"Well your partner is trying to find your boyfriend, why don't we get to know each other." Trevor said sitting on a chair across from Olivia still holding the gun. She sat on the bed. Elliot went to find Travis. Olivia said nothing.
"Your actually are very pretty for a cop." Trevor said looking at her. Olivia said nothing.
"You think I'm scum don't you? Well I'm not, my brother is though, I don't even know what you see in him, but his a good-looking guy. So you might be dating him because of the way we look." Trevor said laughing. Olivia just looked at him.
"Did he ever tell you how our parents died?" Trevor asked. Olivia looked at him with a confused look.
"by that look I can tell he never even told you about the accident. He probably still feels remorse for that, and he should, it was his fault." Trevor said as got up.
"what did he do?" Olivia said looking at him.
"Well we were 16, he just got his driver license and wanted to go to a party, well I stayed home taking care of our little sister, Haley, he got wasted at the party. He could hardly walk how hammered he was, that scar he has on his forehead is from that night, he fell down the stairs at that party. His stupid ass got in the car, luckily he hit a tree before he can get far, got arrested for DUI, mom and dad got the call that he was arrested." Trevor said as his eyes started tearing up, he stared at the ground the whole time. Olivia just looked at him, her eyes started tearing up as she watched him.
"I remember dad was so mad, I remember the last words he said 'how are they so different' and he walked out the door and mom followed him. Telling me to take care of my sister. That was the last time I saw them. On there way to the police station, ironically they got hit by a drunk driver, and they both died automatically. No fight or anything, they just died." Trevor said wiping his eyes and taking a deep breath.
"I'm sure he felt responsible for that" Olivia said wiping her eyes.
"He did, after that my grand parents moved in with us, we had to take him to the doctor he became an insomniac for a whole month. I tried to stay up with him almost every night, I actually slept through most of my classes, just so he wouldn't have to be awake alone and think about his guilt or do something stupid like commit suicide. He wasn't the same I feared every night that I might fall asleep and wake up and see my brother dead. We had to take every picture of them down because whenever someone mentioned them, he started crying. He was worst then Haley, who was 10 at that time. Through there funeral he cried the whole time, I held him the whole time and tried to tell him it wasn't his fault, but he was smart, he knew it was." Trevor said trying not to cry, a tear just dropped on the ground.
A tear fell down Olivia's face as she watched him.
"I used to be a good guy, until he made me bad." Trevor said wiping his eyes and looking at Olivia.
"how did he make you bad?" Olivia said looking at him.
"grandpa died a year after that, grandma didn't have enough money for the funeral because it all of it went for are parents funeral and they used all there money for us. I tried helping out, I got a job, I didn't want to tell Travis to get a job considering his been through more then me, if it was before he would have done it in a heart beat before everything happened he had the energy, popularity and sense of humor of a whole school combined, but after the accident he became someone different he never wanted to talk, always sat alone, became rebellious and always got in trouble. It wasn't enough money, Grandma couldn't make payments so I did what I had to do to get the most money, I started selling drugs, never told anyone, except Mike, I was friends with him before Travis was, he always tried covering for me, and always had my back. I just said I was working overtime so no one would suspect anything, I never used it, just dealt it, Travis got in fights almost everyday because some punk thought it was funny to pick on him by saying 'you where drinking while your parents were dying' he lost it and got in fights, every time he got detention I went to the school and said it was me, considering where twins it would work, it did." Trevor said as he looked out the window. Olivia just starred at him, her eyes tearing up and she said nothing.
" One time this kid started picking on Haley, he grabbed her ass, and said her parents were gone because of her brother and that he can have sex with her now. Kids are so rude it unbelievable, she was a freshman in high school that guy was a junior. Travis and I where seniors. Travis overheard him, he had enough when kids picked on him, but when someone was rude to girls he lost it, especially his baby sister. He is exactly like dad that it scares me sometimes. He grabbed the guy and put him threw a window, he was going to get expelled. I didn't know about it until I saw fighting in the hall, some guy who was friends with the jerk, was fighting with Travis, Mike jumped through the crowd and started fighting with him, other guy jumped on Mike, and I jumped on him. I said it was me. So I got expelled and never finished High school, I just went with overtime with selling drugs. Here if you're thirsty. " Trevor said as he handed her a coke that was in the fridge. Olivia realized how similar they were but just that it was in different time. Travis used to be bad, but now good. Trevor used to be good but now bad.
