"Alex you need to drop this case, this is serious" Patrick argued as he drove the car. Alex was sitting next him and just staring out of the window "Are listening to me?"
"Yea" She answered quietly.
"Are you going to drop it?"
"Just get me home" She said quietly not bothering to even look at him. Patrick said nothing and kept his eyes on the road.
Casey moved to robbery and it was only Alex left for SVU. She was prosecuting a serial killer who had a hit out on her.
They finally got to their apartment and neither said a word to each other. Patrick sat on the couch and turned on the TV and Alex just sat at the kitchen table playing with a napkin.
"Lex?" Patrick spoke up.
She looked up at him and rested her chin on her hand "Yea?"
"I want you to drop this case"
"You don't need to worry about it"
"I want you home safe, I don't want to worry if you will get home"
"If I get scared of Richards then he has won-"
"This isn't about winning! This is your life!" Patrick snapped as he got off the couch.
"Don't yell at me! I had enough stress today and I don't need it from you!" Alex yelled back.
Patrick walked to the fridge and pulled out a beer and leaned on the door after he closed it. "I love you and I care about you"
"I know that and it will be fine" Alex said as she got up and walked over to him and hugged him.
"Drop this case please?" He whispered as he hugged her.
"I cant I'm sorry"
He let go of her and threw the open bottle of beer in the sink, spilling it everywhere. He walked away and went to their bedroom.
Alex took a deep breath and ran her hand through her hair "I love you"
"Screw you," he mumbled as he came out and went to the bathroom to take a shower.
Alex shook her head and went to their bedroom and lay down in bed.
Patrick finished his shower and came out only in his boxers and went to his closet.
Alex was lying on her stomach and snuggling a pillow "You're not talking to me now?"
"I don't want to yell," He answered as he grabbed a t-shirt and pulled it on.
"You don't need to yell, we can just talk"
"Do you realize we are getting married in one month?" He asked looking at her.
She smiled a little "Yea"
"Alex…I couldn't sleep last night cause I was so worried…I don't think I can take another night of that"
She just kept looking at him.
"I swear to god either you drop this case or I'm leaving you," He said extremely seriously.
Alex laughed, "Oh c'mon you don't expect me to believe that"
"Are you even thinking at all?" He asked as he sat down next to her. "This isn't all about this one damn case…Alex if you can't take my advice for something as important as this then…how are we ever going to work?"
"I like that I have a certain part of me that you are not part of…I really do, my job is mine and that's it… Patrick this isn't about being stubborn, this is about me making my own choice."
He shook his head "A choice the effects both of us" He got off the bed and went to the living room and lay down on the couch.
Alex let out a deep breath and turned to the side. She just now realized that it did affect him also.
Patrick lay on the couch staring up at the ceiling still not being able to sleep. He was too worried about her.
Alex got out of bed and walked to their coach. She just looked at him staring up at the ceiling. She sat down next to him and took his hand. "I'm sorry"
"For what?"
"For not thinking of you, I know this affects both of our lives and I should have you with me on this" She whispered as she lay down next to him. Patrick wrapped his arms around her and held her.
"I'm sorry for not realizing that your job meant that to you, I should have known that" He lightly kissed shoulder "Your next cases are all your choices but…just not this one"
She just nodded and turned around to face him "Thank you. I love you Patrick"
"I love you too Alexandra" He whispered kissing her forehead. They held each other and fell asleep in each other's arms.
Both woke up to the buzzing in their room.
"Sleeping on the couch is not a good idea" Patrick yawned as he cracked his neck.
Alex laughed as she got up "I'm so tired"
"Same here. We need to get to bed early sometimes" Patrick said as he got off the coach and went to their room to get dressed.
Alex followed and went to her closet and pulled some clothes out.
They got dressed and when they turned both started to laugh seeing that they matched colors. Alex was wearing a black skirt with a blue shirt and Patrick was wearing a black suit with a blue dress shirt.
"I don't think this is normal," Patrick teased smiling.
"You change, I'm not changing" Alex said shaking her head as she left the room. Patrick rolled his eyes and took off his shirt and grabbed a green one.
"Make breakfast" Patrick called over as he buttoned up his new shirt.
"We're going to be late plus I don't think you want your food burned" Alex called back as she put her DA badge in her purse.
Patrick rolled his eyes and grabbed his DA badge and put it on the inside of his blazer. "Bad fiancé"
"Hurry up"
He came out of the room and grabbed a water bottle from the fridge and spotted the beer bottle that he threw in the sink last night.
