A/N: Hello to all my adorable readers! Here it goes another long chapter, not as long as the last one, but it's the longest after that one... so it is long.
I'd added many many SVU and L&O characters in this one, so I hope you like it!
Saturday had gone well after Casey's call. The two young women had spent most of the afternoon together, until Caleb had knock on Alex's door claiming for his big sister's attention.
As the boy locked the blonde in her own room, Olivia had turned her gaze to the kid's guard and she had initiated light talk with him.
One of the first things Fin had told her was how much did Caleb remember him of his own son, Ken. The man had been part of the Mayor's security crew for a little bit over six years. He mentioned how pleased he was when Thomas had assumed the charge, since it had been really hard to deal with Mr. Cabot's predecessor and his bad attitude, temperament and selfishness.
In their conversation, they had share different opinions about contemporary topics, little stuff about their personal lives and experiences at the job. Long hours after, when the night had arrived, Olivia slept peacefully in the same room she had the night before.
Now, it was a few minutes past six and she had just woken up. Olivia took around half an hour to shower and dress up and when she was ready to start the day, she walked silently through the mansion's walls, expecting than at least one of her coworkers would have the same sleeping schedule she had.
The brunette entered to a small lounge located before the garden and saw the figure of a man sitting at the couch.
"Good Morning." She said and Elliot turned around acknowledging her presence.
"Morning." The tall man replied. Olivia took placed besides him and he spoke again. "Early riser?"
"Yeah, Police Academy routine never goes away I guess."
Elliot smiled when he recognized the sensation. "I know the feeling. I was a Marine before working for the Mayor. My inner clock never rings later than five AM."
Olivia slightly nodded and curiously asked. "How long have you worked here?"
Stabler sighed and mentally counted. "I don't know. It seems like forever… maybe, fourteen… fifteen years." He looked to his new coworker. "My father worked for the Mayor too, so basically I've been here since I was born."
"So I guess this is not the first time you're a personal guard…"
Elliot shook his head still smiling at the woman. "No, it's not. I was the guard of the daughter of the Mayor before the last, and of the father of the one before him. All of them were great people."
"Wow" Olivia looked at the man besides her and then at the window in front of them. "That's definitely a lot of experience."
"Don't even mention it, please. You're making me feel old." He joked.
They talked for long hours and minutes, until Irene suddenly walked behind and noticed them. She motioned the two guards to where everyone will meet in a few moments for breakfast.
When the three of them entered, Cassidy was already sat at his place with Amy climbed on his lap. Several chairs apart, Alex was keenly discussing with her father tons of different topics.
At the same moment the blonde acknowledged the presence of her guard, her pink lips curled and a large grin took power of her face. She softly placed her hand over the empty seat besides her. Olivia smiled back at the teenager and sat where she was silently asked to. "Hey." She said with her voice so low that it almost sounded like a whisper.
"Hi." Alex was cursing herself one more time for showing so many of her teenage hormones when the brunette was near her. "Have you heard from Casey?" She asked.
Olivia raised one of her eyebrows and looked at Alex surprised. She knew that she had liked Casey, but the brunette didn't expect that Alex would ask her about her best friend. "Hum, yeah. She texted me around half an hour ago, it said that she thinks you'd look great with rainbow highlights." Neither of them couldn't help but laughing.
After a few seconds, Alex recovered her ability of speaking and made use of it. "Really? Rainbow colored? I've thought about some pink ones… I wouldn't bother those. But with a rainbow partner, I think that's too much."
Just after she spoke, Caleb and Fin entered to the room completing the group and Irene asked for everyone's attention. "I just wanted to remember you kids and to let the rest of you know that today is the last Sunday of the month. Which means that the entire Cabot clan in coming to have lunch and spend the afternoon here. The new uniforms for you are ready and will be provided to you after breakfast." She said to the four guards. "If there are any issues with the sizes, please tell me and they'll be immediately fixed." Irene kindly told them and everyone came back to their previous conversation.
"So every last Sunday of the month you host this private party for your whole family?" Olivia asked Alex who nodded before answering.
"The only three valid excuses for missing it are being either in college, on your honeymoon or dead." She said half serious, half joking. "It's the day of the month that we save exclusively to our relatives. It's really important for my grandparents; they've always been scared that we lost ourselves in the world and stop caring about the people that will always be besides us. That's the main reason why we've been doing this since I was eight." Alex explained with a smile on her face.
She knew that most of the people thought that because of the old money they came from, they were all cold and selfish, but her family was nothing like that. The blonde was proud of being a Cabot and grateful because of the loving and caring parents she had.
Olivia looked how Alex's eyes lighted up when she mentioned her family and thought about her own family. Her grandmother had kicked out her mother for being pregnant, without even caring that that pregnancy had been product of a heinous crime.
She thought about how her mother's older sister, Sonya, had let both of them into her house when she was still inside Serena. Sonya was a rehabilitated alcoholic and she had helped Olivia's mother dealing with her own alcoholism.
Serena and Olivia lived with Sonya until the little girl turned four. After that they've lived on a two-bedroom apartment, not to far from Sonya's. But when Olivia was in her teens, her aunt married and followed her husband to San Francisco without leaving any contact number or address.