Outside Travis arrived and went toward Elliot.
"where are they?" Travis said as we went toward the stairs of the hotel. The captain
from homicide stepped in front of him.
"son, we can't let you go in there." The captain said looking at him.
"you can try to stop me, but I'm going in that room, if it's the last thing I do" Travis said starring at him.
"give him a vest" The captain said still starring at Travis. One of the officers handed Travis a vest.
"don't say anything that might piss him off." Elliot was telling Travis as they walked toward the door.
"I know." Travis said putting on the vest. They arrived to the door.
"Trevor, I found your brother." Elliot yelled out. Travis stepped through the door. He looked at Olivia then at Trevor. Trevor walked up to him and punched him. Travis fell on the ground.
"you deserved that. Hopefully you'll have another scar to remember a bad day, by the way do you remember mom and dad when you look at that scar? " Trevor said walking away. Travis wiped his lip as he got up.
"don't" Travis said looking at Trevor.
"oh that's right you break down every time someone says mom and dad." Trevor said leaning on the wall.
"She has nothing to do with this let her go." Travis said looking at Olivia and then at Trevor.
"sure she does, she means something to you so she means something to me." Trevor said sitting next to Olivia.
"don't touch her" Travis said starring at his brother.
"you still have the whole gentleman thing going, I'm proud of you, you know you re just like dad when it comes to manners." Trevor said getting up. Travis said nothing and just starred at him.
"did I ever tell you what was the last thing mom said to me?" Trevor said opening a coke.
"don't talk about them." Travis said taking in a deep breath.
"she said take care of your sister, I haven't seen her for years, Haley moved to Chicago after you went into the reserves, I haven't seen her since. How do you think that makes me feel?" Trevor said as he took a sip of coke.
"big deal, that's your fault, they were mad at me when they died! How do think that made me feel!" Travis yelled, as his eyes got watery.
"Stop thinking about yourself for one second, what about Haley, she got screwed over in all of this! The only mistake she ever made was being related to us! Is it too hard to see her face and know that you ruined her life! She hardly knew mom and dad, and now she has no brothers! When was the last time you went to visit her or call her!" Trevor yelled.
Outside a car came fast and pulled over. Everyone turned around. Mike came out with his shoulder in a bandage and a strap holding his arm.
"What are you doing here? You're supposed to be in the hospital for another week." Elliot said as he walked up to Mike.
"I know. Get me a vest" Mike said going toward a SWAT truck.
"you can't go in there. His going to kill you, you arrested him." Elliot said walking with him.
"you don't understand I knew Trevor before I knew Travis, me arresting him and his brother knowing about it made it personal, I need to go in there if were going to get Olivia out." Mike said as he grabbed a vest from the SWAT truck and ran up the stairs.
"put the gun down, Trevor." Mike said as he entered the room. Trevor turned around.
"mike. Its like a reunion of the people that screwed me over." Trevor said as he leaned on the wall.
"leave her out of this, this is between us three." Mike said starring at Trevor.
"she's dating my brother she needs to know about all this. By the way what happened to your arm? Did Travis shot you? His very good at that, you know, hurting people." Trevor said looking at Mike and then at Travis.
"accident. No big deal" Mike said.
"it was an accident, I know, that jackass wasn't even supposed to have bullets in that gun. But idiots never listen." Trevor said sitting down on a chair.
"what?" Travis said looking at him.
"yea, I hired that guy, to scare you guys. Since Mike and Olivia work for the police they're easiest to pull it off with. He wasn't supposed to hurt anyone. It was fun hearing him bitch about how you beat him up." Trevor said laughing.
"you son of a bitch" Travis said looking at his brother.
"watch what you say you wouldn't want mom to be mad at you…again." Trevor said getting up.
"shut up! You're a embarrassment to the family and you know it!" Travis yelled.
"shut up, Travis!" Mike said.
"watch what you say, you wouldn't want a image of me shooting your girlfriend in your nightmares. You don't want to be an Insomniac again, who's going to stay up all night with you then!" Trevor yelled as he pointed his gun at Olivia.
