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Chapter 27
"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." - Ingrid Bergman
"Fuck, fuck, fuck!" Abby yelled, after slamming the door of her office behind her.
The brunette ADA had spent the entire morning at the courthouse and most of the time in the chambers of the three judges assigned to the trials. Hagen was already assigned to the case against Barbara for raping Oliver, Brennan was assigned to the case against him for the SVU case and Petrovsky was assigned for the case against Elliot Stabler. Hagen had agreed with Abby to taking Oliver's testimony in the hospital. Petrovsky had set the day for the trial on Friday next week. That was all she could do. Oliver's testimony could go two directions at this moment. Either he would need to show up in court or also taken in the hospital. Depending on where the Detective would be. Brennan had set the date on Thursday next week. He had not granted Abby's motion for Oliver's testimony in the hospital. Stating that while the Detective testifying was important, the case wasn't build up on his testimony and that it would be unlikely for the Detective to still be in the hospital by the time he needed to testify. Therefore, he denied the brunette ADA's motion. Oliver needs to testify in court. And it would be after the trial against Barbara for raping the Detective. Yes it were two separate trials but the cases were connected and it was highly unlikely that Barbara would go for a deal here, knowing that Oliver needed to testify in that trial too. And there was nothing Abby could do to prevent the hell it could be for Oliver. The Texan knows that Langan is Barbara's defense attorney on that trial too and that the son of bitch would do everything he could at cross questioning the Detective. It almost looks like he has a personal vendetta against either Abby or Oliver or both of them, because he's defending Stabler too. How the hell that is possible Abby doesn't know, there is no way that Stabler could pay his usual fee. The only 'lucky' part is that Petrovsky is the judge. She won't allow Langan to badger Oliver during his questioning and the brunette knows for sure that she won't hesitate and throw his as in jail for holding in contempt neither. But still there's enough damage the weasel can do to Oliver in three fucking trials together.
Abby drops into the chair behind her desk and slams her fist on it.
"Damn it!" Abby curses.
Abby is ready to curse a minute or two when there is a knock on her door.
"Come in!" Abby growls.
Liz pokes her head around the door.
"Is it safe for me to come inside or are you gonna bite my head off as soon as I'm inside completely?" Liz asks.
"Sorry Liz. I ain't gonna bit your head off as long as ya don't piss me off more than I already am." Abby answers.
Liz walks inside Abby's office and closes the door behind her before she sits down in one of the chairs in front of Abby's desk.
"I guess it's safe to assume that this morning in court didn't go to well?" Liz asks.
Abby shakes her head.
"That's the understatement of the year. That creepy weasel Langan is gonna be the defense attorney on all three trials with Oliver. There is no way that Oliver will stay in the hospital for two or three weeks so he needs to testify in court in the second trial against Barbara and maybe even in the trial against that son of a bitch, Stabler, if he won't be in the hospital anymore by next Friday. That are three trials for Langan to mess with Oli one way or another." Abby answers.
"How the hell did Stabler managed to get Langan to represent him? How are you gonna tell Oliver all of this?" Liz asks surprised.
"You tell me. On both questions. There is no way that Stabler can afford his fee. And after how yesterday went with Oli, I'm afraid of telling him this." Abby answers.
Liz raises one brow.
"What happened yesterday?" Liz asks.
"I told Alex, when she called me, that Monday the trial against Barbara starts, the one for raping Oliver. When I was in the hospital after I was done here, Alex told me that Oliver almost had a panic attack when she told him about the trial. Oli is still being monitored so when he panicked his heartbeat went up and the damn alarm from the monitor went off. So of course the nurses and Dr. burst into his room. Yelling at Alex that she needed to get of the bed, they thought something was wrong with his heart. The walked closer to his bed and Oli thought that the were gonna attack Alex and growled at them to back off. But they didn't listen and walked closer causing him to get a flashback. Alex, of course, defended him and got off the bed immediately and warned them and told them to back off, one of the nurses didn't listen and walked around the other side of the bed to Oliver and putted her hand on his shoulder. Oli hit her in the stomach with his fist so she backed off, but for Oliver the flashback got worse. Long story short, after Alex calmed him down and the Dr. examined him, he panicked again. That's when they had to sedate him. I'm afraid of what's gonna happen when either Alex or I tell him about the trials." Abby explains.
"I can see what you mean. Poor Oliver. Does that idiot nurse still have a job after what she did?" Liz asks.
"Yes she does. But I doubt she will enter Oliver's room ever again after Alex was done with her." Abby smiles.
"Alright fill me in with everything you know so far and let's see if I can help you." Liz says.
Abby nods at Liz and tells the older blonde everything about what happened that morning in court. Who the judges are, about the motions and the dates of the trials. When Abby is done Liz thinks for a couple of moments.
"Lena won't give Langan much space to do anything against Oliver. I think that trial will goes the most smoothly, if you can speak of that in the first place of course. Anyway, Lena will hold him on a short leech. Hagen will keep him short, along with the Dr. and you, and it's in the hospital. So no courtroom full of people and forced to watching the tape. It will be hard for Oliver but the Dr. won't allow him getting hurt. And if Alexandra is going to be there Langan better watch his mouth if he doesn't wanna get sued or getting his head ripped off. As for Brennan's trial, I'll see what I can do. Maybe I'm able to arrange something or pull a few strings." Liz says.
