A/N: I am so sorry this has taken so long to get finished! This was a really hard chapter to write. I hope you all enjoy. Next chapter will be up hopefully by tomorrow at the latest!

Present Day…

Andrea took a deep breath and held on tight to her girlfriend's hand. "Mich, I don't think I can do this…" she whispered looking at the building entrance. "I want to, but what if it's a mistake?"

"You have to do this Andrea. It's for Alex and Casey. You know they need you. They need us. We are Alex and Casey's best friends; we have to be there for them right now." Michonne reassures.

"I know, I just feel so responsible for this mess. I swear I didn't know those were still linked to my cloud. Plus, I should have known to change everything I gave Audrey access to when she was setting up the network. I just feel like in a way I torpedoed Casey and Alex." Andrea admitted again.

Michonne pulled Andrea in her arms. "I know you do baby. It was just one giant misunderstanding. Alex understands, and she and Casey need us."

Andrea nods, putting on her best courtroom face and walking towards the door. Watching Michonne open the door, Andrea locks eyes with her girlfriend. She always feels so safe with her, like she could take on the world. It reminds her of how Casey described her relationship with Alex once. Silently she said another prayer for the couple. She desperately hoped they could work things out. The blond had no doubt that the two were meant to be together.

The Night Before, Six Months Later, December…

Charlotte Cabot stood halfway up the stairs so she could address the majority of the guests. Looking at all the happy faces, and finally catching a glimpse of her excited daughter and soon to be daughter-in-law, the elder Cabot began, "I would like to first thank everyone for joining us tonight. I know this is a very late in the game engagement party," she quickly shoots a look at Alex and Casey, "but our soon to be wedded couple have had increasingly busy schedules since their engagement. Anyway, here we are tonight to celebrate the love of my daughter Alexandra and her bride to be Casey. May their love bring them a lifetime of happiness. Please enjoy the food, wine and desserts. We will have a slide show setup by the couples friends that will play at around 8 pm. So, to Alex and Casey!" Charlotte held up her glass of champagne as the room erupted in congratulations. The look of love on her daughters face as Alex pulled Casey into her arms and sweetly kissed her, she had no doubt that her daughter had found her soul mate.

Alex smiled at Casey as she parted ways with her soon to be wife. They were trying to mingle with the crowd for the time being and would meet back up within the hour to grab a bite together before the slide show. This way they got to say hi to everyone before just having fun.

Ever since the proposal, the couple had found themselves pulled in a billion directions. They hadn't had five seconds to relax and enjoy their engagement, nonetheless plan a wedding. After finally getting to relax for a little bit during Thanksgiving at the family beach house they'd devised a plan. They would elope after Christmas.

They both scheduled time off for a two and a half week vacation starting after Christmas. They planned a vacation at St. Regis Bora Bora Resort, and then arranged to get married on the beach there two days after arriving. Basically, it would be a private wedding and honeymoon. They were ecstatic. They didn't have to waste time planning a wedding and could celebrate with their friends when they got home. Of course, Alex's mom, Michonne, and Andrea were bummed that they would miss the nuptials but they would survive. Alex couldn't wait just another week and they would be there and Casey would be her wife.

Casey waded through the mass of guests greeting everyone she passed and thanking them for coming. Finally, seeing two faces she was excited to talk to she made her way forward. "Kim! Abbie!" She called out to her two best friends. "I am so happy you made it! Thank you for coming. Kim you are a saint, Abbie told me about your day in court. Are you feeling okay, this isn't stressing you or the baby out is it?"

"Oh my god, between you, Abbie and Serena I am going to have a more watched over and protected pregnancy than I think even Princess Kate had." Kim says shaking her head. "Yes, I am fine and so is my star soccer player in here." She adds pointing to her belly.

"Is he kicking!" Serena's voice squeals as she runs up through the crowd hand outstretched to feel.

"Where did you come from?" Abbie asks with a laugh.

"I heard my little Beckham was kicking and had to come say hi! Hi baby, it's Auntie Serena, I just wanted to say hi and say I have lots of candy at my house so you will love coming to my apartment to play I promise!" Serena coos to Kim's belly.