"One good thing you did in your life and you're going to use it against me, congratulations, you've just became the worlds worst brother!" Travis yelled.
"Shut up, Travis! Don't provoke him!" Mike yelled.
"Fuck you! You know what it's not her fault she met you, so I'm not going to shoot her, Il shoot you instead, you deserve it!" Trevor said yelling as he pointed his gun at Travis.
"Put the gun down, Trevor! I'm the one that arrested you, shoot me!" Mike said as he got in front of Travis.
"get out the way Mike! You did your job I'm not blaming you for what happened! People covered enough for him, he deserves a bullet!" Trevor said still pointing his gun at Travis.
"you want to shoot me, go ahead! You don't think I regret what I did, I think about them every night, I regret it every fucking day of my life! You don't think that I stay up at nights and think if I was never born they would still be alive, I ruined everyone's life because I was born! Shoot me so I can tell dad that his son went to jail and shot his twin brother!" Travis said getting in front of Mike. Olivia just starred at Travis as a tear rolled down her cheek.
"You can go to hell Travis, do you know how many times I covered for you! How many times I did detention for you! The second I made a mistake you let me fall! I don't even blame Mike for me getting arrested that was his job! I blame you, you did nothing, Mike told you about it and you did nothing. I didn't even want you to cover for me, all I wanted you to do is act like a brother and at least let me know! I guess you're not like dad! I wasn't going to run, I know what I did was wrong! You where weak then and your still weak!" Trevor yelled at him as he put the gun down.
"you did detention for me, but I never broke the law, you killed someone, Trevor!" Travis yelled at his brother.
"I killed him for you!" Trevor yelled out and punched the mirror that was next to him. The mirror broke. His knuckles started bleeding. He starred at the ground.
"god damn it, Travis. I killed that man to protect you." Trevor said in a normal voice. Olivia and Mike looked at Travis.
"what are you talking about?" Travis said also in his normal voice.
"I used to sell drugs, The guy that I killed bought from me, one night, he came in his car, I saw a hit list next to him, It had your name and picture on it, if I didn't kill him he was going to kill you." Trevor said getting up. Travis just starred at him.
"If you want to press charges against me for holding you hostage that's fine. I give up, I had enough. By the way the gun isn't loaded. I was never going to kill anybody. Please call Haley and tell her that I love her. Hopefully this works out between you two and Mike hopefully it works out with you and that girl." Trevor said as he placed his gun on the table and put his hands on the back of his head and headed toward the door.
"detective Benson?" Trevor said as he turned around and looked at Olivia.
"yea?" She said looking up.
"please take care of him for me," Trevor said. Olivia nodded. Trevor walked out the room and the SWAT team grabbed him.
Olivia, Mike, and Travis just looked at him and then at each other. Travis put his hands on his forehead. He turned around and looked at Mike.
"Is there anything we can do?" Travis said looking at Mike.
"I can investigate the guy he killed, that's about it. If I find anything then will just have to see." Mike said looking at Travis.
"alright, thanks, are you ok?" Travis said turning around and facing Olivia.
"yea, I'm fine." She said getting up.
"good, I have to get out of here and do something with this." Travis said as he walked out the room and stood on the balcony.
"hey" Mike said as he stood next to Travis.
"have ever felt like you ruined someone's life because of a stupid choice you made?" Travis said just standing and watching his brother being handcuffed and put in the back of a squad car.
"yea, but at some point you just have to get over it and find the best in everything." Mike said watching the same thing
"Yea, but I ruined almost every life in my family how do I find the best in that?" Travis said looking at Mike.
"the past is the past you cant change it, but you can make the best in someone's life, don't go and get drunk now because the past came back and reminded you of what you did, if you do your going to ruin the best thing that ever happened to you." Mike said as he looked at Olivia talking to Elliot.
"yea, I know, I wont, is it possible for this to be the best worst week ever?" Travis said looking at Olivia.
"I think it might actually be, I got shot, we learned something new tonight, mistake came back to bit us in the ass, but we found our girls." Mike said smiling.
