So this was going to be the last chapter until I changed my mind. So there'll be more after this.
I don't remember the rule about even/odd chapters but this one's pretty much all casefile, no smut.
Enjoy and please R&R!!!!
DISCLAIMER: I don't own them. None of them.
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"Is Alex around?" Olivia asked.
"She said to call her when you guys got in. She got a deal from McCoy." Lake told the pair.
"Great, I'll call her now." Olivia said.
She took her cell phone out of her pocket and dialed speed dial two for Alex.
"Hey Liv!" She answered.
"Oh my God, did one of us actually use the caller ID?" Olivia joked.
"I promised Casey I would." She laughed.
"I see she asked you about that too. Anyway, we're back now." Olivia told her.
"You'd better have a good story for me."
"Once you tell me yours. Now are you coming over?" Olivia asked.
"On my way in like two minutes."
They both ended the call and Olivia went to wait for Alex to get there.
"So are you telling her today?" Elliot whispered to Olivia.
"She owes me a story first."
After sitting around for about ten minutes Olivia and Elliot saw Alex come walking in.
"Alright, so I talked to McCoy, we can offer 25 to Life on the Langhorn case. If he flips on the other and cops to the other two cases they'll be 15 to 20 served consecutively." Alex told them.
"What's he looking at otherwise?" Elliot asked.
"Death penalty on the Langhorn case, two life sentences for each of the other two murders, not to mention 15 to 20 years for each of the three rape charges."
"Let's go deal!" Olivia exclaimed.
The three walked into the interrogation room where David Parker was sitting with his new lawyer, Trevor Langan.
"Cabot."
"Langan."
Ever since their date years ago things had been pretty hostile between the two. Both Olivia and Alex knew this and were hoping things would still go in their favor.
"So what's your deal Cabot?" Trevor asked.
"We know Mr. Parker here didn't act alone, we also know this isn't his first indiscretion. I want names." Alex told the two.
David Parker leaned over and whispered to Langan.
"If my client gives you the information you're looking for what will you give him in return?"
"25 years to life on the first rape and homicide, 15 to 20 for each subsequent victim." Alex rattled off.
Parker and Langan again begin quietly discussing the deal.
"Okay, we'll take it. What do you want to know?"
"Why don't we start with Cassidy Langhorn first?" Olivia suggested.
"What about her?" Parker asked.
"You tell us."
"We got calls last week saying to get rid of the bitch that she'd been fooling around." Parker said.
"Who called?" Olivia asked.
"I don't know. He didn't give his name. He just offered us $10,000 each to do it."
"Us?" Elliot pressed him.
"Troy, Carl, and I." Parker confirmed.
Behind the glass Don turned to Lake.
"Take Fin and go pick up our good buddy Mr. Masters." He told him.
"Yes sir, we'll even try to make it back at the same time as the perp unlike Benson and Stabler."
Meanwhile Olivia and Elliot were still pressing Parker for more.
"Was this the first time this man's called you guys?" Olivia asked.
Parker turned towards his lawyer who nodded for him to continue.
"No, he called us three times before." Parker told them.
Elliot cocked his eyebrow looking at Olivia as if to say 'Wait, three more!'
"When? We want names." Elliot demanded.
"That stable hand and the jockey." He spit out.
"And the third time?" Olivia asked.
"Martin."
Just then there was a knock on the door, the door opened and Don poked his head in.
"Liv, can I talk to you for a moment?" He asked.
Olivia walked across the room and headed out the door to join her captain.
"What's up Cap?"
"Quite an interesting turn things are taking in there huh?" He asked.
"Yes sir."
Olivia was thoroughly confused as to why he had pulled her just for this.
"I hear from Lake that you and Elliot got back to town an hour after your perps. Is there something you need to tell me?" He asked.
"We hit traffic?"
"Olivia?"
What was she supposed to do? She couldn't lie to the man, not about something like this. She sure as hell wasn't ready to go public with whatever it was that she and Elliot were doing either.
