A/N: WOW! This chapter is the longest one I've written ! Almost 3000 words! YAY! I Hope you like it!

By the way, I've never said it before and I don't know if it'll be significant for the story or not, but Olivia's hair is like Mariska's before SVU, you know, her natural color and long and straight... As gorgeous as the word can describe.

On Saturday, Olivia woke up early; her inner clock was keeping the Police Academy schedule. She stretched her body and glanced to her watch placed over the black night table. 5:12 AM.

She put her face between both of her palms and yawned. The guard attempted unsuccessfully to regain her dream and after fifteen minutes she gave up. Olivia grabbed the clean clothes she had been provided of the night before and headed to where Alex had told her the bathroom was.

Silently, Liv crossed the hallway without waking up any of the Cabot children. She opened the white door and got inside the room.

Olivia neared the grey sink of marble and, after checking if it was dry, she positioned the garments. The white and light blue patterned tiles decorated the bathroom walls matching towels were located near the bath and sink.

The 24-year-old woman let the water ran and heat while she undressed herself. She got in the shower and felt the hot liquid smashing into her back. Olivia massaged her nape and closed her eyes enjoying the feeling of water running down her body. After a couple of minutes, she left the shower; dried herself and got dressed with the clean outfit she had been supplied.

When she was finished, Olivia looked up to her watch one more time. Fifteen to six. She growled at the sight, it was still pretty early to find someone else up… She decided that the best she could do in that situation, was her job. So, Olivia, walked out of the bathroom, took her dirty clothes back to where she had slept and stood up in front of Alex's bedroom door until the blonde would leave the room a few hours later.

Alex heard the noise of her alarm clock activated and woke up. She rubbed her closed eyes and reached to press the turn-off button. Her hand rested over the wooden nightstand as she begun to be truly awake.

Her feet were laid on the floor as she stretched her arms and shoulders to the sky. Rubbing her eyes one more time and with a small yawn, she checked the hour on the clock. 9.01 AM. Well, it wasn't that early.

Alex stood up and headed to her bathroom. She spent less than twenty minutes in the there and when she was correctly dressed up and showered, she put her cellphone on the back pocket of her jeans and walked out of her bedroom.

Alex placed her hand on the door's knob and opened it, or attempted to do so. The door hit Olivia on her back and surprised the blonde.

"What are you doing standing there?" She exclaimed. "Did you spend the whole night here? You didn't catch any sleep didn't you? Olivia there are guards all over the mansion, this is not necessary." Alex spoke faster than the brunette's ears could hear.

"Alex, I didn't. I got some sleep, I woke up a few hours ago, showered and then I came here. It's my job to be here, please, let me do it how I think is the best way to." Olivia explained herself calmed and softly.

The blonde sighed with her head down and looked back to the other woman. "You're right. I'm sorry. I just didn't expect you to be right behind my door."

Olivia nodded. "It's okay. Let's go, you need to refill your energies, young lady."

"You call me like that again and you're SO fired." Alex joked as she followed Olivia.

The brunette smirked. "Okay, baby love." She said quietly.

"Olivia!" Alex cried and playfully hit the older woman near her shoulder.

Liv turned her head to see where the blonde had punched her. "Oh, that was fierce." She laughed. "I need to teach you how to hit someone."

Alex shook her head. "Oh no, no way. That's what you are here for, isn't it? So I won't need to get karate lessons." Both laughed and headed to the kitchen.

Irene saw the woman arriving and smiled as she admired the smiles on their faces. She was glad Alex had found something positive in this bodyguard experience.

"Good Morning, Ladies." The elder Cabot greeted and Olivia and Alex replied grinning.

Alex rounded the island and neared to kiss her mother's cheek sweetly as she smelled the scent of their breakfast being cooked. "Yesss! I love pancakes!" She said lost in the aroma."Thank you, thank you, thank you!" Alex placed another noisy kiss on Irene's cheek and hugged the woman from behind.

"Someone finally woke up with good humor." The mother noticed and Alex, still enfolding her hips, looked up to Olivia and spoke.

"Well, not every day you go out of your room and find a very handsome guard assuring that nobody with mean deeds gets near you." She smirked.

Irene was a little shocked at her daughter's commentary, but she quickly recomposed and directed her gaze to the brunette before talking. "Olivia, I'm more than glad to hear that you take your job seriously and my daughter is safe with you around. But your services are not required inside this house. There are plenty guards all over the perimeter and abundant others indoors too. I asked you and your co-workers to stay for the weekend so we could get you know you all and truly trust each one of you with our lives, but again, to stand outside Alex's door all night it's not even near to be a need" Irene stated firmly.

"Of course, Mrs. Cabot. It won't happen again." Olivia said and silently cursed herself for messing up on her second day on the job. After she spoke, and out of nothing, Irene laughed and Alex released her.

