"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 and looked 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 other 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 in my court room, so I suggest Ms. Cabot and Mr. Griffin you learn how to get along" The judge said 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.
No guy 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 said
"his defense and their district, its not right" Elliot replied
"so? His actually a nice guy and we hang out with him cause his are age, were not going to hang out with someone who's totally out of our age perimeter just because his defense" Casey said
"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 said 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.
"it doesn't matter, its up to you" He 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?"
"well you have nothing, since your guy confessed already, so sorry Patrick but you made a trip down here for nothing"
"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.
"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 his 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 your 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"your 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 said smiling as she 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, Il 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.
"what did you do to her?" Elliot said yelling as he went toward Patrick.
"um…nothing…look dude…. I mean detective….um…" Patrick choked out as he moved away from Elliot.
"I am going to kick your ass" Elliot yelled at him. Patrick said nothing and just tried to move out of the way and jumped over the couch so Elliot couldn't hit him.
"Elliot stop it" Alex said getting in front of Patrick.
"this son of a bitch should pay for what ever he did, I told you he is only trying to get in your pants, what you make a deal she gives you sex you give her a win for a case" Elliot yelled.
"I know you don't like me and I really don't care but you don't need to insult her, just cause you wear a badge doesn't mean you can talk to people the way you want " Patrick yelled at him. At that point Olivia and Alex were in the middle trying to separate them so they wouldn't fight. Both of the guys went in front of the girls and got each other's face.
"fuck you, you stupid son of a bitch" Elliot yelled and went to hit Patrick, he duct and grabbed Elliot's hand and twisted it behind his back, Elliot swung at Patrick with his other hand and hit him in the face, Patrick fell down and started bleeding from the nose.
"Elliot go to the car and wait, Il get the warrants" Olivia said pushing Elliot away. Elliot looked at Olivia and then at Patrick and then a disappointed look to Alex and walked out of her apartment.
"um…we just need the warrants" Olivia said feeling bad for Alex and Patrick.
"yea, Il get that for you" Alex said as she handed Patrick a napkin and went to her room.
"look…Olivia…um Detective Benson….please don't tell anyone cause I don't want the judges to give Alex a hard time or anything" Patrick said holding his nose.
"I wont, and you can call me Olivia" Olivia said as she realized that he really cared for Alex.
"ok…thanks" Patrick said.
"you know I actually suspected you guys dating but I wasn't sure until tonight" Olivia said as she sat on the couch and waited for Alex.
"you did?"
"yea, not a lot of defense and district attorneys bitch at each other during court and then laugh about it after" Olivia said smiling.
"what about Casey and Andrew they flirt a lot but their not dating" Patrick said looking at her.
"they flirt but their not as bitchy during court like you two and you guys tried hiding it by being pissed at each other during court, which was so obvious since you got along and flirted the second after the verdict comes in" Olivia said smiling. Patrick just smiled and nodded.
"I got your warrants" Alex said coming out of her bedroom.
"oh thanks, bye guys" Olivia said as she took the warrants and got up. "your pizza is here" they heard Olivia yell out as she opened the door. Alex went and got the pizza she came back and put it on the table and sat down on the floor next to Patrick.
"how's your nose?" She asked looking at him and placing her hand on his lap.
"it's ok, how you doing?" He asked putting his arm around her waist.
"I'm fine, Elliot just surprised me by saying what he did" Alex said placing her head on his chest.
"yea, I'm sorry about that but for the record I'm not just trying to get in your pants" Patrick said smiling. She looked up at him and smiled.
"I know, you didn't even get to that point cause of them" Alex said laughing.
"but I would have" Patrick said laughing. She smiled.
"I love you" She whispered.
"I love you too" He whispered and kissed her.
"oh…ouch…my nose" He said smiling as he released their kiss. Alex laughed.
"sorry about that, lets eat and watch a movie" She said getting up and taking his hand. He got up and followed her to the couch. They fell asleep watching a movie, Alex's alarm in her room woke them up at 7.
"Hey" she whispered looking up at him, she fell asleep on his chest.
"hey" he said sleepily and gave her a kiss on the cheek.
"your nose is bruised" she said smiling.
"that's fine, Il just say I got in a bar fight or something" he said as he sat up.
