Fin walked into his apartment, lugging four boxes behind him. When
he walked in, he was unsettled by the fact that Celia wasn't home. He left
the boxes next to the door, and threw his coat over the back of one of the
newer couches that Celia had purchased. He walked into the bedroom and
changed into a pair of sweat pants and a tank top. He then walked into the
kitchen and opened the freezer to see what he could make for dinner. Since
Celia had moved back, his fridge was always full. He pulled out a family
sized microwave package of Macaroni and Cheese. He threw it into the
microwave, set the timer then walked into the living room. He sat down in
front of the couch and wedged his feet underneath it and began doing a set
of sit-ups. As he was doing his sit-ups, Celia walked into the apartment.
She threw her purse onto the floor then crawled across the back of the
couch where Fin was doing his workout.
"Hey baby." She smiled as she crawled on top of him as kissed him.
"Well you're in a good mood." Smiled Fin as he kissed her back, "How was your first day?"
"It was great. This is way better than the FBI, plus, I got to come home and kiss you." She said as the rest of her body fell of the couch and on top of Fin, "Sorry." She laughed, "Did you get any further on Alex's case?"
"Yea, we got a few things. We think Kurt is doing the dirty work for his brother, who is doing time at Rykers." Said Fin as he stood up and grabbed his jump rope.
"Jesus." Said Celia as she shook her head, "Well, continue your work out. I'm going to take a shower and get ready for bed."
"Alright, baby." Said Fin. Celia walked past the boxes that were by the door and stopped in her tracks.
"What are these?"
"They've got your name on them." Said Fin as he began jumping rope. Celia looked down at the boxes. Three were quite large and one was rather small, "This one is from Macy's." pointing to the small one, "Oh I know what these are." With that Celia walked into the bedroom.
Several hours had passed; it was now nearing 3:30 in the morning. Alex and John were laying in each other's arms in sweet conversation while intoxicating themselves with each other's touch.
"Alex, I'm going to be honest with you." Started John. Alex felt her heart drop, she was suddenly worried about what he was going to say, "I've fallen for you, and fast. I've never felt for anyone the way I do for you."
"John." She smiled as she kissed his lips, "I've haven't been in a relationship with a someone since before law school. I have never felt as safe and as comfortable as I do right now, and I don't ever want it to end." John kissed her forehead, "But I think that we should take things very easily. I don't want to screw this up."
"You're worried about you screwing up? What about me?" Laughed John, "I've been married 4 times."
"Well, I don't think that our working late hours, will be an obstacle in this relationship." Alex smiled, "Although I have been prone to getting calls in the middle of the night."
"I can deal with that." Smiled John as she rested her head on his chest as he tightened his grip around her back and waist.
"John, do you think that you'll catch the guy who attacked me?"
"I promise you I will." Said John as he stoked her back and hair, "You're too precious to me to let some psycho get to you." With that the two new lovers fell asleep in each other's arms.
It was nearing 7am, and Celia and Fin were asleep on the couch in each other's arms. They had been up most of the night setting up one of Celia's purchases for Fin. She had ordered a new DVD player and Television for him. The one he had before was so old that time warranted a new one. Fin rolled over on the couch, as he did Celia fell to the floor.
"OW!" she laughed and cried. Fin did not wake up. Celia looked over at the clock on the wall, and gasped at the time, "Fin!" she said as she smacked his shoulder.
"What?" he mumbled.
"If you don't get your butt up now, you're going to be late for work." Said Celia, "You're going to Rykers today, remember."
"Rykers?" said Fin as he sat up on the couch, "Why did we sleep on the couch?"
"Who care?" said Celia as she grabbed his hands and pulled him off the couch and pushed him into the bedroom, "Get dressed. I'll make the coffee."
Not soon after, Fin was showered and out of the bathroom. As he rushed into the kitchen with no shirt on, Celia handed him a cup of coffee and a bagel.
"Here sweetie." Said Celia as she ran herself into the bedroom.
"Is there anything in this?" Fin yelled to Celia.
"NO!" she yelled back as she dressed in the bedroom, " Fin, tonight I want to seriously discuss moving."
"I don't wanna move." Fin yelled back, "I like it here."
"Fin," Said Celia as she walked out of the bedroom with only, "I want a place with a bigger kitchen than this."
"Why do you want to move so badly?" Fin asked as Celia held onto his shoulder to put her shoes on.
"I'm a girl, I like girly things, so if I tell you; you promise not to laugh?" Asked Celia.
"Yea." Fin Laughed.
"I wanna get married, soon, and I was hoping that we could find a place that was ours." Said Celia.
