A/C

When Alex came back to New York, she started as the Bureau Chief for Homicide. She introduced herself to her new ADAs and offered to take them all out to dinner on Friday, so she could get to know them. "It's on me, so come out with your appetites!"

Jim was quick to take charge of the ADAs. "Let's get back to work!"

Alex didn't mind. She had her own agenda for the day. She wasn't sure if this was the correct course of action, but she had to try.

Casey was working on a pre-trial motion when she heard a knocking on her door.

"Come in."

To her surprise, it was Alexandra Cabot. The woman looked as beautiful as ever. "Is this a bad time?"

Will there be a good time? "No, come in."

Alex closed the door and took a seat. "I'm not sure if there's a good way to say what I have to say, so I'm just going to go for it."

Casey nodded.

"I love Olivia. I never stopped loving her. I know I broke up with her and told her to move on. I meant it. It wasn't fair for me to appear and then disappear from her life at the drop of a hat, and I wanted her to have someone she could be with all the time.

Somewhere down the line, she found you, and from what I gather, she's really happy with you, and I want her to be happy, but I'd rather her be happy with me. I'm not here to fight you or try to do something shady behind your back, but if there's a chance that she still wants me, I have to try."

Casey froze. She had no idea what to do. How do you react to a woman who tells you that she's in love with your girlfriend? It would be one thing if Casey knew Olivia's intentions, but she didn't.

"I … don't know what to say."

"Neither do I," Alex admitted. "I think if we had met under different circumstances, we would probably be friends."

Really? Casey didn't see Alex befriending her. "We weren't friends before."

"I don't remember ever getting the chance to hang out with you."

Alex had never seen Casey, but Casey had seen Alex. Everyone talked about the blonde's talent and beauty. Casey had seen her in court once. She had been amazing, beautiful, strong, and confident.

"I was too shy to say hello." I thought you would have crushed me like a bug.

"There's no reason to be shy now," Alex told her. "I'm an open book, ask me anything."

Casey pursed her lips in confusion. What is Alex doing? What am I doing? "What's your favorite food?"

"Fried chicken. What's your poison of choice?"

"What?"

"What kind of booze do you like?"

"Oh, I'm a Guinness girl."

"Irish pride?"

"I guess," Casey had never thought of it that way before. "What about you?"

"I'd have to say Pinot Noir. It's called liquid sex for a reason."

Casey's eyes got wide. "I wasn't expecting such a racy answer."

Alex shrugged. "Favorite band?"

"Rage Against the Machine, you?"

"The Doors. I may be a lesbian, but I would have fucked Jim Morrison in his prime."

"He does have a feminine beauty to him, with that hair and those lips."

"He's also scrawnier than I prefer, but it works, he's like sex on skinny legs."

Casey laughed.

Before they knew it, the women had blown through an hour.

"Oh I should get to work," Alex said as she looked at the time.

"Damn, I didn't write my motion," Casey muttered.

"Why don't you just use a template?"

"What?"

"I set up a template for my motions, so I can type in the facts and it will auto generate it. I still have to hand check it, but it's easier than starting from scratch."

"How did you do that?"

"I got an IT guy to do it for me. I'm crap with computers."

"Me too. I make Liv fix mine at least once a month."

"She does love to fix things. I used to mess up my sink, just to get her to come over and fix it."

Casey laughed. "I'm telling!"

"Don't you dare!" Alex warned with a grin.

"I'll see you around Alex."

The Bureau Chief went back to her office. She liked Casey, which only made this harder. If I was still in Albuquerque, I would want Liv with a girl like Casey. Where the fuck does that leave me?

When Olivia saw Casey next, she was surprised to hear that, "Alex came to visit me."

"What?" Please tell me they didn't fight.

"She wanted to be honest with me, about you, and then we got to talking. She's really fun."

"She is … isn't she?" How weird is this.

"That makes this worse. I wanted to hate her, but I can't. Velez was just a shitty person who managed to fuck up everything. If he hadn't …"

Olivia hugged her. "Baby, I know."

Casey knew that somewhere down the line, one of them would be heartbroken and it sucked.