When Alex came home, she was surprised to see Casey in the kitchen.

"What are you doing?" she asked with trepidation.

"It's just spaghetti and meatballs," Casey told her. "Even I can handle that?"

"I don't know. The meatballs could stick or you could burn the pasta."

"Coming from the girl who set her kitchen on fire boiling water."

Alex rolled her eyes before she gave Casey a kiss. "How was your day?"

"It went really well. Lupo got both suspects to confess." They were working on arrest warrants for the other known conspirators.

"What about your Dad?"

"It's his problem now." Casey's tone sounded cold, but Alex knew she was upset.

"It's okay to care, even if he is a gigantic jerk."

Casey frowned. "Let's talk about something else. How was your day?"

It went pretty well. "I ripped Kessler's expert witness a new one. 20k down the drain."

"Nice!"

"Have you heard from Liv?"

"I got her a search warrant and an arrest warrant before I left work. Hopefully, she'll be home soon."

They decided to wait for Olivia to get home before they ate dinner.

"I'm going to need a snack." Casey got a slice of cheesecake from the fridge.

"You're always eating," Alex told her, before she stole a chunk with her fork.

"Thief."

"Adverse possession."

"Conversion."

"Community property."

"We have to be married to assert that one. Also, New York's not a community property state."

"I love your unlimited bank of legal tidbits."

"I swear my bar review course has been engraved on my brain somewhere."

Casey was starting to blush. Alex couldn't get over how cute her blush was. "I love it when your face is as red as your hair."

"You're such a jerk!" She hit Alex with a pillow.

Alex struck back and the two lovers began to fight.

Casey was about to declare herself the victor when the phone rang. Alex struck Casey in the back of the head with her pillow.

"Cheater!" Casey grabbed the phone. "NOVAK!"

"Casey, it's Elliot. There's been a shooting."

"WHAT? Where's LIv? Tell me she wasn't shot."

"SHOT!" Alex started freaking out. Casey started hyperventilating.

Elliot groaned. "Olivia wasn't shot."

"What?"

"SHE WAS NOT SHOT!"

"Then why did you scare me?"

Ale snatched the phone. "Elliot, I want to know what happened … now!"

He sighed. How does Liv deal with this? "We got to the suspect's house. He wasn't there. We tried his brother's house and he charged at us with a knife. Olivia shot him and now his brother is threatening to sue us."

"Who the hell is his brother."

"That's the funny part."

"ABE FUCKING KESSLER!"

Casey frowned. He got shot?

"I don't believe this."

"…"

"Is Liv okay?"

"…"

"Don't let her talk to IAB until her union rep gets there!"

" I don't care how much she doesn't like it. If you don't get her to accept her representation, I'll get Kathy to make you sleep on the couch."

"…"

"How about I tell her how you and Liv go to play pool when you don't feel like going home and you pretend you have a case? … Didn't think I knew that one huh!"

"…"

"Yeah, I'm the evil Ice Queen Mega Bitch, get used to it!"

Casey snorted.

Alex hung up.

"I take it Liv is fine."

"She shot a murderer who turned out to be … Abe Kessler's little brother."

"Get the fuck out!"

"Oh I know. I'm going to kill that little piece of garbage and his murderous brother."

Casey went to grab the car keys. "I'm driving. I don't like the way you drive when you're excited."

"I'm an excellent driver."

"I know your father lies to you, but I won't."

Alex slapped her butt and they were out the door.

"I don't want a union rep!" Olivia snapped at Elliot.

"I don't care what you want. Your girlfriend put my balls in a vice grip, so you're accepting help whether you want it or not."

Olivia stared him down.

Elliot was equally stubborn.

"Fine!"

"It won't be that bad."

Olivia almost pissed herself. "Brian what are you doing here?"

The man awkwardly laughed. "I'm not Brian. He's my twin brother." This was Benjamin Cassidy.

"There are two of you?" Olivia was scared.

"Actually, we have three sisters, triplets, so there are five of us." The boy sheepishly smiled. Olivia was very attractive.

"Your mother must be a saint."

"Why don't we talk about what happened this evening?"

