A/N: Okay, well, I'm in class at College, bored out of my mind. And upon reading my latest romance novel, I came up with this idea. I had recently posted it underneath the Saiyuki fan sub, but felt it might be better under the Law and Order fan sub. I'm just fooling around with the idea, but if people actually read this, than I might keep going with it.

Anyways, I'm totally in love Dean Winters right now. Totally loved him as O'Reily on Oz and even more so as Cassidy in Law and Order, and decided to resurrect him from Narcotics (since there are so little Brian Cassidy fics out there).

Enjoy.

The Sweetest Revenge

By Ice-dragon1018

Life at Narcotics was good for Brian Cassidy. He was having fun, getting to "play cowboy, beat some people up", as he told his former partner, John Munch, when he prepared himself to leave Manhattan's Special Victims Unit.

The Special Victims Unit was just that—special. It took a huge amount of courage to go to work every day and see the horrible, shocking sites that detectives had to see. And it took every ounce of courage to swallow down the sites and not break down underneath the pressure—which he had done. Eventually.

Brian Cassidy had spent just over a year in the Special Victims Unit—or SVU as it was known—and near the end of that year, he had started to crack underneath the pressure. Getting too close to people, snapping at them, and finally being handed the ultimate test which would either make or break him in the unit: go and see a teenage girl who had gotten gang-raped underneath the boardwalk and then raped a second time by a 'good citizen'. And this was after the childhood trauma that she had suffered through at the hands of her mother's boyfriend.

Needless to say, when he had returned, he had broken down crying in front of his superior, his Captain, who had gently suggested he transferred out. To Narcotics where "it wouldn't be like this," as he had been told.

Now, he was in Narcotics, getting used to it. Donald Cragen was right—Narcotics was almost nothing like SVU. He had seen some horrible stuff, but none of it was compared to the horrors he had witnessed in his old unit.

Things had gotten good. He was finally happy doing what he wanted to do: play cowboy, beat up on some people. Get the bad guys off the streets. He wasn't in love, hadn't been for a while and that was okay with him. Most of the cops at Narcotics were guys, and the few girls that were there, he couldn't see himself in a relationship with.

Things—events from the past—were buried. With a fresh start, Brian Cassidy could only hope that those events, both personal and work-related, would stay buried.


Short, short prologue. But, like I said, I'm just fooling around right now. If you are interested in reading further, I just might continue it.