As promised, here's another chapter to tide you over. I've been watching Law and Order: SVU obsessively, since there was a marathon on Friday. It was AWESOME!!! Every time Alex came on the screen, I freaked out. Needless to say, my parents got a little sick of my constant squealing over my favorite ADA ever…well, then again, they aren't as gay as I am for Alex :D
"Whoa," Munch called to Olivia, stopping in his tracks as he saw her and Elliot enter the bullpen. "You look…happy." He frowned in thought. "What'd you do with Olivia?"
"Duct tape in the closet," she retorted. "Where's Fin?"
Munch rolled his eyes. "He started eating already. Said he wasn't going to wait for you guys to come back. Hey, how'd it go with the surveillance tapes?"
Olivia shrugged. "We got nothing. It's back to sorting through files. El's thrilled, obviously."
Elliot snorted, following her to their desks. "I'm starving, you?" he asked her conversationally. She nodded. It was hard to focus on anything when Olivia was preoccupied with the severe blue eyes that seared through her memory. Wide, beautiful blue eyes.
"Care to join?" Olivia looked up in surprise to see said blue eyes inviting her to follow. Alex slid her glasses back along the bridge of her slight nose. "I was going to eat outside. It's beautiful out. You in?"
"Of course," Olivia answered, jumping to her feet. Elliot looked on at the two, his expression unreadable. "I'll be back in an hour, okay?" Olivia told Elliot, following the click of Alex's heels.
"He really doesn't like me, does he?" Alex asked in amusement. "I keep stealing you away from him."
"Elliot's just…a guy," Olivia attested. "He gets unreasonably jealous."
"Of me?" Alex feigned shock. "Because I'm spending so much time with the most beautiful woman I've ever laid eyes on?"
"Uh huh." Olivia raised her eyebrows. "Should I call Huang for a psych eval?"
"Seriously, look at yourself," Alex told her as they walked side-by-side over to the park by the precinct. "You're gorgeous. You have the eyes."
"And that implies…?"
"They're hypnotic. With one look, you're going to get anything you want."
"I'd rather have the Medusa glare," Olivia commented. "Chasing after perps won't be an issue anymore."
Alex laughed, taking a seat on a bench, the sunlight glinting off her glasses. "Come on," she laughed. "Sit down and stay awhile, will you?"
It occurred to Olivia that she didn't really want to waste her lunch hour eating while she had a distraction such as Alex to preoccupy her. Alex caught onto her intentions and smiled crookedly.
"We're not really going to wind up eating, are we?" the blonde asked.
"Well, I can think of much better ways to…" Olivia began, but was silenced as Alex's lips sought her own. Olivia closed her eyes and breathed in the sweet scent of her Alex.
"You surprise me," Olivia whispered, her open face brushed with Alex's corn silk hair. Alex grinned, laying her head in Olivia's lap.
"I really wish I wasn't due in court in an hour." She made a face, looking up at Olivia. "You're testifying on the Martinez case still, right?"
"Obviously. Why would I bail on my favorite ADA?" Olivia mused. Alex shrugged comically, her expression amused.
"Your only ADA, you mean," she quipped.
It was odd to see Alex in her tightly buttoned blouse and formal skirt lying on a park bench with her head in Olivia's lap. Olivia smiled down on her, sweeping a loose strand of blond hair out of Alex's face and tucking it away behind her ear.
"I feel like they know something," Alex admitted, tilting her head to face Olivia as best she could. "Cragen and the others."
"Maybe you're just a little paranoid," Olivia pointed out gently, stroking Alex's hair.
"Maybe," Alex allowed. "I just want to be the one to tell them. When we're ready. I'd feel awful if they found out through the rumor mill."
"Same. But I feel like Fin and El would be cracking vulgar jokes to our faces – in good fun, of course – if they knew."
"Imagine all the new bets Fin and Munch will make on us," Alex said sarcastically. She laughed.
There was nothing Olivia wanted better than to stay as she was holding Alex in the park, feeling their fingers doing a mirror dance together, and Alex's sweet breath on her skin. When she was around Alex aside from work, she saw the angelic, spontaneous Alex emerge. She was insatiable for more, to investigate more of the woman who daunted her.
…
"I love you."
"I love you, too."
Olivia disconnected, slipping her cell back into the pocket of her tight jeans and coming face to face with Elliot.
"Hey," she greeted, surprised.
"Who's the lucky guy?" he asked, gesturing to her pocket, at her cell.
Damn. "What?" she asked, seeming oblivious.
"Prince Charming on the phone," he joked, a grin evident on his face. "Fin is right, isn't he?"
"More like Princess," she murmured under her breath, smiling.
"Huh?"
"Never mind." Olivia told him. It was the first time she'd lied to Elliot, the partner who knew her inside and out, and who she trusted with her life. But this was a secret she wasn't ready to share. It was a secret she couldn't share, because it wasn't hers to tell.
"Come on, Liv, I'm not gonna tell anyone," he assured her.
"It's not that, it's just…" Her voice trailed off.
"What, is it Cabot or something? You guys have a thing going?" he joked, clearly unaware that he'd just hit the nail on the head. Dead on. "Liv?"
Her face was as readable as a book, clearly. "Wait, I was joking," Elliot said, confused. "Liv? You serious?"
Olivia took a deep, shuddering breath. "Yeah, you're right. It's Alex." She waited for his reaction, to gauge how bad she'd messed this one up. She waited for him to laugh, to ridicule her vulnerability at this moment.
"Well…congratulations," he said quietly, a smile transforming his face. "I'm really happy for you, Liv."
Her relief was palpable and she spontaneously stepped forward and engulfed him in a hug. "Thank you," she whispered sincerely. "You have no idea how much it means to me to hear you say that."
"I know," he grinned. "So, you two…" he trailed off suggestively. Olivia rolled her eyes, slugging him on the arm. Here was the Elliot she knew and loved, right back to his usual, guy self.
