"So this is the restaurant you wanted to go to?" Mike asked Casey as they neared a restaurant on 49th street.
"Yup" Casey said as Mike pulled the car over.
"You serious?" Mike asked her as they got out of the car.
"Yea, why does your ex-girlfriend work there?" Casey said teasing him as he walked over to where she was standing.
"No, this is the restaurant I was going to take you to tonight." He said smiling as he put his arm around her shoulder.
"Really? Or are you just saying that?" Casey said as she put her hand around his waist.
"No. I'm serious I have reservations, well not reservations more like connections." Mike said as they walked toward the restaurant.
"What do you mean by connections? You do have an ex-girlfriend here don't you Mike." Casey said giving him a suspicious look.
"No, don't worry about it, I took care of everything." Mike said smiling as he opened the door for Casey.
"Why doesn't that sound so good, who did you beat up?" Casey said smiling. Mike started laughing. The waiter showed them to there seats, they sat down.
"I'm very impressed. But we don't have to eat here its kind of expensive." Casey said looking at the menu.
"Don't worry about that order what ever you want, and I mean anything." Mike said as he took a sip of his water. Just then a short man came by and hit Mike on the shoulder. Mike almost choked on his water. Casey tried not to laugh out loud, so she just looked down. Mike turned around to see his Uncle Vinny behind him.
"Michael! How are you?" Uncle Vinny said with an Italian accent.
"Uncle Vinny. Hi." Mike said as he stood up and shook hands with his Uncle.
"Who's this beautiful young lady?" Uncle Vinny said looking at Casey.
"This is Casey, Casey this is my Uncle Vinny." Mike said as he sat down. Casey shook hands with Uncle Vinny. Uncle Vinny kissed her hand and smiled, Mike just blushed.
"So Michael what does she do?" Uncle Vinny asked Mike.
"She's right here you can ask her, she's nice she doesn't mind talking." Mike said smiling. Uncle Vinny turned and looked at Casey.
"I'm an ADA." Casey said looking at Uncle Vinny then smiled at Mike.
"What is it with you and lawyers, did you see the new hostess shes very pretty." Uncle Vinny said looking at Mike who just put his hand on his forehead and looked down.
"Uncle Vinny, I'm kind of on a date here, c'mon." Mike said becoming all red and embarrassed. Just then a guy about Mikes age came and put his hand on Uncle Vinny's shoulder.
"Uncle Vinny, they want to see you in the kitchen. Lets leave Mike alone." He said as Uncle Vinny went away from the table.
"Thanks man. Casey this is my cousin Johnny, Johnny this Casey. Him and his wife own the restaurant." Mike said. Casey and Johnny shook hands.
"I'm going to go before Uncle Vinny kills one of my chefs, order what ever you want its all on the house. Casey nice meeting you." Johnny said as he shook hands with Mike and left.
"I'm so sorry about that. What can I say I'm Italian." Mike said smiling.
"don't worry about it, I enjoyed seeing you almost choke on water." Casey said laughing.
"nice, really that's cute." Mike said smiling.
Olivia and Travis came out of a restaurant and they where holding hands.
"That was one of the nicest restaurants I have ever been to." Olivia said looking at Travis.
"well I'm glad you liked it, but the best part is about to come." Travis said opening the door of his car for her.
"What do you mean? There's more?" Olivia said as Travis got in the car.
"You accept dinner as a date, dinner is the opening of the date, babe." Travis said smiling and looking at Olivia.
"You are full of surprises aren't you?" Olivia said as she put her hand in his. He just looked over and smiled. They drove for another ten minutes. Then Travis looked at her.
"Ok, you have to close your eyes now. If you look before we get there it will ruin my surprise. " Travis said.
"Why? Where are we going?" Olivia said and smiled.
"You really are a detective, don't worry about it, just sit back and relax. Where almost there." Travis said as Olivia closed her eyes.
"Keep your eyes closed, where here, don't open them yet." Travis said Olivia felt him get out of the car and he opened her door.
"Ok give me your hand," Travis said as he took her hand and helped her out of the car. Olivia was smiling the whole time. It was very windy.
"Come over here." Travis said leading her next to him as he closed the door. She felt him put his coat on her. She smiled. He moved her back a little. He put his hands on her waist and picked her up and sat her on his car.
