Disclaimer: I do not own Law and Order: SVU
Author's Note: Thank you for checking out my new A/O one-shot series! As indicated in the description, this story takes place in the "Always You: Take 2" universe (for those of you who haven't read it, the fic is a rewrite and expansion of my original story, "Always You"). If you haven't read "Always You: Take 2," it may be useful in understanding where some of the characters and plots are coming from.
For this series, I'm really looking for your input! Either in the comments or through PM, let me know any one-shots you would like to see. They don't have to be full prompts or ideas – anything that'll give me some thoughts. I'm excited to collaborate more with those following the story.
So far I've received a couple of requests: a fic on Alex and Olivia's decision to have another child after their miscarriage/ more of a background on Sadie
I wanted to get this series up so I could start receiving suggestions for one-shots, so here is a short one to start us off!
- iamtheunknown15
Tropical Storm Hermine
Set in 2016: Olivia (48), Alex (42), Mia (7), Sadie (4), Noah (1)
Rating: M (all adult content has an in-text warning before it starts – most of the story is G)
Summer 2016 in Manhattan had been particularly humid. The air was thick and heavy, its sticky moisture enveloping your skin every time you walked outside. Trips to the park had proven unbearable unless they involved playing in the sprinklers, and the mugginess only seemed to intensify the subway's unique odor.
By the time summer was coming to a close, the start of school just around the corner, Olivia and Alex Cabot-Benson were desperate for some kind of relief from the steamy conditions. The sergeant, for one, had a job that involved too much running around to make the heat desirable, and the ADA – while indoors at work – had been bearing the brunt of the responsibility of bathing the couple's three sweaty, squirmy children after their days spent scuttling around outside at day camp and day care.
What neither woman anticipated, however, was the cataclysmic clash of a hot and cold front that occurred just before Labor Day, resulting in Tropical Storm Hermine. While the impact of the storm was proving to be less dramatic than anticipated, the family was spending the better part of the last few days before the start of the school year stuck inside due to thunderstorms.
Today was a particularly strong one, and Olivia felt she had all but been blown home from work by the wind. By the time she arrived home, her clothing was completely drenched in spite of the rain trench that she wore. Her blonde wife chuckled from the couch as she watched the brunette pad across the wooden floor in the living room, grimacing from the sensation of soaking wet socks. "Did you have to build a raft to get back," she joked.
"Not yet, although a pal like Huckleberry Finn would come in handy right now," the sergeant replied, taking a seat in the arm chair and peeling the sodden fabric off of her feet. "How was your day?"
"Not bad," Alex said, closing one of the manila folders in front of her. "Just finished up some prep for the Xavier trial."
Olivia quirked an eyebrow. "I'm surprised the kids let you get any work done," she stated with a chuckle. "Where is our motley crew anyway?"
"Mia and Sadie are helping Noah get ready for bedtime," Alex grinned, standing up and walking over to her wife to finally greet her with a kiss. "I'm surprised they didn't hear you come in…" Normally, when either the blonde or brunette arrived home from work, their brood bolted to meet them at the door.
"Probably couldn't over the thunder," Olivia suggested. "Wicked, wicked storm." As if on cue to her words, a large crackle of thunder banged followed by the lights in the family's brownstone flickering slightly.
"Mama!" Alex and Olivia heard their two daughters cry out. They headed down the hall to Noah's bedroom. Mia and Sadie were standing wide-eyed and frightened.
"Mommy, you're home!" Sadie shrieked, rushing into her brunette mother's arms.
"The lights were flickering," Mia explained nervously. "Mommy, Mama, are the lights going to out?"
"I'm not sure, Mia," Alex replied, walking over to scoop Noah off of the ground, where he was crawling with his onesie half undone. Snapping the rest of the buttons closed, she continued, "We'll have to just wait and see. But for now, how about you give Mommy a kiss hello and finish getting ready for bed."
The blonde girl pondered her mother's response for a moment, clearly skeptical, but ultimately complied. "Hi Mommy," she greeted Olivia, giving her a hug and kiss.
"Hey baby girl," the sergeant grinned. "How was camp today?"
"The cabin is gross when we can't go outside," Mia lamented, rolling her eyes. "But we made these," she said, holding out her wrists to reveal a stack of embroidery floss friendship bracelets.
"Very cool! Did you trade them?"
"Yep!" Mia explained excitedly, showing her mom which of her friends each of the bands was from.
"What about you, Miss Sadie," Olivia asked the younger girl, gently pulling the girl's hand away from her face to stop her from sucking her thumb – a habit she and Alex were trying to break the tiny brunette of.
"We drawded more pictures and painted rwocks. I show you?"
"Oh course, sweetheart!" Olivia replied excitedly. Just as they were about to head towards the kitchen where Sadie's projects were, however, there was a large bolt of lightning outside followed by complete darkness. Power outage.
