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Author's Note: Just to be clear, the Noah in this story is NOT the Noah from the end of season 15 of SVU. I probably should've picked a different name, but I didn't realize until it was too late (although I did take a jab at the whole scenario). We're somewhere in 2011, so none of the Lewis stuff has happened or will happen. I wasn't really a fan of that whole storyline, and I didn't watch the S14 finale at all (the only SVU episodes I haven't seen multiple times) because I thought it would freak me out too much.
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"Auntie Alex! Auntie 'Livia!"
Alex groaned as she woke up to the sound of her niece calling her name and running into the room.
"Auntie Alex! Wake up! Why are you still sleeping? How come you have no clothes on?"
Alex's eyes flew open and she pushed herself slightly up off of Olivia, enough to look around and come face to face with her niece, Lexie, standing above her looking confused. She reached back and felt the blanket Olivia had thankfully draped over them before they fell asleep.
She turned bright red when she realized what was happening. "Lexie, sweetie, can you go into the other room so I can get up and go upstairs to get dressed?"
Lexie bounded off into the other room. "Daddy, Auntie Alex was sleeping and she needs to put some clothes on!"
Alex pulled the blanket up and shook Olivia. "Liv, wake up. We overslept and they're here. We need to go get dressed."
Olivia wrapped her arms around Alex and leaned up for a kiss. "I don't wanna get up," she whined.
"Liv, stop. If Lexie comes back and we still don't have clothes on…" she stood up, wrapping the blanket around her and picking up her discarded clothes off the floor.
"Hey! What about me?" Olivia cried, her eyes wide open.
"I guess you'll have to run upstairs really fast so nobody sees you naked," Alex smirked, darting up the stairs.
She closed the door behind her and picked up her jeans and sweater from the day before, and brought them into the bathroom so she could rinse off before getting dressed. Olivia slipped in behind her and wrapped her arms around her.
"Good morning, sweetie," Olivia said, kissing her neck.
Alex turned around in her arms and kissed her. "Good morning, Liv," she said, "We overslept. A lot."
Olivia giggled. "We did." She tucked Alex's hair behind her ear. "How are you feeling?" she whispered.
"Amazing," Alex answered, burying her face in Olivia's neck. "It was… Liv, it was incredible. I felt so… just… wow."
Olivia smiled. "It was 'so just wow' for me, too, Lex," she whispered. "I love you so much."
"How come you didn't let me… I wanted us to do it together."
"I know you did, sweetheart, and I promise, I want you to. But that took a lot out of both of us, so I thought we should sleep. Tonight, though, maybe?" Olivia asked, a twinkle in her eye.
Alex smiled. "I hope so." She reached over to turn on the water. "We need to rinse off before we get dressed. We smell like sex."
"Fortunately I don't think Lexie knows what sex smells like," Olivia said drily. "Can I join you?"
"Only if you promise no funny business. She's already seen us naked. I don't want her coming up here looking for us and hearing us."
Olivia pressed her body up against Alex's and held her tight, running a finger up and down her spine. "Then maybe you'll have to be quiet," she whispered, and Alex shivered.
"Liv…"
"Shh, baby," Olivia hushed as she pressed Alex's back up against the cool tile. "Look how wet you are already." She began kissing her way down Alex's body until her hands were on her hips and her mouth was right where she wanted it. She looked up at Alex for permission, and her eyes widened, but she didn't say no.
Olivia pushed Alex's legs apart slightly and knelt between them. "Hold on tight, sweetie," she encouraged. After a few broad swipes of her tongue, she latched on, sucking and flicking as a litany of curse words alternating with some 'oh, Gods' escaped Alex's mouth. When she had drawn out Alex's orgasm as long as possible, she stood again to hold and kiss Alex until she had recovered. Then, she took a washcloth, gently rinsing their bodies and cleaning the sex off of their most intimate parts, and turned off the water, wrapping a fluffy towel around Alex and kissing her gently.
"That is my new favorite thing to do," Olivia said, stepping out of the tub.
"Bill's going to know we just had sex!" Alex whispered, pulling on her panties and jeans.
"So?" Olivia asked. "He already knows Lexie found us naked on the couch, and I'm pretty sure he knows we have sex, so…"
Alex turned bright red. "Well, sure, he knows in theory, but do we really have to give him evidence?"
