moves to the chair laughing understanding that the couple wants to be together for a bit. She was wondering how long it would take them to sit down after watching them being shuffled around the apartment in circles for the last two hours. Catching Kim's eye she blows her a kiss. Seeing how happy Alex and Casey are makes her want to propose way sooner than the fourth.
Snuggling in each other's arms Alex and Casey continue to talk to friends as Kim brings out the desserts with the help of Serena and Olivia. Handing Alex and Casey a mixed plate so the couple doesn't have to get up again, Olivia takes a seat near Alex. "So I hear from Serena that everything went off without a hitch Friday night." Olivia says with a smile to her friends.
Alex looks at Casey and smiles sweetly before turning back and answering, "Yeah, it sure did. The wish boats turned out great I really owe everyone at SVU a huge thanks. Oh, and as I promised the squads bar bill is covered for the next month."
"You don't have to do that Al. Plus Elliot had the kids do most of them. Dickie got caught sneaking out when he was grounded, so your wish boats ended up being the majority of his punishment."
Alex laughs at this knowledge and yells over to Elliot, "Hey Elliot, I just heard from your partner here that you used child labor to make those wish boats. A good prosecutor like me can't be caught paying for child labor so no bar tab!"
"Olivia!" Elliot yells as Kathy erupts in a fit of giggles and Fin shakes his head at Liv.
"Hey, I felt guilty accepting the free drinks when we only made like ten of those damn things." Olivia says raising her hands in the air in surrender.
"Hey, we had a good thing going for us Liv but you had to go and blow it." Fin adds shaking his head, "And I made those ten, so as I see it you owe me ten drinks now."
"Hey my kids made the other 811! And helped light and get them in the lake so Liv you owe me drinks for life!" Elliot added.
The whole room was filled with laughter. Casey falls onto Alex laughing so hard, "Oh my God Alex we owe them for life!"
Alex smiled looking at the room. She was truly blessed to have such amazing friends. She'd do anything for anyone of them. Looking at Casey she knew by the smile on her face that she felt the same way.