Every chair faced forward as each member of the SVU squat sat stone faced, waiting for the author to arrive. The young girl of 17 walked in, a look of sheer confusion mixed with fear etched into her average features. Don Cragen was the first to speak.
"Melissa, we have called you here because we have received some complaints and feel that we need to straighten things out before they have gone too far."
Missy stared at them. "Please sit down." He continued and offered her a chair facing them. "Do you recognize these?" He asked as he slid a stack of papers in her direction. Missy's shaking hand pulled them closer and she looked at them and then back at Cragen.
"These are the fanfic that I have been writing." He nodded. "Is this why I'm here?" Her confusion was growing by the second.
"Yes," Olivia replied. "While your writing is good there are a few facts that we have to get straight."
"You see Melissa, it is very important that your teenaged ideals on how things should be not conflict with reality." Dr. George Huang said in his typical soothing but somewhat overly acted tone.
Missy stared at him. "Why are you dressed like a priest?"
"Because you are unable to let go of the character I portrayed on OZ. And although they are basically the same character, they are different."
Missy opened her mouth to say something but closed it just as fast due to the fact that he was in fact right.
"Now Melissa, I have a few things," Finn spoke up. "I may be a "supporting" actor but I am still a vital part of the team, ya know. It hurts to either be the errand boy when someone needs to fill in space or slashing with this lanky fuck over here." He gestured to Munch who waved.
She shook her head. "I didn't mean…"
He put his hand up. "I know, just letting you know for future reference."
She nodded. "I loved your music by the way." She said softly and he nodded.
"My turn." Munch said and a sigh was heard around the room. He looked at them all then back at Missy. "First of all, Liv and I, never gonna happen, wanna know why?" Missy opened her mouth to respond but he continued, leaning forward and gesturing with his hands. "You never eat from the plate that feeds ya. If you catch my drift." Everyone looked at him slightly confused. "Hey, I have played the same character on…"
"Six different shows." The group said tiredly in unison.
"Can we get on to the real matter at hand?" Olivia said impatiently.
"Please." Elliot said.
"First of all, if I get raped, kidnapped, attacked, stalked or sent to the witness protection program one more time I am going to scream. And how is it that Elliot just happens to always find me in the nick of time? I mean come on, he lives like 45 minutes away." She slapped her hands on the table.
"And that's if the tunnel isn't backed up." Elliot chimed in as Olivia nodded. "Yeah, so I separated from my wife, doesn't mean that I am going to run to Liv and bounce that ass ASAP." Olivia gave him a disgusted look. "Sorry." He said with a grin. She shook her head looked back at Missy.
"Elliot and I are great friends but I don't have internal dialogs with myself about how desperately I want to reveal my true feelings for him or spend hours wondering if he loves me. Yes, we have sexual tension, we are partners that work together on emotionally trying cases that require us to spend a great deal of time together but that doesn't necessarily mean we are in love. And if I wanted to get laid he would be the last person I would call cuz it would get weird and I still have a hard time not seeing him making out with that guy from OZ."
"Oh will you give me a break, that was like… I don't know…. along time ago and it was for a great plot." He rolled his eyes.
"Sure." Munch muttered to which Elliot glared at him.
"Oh and my eyes, never, ever refer to them as anything resembling chocolate. They are brown." Olivia threw in.
Missy looked at them all for a second trying to remember what she had eaten earlier that night to cause such a weird dream because there was no way this was real. "Is… um is there anything else?" She asked timidly.
The group looked around. "Cap, anything to add?" Finn asked.
He thought for a second. "If you get the notion, I am always up for a fic with me and some hot woman, just throwing it out there." The room made disgusted faces.
"Oh lastly, stop with Liv calling me El. I hate it and really she doesn't." Elliot sat back satisfied.
"I think that is it." Olivia said and they started to get up.
"Am I too late?" Cassidy asked as he peaked his head in.
"Yes, you are on a new show so you don't have any gripes." Elliot pointed out and Cassidy nodded.
"Fair enough." He closed the door.
"One question, if I may." Missy said quietly as she stood up. "Why are there so many actors from OZ on this show?"
Munch walked over and put his arm around her shoulder. "I have a theory on that…." He started as he led her out.
Melissa woke with a start and looked around at her bedroom, her eyes going to her computer. She got up and opened her latest fic, staring at the words before she quickly started to hit delete.