Ch. 14

And now I've fallen under your charm

And now I fall into your arms

Where I feel alright, it's where I'll stay tonight – "Under Your Charms"/J. Rouse

Alex walked through the door, meeting Olivia's eyes.

"Hey there… making any progress?" Alex said grinning as she hung up her coat and dropped her bag by the door.

Olivia had taken the afternoon off to have the rest of her things moved in to their apartment. Olivia sat on the living room floor surrounded by half unpacked boxes.

"Why did I pack up all of this stuff? I haven't seen some of this in years."

Alex stepped over a pile of sweaters, and a box of books…

Alex leaned down kissing Olivia.

"I told you to bring anything you wanted."

"Alex I haven't slept in my apartment in almost 3 months, suddenly I get sentimental about this stuff?!"

"Want me to help you go through it?" Alex offered

Olivia grinned "You're gonna help me go through this stuff?"

"Oh come on it will be fun… I might find out some of those secrets no one knows about!"

"Yeah right!" Olivia laughed.

"I'll go change, get us a glass of wine… it'll be fun."

Olivia watched as Alex stepped over boxes making her way out of the living room.

"Cabot you're loosing your edge if you think this is fun!"

Olivia could only hear Alex chuckle as she walked away.

"Did I tell you, you look sexy as hell this evening," Alex said handing her love the glass of Cabernet and sitting down in the living room floor across from her.

"I've been moving all day, I look gross!" Olivia protested as she looked down at her sweatshirt and black leggings.

"You look pretty hot to me." Alex said raising her brow

"Boy, you're whipped!" Olivia teased.

"I know and I like it!" Alex said, taking in another kiss.

"Ok where do we start?" Alex said sitting her glass on the coffee table behind her.

"Pick a box! I wasn't very strategic about packing."

Alex pulled the box closest to her towards her.

"Wow Liv you weren't kidding about just throwing stuff in boxes!" Alex said shuffling through the random things in the box. "Ok should we go through these t-shirts or do you know they're all keepers?"

"I should get rid of some of them, closet space is prime real estate you know."

"You said it, not me!" Alex laughed.

"Do you need ten NYPD t-shirts?"

"I don't have ten and yes I do if someone keeps stealing them to work out in, to sleep in…"

"Oh wait whose was this?" Alex said holding up the Yankees t-shirt obviously well worn and too big for Olivia.

"No ones." Olivia said lazily.

"Oh I see..."

'"Drop it."

"Oh come on Liv who's t-shirt are you harboring?"

"It was just a reporter I dated…"

"That Ledger guy!?" Alex said making a face.

"Urgh no!"

"Wait… how may reporters have you dated?"

"Just two… wait three."

"So what made this guy so special?"

"He… I just, I really liked him."

"You really do have secrets!"

"I do not. I just don't tell everyone, everything!"

"Not even me! The love of your whole life!" Alex dramatized.

Olivia shook her head, rolling her eyes.

"What did he do that was so great to make you keep his t-shirt all these years?"

"This is going to be a long night."

"Olivia! Answer me!"

Olivia looked at Alex more seriously now.

"He went to jail for me."

Alex's eyes widened.

"He what!"

Olivia took a deep breath in.

"I helped him with a story and he went down for it. They gave him a plea bargain if he would reveal his source and he didn't. He never has."

Alex sat there in a bit of shock.

"Maybe I shouldn't hear anymore of this."

"Alex I don't regret doing it, I don't regret helping him. I hate that he got caught and that he took the brunt of everything instead of incriminating me."

"Wow."

"You asked."

Alex took a deep breath.

"Ok any other stories, major crimes, boyfriends, I should know about in this stack of t-shirts?"

Olivia gave a sly grin. "No…well get rid of the Yale t-shirt, and the Van Halen t-shirt too."

"Jesus!" Alex said picking the t-shirts from the pile and throwing them towards Olivia as they both laughed.

Alex saw Olivia pull picture frames from the box beside her.

"Hey, you and me…" Olivia said grinning as she showed Alex the picture of them at the precinct. "Look how young we were!"

"Were? Speak for yourself!"