Don could visibly notice how nervous she was and took that as the cue that what he had hoped was the reason for their lateness was really it.
"When you two are ready to talk I'm here." He whispered as he pulled her into a hug.
"Thank you Sir."
"No go bust some perps!" He commanded her.
Olivia walked back into the interrogation room and over to Elliot.
"Don knows, I didn't confirm anything but he definitely knows." She whispered.
Elliot nodded before averting his attention back towards Parker.
"David, I'm just going to need you to write in your own words what happened." He told Parker, tossing him a pad of paper and a pen. "Names, dates, everything all in your own words."
"I think we're done here." Alex said to Elliot and Olivia before walking out the door with them.
Don had been listening in from his office since he had spoken to Olivia and came out to the squad room to talk to his crew.
"Fin and Lake have gone down to Long Island to pick up Masters. Liv, I want you down talking to O'Halloran, we need something else to nail Masters other than just his friend's confession. Munch and Stabler, once Parker finishes his statement find out about Flanders if all isn't revealed in his statement." He delegated.
As the guys gathered to form a plan of action Alex gently grabbed Olivia's arm.
"Mind if I come with? I think we both have a story to share with each other."
"Of course."
The two walked out of the squad room on their was to CSU.
"I was pregnant." Alex said quietly after they left.
"Excuse me?" Olivia asked not believing her ears.
She had known that there had been more to Alex's return than it being 'because of Fin' as Alex always put it. She just had never expected this.
"You heard me Liv. That's why I came home, I was pregnant." Alex admitted again.
"How? I mean I know how, but how?" She asked.
"Five weeks before I came home Fin had come out to Minnesota to see me. Did you know that's where they had moved me after Connors' trial?"
Olivia shook her head, almost afraid that if she spoke Alex wouldn't finish her story.
"So Fin had come out to Minnesota, apparently it had taken him that long to get Agent Hammond to admit where I was. He came out there, admitted that he'd been attracted to me since his first day with the squad. Admitted that he'd wanted me, needed me since then. Me Liv, not Emily and not Erin my other alter ego. He wanted Alex. It had been so long since anyone had wanted the real me. I let him know his feelings were reciprocated and I'll be honest with you, I don't think we left my bedroom all week. Well except for the shower that is." She paused giving Olivia time to process everything and speak.
"So that's where he disappeared to that week. I knew he'd been ecstatic as hell when he left then by the time he got back was sad. He missed you. He'd never said where he'd been though." Olivia told her friend.
By this time they were just about to O'Halloran's office but Alex knew she had to continue so they stopped at a bench out front to sit so she could finish.
"Two weeks and three days after he left I took the test. When it came back positive I immediately broke protocol and called Fin. He was so fucking excited too." Just then Alex's tears began falling. "I begged to come home every day for two weeks from that day on until I got the okay." She paused again, this time to wipe her eyes.
"Wow!" Olivia breathed out.
"I'm so sorry I didn't say anything back then. We had planned on telling everyone when I was 13 weeks along and the chance of miscarriage dropped. But we…"she began sobbing, "we lost her the week before. We lost our daughter."
Olivia pulled her friend into her arms and began comforting her, whispering to her that everything would be okay. Both knew it wasn't true but Olivia tried her best. Doing the math in her head quickly she knew Alex and Fin had only lost their daughter a couple of weeks ago. Suddenly she had a tremendous amount of respect for her friends for being so strong to return to 'normal' so soon.
"Sorry," Alex said wiping away her last tears, "your turn, tell me a good story."
"Can I explain after we talk to Ryan?"
"Of course. God, I actually forgot what we were going here." She half heartedly chuckled.
"We've been together since we went upstate." Olivia told her.
"I knew it!" Alex yelled.
"Okay, so let's go talk to O'Halloran so we can get out of here. I need dinner with my sisters tonight." She laughed.
