On his way out from a meeting with Governor Dennings, Steve had overheard two cops talking about an incident that had happened in the courthouse just over an hour ago. At first Steve wasn't paying to much attention to the two cops were talking about how a deputy prosecutor was attacked in court by the defendant. That was until he heard the name, Steve actually stopped in his steps when he heard one cop say that it was Deputy Prosecutor Williams who had been attacked. Fear and worry instantly struck Steve and he immediately pulled out his phone to call Emma, The phone just rang and rang until it finally went to voicemail which didn't do anything positive for Steve. It just made him worry all the more so he made his way to his car and at first Steve didn't know where first to look for Emma, he wasn't sure whether or not she was in the hospital. Although he did realize that if it was that serious Emma would have called Danny who in turn would have called him and he had no messages or missed calls from his partner. Steve figured that safest place to start looking for Emma was probably at her office so he drove over to the county prosecutors office, where he found Emma in her office alone.
"Hey… What are you doing here?" Emma asked clearly surprised to see him and Steve could tell that for once in the last ten days she wasn't annoyed in the slightest to see him. She actually seemed glad to see him and without saying anything Steve walked over to Emma and kissed her. Steve didn't care whether Emma would slap him for doing something that bold whilst she was still mad with him, he was just glad as hell that she was okay for the most part. "Steve what's wrong?"
"Are you okay?" Steve asked as he looked Emma over to see if she had been hurt in any shape or form and she had been. Steve could see bruises starting to form on her neck which didn't look too nice but other than that she seemed fine and Steve couldn't see any more injuries.
"You heard about what happened…" Emma slowly stated.
"Are you okay?" Steve repeated as he gently traced over Emma's neck with his thumb careful not to cause her any pain or discomfort, he needed to know that she was okay, to hear Emma say out loud to him that she was okay before he went about finding out who had laid their hands on her.
"I'm fine Steve."
Steve didn't believe Emma in the slightest given the bruises round her neck and it didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that her injuries were a result of someone putting their hands round their neck in an attempt to strangle her. So Steve couldn't really believe Emma when she said she was fine given that it looked like someone had attempted to kill her or at least cause her serious harm. "You don't look it Em, what happened?"
"I'm currently at trial… I'm prosecuting this big drug dealer that HPD have been trying to take down for just over a year now anyway I was cross examining him and it just kind of went from there. One second I'm asking the defendant how his mother feels about having a son who sells drugs and ruins families for a living and then the next thing I knew he hand his arms round my neck…" Emma grimly noted "The Judge stopped the trial and had my lovely drug dealer detained and we resume the day after tomorrow. My boss heard about what happened and asked if I wanted to hand the case over to another prosecutor but I turned him down. After what happened today it's made me even more determined to finish this…"
"Em is that such a good idea? This drug deal strangled you in open court…"
"Steven let it go, look I love you for worrying and coming down to check and see if I'm okay but there was no need as I'm fine. Stuff like this occasionally happens as I spend my days putting murders, rapists and various other criminals away. I'm fully aware of the potential risks in this job and if I ever thought that a case I was prosecuting was putting me and my family at risk then I back away. I know what today has freaked you out and I'll admit that I'm a bit spooked too but I'm okay." Emma attempted to assure him but Steve wasn't convinced by this although Emma did just say that she still loved him so that was an upside for him to dwell on later.
"Can you blame me for worrying? You get attacked during court and I don't hear about it from you. I have to find out from other people…" Steve replied.
"I get it Steve I honestly do because every day I get up knowing that there is a chance that one day I may receive a call telling me that either you or Danny have been hurt or worse killed. I've gone through that ordeal once and it wasn't nice but I'm going to ask for either of you to stop doing what you're doing given that you and Danny are both dedicated to your jobs and you took a vow to serve and protect. I'm sorry for not calling, I just didn't want to worry anyone and make a big fuss about it. I just forget about it and move on." Emma said before attempting to walk away but Steve wasn't going to let her get away so he grabbed her hand.
"If we're going to move on from this then we're going to have to sit down and talk about what happened." Steve said referring to him being arrested for the former governors murder and everything that came with that including how he pushed Emma away because of how he wanted to protect her. But they also needed to talk about how she practically drop kicked him out of her life and the cold treatment he had been receiving despite his numerous attempts to fix things between them. Steve watched as Emma took a couple of steps back but she still held on to his hand as she let out a weary sigh.
"I know we do…"
"Can you come over to mine once your done here?" Steve asked and for a moment he had thought that he may have gone a bit too quickly with things given by the frown on Emma's face. But seconds later the frown disappeared and Emma slowly nodded which Steve took as a good, it showed that they weren't broken but rather just bent and he could fix this.