"yea, you want coffee?" She asked as she got up and went to her kitchen.
"I would love to but I need to get to my apartment and change cause I'm going to be late for work." He said as he hugged her from the back. She turned around and wrapped her arms around his neck.
"first night I spend here and I don't get anything" He said laughing. She laughed.
"you got a bruised nose, what else you want?" She said laughing.
"I think you know, but I should get going" He said as he kissed her neck.
"I think when you say you should get going you actually get going" She said smiling.
"yea, I know but its hard when your around" He said smiling as he kissed her neck.
"ok, that sounded so wrong" she said laughing. He started laughing as he realized what he said.
"I didn't mean it to come out that way" he said laughing. She laughed and kissed him.
Patrick arrived at his office around 9, Andrew was already there going over notes.
"damn what happened to you?" Andrew asked smiling as he saw Patrick's nose.
"got in a fight" Patrick answered as he got coffee.
"Alex beat you up?" Andrew teased his friend.
"no, shut up"
"who hit you?" Andrew asked as Patrick sat down across him.
"Stabler, he found out we were dating and he hit him" Andrew started laughing. "shut up, its not funny" Patrick said getting annoyed.
"it kind of is, but I told you that wouldn't work out" Andrew said as he started going through papers.
"its not that it didn't work out, were still going out, it's just that now Stabler and Benson know, and stop jinxing my relationship" Patrick said as he sipped his coffee.
"fine, but how long do you think it will last, cause that line of job and personal will get mixed up sooner or later" Andrew pointed out.
"no it wont, cause we don't talk about our jobs when were together and we don't bring our personal lives into the courtroom"
"now, but you know one case, one of you will get attached and next thing you know your talking about who should win, I'm sorry to tell you that but you know its true" Andrew said.
"shut up, your not really helping me out now, with your stupid lecture" Patrick said hating that he knew he was right.
"ok, whatever, but I'm just trying to tell you before you two get too serious and then it will be harder." Andrew said hating to be the one that tells him that.
"just shut up Andrew, you're really pissing me off" Patrick said getting angry with Andrew. Andrew just shrugged and went back to work.
"Hey guys, SVU called they have a suspect in custody" A girl who worked there said as she poked her head on their office.
"Il go" Andrew said and got up. Patrick said nothing and just sipped his coffee.
Andrew came back an hour later, Patrick was going through papers.
"hey, sorry about earlier" Andrew said as he sat across from Patrick.
"too late, but whatever" Patrick said still looking at papers.
"yea, but sorry, I don't know what got into me" Andrew said.
"forget it, did he confess?" Patrick asked looking up.
"no, but were going to court, arraignment at 3, so we have a couple of hours to get ready" Andrew said handing a file to Patrick.
"you want to try and plea him out?" Patrick asked looking over the file.
"they don't have that much evidence, so no," Andrew answered. Patrick just nodded.
"you want to take this one?" Patrick asked.
"the whole trail?" Andrew asked.
"sure, I'm not in the mood for a trial after your speech" Patrick said giving a glance at Andrew.
"ok, sure" Andrew asked feeling guilty that he went off on Patrick.
They heard a knock on their door, Alex and Casey came in.
"Hey" Alex said as she closed the door behind her.
"Hey" Patrick replied as he looked up.
"how's you nose, Patrick?" Casey asked smiling. Andrew laughed.
"I got an idea, why don't you and Andrew go outside and flirt and never ask each other on a date" Alex said looking at Casey and Andrew.
"whatever" Andrew mumbled and got up and opened the door for Casey, they went outside, leaving Alex and Patrick alone.
"what's up?" Patrick asked as he put his pen down and looked Alex.
"thought we go have lunch before arraignment, are you doing the trail?" Alex asked as she got coffee.
"no, Andrew, I'm not in the mood"
"why? You seem kind of pissed are you ok?" Alex asked as she sat down across from him.
"had an argument with Andrew earlier but I'm fine, who's doing the trail?"
"I was going to, but Il tell Casey to take it, why did you guys argue?"
"it wasn't nothing big, were fine now, lets go get lunch" He said getting up, she nodded and followed him.
