A/N: Another update today! A short one. Hope you like it :)

"Hey Alex." Casey said, when Alex answered the phone.

"Hi. You talked to Olivia? Wait, I'll be there in a second." and she hung up again. A few minutes later she entered Casey's office.

"Hi, again." she said. "So tell me, how did it go?"

"We kissed." Casey said, but before she could finish her story, Alex started to snap.

"What the hell, Casey? Why did you do that? Why did you have to cheat on me?"

"I didn't cheat, because.." but she was cut off.

"Well, you can say we don't have a relationship or something, because we didn't make it official or something, but I thought I said I was in love with you and I don't want to share you with other people or something. I didn't want you to just kiss around or something. I just want you to be mine. And not someone else's. And totally not Liv's. And I thought you didn't like her anyway, because you knew she liked you and you didn't do anything about it and now you are practically with me and you do this. I don't understand, Casey, I don't."

"Let me expla-"

"Why did you do this? Why? And at work. I thought you talked about, verbally. Non-physically. But turns out I brought you together. I thought if I might slow down a bit, I wouldn't scare you away, because y-"

"ALEX, stop it! I didn't kiss her today!" It looked like Casey had punched Alex in the face, because she was stunned into speechlessness.

"What? Why did you tell me that you did?"

"I didn't tell you that. We kissed. But that happened half a year ago. I can't even remember. I was too drunk. I couldn't control myself. But that's why she was so upset."

"Oh." Alex didn't know what to say.

"You don't have to say anything, Alex." Casey walked to Alex and wrapped her arms around her neck. "But I like to know now that you don't want to share me." she kissed Alex's lips. "And that you want me to be yours."

"You want to be mine?" Alex asked.

"Yeah of course. But I wasn't sure we were a thing, or something. We didn't define anything. And it's not that I want it the high school way or something, but we didn't talk about it. Making it official. I mean, you told me you were in love with me and I said it back, but I don't know for sure if that means you are something or you are not, you know? That's a weird sentence." she sighed. "It's just that I didn't have any relationship since Charlie."

"I know. I'm sorry I snapped. I would make it up to you right now, if I didn't have to be in court in fifteen minutes, but I have to go right now." She kissed Casey on the lips and left after she said a last goodbye.

Casey walked through a tunnel, but it was a long tunnel. She couldn't see the end of it. She told herself to keep walking, but there were voices that said she shouldn't go on. Just give up, there's no end in this tunnel. You won't get what you want. You will never be happy. Just go back and see if you find the beginning of this tunnel. But Casey didn't give up. She told herself she had to keep walking. After what seemed like an eternity, she saw Alex, like an angel she lighted up. Light in the tunnel. Casey started to walk faster, until she almost ran, but the harder she walked, the more her legs started to ache. Alex didn't seem to come closer, which frustrated Casey more and more.

"Casey." Alex whispered softly, but Casey could hear her. She kept walking and walking, but her legs crumbled like cookies. She started to scream. "ALEX! HELP!"

She felt someone stroking her hair and calling "Casey." She woke up with a start.

"You're here.." she gasped.

"Of course I am." Alex smiled. She laid her hand on Casey's forehead. "You're sweaty. You seem sick. You feel okay?"

"I-I.. don't know. I had a bad dream. I must have dozed off while I was working on this documents." Casey was sick to her stomach. She was sweaty and had a throbbing headache. What did that dream mean? She noticed her hands were trembling like hell. It took a few seconds till she realized she had to throw up, so she turned away from her desk and a stream of vomit gushed on the floor.

Alex grabbed her trash can and gave it to Casey. "Here. Before everything it dirty. I'll clean this up."

Casey kept throwing up. Her whole body was sore. She felt so horrible. Awful. She couldn't describe how she felt. In the meanwhile, Alex had cleaned up a bit and knelt next to Casey. She stroked her hair while Casey kept puking, until nothing came out anymore.

"You're sick. I'll take you home." Alex offered. Casey tried to protest, but her muscles were too sore to offer resistance, so she finally gave in.

"I'll have.." she had to vomit again.. "to say Liz I'm gonna leave."

"No, you don't, because you finished work hours ago. You must have slept for hours. It's already after eight o'clock. Almost everybody left." she supported Casey to get on her feet. "Come on, I'll take you home. I'll make you some soup and you can sleep."

It was hours later when Casey finally woke up. She dreamed about the same tunnel again. What the hell.. She looked at her alarm. I was just 3 o'clock in the morning. She was very hungry, but didn't feel like eating. She saw Alex lying next to her. She seemed concerned. Casey hadn't explained what she dreamed, because she fell asleep instantly when she got home. She was grateful Alex had offered her to help and to take care of her. It was nice to have someone to lean on. She hadn't felt that way about someone in like.. forever. She looked at the sleeping Alex and she felt warm inside. She felt happy.

"I love you, Alex Cabot." she whispered and she fell asleep again..