Liv rolled over in her sleep and her hand slid over the sheets. Her eyes slowly opened as she realized she was alone in the bed. She sat up and looked around the room blinking sleepily in the dark. "El?" she whispered. When she didn't get any response she turned on the bedside lamp and looked around, she realized quickly El wasn't in the bedroom or bathroom. She stood up and walked out of the bedroom and saw a light on in the dining room. She walked in and saw Elliot sitting at the table a stack of papers in his hand but looking out the window lost in thought.
"El?" she said coming up behind him and placing a hand on his shoulder. She felt him tense at her touch but immediately relax again.
"Did I wake you?"
"No." Liv walked around the table so she could see him, "What's going on?"
"Couldn't sleep. Thought I'd go over the case some more."
"El, we're going to be on this case for a while. Don't run yourself to the ground the first week in."
"I'm not." Elliot said laying down the papers in his hand. He took a breath and felt himself holding it as he fought with himself to keep the thoughts running through his head.
"Spill"
"What?"
"What's eating at you?"
Elliot stood and turned away, then turned back and leaned down his hands flat on the table. "Why would you ask?"
"Ask?" Liv said confused and then she understood, "You've been up all night because I said we need to talk about fantasies?"
"No. Yes." Elliot sat down and said, "You and I have talked about nearly everything over the years. Things I couldn't even talk about with Kathy." Elliot looked down when he mentioned his ex-wife's name. "But…" he said looking up.
"El, not to interrupt but, I was thinking about the application we had to fill out. Unless of course you want to talk about your fantasies." Liv smiled slightly as she watched Elliot begin to blush lightly.
Elliot let out a deep breath, "Oh. Right. I should have realized that's what you were talking about."
"And the rest? Do you want to talk fantasies?" Liv said as she walked around the table and sat in the chair next to his and laid a hand on his knee.
Elliot smiled and leaned forward and kissed Liv, "Are you serious?"
"Yes. This is definitely one topic you and I have never discussed." She watched as he turned his head uncomfortably. "El, you and Kathy talked about this, didn't you?"
"Not really. It just never seemed to come up. We were young and all over each other when we first met and then she got pregnant, we were married and the house was full of kids." Elliot walked over to the window and pressed his head against the dark glass, "I can't believe I just told you that. "
"Why?"
"It doesn't make you uncomfortable to hear about Kathy?"
"El, I've known you for how many years now? Since day one you were married. I have always known you and Kathy have a sex life. The fact that you and I do now shouldn't make you or uncomfortable about what happened in the past."
"How do you do that? Make all of this seem normal?"
Liv stood and walked up behind Elliot and laid her head on his back. She felt El turn and slipped her arms around his waist and said softly, "It is normal and so are fantasies." Liv took El's hand and walked with him back to the bedroom.
Once they were back in bed and laying together, Liv's head on Elliot's chest his arms around her, "How about if I go first?"
"Please."
Liv smiled and thought for a moment and started with, "Well for the application, I wanted it to sound real but also be something kind of impossible for them. So, I wrote about being able to swing on a trapeze, or using the aerieal silks to be able to achieve a sense of weightlessness and freedom."
Elliot smiled, "We always have been in sync haven't we?" Liv nodded and smiled, "I did something similar, I wanted to sound realistic but impossible." Elliot shut his eyes and ran a hand slowly through Liv's hair, "I wrote about swimming and being in a pool of crystal clear water and added something about zero-gravity sensation."
Liv laughed lightly, "We always have been a good match. We even think alike when we don't try." She paused deciding whether or not to push her luck and decided to as Elliot seemed much more relaxed and interested, "Have you ever played with food?"
Elliot pulled back slightly and looked at Liv askance. "What do you mean?"
"Well you turn the other person into a sundae and get to lick all the toppings off of them. Or discover fun uses for ice. I've often thought honey could be really interesting especially if things got sticky in just the right spot and time." Liv said and ran a finger slowly down El's bare chest stopping at his waistband.
"I admit I've been curious sometimes with some thoughts about control. I don't know if I could ever give it over but I have wondered what that would be like."
"What about taking control?" Liv asked as a thought ran through her mind.
"I'm not sure. Maybe? Nothing work related though." Elliot said simply then shutting his eyes for a moment Elliot added, "Though I have had this one fantasy for a while now. You and I are at the station, different rooms, and we have sex hard and fast, my hand is always over your mouth the keep you from screaming though."
