(Ten minutes before they got back)

"Excuse me?" Renee's head had turned sharply at the admission. She calmly leaned over the table towards the suspect. Tallulah Simmons shook her head defiantly.

"You heard me." She said coolly, turning her blonde head innocently between Detective Seely and the DA. "What? Didn't think I had it in me?"

Walcott looked at Matt Seely who turned his head slowly back towards the small woman seated in front of them.

"He was going to tell. I couldn't let him tell." She looked at Matt, speaking to him like he would understand her twisted logic.

He swallowed hard. They'd all worked with her, flirted with her. Hell, Hoyt had even slept with her. How had they not seen what lay behind that permanently puzzled expression? Matt tried to remember now if he'd ever seen her smile, if he'd ever heard her laugh. His mind came up blank.

"You're a complete sociopath." He whispered with out thinking. "Completely psychotic."

"Come on now Renee, you can't let him talk to-." The internal affairs attorney interjected.

"That's enough, Detective." Walcott shot him a look, Matt read her face, she agreed with his assessment.

"This was about Hoyt? All of this?" He asked shaking his head in confusion wondering why every female detective on the force seemed to want Woody Hoyt.

Simmons looked puzzled for a moment she looked at her attorney who nodded slowly. Only then did she shake her head.

"No. He was just part of it."

"Part of what?" Renee asked slipping into the chair she'd been standing behind.

"How to ruin her."


(Two hours before they got back.)

"She wants a plea." The woman from internal affairs walked slowly around the conference room. "She'll tell you everything you want to know."

"No way." Matt Seely shook his head quickly looking from Walcott to Macy. "No fucking way."

"Watch your language, Detective or I will have you thrown off this case!" The DA admonished in her most authoritative voice. Garret watched the red headed Detective clench his jaw. "What does she want?"

"Manslaughter and Assault."

Matt Seely shook his head back and forth adamantly. The Chief ME caught the look of betrayal in his eyes.

"There's more she's willing to admit to, but not unless you accept the plea."

"It's a little light don't you think, Renee?" Macy asked her.

"She never meant to kill Pollak, she panicked. She's not emotionally stable. That's very clear." The woman from internal affairs never took her eyes off of Walcott. Ignoring the two men in the room completely.

"She was stable enough to murder a man and then pin it on someone else." Macy smirked.

"Stop." Renee looked around the room. Garret knew she wanted to know what the pretty blonde detective had to say for herself. "We'll take it."

"Renee!" Garret moved towards her.

"We have more than enough evidence for trail!" Matt Seely was almost begging.

Renee's stony face silenced them both.

"We'll take it."


(Four hours before they got back)

"I have a friend at the Globe. They're writing a retraction." ADA Brandau told them wandering into the conference room. "With Dr. Macy's permission they'd like to do a Fluff piece on the ME's office."

Lily smiled at him, setting her hand on his arm as he sat down beside her.

"When are they coming back?" Santana whispered from the door frame..

"Nigel's going to pick them up at Logan at four." Bug told her. She looked down at the floor before nodding.

"Christina?" She looked at Lily. Lily had never liked her and she knew it.

"I just want to be gone before-. I don't want to upset her." She told her.

"She knows this isn't your fault." Seely said softly. "Besides, I was the one who arrested her."

"But I sat there in that room when Simmons questioned her." She closed her eyes. " I was working the case with her. I let her-."

"Chris, she was the Sr. Detective in charge of the case." Matt said quickly. Her eyes shot to him with the use of her nick name. He'd never used it in public before. He looked startled himself. She looked around the room. The only person who seemed to notice was Lily, and she was smiling at her.

"Sit." Lily said poking Jeffery and gesturing for him to move, she pointed to the chair between her and Seely. Santana smiled at her and sank down into it. Matt rubbed his hand up and down her back.

Did we just go public? She felt him lean down and kiss the top of her head. Guess so.


(When they got back)

Lily had hugged her when she and Woody walked through the door. She had distractedly whispered hello before turning towards the observation window.

"Ruin her?" Renee repeated.

"Jordan Cavanaugh." Jordan watched the way she tilted her head to the side.

"Why?" Seely was fuming, she wondered what she'd missed.

"Jordan maybe you shouldn't-." She held her hand up to Garret and moved closer to the window. "Woody, she shouldn't-." He sighed. "We've learned more since you've been gone."

"What?" Her husband asked Macy quietly. She tried to focus on what was going on in the interrogation room. She heard Macy sigh again.

"This isn't the place to-."

"So you never intended to murder Pollak. You intended to murder Doctor Cavanaugh." Renee asked as if she was trying to understand where Simmons was coming from.

"I swear, I thought I'd given her enough Rohypnol, and GHB to take down a horse." Jordan took a sharp breath and stumbled backward away from the window. Woody grabbed her and steadied her against him.

"I wouldn't have thought she'd have had a chance to call Hoyt. If figured he'd find her dead on the floor of her apartment the next day. The girls got some tolerance." She smirked shaking her head back and forth.

And that's when all hell broke loose.