"What are you doing?" she said laughing.
"Relax, just trust me." He said
"I do," she said with a smile.
"Lye down" Travis said. Olivia smiled and she put her head back. She felt him lye down next to her. He put his hand in hers.
"Ok babe, open yours eyes." He whispered softly into her ear. When she did she saw the complete city, it seemed like every light in the city was on. She saw buildings and the statue of liberty, and the ocean. The view was amazing.
"Wow." Was all she could say. Her eyes sparkled as she watched and smiled.
"Where are we?" She said and then looked over at Travis who was looking at her the entire time.
"It's a old parking lot no one ever uses, many people don't know that it even exists." He said holding her hand.
"This is amazing, I have lived here forever and never seen anything like this." She said as she rose up. With a smile on her face. Travis sat right behind her and put his arms around her, hugging her whole body, his chin resting on her shoulder.
"You like?" He whispered into her ear. She turned around and smiled.
"I love." She said also whispering and giving him a kiss.
Mike and Casey walked out of the restaurant. As they where walking toward the car Casey wrapped her arm around Mikes arm. He looked down at her and smiled.
"Ok do you have anything planned for me, or do I go along with my plan." Mike said smiling, looking at her.
"No, the restaurant was all I had." She said smiling as she put her hand around his waist. He put his hand around her waist.
"Ok, lets go make out!" He said really fast and smiled, Casey gave him a surprising look. He laughed and said, " Just kidding, you should have seen your face."
She started laughing and said, "That's what I get for laughing when you're choking." He laughed and put his other arm around her.
"Ok, you have two choices, I'm only giving you one word relating to the place where going, choose the one you want." Casey looked at him and smiled.
"Baseball, or ice skating." He said looking at her.
"Interesting, two totally different things, I guess Il go with baseball." Casey said looking at him and smiling.
"Good choice let me call in for a favor." Mike said as he pulled out his cell and dialed a number. Casey just watched him.
"Yea, Justin it's me, yup, ok thanks." Mike said then he hung up his phone. Casey starred at him well smiling. She put her hand in his. After 20 minutes of driving Mike looked at her.
"Close your eyes." He said.
"Why?" Casey said giving him a playful suspicious look.
"Just do it trust me" Mike said smiling.
"Ok, if you say so." Casey said and closed her eyes.
Minutes later he said, "keep your eyes closed." He got of the car and went over and opened her door. He took her hand. She got out of the car.
"Don't let me trip." Casey said smiling.
"I wont let anything happen to you, don't worry." Mike said as he gave her a kiss on the neck. She smiled. He put one hand around her waist and held her hand with his other hand.
"Where almost there. Just a little bit. Ok stand right here." He said as he went behind her and wrapped his arms around her.
In a low voice he said, "Open your eyes." She opened her eyes and she read on a big sign that read Yankee stadium. It was only her and Mike standing on the field with all the lights on. She turned around and saw two pitching machines set up. She turned around and looked at Mike who just smiled.
"Are you kidding me? How did you? Oh my God." Casey said the whole time smiling. Mike started laughing
"You said you wanted baseball." Mike said pulling her closer to him. She grabbed the back of his neck and kissed him.
"Alright lets see what you got, Novak." Mike joked 5 minutes later when they went over to the pitching machines.
Casey just laughed "bring it on, Seroulli" she said smiling. They hit the first couple of balls that pitched towards them.
"So this other Lawyer and you were serious?" Casey said hitting a ball.
"Yup, what makes you say that?" Mike said as he waited for another ball to come.
"Well since everyone I met tonight knows about her. She got a name?" Casey said hitting a ball that went far.
"Nice hit. Well yea, her name is..um.. Alex Cabot." Mike said as he went to sit down. Casey turned around, her eyes became wide and her mouth dropped.
"Um, sweetie, if I where you I would come over here before the ball hits you." Mike said motioning for her to come to the Bench.
"Are you Kidding?" Casey said still wide-eyed walking toward him.
"Nope, we dated for about a year and you can guess why it ended." Mike said grabbing a bottle of water.
"You dated Alex? How don't I know about this? Do Olivia and Elliot know?" Casey said as she sat next to him.
"Yes I dated Alex, actually I was planning to propose the next week and then…everything happened." Mike said resting his head on the wall.
