Casual Meal

Watching her eat was always a pleasure. Liv didn't pick at her food unless she was upset. She didn't eat a salad and call that dinner or lunch. She gave her food the attention it deserved and brought her appetite. Of course he'd seen her workouts having ended up in the gym with her a few times and Olivia was a gorgeous package of muscle and curves. She ate healthy but she wasn't ridiculous about it.

Fin had caught her after work when she'd been finishing up her paperwork and leaned against her desk, "So, we're clear of the case." He observed. "You still up for dinner? Or have you come to your senses?" He grinned at her teasingly even as part of him held his breath waiting on her answer.

"You say when," Olivia smiled up at him. "Or were you thinking now while we don't have another case?"

"How about a casual dinner now, with an option for an actual date Saturday night if we agree this went well," Fin thought fast as he threw out the options. He wanted to really take her out, somewhere nice, somewhere she'd get to dress up. But right now...he wanted her company, wanted to watch her eat a good meal and drink a beer and relax with some conversation.

"Bella Maries?" Liv tilted her head, "Or did you feel like something else?"

"That sounds good actually," Fin smiled.

The impromptu date had gone well, well enough that Olivia had agreed to a formal Saturday night, he'd pick her up at her apartment date. Fin couldn't wait. He'd had to force himself not to kiss her after dinner, to drop her at home and not pin her against her front door. She'd looked a little confused when he'd walked her to her lobby and watched her get in the elevator. But at the end of dinner she had agreed to the Saturday date.

Now she was looking at him oddly and he tilted his head before he jerked it towards the hallway. Leaving the squadroom Fin only had to wait a moment or two before Liv joined him, "Livia, what's up?"

"I guess I'm a little confused," She murmured in her low voice. "What was last night about?"

"Uh, dinner, with the woman I wanna date?" Fin frowned, "Thought that was pretty clear."

"So it wasn't a date?" Liv looked at him and her pretty dark eyes were very confused.

"A date is when I ask, I pick you up, take you out, bring you home and kiss you good night," He shook his head. "Last night was enjoying your company so I could convince you to agree to a date."

"You don't have to convince me," Olivia shook her head. "You'd already asked me out and I said yes, remember? I thought last night was a date until..."

"Until when?" Fin frowned curiously.

"You didn't seem to want to kiss me good night," She shrugged. "I wondered if I'd just read your signals wrong."

Fin's eyes narrowed at her and he folded his arms thoughtfully, "You're pissed. Why exactly?"

"I'm not angry," Olivia denied. "I just-"

"You're just pissed as hell about something," The ex-Ranger said quietly. "And I'm the only one standing here. So is it because I want to actually date you? And that implies a relationship. Or are you pissed because I didn't kiss you last night and give you the chance to throw me out this morning."

"What are you-" Olivia didn't get very far with her question.

"I know about Cassidy. I know how you had a little fling with him and cut him off before you could get serious about him, and that he was dead serious about you Liv," Fin moved closer and backed her up against the wall next to the drink machines and out of sight. "Was that your plan with me? Take me to bed last night and throw me out in the morning? Cut off any chance of building something with you?"

"I agreed to a date," Liv told him flatly. "Why would I do that if I was planning on throwing you out?"

"Dunno," Fin shrugged and moved forward again, crowding her and noting that her eyes dilated and her breathing quickened when he did. "But I know you like this. You like me not letting you get away from me." He put his hands on her hips and stepped closer, pressing his body to hers, "I want you Liv. I know you can feel it, know that you want me. Don't you?"

"Yes," She nodded almost unwillingly.

"This is not an itch you're gonna be able to scratch and have it go away," Fin pressed his body to hers until his weight was pinning her to the wall, his lips under her ear. "I'm not going away. I'm not letting you run Livia. All that's gonna happen if you run is I'll chase you. I'm a Ranger baby. No one gets away from me Liv."

"How do you know that I want you for more than a night," Olivia tried to bluff but her pulse was pounding in her throat. Her voice had a low throaty quality that he'd heard when he watched her wake up.

"Because I know when a woman is looking at me Olivia," Fin let his lips close around her earlobe and sank his teeth gently into the soft flesh, hearing her shocked gasp. "And I've been watching you for a long time. You and I...we won't ever be done with each other."

"Why wait then?" She wanted to know. "Why not just take me to bed last night?"

"You wouldn't have let me do this then," Fin let his lips find her pulse point and rubbed his hips against hers. "You wouldn't have accepted it. I am not letting you go Liv. If I'd had you last night you woulda shrugged this off. You'd have written it off as good sex and ignored me afterwards." He slid a hand between their bodies and cupped her mound through her suit pants feeling the heat of her skin blazing through several layers of fabric. "But this...I haven't even kissed you but you're accepting my touch. You're letting me corner you. You're gonna belong to me Olivia. And there's not a thing you can do to stop it."

He rubbed the heel of his hand against her and felt the shudder that rolled outward over her skin from that point. Fin watched as Liv clenched her teeth on a moan that threatened to escape, "See Liv? You're not even pushing me away. You're not going to even think of running from me baby."

"Such a bad idea," Her whisper was throaty with lust even as she tried to argue.

"Good idea Liv," Fin brushed his lips over her jaw, finding her cheekbones, her eyes and her lips finally, teasing little kisses, nothing that would satisfy. "I won't ever hurt you, won't push you away. I promise I'll be everything you need. But you'll be mine Olivia. Better that you just agree now."

"You're talking like you want to own me," Olivia's voice was less breathy and more pissed and Fin shrugged against her.

"Its not ownership if I belong to you is it?" His mouth didn't want to leave that tender spot below her ear. "Get used to the idea Liv, you've got to decide before Saturday." Fin forced himself to pull back slightly so he could look her in the eye. "Because this won't just go away."

He kissed her hard on the mouth and let her, for a moment, feel everything he'd been holding back in all the time he'd known her. When Olivia was shivering under his mouth Fin finally let her go and backed up. "Saturday night, eight o'clock. I'll pick you up. Got reservations at Le Cirque."

"How did you-" Olivia bit off the question and shook her head as he tugged her out of the shadows and back to the sqadroom.

"Hey John has connections...so do I," Fin chuckled.

Authors' Note: So our Fin is getting a little dominant...which is how I like him for this. He's not going to let Liv push him away like she did Cassidy. So she's got until Saturday night to decide if she's going to sleep with him. What do you guys think?