Chapter 26
"Well that sucked," Casey walked back into the precinct after the arraignment.
"You get a visit from the FBI too?" Elliot asked.
"No. What happened?" The redhead wanted to know.
"Seems they took offense to Olivia and Elliot arresting the judge in the middle of federal court," Fin said, putting on his jacket. It was time to go home and he had a date to get ready for.
"We all knew that we were going to ruffle some feathers," Casey reminded them.
"Once we got past their ruffled feathers, something else emerged," Munch smirked before handing a manila folder to the ADA. She gave him a questioning look before opening it. Her eyes went wide as she read.
"As it turns out they were starting to turn their attention to the judge too. Agent Compton disliked Tuft's behavior and started to do a little digging on his own. As part of the kidnapping operation, Compton was looking into Tuft's computer. When he tried to do any digging he found password protected folders and noticed that the internet history on the computer was cleaned daily. Now people clean out their history but daily seemed a little obsessive. So he lied to the judge and told him he was searching for viruses or malware to see if perhaps the perp had been watching him from his computer. It didn't seem like a stretch since the kidnappers seemed to know a lot about the judge's family. At the time, they didn't know what they were looking for, so Compton installed a key logger and a backdoor so they could watch the computer without the judge knowing and that's when they discovered, well what's in the file," Olivia swallowed.
"What happened in court?" Captain Cragen asked as he moved toward the group, having left his office.
"The judge released him on two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and he surrendered his passport," Casey rolled her eyes.
"I think you can take what you have to him and his lawyer. My guess will be that he definitely won't want that info out and about," Cragen said.
"First thing in the morning, I'll make the call," the ADA nodded.
"Good. See you in the morning," Fin smiled and was out the door.
"He's got a hot date and I have one too so I'll everyone later," Munch said as he moved in the same direction his partner had.
"You have a hot date?" Elliot asked.
"Yeah with the inside of my eyelids," the elder detective called back.
"Sounds like a great plan. Walk you out counselor?" Cragen wondered.
"That'd be great. See you two in the morning?" She asked the two remaining detectives.
"You got it," Olivia smiled as she put on her coat. Elliot was doing the same, right up until everyone was out of sight. Then he found himself standing behind his girlfriend, his lips on her neck.
"We have to wait until we get back to my place. We're being careful, remember?" She reminded him.
"I know but we haven't been doing anything but sleeping once we get back to your place," he pointed out.
"Not tonight. We're actually getting out early," Olivia said, pulling away from him and heading for the door. Elliot stood there a moment or two, just watching her walk away.
"You coming?" She called.
"Coming!" He took off to catch up to her.
To Be Continued…