"Celia," Laughed Fin, "We don't have time for this sort of conversation. "
"That's why I said we should talk about it after work tonight."
"Ok, we'll talk." Said Fin.
Meanwhile, John and Alex were getting ready for work as well, although, John was more trying to discourage Alex from going to work. Alex walked back into the bedroom with a cup of coffee for John who was tying his tie.
"Here you go." Smiled Alex as she handed him the cup.
"Thanks." He said as he kissed her, "Do you really have to go to work?"
"Yes, I can't sit around anymore. I have to go back to work." Smiled Alex, "I'll be in court all day, I'll be fine."
"You'll be at the court house all day?"
"Well, from noon on. I'll be at my office looking for my files until then." Replied Alex, "Don't worry, I think that Claire has trials all day too, in the same courthouse, I'll ride there with her."
"I'm going to worry regardless. It's my nature." Smirked John.
"Well don't, I'm going to be around a lot of people, I'll be safe." She said as she wrapped her arms around his neck.
"Being surrounded by a lot of people doesn't make you completely safe." He said as he set the cup of coffee down and put his hands on her waist.
"I'll come home as soon as I'm done in court?" she said trying to ease worry out him.
"Do you really want to go to work?" he said pulling her closer to him
"I need to go." She smiled at him, "I'll be ok, really."
"Where have I heard that before?" John smirked as Alex kissed his chin.
Alex walked into her office a couple hours later. As she walked in, everyone stopped what they were doing and stared at Alex. Alex smiled and everyone and gave a small wave as she walked towards Claire's office. She knocked on the door as she walked in.
"Alex?" said Claire, "What are you doing here?"
"I can't sit at home anymore." She smiled, "If I stay home and let fear prevent me from doing what I love to do, then my attacker has already won."
"Good Point." Said Claire, "What case do you want back?"
"The ones that put me in the court house today." Said Alex.
"Not a problem, but are you ready for this?" asked Claire.
"Yea, I miss my job."
"You've only been off for two days." Laughed Claire.
"That's long enough in this instance." Alex laughed back, "Let me get some things from my office."
"Ok, I've got a few cases I have to be at today, too, we can ride together." Said Claire.
"I'll be back in a few minutes." Alex walked into her office. It looked like Claire had been in there cleaning it up for her while she was gone. She walked over to her file cabinet and pulled out a couple of folders. Then picked up a small stack of folders that was sitting on her desk. She was putting them into her briefcase, when Claire walked in with a file of papers for her.
"Here don't forget these." Smiled Claire.
"What are they?" Alex asked.
"Your cases for today." Smirked Claire, "I they're in order, so don't worry." Alex put them into her briefcase as well. She put her coat back on and Claire and Alex walked out the door of her office. Claire and Alex looked around, everyone was scattering out the building.
"Claire, Alex!" Said Jack in a panic, "There's been a bomb threat on the building."
"What?"
"We have to get out of here." Said Jack. He walked with Claire and Alex out of the building. Once Alex and Claire were across the street from the building, Alex got out her cell phone and called John.
"Come on, answer." Said Alex as the phone rang. Just then it answered.
"Munch." John answered.
"John, thank god. There's been a bomb threat on my office building." Said Alex.
"Where are you?" John asked.
"I'm standing across the street with Claire and Jack." Said Alex, "Several squad cars just pulled up, they're probably going to canvas the building."
"Ok, stick with Claire and Jack. If this is a ploy by our guy, you might be in danger." Said John.
"Do you really think he'd go to this degree?" asked Alex.
"I don't know, but that's what we're at Rykers for." Said John, "Just stick with Claire and Jack."
"Ok…" said Alex. As she was about to hang up with John, shots were fired through the crowd. Everyone immediately hit the ground to cover themselves from the fired shots. John heard the shots on his end of the phone.
"Alex!" he yelled, "Alex!" John waited on his phone until Alex picked it up.
"JOHN!" She screamed.
"Alex are you alright?" John asked in a panic.
"Yea, I think so," Said Alex as she sat up, she looked over at Claire. Claire was holding her side, "Claire are you ok?" Claire laid on the ground holding her side, "Oh my God, Jack, she got hit."
"Claire!" Yelled Jack. He took of his jacket and held it to her side to try and stop the bleeding.
"John, Claire's been hit."
"Alex, Calm down, I'll be there as soon as I can." Said John, "Call me in an hour, I have get information out of this guy."
"Ok, bye." Said Alex. She hung up her phone and put it in her coat pocket. Then continued to attend to Claire's situation.
