A/N: Ah, a new chapter.
Wigler; To answer your question, the reason Kim is a character in the filter, is because she's an SVU character. A few months ago, I had requested the site add Abbie as a character because as she did act as SVUs ADA for a few episodes that did technically make her viable as an SVU character. However, Serena on the other hand belongs to the mothership therefore I can't exactly put her in the filter because she isn't selectable character for this show. So that's why Kim's in here instead because is kinda important to the story :)
Enjoy!
Alex is standing in a mirror looking interestedly at a pair of earrings when she feels someone come up behind her. Seeing Casey's reflection in the mirror, a small smile spreads across her lip, only for said smile to fall open and her face turn to shock when Casey drapes a rather looking expensive necklace around her neck. "Oh my god, Case…"
"Before you say anything, do you like it?" Casey murmurs, admiring her amazing and accurate choice on how a beautiful necklace would look on an extremely beautiful woman.
"Do I like it?" Alex repeats with a nervous chuckle as she lifts her fingers to lightly graze against the sparkling diamonds on said necklace. "I love it, but Casey…"
"Do you want it?" Casey asks, once again interrupting her as she knows exactly what Alex is going to say. When she receives silence as a question she chuckle quietly and steps in closer, close enough for her to place an intimate kiss to the blonde's neck against the awareness of anyone else in the jewelers. "If I bought it for you, would you wear it?"
Shuddering at the feeling of Casey's breath against her ear, Alex swallows thickly and repeatedly to regain some of the moisture that has been lost in her mouth. Finally after returning her brain from being useless mush, she shakily nods her head, just barely managing a response. "I would wear it but…you know that it's too expensive."
"Hey," Casey begins, shaking her head as she spins Alex around so she can look her in the eyes. "Alex, there is absolutely nothing, that is too expensive for you, do you hear me? Nothing is too expensive for you."
"I still don't know Casey…it just looks like it costs and awful lot so I can't imagine how much it really costs."
"The cost is just a bunch of numbers." Casey says with a nonchalant shrug as she leans in closer, her lips just a millimeter away from Alex's as she drops her voice down to a whisper. "It looks beautiful on you; you said you would wear it which means you like it, and I want you to have it. It's perfect."
"I love it." Alex murmurs, closing the last small amount of distance between them to give Casey a light peck on the lips, not too long to be seen as publically inappropriate but also not show short as to not be passionate. "Thank you."
"Just let me find the jeweler and she'll wrap it up for us." Casey says, before she leans in and places another gentle kiss to Alex's cheek. "I love you."
"I love you too."
Abbie shuffles her feet slightly as she raises her hand to knock on the apartment door. After knocking, she stands for a few moments of silence, frowning when she swears she hears noise on the other side. So, she does what any normal person would do and she knocks once again.
Only this time, there is a quiet amount of shuffling to the door before there is a fair amount of noise at the front door right before it swings open. Open to Serena who looks halfway fearful at first sight, but she immediately relaxes when she sees who it is.
"Um, Hi. Can I…" Abbie begins, but finds herself cut off when Serena all but pulls her into the apartment and proceeds to check the hallway outside. "Um…"
"Hi." Serena says quickly, sticking her head out of the door and looking up and down the hall before coming back inside. She makes sure to carefully redo all of the locks and double check them before she returns to the living room and places the bat she carried to the door by the couch. "Sorry about that."
"It's…no problem." Abbie responds as she carefully blinks and tilts her head. "Are you alright? You looked like you were expecting someone and you intended to greet them with a bat to the head."
Serena blushes heavily and chuckles nervously as she gives a half shrug. "I…yeah, sorry…." She murmurs again as she goes over to her window and looks out of it before pulling the curtains shut again. "I…I was walking home a few nights ago and I thought I heard someone calling my name. I turned around and I thought I saw my ex, but then I looked back again and she was gone. I was just being a little paranoid, but I couldn't help but have this nagging feeling in the pit of my stomach that she's coming for me."
Abbie nods her head in understanding as she feels bad for this woman. "If you don't mind me saying, you look like you could use a talk." She says quietly as she slowly steps closer to where Serena has rooted herself to the center of the room. "And I can be a really good listener when it comes to things like this."
Opening her mouth Serena intends to deny the offer, before a pain in her chest allows for her to fully realize she does need to talk. She slowly lowers herself down to the sofa and pats the cushion next to her, motioning for Abbie to do the same. "I've been living in fear ever since I left her." She begins quietly.
