"Objection, your honor, innocent until proven guilty" Patrick objected in the courtroom to his girlfriend of 4 months.
"Ms. Cabot, please don't state your opinions in my courtroom, just ask a question," The judge said looking at Alex.
"My apologizes your honor. How old where you when you first met Mr. Martinez?" Alex asked the victim.
"Objection, relevance" Patrick yelled out.
"I think it's clearly obvious," Alex said
"No its not" Patrick said looking at Alex.
The judge was angry at this moment since the two were at it the whole day. Casey and Andrew, Patrick's co-counsel, were getting annoyed since the two were at each others throats through the whole trail. They were the only one's that knew about Alex and Patrick dating.
"That's it, were taking a 5 minute recess, all counsels in my chambers now." The judge said as he got up. Alex and Casey went in first, with Patrick and Andrew following them.
"I don't know why you two are at it today and I don't care, but Ms. Novak and Mr. Madden, will finish this trail," The judge said as he sat down. All the counselors stood there and listened. They were all the same age, which made it harder to hate each other since they always hung out together.
"At least until you two learn how to behave in my courtroom, and being young is no excuse" The judge finished as he got up and left his chambers, leaving the counselors there.
"They can do more then get along" Andrew mumbled. Casey just smiled and went outside with Andrew, leaving Alex and Patrick alone. Alex starred at Patrick.
"What?" He asked looking at her.
"I know I was late for our date last night, but you amaze me that you brought it into the court room"
"It wasn't a personal attack I swear, and don't worry about the date thing it's fine, I'm not mad at you cause you were late, you know that job and personal are two different things" He said smiling and taking her hand.
"If you're not mad, then why were you such an asshole in there?" Alex asked as she got closer to him.
"I was doing my job, I know I'm a defense attorney but I'm not that much of an asshole to use our date against you," He said smiling and pulling her closer to him
"Fine, but don't be such a smartass, you realize that you objected on almost every question" Alex said smiling.
"Ok, fine I wont be such a smart ass, I'm sorry, we still up for dinner tonight?" He asked as he got closer to her lips.
"Of course, we need to get going before recess is over" She whispered but didn't move she just fell into his kiss.
"We should get going, do I have lipstick on my face?" Patrick asked after they released their kiss.
"No, you're fine" she said wiping his face. They walked out together and sat next to their co-counsels.
"You guys ok?" Casey whispered as she got ready for questioning.
"Yea, were fine" Alex whispered back and looked at Patrick talking to Andrew.
Alex and Patrick were quiet through the whole trail, cause they didn't want to be held in contempt. They kept taking glances at each other but never smiled since Elliot and Olivia were seating right behind Alex. Patrick was scared of Elliot since he caught him flirting with Alex once and gave him a cold look almost threatening look.
No man on the SVU team liked him since he was one the youngest defense attorneys and always hung around with Alex and Casey. Olivia was the only one that didn't mind him since she could obviously see why Alex and Casey hung out with him, even though he worked for the other side. Olivia was the only one that suspected something between them cause they were always flirting with each other.
They finished the Trail, Casey and Andrew were talking, more like flirting since they did that a lot but never asked each other out on a date. Patrick and Alex were talking and laughing about all of their objections against each other.
"Nice win" Elliot said walking up to Alex.
"Oh, thanks" Alex said. Elliot was completely ignoring Patrick, but Patrick didn't mind since he intimidated him.
"Good job, Griffin" Olivia said to Patrick as she saw him feeling uncomfortable.
"Thanks" Patrick said feeling relieved that someone said something.
"So, you want to go to the pub and celebrate?" Elliot asked Alex.
"Um…I'd love to put I have some papers to finish for another case" Alex said hating to lie to them, but she knew she was going to go hang out with Patrick.
"Oh, ok, Casey you want to go?" Elliot asked Casey and gave Patrick a cold look. Patrick looked at Olivia and then at Alex.
"Sure" Casey replied and then excused her self from Andrew and joined Elliot and Olivia.
"Bye guys" Olivia said and followed Elliot and Casey.
"How come you don't like him?" Casey asked Elliot as they walked out of court.
"Cause his a punk and always hanging out with you two" Elliot answered
"They hang out cause their all the same age" Olivia spoke up.
"He's defense and their district, its not right" Elliot replied
"So? He's actually a nice guy and we hang out with him cause he's our age, were not going to hang out with someone who's totally out of our age perimeter just because he's defense" Casey said defensively
"Or out of your league" Elliot added. Casey stopped and looked at him.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Casey asked starring at him. Elliot starred at her for a while.
"Nothing" He answered and started walking. Casey looked at Olivia who just shrugged and then they followed him.