"yea, this is a week I wont forget, either cause it sucked or because it was the best week of my life. Scary thing is that I have Ben to thank for being drunk and blurting out that I liked her." Travis said laughing. Mike started laughing.
"well I'm going to go, check on my shoulder, and call my girl." Mike said as he smiled and started walking down the stairs.
"hey" Travis said behind him. Mike turned around.
"did you know about the whole hit list thing?" Travis said as he sat on the stairs.
"no, I wish he told me about it though." Mike said as he sat next to Travis.
"Well you know him always taking responsibility for his actions. " Travis said.
"yea, I just wish he didn't that time." Mike said.
"yea same here." Travis said.
"Il give you some advice, tell her about everything. She should know. I'm going to go, Casey didn't like that I left the hospital in a bad condition. Why are girls always worried?" Mike said smiling as he got up.
"I wish I knew why girls do half the things they do. I will tell her, thanks, man." Travis said laughing.
"It just makes them sexy when they worry, Il see ya later." Mike said laughing as he went down the stairs.
"see ya." Travis said as he got up and he went to where Olivia and Elliot where talking.
"I'm going to go call Captain tell him everything is fine" Elliot said as Travis walked up to them.
"ok." Olivia said as she saw Travis.
"you did a good job in there," Elliot said as he shook Travis's hand.
"thanks" Travis said and Elliot walked down the stairs.
"how you doing?" Olivia said as she touched his arm.
"I'm ok, I'm going to go home and try to deal with everything that just happened." Travis said as he put his hand on her waist.
"you want some company?" Olivia said looking at him.
"thanks, but I just have to think about everything alone, Il call you tomorrow," Travis said as he kissed her on the cheek.
"ok, If you need anything, call me, ok?" Olivia said as she hugged him.
"I will, thanks, I love you." Travis said as he put his arms around her.
"I love you too" She said as she rested her head on his shoulder.
Mike was lying down watching T.V. when he heard a knock on the door. He got up and answered it.
"you didn't go back to the hospital?" Casey said walking in.
"well nice to see you, too, honey." Mike said smiling as he closed the door.
"hi, why didn't you go back to the hospital? You can damage it even more." Casey said as she hugged him.
"I just went through a hostage situation I think Il be fine sitting and watching TV." Mike said as he put his arm around her.
"oh yea, what happened is everyone ok?" Casey said as she went toward the couch.
"yea, everyone is fine physically, but Travis is probably not going to sleep tonight." Mike said as he sat next to her.
"why? What happened?" Casey said lying down and putting her head on Mike's lap.
"well he learned that his brother killed a man to save his life. Everything bad he did in the past came back tonight. So his going to have some trouble falling asleep. " Mike said as he played with Casey's hair.
"how did he kill someone to protect Travis's life?" Casey said looking up at Mike.
"Trevor said that the guy had a hit list with Travis's name on it and he killed him to protect Travis. I'm going to try and find out who the guy was tomorrow, since we never investigated the victim." Mike said looking at Casey.
"not tomorrow, your still not in good condition, you can start bleeding again and make it worse." Casey said taking his hand.
"Il be fine, I wont do any Jackie Chan moves just research on the computer. What ever you do, don't tell my sisters that I'm refusing to be in the hospital when I'm supposed to cause they will go crazy and brake my other arm." Mike said smiling as he held Casey's hand.
"I think it would be fun seeing you with two broken arms, gives you a very cool edge. Plus you know chicks can't resist a guy with no arms. " Casey said laughing as she got up and went to the kitchen.
"yea that's such a turn on I used to brake both of my legs in high school so girls would ask me to prom. It was my secret pick up line 'look I cant walk, do I get laid now' don't tell but it always worked. I bet your fantasizing about me at work now that I can't do anything with one hand because this bandage makes me so attractive." Mike said laughing as he followed her.
"aww, don't worry baby Il always find you attractive, even when your sisters beat you up." Casey said smiling as she put her hands on his face.
"score! that's exactly what I want in a girl, one that finds me attractive no matter what, and one that isn't afraid to remind me that my sisters can beat me up." Mike said smiling as he wrapped his arm around her body and pulled her closer.
"your very cute with one arm, don't worry, its what makes me want to kiss you right now." Casey said smiling and getting close to his lips. He pulled her close and started kissing her.
