Inside the confining space of the car, both partners sit lost in their thoughts. Olivia looks at Elliot and knows what he's thinking. He's thinking about his family and how they would be affected by what he sees everyday. How to keep them safe from the evils of the world even though he knows he can't. She looks at the worry lines on his face how they are permanently etched on his face. She must have them to she's not getting any younger.
"So who was that?" Elliot takes his eyes of the road for a second to look at his partner. She's sitting slumped down on the passenger side looking out the window.
"Alex." She says in a dreamy state.
"Is it serious? That kiss was," he shakes his head, "out of this world."
She laughs at him. Olivia loves how he can take a serious moment and turn it around into a joke. Through the years they've formed a partnership that cant be broken no matter what.
"I don't know, El. That was our first kiss." Looking out the window again she goes back to the image of the kiss. It felt so wonderful to be in her arms, to have her so close.
"Really?" She nods. He looks at her like she's crazy but doesn't say anything. Elliot knows all about her failed relationships or flings with people. How no one can't see what a precious person this woman is never ceases to amaze him. People are blind.
"We might go out to dinner tonight. It will be our first date if I can get some time off from this case."
"Good for you, Liv. You deserve it. She's completely gorgeous. I always knew you were a sucker for the blonde, blue eyed babes."
She smiles at him. She is a sucker for the blonde, blue eyed babes no reason to deny it. But now she has to stop thinking about Alex and go into her detective mode. The rare moment where they discuss their life is over.
"So what's the break in the case?"
With that question he knows that her walls are back up. The walls so thick that it takes a special kind of person to bust through them break them down with a force that would probably blind her. With a long, heavy sigh he fills her in on the new leads. He goes over what the ME found, the partial print found and a small hair follicle found on the recent victims body. She mentally memorizes all of these details just like she's done on all the other cases she's worked. The ones that haunt her when she closes her eyes at night. She sends a small prayer up to skies hoping that tonight she could get some sleep.
The images of the torn and tortured bodies fill up Olivia's mind as she obsesses over the crime scene photos. The mangled body of the victim laying in filth, her face so innocent and pure. She didn't ask for this. No one does. How many loved ones did she leave behind? How many will grieve for her death, her sudden and cruel death? Olivia tosses the photos in disgust and looks at the clock. 7:57pm
Alex hasn't called her since she gave her the business card. Olivia is positive the blonde found what she does. How she sees things people sometimes never dream of or only see in horror movies and think it's sick. It is sick and its very much real for Olivia. She doesn't really blame Alex if she doesn't call. She's used to it.
She sits at her desk obsessing over the case again. As much as it disgusts her to see something so young die a terrible way, it's her job. Who else is going to seek justice for the victims? Page after page, paragraph after paragraph she reads it over and over memorizing it. She's in so deep she doesn't hear the squad room door swing open or the young woman speaking to Munch asking where Olivia Benson is.
When Munch comes over and taps her on the shoulder she visibly jumps. With an irritated look she asks what he wants. Munch tells her someone is looking for her. Prying herself from the case she stands up and makes her way towards an empty interrogation room.
She opens the door to see Alex sitting there with a bag of take out. She smiles, no one has ever done that for her.
"Hey."
"Hey, thought you could use some food. Sorry I didn't call. I saw that I was close to your precinct and decided to drop by instead. Is that ok?" She was talking fast, obviously nervous at being there. She looks up to see Olivia smiling her. She's definitely has done more of that since Alex told her to smile more.
Pulling Alex into a tight hug she expresses her joy of having her there. "Thank you, Alex. No one has ever done this for me. Though I wish we were going out to dinner somewhere nice instead of here."
"It's ok. We have plenty of time to go out later. You need to eat and go back to work." She says it in a sincere playful way. All the Detective could do is give her a kiss and hug her tighter.
Softening the grip she has on the blonde, Olivia looks into her eyes and is mesmerized by the understanding she sees in them. She kisses her again on the lips, on the cheek, trails kisses across the blondes jaw and close to her ear. With one last kiss behind Alex's ear Olivia whispers, "I think I'm falling for you Alex Cabot."
Alex body shivers as she feels the Detectives hot breath on her. She's falling for her to. "Me to."