Married to a Stranger
Disclaimer: They're not mine
Summary: See chapter 1
A/N: I just wanted to that everyone who has reviewed so far, you guys are great!
and a special thanks to tria246815 (your reviews will help a lot!)
The "Club"
"What's going on in here?" Steve asked from the doorway of Olivia's bedroom. He flicked on the light, and caused both Elliot and Olivia to jump. He had walked in on them just as Olivia was halfway out of her shirt.
"Steve…" Olivia began, jumping out from under Elliot, and fixing her shirt. "This isn't what it… wait a minute, I don't have to explain myself to you, we're not really married!" She corrected herself. "Elliot just stopped by to see how things were going." She told Steve. She didn't want to tell him about the cameras, although she couldn't figure out why, but she had learned to trust her gut over the years.
"And that involved him coming up here, and what, making sure you still remembered how to round third base?" Steve asked accusingly.
"Hey, detective," Elliot began, getting up off the bed. "No matter what we all may be pretending here, Liv's still my wife, and if we want to 'round third base', or do anything else in her room, we can, without owing you an explanation!" He barked.
"That may be true in your own home, Detective Stabler, but when your actions could possibly throw my entire investigation, then you do owe me an explanation!" Steve barked back.
"Steve, Elliot, please." Olivia butted in, knowing that the two men were getting dangerously close to throwing punches. "Look Steve, no one saw anything. The neighbors just think that we're getting cable." She said, turning to face Steve.
"Well what if they were looking in the windows?" Steve asked. "You yourself said that they all seem to be a bunch of bored housewives, who want to know all they can about our sex life."
"You two don't have a sex life!" Elliot warned. Olivia touched his arm to make him calm down.
"If they saw anything they'll just be more impressed with me. I get the feeling that these women aren't all that 'in the dark' when it comes to affairs anyway." Olivia answered, trying to cool the situation down.
The three were interrupted by a sudden knock at the front door. "Now what?" Olivia breathed under her breath. "Steve, you get the door, I'll show Elliot out the back." She instructed.
"We'll finish this later." Steve growled as he hurried to answer the door.
Olivia led Elliot down the back stairs. "I don't like how he talks to you." Elliot said.
"He's just up tight about the case. He'll cool down." Olivia comforted. "Look, I'll call you tomorrow." She said, kissing him chastely on the lips.
"Night." Elliot said, a little disappointed at how the evenin ghad gone, as he left.
Olivia hurried to the living room after her real husband was gone.
"So sorry to be intruding on you like this Donna. I hope you got all your cable in." Patty apologized as Olivia walked into the room.
"Oh, don't worry about it, the guy just left." She smiled. "So, what's up?"
"Well, Patty and I wanted to talk to you about joining a community... well… club really." Frank offered. "One of the couples in town just… dropped out, and by talking to the both of you, we feel that you could be perfect to fill their spot."
"What kind of club?" Olivia asked, sitting on the arm of Steve's chair. He wrapped his arms around her waist, and even though she hated the contact, she leaned into him a little.
"He's really taking this marriage thing too seriously." She thought.
"Well, we meet every Friday night, at various couples's houses." Patty began. "We usually dress up, and have a very nice sit down dinner, and dessert."
"At the end of the night we pull names form a hat, and whoever's name you pull, is the person you go home with." Frank finished.
"Now when you say 'go home with', what exactly do you mean?" Steve asked, even though he was pretty sure he understood.
"It's a one night, no strings attacked thing." Frank answered, carefully.
"It helps to add a little, zing, in the bedroom." Patty answered.
Olivia smiled at the 'inside' comment.
"Sounds like it could be fun." Steve said. "What do you think baby?" He asked turning his head to Olivia.
"I think it could be fun." Olivia smiled. "I guess we'll be seeing you Friday."
"Great." Patty smiled. "I knew that you guys would be prefect! Well, we really should be going." She said as she rose from the couch.
Steve showed the couple out. When he returned to the living room Olivia was straightening everything up.
"There swingers." Olivia stated when she saw Steve re-enter the room.
"Looks like it." He smiled.
"They seemed like such committed couples." Olivia noted.
"Just because their bodies wander, doesn't mean that their hearts do too." Steve corrected. "What would you think about life imitating art?" He asked suggestively.
"Oh my God. Steve, I am not going to sleep with you." Olivia said bluntly. "Now that that's been delt with, can we please just stick to the task at hand, and figure out who our rapist and murder is?"
"We already decided that we didn't have enough information to decide that yet." Steve wined.
"Yeah well the fact that they're all swinger changes some things." Olivia laughed. "You said our Vic probably knew her attacker, and that she was pregnant, right?" She asked.
"Yeah, so?" Steve inquired.
"So, maybe she decided that the swinger life wasn't right for an expecting mother, and someone wasn't too happy with her decision." Olivia offered. "I say that we talk to our neighbors tomorrow, and see if there was anything going on with her and one of the other men in their little 'club'. Hopefully we'll find out killer before I have to sleep with anyone." She said, only half making a joke.
As Steve lay in bed that night, his head was spinning with thoughts of that day. "I was starting to get somewhere with Olivia." He thought. "I know that if I can just get that husband of hers off her mind, she'll be all mine. We would make the prefect family, just me and her."
TBC... this was kinda a transition chapter, I know it wasn't very exciting, but the case will pick up in the next chapter! Keep up the Reviews
