Elliot and Olivia looked over at each other as they walked into Cragen's office. Olivia hadn't had an opportunity to tell Elliot about Fin's discovery, but she knew there was no way Fin would have told the Captain.

"Shut the door." He said after they were inside. Olivia dropped the bag of muffins on his desk. Elliot closed the door and then turned to face him. "Sit down."

They both sat, watching him as he stood behind his desk, his focus on some papers lying there.

He sighed heavily. "You two are some of the best detectives I've seen in all my years on the force." He started, still not looking at them. "Maybe the absolute best."

Olivia shifted in her seat, wondering where this conversation was going.

"I've let you two get away with a lot over the years. And that's on me." He looked up at them. "But I made a mistake. Because now the two of you think you can do whatever the hell you want."

Olivia relaxed a bit, realizing Cragen was talking about the other day when he'd been upset that they hadn't left the squad room when he'd told them to. Still, she was surprised that he wanted to talk about that again. Maybe they were going to get some kind of note in their jacket about not following orders.

Elliot must have had the same thought, and he started to speak. "Cap'n."

Cragen interrupted him. "Do you think I'm an idiot?"

Elliot was surprised by the turn in the conversation. "What?"

"It's my job to know everything that's going on in my squad room." He continued, effectively ignoring Elliot. He looked over at Olivia, shaking his head. "And this squad room is not a motel."

Olivia felt her face flush and she quickly looked down at her hands clasped in her lap. Elliot looked over at her, seeing the deep blush on her face and he swallowed hard, horrified at her embarrassment.

"Cap'n." Elliot started, but really didn't know what to say. The first rule of interrogation was not to offer up information. He didn't know what Cragen knew, or if this was some fishing expedition. But Olivia's deep blush certainly armed the Captain with some reasonable confirmation of what he was accusing them of.

"Shut up." Cragen said, his voice notched up in volume. He looked back and forth between them. "I swear we were just in my office not too long ago and you two looked me in the face and told me there was nothing going on between the two of you. You lied to my face."

Elliot looked back over at Olivia, desperately needing some eye contact from her, but she was still focused on her hands. He looked back up at Cragen. "We didn't lie to you." He said.

"You're going to sit there and lie to me again? Do you want me to pull up the video footage?"

Olivia gasped slightly and her head shot up. "Video?" Elliot looked over at her and saw her visibly pale.

"You're in a goddamn police station! There are people here 24/7. There are security cameras everywhere! What the hell were you thinking?" He paused for a second, looking back down at his desk.

"Captain." Olivia started.

Cragen held up a hand, stopping her. "I don't even know what to say to the two of you except that I'm incredibly disappointed in you. I've stuck my neck out for you two dozens of times, and you lie to my face and do something like this that can't possibly be ignored. I don't even know how I'm going to handle this or what I should do. But I do know that I'm too angry to talk to you about it anymore." He looked up at them, and saw them staring at him, both of their mouths open slightly as if on the verge of saying something. "As of now, you're both suspended without pay. Three days."

The both shot a quick glance at each other. Three days wasn't bad considering. They looked back at Cragen and he could see relief on both of their faces.

Then the other shoe dropped. "During those three days, I have to figure out what to do with you two."

"What does that mean?" Olivia asked, slightly in shock from this entire conversation.

"It means that I don't know what the hell I'm going to do!" he snapped. "I should break you up and ship you both out! You should be suspended. IAB might get involved. I don't even know." He slumped down in his chair. He was as mad at himself as he was with them. He'd known this was the inevitable conclusion; that they were too close and that they got closer with each passing day. But he hadn't wanted to lose them, so he turned the other cheek. And now he was stuck with a mess that couldn't be swept under the rug. Without looking up at them, he motioned towards the door. "Dismissed."

Elliot and Olivia looked at each other and then back at Cragen. They wanted to say something…anything. They wanted to tell him that nothing physical had happened until recently. That they hadn't lied to him. They wanted to apologize for their indiscretion…their downright stupidity. But they knew the moment was past and that he didn't want to hear it. They both stood up and Olivia filed out behind Elliot after he opened the door.

"Shut it." Cragen called out after them and Elliot closed the door. They both let out a heavy sigh.

"What'd you two do now?" Munch joked with them. "I swear you two spend more time…"

"Shut up John." Elliot snapped.

Munch took one look at their faces and knew it was bad. For once, he shut his mouth and went back to looking at the files on his desk.

Olivia looked over at Fin, and saw the grim look on his face. She knew he hadn't said anything, but she could tell her knew what happened in Cragen's office.

Elliot snagged his keys off his desk as Olivia came around to her desk. "C'mon. Let's go." He said.

Olivia hesitated, trying to think about what she could said have said to Cragen. What she should have said. But the reality is, what she and Elliot had done was stupid. They had been reckless and they'd been caught and now they were going to be torn apart. She could feel pinpricks of tears forming and she swallowed hard, trying to calm herself. She had known that this was a possibility. That if she started a relationship with Elliot, they very likely couldn't be partners any more. She had just expected they'd have more time. More time to see if this was even going to work. More time to come to terms with the changes. More time to decide how they wanted to tell Cragen…on their terms.

"Give me a minute." She said. She headed towards the locker room. When she got there, she opened her locker, but then sat down hard on the bench.

In less than a minute, Elliot was standing behind her. He put his hands on her shoulders. "Liv."

Olivia shrugged his hands off her shoulders. "Don't touch me." She hissed. "That's how we got into this mess."

"So this is my fault?" he asked.