"You're cleaning that up tonight," Alex said as she took out her keys to the apartment.
Patrick smiled and nodded and opened the door for her, "Ladies first"
"Thank you good sir" Alex teased as she walked out.
Patrick laughed and followed. Alex locked the door and both headed out.
They got to their offices, which were close to each other's since both were Manhattan ADA's
Patrick walked her to her office and they spotted Richards heading to an office. He smiled and pointed two fingers at her purposefully imitating a gun.
Patrick stepped in front of her so Richards didn't have a visual of her "You want me to go to court with you?"
"No it's fine, Olivia and Elliot are going to be there. You need finish your case"
"Are you sure? Cause if you want I can get someone else to fill in" Patrick offered again.
"No sweetie I'm fine. He's just trying to scare me, its not a big deal" Alex reassured him and gave him a kiss. "We're having lunch together?"
"Yea. I love you" He gave her a kiss.
"You too" She said with a small smile and gave him a kiss and went into her office.
Patrick looked down the hall where Richards was and then walked to his own office.
Later in the afternoon Patrick ended up being in arraignment while Alex was in court.
Olivia and Elliot walked in with Alex and sat down right behind her and kept their eye on Richards.
As court started and Alex was about to drop the charges just like she promised someone behind Richards pulled out a gun and opened fire.
Everyone in the courthouse heard the shot and then followed by two more guns firing.
Patrick quickly looked up hearing it and dropped all of his files he had and sprinted down the hall to the courtroom he knew Alex was in.
Olivia quickly put her gun back in her holster seeing that Elliot shot the man two times. She looked over at Alex and she was on the ground and not moving.
Patrick ran to the courtroom but two uniformed officers grabbed him "Sir you can't go in there"
"Let go of me!" Patrick yelled struggling to go inside. The officers held on to him more.
"We can't let you in until-" Patrick hit one of them and pushed the other away and ran into the courtroom.
Elliot was holding his head and Olivia was on the ground by Alex and holding her bleeding shoulder.
Patrick ran in and jumped over the gate and skid down by Alex.
"How the hell did this happen!" Patrick yelled looking at Elliot "You were supposed to protect her!"
"The guy pulled out the gun and we didn't see it" Elliot answered as he ran a hand through his hair.
Patrick brushed her hair off her face and kissed her forehead "C'mon baby stay with me c'mon"
Alex slightly groaned. Olivia and Patrick quickly looked at her.
"Stay awake sweetie help is on the way" Olivia said as tears burned in her eyes.
Alex looked up and saw Patrick "Honey"
"I'm here baby I'm here," Patrick said as he put her head on his lap.
"I love you" She whispered and closed her eyes.
"No! No! Alex listen to me c'mon listen to my voice honey, you cant do this to me please" Patrick begged as he wiped his eyes "I love you too"
Patrick and Olivia just exchanged looks now both holding her shoulder. Both of their hands stained with her blood.
Patrick sat in the waiting room while she was having surgery.
Olivia sat down by him and handed him a cup of coffee. "You ok?"
He shook his head and accepted the coffee "I was supposed to be there and protect her"
"Patrick you couldn't have done anything even if you were there" Olivia said looking at him.
He took a sip of coffee and just stared at the ground. After a while he finished his coffee and threw it away and Olivia and him still didn't say a word to each other.
The doctor came to the waiting room. Both of them quickly stood up.
"Is she ok?" Patrick asked quickly.
"I…I'm sorry she didn't make it" The doctor answered.
Patrick turned around and punched the wall a couple of times and slid down it.
Olivia kneeled down and hugged him as both started to cry.
Later that night the whole SVU squad sat at a bar drinking. Patrick was in the corner of the group and drinking the most out of all of them.
"You should go check on him" Elliot whispered to Olivia and pointed to a very depressed looking Patrick.
Olivia nodded and got up and walked over to him and sat down. "How you holding up?"
"How do you think? I just lost my fiancé," He mumbled as he downed another shot of vodka.
Olivia took another shot by him and downed it herself "I lost my best friend"
Patrick just nodded "She should have listened to me"
"She did. She dropped the charges but it was too late"
"I miss her," He said in a low voice as he rested his head on the bar.
Fin and John got up to leave and patted him on the back and left the bar.
Olivia rubbed his back as he kept his head on the bar looking depressed.
