"I was really drunk that night." Casey said as James was driving her home.
"yea, I know, its ok, we all did stupid things when were drunk, trust me I know, I have a lot of those moments" James said smiling. She smiled.
"yea, but I still feel bad for what I did. I didn't know I hurt him that much. I actually am sorry for what I did." Casey said looking out the window.
"I'm not the person you should be telling this to, he should know that" James said as he took her hand. She looked at him and smiled and nodded, knowing she had to talk to Jason.
"well thanks for the date and driving me home" Casey said as they appeared in front of her apartment.
"It was my pleasure, you want to hang out tomorrow?" James asked looking at her.
"yea, I would love that." She answered smiling.
"ok, good, Il call you tomorrow. Goodnight" He said smiling.
"Goodnight." She replied smiling and gave him a kiss on the cheek. James watched her go into her building and smiled the whole time.
Elliot and Olivia arrived at the parking lot around 7 in the morning. James was already there laying on his car and starring at the sky.
"morning sleeping beauty" Olivia said as she saw James.
"right back at you" James said smiling as he sat up. Olivia smiled.
"Why you smiling Olivia, I was talking to Elliot." James said laughing at his own joke. Elliot looked up and rolled his eyes.
"not a morning person, just as well, I got you guys coffee." James said as he got off the car and handed them each a cup of coffee.
"Thanks" Olivia replied and sipped the hot coffee.
"no problem, did you guys study any of the material?" James said as he sat on his car.
"I learned what the most popular color for a racing car is, and what the most popular exhaust system is." Olivia said as she leaned on the car.
"good, did you do any practice runs Elliot?" Travis asked looking at Elliot, who was still annoyed with him.
"No" Elliot answered, not even looking at him.
"ok, look Elliot I know your still pissed at me but you have to work with me or at least be civil and get along with me." James said as he got off of the car.
"I am being civil if I wasn't being civil you would be the first to know." Elliot said looking angry.
"first of all don't threaten me, second I can't do my job if your going to act like an asshole towards me." James replied looking annoyed by Elliot.
"am I missing something here?" Olivia asked looking confused and not knowing what they were talking about.
"James broke my sister's heart and the accused her of cheating." Elliot said loudly and got in James face.
"she broke my heart and she was cheating on me. If you don't put that behind you I will be forced to take you off this case." James said loudly and getting in Elliot's face.
"ok, why don't we cool off and get breakfast or something." Olivia said getting in between them, trying to get them out of each other's face.
"go ahead, I don't even want to work with you," Elliot said totally ignoring Olivia.
"well if I do take you off this case Olivia will have to work with someone else, I don't want to make her work with anybody else, you know what I'm not going to fight you again, I'm going to go get something to eat. Il meet you here at 8," James said and got in his car and drove off.
"El, you seriously have to put that behind you and we need to finish this case, I don't want to work with someone else on this case." Olivia said looking at Elliot as he sat down on the car and looked at the ground.
"I know, I need to get over this, lets go get breakfast." Elliot said and got in the car. Olivia followed him.
Casey went into the concert hall where she was last night. She saw Jason sitting with his band and getting ready for tonight's concert.
"which chord are we using?" The bassist asked as he was tuning his guitar.
"well tonight its…." Jason started to say but stopped when he saw Casey walking up to them.
"um.. we have to go set up the drums, let's go" The drummer said and got up, the other band members following him.
"you were very good last night" Casey said trying to fill in the silence.
"thanks" Jason said weakly and got up.
" I'm sorry about what happened prom night" Casey said trying to talk to him.
"It was long ago, forget it" Jason said not looking at her.
"I am sorry, really, and I don't want you to feel bad"
"yea so go out with my other friend and then show up here, were I can see you, that really shows how much you regret it" Jason said as he took he guitar.
"I do regret it, and I'm sorry…"
"sorry that you got caught" Jason interrupted her and grabbed some papers.
"no, sorry about what I did, I was drunk, I didn't realize what I was doing, I'm sorry I hurt you, I really am" Casey said following him.
"whatever, it was long ago, forget it" Jason said walking into his dressing room.
"please talk to me, cause I really feel bad about what happened that night" Casey said watching him grab a shirt.
"what do you want me to say, its ok, baby, I forgive you, if you want me to lie then fine I'll say that" Jason said looking pissed as he took off his shirt and put on the other one.
