Not mine Dick Wolf's. Only Hayden, Jayson, Anna, Danielle, and Riley are mine

Tony's is mine

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Knock Knock Knock

"Come in"

" Hey Jayson." Riley said sweetly to her cousin.

" Hey, glad to see you. what are you doing here?" Jayson asked suspiciously.

" What, a girl can't come to her favorite cousin's office to say hello and go out to eat with him?" Riley questioned as she took a seat in a chair in front of his desk.

" You want something, don't you?"

" A small favor." She said slyly.

" Okay let me get packed up."

After 5 minutes they were out the door to the building. They walked down the street to a little bar/resteraunt named Tony's, named for it's owner Tony. Tony happened to be working today and was a good friend of Jayson's and Riley's.

" Jayson, Riley, here for lunch or drinks?" Tony asked with a knowing smile

" Drinks. the usual."

When Tony left they took their seats. They sat in a little booth next to the bar.

" So, last year of college. Finally got an idea what you want to do with your life?"

" yeah," Riley said, " I want to go into law, like Casey and Serena."

" You apply for law school?"

" Yeah, no answer yet."

Aftr their little conversation they turned their heads towards the t.v. One of the news women was starting on another story...

" Earlier this morning a 33 year old woman named Anna Southerlyn was brutally beaten, raped, and murdered. Southerlyn worked for a advertising company and today was going to make a big deal people have said that would put them on the map. Manhattan's Special Victims unit is investigating this heinus crime. If anyone has any information on the crime please give detectives a call."

" Oh My God. Anna. She...She." Riley couldn't speak anymore, she started crying.

" Oh... Oh No." Jayson choked, but then pulled himself together, " We have to get out of here."

After he said this he and Riley ran out of the bar, nodded to each other.

They knew where they were going.

At 1:30 As Jayson and Riley caught a cab to midtown to see Danielle, Serena was just coming back home to her apartment after a morning of shopping. When Serena walked into her apartment she thought she heard sniffling. She threw her keys onto an endtable and went into her living room.

The sight of a distraught Casey greeted her.

" Casey, Oh my god Casey, Are you okay?" When she asked Casey let out a strangled sound.

" Am i okay," Casey looked confused for a moment.

" You mean you don't know?" Casey asked Serena wiping tears from her eyes.

" Know what?" Serena was confused now.

" Sit down, Sweetie." Casey voice was soft.

Serena sat down next to Casey on her couch.

" Serena. . . . I'm so sorry to say this, Anna was murdered this morning." Casey said as softly as she could.

" No! No! She can't be. I just talked to her last night."

" I'm so sorry. I know. I wish this weren't ture. I wish it were a dream. But it's not. I'm so sorry."

At this point both Casey and Serena started crying and hugged each other. 15 minutes of crying later, both were asleep. 3 hours later Casey woke up to a ringing phone.

" mm. . . Hello?"

" Hi. . . Casey? What are you doing on Serena's phone?"

" Umm. there's something you need to know, Why are you calling?"

" I caught an earlier flight. My plane landed about 10 minutes ago. sorry I didn't call earlier."

" It's okay. What airport? Terminal?"

When Casey was getting all the information Cragen was grilling Elliot and Olivia about any information that had to do with Anna Southerlyn.

"Elliot, Olivia what have you found out about Southerlyn?"

" Not much, she owned her own business, um. . . she fired a guy last week but he has been out of town in Miami for the past week. We're checking all the phone calls, any people she's close to."

" That's it?" Cragen needed/wanted more information.

" I'm going to speak to Seena tomorrow. Casey told her about her sister. Apparently Casey and Serena are very close friends. Casey going to be with Serena tonight."

" Okay Olivia, Elliot go home and get some sleep, you're going to need to be fresh and awake tomorrow."

Olivia and Elliot shut down their computers and said goodbye to Cragen. Elliot said goodbye to Olivia and left. Olivia turned and looked back at the board with Anna's picture and all the information they had, She closed her eyes and wondered why these people do what they do. When she didn't get an answer she left.

Casey arrived at the airport and saw Hayden standing outside talking on his cell phone. When he didin't notice her she honked the horn.

" Sorry mom, I got to go."

"Casey. . . . It's been a long time. I wish it could have been longer." Hayden said with a slight playfull edge to his voice. Casey just shrugged.

Hayden got worried, usually Casey would have said something slightly along those lines back to him, but she didn't say anything.

" Casey are you okay?" Hayden asked his voice now somber and full of concern.

" No, Something bad happened this morning." Casey was now crying and her voice was swaying

" What happened? Is everyone okay?"

" No. . . Anna was murdered this morning." Casey said, then walked to the car.

When Hayden was in the car Casey wasn't crying anymore. She looked towards him and gave him a brief hug over the shift.

" We're going to go to my apartment, I think Serena might want to be alone when she wakes up. I left her a note saying that i'm going to get you and take you to my apartment."
" yours?"

" yeah, it's not as big as Serena's but it's still pretty big. We live in the same apartment building."

After she said this she started the car and didn't talk again till they reached her apartment.

" This is a nice place." Hayden said after he walked into the apartment.

" Yeah," Casey said, but it was obvious that she didn't feel like talking. She led Hayden down a hallway out of the foyer.

" This ais the guest room, you'll stay in here. Bathroom is the door on the right." Casey said this then left the room, Hayden assumed to call Serena, then go to sleep.

Hayden put his clothes away, then took out a picture and put it near the lamp on the endtable. He looded at it for a moment, then turned off the light, went under the covers and fell aseleep. On the endtable the picture had Anna, Serena, Danielle, Hayden, Jayson, Casey and Riley all trying to fit on a couch, but not exactly fitting, with half of them off the side, laughing. This was probably the last time they were all together like this after what happened the next week.

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