Chapter 6: Alex

Takes place just after the episode.

Well, I am feeling very satisfied today. I managed to get one of the suspects to confess, the other to plead to murder if not the rape.

I also finally managed to find a therapy group that would take Pete and that he would agree to go to. Most rape therapist groups are either for women, or the few for men are for men who've been homosexually raped. The former wouldn't take him even if he wanted to join, the latter he didn't want to join.

Apparently there is one group that deals with men who are abused by women, but most of the guys in the group - hell, everyone but Peter - were abused as children, not as adults. Still, there doesn't appear to be any innate conflict that would prevent this group from working.

Well, I got my name in the papers and in the law history books, of course. Not that that was why I did this. But it did happen, it had to happen. When you set a precedent, it gets noticed.

A few people have commented to me about this. Some of them think that I'm the antichrist. That I should be strung up as a traitor to women. Others say that I am a hero who proved that "women do it too!"

Of course, Olivia explained to me what the greatest effect of this trial will be - that it will help people to think of rape as an issue of aggressors and victims, not as male vs. female. Maybe people will become more sympathetic to victims if they don't see rape charges as part of a bigger battle between men and women.

Chase will get counseling. I wonder what her life was like. How it happened. How she turned into a cold-blooded predator like that.

She and Adler are different, I can tell. With Chase, it's a gender thing. She hates men. She can be friendly if she needs them in business, but she definitely looks down on all of them. With Adler, well I think that she just hates the whole world. Or at least those whom she sees as inferior. I did a little checking and her father apparently had at one time been accused of rape. It was back in the 80s. He was a lawyer, just like her. He managed to get off, and to portray the accuser as a cheap slut who was looking to get even with him for firing her from her job as secretary at his office.

From what I know of her, Adler always admired her father. Modeled herself after him. Maybe too much, I suppose.

Well, it's time to look at my next case, I suppose.