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A/N 1: Sorry this chapter took a little awhile to get up, but I wanted to give people plenty of time to get their opinions in (then the plot bunnies decided they wanted to rest for a few days.) So, I hope the wait was worth it and you don't hate me for (yet again) leaving you with a tiny cliffhanger. I already have the next chapter forming in my head, so hopefully I'll have it up some time this weekend or Monday :)

Thanks again to everyone who's read, commented/reviewed and added this story to their alerts :)

A cool breeze swirled around them, the mid-afternoon sunlight somewhat darker; faded signaling the time change. Casey and Alex sat on the park bench, both bundled in coats and had a scarf wrapped around their necks. Thankfully for them, today was one of the warmer days and meeting Kim in a neutral place was actually on option. Alex broke the comfortable silence between them as they waited for the ADA. "You think she'll actually show?"

Casey inhaled deeply, letting the cool crisp winter air fill her lungs. "I don't know. If I were in her shoes . . . I'm not sure what I'd be thinking."

"I think we all know that's a lie."

Alex and Casey's head's turned left at Kim's voice, neither having heard her approaching; despite the fact that the area around them was practically deserted. "We didn't ask you to come here to pick a fight." Alex replied, her tone neutral.

"You didn't ask me here at all," Kim retorted -her tone arrogant as usual.

Casey exhaled slowly, resisting the urge to fire back at the ADA and shared a knowing glance with Alex. Kim watched the exchange and smirked, not realizing that unlike she believed; Alex and Casey were just trying to stop her from damaging her career even further.

"So what do you want?" Kim asked, crossing her arms over her chest and looking from one woman to the other.

It was Casey who answered her, "To help you, before it's too late."

Kim scoffed and shook her head, muttering. "Yeah right," Her gaze then locked on them again. "You two are hardly poster children, so forgive me if I don't give a damn what you have to say."

"Clearly, yet if the bandage on the back of your neck is anything to go by; you're hardly one to talk." Alex's tone had become hard and icy, "Provoking an already emotionally unstable mother –last I checked that wasn't something they taught in law school."

Kim had gone rigid, the surprise coming off her in waves, along with a slight undercurrent of fear as Casey joined in on the tit for tat.

"Not to mention the fact that the squad still doesn't trust you," Casey's voice, while much softer than Alex's was also icy and cut to the bone. "Or I say it's more an issue of you not trusting yourself?" Kim began shaking her head, slowly beginning to back away from them and finally whispered quietly.

"I don't have to listen to this."

Before she could even fully turn around she felt a hand grasp her wrist, turning her head slowly back around her eyes met those of her predecessor's. "That's what you keep telling yourself isn't it? Even while you were back in DC and one by one, everyone you'd ever trusted began to step away from you." Casey could sense Kim beginning to shake, as the one thread of dignity she'd been holding onto began to break and the truth finally came out. "You just did what any moral person would do; what you'd been fighting against since you got out of law school."

Alex who had by that point had stood up, made her way over to the pair. "It was only after . . . you realized just what the cost was." Sighing softly, she stood beside Casey adding.

"Just like we did."

A/N 2: So, there's chapter 7 (wow that seems unreal.) Hope you guys enjoyed it, I'll finally reveal/get more into detail about what happened in DC in ch-8. As always, leave me your thoughts :)