"Alex what the hell are you thinking?" Abbie asked as they walked out of the courtroom into a private room "If you keep this up the judge will throw you in jail for contempt. Get a hold of yourself."

"I'm sorry but it got under my skin hearing him say that." Alex answered. "It just pissed me off."

"Yeah well learn how to control your emotions while you're in there." Abbie growled back. "I know how hard it is being on the other side of the wall but you have to find some way to shut down the prosecutor in you down."

"Abbie calm down." Elliot said placing his hand on her shoulder to get her attention.

"I'm sorry Elliot but her little stunts in there is pissing the judge off. Honestly, at this moment that is the last thing we need."

"Well the judge will be the least of your worries if you don't back down now." Elliot said motioning toward Olivia who looked like she was ready to kill Abbie.

"I'm sorry if you don't like me snapping on Alex but if she don't get it together our case is going to be screwed." Abbie said turning to face Olivia. "Not that what you did isn't helping matters any."

"I don't give a damn about the case" Olivia growled as she started to stalk toward Abbie but stopped when Alex stepped in her path. "Alex please move."

"It's ok" Alex whispered making sure that Olivia was looking at her. "You can't go after everyone who snaps at me or is rude to me. Believe me when I say that would be a full time job."

"I understand, believe me I do, but I will not have her making it any more difficult for you than what it already is." Olivia sighed "I will do everything in my power to make this as easy for you as it can possibly be and having your attorney snap on you is not making it easier."

"Olivia look at me." Alex said waiting till she had the brunette's attention "I appreciate it I do. You do realize in less than three minutes I am going to have to take the stand again and relive something I don't want to but have to. I have to relive it in front of twelve strangers and a variety of co-workers. During that time period I will cry. When the defense gets up there he will yell and be little me the best he can to ruin my credibility, that's his job. You cannot, as much as you want to, save me from that."

"I know and I'm not too thrilled at it either." Olivia mumbled ashamed that she wasn't able to protect Alex even more than what she had at that point.

"Good cause neither am I." Alex said with laughter in her voice "Now what I need to know is will you be able to sit in there and maintain control of your temper. Because if you don't think you can then I need you to stay here. I can't be on the stand worrying if you are going to snap and try to kill the bitch, again."

"Again?"

"Yes again I know you went after her at the jail but Elliot stopped you in time. "I need you to control your anger during my testimony. If you don't the defense can use that against us and make you sound unstable and get your testimony discredited. We need your testimony to get the death penalty for trying to kill you twice."

"Honestly Alex I don't care about me. It comes with the job and it happens from time to time. But what I do want is justice for you and her to pay for what she did to you. I want her to know and realize that you never treat a woman like she treated you. I want you to have the closure of seeing your attacker found guilty and sentenced."

"Then for that to happen you have to control your anger. Can you do that sitting in the court room or do you need to stay in this room."

"Do you want me in the court room for the rest of your testimony?" Olivia asked.

"Yes I do." Alex answered "I need you there to do what I have to do today Olivia. To be honest with you I'm not sure how much more I can do or handle without having you sitting in the court room."

"Then I promise you my anger will be under control while you are testifying." Olivia said

"Thank you." Alex sighed relieved that Olivia would try to keep her anger under control the best she could so she could be there for her.

"If you two are done coming to terms it's almost time to get back in there." Abbie said "We're already on the judge's shit list the last thing we want to do is give him more reasons to hate us and start siding with the defense."

"You ready?" Alex asked having yet to take her eyes from the brunette.

'Shouldn't I be asking you that?" Olivia asked raising an eyebrow at the blonde.

Alex smiled as she shrugged her shoulders.

Olivia couldn't help but laugh as she took Alex by the hand and they walked back to the court room. Once in the court room she took her seat behind Abbie and despite how bad she wanted to glance over at Jess or just basically kick her ass she didn't. She kept her eyes forward and on Alex. She had a promised Alex she would keep her anger in check and she had every intention doing so no matter what it took.