Chapter Ten- Crickets in the Background

Thanks to BrittanyLS, JennBenn3148, Whatsername007, swimmer2009, AllAboutMe123, obsessedwithstabler, savit, idinakristinfan, mstang.gurl, onetreefan, and inlovewithateacher325.

Sergeant. Cadet here. Love you!

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Olivia jumped when her cell phone rang. She glanced at the caller ID. It was Casey. She rubbed her sleepy eyes. Now that Emily was going to pull through, she was getting some well deserved sleep. Too little sleep made one very grouchy detective. Elliot wasn't back from getting coffee and a change of clothes for Olivia yet. She picked it up.

"Hey." She said leaning back into her chair.

No answer…just the sound of crickets in the background. Olivia pulled the phone away from her ear with a confused expression. She put the phone back to her ear.

"Casey? Hello?" she tried again.

No answer.

Pick up the damn phone, woman She thought. But there was a slight sense of worry tugging at the back of her mind. Casey wouldn't just call her without a message or something important to say. She wasn't the type for prank calls and wasting time.

Just then, Melinda and Fin burst into the room. Olivia glanced at their breathlessness with raised eyebrows, but one look from their worried eyes made her heart wrench with fear.

"What's going on?" she demanded before either of them could open their mouths.

Melinda was the first to speak. "Alex. Richard lives three doors down from her. Casey's there now." She flushed with gasps.

Olivia's eyes darkened. She put the phone to her ear again.

"CASEY!" she screamed into it, almost waking her sleeping daughter.

No answer. But this time, Olivia could make out a faint scream in the background. Oh shit. She thought.

She and Fin rushed out of the hosipital, leaving Melinda behind to watch over Emily. Elliot was at the car with Munch. Munch had hunt him down at the coffeehouse and brought him with.

No words were exchanged between Olivia or Elliot, but both could read each other's worry and fear perfectly well. They slid into their car without a second's hesitation as Munch and Fin did the say. Sirens were blaring as they sped down the road toward Alex's house.

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Casey ran in just in the nick of time. Richard had Alex pinned down and had a knife held to her neck and was muttering something in her ear that made Alex's blue eyes grow wide and frightened.

"Let her go, White." Casey said coldly as she stood behind him.

Richard spun and let go of Alex, who wormed away from him and into a corner, trying to regain her sense of balance.

"You must be Casey Novak." He said with a sick smile.

"Yeah." She said plainly. "So tell me what you're doing here?" Keep him talking and his attention away from Alex. Casey reminded herself.

Alex was inching her way toward her gun. Her movements were silent and her eyes focused on Richard's back. Casey kept her expression blank, but she knew what was going on. Between the fear and the anger, she was annoyed at herself for not bringing her own gun with her.

"Killing Alexandra Cabot." He replied smoothly, as if it were the most natural thing in the world.

"Why?" she asked. His attention was straying and she had to keep it focused on her. "Because she buried you in court? Because she made it so that every single member of the jury voted you guilty after ten minutes in the jury room? Because she avenged the deaths of the ADA that you killed?" Casey asked venomously.

"Shut up." He warned.

"Oh cut it out. You're not in control. You never will be. We made sure of that. I mean come on, you couldn't even get a word out the way Alex questioned you right? You were just too astounded by her way of speaking to you." She said thoughtfully as his face grew redder.

He dove at her. She kneed him in the stomach. He let out a grunt, but grabbed her by the hair and threw her right into Alex. Alex fought back a cry of pain as her wrist twisted and snapped. Casey scrambled for the gun that Alex was only inches away from. Richard dived for it as well.

In desperation, Alex kicked out. She caught him straight in the chest, forcing him away from her and Casey. He pushed her aside and grabbed the gun from Casey. Casey backed away as Richard aimed the gun at her heart.

He smiled again. "Well well well, now who's in control?" he asked with a satisfied expression.

He switched the aim from Alex to Casey and then back to Alex. "Who goes first?" he asked.

Alex glared at him defiantly, one hand cradling her broken wrist. Casey had the same expression. Both their minds were calculating on how to get out of the situation, but in different ways. Alex was calculating escape routes, while Casey was counting down the seconds Olivia and Elliot would be there. She had no doubt that they would come.

Richard made his decision. He would kill the younger one first. Let Alex know that her new ADA's death was her fault. He aimed the gun at Casey. Casey glared back. She wouldn't be afraid. Alex was close to tears.

Casey did not say a word, even as Richard demanded her apology for the things she had said to him. She was not afraid of death, but afraid of what would happen after she died. Who would prosecute criminals when she and Alex were gone? She closed her eyes as a shot rang out.

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How did you like that? I'm sorry that took so long to post. I have school now. So slow updating. Sorry.