"Oh, sweetheart!" She couldn't stop the expression of amusement. "Did you think I was mad at you or something? Because your face filled with panic… that was priceless." Olivia looked at the woman confused. "I'm sorry, I didn't want it to sound like you're about to be fired. I was just saying that you don't need to be on duty inside these walls. We want every member of the staff to be like part of the family. Make yourself at home every time you happen to be here, please, if it wasn't for you Alex wouldn't have accepted any guard, so I kinda own you." She explained herself and continued making breakfast. "Alex, dear, go wake up your sister and tell your father and brother to stop playing another heinous and bloody PlayStation game and come here to have breakfast."

"Sure." Alex smiled and did as she was asked.

Around an hour later, everyone had had breakfast together and was waiting at the living room for the rest of the guards to arrive. Amy had ordered to sit on Olivia's lap and the little blonde was enthusiastically chatting with the brunette when the majordomo opened the door and let the three chosen guards in.

Everyone stood up and Thomas was the first to shake the men's hands. "Pleasure to meet you gentlemen; I'm sure you'll do an excellent job. "

Elliot, Odafin and Brian greeted him back and immediately Thomas motioned everyone to head off the room and go to enjoy the enormous garden the mansion provided.

The married couple walked out first with the children following behind. Alex made her way with a slower pace when she noticed Olivia staying in the room with her new coworkers instead of leaving.

"Well, you look just like in college, Benson." Brian Cassidy approached and greeted the woman he had met years ago and hadn't seen since then. "What the hell are you doing here?" He asked.

"Nice seeing you too, Cassidy." She smirked and explained. "I'm Alex's guard. "

"Oh, yeah. Cragen told me about you… Olivia, right?" A tall man came near. "Elliot Stabler, I'm Irene's guard."

Benson shook Stabler's hand and looked to the leaving guard. "You must be Caleb's. He said his guard had a cool name and no offense guys, but I don't think yours are what he would describe as 'super weirdly cool'" She joked. Alex giggled as she foolishly stared at the scene, more like the brunette, from her place a few feet away.

"Odafin Tutuola, but call me Fin." He said and shook the woman's hand before resuming his path to the Cabot garden. The other guards followed and Alex unconsciously went as near as Olivia as she could.

Though it was winter, the garden had a heated area, with enough comfortable chairs, garden armchairs and loveseats for everyone. When the group of five arrived, Thomas and Irene where shearing a loveseat, Caleb had made himself comfortable in a garden armchair and Amy had took another, feeling small in the big seat.

As soon as the youngest Cabot saw her guard, she started yelling for his attention. "Prince Briaaaaaan! I've missed you! Please share my seat!" She said her final phrase with the most elegant voice she could found.

Everyone laughed as the young man approached to where the little girl was. Meanwhile, Elliot and Fin sat on two chairs near the door as they saw how Alex went straight to the loveseat opposite to her parents' one. Olivia made her way to sat besides the young woman and as she laid herself on it, she spoke to Amy.

"What about Prince Benson? You are going to forget about me now that you've got Prince Brian?" She said pretending sadness and hurt.

"I will still have tea with you, Prince Benson; I really enjoy your company." Everyone laughed at the way the girl attempted a British accent. "But I'm with Prince Brian right now. I am sure Princess Lexi will be glad to share your throne."

Alex and Olivia blushed, the first one more significantly than the other. Luckily for them, the older woman rapidly thought a way of making the tension disappear.

"Oh, Princess Amy! Are you sure?" Olivia exclaimed dramatically and the small girl giggled and nodded at the same time. Immediately after she did so, the brunette turned around to Alex. "Princess Lexi, would you accept to share my throne and reign this kingdom by my side?" She asked playfully but Olivia soon discovered that her plan of reducing the tension was doing the exact same opposite.

Before Alex could answer, Amy protested. "Waiiit!" The present ones looked at the girl. "You need to give her a ring!" She said.

"Oh, right." Olivia replied and quickly grabbed an unused Kleenex she kept inside her jacket's pocket. She cut the paper handkerchief with her hands and rolled it up, merging the corners and placing the just-made paper ring in front of Alex. She glanced at Amy grinning before resuming her 'proposal'.

"Dear Princess Lexi, would you be my queen?" Olivia asked sweetly.

Alex almost melted but hided it with a soft smile. "I would be honored Prince Benson." Olivia put the ring on the pale finger and lightly kissed the teenager's hand back. Alex felt her face going redder and silently cursed the woman besides her for making the blonde crush on her.

"That's not how it works!" Amy said loudly with her tiny voice. "You gotta kiss her on the lips!" She explained how the scene played on the fairy tales.