"That's understandable…" Abbie says softly. "With how you told me the relationship ended and everything, I can't even begin to imagine how afraid you must be."
"But that was months ago!" Serena exclaims, throwing up her hands in frustration. "That was months ago and I'm still living in this fear of her coming for me because I left her. When we got together and everything was fine, I wanted to be with her forever. But then, things just changed and then I wanted to leave. When she was able to figure out I was planning on leaving, she told me that I couldn't. That she owned me and that I've given up the right to think for myself. I tried to sneak out a few times, but she always caught me and made me go back to bed with her."
"Serena…did she…" Abbie trails off quietly, trying to piece together in her mind out to put what she wants to ask gently.
Serena however, catches on immediately and she shakes her head as a sad laugh escapes her lips. "No, she never forced me to have sex. She just forced me to look happy when I wasn't and she'd hit me when I wasn't. She'd make sure the bruises were in places where people couldn't see them though." she explains, wiping away the tears that make their way down her cheeks before she runs her finger along the noticeable scar on her arm. "As I told you, the day that I actually had the courage to walk out is the day that I got this. When she told me to get upstairs, she hit me so hard the room spun. That was the first and only time I actually fought back, but she was able to overpower me. She pushed me hard into the coffee table and then after that she beat me so badly that I blacked out into unconsciousness. When I came to, she was gone and I grabbed my stuff and walked to the nearest hospital. I didn't want to tell the police what happened…I was too afraid."
"Serena, you should have!" Abbie exclaims probably a little louder than necessary. "She needed to pay for what she did to you and she doesn't deserve to be walking the streets where she can find you and hurt you again!"
"Abbie, it's okay." Serena states with a small smile as she places a slightly shaking hand over Abbie's shoulder. "I just didn't want to tell the police because I didn't want to have to relive everything that I went through with her. I couldn't bring myself to do it. But it's okay now."
Taking a deep breath, Abbie nods her head and drags her hands through her hair. "I know…I just, I just don't want you to get hurt. You're a really…you're a really nice person and I just don't want you getting hurt because of some lowlife. You don't deserve that."
Serena smiles and takes one of Abbie's hands in her own, giving it a gentle squeeze. "And you're super sweet. Alex is lucky to have you." she exclaims before taking her hand back. "Now, if you don't mind me asking, I really wasn't expecting you to show up. Especially at this time in the evening; is something wrong?"
"No, nothing's wrong, I just…well, Alex is out of town on a business trip for work and I just kind of wanted to get out of the house." Abbie explains with a halfway nervous shrug. "I was planning on going to see a movie on my way over I thought about you and so I thought I would swing by and ask if you'd like to join me? It's okay if you don't or if you have something better to do with your evening, I was just wondering…"
"I'd really like that." Serena responds with a warm smile as she stands up from her sofa. "Before you came, I was working on cover art for the book that I'm writing, but I can always do that another time. Here, just let me grab a jacket and we can head out."
"So, I didn't know you were writing a book." Abbie explains, shoving her hands into her pockets as they make the short distanced walk to the theater from Serena's apartment. "How did I not know this before?"
Giggling quietly, Serena shrugs her shoulders. "I don't know, I guess I just never really talked about it before." She laughs before continuing on. "But yeah, I'm writing a book. Well, it's kind of an autobiography, but they don't need to know that everything in it is based on a true story."
"I see." Abbie hums, with a nod. "Well, maybe you'll let me read a little part of it some time? Unless you don't want to, then that's cool too…"
"No, actually, I think that'd be great. It'd be good to have the opinion of someone else for a change." Serena explains as they reach the theater and step up to the booth to purchase their tickets.
Just as they step into the theater, Serena dismisses herself to make a quick rest room stop, leaving Abbie alone to purchase any snacks they wish to have for their movie. As the makes her way over to the concession stand, she immediately recognizes Kim practically hanging off of a woman she's never seen before, in the concession line. Then again, she isn't exactly sure why she's surprised; it is Kim after all.
"Kim?" Abbie calls out, startling the other woman briefly before she holds up her hand. "I'm sorry I didn't mean to scare you."
Rolling her eyes, Kim murmurs something incoherent under her breath before she forces a smile and turns around. "Hi, Abbie. What a surprise."
"I could say the same." Abbie responds before she turns and immediately flinches when catches Kim's date sizing her up. Smiling nervously she extends her hand, hoping it isn't shaking too much. "Um, hi…I…I'm Abbie."