The brunette still remembered how she had dried herself from crying so hard when she found the note. Over ten years later, she still waited for an explanation of what had happened that her aunt had flown away without caring about leaving them.
Alex's soft touch drew Olivia back to reality. "Are you okay, Olivia?"
She shook her head and answered the blonde. "Yeah, sorry. What were you saying?"
Alex smiled at her and continued her story.
Just when Irene had almost finished mixing the salads, the door bell rang and Amy hurriedly went to receive her relatives.
"Auntie Lizzie!" They little girl smashed against her aunt's chest and the older woman embraced her niece.
"Look how big you are!" Liz squeezed the small blonde body before her wife took Amy in his arms.
"No Auntie Lois for me?" The redheaded woman felt how her littlest niece kissed her cheek soundly. "That's better." She pulled Amy down and smiled at her. "You must be this little princess' guard." Lois said to the young man standing beside the girl.
"He's Prince Brian." Amy said proudly.
"Prince Brian Cassidy, pleasure to meet you." He introduced himself to the four people that had entered and the blonde lady took his hand and shook it.
"Elizabeth, I'm Thomas' big sister" She smiled kindly to Brian "These are my wife Lois and our children, Michael, Ryan and Dana." The woman pointed to her lover, the eighteen year-old young man and the thirteen-year-old twins.
"Lizzie! Did you take my glasses? I cannot find them!" The group heard how Jack Cabot yelled on his way to the door.
"I told you! You left them on the nightstand!" The unmistakable voice of Jack's wife, Lena, sounded and Amy grinned.
"Grandma! Grandpa!" She ran to hug her grandparents before they made it to the door.
"Hey there sweetie, how've you been?" Lena said tenderly to her granddaughter and closed the door after her husband and middle son entered too.
"Uncle Munch!" Caleb appeared and went straight to meet his 'coolest' uncle.
"Hey, kiddo." John said and made the secret salute he shared with his nephew. Caleb then approached to his cousins and greeted them too.
Thomas and Alex came inside the hall when they heard their family had arrived and after greeting all of them, the man motioned his relatives to go to the dining room and take a seat.
When they entered to the room, Olivia was helping Irene to set the table. Alex's jaw fell as she admired her guard wearing the new uniform. It was so simple and cliché that the blonde wouldn't ever thought she'd be so stunned for seeing someone wearing it.
The black kinda shiny suit marked every single curve Olivia had. Alex had to shake her head to keep her hands away from the thin waist and noticeable breasts hidden by the white man shirt and interceded by a black tie that ended below the suit jacket.
An hour later, everyone had already eaten and was in eager of the dessert. The large table was headed by Thomas, with his father at his left and Irene at his right. Amy sat beside her mother with her guard next to her. Lena placed herself at her husband's left and her daughter and daughter-in-law after her. Fin was beside Cassidy, with Munch, Caleb, Ryan and Dana following him. In front of them and next to Lois, were Michael, Alex, Olivia and Elliot.
"I have to say Irene; I was worried when you told me about the guards. But the four of them are wonderful and the kids seem to get really well with them." Lena whispered to her daughter-in-law.
"I know. I cannot believe it worked out so well. We'd given up with Alex, until a few minutes before we ran out of candidates Olivia entered to the room and she's perfect for the job." Irene replied and drove her gaze to the end of the table, where her oldest daughter was chatting with Michael. A second after, the young blonde turned to Olivia who was talking to her, and just little moments later, Alex couldn't remove the large grin she had on her face. The mother of the four children peacefully sighed as she looked back to Lena. "She was a blessing."
"I have only one question." The tall brunette guard said as she sat on Alex's bed after everyone had left.
"What is it?" The blonde sat besides Olivia and slightly bounced in her bed.
Olivia smiled at the sight of Alex relaxing in her room and exposed her query. "Why the hell do you call your Uncle John 'Munch'?" The younger woman belly-laughed at the question Olivia had asked.
"When they were little, my uncle never ate without making noises. But I mean, like truly loud and annoying noises. My aunt always told him to 'Stop munching and start eating'. He never listened to her until he was twenty-five and his own eating habits begun to bother him. The nickname stayed and I believe it's my aunt's way to remember him to never munch again." Alex narrated the story and felt Olivia's eyes over her.
"I don't know how I didn't think about that." She whispered.
"And you're the one that wants to be a detective." Alex snapped teasing but she regretted the moment she saw Olivia's killing look.
"Oh, Cabot, you're gonna need a new guard." The brunette grinned evilly and her fingers started tickling Alex.
Woohoo! So, I made the table map if someone didn't get how they were sat :P
Thomas
Irene - Jack
Amy - Lena
Cassidy - Liz
Fin - Lois
Munch - Michael
Caleb - Alex
Ryan - Olivia
Dana - Elliot
And, if someone didn't understand how the family was, I'm leaving that list too. Between the () I'll place the characters last name on L&O/SVU
Jack & Lena (McCoy & Petrovsky) - Alex's grandparents.
Liz & Lois (Donnelly & Preston) - Alex's aunts.
Michael -18-, Ryan & Dana -13- (Cutter; O'Halloran & Lewis) - Liz/Lois' children and Alex's cousins.
Munch - Alex's Uncle.
Reviews don't hurt at all, if you feel something in your skin after you reviewed, don't worry, it's Liv tickling you.