Irene easily took charge of the conversation. "Okay, small princess, I think it's been enough role playing games for today." She told her daughter.

"Yeah, I'm a bit tired of watching them play alone, why don't you show me your castle, Princess Amy?" Brian offered to her, trying to help Irene distracting the little girl.

Amy screamed of emotions and with Brian by her hand, she ran inside the house again.

The rest of the group resumed the talking and stayed on the heated zone for around two hours. After it, every Cabot member left to spend some quality time with their own guards and Thomas joined his wife and Elliot.

Alex and Olivia went straight to the younger woman's bedroom, where Alex threw herself on the king size bed and made space so Olivia would sit there too.

The blonde examined her guard. She stared at the brunette for a few minutes until Olivia turned her head and smiled at her. Alex smiled back and asked the first question that came to her mind. "So, liking your new job till far?"

"I think the right word is grateful." Olivia answered and both women's smiles grew. "I applied for the job not expecting it to be the best experience of my life… I'm not gonna lie to you, NYPD is heart and soul and I left because I needed to." The brunette looked right into Alex's eyes. "I'm not one of those people who think that change is always good, but this change? Yeah, it was a good one. I've never felt this welcomed anywhere, I'm protecting good people that deserve to be protected and, let me say, I absolutely adore you and I could be happier of being your guard, Alex. You're amazing and you're gonna do great things someday."

Alex couldn't breathe, move, think or speak. She was motionless. Her whole body had freezed. She had expected Olivia to answer with a 'Yeah' or something like that; instead, the brunette said everything she truly thought, she had opened herself to her.

Somehow, Alex saw –or heard, she couldn't quite distingue which one after her guard's confession– Olivia sighed and paid attention when she started speaking again. "I… I'm sorry. I usually don't open like that to people I met the day before." She said and silence came back to the room.

After a few more moments Alex's turn to talk came and she tried to lighten the air. "So… What you where trying to say was that if I ever want to follow my father's steps, you would vote for me?" She teased.

Olivia laughed and looked back to Alex. "Without hesitating."

"Thanks, Liv. Seriously, it means a lot knowing that you're comfortable with this." Alex told her and Olivia's phone rang. The brunette answered the text message and quickly another one came. "Who is it from?" Alex asked curiously.

"Casey. She's my best friend and she's travelling. She wanted to call but I told her I was with you, now she says she wants to speak with both of us." Olivia explained as she sent a 'no' message to Casey.

"Don't send that!" Alex said when she read the text Olivia was about to send. "Video-call her, I want to see her." She saw the indecision on the brunette's eyes. "C'mon, It's not like we have a list of things to do, and she's travelling, you need to talk to her. Call her."

Olivia did as she was told and Casey quickly answered.

"Thank you for calling your best friend, Benson! She kinda misses you after a month without seeing you!" Casey's voice sounded from the speaker. "Hey there, blonde teenager! Do not pay attention to this conversation, I'm a bad influence."

Alex couldn't help but laugh at Casey's introduction.

"Hi, Case." Olivia simply and happily said.

"So, have you met the other heavies yet?" The redheaded asked.

"Yeah, today. And you're not going to guess who one of them is." Olivia said not so excited.

"What? Who? "

"Cassidy." Olivia told Casey and Alex remounted herself to the conversation between Brian and Olivia a few hours before. He said she looked just like in college, so they must know each other from there.

"Cassidy, like, Brian Cassidy? Like, the Brian Cassidy you slept with and then chased you the following two months? THAT Brian Cassidy?" Casey freaked out and Olivia nodded, internally murdering her best friend. Don't people realize that saying with whom you've slept with is not a great topic when you're with the daughter of your boss?

Alex reaction was between the shock and the laugh, so the opted for the laugh.

"Wow, Benson, did ya sleep with every person I know?" Alex teased and Casey immediately interrogated.

"Wait. Who else do you know that slept with Liv?"

"Abbie." Alex said and Casey's expression was definitely the funniest thing she had ever seen.

"OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! OH – MY – GOD!" The woman at the other line shook her hands and fingers up and down.

"Yeah, yeah, oh my, oh my. Can we stop talking about my sex life? Thank you." Olivia snapped.

The blonde heard someone calling Casey from behind and she saw how the redheaded turned away to acknowledge that person. "We can, 'cuz I gotta go. I'll call you later. Pleasure Cabot, love you Liv." She hanged off.

"She's damn crazy, isn't she?" Alex said laughing.

"Yeah, but what can I do? She's my best friend." Olivia replied with a huge grin on her face.

Okay, yeah, I think that is so much more Diane Neal than Casey, but I love Diane's craziness. It's the main reason in my 'Why I Love Diane Neal' list, so I NEEDED to make Casey as lovably crazy as she is.

You need to review if you also love Diane's craziness!