Liv walks up and places a hand to her girlfriends shoulder. Laughing she jokes, "Okay Rena, reign the crazy in babe, I think even Casey here would agree with me that you are starting to sound a little like the type of people we question as suspects."

The five women all get a little laugh out of the joke. Kim moving conversation away from her belly says, "So are you two just over the moon about your soon to be nuptials?"

Casey beams thinking about Alex. "I am thrilled," Casey says scanning the crowd for her blonde, catching sight of Alex talking to her Uncle Bill she smiles. "I couldn't be happier. We have so many dreams and plans for our future and I can't wait to make every one of them come true. She seriously completes a huge part of me and I can't wait to marry her!"

"I am so jealous y'all are going to go to Bora Bora. I would love to visit there!" Abbie exclaimed.

"Really?" Kim said rubbing her belly, "I always wanted to visit Fiji."

"Whenever you say the word babe I will book it!" Abbie joked.

The group carried on talking while Casey bid them ado for the moment and continued to mingle with the rest of the guests. She spoke to friends of Charlotte's and the judges, and other people they had invited from the office. Finally realizing it was time to meet up with Alex to eat, Casey turned to scan the room. Seeing Michonne, Casey headed towards her figuring she may have seen her fiancé. "Hey, bride to be!" Michonne exclaimed seeing Casey.

"Hey Mich, have you seen Al?" Casey inquires still scanning the room.

Looping her arm with Casey's, Michonne says, "Sure have, I just left her and Andrea droning away with Preston about some past convictions and the precedent's they have set for the courts. I love the law and all, but it's a party, so let's party!"

"There is my beautiful bride!" Casey hears Alex yell out.

Smiling boldly at the sight of her fiancé, Casey lets herself be wrapped into Alex's warm embrace.

"I always knew you two were meant to be together. You both had such chemistry in the courtroom from the beginning. It's like you two can just read each other perfectly. Congratulations you two!" Judge Preston says before leaving the table.

"Well darling, our meals were just delivered and Andrea and Michonne's special slide show is getting ready to start. So it's just a countdown now till I get you home for the night!" Alex says ushering Casey into her chair then sitting herself.

"Alex, hush! Someone could hear you. You don't want to totally destroy your imagine." Casey jokes. The couple enjoys their meals as friends continue to stop by to say hello and congratulate them. By the time the lights dim and slide show starts up, Alex and Casey have moved to the center of the room to watch together surrounded by their friends.

"Champagne?" Olivia asks, passing both a nodding Alex and Casey a glass. Casey is standing next to Abbie and Olivia, with Alex, Andrea, and Michonne on the other side of her. As the slide show starts up, Casey smiles at Alex placing a quick sweet kiss to the blondes cheek and whispering, "I love you," in her ear.

As the slide show started, a picture of Alex and Casey after their engagement flashed across the screen with one of Alex's favorite quotes. It was from F. Scott Fitzgerald, it read, "I love her, and that's the beginning and end of everything." As more photos of the happy couple flashed across the screen, Alex thought back to that time in the gym when she told Michonne that's how she felt about Casey and that's how she knew she wanted to marry the redhead.

They were sitting outside Andrea and Casey's Barre Shape class waiting on them. Michonne had asked Alex how she knew it was right to propose and get married since she and Casey had dated for such a short time. Alex had simply replied, "I love her, that's the beginning and end to everything," the statement causing a sweet smile to fall upon Alex's face. Michonne bumped her shoulder against Alex and replied, "One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love."

Alex hummed, "Sophocles. I love it. It's true."

"Yes, it is. I feel like I could conquer anything with Andrea. Even a zombiefied world." Michonne laughed.

"I know what you mean." Alex responded leaning back against the wall, watching her sweaty fiancé dance out her stress. Life was perfect with Casey.