Alex caught Olivia looking down at the next frame in the box.

There weren't many pictures of Olivia laughing like she was in that picture.

Laughing as obviously Elliot, who was standing beside her had said something to make her laugh.

"I know you miss him."

"Everyday… But I've gotten used to being without him too. Things change…"

"They definitely do." Alex said reaching for Olivia hand, pulling it to her lips. "They definitely do."

The next picture, Olivia and her mother.

"You really do look so much like her. Your eyes… your lips. She was beautiful."

Olivia smiled not saying anything.

She appreciated the compliment.

"Can I put these on the book shelves?" Alex asked already standing up.

"You don't have to."

"Olivia don't be ridiculous, this is your house too and these photos mean a lot to me as well."

Olivia smiled.

"Thanks."

Alex shook her head taking the pictures and placing them sporadically amongst the pictures already on the shelves.

"Ok so everything in this box is going." Olivia announced. "I think that box is more books, which I probably should go through…"

"What about this box?" Alex said taking the smaller box and bringing back to her spot on the floor.

"Um I can't remember what's in that one, hopefully it's something I can get rid of!"

Alex opened the box and looked inside. She looked up at Olivia.

"What? What's in there?"

Alex scooped up drawing after drawing, note after note.

Victims, survivors, families, men, women, children…

Thank you's.

"Liv," was all Alex could say.

"I told you, I didn't realize how sentimental I was."

"Baby this is amazing, you're so amazing. Look at all these people you've helped!"

Olivia gave a shy smile.

Humble

Alex picked up a small pink box.

"What is this?"

"My mom… she gave it to me when I was a kid."

"Alex opened the box to a tiny gold necklace, with a circle charm with the initial O engraved on it."

Alex had tears in her eyes.

"Now who's sentimental?" Olivia said trying to make light of it.

"I just think about you being so little, and this around your neck." Alex looked at Olivia "I want little Olivia Benson's"

"Who are you?! And what have you done to Alex Cabot!"

Alex wiped her eyes, jokingly poking her bottom lip out.

"You are just so cute, and this is so tiny…"

Olivia leaned in kissing Alex.

"YOU are so cute." Olivia said amused.

Alex closed the box and set it aside on the coffee table for safe keeping.

"I made my change of address this morning and you were already my in case of emergency so…" Olivia said with a smile. "And I talked to Cragen..."

"And?" Alex said a little worried.

"I don't think he was overly pleased I was dating an ADA, and I think he was a little shocked when I said it was you. But I think he was happy for me. He said he was happy for us. I told him we had been together for months. And I asked if he would keep it between us. That we preferred to keep our personal lives private."

"Are you ok with him knowing now?" Alex asked still concerned, knowing Olivia feared telling people simply because she didn't want to change what they had between them.

"I trust he will keep our relationship private. And I know he wants what's best for both of us so yeah I'm ok with it and it had to be done. Are you ok with it?"

"I told you I'm in this with you... and yes I want to keep my personal life private just as I would with anyone I was with. But I accept that because our jobs intertwine and so do our friends, people will find out about us, and when they do I'm fine with it. I love you, that's what matters."

"I love you too baby." Olivia said pulling Alex towards her.

Alex pushed the box behind Olivia further back before she made her way on top of Olivia.

Hovering over her, Alex kissed her more passionately.

"You tired?" Alex said kissing Olivia's neck.

"Not too tired for you… I just need a shower."

Alex raised her brow.

"I can help you with that."

"Oh really?" Olivia said grinning.

"This stuff will be here tomorrow." Alex said as she stood, pulling Olivia up with her.

Alex never let go of Olivia's hand as she flipped off the lights in the living room and made her way to the master bathroom.

Olivia's sweatshirt to the floor, her bra, her legging, panties… naked.

Alex followed suit, then pressing her naked body against Olivia's.

Alex backed Olivia against the sink.

She would never tire of her soft lips, the taste of her tongue.

"You get in, I'll meet you in there in a second." Alex said, her voice low to Olivia's ear.

Olivia grinned as she watched her lover leaving the bathroom, wondering what she was up to.