"Yes." She said, standing up and grabbing her bag out of her locker.

Elliot grabbed her arm. "Hey. You're the one that woke me up." He said.

Olivia looked at his hand on her arm and he dropped it. "I told you we shouldn't. I knew it was a bad idea."

Elliot shook his head. "You're honestly going to stand there and tell me you had no part in this? Unbelievable."

Olivia glared at him. "It doesn't matter. We're both to blame. We knew better and now we're going to lose our jobs." She slammed her locker closed. "I can't believe this. There's going to be a scandal. There's video for Christ's sake!" She tried to move around Elliot and head for the door, but Elliot moved in front of her.

"Calm down. There's no way Cragen's letting that video out. And we don't know what's going to happen. He's just mad right now, but he'll calm down." He ducked down, trying to get her to look at him without touching her again. "Let's not think the worse."

Olivia let out an exasperated sound, but she didn't try to get around him again.

"Let's just go someplace and talk. OK?" He asked.

Olivia let out another heavy sigh. "OK." She agreed. "We do need to talk."

Elliot wasn't sure if he liked the sound of that, but at least she was willing to go with him. He'd worry about the conversation later. They grabbed their things and headed out the door.

EOEOEOEOEO

They had decided to go to Olivia's apartment because she wanted to take a quick shower and get changed. They picked up some sandwiches for lunch on the way so they wouldn't have to go back out later.

Elliot lounged on the couch, surfing the TV channels until Olivia emerged. He looked over at her and felt a small twinge in his groin. Her hair was damp, curling around her face and neck. She didn't have any make-up and she was wearing a pair of jeans and a plain black t-shirt, both of which hugged her curves.

Olivia cleared her throat and he realized he'd been letting his eyes wander over her body just a little too long.

"I can't help myself." He said with a shrug. Now that he'd known her intimately; had seen the expression on her face and the sounds she made when she came, he'd never be able to look at her the same again.

"That's what got us into this mess." She said as she plopped down on the couch next to him.

"You're back to blaming me?" he asked, raising his eyebrow at her.

She leaned back against the couch. "No." she sighed. "Not really."

Elliot reached over and took her hand. "I don't know why you're so upset." He saw the look on her face as soon as he'd said it, and he backpedaled. "I mean, I know why you're upset. But Liv, we already knew that we had to tell Cragen pretty soon. That it was a real possibility that we wouldn't be able to be partners any longer."

"Elliot. There's video!" She pulled her hand from his and ran her hands back through her hair. "God, I can just see the headlines. City's top sex detectives caught in the act." She ran her hands over her face and then let them fall into her lap as she lay her head back on the couch. "What a fucking mess."

Elliot took a deep breath. "We don't even know if there's a video. Have you noticed camera's in the cribs? I don't think there are any. I can't remember but I think Cragen's just trying to scare us. Somehow he knows something happened and he's pissed. But he's going to cool off. He may split us up, but there's no way he's going to get rid of us. He won't put victims at risk because of this."

"But you don't know who else knows. He made it sound like there are witnesses. Maybe someone saw us or heard us." She turned to look at him, tucking one leg under the other. "And if there are witnesses or video, Cragen is going to have to get IAB involved. Then it's out of his hands."

"We can sit here and speculate all we want, but it won't do any good. For all we know, as of now, Cragen is the only one that knows."

"And Fin."

"What?"

"Fin knows." Olivia said.

"How the hell does Fin know?" he asked. "He wasn't even there when I left to get coffee in the morning."

"Well, apparently he came in and Cragen was looking for us, so he came upstairs to see if we were up there."

"Yeah so? You were just sleeping. What did you tell him?"

"I didn't tell him anything Elliot." She snapped. "He found my underwear on the floor."

"You could have dropped them any time." Elliot said. "That doesn't mean anything."

"He's a detective Elliot." She said in a derisive tone. "You don't think he can put two and two together?"

Elliot put his hands up. "You're right. I'm sorry." He leaned back. "So…what did he say?" Elliot knew that Fin didn't like him very much, and he could only imagine what he would say when he found out they'd had sex.

"He said you're an asshole." Olivia said, and despite the seriousness of the situation, a small smile escaped.

"Is that the word he used?" Elliot actually imagined he'd say worse.

"Actually, it is."

"Hmm."

"He also said to tell you that he'd kick your ass if you did anything to hurt me."

"I'm sure he's not the only one." Elliot said, giving her a small smile back. He reached for her hand again. "We're going to be OK Liv."

Olivia sighed, moving her other hand over his. "It's just been a lot of change in the past few days." She moved a little closer to him. "I'm trying to adjust."

"Are you sorry things are changing?"

Olivia was quiet for a moment, and Elliot got a little worried about what she was going to say.

Olivia closed her eyes and thought back to everything that had happened over the past few days. There was a lot of great things that had happened, and some pretty horrible things. But like before, she couldn't find it in herself to regret any of it. She opened her eyes and moved a little closer to Elliot on the couch. "No." She shook her head. "There's been a lot of good and bad in the past few days. I'm sorry that Dick walked in on us. I'm sorry about how Kathy's hurting. And I'm sorry we were stupid enough to have sex in the cribs. But I'm not sorry that things are changing for us."

Elliot slid his hands up her arms and tugged her towards him, pulling her against him and wrapping his arms around her. He kissed the top of her head as she lay her head on his chest. "Me either."

Olivia pulled back slightly. "So. It seems we have some time on our hands. What do you want to do today?" she asked.

"I have a few ideas." He said, wiggling his eyebrows at her.

"I thought you might." She said.

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