…Alexandra Cabot, will you give my life meaning, will you make me the happiest woman in the world?...Lex, will you hold me in your heart always? Baby, marry me?"

"Oh my god…I can't believe I thought you…I never stopped to think…oh my god…" Alex laughed nervously in her completely shocked state.

Olivia smiled sadly and began to pull away.

Alex reached out quickly, sensing Olivia pulling away, and pulled her by the lapels of her leather jacket back to her. She moved her hands and cupped Olivia's face as their bodies came together.

"My Olivia, what a tangled web we weave…" Alex smiled and wiped Olivia's lingering tears away with her thumbs before she closed the small gap between them and kissed Olivia's slightly quivering lips. Alex pressed her lips to Olivia's tenderly and slowly licked Olivia's lips with the tip of here tongue. As she was granted access, she slid her tongue in to meet Olivia's. She moaned into the kiss as Olivia's arms encircled her waist eagerly and pulled her tightly against her body. Alex slid her fingers from Olivia's face and buried them in the Detective's hair as she tilted her head; deepening the searing kiss.

She slowed the kiss and returned her hands to cupping Olivia's face. Alex kept her lips resting lightly against Olivia's slight smiling ones; their lips touching every now and then as she spoke.

"Yes…yes, I will marry you Olivia, you are everything I want and everything I never knew I needed…God, how I love you…," She pulled back in to look deep into Olivia's soul capturing brown eyes. "…never never doubt that. You have held my heart for years Detective Benson; I think even before we decided to give us a chance, I loved you."

She looked at the slightly blushing Detective.

"How could I have lapsed huh? You really thought I wouldn't say 'yes'?" Alex continued as she moved in again to rest her forehead against Olivia's.

"It wasn't your fault Lex; honestly fear got the better of me and trust me; I won't let fear stand in the way of what I want again. I should have followed my feelings and known that you loved me enough to make this commitment."

"You know I was so close to asking Elliot what was going on with you but on some level I knew he would never betray your trust, he'd have just referred me back to you to get my answers."

"I really am sorry, Lex, I know I got hard to read…I was so intent on trying to study your actions and reactions that I threw you off."

"Let's not do that anymore, okay? For a detective and a prosecutor we sure can be clueless…" Alex grinned. "And, on a serious note, Liv, if there's something on our minds we need to talk to each other about it; no matter how we think the other might react…and I'm sorry too, I should have been more approachable."

Olivia pulled Alex close again and nuzzled her cheek and then kissed her neck lovingly as a sign of her love and forgiveness. The embrace reached a turning point when Olivia closed her mouth over the pulse point on Alex's neck and her hands started to drift down the ADA's back to within inches of suit pant clad rear.

"Mmm baby, I'm going to need to jump in this water to cool off if you keep doing that."

"Or we could always give these good people of Central Park a show?" Olivia mumbled against Alex's neck.

"Oh no, lover, I'm not sharing you…Casey escaped with her life because I finally thought about it and I know better but if someone tried to join in I might have to take legal action-"

"Legal action? On what charge?" Olivia moved away from Alex's neck before she got carried away and looked at her with an amused smirk.

"Oh I'll think of something, preferably something they could get the death penalty for…"

"Alex, you're soo bad."

"Yeah, and you love it." Alex said with confidence.

"Yeah…" Olivia grinned and took Alex's hand as they began to walk by mutual agreement.

"I'm going to head home since I have the afternoon off but I need to get some things. Walk me back to my office?"

"Sure, I need to be heading back to the squad room anyway. I haven't been very productive with my paper work lately and I don't officially have the afternoon off."

Alex let go of Olivia's hand and wrapped her arm around the Detective waist and leaned into her lover's side as Olivia slipped her own arm around her.

"I love you Olivia."

"And I love you Lex."

ALEX'S OFFICE

Olivia hovered in the office as Alex unlocked her top desk draw and pulled out a small stack of papers from a folder. She put them in her attaché case with some other folders.

As Alex locked up her office for the day and linked arms with the detective.

"Alex, thank you." Olivia said.

"For what?"

"For…you know, for saying yes."

"Olivia, you have no idea how happy you've made me, do you? …and of course I said yes, I like the idea of being Mrs. Benson.

"Mmm, I like that, but your last name is important to you and I don't want you to change it…"

"Umm, so thoughtful." A beat. "Oh God, I got ridiculous with Casey, I think I'll give her a call tomorrow and invite her to lunch."

"I'm invited too? Do we get to go to that nice Italian place?" Olivia grinned hopefully.

"No, sorry, this is an ADA thing, and good idea, she and I might go to that nice Italian place you like." Alex said jokingly and Olivia pouted.

"Fine, I guess you'll just have to find a way to make it up to me then, right?"

"Oh, I think we can work something out…maybe even tonight."

ALEX'S APARTMENT

Olivia was called into a case, but Alex had lovingly requested/demanded that she come over no matter how late.

Alex used the time Olivia was at work most constructively however. She took a long bath and stared at the ring on her finger with a silly look on her face for long minutes.

Her almost permanent smile widened as she jumped out of the tub and moved to the living room. She sat on the couch in just her robe and reached into the side table drawer; rummaging around for a business card she knew she had put there almost a month ago. She opened her attaché case and pulled out the papers she'd removed from the folder in her desk. She'd wanted to tell Olivia about the papers that would give Olivia half of everything she had, even her trust fund but she couldn't resist surprising her later. Another paper was for her Power of Attorney and another for Olivia to co-own her Porsche. There were a few others that would solidify Olivia's importance in her life and prove once and for all how much Olivia meant to her.

She finally she picked up the phone and dialed the number on the business card. She listened as it rang a couple times.

"Cartier Ring Consultant, this is Anthony how may I help you?"

THE END

Possible Sequel:

Finding Time

About: Alex and Olivia have decided to make a big commitment but when Olivia is never home after the squad gets a tough case and Alex is swamped with cases of her own, who is left to search for an apartment for them to share? Will they ever find the time to plan a wedding?