She explained how they had been looking for a suspected serial killer. "We thought that Nick was our suspect, but when we got to his apartment, he had been stabbed." They then learned he had a harem and someone was killing off his lovers.

"When he woke up, he identified his assailant and we got an arrest warrant and a search warrant for his apartment."

She was about to get to the shooting when …

"Well, well, well, what do we have here?" It was Lieutenant Tucker.

"If you don't mind, I'm still meeting with my client."

"Coming up with a cover story."

"The truth will do just fine, not that you would know it if it bit you in the ass," Benjamin snapped.

Olivia wasn't expecting his level of sass.

"I'll be back in five minutes."

He stormed off.

"I'm sorry about that, but Tucker is a real jerkoff!"

"Now that, I can drink too."

"You haven't been drinking right."

She glared at him.

"I have to ask."

"No, and I never drink on duty."

"I wish all my clients could say that."

I'm scared now.

Abe demanded answers when he showed up to the 1-6. Why did they show up at his house? What made them think they could enter without a warrant? What was it that his brother allegedly did?

Unfortunately for (Dis)honest Abe, he was not getting the answers he sought.

Once he threatened to sue the NYPD and Detective Benson personally, no one was willing to talk to him. Cragen referred him to NYPD's legal counsel. Munch suggested he start working on an insanity defense for his brother, and Elliot told him to stick it where the sun don't shine … not exactly in those words.

When Casey and Alex arrived at the scene, all hell broke lose.

"You have a lot of nerve!" he yelled at them.

Alex looked around. "You mean me? What did I do?"

"What was this? Win your case by having your cop buddies my brother during the trial?"

Alex was wide eyed. "You think I had your brother shot to distract you from the trial?" She started to laugh. "Implicit in that statement is the notion that you had a shot in hell in the first place. Your case is sunk and it's because you're a miserable lawyer. Your brother being a psychotic killer is just gravy on the mashed potatoes."

Abe turned white. Adam, a killer? That cannot be. "Lies. You must have framed him."

Alex couldn't take this seriously; maybe it was the lack of sleep or the anxiety from the trial. "Psychosis must run in the family. I suggest we send him to Bellevue."

Casey couldn't believe Alex was so defiant. She got the nickname the Ice Queen for a reason, but seriously?

"I will end you Cabot!"

She pushed his finger out of her face and sneered, "threaten me one more time, and I'll teach you how to be a falsetto."

Casey and Munch had to get them each to back into a different corner.

"Lex, I love you and I don't want you getting arrested tonight for wiping the floor with Kessler."

"Too bad Liv didn't shoot both of them."

"So you'd have to start your trial over?"

SHIT! What is Petrovsky going to do with this mess?

What the hell am I going to do with this mess?

"Adam Kessler, brother of defense attorney Abe Kessler, has been shot by police after he allegedly charged at officers with a kitchen knife. The officers at the scene had an arrest warrant for Adam. He allegedly stabbed his employer and murdered two women in the past week. The police have remained silent as to his motive for the killings."

If Abe weren't able to continue the trial, they would have to declare a mistrial and start all over again.

Petrovsky had until 9AM to decide on what she would do.

Olivia was on paid leave as was customary for an officer-involved shooting. Both Alex and Casey wanted to take the day off and stay with her, but both women had to work. Alex had a trial to finish or not finish depending on what Petrovsky decided, and Casey was getting pulled through the ringer. It was her job to make it clear that Olivia took a clean shot and that should Adam survive, they would be ready to try him for murder in the first.

Now that the media was invested in the case, Cutter, McCoy, and Branch were all over everything.

"It's like being smothered by three idiots sharing the same set of balls."

Olivia laughed hoarsely. "I'll be here waiting for you."

Casey kissed her. "There's no reason for you to be cooped up here. We live in a big city."

Olivia shook her head. She planned on being lazy today. Eating cheerios with beer instead of milk, watching movies in her underwear and she could play games on Alex's laptop since the blonde couldn't bring it with her to court.

"I'll see you later." Alex had already gone. She wanted to get to her office early and make sure things were in order with her team before she went to face the wrath of the dragon.