"Alex, stay here, I'm going to get a medic." Said Jack.
"Ok." Said Alex. Just then Celia and Curtis arrived on the scene, and immediately, Celia saw Alex and Claire. The two rushed to them without thought.
"What happened?" Curtis asked as he took over putting pressure on Claire's wound.
"There was a bomb threat on the building, then once we were all out here, shots were fired on us all, and Claire got hit." Said Alex as she started to cry.
"Are you alright?" Celia asked.
"Yea, I'm fine, but Claire…" sobbed Alex. Just then a Jack and a couple medics rushed to Claire. They lifted her onto the gurney and rushed her to the ambulance.
"Alex, just so you're safe, ride with Claire to hospital, I'll meet you there." Said Jack. With that Alex ran with the medic's to the ambulance.
"Celia, we have to go canvas the building and look for that bomb." Said Curtis.
"Yea." Agreed Celia as the two took off for the building.
Meanwhile on Rykers Island…
"Roger, we have the files, all right here." Said Fin as he slapped them on the table, "Right now you have a chance for parole in about 10 years, if you don't talk to me, you'll never be facing any chance for parole."
"What do you want to know?" Roger asked snidely.
"Tell me about your brother." Said Fin.
"I don't have a brother."
"Yes you do, your mother told me so." Said Fin.
"How is my mother?"
"She misses you." Said Fin, "and if you help us, you might get a chance to see her again."
"What makes you think I care?" asked Roger. Just then Munch walked in and grabbed Roger by his shirt collar.
"Ok, you snot nosed punk, you're going to everything we want to hear." Snapped John, "Or I swear to God, when we tie you to this, we'll make sure a needle goes into your arm." Roger looked at Fin. Fin gave him the eye that he was serious.
"OK. I've heard rumors about what's going down with that bitch who convicted me." John smacked him on the back of the head.
"What was that for?"
"No reason, Go on." Said John.
"That bitch put me in here, I'm going to make sure she gets everything she deserves. She puts innocent men like me behind bars for 10-20 years. Do you honestly think that I'm the only one here that wants to see her funeral?"
"So, tell me that you know for sure, that it is your brother attacking Alex Cabot." Said Munch.
"Hell yea, all in my name." Said Roger. Munch looked at him for a moment before he punched him in the face.
"If I catch your brother, I'll lodge a bullet in his head. Tell him that next time." Said Munch as before he walked out. Fin walked out behind him.
"What was that about?" asked Fin.
"What?" said Munch.
"That little scene?" smirked Fin.
"Fin, I've been married 4 times, and with all 4 marriages, I never let anyone speak about my wives the way he talked about Alex. I'm not about to let someone start talking about her like that." Said Munch.
"Hey baby." She smiled as she crawled on top of him as kissed him.
"Well you're in a good mood." Smiled Fin as he kissed her back, "How was your first day?"
"It was great. This is way better than the FBI, plus, I got to come home and kiss you." She said as the rest of her body fell of the couch and on top of Fin, "Sorry." She laughed, "Did you get any further on Alex's case?"
"Yea, we got a few things. We think Kurt is doing the dirty work for his brother, who is doing time at Rykers." Said Fin as he stood up and grabbed his jump rope.
"Jesus." Said Celia as she shook her head, "Well, continue your work out. I'm going to take a shower and get ready for bed."
"Alright, baby." Said Fin. Celia walked past the boxes that were by the door and stopped in her tracks.
"What are these?"
"They've got your name on them." Said Fin as he began jumping rope. Celia looked down at the boxes. Three were quite large and one was rather small, "This one is from Macy's." pointing to the small one, "Oh I know what these are." With that Celia walked into the bedroom.
Several hours had passed; it was now nearing 3:30 in the morning. Alex and John were laying in each other's arms in sweet conversation while intoxicating themselves with each other's touch.
"Alex, I'm going to be honest with you." Started John. Alex felt her heart drop, she was suddenly worried about what he was going to say, "I've fallen for you, and fast. I've never felt for anyone the way I do for you."
"John." She smiled as she kissed his lips, "I've haven't been in a relationship with a someone since before law school. I have never felt as safe and as comfortable as I do right now, and I don't ever want it to end." John kissed her forehead, "But I think that we should take things very easily. I don't want to screw this up."
"You're worried about you screwing up? What about me?" Laughed John, "I've been married 4 times."
"Well, I don't think that our working late hours, will be an obstacle in this relationship." Alex smiled, "Although I have been prone to getting calls in the middle of the night."
"I can deal with that." Smiled John as she rested her head on his chest as he tightened his grip around her back and waist.
