Bittersweet and Salty
By
Kelsey
Disclaimer: Not mine. Though as I've said before, you'd think with all the "Law and Order"s out there, they could spare one.
Author's Note: Not for Casey-haters. And I make no promise about the outcome in any way.
Summary: Someone comes back into Olivia's life, but someone else is already there. Will old love prevail, or does new love run stronger? Femslash, O/A, O/C.
Rating: PG this chapter
Prologue
There's a knock on the front door, and Olivia stirs groggily but doesn't quite comprehend. A hand nudges her and a sleepy voice breaks the silence of the bedroom. "Liv! There's somewhat at your door."
Olivia opens her eyes slowly and looks towards her front door and the annoying sound. It takes her a moment and several more knocks before she decides it's worth getting out of bed for. "This better be good," she mumbles to herself as she forces her sleepy body to rise out of the warm bed with an even warmer body and sweet embrace waiting for her.
"Remember to hear what they have to say before chewing them a new one," says the sleepy voice from the bed, and Olivia rolls her eyes briefly.
"Ha ha."
"You know you love me for it."
Olivia pads down her short hall and comes to a stop at the front door. She peers through the peephole, wondering who could possibly have gotten into her apartment building without being buzzed in, and why they'd showed up at 3:47 in the morning anyway. Her cell was on, the precinct would call her if they wanted her somewhere.
The dark-suited men that her glance through the peephole reveals don't clear up much. FBI, probably, she thinks muzzily, but what the hell do they want with me?
Pulling open the door, Olivia puts one hand on her hip and glares at the well-dressed men blocking her doorway. "It's four am, gentlemen. What the hell do you want?"
"Olivia Benson?" one of them asks, his expression changing little, and completely ignoring her question.
"I am," she replies shortly.
"We have something for you."
"Who are you?"
"FBI, ma'am."
Olivia rolls her eyes. "Yes, the black suits and the whole cloak-and-dagger thing sort of cleared that up for me. I meant, why is the FBI on my doorstep? And have I mentioned that it's four am and I was asleep?"
"I'm afraid she was rather insistent."
Suddenly awake, Olivia's pulse starts to race. FBI, have something for her… "Alex. Is something wrong with Alex?"
A slender hand presses between the two men blocking Olivia's doorway, and they part as though there were far more muscle behind it than there undoubtedly is. And standing before Olivia is the visage of the beautiful woman she hasn't seen in months, and then only briefly. "Alex?" she asks in a whisper.
Alex is grinning from ear to ear, and Olivia can only seem to stand there in shock. "It's over, Liv. Velez is dead. I'm free."
The shock cracks, and Olivia's eyes tear up as she rushes forward and pulls Alex into a tight hug. "Oh god, Alex…"
"I'm back," she whispers. "Back for good."
The FBI men seem to be human enough to have realized this is a personal exchange, and when Olivia glances around them, their backs are turned. Tears are running from her dark eyes, and starting to gather in Alex's blue ones, but they are happy tears, shed by both women while smiles grace their faces. "You don't know how much I've missed you," Olivia says softly, and Alex smiles gently back.
"I think I have some idea," she says. "If it's anything like how much I missed you."
There is another soppy smile, and then Olivia wipes her eyes with the back of her arm and grins. "We're getting really soppy," she says.
"I feel really soppy," Alex admits. "I promise in the morning I'll go back to being myself."
"Okay." As Olivia gestures that they should enter her apartment, a terrible thought runs through her mind, and she freezes just as she catches a flash of red hair in her side vision.
"Olivia?"
Casey Novak is standing in her hallway, dressed in pink panties and a camisole, rubbing sleep from her eyes with one hand and running the fingers of the other through her unruly hair. "What's wrong?" She yawns, and then her eyes focus for the first time on the blond in the living room. Abruptly her back straightens and she is instantly awake.
"Alex."
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