"look I know I made a mistake but I just want you to know that I am sorry, and you don't have to forgive me, I just wanted you to know that I was sorry" Casey said watching him and realizing that he was totally different from the last time she saw him, he was a man now.
"fine I know your sorry, anything else?" He said watching her and knowing he was still in love with her.
"no," Casey said in a weak voice wishing she could say something else.
"fine, and thanks for apologizing it means a lot" he said as he walked over to his stuff and grabbed a hat and put it on backwards.
"yea, of course, so you like being in a band?" Casey asked trying to keep the conversation going.
"yea I do, what do you do?" He asked looking at her.
"I'm an ADA" she answered with a small smile, glad that he kept the conversation going.
"good for you, you were always smart, I'm glad you didn't throw away that potential, I have to go rehearse, it was nice seeing you again, it really was" He said as he walked past her and gave her a small smile.
"just one more question" She said after him, he stopped and turned around.
"you name the band Death to the Red after me?" She asked. He showed a small smirk and shrugged. She smiled as she watched him go on stage.
"Elliot lets race" James said after doing a couple run's with Elliot it was already 3 in the afternoon and they have been practicing all day. Elliot and James were trying to be nice to each other since both were annoyed with each other and the hot weather wasn't helping the situation.
Elliot was only in his white tank top that he always wore under his shirt and in his jeans, Olivia was in a pink tank top and her hair was up in a ponytail, James was shirtless and just had his jeans on. There were water bottles everywhere, since they drank a lot of water since it had to be at least 90 degrees outside.
Elliot got in his car, and James got in his, Olivia grabbed a water bottle and sat on the ground and leaned on the wall since it was cooler there because it was in the shadow.
"were going to go from that wall to this one, don't crash the car." James said and then took off going to the other wall, Elliot following him, they turned their cars around and got ready to race. They both gave gas and raced to the other wall, James came in first.
"next time don't give it full speed at the start of the race, feed it speed after you get half way to first gear, lets do it again." James said as he grabbed a water bottle and turned the car around, Elliot followed him. They raced again, this time Elliot came in first.
"good job," James said as he got out of the car and took his water bottle and leaned forward and poured it over his head, Olivia looked up and saw the water go down James chest she smiled and looked back down at her book.
"tonight is the first race you guy's remember your alias?" James asked as he grabbed a towel he had in his car and wiped face.
"yea" they both answered in unison.
"here's the address to where were getting together tonight, meet me here at 9 and then will go over there around 10 cause that's when it usually starts" James said as he handed Elliot a piece of paper.
"well I'm going to go. You guys have any questions?" James asked as he took his shirt from the car.
"what do I wear?" Elliot asked
"um.. jeans and shirt but Olivia you need something leather and a little more um… how do I put this…um… feisty" James said feeling uncomfortable.
"ok" Olivia said smiling when she saw he was uncomfortable.
"ok, good, Il see you guys tonight" James said putting on his shirt.
"oh before I forget you should practice that making out before you do it over there cause I don't want you guys to look like your doing for the first time over there" James said smiling. Elliot and Olivia looked at each other.
"now you see why I didn't want her to have another partner, well have fun, see you later, and Olivia if someone gets in a fight there you cant do anything since you're a girl and in this type of thing they just watch, the boys fight." James said smiling and got in his car and took off.
"so…leather huh?" Elliot said trying to fill in the awkward silence.
"yea…um… making out… how do we deal with that?" Olivia asked as she stood up.
"um…I guess we just get it over with" Elliot said. Olivia just nodded.
"ok, but no tongue and no hands on face so we can see around, deal?" Olivia asked knowing that this was going to be a very awkward night.
"deal, so hands are on…?" Elliot asked awkwardly.
"um…back I guess or waist… I don't know I never made a plan how to make out before it" Olivia said laughing, they both laughed and felt a little more comfortable.
"ok, back, ok, you can put your hands around my neck I guess" Elliot said awkwardly knowing that they had to do it before tonight.
"ok,…so lets just get this over with" Olivia said trying to do this so she can go home. Elliot nodded and walked over to her. He put his hands on her waist, she closed her eyes and put her hands around his neck and moved closer and then kissed him. They stood there kissing for about a minute until they stopped.