Olivia chuckled. "Do you want me to go down first?"
"No, I'll go down. Turn on the shower again for a few minutes so maybe he won't think we just showered together."
Olivia rolled her eyes and pulled her in for a kiss. "Whatever you say, sweetie. I love you."
"I love you too, Liv."
Alex walked downstairs nonchalantly to the kitchen, where Bill and Lexie were sitting at the kitchen counter eating chocolate chip muffins. She willed herself not to turn pink as she went over to the coffeemaker and poured herself a cup.
"Good morning," she said, pulling a muffin out of the bag.
"Morning, Auntie Alex," Lexie said with her mouth full.
"Manners, Lex," Bill admonished gently.
Lexie swallowed and rolled her eyes. "Good morning, Auntie Alex. How come you and Auntie 'Livia didn't have any clothes on this morning?"
"Yes, Auntie Alex, tell us. Why didn't you and Auntie Olivia have clothes on this morning?" Bill teased.
Alex took a sip of her coffee. "I, uh, we made a fire last night and we got too hot. And somebody wasn't supposed to come until after 11. And since it is now only 11:05, you clearly showed up at least 20 minutes early."
"I called to say we'd caught an earlier ferry, and I stopped for donuts and muffins on the way. And if we had showed up on time, would you have been showered and dressed?" Bill asked, teasing. Alex didn't answer. "Yeah, I thought so."
"Where are Michelle and Andrew?" Alex asked.
"Michelle ended up having to work. The hospital has a nursing shortage, and she drew the short straw this week. And Andrew heard that some people had no clothes on, so he decided to take his off, and he's playing in the other room. He's starting to potty train and I guess two is the age when he wants to be naked all the time and he's obsessed with his penis."
"Is there an age when men aren't obsessed with their penises?" Olivia asked, taking the cup of coffee Alex poured for her.
Bill looked thoughtful for a moment. "Nope. I don't think there is."
Olivia chuckled and kissed Lexie on the top of her head, and went to hug Bill. "Good morning, guys. It's good to see you."
"Lexie, why don't you give Olivia your seat and go get your new glasses to show Auntie Alex?" Bill suggested, and she jumped down from the stool and ran off. "She was very upset that she had to wear glasses until we found these," he explained.
Lexie came back in wearing a pair of black rimmed glasses identical to Alex's, brushing her long blonde hair out of her face. "Look Auntie Alex! They're just like yours!"
"They are just like mine," Alex said. "Where'd you get these?"
"Daddy helped me pick them out so I could look like you, 'cause you're the prettiest person I know. Even prettier than Mommy," she whispered.
"She's the prettiest person I know, too," Olivia said, smiling at Alex. "And you look beautiful, just like her."
Lexie put her hands on her hips and looked over her glasses at Olivia, and then to a blushing Alex. "Were you having sex?" she asked.
Alex choked on her coffee and turned pink. "Excuse me?"
"Were. You. Having. Sex?" Lexie asked again, emphasizing each word.
"You're 7. What do you know about sex?" Alex asked, deflecting the question. She glared at Bill, who was trying to look serious but smirking into his coffee mug.
"First of all, I'm seven and a third, and I know that sex is something you do without clothes on."
"Well, Miss I'm-seven-and-a-third, that's not really a question you ask people. It's not polite," Alex said. "And you saw what we were doing. We were sleeping."
Lexie rolled her eyes. "I know you were sleeping. I meant before. You told me I could ask you anything and you would always tell me the truth." She looked at Alex pointedly, pouting slightly.
"Do you think it's the glasses?" Olivia whispered loudly to Bill. "I swear they're exactly alike. She's not going to let it go."
"You're not helping, Liv," Alex said, glaring at her.
"Auntie Alex," Lexie admonished. "It's not a hard question."
Alex groaned as she picked Lexie up and sat her on the counter in front of her. "No, but it's not one I anticipated when I made that promise." She sighed. "At least not for another six years or so."
"Always looking for a loophole," Olivia smiled.
"Yes, before we went to sleep, we had sex," Alex said, blushing again. "That's why we had no clothes on this morning."
"See? That wasn't so hard," Lexie said.
