Just a short one, till the interesting bits come up!
The next morning at her desk Olivia was anxiously waiting for her letter. Dominic had told her that it should arrive but not to be disappointed if it didn't, air mail wasn't the most reliable way of sending letters overseas it was why he was desperately hoping to be able to contact her by phone more often than not.
At half ten everyone could see that Olivia was anxious. She was supposed to be doing paperwork or working on a cold case but she was sat staring into space and every few seconds swinging her chair around to check the entrance of the bullpen.
At five to eleven Olivia turned her chair to see their usual post-delivery arriving she jumped to her feet and knowing what was going on in her life Joseph Edwards handed her post to her first. Quickly she scanned through the items till she found the blue envelope also known as a bluey. A smile spread on her face and she ran up to the lounge taking two steps at a time not realising that all eyes in the bullpen was following her.
"What was that?" Fin asked in surprise.
"Olivia got her letter from Dominic." Elliot said having recognised the blue envelope.
"When's he home?" Fin asked.
"September twenty eight, I only know because Olivia's already booked it off and is counting down the days." Elliot chuckled, he had never seen Olivia behave like this before, truth was not even Olivia had seen herself behave in this manner before.
"Good, it feels like Liv's been taken over by some intergalactic…"
"Shut up!" Fin yelled at Munch while throwing a paper ball at the Sergeant's head.
"I'm just saying…"
"Shut up Munch." Elliot chuckled. "Liv's in love, leave her be, she's finding it tough enough not having Dominic around and not being able to pick up the phone and call him whenever she wants."
Upstairs Olivia was reading her letter for the third time.
Dear Olivia,
Hey baby, I hope you're well. Everything here is hot, the weather is hot, I'm sure I've lots ten pounds already just in sweat! I'm going to have a great tan coming back though, I'll make sure I have some time to take my top off and have a game of soccer with the lads so I don't have any embarrassing tan lines.
I'm going to be really busy out here, I know that for a fact. I'm off base for the first two weeks which means you won't have heard from me but I'll deliver this before I leave camp and call as soon as I arrive back and have been de-briefed.
I miss you like crazy! Even though for me writing this letter it's barely been twenty four hours since I last saw you. As soon as I stepped into that elevator I was missing you, I had this indescribable pain in my chest. I'm sure it was heartache.
Anyway baby not much to report seeing as I've not long been gone.
I love you always
Dom Xxx
She wiped away the tears from her eyes even though she wasn't really upset much, she was happy to hear him sounding happy, he had only been gone twenty four hours when he wrote this letter, he was still fresh off the plane which meant he hadn't began suffering the effects of the war when he wrote it, she just hoped he continued to sound as joyful in his letters.
Little did she know that across the world in a camp in Iraq Dominic had just received his first letter from Olivia. It was late at night there and he was on his cot with the curtain pulled shut for privacy. He gently opened the blue envelope and relaxed back against his pillow to read.
Dear Dominic,
Hey, well you've been gone just under twenty hours now and I am missing you like crazy, I hope you don't think I'm insane but seriously I didn't think I would miss you this much. It hurts, fucking hurts like being stabbed in the heart or something and you know me well enough to know I'm not a dramatic person.
Well I would bore you with the details of the past twenty hours but really it's depressing and I'd much rather make you smile so here goes, everyone at SVU thinks I've lost it, the plot that is, they really think I've gone completely insane but the only thing I've lost is you, my heart is I guess mourning but I know in three months you will be back or more precisely eighty nine days and counting, that's sad I know.
So weather here is good, I love New York in the summer, it's always so … so New York, I'm not really a fan of the cold though so I guess that has a lot to do with why I like the summer, but in saying that I only like the summer through June and July once August hits I pray for some rain and cloud!
Well that's all I have to say for now, until tomorrow.
All my love baby I miss you
Olivia xxx
He smiled and read through the letter again. He'd heard her crying when the lift door had closed but he had to ignore it, as hard and as painful as it had been he had to pretend he couldn't hear it and so he guessed that she wasn't going to let him know how bad things actually were for her, he was glad her letter was fun filled, it had been nice to have her rambling as if she was trying to fill the little space she had to write and it made him all the more excited to get the second letter.
"Ok?" Elliot asked as Olivia came back down the stairs and went to her desk.
"Yeah." She smiled.
"How is he?" Elliot asked in a friendly manner.
"He's good, says it's hot and he's guessing he lost ten pounds in the first twenty four hours because of the heat and he's going to try and play soccer without his shirt so he can get a good tan so remind me to remind him of sunscreen." She chuckled and Elliot smiled, since she'd spoken with him on the phone and now had a letter she seemed to be taking having Dominic out at war much more in her stride, probably because she knew he was going to be in the camp for a couple of weeks.
"Sunscreen, gotch." He smiled and she grinned happily and turned back to her computer to get on with her paperwork after pinning her letter up on her computer with some tack.
