Chapter 11

"Casey?" Olivia asked after looking at her caller id and answering the phone, she still hadn't managed to leave the office, she was still trying to process what Melinda had told her and she hadn't even let Casey know, she was planning on doing it when the ADA called her.

"Tell Melinda that the victim is definitely not Amy, there's no need to wait for the DNA results." Casey replied sounding both relieved and excited.

"I know Warner just called me," Olivia answered, "hold on how do you know?"

"Jack." Casey said and Olivia could tell that she was smiling.

"Who?" Olivia asked wondering what was going off.

"Jack, he found her I don't know how but he did." Casey was crying Olivia wouldn't tell whether Casey was happy or sad.

"Where? Is she ok? Is she?" Olivia asked running her fingers through her hair, she knew that the body wasn't Amy, it could have been her stunt double or long lost twin but it definitely wasn't Amy.

"Dehydrated, mildly hypothermic, tired, hungry and has some cuts on her feet, but the doctors are sorting her out. He found her at the beach; she'd been out there all night." Casey said through what Olivia could now tell were happy tears.

"Thank god, how are you?" Olivia asked a weight having been lifted from her shoulders she smiled and sat down with a sigh in her chair.

"I've been crying since Jack called me, I just wanted to let you know and make sure you've officially charged Grant before I tell her. She needs to know, you should see her Olivia, she looks so vulnerable and frightened, she hasn't let go of Jack's hand. She needs to be able to feel safe again." Casey placed emphasis on the last sentence.

"Officially arrested and charged with her rape, there's enough DNA evidence to proceed to court for Amy and all the other cases. You tell her Casey, tell her the scumbag is locked up and can't touch her, and tell her we're all thinking of her."

"I will, I'll call you later to let you know how it goes."

"No need, just be there for your sister and the rest of your family, I'll let the guys know she's back safe." Olivia replied as Casey hung up.

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"They've found her, Jack did actually, she's at the hospital being checked out, a little worse for the wear but it's not surprising given the week she's been having. Casey and her family are with her at the moment and Casey's going to tell her the good news about Grant." Olivia said to Cragen as she walked into his office, Elliot was off trying to track down Fin and Munch to let them know.

"Good, at least we should all be able to get a proper nights sleep knowing Grants behind bars and Amy's home safe. You look like a huge weights been lifted off your shoulders too." Cragen observed.

"It has, Amy's a good cop it'd be a shame for the unit to loose her and believe it or not I'm quite fond of her, which I'm sure you've noticed. It's a relief to know she's back safe, I don't want to think about how Casey would have reacted if the body had been Amy." Olivia replied and Cragen nodded his head, the ADA had been struggling to cope with things as they were and it had begun to show with how drawn she was looking.

"I think we should send them both some flowers just to let them know that we're thinking about both of them, how does that sound?" Cragen asked breaking the silence that had fallen between the two of them, one look at Olivia told him she'd been thinking about the body they'd seen and it's resemblance to the young detective.

"If I were them I'd most likely prefer a huge box of chocolates and a large bottle of vodka, but the flowers are a good idea if only for Casey knowing Amy she'll prefer chocolate and lots of it." Olivia managed a smile remembering an occasion a few months back when Amy had had a go at Munch for eating the last chocolate biscuit, it wasn't pretty but then again Olivia knew that Amy had pretty bad PMS at the time and had been craving chocolate for ages.

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Two months earlier

"Man I'd kill for some chocolate right now." Amy sighed as she and Olivia entered the office after interviewing a suspect.

"Coffee." Olivia replied.

"With chocolate biscuits, you get the coffee I'll get the biscuits." Amy replied.

"You've been craving it all day, not pregnant are you?" Olivia asked with a smile.

"No, no, not if my mood swings are anything to go by. Hey Munch is that a chocolate biscuit you're eating?" Amy asked spotting the older detective munching on a biscuit.

"There's no more I just ate the last one." He replied smugly and Amy's expression changed like a shot.

"So you're telling me you've them?" Amy asked almost growling.