"ok, I guess that was practicing" Olivia said as she moved a step back. Elliot just nodded and said nothing.
"should I take you home?" Elliot asked as he wiped his lip. Olivia nodded and went into the car. Neither said anything as he drove the car. When he finally got to Olivia's apartment he stopped the car.
"I guess Il pick you up later" Elliot said feeling uncomfortable but trying not to show it with a smirk.
"yea, Il see you later" Olivia said smiling also feeling weird about the kiss earlier.
James showed up at Casey's apartment for their date to the movies around 6.
"Hey, you ready?" He asked as she opened the door.
"yea, let me just grab my purse" She answered smiling. She took her purse from the table behind her and then locked her door.
"so what are we going to see?" She asked as they walked down her stairs.
"what ever you want, I'm up for anything" He answered as he opened the door to her building for her.
"thanks. well I have no idea, so I guess will just see when we get there" She said as he opened the door to his car.
"good deal" He said smiling.
They came out of the movie theater around 8.
"movie wasn't bad" She said holding his hand.
"Il tell you when I get a chance to watch it" He said smiling. She looked at him and smiled.
"want to get dinner?" She asked smiling.
"I would love to, but I have to go meet Elliot and Olivia for the whole undercover thing" He said as they walked over to his car.
"now?"
"yea, it starts at 10 so were meeting at 9"
"oh, ok, well call me tomorrow, ok?" She said disappointed that he couldn't hang out with her.
"you can bet on that" He said and smiled.
Elliot and Olivia were there and waiting for him, it was already 9:20. James pulled in with his car.
"you're late" Elliot yelled out as James came out of the car.
"I'm sure you guys found something to occupy yourself with," James said smiling. They both just starred at him.
"no jokes tonight, ok, sorry I'm late, I was on a date" James said smiling.
"with who?" Olivia asked with smirk.
"I'm a gentleman, I don't kiss and tell" James said smiling.
"alright whatever, do we go now?" Elliot asked.
"yea, hopefully you guys had time to practice" James said laughing and got in his car.
"his such a punk" Elliot said in a low voice as he opened the door.
"relax" Olivia answered also in a low voice opening her car door.
"heard that, Elliot, and by the way Olivia you look good" James said smiling and then drove off. Elliot rolled his eyes, Olivia smiled.
They got at the place were the races happened at 9:55. There were cars everywhere, and people making out on every corner, some were making out in the cars.
"wow this like a outside party" Elliot said as they pulled over and parked their car. James pulled over next to them and got out. They got out and stood by him.
"Johnny, you racing tonight?" A guy asked as he looked at James.
"no, probably not, Il see, hey this is my brother Matt, and his girlfriend Erica" James said as the guy came over and looked at Elliot car.
"damn, how much horse power?" The guy asked touching the car.
"350, its my baby, unless she's around" Elliot said smiling and putting his around Olivia. Olivia smiled and put her arm around Elliot's waist. James was impressed at how quickly they caught on.
"Hey Johnny, how are you?" A beautiful blonde came over by James and put her hand on his chest.
"Hey Johnny, you didn't forget about me did you?" A brunette came on the other side of James and put her hand on his chest.
"of course I didn't, Jessica, and I'm better now, Brittany. How are you ladies doing tonight." James said smiling and putting an arm around their shoulder and walked them to his car and sat on the hood. Olivia and Elliot looked at each other and gave each other a smirk.
"so you up for some fun tonight?" Jessica whispered and put her hand on his thigh.
"maybe, double the fun" Brittany whispered and put her hand on his other thigh.
"oh, ladies slow down, the night just began, so Matt how's the car running?" James said looking at Elliot pleading for someone to say something. Olivia was the first to catch on, so she walked over to James and sat on his lap and put her hands around his neck.
"His taken ladies" Olivia said and looked at the girls.
"why does she get both of the cuties" Jessica mumbled and got up. Brittany winked at Elliot and followed at Jessica.
"Thank you" James said in a low voice.
"No Problem," Olivia said in a low voice smiling and got up from his lap.
"I'm going to go hang around," James said to them, hinting that he was going to find out what he can. They just nodded and started looking around for their guy.