The two women talk a bit longer about the cases. And they talk about telling Alex and Oliver about the trials. Abby says what she needs to at Oliver's apartment and Liz tells her to take off the last hour or so to talk with Alex and Oliver before she goes to his apartment. Assuming that the Detective is not sedated anymore of course. They decide that Liz is going to be a invisible second chair on all three cases. So that Abby can help Alex and Oliver when needed and Liz can take care of some the work the brunette needs to do too. Just to help the Texan because the ADA is more than capable to handle the cases herself.
An hour and a half after Liz came into Abby's office the EADA leaves to let Abby work for a few hours before she heads off to the hospital and to get back to work herself. Two hours later Abby looks at her watch and sees it's 3.30 PM, time to wrap up and clean up her desk and head out to the hospital. At 4 PM Abby arrives at the hospital and walks to Oliver's room. She and Alex had talked over the phone and the brunette ADA had told the blonde that she would visit them around PM since Oliver was not sedated anymore. Knocking on the door the Texan takes a deep breath and opens the door to walk inside after she heard Oliver call to come in.
"Hey Oli, how are you feeling today?" Abby asks after closing the door.
"Better than yesterday. But that's obvious since I'm awake now." Oliver answers.
Abby hugs Oliver carefully and then hugs Alex. Seeing the tension on both her friends faces she decides to crack a joke to break up the tension.
"Liz wants to know if that 'idiot nurse', her words, still has a job?" Abby asks winking with her eyebrows.
Abby's attempt to joke works and Alex and Oliver both laugh out loud. Alex had told Oliver what happened and Oliver asked his fiancé the same question when she was done.
"She still has her job, but I doubt she'll ever enters my room to check on me after the ass chewing she got from ADA Cabot here." Oliver smiles.
"She may consider herself lucky for still having a job. If she knows what's good for her she stays away." Alex mutters.
"I doubt the woman even thinks about setting one foot inside this room as long as the two of you are here." Abby snickers.
Alex rolls with her eyes but says nothing. Oliver shakes his had at the eye rolling of the blonde next to him, before he turns serious again.
"How did it go in court this morning, Carmichael? Alex told me you've been there quite some time." Oliver asks.
Abby looks surprised at Alex, she didn't expect the blonde attorney to be so direct about it to Oliver after yesterday. After a look from Alex that said 'are you really that surprised' Abby looks back at Oliver.
"Are you sure you are ready for this?" Abby asks carefully.
"As ready as I can be. I know I freaked out yesterday but it won't happen again, not if I can help it." Oliver answers.
"Alright. First of all Liz will be an invisible second chair on all trials. Just so I can be there for the both of ya when needed and get some work done for me. Now as for the trials, as you know Hagen has your personal trial against Barbara, Brennan has the trial for the SVU case and Petrovsky has your trial against Stabler. Hagen granted the motion for you testifying here in the hospital. So you don't need to go to courtroom for that or the trial itself. Petrovsky set your trial against Stabler for Friday a week from now. And where you testify depends on where you are. IF your still here she will come here for it otherwise you need to go to court. Brennan denied the motion for testifying here in the hospital. But we have around two weeks to prepare you for that. I can put you last on the stand and the trial starts next Thursday. So that gives us till the Thursday or Friday the week after that. Thursday and Friday will be choosing the jury so the show won't get on the road before Monday. Liz is going to see if she can get something done or pull some strings for that trial so we have to wait if something changes there." Abby explains.
After Abby is finished both Alex and her are looking at Oliver. The Detective takes a few moments to let everything sink before he looks up at Alex and Abby. Raising one eyebrow at the questioning looks on their faces.
"Oh come on, give me a little credit here. I know what happened yesterday but I'm not made of glass or sugar. And don't insult my intelligence. I know that the trials would follow up each other rather quickly. I got that clear yesterday. It gives some rest knowing that I don't have to testify in court against Barbara in my own case. But with everything you just told me I know you keep something from me Carmichael, so spit it out and tell me what you kept behind." Oliver says.
Alex and Abby are both pleasantly surprised with how Oliver takes all the news about the trials. Alex knows what Abby's holding behind and shakes her head after Oliver is finished. Leave it up to her fiancé to know when people aren't telling the whole truth. The blonde looks at Abby who shrugs her shoulders, the Texan knows that she's been busted. How the Detective does it she still doesn't know, but somehow nobody can ever withhold important information from him.
"Fine. What I didn't told ya is that I think that creepy sleaze ball has a personal vendetta against you, me or both of us or that he is just happy that he ain't up against the Ice Queen here, cuz Langan is the defense attorney in all three trials. How Stabler managed it I don't know, but somehow the son of a bitch got him as his defense attorney too." Abby says, looking a bit worried at Oliver.
Oliver looks at Alex to get confirmed that Abby is telling the truth and when Alex slowly nods, Oliver is reacting not how both ADA's expected him to. The moment he knows it's true, a fire gets in his eyes and anger is radiating off the clearly pissed off Detective.
"If that creepy weasel, that low life son of bitch thinks he can mess me up, he has another one coming. There's no way in hell I'll let that asshole get to me and get me rilled up in court or trying to smear my good name. I know it will be hard and tough enough but I'd rather eat my gun before I give him that satisfaction and let him win. Oh and I know Lex will be here when I testify and I fucking kick his ass literally if he even looks wrongly at her let alone tries to get a reaction out of her. I don't give a damn if it will be recorded or not." Oliver growls loudly.
The Detective makes both ADA's jump with his reaction. The didn't know what to expect but this is certainly not it. They briefly look at each other. They know the road to recovery is long and hard but for this moment Badass Benson is back and they couldn't be more happy than they now are and they smile brightly. That is until they realize what Oliver said last. They look at Oliver and back to each other.
"Oh shit!" Alex and Abby mutter in canon.