A/N I'm really sorry you all needed to wait so long for this chapter. In my personal life things are not going right and writing is not the easiest thing for me to do right now.

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Chapter 2 Gary's trap and the women's reaction.

The next couple of weeks Stephanie and Mariska kept surprising the other cast members with their performances. Most of their scenes were taken in one or two takes. Three takes were rare, actually. Without realizing it Mariska kept watching Craig like a hawk when Stephanie was around. The other cast members noticed something had changed on the inside with the brunette but nobody was able to put their finger on it. Nobody except for Gary and Richard that is. They noticed both women were acting a bit differently when the other one was around but they also noticed that they didn't realized it yet. Mariska and Stephanie had fallen into a rhythm of driving together on the days that they both were shooting all day. Occasionally they would drive together when one of them was done earlier and then they would take a cab back to home. Stephanie had visited Mariska's apartment a couple of times and Mariska had done the same. They had grown closer together and got together more often and they had talked with each other, yet both women didn't know what it was that made them feel drawn to each other.

Britt had finished the episode Gary asked her to write and it would replace one of the episodes that was written for this season originally. The Canadian woman actually had written a very good episode with Alex and Olivia being the center of it. The episode was about lesbian couples being attacked and raped after they went to the coffee shop Around the Corner in Upper Manhattan. All couples were blondes and brunettes. But aside of knowing they went to the coffee shop, the Detectives had no lead and the squad had decided with Alex's consent that Olivia and the blonde ADA would go undercover as an lesbian couple to the coffee shop.

On the previous day, Gary had told the cast that the following day they would shoot a new episode and that they would get the script that morning when they arrived at the studio. He also told them that this episode would replace the episode that would have been aired after the winter break. But the producer didn't explain what the episode would be about. He told Judith and Joanna that they wouldn't be shooting the next day because originally the schedule said they would, and told Tamara and Bradley that they needed to come in and film today because they would be acting in the episode.

On their way to the studio, Stephanie and Mariska had briefly talked about what that day's episode might be about, but after Mariska pointed out that, with Gary and Britt, just about anything could happen, they had let it rest, knowing that it was useless to speculate and that they would find it out soon enough. They were a bit late and the rest of cast was already there and had gotten the script from Gary. All the guys were standing there with mischievous smiles on their faces when Mariska walked into the canteen, She stopped walking after seeing the smiles on her colleagues faces. Stephanie groaned as she ran into the back of Mariska's body from her sudden halting.

"Why did you stop walking?" Stephanie asked.

Slowly Mariska stepped aside and faced Stephanie.

"Look at their faces. That can't be good," Mariska answered.

Stephanie looked at their colleagues and understood why Mariska had stopped in her tracks.

"Uh-oh," Stephanie mumbled.

"Yeah, uh-oh," Mariska whispered back.

Then the brunette composed herself and glared at Gary.

"Hey Gary, why do they have mischievous smiles on their faces?" Mariska asked suspiciously, with a stern voice, as she pointed at said faces.

"I don't know what you're talking about," Gary said, shrugging with his shoulders.

"Sure you don't. Then give us the script since you won't tell us what's going on," Mariska answered.

"Everyone has up to one hour to prepare. We'll start shooting the first scene in one hour," Gary said, as he handed over the scripts to Mariska and Stephanie.

After receiving the script Mariska looked around and shook her head.

"C'mon Stephanie," Mariska said.

Both women turned around and walked out of the canteen and to their trailer. Mariska had offered Stephanie to use her trailer until the blonde had one for herself. They had liked it and decided to keep sharing a trailer, so they told Gary that Stephanie didn't need her own trailer because they wanted to share hers. On one hand it had surprised the producer, and on the other it didn't surprised him at all. Not that he mentioned it to either of them; he was wise enough to keep it to himself.

After they entered the trailer and were with just the two of them Mariska sat down on the couch, Stephanie followed and sat down next to her.

"I don't know what's going on but I don't like it all, not one little bit. Either they're up to something or something is in that script," Mariska said.

"They looked too happy and their smiles didn't promise anything good either," Stephanie answered.

"Well, if it's in the script, we'll find it out soon enough," Mariska said.

Stephanie nodded and both women started to read their script. They read at the same speed almost, so they both got to the same part at the same time. The part that said Alex and Olivia would go undercover as an lesbian couple. Both women heads shot up, almost at the same time, and Mariska and Stephanie looked at each other.

"I think this explains their mischievous smiles," Mariska said, as she waved with the script in her hands.

"You don't have to be a genius to figure know what was on their minds. Men, they always think with one body part when it comes to women and it isn't with their minds," Stephanie replied.