A couple of minutes passed by, James was talking to someone trying to find out who was there tonight, but some one screamed out "fight!" and everyone ran over to where James knew Elliot parked his car. He ran over and saw Elliot hitting a guy someone jumped on Elliot, he looked up at Olivia, she looked at him, and he slowly shook his head for her not to do anything.
James jumped in the fight and pulled the guy off of Elliot, but as he fell back with the guy, someone kicked James in the rib cage, James spit out blood and hit the guy who kicked him and slammed his head against the closest car.
Some guys grabbed Elliot and the guy he was fighting with and pulled them apart. James was lying on the ground holding his ribs and moaning.
They grabbed the guy who was fighting and pulled him away. Elliot wiped the blood from his lip and kneeled next to James, Olivia followed him and kneeled on the other side.
"are you ok?" Elliot asked.
"damn, no, but lets find your guy so I can go to the hospital" James groaned in a low voice so only they could hear him.
"maybe we should get you to the hospital now, you might have a broken rib" Olivia said watching him spit out more blood.
"yea, I probably do, but lets get this shit over with" James groaned as he wiped blood from his lip and slowly sat up and leaned on the car behind him.
"Here get some water" Elliot said as he gave a bottle of water to James.
"thanks" James said weakly and put the water in his mouth and spat out the bloody water.
"Elliot go and pull out a roll of gauze from my trunk." James said well his hands were around his chest. Elliot got it and handed it to James
"Put this around my rib cage, tight, so I don't damage it even more." James said handing it to Olivia. He lifted up his shirt and she wrapped it around his rib cage location.
"ok, thanks" James said and then slowly got up.
"Guys I found him" Elliot said in a low voice.
"Olivia go flirt with him" James said. Olivia looked at him.
"what?"
"yea, he will smell us out for cops, why don't you talk to him first, will keep an eye on you the whole time" Elliot said. Olivia let out a deep breath.
"fine" She said and walked over the perp.
"Elliot open the hood and pretend were looking at it." James said. Elliot opened it and stood by the open hood, James on the other side of the hood, both of them keeping an eye on Olivia.
After 5 minutes of talking to him, she came back toward them.
"he wanted to take me to his place, said that's were he take's his special girls, probably where he committed the rapes" Olivia said as she looked at the hood with them.
"ok, let me talk to him, in the mean while you need to make out or something cause these people are wondering why you haven't made out yet" James said and walked away. Elliot and Olivia looked at each other.
"lets get this over with" Olivia said as she walked over to Elliot and before he could say something she started kissing him.
James was walking over to the perp he turned around and saw Elliot and Olivia making out, he smiled.
"hey man, who was that hot piece of ass you were just talking to?" James said to the perp as he turned on the voice recorder in his pocket.
"name is Erica, she sure as hell had a sweet ass." The perp said.
"sure did, you going to bang her or what?" James said.
"hell yea, take her back to my place and bang her all night"
"If I didn't live with my girlfriend I would too, you lucky enough to live alone?" James said hoping he would say something they could use against him.
"hell yea, all alone, I can take any bitch and bang her when I want" The perp said with a small smile.
"didn't you win that contest at that concert that night, I swear it was you" James said so the perp would say more.
"yea, were you the one that got in the fight?" The perp asked.
"yea, I'm Johnny" James said and shook the perp's hand.
"cool Johnny, I'm Bobby" The perp said and shook his hand.
"so that sexy bitch, she with you or what?" James asked.
"no, but she will be by tonight, if you know what I mean" Bobby said winking.
"no, I don't, I think that fight took something out of me" James said smiling.
"girls love it when you surprise them with sex," Bobby said in a low voice.
"right, when its not fully consented its hot" James said smiling and looked at Olivia and Elliot who were still making out.
"hell yea, when they don't know its coming, its like foreplay for them but when they get it, their happy" Bobby said smiling James wanted to beat the crap out of him. But just smiled.
"That's good advice, Il keep that in mind, Bobby, but it looks like Erica with the sweet ass is already having fun" James said and then pointed at Olivia. Bobby turned around and saw her kissing Elliot.
"damn bitch, but there's more sweet asses to go around tonight, most of these bitches are sluts so its not so fun but Il find one," Bobby said and turned around to look at the girls standing by there cars. After he said that James knew he was going to try it tonight.
"well have fun, Bobby" James said and patted him on the shoulder and walked to Elliot and Olivia when they saw him they stopped kissing.