Olivia's long hair tangled as the soapy water ran through it.

She heard Alex open the shower door sliding in behind her.

"Where did you go?" Olivia said turning to face Alex.

Hot water against the cool shower tiles.

Olivia's back now against the cool shower tiles.

Alex pressed her body tightly against Olivia's.

Her hand immediately between Olivia's legs, dipping her finger between her folds.

"I want to fuck you." Alex said her voice still as low as before.

Alex purposefully kept her gaze locked on Olivia.

Olivia suddenly felt the thick silicon brush between her thighs.

"So that's where you've been Alexandra." Olivia said lazily.

Alex bit her lip as she grinned.

Alex slid the head of the toy against Olivia's already wet pussy.

She could hear Olivia's breath hitch at the touch.

Hot water against cool shower tiles.

Alex lifted Olivia's leg, holding it tightly against her. She then slowly slid the slick toy inside of Olivia.

"Ahhhh," seeped from Olivia's lips.

"Baby?" Alex whispered, waiting for her love to assure her she was ready.

Olivia opened her dark eyes, looking at Alex.

"Fuck me hard."

Alex did.

She began thrusting the toy in and out of Olivia.

Hard and fast, and when Olivia's knees would tremble, slow and teasing.

Fucking her as Olivia asked, as Alex wanted.

Sweet torture.

"Oh… God… baby."

Relentless.

Alex was feeling relentless.

Pushing in and out.

The sound of her love's breath.

The sight of her love's body pleasured, writhing against her.

Alex pushed deeper as her mouth melded on to Olivia's.

Hot water, cold tiles.

"Baby I want to come!" Olivia said not caring how demanding she sounded.

With out a word, the silicone fell to the shower floor.

A deep lingering kiss before Alex turned Olivia this time facing the shower wall, and again against her body.

Alex's hand slithered around Olivia's hip and then slid her fingers between her folds.

Alex worked Olivia' already sensitive, swollen clit as she practically pleasured herself rocking against Olivia's firm ass.

"Keep going, ah uh please… keep going…" was all Olivia could beg.

Relentless.

It didn't take much more of Alex's fingers against her clit to make Olivia come and come hard.

Against the shower wall, against Alex's body.

She shuttered.

Alex held her love there until she could move again.

Olivia turned to Alex, wrapping her arms around her neck.

Holding her close, her body still buzzing.

"Amazing." Olivia mumbled against Alex's shoulder.

Alex grinned.

Holding Olivia, still drunk on her touch.

Olivia kissed Alex again, smiling in her kiss.

"I'll give you a minute," Alex said stepping out of the shower, leaving Olivia to finish her shower.

Alex dried off and wrapped herself in a towel.

She held towel out for Olivia as she was stepping out of the shower.

Alex then sat up on the bathroom counter watching her dry off.

"Are you watching me?" Olivia teased.

"I certainly am." Alex said with a smirk. "I like you naked!"

"Good." Olivia grinned as she tried to towel dry her hair.

Olivia hung the towel on the hook and purposefully naked, made her way to the blonde perched on the bathroom sink.

Olivia slid between Alex's legs, pulling the towel from her.

Olivia began to kiss were the wet strands of her blonde hair left drops of water splayed on Alex's shoulders.

A chill ran over Alex's skin.

"You're cold?"

"The complete opposite of cold," Alex said grinning

Olivia pulled Alex in to her body.

"Some days, today… I can't believe this is my home, you're my home. I've never felt so loved and so wanted in my life. And the thought of going to bed next to you every night and waking up next to you every morning makes me feel so safe and God, I'm so happy."

Alex grinned. She had gotten what she wanted.

Olivia was happy, loved.

Alex got what she wanted.

Olivia kissed Alex softly.

"I'll never get tired of kissing you." Alex said loving the taste of Olivia on her lips.

Another kiss, another…

"Oh and I'm throwing out the old boyfriend's t-shirts in the morning!" Alex said trying desperately to look very serious.

Olivia laughed.

"I'm ok with that. I've got the only thing I'll be holding on to right here." Olivia said as she held Alex in her arms.