"Did Olivia and Elliot know you when you walked into the squad room yesterday? I mean Alex and Liv where close, she must have.." Casey started to say when Mike cut her off.
"No, we never told anyone at work because I was in the FBI and I was the one dealing with national criminals, what happened was exactly what we were trying to avoid, but it happened to her and not me. So when my captain asked us who wanted to go to Manhattan SVU I volunteered because I heard about all of the detectives from Alex. But lets not ruin the night with sad stories." Mike said as he put his arm around her.
"Yea ok, but can I tell you one thing." Casey said putting her hand on Mikes knee.
"Sure, but I think I know what your going to say." Mike said giving her a small smile.
"Alex is..um.." Casey started to say but stopped when she saw Mike nodding.
"I know, I was the one that suggested it, after all the detectives left the hospital, I came later, told her about it, and then called a US Marshall. She didn't want to because of me but it didn't matter as long as she was safe. I also know she came back for that case, I wasn't allowed to see her, the idea of her going back wasn't mine, the US Marshall's said that they couldn't bring her out now. You want to hit a couple more." Mike said as he got up, trying to avoid the subject.
"Sure," Casey said sensing that he didn't want to talk about it. She put her arm around his and put her head on his shoulder.
It was 11 o'clock in the morning, Travis woke up and turned around to see Olivia but she wasn't there. He saw a note on her pillow. He picked it up and read it.
Hey, babe
I had to go in for work Il probably be out by 1.
There's food in the fridge and the key is on the
living room table. Let yourself out when you want.
Il call you when I get out of work.
Thanks for last night.
Love,
Your detective.
Travis smiled as he read the last two words. He got up, grabbed his pants and started looking for his shirt. He finally found it by the front door. He grabbed his cell and called Mike.
Mike heard his phone ringing and sleepily grabbed it.
"what?" Mike said still half asleep.
"wake up sleeping beauty!" Travis said as he got food from Olivia's fridge.
"you better be trying to commit suicide, if you're calling me this early." Mike said as he finally opened his eyes. He turned around, but Casey wasn't there. He saw note on her dresser.
"dude, its 11:30, plus I have nothing to do until one, you want to go play some basketball." Travis said eating his cereal.
"fine, see ya at the park at 12." Mike said as he got up and took the note.
"see ya" Travis said and hung up.
Mike read the note.
Hey sweetie,
I had to go to court early this morning.
I didn't want to wake you up.
The key to my apartment is by my computer.
Lock up when u leave, Il call you
when I get out of work.
Love,
Casey
It was 12:30 and the guys where playing basketball.
"so what you do last night with Olivia?" Mike asked dribbling the ball.
"dinner, then went to the parking lot on 47th." Travis said as he stole the ball from Mike and threw it in the hoop.
"You and Casey?" Travis asked as he passed the ball to Mike.
"dinner, then Yankee stadium." Mike said as he got the ball in the hoop.
"fun." Travis said as he went to get water.
"yea, until I told her about me and Alex dating." Mike said as he grabbed his water bottle.
"what she freak out?" Travis said sitting down.
"no, she was cool about it, surprised at first of course, but cool about it, kind of uncomfortable later for me." Mike said as he sat down on the bench.
"why did you tell her this early on?" Travis said as he took another sip from his water bottle.
"well she met my sisters, and the second she said she was the ADA they begin there jokes, Mikes dating another Lawyer, so after that Casey asked me about it, I wasn't going to lie to her. c'mon lets play," Mike said as he got up.
"did you ever tell your sisters what happened with Alex?" Travis said as he got the ball.
"no way, I just told them we broke up." Mike said as he started dribbling the ball.
Olivia went to Casey's office who just finished prosecuting Jeffrey Martinez.
"good job in there, you want to go get coffee?" Olivia asked as she came into her office.
"sure" Casey said as she got up and grabbed her jacket.
"so, where the flowers yesterday from Travis?" Casey asked smiling.
"yup, where dating, the date last night was perfect. So you and Mike?" Olivia said with a big smile on her face as they walked to an elevator.
"yea, his so sweet, the date last night was amazing. Who knew guys from the Reserves could be that romantic." Casey said smiling.
"tell me about it, that one date last night was more romantic then all of my past dates combined together." Olivia said smiling as the elevator door closed.
"well looks like are guys are having fun" Casey said as she pointed toward the basketball court.