"Michael Eugene Seroulli! You better open this door right now!" They heard Sarah yelling and hitting the door.
"oh man, not happening." Mike said as he stopped kissing Casey and looked at the door.
"your middle name is Eugene?" Casey said laughing and looking at him
"shut up, you think I can make it down the fire escape before they knock down the door?" Mike said laughing and still looking at the door.
"just open the door before they kill both of us." Casey said laughing as Mike pulled her toward the door and opened it. Holding Casey in front of him.
"you hurt my girlfriend, Sarah, I have to arrest you for domestic violence." Mike said smiling as all of his sisters came in.
"you left the hospital? You needed to stay for another week, you better go back to that hospital this second." Sarah said in a high voice.
"hey big bro, hey Casey. We got Mike flowers, but since you're in the middle Casey, you can use them to fight off PMS lady here. " Emily said smiling and closing Mikes door. Both Casey and Mike smiled.
"shut up, Emily. Your brother just got shot, he doesn't need your dumb jokes now." Sarah said looking at Emily.
"I actually thought it was a good joke." Casey said smiling, Mike's arm still around her neck. Mike started laughing.
"she is so going to fit in with us, I love her, good choice Mike." Jennifer said as she grabbed food from Mike's fridge.
"can you two be a little more sympathetic toward your brother." Sarah said looking at her sisters as they sat on Mike's couch.
"we don't need to be sympathetic, the painkillers do that for him." Emily said. Everyone started laughing except for Sarah.
"you should have seen her at the hospital, you would have loved it, Mike." Jennifer said eating chips.
"oh yea, you would have loved it, she had her full blown PMS attack on this poor nurse, it was awesome." Emily said laughing.
"it was so on, I was seriously going to get popcorn and watch PMS lady and innocent nurse go at it." Jennifer said laughing and lying down on the couch. Mike and Casey started laughing.
"you two are unbelievable, and Mike you should know better, Casey you should have never let him leave the hospital, he is in no condition to be out of the hospital" Sarah said looking at Casey.
"I told him that, I swear." Casey said looking at Sarah.
"she did tell me that it's true. Hey Jen, doesn't Sarah remind you of aunt Cindy when she says my full name." Mike said trying not to laugh.
"thank you! I was wondering who it was" Jennifer said laughing.
"leave them alone Sarah, we didn't worn Casey about your PMS attacks yet, by the way Mike loves to hang out around her when she has them cause he laughs so hard when she is yelling at someone." Emily said laughing.
"come and join us to watch TV and laugh at Sarah." Jennifer said as she sat up on the couch. Mike and Casey went over and sat on the couch.
"shut up! And in my defense my PMS isn't that bad, you make it sound worse then it is." Sarah said as she went over to sit on the couch.
"sure it isn't, sweetie" Emily said laughing. Mike grabbed the chips out of Emily's hands.
"that's mine!" Emily said hitting him in the back of the head and grabbing it from him.
"I'm older and I'm hurt." Mike said grabbing it from her and playfully pushing Emily.
"don't push her." Jennifer said and hit him in the back of the head and grabbed the chips from his hands.
"I'm older then you also, respect your elders." Mike said as he grabbed it from her.
"don't pick on them cause there younger," Sarah said grabbing it from him and hitting him in the back of the head. Casey started laughing.
"why do I always get hit?" Mike said.
"because you're the only boy, that's why, now shut up and hug your girlfriend and be quiet I'm trying to watch the movie." Jennifer said.
"fine, you bully, all of you are bullies, except for you, baby." Mike said as he placed his head on Casey's shoulder.
"you make me sick. what have those pain killers done to him?" Emily said smiling.
"shut up or Il send Sarah on your ass" Mike said.
"shut up, Mike or Il brake your other arm." Sarah said.
"bring it on, Il send Casey on your ass," Mike said smiling.
"hey don't get me into this, Il fight for you sweetie, anytime, but not well your sister has PMS." Casey said smiling. Everyone laughed.
"then it will be PMS lady and lawyer girl go at it." Emily said laughing.
"we had that match up before, with Mike's old girlfriend," Jennifer said
"oh yea, what ever happened to Alex? I liked her, she was nice" Sarah said. Mike and Casey looked at each other.