"Lexie, don't be rude," Bill said.
Just then, Andrew ran into the kitchen, completely naked, holding his penis. "Daddy, I gotta go pee," he cried, and Bill scooped him up and ran towards the bathroom.
"Boys," Lexie said, rolling her eyes.
"Lexie, sex is something private. You shouldn't go around asking people if they've had sex or who they've had sex with, okay?" Alex said.
"Okay," Lexie replied, putting her arms around Alex's neck.
"Want to go take a walk on the beach?" Alex asked. Lexie nodded. "You want to come, Liv?"
Olivia shook her head. "You two go ahead. I think you have some catching up to do with your Mini-Me."
She grabbed a book out of her bag and sat on the porch swing, watching Alex and Lexie walk towards the water, holding hands.
"Auntie Alex?" Lexie said, swinging their hands together.
"Yeah, sweetie?"
"What is sex?"
"I thought you knew all about sex," Alex said.
"I just know it's something you do without clothes. But I don't know what it actually is."
"Well, it's just when two grownups touch each other's private parts to make each other feel nice."
"That's it?" Lexie asked. "What's the big deal, then?"
"It's just private, that's all, because people have sex with no clothes on. And it's something that just grownups do when they're in a relationship." Alex bent down to roll up the bottoms of their pants. "You know that nobody is supposed to touch your private parts until you're a grownup and you say it's okay, right? Or unless it's a doctor and your mom or dad is there?"
Lexie nodded.
"Okay. It's my job, and Auntie Olivia's job, to put bad guys in jail if they touch little girls and hurt them, okay? So if someone touches you and tells you to keep it a secret, do you know what to do?"
"Tell you or Auntie Olivia?"
Alex nodded. "Yup. Even if it's a teacher, or another kid, or one of your relatives… no matter who it is, nobody has the right to touch your private parts. You can tell your mom, or your dad, or me, or Auntie Olivia, and we'll help you, okay? I promise you won't ever get in trouble, even if the other person says you will. It's never your fault if someone touches you when you don't want them to. And you shouldn't touch anybody else's private parts unless they say it's okay. Even when you're a grownup. I sent someone to jail because he touched my private parts when I told him not to."
"You did?"
Alex nodded. "It's always wrong for someone to touch you if you don't want them to, or for them to make you touch them if you don't want to. And it's never your fault, even if you say no and they don't stop, or if you try to get away and you can't. They're wrong, not you."
"Okay."
"Do you know the names of your private parts?"
"Mommy calls it a vajayjay," Lexie said.
Alex rolled her eyes. "I'm going to tell you the real names, okay? It's very important that you know what everything is called." Lexie nodded. "Do you know what you call the front, where your pee comes out?"
"A peepee?"
"Urethra," Alex said. "Can you say that?" Lexie repeated it. "And what about the back, where poop comes out?"
Lexie shook her head.
"Anus," Alex said, blushing again. "Just remember the planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto."
"Pluto's not a planet, silly!"
"Really? It was when I was a kid! Can you say that?"
"Anus," Lexie repeated, giggling. "Like Uranus."
"Good. And what about the middle?"
"That's what Mommy said a vajayjay was."
"Okay. The outside is called a vulva and the inside is called a vagina. Can you say that?"
She repeated the words. "That's where a baby comes out, right?"
Alex nodded. "Yes, a baby grows inside the uterus in a woman's body, and comes out of her vagina."
"But how does it get in there?"
"Well, every woman has eggs inside her from the time she's born. You already have some inside you that could grow into babies some day. And when she wants to have a baby, she can have sex with a man, and his penis puts lots and lots of sperm into her vagina. They look like little tiny fishes, and they swim and try to find an egg, and if they do, it makes a baby. That's why people wait to have sex until they're grown up, so they can take care of a baby or so they know how to not have one. And because their bodies can't make babies when they're young."
"Oh." Lexie paused for a moment, looking concerned. "Is that why you have Auntie 'Livia instead of a boyfriend? Because you don't want him to make his fishes swim inside you?"
Alex burst out laughing. "Sweetie, I'm with Auntie Olivia because I love her and she loves me. And sperm are so small you can't see them. They're not actually like fishes."