Both Mia and Sadie let out blood-curdling screams, in turn startling their younger brother and spurring him to cry.
"Shh, shh it's okay, Noah," Alex soothed gently, rocking the toddler on her hip. She squinted to try to make out the location of her daughters and wife but the room was pitch black. Luckily, Olivia had her phone in her pocket and switched on the flashlight app. "Okay, girls, it's going to be alright," she comforted. "Can the two of you find your way over to me carefully while Mommy goes and gets more flashlights?"
"But if Mommy leawves it'll be dawrk again," Sadie whimpered, holding on to the brunette even more tightly. Alex sighed.
"Hey, guys, this isn't bad!" Olivia countered enthusiastically. "We can make a fun adventure out of it."
"An adventure," Mia asked skeptically.
Olivia nodded. "Yeah! How about we all camp out in the living room for now? We can light some candles and read some stories together and play cards…"
"Okay, Mommy," Sadie agreed cheerfully, becoming far less anxious by the outage.
"That does sound like fun…" Mia said with a smile.
"Great. Now, first things first, everyone needs to hold hands and follow me out to the living room," Olivia instructed, leading the troops down the hall. Once they got there, they tasked themselves with grabbing the pillows and blankets off of the couches and from a couple of storage baskets, creating a comfortable puddle in the middle of the floor. Meanwhile, Olivia grabbed a few spare flashlights, handing one to each of her daughters. As she went over to the kitchen to light some candles, she gave the girls another request. "Mia, can you please hold Noah while Mama and Sadie take one of the flashlights and get some books and games?" As the seven-year-old kept her brother occupied, the other Cabot-Bensons finished setting up their power outage campsite.
When all was said and done, Olivia took a step back and observed their set up: Alex and the kids were cuddled up against a pile of pillows, her wife with a story book in hand. The soft glow of candles and more stringent flash lights illuminated the room softly. Smiling, Olivia nestled next to Mia, scooping Noah on to her lap as Alex began to read. "Once upon a time…"
The power outage proved persistent. Before long, a very sleepy Noah had drifted off, and Olivia had taken him back to his room to rest in his crib for the night. The couple and their two older children, however, stayed up far past the girls' bedtimes, laughing and giggling as they read more stories, told jokes, and played "Old Maid." By some stroke of (un)luckiness, Olivia had gotten stuck with the Old Maid card each time, and her daughters were relentlessly amused by teasing her about her own age ("The Old Maid must know you is old like her!" Sadie had kidded, causing her older sister to cackle). Meanwhile, Alex had also let her daughter practice the braiding she was learning at camp on her silky blonde locks. While they were perhaps more like knots than braids, Mia was so proud of her handiwork that even Alex, in all of her perfectionism, couldn't mind that her hair was being tangled. Olivia couldn't help but smile – motherhood had certainly melted the "Ice Princess."
By about ten, however, even the very excited Cabot-Benson girls were beginning to grow tired. "Mommy," Sadie yawned while curling up against Alex, "When will the lights come back?"
"Probably by morning, Sade," said the older brunette.
"Will it still be rainy?" Mia asked.
"Actually, according to the forecast, it should be pretty sunny," Alex replied, after checking her iPhone.
"Yay!" Mia exclaimed with a wide grin. "We should go to bed now then or Sadie and I are going to be tired for swimming lessons." Quite pleased that their daughters seemed to be overcoming their fear of the dark, the couple led them back to their bedroom, tucking them both in and leaving them each with a flashlight should they need it. Using Olivia's phone light once more to navigate themselves back to the living room, the couple then straightened up the pillows and blankets and gathered up the candles.
Just as Alex was about to extinguish some of the last flames, however, Olivia stopped her. "Save those so we have something to get back to the bedroom with," she instructed.
Alex furrowed her brow. "Can't we just use our phones again?" she asked.
"Yeah, but that's far less romantic," Olivia replied with a sheepish grin.
The attorney quirked an eyebrow and gave her wife a coy smile. "Romantic? What exactly do you have in mind for the rest of the evening, sergeant?"
"You'll see, counselor."
Heading into the master bedroom, the couple placed the remaining candles on their nightstands. Olivia then turned and smiled at her wife, who looked comfortable and relaxed in a pair of light-weight jogger sweatpants and a tank top, her hair still mussed from their daughter's stylings. Candlelight danced on her pale skin, illuminating the slight flush it held from her anticipation. After all of these years, Alex looked even more beautiful than the first time Olivia saw her walk into the precinct.
Alex walked towards her wife, placing her hands on the brunette's hips. "I love you," she said with a soft smile, looking into the sergeant's deep brown eyes.