"that's cute, there playing basketball." A familiar voice said as the guys were playing basketball. Travis tripped as the voice came all of a sudden. Mike started laughing. He turned around to see Olivia and Casey standing there.
"oh I'm so sorry honey," Olivia said.
"I Think I like Olivia even more now. C'mon get up" Mike joked as he put out his hand to Travis.
"shut up, that actually hurt" Travis said grabbing Mike's hand and pulling himself up.
"sure it did, sweetheart, I told you these women are dangerous." Mike said as he started laughing. Both Casey and Olivia smiled.
"I get a kiss for that," Travis said smiling.
"not from me, Olivia do the honors." Mike said as he walked over to Casey.
"Maybe later," Olivia said smiling as she went by Travis.
"so where are you ladies going?" Travis asked as he put his hand on Olivia's back.
"would you please give your women a proper hug everyone knows who's dating who it's not a secret. You're embarrassing me." Mike said smiling as he put his arm around Casey's waist.
"Mike's just mad because he didn't trip so he doesn't get the sympathetic kiss later." Travis said smiling as he put both of his arms around Olivia.
"we were going to get coffee." Olivia said.
"do you ladies want your chick flick moment where you supposedly talk about shoes, but secretly talk about us. If you do where fine with that, as long as its nice things about us." Mike said smiling. Olivia and Casey both laughed.
"no, we already had our talk don't worry." Casey said as Mike came behind her and wrapped his arms around.
"great, now I'm paranoid." Travis said laughing as he put his chin on Olivia's shoulder. Mike started laughing.
"you guys want to join us?" Olivia said putting her hands over Travis's hands, his hands were around her stomach.
"don't mind if we do" Travis said as he started to walk with Olivia toward the coffee shop around the corner. As Travis and Olivia walked in front of Mike and Casey, when they were ahead of them, Mike pulled Casey back towards him.
"hey did you tell Olivia about Alex and me?" Mike asked her in a low voice as he put his hands on her back.
"no, I didn't know if you wanted anyone to know" she said as she put her arms around his back.
"good, I don't want anyone to think that she didn't want to tell them, it's just that she couldn't, you know." Mike said pulling Casey closer to him.
"yea, no problem" Casey said and then kissed him gently on the lips.
They walked toward the coffee shop.
"4 coffee's" Travis said as he and Olivia walked into the coffee shop.
"so, did you have fun last night?" Travis said putting his arm around Olivia's shoulder.
"yup, it was amazing, the whole night was amazing." She said as she smiled and kissed him on the cheek.
"you order our coffee's already?" Mike asked as he was holding the door for Casey as she walked in.
"yup" Travis said smiling.
"ok since were all off today, you two up for a double date." Mike said as him and Casey sat across from them.
"yea, sure" Olivia said.
It was 8 o'clock and Travis went to Olivia's house to pick her up for their Double date with Mike and Casey.
"hey, come in, I'm almost ready," Olivia said when she answered the door. Travis kissed her on the lips and then went to sit on the couch. Olivia went to her room to get dressed.
"so do you know where were going?" Olivia asked well in her room getting dressed.
"yup, only Mike and I know." Travis said as Olivia came out and stood in the doorway.
"how do I look?" Olivia said smiling. She was wearing a strapless light pink dress.
"amazing, like always," Travis said smiling as he got up and went over to her side.
"well thank you." Olivia said smiling as she put her arms around his neck. He put both of his hands on her waist and put his body against hers.
"so you think we have time to.." Travis said smiling as he jerked his head toward the bedroom. Olivia started laughing.
"funny, no, c'mon." Olivia said laughing as she playfully grabbed his shirt and pulled him towards the front door.
"its not my fault your sexy." Travis said smiling as they went out the door.
"what a line! I think I'm falling in love." Olivia said smiling as she locked her door.
"what a coincidence, me too." Travis said as he put his arm around her waist and smiled.
Casey heard a knock on the door.
"come in" she said from her room.
"hey beautiful!" She heard Mike say when he came inside her apartment.
"Il be right out, get something to drink if you want." Casey said as she got dressed.
"take your time." Mike said as he sat down on her couch.
"now you close your eyes" Casey said before opening her door. Mike started laughing.
"for you I will." Mike said as he closed his eyes.