"If it means so much to you I'll bring some more in tomorrow." Munch replied and behind him Fin picked up the phone and called someone.

"I don't want chocolate tomorrow I want it now, I need chocolate, you understand?" Amy said calmly but it was a frightening sort of calm.

"Sorry." Munch gulped just as Elliot came in waving a chocolate bar.

"Hey Amy little birdie told me you were having cravings," Elliot smiled throwing the bar at her, "please don't tell me we're going to have more Novak's running round the place."

Amy didn't answer she was too busy demolishing the bar of milk chocolate, Elliot threw a questioning look at Olivia.

"Don't worry just make sure you bring me one next week." She replied and nodded in understanding.

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"So there's enough DNA evidence to secure a conviction?" Jack asked as he and Casey were waiting for the doctors to finish checking Amy out, Amy still hadn't been told about Grant Casey figured it would be better if Jack knew first so he could be on hand to hold her hand so to speak.

"You can never be too sure but with the evidence for the other cases lined up against him there shouldn't be a problem, although it'll weaken the case her not testifying I can't see it causing a problem." Casey replied.

"You don't think she'll want to testify?" Jack asked sitting down in a nearby chair Casey did the same and looked him square in the eye.

"I bet part of her will want to and the other part will be too scared, if I get my way the pair of us will be in Ireland when the thing goes to trial." Casey vowed.

"Aren't you the DA on the case?"

"Definitely not, too many emotions and too involved. If I'm in the same room as Grant I think I'm likely to take a leaf out of George's book and attack him, seriously though all I want is for him to be locked up and for Amy to get on with her life and be happy. And in order to be happy I think, I know she needs to be with you."

"Casey I asked her to come to Boston with me but she said no, I can't force her to come with me or force her to get back with me, I'd rather spend the rest of my life as her friend than have to deal with a nasty break up. She doesn't need me whilst she's got her family and the cops she works with." Jack said dejectedly.

"She does she just isn't brave enough to admit it, it was you she clung on to this morning, you were able to get her to come back and you were the one who found her. No amount of reasoning can change that Jack, I know you love her, why else would you have spent all night driving round the place looking for her? And in her strange way my sister loves you; she doesn't want to hold you back by asking you to stay. We both know that deep down she's still a frightened teenager afraid of being hurt again, who can blame her really?" Casey sighed.

"She's had so much to deal with but she's always managed to pull through, her fighting spirit is one of the things that I like the most about her, and I know you're worried about her loosing it but you shouldn't be. She'll pull through, especially now that we've got good news for her." Jack put a reassuring hand on Casey's shoulder and she nodded.

"You're right." She sighed and made a move to go back into Amy's room. "How did you know where she was?" Casey asked turning round to look at him, she'd spent hours trying to figure out where she was but he'd been the one to actually find her. "And don't try fobbing me off by saying it was nothing but luck."

"When we dated the first time we had dinner with your parents and after dinner we went for a walk and ended up at the beach. It was the night she told me about the rape and then she told me about how she'd go and sit at the beach listening to the waves when she was scared or stressed, we sat there for hours that night, one of the few times there was no edge to her, all her walls were down. To be honest it was the night I first fell in love with her. I didn't even think about the beach when you first told me she was missing, my first thought was a bar drowning her sorrows." He said his face full of emotion and love. "On my way home from work last night I picked up some photo's we'd had developed from a few months ago, I think it must have been the day of your brothers birthday, before the pair of you got hammered. I went home and didn't look at them knowing there were ones of the pair of us on them; I couldn't sleep thinking about her so I looked at them. There was this amazing one of her asleep on the beach, she didn't even know I took it, she just looked so at peace, and if I remember she'd just been part of a bad case. Looking at them I realised that's where she'd go to feel relaxed and calm herself down, I just regret not picking them up on my way into work, I would have looked at them sooner. Well I hope I would have anyway." He replied.

"You're the only one who would have been able to get her to come back with you. Come on, it's high time we told her what's going on." Casey pushed the door to Amy's room open to see if the doctors had finished with her.

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So that was chapter 11, thanks for the reviews, Chapter 12 will be up soon.