It was 2 in the afternoon, the girls went back to their office to get ready and the guys went to theirs. Andrew sat at a table going over evidence and Patrick was going over witness statements.
"hey we got spousal privilege, our client is married" Patrick said looking over notes.
"is she testifying?" Andrew asked looking up.
"yea, but it will be kept to her getting presents from him, which it says that our the victims."
"jewelry?"
"no, creeper, paintings" Patrick said with a confused look as he read his notes.
"creepy, maybe she's a art fanatic, if she is, we can use that" Andrew said taking the paper from him.
"what say she's an accessory to rape for paintings, c'mon jury would never go for it" Patrick said looking at Andrew.
"when did you turn so pessimistic?" Andrew asked with a smirk.
"if you want go for it, I never said it wasn't capable by us, just remember the golden question" Patrick said smiling.
"is it possible?" Andrew said smiling.
"yup, answer is always yes, jury loves hope," Patrick said smiling.
"lets hope she likes paintings, Il call Michaels and tell him to do some investigating" Andrew said and picked up the phone to call one their investigators. Patrick nodded and looked at his notes.
They sat there for a while quiet and going over notes. Patrick finally said something.
"hey, you ever feel like an asshole or con artist during these trails?" Patrick asked as he took a small football and passed it to Andrew.
"were defense, half of our brains are like con artists, twist the question never go directly for it" Andrew said passing it back.
"well more like twist the answer, but twist the people's question for witness, you ever feel remorse for the things we do?" Patrick asked as he threw the football.
"for victims yea, but our job is to get our clients off, so I really don't know"
"yea I feel bad for the victims also, but like you said its are job to prove their innocence, you better get going before your late" Patrick said as he put the football down.
"yea, Il see you later" Andrew said grabbing his blazer and going out the door.
He heard a knock on the door. He looked up.
"Mr. Griffin, Mr. Michaels is here to see you" One of their interns said as she opened the door. Patrick motioned for him to come in.
"Hey Patrick" The investigator said as he sat down across from him.
"Hey Joel, you find anything?" Patrick asked rubbing his eyes and taken a sip of his coffee.
"yea, those paintings the victims had, your clients wife was bidding on same ones weeks before." Joel said handing him a paper.
"really? Were victims there?" Patrick said sort of surprised since he didn't think he could find anything on Andrew's theory.
"no, they bought those in a store."
"stalking?"
"not sure, but maybe"
"ok, don't mention that to the district, which I'm surprised they didn't find out already." Patrick said not sure what to do with the information he just got.
"what do you want me to do?"
"do me a favor go find out their relationship status, maybe he felt guilty about something, so he tried to get her presents she wanted, find out if she affected him in a way so there is chance for insanity or influence to squeeze in there" Patrick said as he looked over evidence and the information he just got.
"ok, Il call you if I can find anything" Joel said and got up. Patrick nodded, feeling guilty that he didn't want to tell Alex what he just found out, but it was business not personal, he kept telling himself any defense lawyer would do same thing.
"Hey you ok?" Andrew said as he came in and saw Patrick starring at the ground. Patrick got startled and looked up.
"oh, yea, Joel came by earlier"
"what did he say?" Andrew asked as he sat down. Patrick handed him the paper. Andrew looked over it and realized what was going on.
"stalking?"
"we don't know"
"your not going to tell Alex are you?" Andrew asked looking at him.
"and hand her over the case, no, don't worry" Patrick said and saw the relief on Andrews face. He got up and lay down on the sofa they had in their office.
"you ok?" Andrew asked him watching him take his hackie sack and throw it up and down.
"I don't feel right doing this case since its obvious his guilty" Patrick said starring at the ceiling.
"well are job is for the jury not to realize that"
"yea, I know but his guilty it just doesn't feel right defending him" He caught the hackie sack as it came back down.
"Il do the whole case, but I need you not to tell Alex about stalking cause then I have no chance in court" Andrew said doubting that Patrick can keep his mouth shut.
"yea, I know, I wont, look I need to go walk or something, by the way what is bail?" Patrick asked as he got up from the sofa.
"250 grand, you better go just for walk and not to her office, you understand?" Andrew said giving him a look.
"I wont say anything, relax" Patrick said grabbing his blazer and going out the door.