There will be more added to this chapter eventually. I've been extremely busy with school and work! If anyone has feedback, I'd greatly appreciate it!
There were very few things that unsettled Olivia Benson. After all, she witnessed the worst society had to offer on a daily basis. Yet as she reclined on the couch of her darkened apartment, taking in the sounds of the heavy night rain tapping incessantly on her windowsills and the steady inhaling and exhaling of the woman asleep in her arms, she couldn't help but replay the events of earlier in her mind.
Never had she seen Alexandra Cabot reduced to the frightened, fragile woman who appeared at her door. Never before had Olivia wanted so much to absorb every ounce of pain and fear that had brought the woman she loved to her knees.
Olivia carefully pulled the blanket off of the back of the couch, and carefully draped it across the warm body that was currently entangled with her own. She gently tucked that blanket beneath Alex's chin, shifting slightly; being cautious not to wake her. She leaned back against the arm of the couch and began absentmindedly rubbing lazy circles across Alex's back.
The more Olivia thought about her pain, the firmer she held Alex. She began thinking about the tiny life that was now growing within Alex's abdomen, and how she would eventually lose the woman she loved, to a man who fathered her child. '…What had made Alex react this way? And why did she come to me?" Olivia pondered. A small flame had begun to grow within Olivia's subconscious; a pulling sadness, and anger that grew more and more deep-seeded. All she wanted to do was hold Alex; she wanted to be the strength that Alex needed. She wanted no one else to have her; she wanted to be the one to help raise this baby with Alex.
Suddenly, Olivia was snapped out of her irrational resolve as Alex stirred slightly in her sleep, nestling herself deeper into Olivia's embrace. A small grin spread across Olivia's face, and she placed a soft kiss upon Alex's forehead, taking in the familiar scent of her hair. Olivia nestled her face in Alex's neck and drifted off to sleep.
Olivia wanted answers, 'but that can wait till the morning,' she thought. Right now, she was right where she needed, and wanted to be.
