Monday morning came and Shiela got off the elevator at work, smiling and humming as she walked to her desk. Benson and Stabler couldn't help but notice her demeanor. Elliot walked over and was teasing her. "Now, I'm not expert, but I'd say, by the looks of things, somebody is either lucky in love, or just plain got lucky." "Right on both counts, detective." She winked at him. His jaw dropped to the as she walked away. From the Captain's office came a voice, "I heard that, Elliot. Leave her alone." Olivia also told him to lay off then walked over to talk to her friend. "Don't mind him. His bark is worse than his bit, unless you're a perp. Had an interesting weekend with a special someone I take it?" "Yes, I did...and then some." She was smirking, looking up slyly at Olivia. "Oh, you bad girl." "You don't know the half of it." "Oh, really?" Liv was curious. "Let's just say that he's not the stuffed shirt he'd like people to believe he is in court. I should know...I checked, many, many times." Benson's mouth gaped open. "Wait a minute. You mean you and McCoy?" Shiela nodded. "You're kidding!" She just wiggled her eyebrows, smiling. "That good, huh?" "Oooh, honey, it was something else." They sat there giggling like a couple of teenage girls in a locker room. "All right, kids, school's out. Time to get back to work." "Yes sir." They both responded. Munch called from the break room, "Hey Newman, how do you take your coffee?" "Just like my men, John, strong, hot and sweet enough to please." The whole department cracked up.
She finally finished off the cold cases she was working on by keeping, as she put it, "the work goin' and the coffee flowin'." All files were handed in by the end of the day, except for one she was delivering by hand on her way home. Munch approached her with information concerning a child molestation case. It was a sad situation. Twin girls, eight years old, whose uncle was their babysitter, and was also the perp. As she read further on in the file she became aware of exactly what had happened. She came to realize that she knew the whole family involved. It literally sickened her because she ran to the restroom and lost her lunch. Olivia went to check on her. "I'm fine, Liv. John just handed me a file of a case. It really got to me because I know them and it never even crossed my mind something like that could happen in that family." She left the restroom and Cragen was standing outside the door to see if she was okay. When he was sure she was going to get through it, things were back to normal. She later learned to be strong in cases whether or not she knew those involved. It would take time to strengthen her "sea legs", as the Captain put it.
Before she went home, she had to take the remaining file to the 2-7 to give to Anita Van Buren. Green saw her when she entered the precinct and apologized for his behavior the previous weekend. She accepted his apology and went to knock on the Lieutenant's door. "Come in." "Hi, Anita. Got a file for you on the Gibson case. Found some things that helped get it pretty much solved. The remaining work is all yours. I included a step by step outline so you know I went strictly by the book." "Hey, I trust you. Thanks. I'm sorry for the incidents the other morning..." "Say no more, girlfriend, Green already apologized. It's no biggie. Although, he's lucky I was able to curb Jack's temper on the matter." "Speaking of which, how are things with you two?" "Fantastic. We've all been out, done family things. Been having a blast." Anita looked at her, confused. "Family things?" "Oh, I forgot that you didn't know. Jack and I have a fourteen year old son." "So THAT'S why left years ago." "Yep. Not my wisest decision, but, what's done is done." "Got a picture?" "Yeah." She pulled her wallet from her pocket and pulled out Brian's school photo from Dallas. "My God, what a resemblance. You don't know how lucky you are." "Oh, but you can bet I do." Van Buren handed back the picture. "So, just between us girls, how is it?" "What, the lovemaking?" She nodded. Shiela just responded with a huge grin. "That's all I needed to know. It's always the quiet ones." They laughed and parted company.