Olivia grinned. "I love you too." [M-rated content – innocent eyes beware]The older woman moved to press her lips against Alex's, capturing her in a long, sensuous kiss. Allowing her hands to roam her wife's lithe body, Olivia toyed with the hem of her white tank top before pulling in off, revealing the blonde's full breasts. After her pregnancies, they had changed in size, also loosing some of their natural perkiness, but Olivia had long since diffused all of Alex's insecurities, proving through her actions just how much she appreciated her wife's body. Bending down to take one of the firm, pink nipples into her mouth, Olivia groped the attorney's other breast as she teased her with her tongue. Alex let out a soft moan, tangling her fingers in the sergeant's dark brown hair.
When Olivia eventually lifted her head, the blonde tasked herself with unbuttoning her wife's shirt, quickly ridding her of the garment along with her black, lace-accented bra. Kissing a trail haphazardly down her wife's torso, Alex lowered herself to her knees. The attorney unfastened the brunette's slacks and slipped her pants and underwear down her legs so they pooled on the ground. Spreading the older woman's legs slightly, she drew her index finger slowly through Olivia's folds, moistening the digit and earning a groan from the sergeant. Smirking in satisfaction at her wife's response, Alex pressed her face against Olivia's vulva, placing a kiss on the neatly trimmed dark patch of curls covering it. She then slipped her tongue languidly across the woman's cunt.
She continued to pleasure her wife with her mouth until Olivia felt herself teetering on the edge. Stepping backwards, Olivia helped Alex to her feet before slipping the blonde's sweats and cotton thong off of her. As Alex kicked them aside, she gave her wife a hungry look. "I want you to fill me," she husked.
Inhaling sharply at Alex's request, Olivia smiled and opened one of the bedside drawers while Alex scooted on to the bed. Grabbing the double-ended dildo the couple had recently purchased, situating it within a leather harness. Alex leaned over, beckoning the brunette to come closer to the edge of the bed. Grabbing the long end of the dildo, the blonde helped guide the smaller end of the member into her wife's slit. Olivia let out a groan of approval before she completed adjusting the straps to the harness. When she finished, Alex looked up at her seductively. "How do you want me?"
"Get on your knees," Olivia rasped, watching in pleasure as her wife flipped over on the bed, positioning herself so her firm ass hung over the edge. Unable to control herself, Olivia bent over and placed a sharp love bite on one of the cheeks.
"Hey!" Alex said, looking over her shoulder, trying to hide her amused smirk.
Olivia gave her a mischievous look. "You know how much I love your ass," she defended.
"Yes, I see you checking it out in court all of the time," the blonde chuckled.
Olivia nodded. "And you also know, counselor, that sometimes when we're in court and I'm watching your ass, I'm thinking of how much I just want to bend you over the table right then and there…"
Leaving her wife with that visual, Olivia gently glided the dildo into Alex's vagina, pausing to make sure that the blonde was able to adjust.
"Please," Alex breathed, instinctually pressing backwards to guide the cock deeper into her.
That was the cue Olivia was waiting for. Wasting no time with teasing, Olivia picked up a steady pace of thrusting, feeling her own arousal rise from the combination of the pressure against her G-spot and the mewing sounds Alex was currently making as she drove into her. While their sex life was rather versatile – both women preferring to assume different roles in the bedroom at different times – there were some nights where Alex wanted nothing more than to give up all of her control, trusting her wife to fuck her however she liked. While it had taken Olivia some time to be able to trust herself in such a dominant role – her own deeply rooted fears about her genetics coming into play when the two first started experimenting more in bed – the brunette was far more comfortable now and enjoyed everything from teasing the attorney till she thought she would burst to fucking her fast and hard. Like now.
Olivia's hands gripped around Alex's hips as the blonde bounced back and forth, up and down the cock, both women's sighs of pleasure escalated into amorous moans as they both came closer and closer to climax. Soon unable to hold out much longer, Olivia finally angled the dildo just so, knowing it would rub against Alex's most sensitive spot. And it did – sending the blonde into a powerful orgasm, the brunette following in suit not long after. The two remained like that, collapse on top of the bed and one another, still connected by the toy, for several minutes as they recovered. After catching her breath, however, Olivia carefully pulled out of the blonde, who winced slightly at the sudden emptiness, before removing the rest of the harness and dildo and heading towards the master bedroom. While in the past, the couple tended to leave their "accessories" lying around until the next morning to clean up, a couple of close calls with their children taught them that it was better to be safe than sorry.
Once everything was cleaned up and put away, pajamas also put back on, both women curled up in bed together in a comfortable silence, Olivia resting her head on Alex's chest as the attorney ran her fingers through the brown tendrils. Olivia had just begun to doze off when she heard Alex's voice.
"Remind me to wish for a power outage more often."
Laughing, Olivia shook her head at her wife's comment before giving her one last kiss goodnight. Tangled up in their sheets and one another, smiles on their faces, the two finally succumbed to a peaceful sleep.