Elliot got up and walked over to them "Patrick do you want me to take you home?"
"No. Thanks though" he mumbled.
Elliot looked over at Olivia.
"I'll stay with him," she whispered knowing that his apartment was very close to that bar and she could easily walk him home.
Elliot nodded and walked out of the bar.
Patrick ordered another couple of shots and downed one. Olivia took the other and downed it as well.
An hour later both were drunk and not even realizing what just happened.
Patrick lightly kissed her cheek; Olivia moved down and started to kiss him. Patrick grabbed her face and started to kiss her.
They stumbled into his apartment kissing and taking each other's clothes off. They fell on the bed already naked.
Olivia's phone started to ring around 7 in the morning.
She groaned and started to look on her nightstand but found nothing.
Patrick groaned to the ringing and hit his alarm clock thinking that was it.
Both felt someone next to them and opened their eyes and looked over "AAAHHH" both screamed in unison.
Patrick fell off the bed and Olivia grabbed the blanket and covered herself.
"What are you doing here?" Patrick asked quickly grabbing a pillow and covering himself.
"How do I know?" Olivia asked wrapping the blanket around more "We didn't…did we?"
Patrick looked at her "No! Did we?"
"I don't know," She answered holding her head "My head hurts"
"Oh god I just slept with my fiancés maid of honor" Patrick mumbled and then quickly realized what happened yesterday. Olivia and him exchanged looks and got quiet.
Patrick's cell phone started to ring, which scared both of them.
Patrick quickly grabbed it and opened it and kept the pillow under his waist.
"Yea?…ok…ok…I'll be right there" He hung up his phone.
"What happened?" Olivia asked.
"Elliot said to meet him at Belle Harbor"
"You mind turning around? My clothes are over there," Olivia said pointing to the living room and keeping the blanket around her.
"You got the freaking blanket, not like I can see anything" Patrick said rolling his eyes still sitting on the ground with the pillow covering him.
Olivia nodded and went to the living room and closed the bedroom door behind her. She grabbed her cell phone and listened to her voicemail that Elliot left.
She gathered all her clothes and put them on in the living room. "He said to meet him at Belle Harbor also, you want to go together?"
"Sure" Patrick called back as he got up and put some of his clothes on. He looked over at Alex's clothes and shook his head, which felt like a thousand pounds.
He came out dressed in jeans and a sweater and Olivia was sitting on the coach dressed in her clothes she had on last night.
Both kept quiet as they left the apartment and went to Patrick's car.
"We're adults I mean…we were drunk that's it" Patrick spoke up as he drove the car.
Olivia nodded "It didn't mean anything it was just drunken sex"
Patrick just nodded and both kept quiet after that.
They finally got to Belle Harbor where Elliot was waiting for them.
"Why are you guys in the same car?" He asked somewhat confused.
"I was feeling somewhat drunk last night and didn't want to drive home so I slept on his coach" Olivia quickly answered. Elliot just nodded.
"What are we doing here?" Patrick asked looking at him.
"I was told the same thing as you by Agent Peterson" Elliot answered with a shrug.
Just then two black Lincoln Navigators drove up to them.
"Maybe we won something," Patrick teased. Elliot and Olivia just smiled.
A man came out of the passenger side dressed in a nice suit "Detective Benson and Stabler and ADA Griffin?"
All three nodded. The man nodded and motioned for them to follow. They exchanged looks and followed the man.
The man opened the back door to the other Navigator.
All three mouths dropped seeing Alex come out with her arm being held up by a strap.
"Hey" She said in a low voice with a small smile.
"Oh my god" Patrick took a deep breath.
"You're alive," Olivia whispered as tears filled her eyes.
"Witness protection?" Elliot asked as he kept staring at her.
Alex nodded and instantly hugged Patrick "I'm sorry"
Patrick held her and kissed her on the cheek "It's not your fault"
"How long will you be gone for?" Olivia asked.
Alex kept hugging Patrick and just shook her head "I don't know"
"We need to get going" Agent Peterson spoke up.
"I love you" Patrick whispered as he gave her a kiss.
"I love you too," She whispered giving him a kiss. Patrick gave her another kiss and slowly let go of her. Alex kept looking at him and slowly got in the car.
Patrick kept looking at the car as it drove away.
"You ok?" Olivia asked putting a hand on his shoulder.
He shook his head and turned around and went to his car. Olivia and Elliot exchanged looks knowing this was going to hit him hard.