"his going to do it tonight, you guys need to go and call for back up and pick this guy up before he tries it" James said in a low voice.
"how do you know his going to do it tonight?" Elliot asked.
"I have it on tape, when he saw Liv kissing you, he flat out told me that he was going to find someone else, I don't have time to explain, go now, and Il keep my eye on him." James said looking at them.
"what do you mean find someone else? You mean, I was his choice?" Olivia asked looking at James.
"yes, who knew kissing Elliot was going to save you, now go get back up and you guys cant show up cause if you show up in badge's you'll blow my cover, now go" James said. Elliot and Olivia got in their car and drove off.
Ten minutes later a whole unit of police drove in, some to arrest Bobby, some just to arrest the street racers. Every street racer ran to their cars, Bobby started running but Fin ran out of the car and grabbed him. A uniformed officer grabbed James and slammed him against a car, James screamed after his rib's hit the car.
"no, his…" Fin started to say but stopped when he saw James shake his head so he wouldn't get his cover blown.
"don't hurt him so the little punk doesn't press charges against us" Fin said and got in the seat next to John and drove off to the precinct with Bobby in the back seat.
James arrived at a police station with handcuffs on at 3 in the morning. He sat there and couldn't get bailed on saying he was FBI cause there was other street racers around.
He finally showed up at the SVU precinct at 7 in the morning.
"what happened to you?" Olivia asked as he came in with a cut on his eye.
"called an officer a pig and got hit, there was street racers around so I had to act like Johnny" James said holding his chest.
"ouch, did you go to the hospital yet?" Olivia asked.
"no, came to drop off the tape and then I'm going to go checked out" He said handing her the tape to Olivia.
"hey, Griffin what happened, Fin told us you got arrested." Elliot said coming out of the interrogation room.
"yea, got arrested and got punched by a uniform and got slammed against a car" James said smiling.
"that sucks, but thanks for the help" Elliot said shaking his hand.
"yea no problem and Liv when you listen to that tape what ever I said wasn't me it was Johnny" James said smiling.
"good Il keep that in mind" Olivia said smiling.
"hey street racer" Fin said and grabbed James around the neck.
"don't do that I have a broken rib" James groaned and held his chest.
"oh sorry, no wonder you screamed when the uniform slammed you against the car, that was funny" Fin said with a smirk.
"I'm glad my misery can amuse you, you stupid son of a bitch" James said smiling.
"you want anything else broken with that rib?" Fin said smiling as he punched his fist into his hand.
"funny. If you guys need anything call me, it was nice meeting all of you, now I need to go to the hospital and get some sleep" James said and started walking toward the door.
"Hey James" Wong said as he passed by him.
"hey doc" James moaned and walked out.
"you guys know each other?" Elliot asked.
"yea, he works one floor above me, well that's his unit but his hardly ever there and when he is you know his there cause you can hear his lieutenant yell at him for the way he is dressed" Wong said smiling. Everyone smiled.
James was sleeping on his couch at 5 in the afternoon only in his boxers when a knock on the door woke him up.
"what?" He groaned as he got up from the couch to open the door.
"I'm I interrupting something?" Casey asked smiling as she looked at him in his boxers.
"you wont be able to interrupt anything for 6 to 8 weeks" He said smiling.
"they told me you had to go to the hospital, what happened?" She asked as she gave him a kiss and went inside.
"I have a broken rib and the rib scratched my lung, and the worst part is the doctor said no sex for 8 weeks" James said smiling as he followed her.
"that's ok you weren't going to get any anytime soon" She said smiling.
"well that's great motivation to get better soon" He said laughing and pulled on his jeans.
"I know, that's why I didn't become a nurse, how long you have to wear that Gauze?" She asked smiling.
"for a couple of weeks until the rib starts to heal" He said and then grabbed his shirt.
"a little help here" He said trying to put on his shirt. She laughed and got up to help him.
"I never thought I ask a girl to help me put clothes on, it's always the opposite" He said laughing as she pulled his shirt on for him. She smiled and pulled down his shirt.
"thanks" He said and gave her a kiss.
"what's on TV?" She asked and sat on his couch.
"I have no idea, probably some movies" He said and lay down and put his head on her lap. She stroked his hair as they watched a movie together.