"open your eyes." Casey said after she opened her bedroom door. He opened his eyes and saw Casey in a beautiful Baby blue dress.
"I know it's not as good as the Yankee Stadium, but.." Casey said as Mike got up and walked towards her.
"no its better. You look...amazing.." Mike said as put his arms around her waist and pulled her body against his and kissed her.
Travis opened the door for Olivia. She entered a place that was very elegant, it was blaring good music, people where dancing and having a good time.
"this looks like fun" Olivia said smiling and taking Travis's hand.
"I'm glad you like it. Mike and Casey should be here soon. Lets go sit down." Travis said as he led her to a seat. They talked for another ten minutes. Then they saw Mike and Casey come in.
"this place looks amazing" Casey said to Olivia as Mike and her sat down across from Olivia and Travis.
"I know its so beautiful, but same time fun," Olivia said.
"just like you." Travis said as he put his arm around her.
"you so stole that line from me." Mike said smiling as he took Casey's hand under the table.
"you wish" Travis said laughing. Both of the girls started laughing. Mike smiled.
"you want to dance?" Mike looked at Casey.
"Sure" She said smiling as she got up. Travis Looked over at Olivia and put out his hand out and smiled. She put her hand in his, and got up.
Casey put her head on Mike's chest and swayed to the music. Olivia put her head on Travis's Shoulder, as he put his hand on her back. Casey's and Olivia's eyes met and they both smiled at each other.
It was 1 in the morning when they finished dancing and drinking and having a good time.
"its one already, we have to get going, I have get up at 6 in the morning." Olivia said as she finished her drink.
"same here, we better get going, honey," Casey said to Mike.
"yea, lets go" Mike said as he paid the waiter.
"we parked this way, how about you guys?" Travis said as he opened the door for Olivia.
"same here" Mike said.
They all walked together. When they past a corner a big man in black appeared and grabbed Olivia and put a gun to her head. Mike put his hand in front of Travis so he wouldn't move. Travis got in front of Casey.
"you put my brother in jail, you bitch, I'm going to kill you! You too, you stupid son of a bitch! " The man said and then pointed the gun at Mike. Olivia looked at Mike and he looked at her. Then they realized that he was talking about the kidnapping case the day before.
"ok, chill, man, relax." Mike said putting his hands up and looking at Olivia, then he slowly motioned his hand to the left. Olivia blinked slowly showing that she knew what he meant.
Mike slowly looked at Travis who slowly nodded. Knowing exactly what the other one was thinking.
Mike jumped for the gun, Olivia moved to the left, Travis jumped and hit the man in his chest with his feet. The man fell on the ground immediately. The gun went off, Olivia grabbed Casey pulled her to the side. The guys still wrestling with the man, Travis punched him in the face. Mike kneeled on his hand and pulled the gun away and threw it to the side and fell on his back.
Travis put his knee on the Man's neck as he tried to move "try to move again and I'm going to shoot you with your own gun I swear as god as my witness" Travis said looking mad.
Mike was still lying on the ground. Casey went over and kneeled by him. She saw him bleeding from the shoulder.
"Olivia!" she screamed. Olivia went over, Travis looked up and saw his best friend lying on the ground bleeding. He lost it, he started hitting the man as the man started bleeding.
Olivia went behind Travis and put her arms around him, her palms resting on his chest "calm down, baby, calm down." She said in a low voice as Travis stopped hitting him, the man was unconscious by now. Travis said nothing, he pulled out his cell phone and moved to where Mike was lying.
Just then a cop car with sirens on appeared on the corner.
"someone heard shots fired." Said the cop as he got out. Then saw Mike lying on the ground almost unconscious, he looked at the Man on the ground. Figuring what happened as he saw how everyone was dressed.
Five minutes later the ambulance showed up.
"Il go with him," Casey said as she got inside the ambulance with Mike.
"will meet you there." Olivia said as her and Travis got inside there car.
Casey held Mikes hand, he was barely conscious.
"He's loosing a lot of blood, The gunshot wound hit a major artery. Where losing him get, the adrenaline." The paramedic yelled out to the other paramedic. He grabbed a needle and stuck it in Mikes arm. Casey's eyes just filled up with water. She held his hand with both of her hands. How could this happen to the man she fell in love with the moment she saw him, she thought, she just starred into his eyes.