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Gemma smirked at Carisi as they rode up the elevator. After leaving the gun range, they had stopped to get shakes, and she was milking the straw to her shamrock shake. A giggle erupted from her throat when Carisi caught the look she was giving him and coughed on his own chocolate shake. When his body ceased wracking itself, he ran a hand down his face as a blush flood his cheeks. His eyes met hers, much darker than they were before, and stepped across the elevator to her, vacating his space against the wall opposite her and caging her against her side. "You are going to kill me making eyes like that."
Her grin grew as her tongue swirled around her straw. She reached inside and lifted out the glistening red cherry before placing it between her front teeth and slowly biting down on it. Her stomach filled with butterflies when his eyes seemed to glow black with his arousal. She closed her lips around the cherry before sucking it in. "Killing you isn't my goal, Carisi. I'm thinking of an entirely different physical activity."
"Call me Sonny." Carisi whispered before kissing her lips once more. He pulled back just as the doors opened and guided her out with his hand on the small of her back. He leaned close to her ear. "By the way, we are going to revisit that cherry stunt in great detail."
Gemma smiled behind her drink. "I'm sure it'll be something to remember." His hand remained on the small of her back as they walked through the squad room, but he gently prodded her to go to Olivia's office when they reached his desk. "Thanks for today, Sonny."
Carisi smiled and lifted his shake in a toast like manner to her. "Anytime. I had fun."
Fin and Amanda watched as Gemma strutted into Olivia's office, much different from her sulk out of the office when Carisi offered her a small escape from the reality of the special victims unit. When the office door closed, Fin smirked and shook his head as he turned back to his paper. "I bet you had fun."
"Really, Carisi? Eighteen years old girls?" Amanda questioned with a voice that half scolded half searched for more information. "Don't you think she's a little young for you. She's also Olivia's kid. That could blow back on you if things don't end well."
"Olivia is above letting personal issues mess with her professional ones. Carisi's a good detective. No question about it." Fin replied before shrugging his shoulders. "Besides, I don't think his feelings are one-sided, and I doubt she's just looking for a fling."
Amanda rolled her eyes. "She's made a living off having flings."
"And, now she's changing." Carisi stated, leaning back in his chair. "You heard that tape of her and Jimmy. She hates the life. She hates the job. She wants out. Besides, I'm not going to do anything with her while this case is still under investigation."
Fin glanced up at him, still hunched over his files. "But after?"
Carisi smiled. "I'm kinda scared to see what she does with after."
Gemma ran a hand through her hair, grin plastered on her face, when she closed to door behind her to Olivia's office. Olivia was sitting at her desk, glasses perked on top of her head, while Elliot lounged on the leather sofa with Noah passed out on his chest. They both looked exhausted, and she knew the ghost of herself they had dealt with all day took a toll.
They both seemed to brighten though when they saw her smiling.
"Hey," Olivia greeted softly, "you look like you feel better."
"I feel much better." Gemma hummed before walking around Olivia's desk and perching herself on the armrest. Olivia wrapped her arm around her, allowing her to cuddle into her side. "Carisi's a lot of fun to be around."
Elliot's eyes narrowed. "Exactly how much fun is he to be around." His eyes widened when Gemma gave him an innocent yet sinister smile, and the only reason he didn't spring to his feet was because of the sleeping boy softly snoring on his shoulder. "He didn't."
Gemma laughed and shook her head. "Your little girl is as pure an innocent as she was this morning. . .which isn't saying a lot, but no. Carisi and I did not hook up at the gun range." She saw Elliot's eyes widen. "Or anywhere. He did tell me he would take me to dinner though when this whole investigation is over. He's sweet. A lot different from anybody else I've dated."
"Even Danny?" Olivia asked as she laced her fingers with her daughter's.
Gemma sighed. "Danny was great, and I miss him. He tried buying me out of all this, and he was sweet for doing that. But, he bailed on me." She squeezed Olivia's hand. "I've been through a lot since he left here, and it's a lot harder than anything I've dealt with before, anything when I was with him. Besides, he could never really get passed the whole idea of me being who I was. I couldn't talk about my job or what I was going through, because it would just piss him off. I want what you two have with each other, just less fucked up."
"Agreed." Elliot and Olivia both stated before winking at each other.
"Speaking of which, what is going on with you guys anyway? Should I be preparing to watch Noah while you two escape to a hotel?" Gemma asked a little too hopeful for a teenager speaking of her parents. "A bottle of wine some candles and activities that will get rid of the tension that seems to fill this room like a fog."
Elliot rolled his eyes. "We are taking things slow."
Gemma's jaw dropped. "Slow? How much slower could you two get? You've known each other and had a kid with each other nearly two decades ago. Plus, you two have already admitted to loving each other that entire time. Snails reproduce faster than you two further your relationship. Snails are bunnies compared to you two."
"There were rules against our relationship for the majority of that time." Olivia pointed out. She pulled her glasses out of her hair and tossed them onto her desk before meeting Elliot's gaze.
She knows that gaze better than anything else on the planet. Lifting her head up from paperwork to meet it nearly everyday or eating across from each other at their diner. Grabbing drinks together with the squad. Even the night they conceived Gemma. She could spot that gaze anywhere, and, though she didn't see it before, she saw the love that seemed to flood his blue eyes. The soft yet fierce flame that captured her many years ago. That same flame wanted to give her everything that she ever wanted in a partner, personal and professional. He was willing to give it to her right now if she allowed it, and the realization that she was keeping them stagnant left her speechless.
Gemma scoffed, oblivious to her mother's revelation. "There aren't any rules holding you back now. You two mean everything to one another. I just don't understand why you two act like it's a budding relationship instead of a two decade courtship."
"That means things in our past make our present complicated." Elliot filled in for Olivia's silence, trying to get his daughter to settle the conversation. He didn't expect the next words to leave Olivia's lips though.
"Unless we look at it simply."
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