The woman however, simply says nothing in response as she her eyes briefly flicker down to Abbie's extended hand as she has makes no move to shake it.
Clearing her throat, Kim hopes to relieve the awkwardness of the situation as she wraps her both of her arms around her date's torso and gently rests her cheek against her shoulder. "Abbie, this is Olivia. She teaches my kickboxing class."
Blinking rapidly, Abbie immediately turns back to Kim. "You take kickboxing?" she asks, the disbelief apparent in her voice.
"Hey, a girl has to know how to defend herself." Kim responds sassily as she places a hand on her hip, feigning offense. "What're you doing here?"
"Oh, Alex is on that business trip so I decided to come see a movie with a friend." Abbie responds, trying not to feel scrutinized under Olivia's hard gaze.
A look of some sort passes across Kim's face as her mouth falls open to question Alex's whereabouts before something in the back of her mind clicks and she snaps her mouth shut. "Oh, that's right." she responds, pretending to know what business trip Abbie is referring to while trying to will away the small tinge of hurt that her best friend didn't tell her about something. "I suppose that makes sense. Anyway, we should really be going now. It was nice seeing you. C'mon Liv."
"Uh, yeah…" Abbie responds, watching as Kim practically drags Olivia towards one of the theaters. Normally she wouldn't thinking was up but considering Kim Greylek just told her it was 'nice seeing her' something is most definitely going on. She just doesn't know what it is yet.
Walking with shopping bags in hand, Casey shoulders open the door to their hotel suit opening it wide enough for Alex to move past. "I told you once you got going you wouldn't be able to stop." She jokes, looking at the number of bags lined up both of their arms.
"Well it's your fault." Alex calls back as she drops her bags to the floor and flops on her back onto the couch with an audible sigh of relief. "I don't think I'll ever walk again after this afternoon."
"I felt like I let a kid loose in a candy store." Casey jokes as she enters the room, carrying around six shoe boxes as well as plethora of bags up her arms. "Who knew you actually liked shopping?"
Looking up from her spot on the couch, Alex sticks out her tongue. "In my defense, I've never been shopping like that. I've been the bystander when Kim shops like this and I just get whatever when she cons me into letting her pay for it."
Sitting down the boxes and bags, Casey saunters over to the cough and lowers herself onto the cushions. She crawls across the length of the sofa to where she is hovering over Alex, smirking down at her. "The main part about today is that you enjoyed yourself." She murmurs before she leans down and claims Alex's lips in a hot kiss.
Moaning into the kiss, Alex reaches up and wraps her arms around Casey's neck, pulling her down on top of her so their bodies are flush against one another. Their tongues twist and duel against one another as Casey reaches a hand between them and begins to gently massage Alex's right breast through her bra.
"Flawless. Simply flawless." Casey whispers, dipping her head to nip at Alex's chin before she begins tracing trail of love bites from her jaw to her ear and down her neck. When she reaches Alex's ear, she gives the lobe a small tug before she slightly sticks out her tongue and traces a trail of hot desire back to her jaw line. "And I can't wait to make you mine."
"And I can't wait to be yours." Alex whispers back, pulling Casey back to her lips as she hooks a leg around her waist. "Take me."
Roughly an hour or so later, Casey lay awake in their hotel room with her arm wrapped protectively around Alex's waist while the blonde slumbers quietly on her shoulder. She gently runs her hand through silky blonde tresses before she leans down and places a gentle kiss to her forehead.
Her thoughts of the beautiful woman in her embrace are jarred by the slight buzzing of her phone on the end table. "Novak," she responds to the call professionally, in case it's a business partner calling about a deal. She smiles on the other end of the line however when she realizes it's a personal call.
"Yes, that's the one I ordered. The diamonds finally arrived? Excellent! No, of course, I want you to start working right away. The sooner it's done the better. Great. Oh, one more thing, when you finish setting the stones. I want you to engrave the inside." Casey pauses briefly, tapping her fingers against her chin for a brief moment before she grins widely.
"Put something romantic like 'here's to a wonderful new beginning'. Yes, I know, I'm a natural born poet." She smiles, her eyes once again dropping to the sleeping blonde on her shoulder.
'A wonderful new beginning indeed.'
*Chung Chung* Olivia made an appearance...but what important role does she play now, hmmmm? And was I telling the truth earlier when I said I didn't have a spot for her in this story? Hmmmmm? Leave your thoughts!
