6 Weeks later

Alex was standing at the stove stirring the post of sauce when her buzzer rang. She glanced at the clock and knew it would be Olivia. She smiled, wiped her hands and went to the door. She opened it to find Olivia standing with a large bouquet of flowers in her hands and a shy smile.

"Flashed your badge again, huh?"

Olivia handed Alex the flowers and stepped inside. "I wanted to surprise you." She helped Alex put the flowers in the vase and then tentatively they kissed.

Alex pulled back just as it was getting a little more intense. "I worked hard on this sauce Olivia and we are going to eat first!"

"So we can get to desert faster?"

"Yep."

Olivia reached inside her jack and pulled out a small tube and made a show of looking it over.

"Then I guess it's a good thing I got that stuff we talked about."

Alex dropped her spoon into the pot and hurried over to Olivia's side.

"Where did you get this?" She took the tube from Olivia and unscrewed the top, taking a sniff.

"A little shop in the Village."

"I thought we'd have to order it for sure!"

Olivia laughed. "No, all I had to do was risk my dignity by going into a seedy little sex shop on my lunch hour."

Alex looked mortified. "Was Elliot with you?"

"No. I ditched him for an hour."

"Good. Let's eat so we can…eat."

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Alex moved back up Olivia's body having finished licking the last of the strawberry body butter from Olivia's clit. The brunette's breathing was just returning to normal as the blond languished a deep kiss on her lips before rolling off of her.

"I wonder what watermelon tastes like?"

Olivia raised her head and looked at Alex as though she were crazy.

"You can't possibly be horny again?"

Alex rolled onto her side so that they were facing each other. "No. Just curious."

Olivia laughed. "Well, you've certainly been curious these last few weeks!"

"Six weeks Liv. It's been six weeks since that night we were truly together."

"Ok, six weeks. Anyway, we've or at least I've, had more sex these last few weeks than I've had since my early twenties." She cupped Alex's breast. "And it's the best I've ever had."

Alex's skin flushed. "Really?"

Olivia nodded and began kissing Alex.

3:00 am

Alex had been watching Olivia sleep for the last hour and thinking about their last six weeks.

They now spent almost every free moment together and alternated weekends staying at the others apartment. However, they seldom went out choosing to stay in and fix dinner, watch a movie or her personal favorite, take a bubble bath together.

And by unspoken agreement, they never showed more affection in public than a light touch on the arm. Alex was aware that Elliot, Munch, Fin and Cragen all knew as did Olivia's brother, Simon and of course Serena Southerlyn, but beyond that, nobody else knew.

They hadn't actually talked about defining their involvement, something Alex thought they might want to consider doing. She eased out of bed and smiled as Olivia seemed to reach for her in her sleep before settling back down into a deep slumber.

She padded into her living room and opened her desk drawer and dug out her spare key. Nodding she placed it on the coffee table and then went back to bed, where she snuggled into Olivia and promptly fell asleep.

Alex awoke to find two brown eyes watching her. She smiled and buried her head back into her pillow. Olivia slowly ran her fingers up Alex's back and then leaned in and gently blew into her ear.

"Wake up Alex."

The blond finally rolled over and smiled up at her lover.

"Why don't you help me wake up?"

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Olivia found Alex sitting at the kitchen table, sipping coffee.

"All clean?"

"You were there, you tell me."

Olivia poured herself a cup of coffee and joined Alex at the table. She watched as the blond turned a key over and over in her hand.

"Alex?"

The blond put the key down and slid it toward Olivia.

"This is a spare key to my apartment. I don't think you should have to flash your badge every time you come over."

Olivia looked up at Alex and then down at the key. She swallowed hard and then slowly picked the key up. She ran her thumb along the edge of the key and began chewing on her upper lip.

Alex, now nervous stood up and took her coffee cup to the sink. She startled when she felt Olivia's arms go around her waist.

"Alex?"

"Yes?"

"What does this mean?"

Alex turned the water off and faced Olivia.

"What do you want it to mean?"

"Don't Alex. Don't be a lawyer right now. Please."

Alex nodded. "I guess that's what we need to talk about, isn't it?"

"Yeah, we do."

Olivia tried to move toward the living room but Alex stopped her.

"I woke up in the middle of the night and thought about us, this. And Liv? I want there to be an us. A real us, not just incredible sex and bubble bath's. I want us to be affectionate with each other in public and to go out and…I want you to be my…my girlfriend."

Olivia laughed and Alex became furious. She tried to get around the brunette but Olivia held her in place and ground her pelvis into Alex's.

"Please don't do this unless…."

Olivia pulled back. "I mean it Alex. We're on the same page here."

"We are?" Olivia nodded. "Oh thank God."

Olivia abruptly pulled back and her brow furrowed.

"What Liv? What?"

Olivia shook her head slowly. "I'm sorry Alex, but I don't have my class ring or my lettermen's jacket so I can't properly ask you to go steady."

Alex playfully slapped at her and then she kissed her new girlfriend.

"Does this mean we can go back to bed and get naked?"

Alex pulled away from Olivia and again swatted at her.

"No! I meant what I said Liv, I want to go out with you, be seen with you, the whole nine yards."

Olivia sighed. "If we must. But Alex? I'm not real big into PDA, ok?"

Alex smiled at her. "We'll work on it."