Liv's eyebrow raises as Elliot adds, "In my fantasy you're one hell of a screamer."
Liv laughs out loud. "I can be loud when I'm properly enticed El." And watches as the little hairs on his arm shiver. "I've thought about a few rooms at the station too, particularly the dead file room." The two continue talking late into the night unmasking the fact that they share a lot of similar fantasies.
Late the next afternoon, Elliot puts down the file he was reading and looks at Liv. "Part of our cover is going out, right?"
"Yeah."
"Go get dressed, we're going to dinner and then to Bed again." Elliot says smiling
"Makes sense, we can't get into Room for several more days. I'm not going to say no to a good meal either." Liv stretches as she gets off the sofa and walks to the bedroom. She takes her time in the bathroom freshening up and getting ready. After an hour she finds herself standing in front of a closet full of clothes she never bought. An ice blue dress catches her eye and she pulls it out and smiles. It's made from a lightweight satin-silk material and flows as though weightless.
Liv slips it off the hanger and fingers the black lace straps and band that will sit right under her breasts. No bra with this. She thinks to herself as she slips it on. Carefully she stands in front of the mirror and adjusts her breasts so that they are fully filling out the ice blue cups and she is just barely spilling over. Smiling Liv thinks that this dress could almost be a negligee if it were shorter and therefor perfect for Bed.
Thinking of Bed brings another thought to mind. One of Elliot and her own fantasies, she looks into her go bag and deep in the bottom she finds what she's looking for and nearly laughs at how perfect the black lace panties match the black lace on the dress. It was almost as if this was meant to be. She pokes a little more and pulls out a small device like you would use to unlock a car and slips it into her bag. Double checking to make sure she has Olive's phone and ID she snaps the bag shut.
"Ready Liam?"
"Definitely Olive." Elliot looks up and his mouth opens and closes several times but no words come out. So Liv walks over to the door and holds it open.
"Damn" Elliot whispers as he walks up behind her and takes the door from her and locks it behind them.
As they step into the elevator Liv turns and says, "Like?"
El slips a hand around her waist and pushes her up against the wall as he kisses her passionately. When the door opens they step calmly out and catch a cab to a restaurant not too far from Bed. After a meal of honey glazed salmon for Liv and pork chops for El. They make their way to Bed. This time they are remembered and automatically let in. Elliot heads over and gets them champagne and Liv locates a nearby bed and stretches out on it.
"There you are" Elliot says as he navigates his way back through and hands her a drink
"Waiting for you Liam." Liv says in a teasing tone Liv leans up and kisses El, "Do I still taste like honey?"
El licks his lips and smiles, "Yes, maybe we'll have to find out if anywhere else tastes like honey still."
Liv smiles and says "You want to play?"
"I always want to play."
"Good because I brought you a present." Liv pulls her bag closer, "Shut your eyes and hold out your hand."
"Really?"
"Now Liam." El shuts his eyes and lays out his hand. His other holds onto Liv's waist fingering the water like fabric.
Liv places the small remote in his hand and then leans close and whispers into his ear, "open."
El opens his eyes and looks down, "World's smallest remote control? I don't get it Olive."
"This is a very special remote control." Liv says as she runs her fingers down El's hand and holds up the remote slightly so it was slightly more visible. "This control's me."
Elliot's eyebrows shot straight up to his non-exsistent hairline. "Excuse me?"
"The other part of this is hooked to the inside of my," Liv leaned over slightly more than needed but was enjoying herself, "black lace panties. With this little button right here" Liv pointed, "You turn it on and it sends an enjoyable jolt through me."
"Really?"
"Um-hmm" Liv licked her lips as she watched Elliot getting more interested, and this button, makes me get more or less pleasure. Try it."
El didn't need to be told twice. He pushed the button and watched as Liv's back arched and her eyes shut and she moaned happily as the device turned on. He felt himself respond to her obvious pleasure and realized that they would both be getting a lot of enjoyment tonight from this remote. He pushed down several times on the up button and the first few, Liv was able to control her outward reaction but by the fourth click her mouth opened again and she gasped. El turned the stimulation back down.
"Really." He said smiling.
"Total control." Liv said smiling, "As long as you have that, I'm at your mercy."
Elliot pulled Liv close and kissed her deeply, passionately and pushed the up button at the same time. He was rewarded by having her bite down on his tongue. "Maybe too much?"
Liv just laughed and said "learning curve."