Chapter one – A walk in the park.

A/N: So this is my first ever fic. I really hope you like it. A few things your going to need to know first: In this fic Olivia is 27, Kathleen is 18. I envision Kathleen as Ashley Olsen. Visit my profile for the pictures.

On her rare days off Olivia Benson usually hung around the squad room of Manhattans Special Victims Unit trying to help out whilst avoiding Captain Cragen as he would no doubt give her an earful and send or home or she'd be trying to catch up on some much needed sleep. Usually in her lonely apartment or the squad's cribs, more often than not she skipped going home altogether and crashed on the tiny cots reserved for when the squad need to catch a few hours during hard cases. For Olivia it was a home away from home.

As fate would have it, today, Olivia felt the need to roam the city. It had been a while since Olivia had ventured out for anything except rushing to crime scenes or chasing suspects, but the streets were calling the young detective. So she bade farewell to her partner Elliot Stabler in favour of the polluted air of the streets of New York.

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Walking around central park Olivia was in a world of her own. Their last case had really gotten to her. Cases with children always did but somehow this one seemed to affect her more than usual. Maybe I'm just over tired she concluded.

If she had been paying attention she would have seen well in advance that her path was obstructed by an attractive young blonde. That however would mean she would never meet the intriguing young woman.

'Ouch' cried the young blonde that she almost knocked over.

'I'm so sorry, I really should pay more attention to where I'm going' Olivia apologised.

'No harm done' the blonde smiled as she saw how attractive the taller brunette was that stood in front of her, arms around her middle to stop her from toppling over. 'Really, it's okay. You can however keep your arms around me if you really want.' she winked.

Olivia blushed as she reluctantly removed her toned arms from the strikingly beautiful blonde in front of her. 'Oh . . . I'm sorry'.

'Don't be. I liked it.' The blonde smiled teasingly. 'You saved me from certain death . . .' she glanced down spotting a badge and gun, the tell tale signs that this was a cop '. . . detective'.

'How did you know I was a cop?' Olivia asked, her confusion written all over her face.

The young blonde looked down and Olivia followed the path of her oddly familiar blue eyes. 'I saw the Badge and gun when I was checking you out' the blonde smiled innocently.

'Oh . . . you were checking me out?' Olivia blushed.

'Yeah' she giggled, 'That okay . . . detective?' she asked with suggestion lacing her soft voice.

'Uh . . . um . . . y-yeah' the flustered detective stuttered. Beyond surprised that this young blonde woman found her attractive. Something weird was happening within the strong detective, a rush of feelings that she hadn't felt in a long time, not since Alex. She realised that she was attracted to this woman; the realisation hit her like a ton of bricks. She knew she and Alex were over long before witness protection but thought that maybe it was her feelings for Alex that stopped her from feeling anything for anyone else.

Had Olivia not finally accepted she was gay she would have run a mile, but she had long come to face that she preferred the fairer sex, only not that many people knew, not even her best friend and partner Elliot. Who always insisted on setting her up on blind dates with old marine buddies and other such men he thought she would like. And time and again she would go, reluctant to tell the catholic man that she was in fact gay and that she'd rather be set up with friends of his wife Kathy.

'Good' the blonde broke the comfortable silence that had fallen over them as Olivia had tried to come up with something intelligent to say knowing that the blonde had been blatantly checking her out and had forwardly admitted it to the now extremely blushing brunette detective. 'I was hoping you'd say that'.

Gosh, this woman is flirting with me, flirt back you fool Olivia berated herself.

'I um, I uh . . . I mean . . . who wouldn't be okay with a beautiful woman checking them out?' Olivia tried to flirt. Smooth, now she definitely thinks you're a fool.

The younger blonde woman smiled up at Olivia, silently thinking about how adorable the blushing woman was.

'Walk with me?' the blonde boldly declared, more of a statement than a request. Olivia was happy to oblige. She nodded her answer yes.

As the pair walked they not so slyly stole glances at each other, both a little surprised at the strong attraction that was gripping them. They walked around the park for the next 3 hours just talking and not so subtly flirting. They were sitting in the grass by a small lake, shoulders and thighs touching when Olivia received a phone call from the Captain requesting her presence at the precinct.

She smiled at her companion, and said that she was needed.

'Go save the world' the blonde announced.

Olivia was halfway to the precinct when she realised that she didn't even know the young woman's name, they both hadn't thought to ask. As she started to panic their conversation from a few hours back sprang to mind. The park! The young blonde disclosed how she often ventured there after a particularly hard lecture at Hudson University.

A/N: Please leave a review and let me know what you think. Oh and a huge shout out to abbierena who inspired me to write. You go girl!