Coming back to reality, Alex continued to enjoy the slide show holding Casey's hand as they periodically kissed and laughed with their friends about silly memories. Kim had pulled up two chairs to enjoy next to them, one for her and one for Abbie and Kim's feet. Serena was leaning into Liv, and Michonne and Andrea were laughing about something, and Alex's beautiful bride to be was beside her. Life really was perfect. At this moment, everything was the way Alex had always dreamed it would and could be. It was the light she'd held onto through years of depression. It was her happiness.

Casey looked over and caught sight of her beautiful bride to be. Alex seemed so at peace with everything. She almost seemed like a different person these days. As much as Alex may have changed parts of Casey, Casey fully believed that she'd changed Alex more over the months. Even their dreams for the future were different. Everything was perfect and different. Holding Alex's hand, Casey gave it a light squeeze and pressed a small kiss to Alex's cheek again. A simple 'I love you' without the need of spoken words.

"Casey, you remember that right?" Serena asked referencing something the women were talking about.

"I am sorry, I missed the subject. What are you talking about?" Casey asked.

Before anyone could answer, Olivia's eyes went wide and Casey noticed Kim's jaw drop. Noticing the room go quiet, Casey started to turn towards Alex, when she felt the blonde's hand drop from hers as the sound of Alex's champagne glass shattering on the floor grasped Casey's attention to the screen. Casey gasped as she noticed pictures of her and Andrea having sex.

"A-lex, that isn't what it looks like," Casey started to immediately be cut off by Alex.

"How could you! How could you do this to me? Are you so much of a whore that I am not enough for you? You have to go to your ex for satisfaction? Oh my God, I am going to be sick. Oh my god, is this some sick fucking twisted way to break up with me? God fucking damnit, Casey! You are such a slut. Fuck!" Alex screams at the redhead. Her filter was gone completely as the shock of the pictures over took her.

Everyone stood in silent horror watching the tragic scene unfold before them. Alex shaking in anger as tears streamed down her cheeks, and Casey turning almost stone like in the wake of Alex's words. What no one expected was Casey's reaction to the sting of Alex's berating.

"Don't you dare call me a slut Alexandra Cabot," Casey began pointing her finger at the blonde, "You are nothing more than a pretentious bitch. I can't even begin to believe you when you say you love me and don't give me five seconds to explain that those are old pictures from before we were together. How the hell they got in our slide show I don't know, but don't you dare ever speak to me again. I am disgusted that you would think that I would cheat on you." As she spoke she slipped her engagement ring from her finger and forcefully placed it into Alex's palm before continuing, "Don't waste your time on words, after all I am just a whore and you are just a fucking Ice Bitch."

Without another word, Casey left the house with Kim and Abbie in tow. Everyone looked at Alex wide eyed. She wished the floor would swallow her whole. 'What the hell just happened?' was all she could wonder. Turning on her heel she ran from the room and into the den. As she pace the room, Andrea and Michonne arrived for support. Looking up and seeing Andrea, Alex yelled, "What the fuck Andrea? Is this some sick twisted joke? You are supposed to be my friend. You both are supposed to be my best friends. What the hell?"

"I don't know what happened Alex. I thought I deleted those photos after Casey and I broke up, I don't even know how they got on the slide show. I will have my IT guys take a look and try to figure it out. I am so sorry." Andrea apologized.

Alex just looked at her in disbelief, "You should be," she whispered. "You absolutely should be. This stunt just cost me everything. I don't want to see you two ever again." As Alex finished her statement she walked from the den and down the hall to the kitchen to grab her keys and coat. She had to figure things out and air was her answer at this moment. As she reached the back door, she heard her mother's voice, "Alexandra."

"Yes, Mama." Alex answered hanging her head as she turned towards her mother.

"Alex, what were you thinking?" Charlotte whispered. "I have my suspicions darling, but I what to hear your words first."

Leaning against the door for support, Alex began, "I saw the love of my life with another woman. Her ex-lover and my best friend. I saw her doing things that should be private and between only Casey and I. Mama, I never paused to think. It ripped me in two to see that. The words fell from my mouth all from 90 percent hurt and 10 percent embarrassment. I don't even know what I said to her, but her words keep playing through my head. Over and over. Mama, despite how much I hurt right now, I want to hold her. I want everything to be okay. I want her to tell me everything is going to be okay. She is all I want. Can I fix this?"