"You've got that right. Anyway, do you have a problem with playing a lesbian or playing one with me? I don't have a problem with it, but if you do, I'll go to Gary and tell him we won't do it," Mariska asked, looking at Stephanie.

"No I don't have a problem with it. And even if I did, I wouldn't have had a problem doing it with you. But thank you for wanting to go to go to Gary if I would have," Stephanie answered.

"Thank you. Alright let's read further and learn our text, shall we?" Mariska asked.

"Sounds like a good idea to me," Stephanie answered.

Stephanie nodded and the two women each took one corner of the couch and pulled their feet up making themselves comfortable and for the next 30 minutes it was quiet in the trailer aside from the sound of pages being turned. With 10 minutes to go until they would start filming, Stephanie and Mariska closed their scripts and left their trailer.

"I don't know about you but I have a feeling he wants to shoot the undercover op as the last scene," Stephanie said.

"You might be right about that one. It wouldn't surprise me if he waited with till the end," Mariska answered.

"Well, we'll see what happens," Stephanie said.

"Yes we will, but you do have a good point with this," Mariska said.

The two women walked back to the canteen and put on their poker faces, knowing the guys would get more ideas or fantasies in their heads if they didn't get their faces straight. They probably wouldn't hear the end of it already, with playing that undercover op. They took a seat at the table next to each other and waited patiently for Gary to give the schedule for the day. The guys made some jokes but after a death glare from both women they quickly quit with. Knowing now what both women were capable of, since they saw them fighting as Alex and Olivia, they didn't even want to know what happened when they got Mariska's and Stephanie's wrath against them. They liked a joke but it wasn't worth it to get their nuts turned into a purse. A few minutes later Gary walked into the canteen to give them the schedule for the day.

"Alright listen up everyone, we'll start with the scenes where everyone else is included this morning and we'll end with the scenes where Mariska and Stephanie are involved, except for the openings scene for the squad, and we'll end with the last part of the undercover op from Alex and Olivia. Any questions?" Gary asked.

Everyone shook their head and Gary looked at the two women lastly. But they refused to take the bite and kept looking straight ahead.

"Alright we'll shoot the first 4 scenes, have a small break of 15 minutes, and then we'll shoot the last 3 scenes before lunch time and we'll go from there. Let's go folks," Gary finished, clapping his hands.

Everyone present stood up and Stephanie and Mariska looked at each other and were thinking the same thing; It's gonna be a loooonngg day!

The tall, slim blonde and the strong, masculine brunette were walking back to the canteen to grab some food before retreating to their trailer. Both women had enough testosterone for the entire week and with how all the guys were acting towards them. Even Tamara had enough of it and it wasn't even her they were teasing and drooling over.

"Diego is driving me crazy. What is it with South American men and blond women?" Stephanie muttered softly to Mariska.

"You know what they say right? Dark haired and dark-skinned people always like blonde haired and fair-skinned people and the other way around," Mariska answered softly.

"I know," Stephanie said.

Mariska thought for a couple of seconds and frowned.

"Maybe I'm imagining things but I get the feeling that it's not only the men that are acting strangely. But I don't wanna talk about that out in the open," Mariska mumbled.

Stephanie raised one perfectly sculptured eyebrow questionably but said nothing instead she squeezed Mariska's bicep softly, silently saying that she understood it that the brunette didn't want to talk about it openly. They continued walking to canteen as they talked about light subjects.

Damn she has some fine muscles. Wait, where did that came from? Stephanie thought to herself.

The blonde shook her head to rid her mind from the thoughts she was having. At the same time Mariska's skin still tingled on her upper arm where Stephanie had squeezed the brunette.

What the hell? Why does it feel so good? It was just a friendly squeeze, Hargitay. Keep your head straight, Mariska thought to herself as she laughed inside. Keep your head straight...

After getting themselves some relatively healthy sandwiches and something to drink, Mariska and Stephanie walked back to their trailer.

"Are you gonna tell me what you meant when you said that maybe not only the guys were acting strange?" Stephanie asked, after she swallowed a bite.

Mariska nodded at Stephanie as she swallowed a bite herself.

"Britt was kinda acting strange too." Mariska said.

"What do you mean with she was acting strange?" Stephanie asked.

"Well, it looked like she was hitting on me," Mariska answered.

Stephanie kept her face straight but inside the blonde felt a pang of jealousy. She didn't know why she felt it but she was determined not to let it show.

"Oh," Stephanie said.

"Not that I would do anything about it if she was hitting on me. But it was weird," Mariska said.

Stephanie felt relieved after hearing the brunette say that she wouldn't act on it if the Canadian actually hit on her.

"She's been around the guys for too long," Stephanie joked.

