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Authors' note: This will be a series of moments in George and Elliot's life. :)
Coming out to the squad
George and Elliot sat in the squad room nervously. Elliot sat in his chair while George sat on his desk. They were ready to come out to Captain Cragen. They didn't want there to be a big fuss made about their relationship, so they'd decided to only tell Cragen and Olivia, and possibly Munch and Fin if the situation arose. They preffered to keep their private life as such.
They just hoped Cragen would be okay with it. There wasn't too much that could happen, but it was possible that George would be asked to profile for another unit. He'd already stopped treating Elliot and sent him to another psychologist- everyone had assumed it was because George and Elliot couldn't stand each other. No one had thought it was actually the opposite, that they had gone from hating each other to not being able to live without each other.
George and Elliot felt a little guilty that they were telling Don and Olivia before Kathy and Elliot's kids, but they had to tread more carefully with Elliot's kids. Kathy fit somewhere in between- he didn't want Kathy to hate them, but she had been the one to let Elliot go, and George wasn't going to pretend that Elliot hadn't moved on, even though the one he'd moved to was unusual.
Don called them into his office. Elliot and George walked in the office and sat down, close enough to let on that their relationship wasn't platonic but far enough not to be considered indecent.
"Don, Elliot and I have been... involved," George said delicately.
Don looked shocked. "But you two hate each other! You only started being civil to each other... oh..." He trailed off as realization dawned on him.
"Yeah, that would be when we got together. Well, a little after, because it took me so long to accept it," Elliot supplied.
"Well, I'll just get this out of the way. You two can both stay here; because George isn't a detective, I don't think there's any danger from you two working and living together," Don stated. George sighed in relief and Elliot gave a small smile.
"But, I'm just going to tell you two to be careful. If you interogate someone together and he attacks one of you, don't use excessive force, and so on." They nodded. They'd already had that talk earlier, right after they'd gotten together. George had been attacked in interogation; Elliot had been tempted to snap the suspect's neck. George had pointed out that Elliot shoudln't risk his career and Elliot had eventually agreed.
"That's all. Unless you had something else to say," Cragen said after a moment.
"We're good," They said. They walked into the squad room happily and sat back down at Elliot's desk. George set his feet in Elliot's lap.
"So do we come out to Olivia now, or later?" Elliot asked with a light note in his voice. George chuckled softly and looked around the room. Seeing that no one was watching them, he grasped Elliot's hand.
"I say we tell her now. I'm in the mood to get this into the open," George said.
"I know what mood you'll be in later," Elliot teased.
George rolled his eyes. "Really, Elliot, a cop shouldn't try to seduce his lover in a police station. Let alone the sex crimes one."
Elliot allowed mock hurt to cross his face. "I have to seduce you now? I thought you were attracted to me already," He said with a fake pout.
"You're hopeless," George chided with a grin on his face.
"You're the one who has to be 'seduced' and all," Elliot pointed out.
George let out an exasperated noise. "Okay, fine, you shouldn't try to turn your lover on while you're in a police station. Better?"
"Much better," Elliot replied with a smirk.
"Hey, I'm supposed to do the smirking," George protested.
"Not anymore," Elliot replied.
George swatted his arm. "You suck."
"I don't suck! And I can't believe you just said that. You're, what, 40 years old?"
"You're one to talk. And you do suck... but from what you said, it'll be in a different way tonight."
"Oh, what makes you think that?" Elliot asked with his eyebrows raised.
"Well, you owe me after just now," George reasoned.
"And if I don't?"
"There'll be dire consequences," George said with a falsely solemn voice.
"You love me."
"You're right," George said with a grin.
"And I love you," Elliot added.
Olivia walked up to them and sat down at her desk. She looked over at them and gave them an approving nod.
"Never would have suspected you, El, but I'm happy for you."
"Huh?" Elliot questioned in surprise.
"Don't worry, I just know because I overheard you two making plans the other day," Olivia assured them.
"Friends can make plans too," Elliot argued.
"But not at a fancy restaraunt."
"Alright, you got us," George laughed.
"How long?" Olivia asked.
"Half a year," George replied.
"Congrats to you both," Olivia said. She smiled and walked off.
"Now we just have to tell Kathy and the kids..." Elliot sighed.
"Don't remind me," George laughed.
"Want to tell them tonight?"
"No," George replied with a shake of his head.
"Why?" Elliot pressed.
"Because you still need to 'seduce' me later. And we can't do that with your kids there, you're a little too loud..."
Elliot rolled his eyes. "You're way louder than me."
"If you say so..." George teased. Elliot chuckled and squeezed George's hand.
"I love you."
"I love you too, Elliot," George sighed happily.