Charlotte walked to her daughter and wrapped her arms around her in a tight hug. "Sweetheart, you can fix anything. Casey loves you. Both of your words were out of anger, hurt and fear for losing each other. Go to her and tell her you are sorry. You to are so strong willed and hard headed, you reacted strongly, but you two can make it right. Just remember that words said in the heat of the moment are never true."

"Thank you. I am going to go now," Alex whispers kissing her mother's cheek. Walking out the door, she turns and says, "I love you. Thank you for everything. I am sorry if I disappointed you tonight."

"Alexandra Elizabeth Cabot, you could only disappoint me if you don't fight to win back you girl. Now go!" Charlotte calls out watching her daughter climb into her sedan and drive down the driveway to the street. Silently, she says a prayer that the two girls will work things out.

Alex drove as fast as she could through the night. She knew that Casey more than likely had gone home to her apartment. Her mind thought of all the things she intended to say to the redhead. She was confident that she could fix this between them. Their love was strong and able to survive anything. Casey had assured her of that over and over in their darkest moments. She loved her more than anything. They could survive this and would one day laugh while telling this ridiculous story to their kids.

Casey sat in a ball on her bathroom floor crying. Kim kept dabbing a cool washcloth to her face trying to soothe her. "Everything will be okay Casey, I promise," Kim whispered over and over. Casey couldn't speak, she just kept crying as she clung onto Alex's sweatshirt. All the she could think was, 'what have I done?' over and over in her head. How could she fix this?

Abbie stood in the doorway of the bathroom giving Kim a look that asked, 'what am I supposed to do?' Kim began to wave the brunette in as they heard the buzzer go off alerting them someone was at the apartment. Quickly saying a silent prayer of thanks, Abbie said, "I'll just go get that."

Running from the bedroom and heading to the door, Abbie opened the door only to come face to face with Alex. "Why are you here?" Abbie asks.

"I came to make up with Casey. Where is she?" Alex asks trying to look around the brunette.

"She doesn't want to see you." Kim states firmly walking up behind Alex.

Alex frowns at this information. She can feel tears building up behind her eyes at the information, "Why?"

"Why? Are you kidding me Alex?" Abbie spits out.

"No. I love her, I made a mistake. How would you have felt if you saw Kim like that?" Alex fires back.

"Get out of here now." Kim states firmly. "She doesn't want to see you. You publicly humiliated her. Why would she ever want to be with you again?"

Abbie continues, "To answer your question, I would never speak to my wife like that ever."

As if all the confidence had suddenly been drained from Alex, she stepped back from the apartment door. "She really doesn't want to see me at all?" the blonde asked dejectedly.

"No," Abbie and Kim replied in unison.

"Okay," Alex said turning and walking back down the hallway to the elevator. Not wanting to stand in humiliation and wait Alex takes the stairs back down to the garage to her car. The walk down was mind numbing and Alex wanted to just be home already. She would be home, alone soon enough. Life would never be the same.

Walking back into the bathroom, Kim and Abbie find Casey sitting in the corner with her face pressed against Alex's sweatshirt. Casey asks, "Who was at the door?"

"Pizza guy," Kim says.

"He was at the wrong apartment and a bit confused, I think he was high." Abbie adds.

Helping Casey to her feet, Kim and Abbie help the distraught redhead get ready for bed. Pulling back the sheets, the couple tucks Casey in and Kim climbs up next to her running her fingers through her friend's hair. As Casey begins to drift into sleep she whispers in a tearful voice, "I really hoped she was going to come after me. I love her so much. I never should have said those things. I love her."

Finishing her confession, Casey falls asleep. Kim looks at Abbie who was sitting quietly across the room and mouths, "We have to fix this!"

As Alex arrived home, she walked straight to her bedroom and threw herself down on her bed. Not wanting to talk to anyone, she texted her mother. "It didn't work. She didn't want to see me. We are officially over. I am lost."