"Well that was awkward" Patrick said in a low voice after the detectives and Casey walked out.
"Yea, so who's apartment we hanging out in tonight?" She asked smiling, since they always had dinner and watched a movie at each other's apartment cause they didn't want anyone to see them on a date.
Jim Steele walked into the courtroom and glanced at Alex and Patrick talking. He slightly smiled at Alex and gave Patrick a mean look. Patrick just smiled and returned back to Alex.
"It doesn't matter, its up to you" Patrick answered smiling.
"Ok, meet me at my apartment" She said smiling and grabbed papers off her table. They never left together because they flirted enough that if they did leave together everyone would know they were dating.
"You got it" He said smiling and left the courtroom. She smiled and left a couple of minutes later.
Flashback"Patrick Griffin, the new defense attorney," Patrick said holding out his hand for Alex.
"Alex Cabot, the ADA" She said smiling and shaking his hand, he just smiled.
"So what do we have?" He asked looking through the mirror.
"Well you have nothing, since your guy confessed already, so sorry Patrick but you made a trip down here for nothing" Alex answered somewhat cockily.
"Its ok, more free time for me, at least I got to meet you," Patrick said smiling, Alex smiled and blushed since he was one of cutest lawyers she ever met.
"and you are?" Elliot asked giving Patrick a look as he apperead behind the two lawyers.
"Patrick Griffin the new defense attorney" he said and held out his hand.
"Detective Elliot Stabler" Elliot said and shook his hand. "You're not that good of a lawyer he confessed already"
"It's ok, I guess you're a good cop since he confessed before I got here, I hope he doesn't have any bruises on him, cause that might remove your confession on the grounds of intimidation, excuse me detective and Alex I need to go talk to my client" Patrick said looking at Elliot and smiling at Alex and going into the integration room.
"Can he do that?" Elliot asked.
"Yea, actually he's a good lawyer not everyone can think of those grounds for a motion, you didn't hit him did you?" Alex asked, but by Elliot expression she could tell he did.
Motion Hearing
"Your honor he confessed to raping out victim" Alex said
"After the cops hit him, he was obviously intimidated by that punch that he said whatever they wanted him to say" Patrick argued back.
"They never told him what to say" Alex snapped back.
"Well he was arrested for rape, so its obvious what to say, my client isn't pressing charges at the moment but we motion that the confession is out" Patrick said.
"I agree with Mr. Griffin, the confession is out of the trial," The judge said.
Later that day at the Pub down the street.
"You always drink after court?" Patrick asked as he sat down next to Alex who was sipping on beer.
"No, only when I lose on stupid motions like those" She said and sipped her beer.
"Sorry about that I was just doing my job"
"Don't worry about it, I understand"
"How about I buy you dinner we call it even?"
"Are you asking an ADA out on a date, cause news flash you're defense"
"So? Doesn't mean I don't know good restaurants, plus I don't want you to think I'm an asshole on the first day we met" Patrick said with a charming smile.
"Fine, dinner" Alex said smiling
End Flashback"You're late" Alex said as she opened her door to her apartment.
"Am I? Well I guess were even now" Patrick said smiling as he walked into her apartment.
"I guess we are," she smiled and gave him a kiss.
"So, what movie we watching tonight?" he asked as he wrapped his arms around her waist.
"I don't know, that's up to you, I ordered pizza already" She said as she walked over to her DVD collection.
"Pizza cool, what movies you have?" He asked as he sat on her couch.
"You know what movies I have, since we watched most of them already" She said smiling.
"Well I like this view" He said smiling as he watched her. She smiled cause she knew he was checking her out.
"Funny. How about this view?" She said smiling as she went over to sit next to him.
"Even better" He whispered as he went to kiss her. She fell back on her couch, he got on top of her and kissed her. She started unbuttoning his shirt.
"You sure?" He whispered since they didn't have sex yet even if they dated for 4 months.
"Yea…I'm sure" She whispered and pulled him closer. He started kissing her neck and unbuttoning her shirt. A knock on the door interrupted them.
"It's probably the pizza, I'll get it" Patrick said as he got off of her.
"Ok, be back soon" She said smiling and pulled him by his shirt to kiss him. He smiled and went to the door. His shirt was unbuttoned completely. He opened the door.
"How much… oh, Hi" Patrick said very scared since Elliot and Olivia were on the other side both in shock to see him there with his shirt unbuttoned. No one said anything since Patrick was freaked out and the two of them were in shock. Alex finally came to the door.
"What's taking…oh" Alex said also freaked out that her friends were standing there. She looked at Olivia who was just shocked and then looked at Elliot who looked very angry.