"Oh," Lexie said, looking visibly relieved. "Good, 'cause that'd be gross."
"It would," Alex agreed. Not that she'd ever been partial to semen, either. She held out her hands with some flat stones she had picked up as they walked. "Do you want to try skipping rocks? Let's see who can get the most." She tossed one out in between two waves and watched it bounce across the water. "Five!" she said. "Can you beat that?"
Lexie giggled and tossed a few, getting three, then two.
"Good!" Alex said.
"Auntie Alex?" Lexie asked, skipping another rock. "Will I get in trouble if I touch my own private parts? Sometimes it feels nice when I touch my…" she thought for a second "…urethra."
"Clitoris," Alex corrected, blushing. "The part that feels nice when you touch it is your clitoris. Of course you won't get in trouble for touching your own body, as long as you do it in private - in your room, or in the bathroom - and you wash your hands afterwards. Your body belongs to you. And I never want you to be embarrassed or be afraid to ask me questions, about your body or about sex, okay?"
Lexie nodded. "Okay."
When the flat stones were gone, they started walking back, hand in hand, Alex pointing out pieces of colored seaglass hidden in the rocks for Lexie to collect.
"Auntie Alex?" Lexie asked, leaning her head against Alex's arm as they approached the house. "I miss baby Noah."
Alex teared up and squeezed Lexie's hand. "Me too, sweetie."
"How come he had to go away?"
Alex stopped and sat down on the sand, and Lexie crawled into her lap and put her arms around her neck. "Sometimes, when children don't have mommies or daddies, or if they have mommies and daddies who can't take care of them, other people adopt them and raise them as their own kids," Alex explained. "Before Noah was born, his mommy thought she wasn't going to be able to take care of him, so she decided to give him to us so he could be our baby."
"What happened to Noah's mommy?"
"Nothing happened to her. She was just too young to have a baby and didn't think she had enough money to take care of him. But whenever a baby is adopted, the law says that the real mommy and daddy have 90 days to change their minds, in case they make a mistake. And Noah's mommy decided that she'd made a mistake and that she wanted him to be her baby again, so she took him back to live with her."
"Oh." Lexie leaned her head against Alex's shoulder. "Do you think he's happy?"
"I hope so, babe." Alex said. "Auntie Olivia and I were very sad when he had to go away. But I hope his mommy is taking good care of him."
"Are you and Auntie 'Livia going to get another baby?" Lexie asked.
"We want to, but I don't know if we can." Alex answered. "It's not easy to adopt a baby. And so far we haven't been able to have our own baby."
"How come?"
"I don't know." Alex said. "I had a baby in my tummy, but she stopped growing. And the doctor said she didn't think I'd be able to have one."
"Are you sad?"
"That we don't know if we can have a baby? Yeah, we are. We're both very sad."
"How did you get a baby inside you since Auntie 'Livia's a girl, too? Did she have any fishes?"
"We went to the doctor, and she helped us get sperm from a man who wanted to help another couple have a baby."
"Can I come and be your baby, and leave Andrew with Mommy and Daddy?"
Alex laughed. "Don't you think your mommy and daddy will miss you if you come live with me?"
Lexie shrugged. "They can keep Andrew. And then you and Auntie 'Livia won't be lonely." She sniffled and snuggled into Alex. "I love you. I don't want you to be sad."
"Oh, sweetie," Alex soothed, rubbing her back as she started to cry. "It's okay for us to be sad sometimes. We know we won't be sad forever, even if we don't get to have a baby. Because we love each other, and we love you, and we have family and friends that we love very much. And we're very lucky to have so many people we care about."
"Can I come live with you, though?"
"How about you can come visit whenever you want?" Alex said, kissing the top of her head. "And if we do get to have a baby, you can help us take care of it?"
"Okay," she sniffled. Alex grimaced a bit as she wiped her nose on her shoulder.
"Why don't we go make some lunch, and then maybe we can take a walk in town and try to find some ice cream?" Alex asked, standing up and taking Lexie's hand.
"Yeah!" Lexie shouted. "Race you!" she cried, running towards the house.
Alex ran to catch up and got ahead of her, only to pull back and let her win at the last minute.
"I win! You lose!" she stuck out her tongue. "I'm the fastest."
