A/N - Thank you you guys for the wonderful reviews! Ok so you guys wanted a court scene..I know I said I wasn't going to put one in here but ya'll wanted it so here it is..I tried okay? Just remember that..PLEASE forgive all the errors..but I did do some research! hopefully it pays off..once again forgive the errors and I hope you enjoy

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Chapter 18 - Watch you crumble

Today was the day. Jude would have to make a statement and so would lex. Would she be able to handle it? would she freeze up when she got to the podium? No, she couldn't.

"Jude, come on!" Stuart called from down the hall.

Jude wiped the blond locks out of her face and pushed them behind her ears. After looking in the mirror and smoothing out her blouse she was all set.

"Coming!" She grabbed her bag off the floor and headed down the hall. Yvette hugged jude and wished her luck, she would have went to support her but she had to work. Jude thanked her and then met tommy and stuart in the living room.

"Hey.." She said shyly. Tommy looked her outfit over, she looked so grown up.

"Hey, we better get going." Stuart said, interrupting their gazes.

"Yeah." Tommy held out his hand and jude took it politely, and with that they were on their way.

In the car tommy sat in the backseat with her, holding her hand and rubbing it lightly, trying to keep her calm and for the moment it was working. She thought about what exactly she was going to say, if she'd be able to go into detail, how could she? she was knocked out most of the time. Would they hold that against her? But, she was pregnant and that was on her medical records..she had never had sexual contact with any other guys so that was to her advantage, right?

Stuart pulled into the crowded parking lot which today had a bunch of people gathering with cameras trying to get a picture of jude. After stepping out of the car, tommy hurriedly walked into the courthouse with jude under his arm, trying to relieve her from the flashing. They closed the courtroom door.

"Thanks." Jude said to tommy who had a disgusted look on his face.

"No problem."

Stuart grabbed jude's hand and they walked towards the main room where her lawyer was suppose to be waiting for her.

"Hey jude! over here!" The lady called, gathering some papers and walking towards the trio with her suitcase.

"Hey, how you doin?" She asked once she reached her client. Jude shrugged nervously.

"I'll be okay." She assured. Tommy smiled.

"Thats my girl." The woman patted jude on the back in reassurance and then the four of them went over how the trial was going to play out. After a few minutes of discussing it people started to take their seats.

"All rise, this court is now in session." The bailiff announced as the judge walked in and took his seat behind the podium.

"You may be seated." Everyone did as instructed.

The room was silent for a few minutes and jude caught glances at lex that she wished she hadn't. He still had the same smile as yesterday, how could he be smiling at a time like this? She was aggravated already.

"This is case number 06-06233, Jude Harrison vs. Alexander Mainer." The judge read aloud from her stack of papers.

The deffense attorney stood.

"Your honor, I'd like to call my client, Alex Mainer to the stand." The judge nodded and lex walked swiftly up to the podium.

"Here we go." Ms. Levine (Jude's lawyer) whispered aside to jude. Jude took a deep breath.

"Place your hand here." The bailiff instructed, holding out a bible. Lex put his right hand on the bible and held up his left.

"Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help you god?"

"I do." The bailiff took the bible away and lex sat.

"Mr. Mainer.." The deffense attorney started.

"Could you explain to me what happened on the day of March 21st?"

"What day was that? I can barely remember last night." Lex asked sarcastically which got a few mutters and whispers from the jury. His attorney gave him a look that said 'Straighten up'. He got the hint and smirked.

"I was wandering down the streets of Toronto..as you know, i'm not from here.." Jude looked at Ms. Levine who was scribbling words down on a notepad which had a few questions written on it.

"Anyway, I came across this building that looked abandoned so I decided to check it out.." Jude wondered where he was going to start lieing.

"When I walked in I seen Miss Harrison fumbling with a window that looked stuck, it was open wide and Miss Harrison was trying to close it. Not a good idea when the glass is broken," He retreived a few giggles from the jury this time.

Judes eyes narrowed. That was the biggest load of crap she had ever heard.

"Anyway, I offered to help and of course she allowed me to close the window. Obviously, I cut my hand." He held up his hand which had a prominant line going across it.

"It was dripping blood pretty bad so I took off my overshirt and wrapped it around the cut..after it started to sink throuh I decided I'd better go get it looked at so I ran out into the street without thinking." He sat back against the chair, looking satisfied with his response.

"You made it to the hospital?" The attorney asked.

"Yeah, they gave me stitches." He showed the small knits going along the palm of his hand. The jury whispered again.

"Okay, so you weren't there when these 'Things' happened to Miss Harrison?"

"Of course not."

"Do you know anything about these things that happened to Miss Harrison?"

"Once again, of course not."

"Thank you, I have no farther questions your honor." The deffense attorney started back towards his seat and the prosecuter stood and walked towards lex.

"Mr. Mainer, is it true that you started dating Jude Harrison's mother a few weeks after the incident?"

"Objection! your honor that is irrelevent to the case." Mr. Mitchell (Deffense attorney) stated.

"Overruled..please answer the question Mr. Mainer."

"Yes, it is true." Lex received daggers from Victoria.

"And is it also true that you had an affair with Sadie Harrison, her older daughter?"

It seemed as though everyone in the courtroom looked towards sadie with surprised expressions on their faces. You could hear a pen drop in the silence of the room.

Lex cleared his throat and shifted uncomfortably in his seat.

"Yes." Some people gasped, others couldn't help but let out laughs, jude on the other hand felt horrible for telling her attorney that. She was mad at sadie but she betray her which made her mad at herself.

Tommy sat in the front row beside stuart and directly behind jude. He had only wished that she'd turn around so he could transfer his emotions to her with his eyes. He knew they were going to win the case..they had to win the case, right?

"How did your relationship with their mother come about?" Lex smiled.

"We met unexpectedly, it was in the grocery store. We ran into eachother and began talking..from there everything just fell into place."

"And with Sadie Harrison?"

"Mr. Mainer?"

"Yes, um..when I met sadie we had an instant connection," He smiled at sadie whose face was red with embarrassment.

"We were left alone a few times and one thing led to another.." He smirked as sadie cupped her face in her hands trying to get her mother's burning eyes off of her.

"So going after jude wasn't enough? you had to go after the other Harrisons too?"

"Objection your honor!"

"Sustained."

Ms. Levine calmed herself down and began to pace about the courtroom, ending up in front of Mr. Mainer again.

"And didn't Miss Harrison walk in on you on top of her youngest daughter, shirtless and her jeans unbuttoned and below her waist? Can you explain that Mr. Mainer?"

That was it..lex had nothing to say in deffense, he didn't think victoria would crack and tell such a thing. What could he say to that? Things were about to go downhill from here.

"Um.."

"Yes or no Mr. Mainer."

"..yes.."

"I have no farther questions your honor."

A/N - Tried to make this chapter long, what ya think? Do you like? Review ya'll! It really does make me feel better :)