"um.. we broke up. It didn't work out cause of our jobs." Mike said.
"oh that sucks, I thought she was going to be the one, Mike was crazy about her." Jennifer said.
"c'mon don't talk about an ex-girlfriend in front of the new girlfriend. Sorry Casey we just start talking randomly like this. Alex was Mike's old girlfriend she was a lawyer also." Emily said.
"It's ok, Mike told me about her already." Casey said putting her arm around his.
"ok, in that case who broke up with who?" Emily said looking at Mike.
"It was mutual, we both agreed on it" Mike said.
"Mutual my ass." Jennifer said getting up and heading toward the kitchen.
"what's that supposed to mean?" Mike said turning around and looking at Jennifer.
"you were depressed for almost two months after she stopped coming over. I'm not here to judge but it doesn't look very mutual to me." Jennifer said as she got a coke from the fridge.
"whatever." Mike said as he got up and headed toward his room.
"Nice going, now you really done it." Emily said looking at Jennifer as Mike went into his room and closed the door.
"Il go talk to him." Casey said getting up and headed towards Mike's room.
"how am I supposed to know, I thought he got over it, being that it was two years ago." Jennifer said. Casey went in his room and closed the door when she got in.
"you ok?" Casey said watching him lying on his bed.
"Il be fine." Mike said starring at his ceiling his hand on the back of his head.
"it doesn't look like it." Casey said as she lay next to him.
"Il be fine." Mike said still starring at the ceiling.
"I know you still think about her and that's fine, I understand that, I just want you to tell me when something is bothering you" Casey said as she put her head on his chest.
"I just hate that she had to go through all of that alone. I was the one that was supposed to be in more danger, not her, if anybody should have went through that, it should have been me, because of me we kept it a secret at work." Mike said as he placed his hand on her back.
"It shouldn't have happened to anybody. It sucks that she went through that, but she is safe, so it's for the best." Casey said.
"yea, I know." Mike said as he heard a knock on the door.
"come in." He said as Emily walked in.
"hey some detective from homicide is on the phone." Emily said as she handed Mike the phone.
"thanks." Mike said as he stood up and took the phone. Emily walked out and closed the door. Casey sat up on his bed and watched him.
"Seroulli, are you sure, when, ok, Il be right there." Mike said as he grabbed his jacket from a chair. Casey just watched him. He hung up the phone.
"what's going on? Where are going?" Casey said looking at him.
"homicide detective who arrested Trevor said there's something to their recent case against him, that I might want to see. Please help me with this." Mike said as he tried to put on his jacket but couldn't with one hand.
"oh, sorry" Casey said as she got up and helped him.
"thanks, if you want you can stay and help me take my clothes off later." Mike said smiling and grabbing his badge.
"funny, but no, Il call you tomorrow." Casey said smiling as she hugged him.
"If you want you can stay and finish watching the movie with my sisters." Mike said as he kissed her on the cheek.
"sure, and be careful with your arm." Casey said.
"ok, if I hurt it, maybe we can play patient and nurse later." Mike said as he kissed her neck.
"shut up, and go." Casey said smiling.
"what? I'm hurting my nurse has to take care of me." Mike said laughing as he looked at her.
"go, now, before I get Sarah." Casey said laughing as she gave him a kiss.
"ok, ok, I'm going. Here is the key to my apartment." Mike said as he handed Casey a key, opened the door and went into the living room. Casey followed him.
"where do you think your going?" Sarah said looking at Mike as he passed by her.
"I have to go do something for work, Il be back, Casey will hang out with you, don't scare her please, and don't mess up my apartment, and no strippers." Mike said laughing as he went into the bathroom to get his painkillers.
"you're not going to work. Aren't you on leave for 5 weeks?" Sarah said standing up.
"yes I am but I have to go take care of something, don't worry, I wont hurt my arm." Mike said as he hugged Sarah and went over and kissed his other sisters on the head.
"see ya later kids." Mike said to them and walked up too Casey.
"see ya, big bro," Emily said her eyes still on the TV.
"Il call you tomorrow." Mike said in a low voice as he kissed Casey gently on the lips. She smiled watching him walk out the door. The key to his apartment still in her hand.