Alex laughed. "Only because I'm getting too old for this," she said.
"Loves to be first, just like her auntie," Olivia commented from the porch swing where she was sitting with her sketchbook. "She is exactly like you. It's actually scary."
"You know I let her win, right?" Alex said, sitting down and giving her a kiss.
"Sure you did, sweetie." Alex stuck out her tongue. "See? My point exactly."
Alex leaned her head on Olivia's shoulder and caught a glimpse of the sketch she was working on. "Can I see?" she asked, leaning over.
Olivia flipped the page and held it over, to show her one of Alex and Lexie walking along the beach skipping rocks, and another of them sitting on the sand in front of the house.
"Beautiful," she said.
"I had good subject matter," Olivia replied, brushing the hair out of Alex's face.
"I'm going to make some lunch, then I told Lexie we would take a walk to get some ice cream," Alex said, getting up from the swing.
"I'll come help you in a minute," Olivia said, closing her sketchbook.
Alex went inside and began taking the cold cuts and salad stuff out of the fridge.
"Uh, Alex?" Bill asked, carrying a dressed Andrew into the kitchen. "Why is Lexie asking me if she was made from an egg and fishes?"
"You're welcome," Alex replied. She pointed at Andrew. "They need to know the proper terms for their anatomy. Not 'weewee' and 'vajayjay.' 'Penis,' 'vagina,' 'urethra,' 'anus.' If, God forbid, anyone were to ever do anything to them, they would have to be able to say exactly who touched what how. I've had cases thrown out of court when I know the guy did it, and he knows he did it, and the defense attorney knows he did it, and he argues to a judge that the girl was coached because she didn't know the right words to describe what happened to her."
"Okay," Bill said. "So where do the fishes come in, exactly?"
"Lexie was asking me about sex, and I asked her if she knew what all her private parts were called. I told her, then she asked if babies came out of vaginas, and it sort of spiraled from there. So now she knows what sex is and where babies come from and what all of her parts are called. I may have said that sperm swam like tiny fishes to the egg, which I think freaked her out a little."
"As well it should," Olivia said. "She's probably imagining like goldfish or something."
"I said they were really tiny!" Alex protested.
"Minnows, then. Still gross."
Alex wrinkled her nose. "I'd like to see you do better when you're put on the spot. I thought maybe I'd get a game or two of Pretty Pretty Princess and maybe a lecture on Rapunzel or something. This was way more than I bargained for."
"Well, I'm sure Michelle will be glad to know she's off the hook," Bill said.
"Just make sure she doesn't use made-up words when she does talk about it," Alex insisted. "I told Lexie she can talk to me any time she wants and ask me any questions she wants, but she needs to be able to talk to her parents, too." Alex finished the sandwich and called Lexie in to eat.
Olivia wrapped her arms around Alex from behind and kissed her neck. "You two are so adorable together," she said.
"Well, Lexie told me we could adopt her if we want," Alex said. "But I told her that her parents would miss her too much."
"That was very generous of her." Olivia laughed. "So what did she think sex was, exactly? Why did she ask you if she didn't know?"
"She just knew it was something people did without clothes. I couldn't exactly give her the explanation I got growing up, since it doesn't exactly apply to our situation, so I told her that it was when grownups touched each other's private parts, and then we got into anatomy, and then we got into the baby making aspect, and I told her that nobody should touch her private parts until she was older…"
"You got played."
"I what?" Alex asked.
"You got played. She wanted to know what sex was, so she accused you of having it, and then took advantage of you while you were just a little bit embarrassed so she could manipulate you into telling her what she wanted to know. You got played by a 7 year old. Sorry, a 7-and-a-third-year-old." Olivia smirked at her.
Alex opened her mouth to protest, and closed it again, going over the beginning of the conversation in her head. Olivia was right.
"I hate you," she said, sticking out her tongue.
Olivia chuckled. "No you don't. You hate that you got outsmarted by a kid, just because she's cute and she knows you love her to pieces."
Alex shrugged. "Well, I didn't tell her anything she wouldn't need to know eventually anyway. It is important that she knows her anatomy and what to do if someone hurts her."
Olivia nodded and leaned over to kiss Alex on the cheek. "And she'll make one hell of a lawyer someday."
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