"John, do you think that you'll catch the guy who attacked me?"
"I promise you I will." Said John as he stoked her back and hair, "You're too precious to me to let some psycho get to you." With that the two new lovers fell asleep in each other's arms.
It was nearing 7am, and Celia and Fin were asleep on the couch in each other's arms. They had been up most of the night setting up one of Celia's purchases for Fin. She had ordered a new DVD player and Television for him. The one he had before was so old that time warranted a new one. Fin rolled over on the couch, as he did Celia fell to the floor.
"OW!" she laughed and cried. Fin did not wake up. Celia looked over at the clock on the wall, and gasped at the time, "Fin!" she said as she smacked his shoulder.
"What?" he mumbled.
"If you don't get your butt up now, you're going to be late for work." Said Celia, "You're going to Rykers today, remember."
"Rykers?" said Fin as he sat up on the couch, "Why did we sleep on the couch?"
"Who care?" said Celia as she grabbed his hands and pulled him off the couch and pushed him into the bedroom, "Get dressed. I'll make the coffee."
Not soon after, Fin was showered and out of the bathroom. As he rushed into the kitchen with no shirt on, Celia handed him a cup of coffee and a bagel.
"Here sweetie." Said Celia as she ran herself into the bedroom.
"Is there anything in this?" Fin yelled to Celia.
"NO!" she yelled back as she dressed in the bedroom, " Fin, tonight I want to seriously discuss moving."
"I don't wanna move." Fin yelled back, "I like it here."
"Fin," Said Celia as she walked out of the bedroom with only, "I want a place with a bigger kitchen than this."
"Why do you want to move so badly?" Fin asked as Celia held onto his shoulder to put her shoes on.
"I'm a girl, I like girly things, so if I tell you; you promise not to laugh?" Asked Celia.
"Yea." Fin Laughed.
"I wanna get married, soon, and I was hoping that we could find a place that was ours." Said Celia.
"Celia," Laughed Fin, "We don't have time for this sort of conversation. "
"That's why I said we should talk about it after work tonight."
"Ok, we'll talk." Said Fin.
Meanwhile, John and Alex were getting ready for work as well, although, John was more trying to discourage Alex from going to work. Alex walked back into the bedroom with a cup of coffee for John who was tying his tie.
"Here you go." Smiled Alex as she handed him the cup.
"Thanks." He said as he kissed her, "Do you really have to go to work?"
"Yes, I can't sit around anymore. I have to go back to work." Smiled Alex, "I'll be in court all day, I'll be fine."
"You'll be at the court house all day?"
"Well, from noon on. I'll be at my office looking for my files until then." Replied Alex, "Don't worry, I think that Claire has trials all day too, in the same courthouse, I'll ride there with her."
"I'm going to worry regardless. It's my nature." Smirked John.
"Well don't, I'm going to be around a lot of people, I'll be safe." She said as she wrapped her arms around his neck.
"Being surrounded by a lot of people doesn't make you completely safe." He said as he set the cup of coffee down and put his hands on her waist.
"I'll come home as soon as I'm done in court?" she said trying to ease worry out him.
"Do you really want to go to work?" he said pulling her closer to him
"I need to go." She smiled at him, "I'll be ok, really."
"Where have I heard that before?" John smirked as Alex kissed his chin.
Alex walked into her office a couple hours later. As she walked in, everyone stopped what they were doing and stared at Alex. Alex smiled and everyone and gave a small wave as she walked towards Claire's office. She knocked on the door as she walked in.
"Alex?" said Claire, "What are you doing here?"
"I can't sit at home anymore." She smiled, "If I stay home and let fear prevent me from doing what I love to do, then my attacker has already won."
"Good Point." Said Claire, "What case do you want back?"
"The ones that put me in the court house today." Said Alex.
"Not a problem, but are you ready for this?" asked Claire.
"Yea, I miss my job."
"You've only been off for two days." Laughed Claire.
"That's long enough in this instance." Alex laughed back, "Let me get some things from my office."
"Ok, I've got a few cases I have to be at today, too, we can ride together." Said Claire.
"I'll be back in a few minutes." Alex walked into her office. It looked like Claire had been in there cleaning it up for her while she was gone. She walked over to her file cabinet and pulled out a couple of folders. Then picked up a small stack of folders that was sitting on her desk. She was putting them into her briefcase, when Claire walked in with a file of papers for her.
"Here don't forget these." Smiled Claire.
"What are they?" Alex asked.
