Chapter 2
Coming back from Africa was somehow harder than she thought it would be, the time exchange, the weather, but it doesn't matter because she is home and that's all she cares about. It was just a matter of time for her to return to the DA's office, and she was bemused to get once again SVU, not because she couldn't handle it, but because she recently heard that Casey Novak was back, and she had already prosecuted a couple cases of the 1-6.
It was almost noon when she was called to the precinct; they just caught a perpetrator accused of raping and stabbing to dead a young woman.
"So where are we standing?" Asked the blonde counselor
"The bastard's prints were found in the victims cars, plus he matches the physical description the victim provided us". Olivia said with a little bit of rage, due to the fact that she already wanted to put that scum bag away.
"Well, I don't think it will be enough to charge him with anything, he just matches a description, but the victim isn't able to point him as her attacker". Alex said to Olivia just explaining what their legal standing was.
"Oh cut the crap Alex, there must be something else you can do about that, a search warrant, something; we can't just let him go". Olivia pointed that out at the verge of her nerves; it was obvious they were having a really tough case at the 1-6.
"Give me a couple of hours, maybe I can get a search warrant for his home, can't promise anything but I'll try". That was all Alex said before taking her briefcase.
Meanwhile at the DA's office Casey Novak was preparing herself for a trial, and maybe it could be call a déjà vu but it was a white collar crime; she couldn't really figure out how she felt right now, that she had returned to where she started all those years ago, she somehow felt torn, she felt relieve that she wouldn't be dealing with living victims, damaged kids; but on the opposite side she had a soft spot for her detectives, but specially that feeling of changing the world one step at a time every time she helped each and every one of those victims. Casey couldn't helped but smile at those fond memories, but right now she better get hurry she wouldn't be late for court.
Already in the courthouse Alex had just finished arguing with Judge Cohen about the search warrant for the home of Ralph Andrews, it wasn't the hardest argument she ever had with a judge but it certainly wasn't the easiest too; she certainly was in hurry so she was almost running out of the courthouse but at the exact same moment she was at the court's steps she notice the slender figure of Casey Novak, suddenly the red head attorney notice her too, they could almost notice that each one of them were in a hurry so they just exchanged smiles.
It may be the simplest thing, smile to someone else, but for Alex that moment seemed almost unreal, smiling to the person that took her job and part of her life, but then things got reversed and ended just where they started: Cabot at SVU and Novak ant white collar; for that moment Alexandra allowed herself to fantasize, and think that maybe nothing ever really happened, but the noises coming from the cars cruising down the street brought her back from her trance, and once again she got to face reality and it made her feel a chill running down her spine. She checked the hour, "Damn, I better hurry up".