The pair walked inside and went to Ryan O'Halloran's office, when they got there he was peering into a microscope. He glanced up after hearing their footsteps.
"Livia, Alex, what's up ladies?" He asked as he turned away from the microscope.
"Have you re-examined everything in connection with the rape/homicides connected to Miller Farms?" Olivia asked.
"I was actually just looking over the last batch of evidence Tioga County sent down." He told them.
"And?" Alex asked.
"I'm just running through this partial print from a rake found on the scene. It's coming up a five point match for Martin Flanders." He read to them from the computer.
"Great. Anything else Ry?" Olivia asked him.
"Not yet, I'll call you if I find anything else. I've got this on top priority right now."
"Thanks!" Both Alex and Olivia said.
They left his office to head back to Alex's office this time to see if Casey was available for dinner.
"Ry, huh?" Alex smirked.
"We went out twice years ago, nothing happened. He knew I had a thing for my partner." She shrugged.
"Too funny. So, story time." Alex told her.
"Can it wait until we get with Casey? You know she's dying to get confirmation."
"Liv, you better tell." Alex warned.
"I will. I swear."
They continued walking and soon had arrived at their destination.
"Rebecca Olivia Tutuola." Alex whispered before they went inside. "Horrible initials, but we loved her name."
"Gorgeous Al, it's an absolutely gorgeous name." She told her before hugging her.
Alex smiled slightly and they walked inside and up to Casey's office.
"Hey Novak, what do you say to some dinner since you man's currently on his way down to Long Island?" Olivia asked.
"Sure. Girls night?" She asked.
"Yep. Let me just call Don and let him know what's up."
Olivia took her phone out and dialed the station.
"Special Victims Unit, Captain Cragen speaking."
"Don, it's Liv. O'Halloran's still checking things but we have a partial print match to Martin Flanders from his wife's murder." She told him.
"Well, at least we know he was alive then. Parker's stalling on his statement so I've got Elliot and John in working Peters for info. Where you at?" He asked.
"Hoping to catch a quick dinner with Alex and Casey if that's alright."
"No problem, I'll call if I need you. Why don't you bring something back for the guys too."
"Okay. Bye!" She said ending the call.
The three girls decided that since Olivia was still on call they'd just go to the deli down the street. They walked in, ordered, then went to find a table to sit and wait for their food.
"So Liv, we're both her now." Alex said.
Olivia sighed. "Alright. Elliot and I have kind of been seeing each other ever since we went upstate."
"Kind of?" Casey asked.
"Mostly it's just been a lot of damn good hot sex since we've been working these cases almost constantly." Olivia chuckled.
"Well hey, that's something right?" Alex laughed.
"He did tell me he loved me though. But I'm just a bit freaked because we haven't even really spent any time together yet." She admitted.
"Trust me Liv, he does." Casey told her friend.
"Thanks hon. So, how are you and Chester doing?" Olivia asked.
"We're good, really good." Casey answered, blushing.
"What aren't you telling us Case?" Alex asked.
"He…umm…he asked me to move in with him." She said.
"When did we stop being so independent and grow up here?" Olivia laughed. "I've got this boyfriend who I'm scared to say I could spend my life with, and you two are living with your boyfriends."
"I have no clue!" Casey replied.
The three finished off their meals, grabbed take out for the five guys, and headed back to the 1-6 together. As they headed back in the squad room laughing at some joke Casey told Elliot came running over out of breath.
"Oh God, Casey, Alex, I'm so glad you two are here. I just got a call from Liv's friend Laura. It's Chester and Fin…"
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Okay, first, yes I know I'm cruel ending things like this for now. Guess you'll just have to review lots to get an update. LOL
No one get mad and beat me up for what I did to Alex & Fin. Oh, and before you complain about Alex or Fin for that matter being too happy to be mourning, just remember that you aren't seeing what the two of them are going through at home or in their own down time. You're just seeing what's going on in the course of their jobs while busy and dealing with their friends.