"Your cases for today." Smirked Claire, "I they're in order, so don't worry." Alex put them into her briefcase as well. She put her coat back on and Claire and Alex walked out the door of her office. Claire and Alex looked around, everyone was scattering out the building.
"Claire, Alex!" Said Jack in a panic, "There's been a bomb threat on the building."
"What?"
"We have to get out of here." Said Jack. He walked with Claire and Alex out of the building. Once Alex and Claire were across the street from the building, Alex got out her cell phone and called John.
"Come on, answer." Said Alex as the phone rang. Just then it answered.
"Munch." John answered.
"John, thank god. There's been a bomb threat on my office building." Said Alex.
"Where are you?" John asked.
"I'm standing across the street with Claire and Jack." Said Alex, "Several squad cars just pulled up, they're probably going to canvas the building."
"Ok, stick with Claire and Jack. If this is a ploy by our guy, you might be in danger." Said John.
"Do you really think he'd go to this degree?" asked Alex.
"I don't know, but that's what we're at Rykers for." Said John, "Just stick with Claire and Jack."
"Ok…" said Alex. As she was about to hang up with John, shots were fired through the crowd. Everyone immediately hit the ground to cover themselves from the fired shots. John heard the shots on his end of the phone.
"Alex!" he yelled, "Alex!" John waited on his phone until Alex picked it up.
"JOHN!" She screamed.
"Alex are you alright?" John asked in a panic.
"Yea, I think so," Said Alex as she sat up, she looked over at Claire. Claire was holding her side, "Claire are you ok?" Claire laid on the ground holding her side, "Oh my God, Jack, she got hit."
"Claire!" Yelled Jack. He took of his jacket and held it to her side to try and stop the bleeding.
"John, Claire's been hit."
"Alex, Calm down, I'll be there as soon as I can." Said John, "Call me in an hour, I have get information out of this guy."
"Ok, bye." Said Alex. She hung up her phone and put it in her coat pocket. Then continued to attend to Claire's situation.
"Alex, stay here, I'm going to get a medic." Said Jack.
"Ok." Said Alex. Just then Celia and Curtis arrived on the scene, and immediately, Celia saw Alex and Claire. The two rushed to them without thought.
"What happened?" Curtis asked as he took over putting pressure on Claire's wound.
"There was a bomb threat on the building, then once we were all out here, shots were fired on us all, and Claire got hit." Said Alex as she started to cry.
"Are you alright?" Celia asked.
"Yea, I'm fine, but Claire…" sobbed Alex. Just then a Jack and a couple medics rushed to Claire. They lifted her onto the gurney and rushed her to the ambulance.
"Alex, just so you're safe, ride with Claire to hospital, I'll meet you there." Said Jack. With that Alex ran with the medic's to the ambulance.
"Celia, we have to go canvas the building and look for that bomb." Said Curtis.
"Yea." Agreed Celia as the two took off for the building.
Meanwhile on Rykers Island…
"Roger, we have the files, all right here." Said Fin as he slapped them on the table, "Right now you have a chance for parole in about 10 years, if you don't talk to me, you'll never be facing any chance for parole."
"What do you want to know?" Roger asked snidely.
"Tell me about your brother." Said Fin.
"I don't have a brother."
"Yes you do, your mother told me so." Said Fin.
"How is my mother?"
"She misses you." Said Fin, "and if you help us, you might get a chance to see her again."
"What makes you think I care?" asked Roger. Just then Munch walked in and grabbed Roger by his shirt collar.
"Ok, you snot nosed punk, you're going to everything we want to hear." Snapped John, "Or I swear to God, when we tie you to this, we'll make sure a needle goes into your arm." Roger looked at Fin. Fin gave him the eye that he was serious.
"OK. I've heard rumors about what's going down with that bitch who convicted me." John smacked him on the back of the head.
"What was that for?"
"No reason, Go on." Said John.
"That bitch put me in here, I'm going to make sure she gets everything she deserves. She puts innocent men like me behind bars for 10-20 years. Do you honestly think that I'm the only one here that wants to see her funeral?"
"So, tell me that you know for sure, that it is your brother attacking Alex Cabot." Said Munch.
"Hell yea, all in my name." Said Roger. Munch looked at him for a moment before he punched him in the face.
"If I catch your brother, I'll lodge a bullet in his head. Tell him that next time." Said Munch as before he walked out. Fin walked out behind him.
"What was that about?" asked Fin.
"What?" said Munch.
"That little scene?" smirked Fin.
"Fin, I've been married 4 times, and with all 4 marriages, I never let anyone speak about my wives the way he talked about Alex. I'm not about to let someone start talking about her like that." Said Munch.