Mariska nodded in agreement and frowned her eyebrows as she sunk into thoughts. Suddenly she got a wicked smile on her face and looked at Stephanie.

"What are you up to?" Stephanie asked, as she raised her eyebrows.

"Speaking about the guys. I think I might have an idea of how to get them back for teasing us and driving us crazy with it," Mariska smiled mischievously.

"Judging from the look on your face, it must be something good. Out with it Hargitay," Stephanie demanded with a smile on her own face.

"How about we pretend we don't want to do that last scene together and just before we start filming we get into 'a fight'? Let them think we mean it and of course they wouldn't dare interrupt, afraid of having our wrath come down on them. So we let them suffer for a little while before telling them that we were joking," Mariska said, as she raised her hands and used air quotes.

"You are a bad woman Mariska Hargitay," Stephanie snickered.

Stephanie and Mariska looked at each other and burst into laughter. They laughed so hard that tears ran down their cheeks. Every time their laughter slowed down and they looked at each other again they started all over again. Finally after 5 minutes, they had composed themselves again.

"Aside from the fact that your idea is evil, I like it a lot. Let's do it. They deserve it," Stephanie said.

"I agree with you and they do deserve it," Mariska said.

The rest of their lunch time the two women talked about the idea, formed a plan and went over remaining scenes they each had. They skipped their last and final scene of the day. Aside from the fact that it was in their heads already, Stephanie and Mariska were a little bit nervous, themselves. Of course they didn't show their nerves on the outside but they both had thoughts running through their minds.

By the time the last break of the day had passed and they were about to start filming the last scene before they wrapped up for the day, both Mariska and Stephanie had taken more than they could handle with the jokes and the teasing they had endured all day.

When the blonde and brunette were almost to the set they pretended they were going over their lines, just to cover themselves. When they saw that, except for Judith and Gary, everyone else was already there, they briefly looked at each other and nodded almost invisibly.

Payback time.

At first they spoke with their voices lowered, although their body language said that they weren't speaking in a friendly manner. Slowly their volume began rising until the point they started yelling.

"You know what, I'm done... I'm done with this!" Mariska yelled.

"Well that makes two of us!" Stephanie yelled back.

"Good, because there's no way am I gonna play this scene with you!" Mariska bellowed.

"Oh, and you think I want to play any scene with you again?! Get off of that high horse you're sitting on and kiss my ass, Mariska!" Stephanie yelled.

By now Mariska and Stephanie stood toe to toe while they were glaring at each other. Judith and Gary had entered the set in the mean time and everyone stood shocked and nailed to the floor watching the two women. Jaws were hitting the ground as eyes were big as sausages and almost rolling out of their heads. By the time they had picked up their jaws from the floor, nobody dared to speak. They were all afraid of Mariska's and Stephanie's wrath turning against them, especially in a tag team. Yes, they may be fighting with each other but, each and every one of them knew that all the bets were off when anyone of them turned to either one of the two women.

"Fuck you, Stephanie! Now where the hell is Gary when you need him?!" Mariska almost screamed.

Reluctantly Gary stepped forward and walked slowly towards the two fighting women, sending a silent prayer above that they wouldn't bite his head off. When Gary was close to them he cleared his throat. Two heads snapped aside and looked at the scared looking producer.

"What?!" Mariska and Stephanie yelled at the same time.

Gary held is hands up in the air in surrender.

"Can we please shoot this scene before we talk and the both of you turn my nuts into purse?" Gary asked carefully.

Stephanie and Mariska sent a death glare to Gary before they almost stormed off to where they would start filming their undercover scene. Halfway there, they started to walk normally and looked back over their shoulders.

"Just kidding," Stephanie said.

"Got you all, suckers," Mariska said.

They looked at each other and couldn't help themselves as they started laughing out loud, again.

Everyone stared at them as if they had entered the twilight zone.

"Hold on, wait a minute... you two were faking it?" Gary asked, as he shook his head in disbelief.

Mariska and Stephanie looked at each other and laughed again. When they finally calmed down Mariska answered Gary's question.

"Yes Gary, we were completely kidding. We already had enough of all of you acting strange and making jokes, so we thought this would be nice way to pay you all back. And we hope that you all have learned your lesson. Oh, and Gary, never do it again, or you have it coming. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about," Mariska said, the last part firmly.

Gary nodded at Mariska, perfectly knowing what the brunette was talking about. Gary cleared his throat.

"Alright, now that everything is back to normal, apparently, let's continue. Last scene people, everyone on their places, please. We'll start filming in 2 minutes," Gary said loudly.

Stephanie and Mariska smiled at each other, both women were a little nervous about this scene but on the other hand they were glad they played it with each other and not with someone else.

Little did they know that this scene might change everything.