The Oddly Perfect Couple - Chapter 4
John Munch woke up in a bed that was not his own. At first the thought scared him, but it was when he remembered exactly whose bed he was in that he let out a relieved, happy sigh. He turned over to face Olivia's sleeping figure and wrapped his arms around her gently.
I'm dating Olivia Benson.
It's almost as if he has just realized it, like it took his mind that long to comprehend such an unlikely thing, an absurd thought. He tests the sentence out on his tongue, " I'm dating Olivia Benson." It is just his luck that Olivia chooses to wake up at this very moment, "Really? And I'm dating John Munch, what a coincidence." She teases him, pulling him even closer than he was before. She's tried verbally testing out their relationship too, so she doesn't think he's weird. He winces, "Must you always find the perfect ways to embarrass me?"
"Yeah, and you wanna know why?" She asked seriously, and he waited for the answer, " 'Cause you are extremely cute when you're embarrassed."
"Well, your extremely sexy when you do anything." He said in response .
"Yeah, your that to," She agreed. He pulled her chin up and kissed her thoroughly.
"That, I doubt."
"John Munch," She said as if warning a five year old never to say a really bad word ever again, "You can not possibly kiss me like that and then deny what you just denied."
"What did I deny again?" He asked mock-seriously.
Olivia would have thrown her arms up in defeat if they currently weren't trapped at her sides from his tender, yet strong grip.
"You, are impossible." She stated. Munch put his head down so it was resting on her shoulder and said smugly, " I know." She turned over and released herself from his grip, positioning herself so that she was half on top of him, " Are you glad you stayed last night?" She asked, kissing his each of his shoulder blades delicately, Munch had to force himself to remember to breathe.
"Definitely" He confirmed in a breathless tone, grabbing her and pulling her lips to meet his. The kiss was just beginning to turn into something more when there was a banging on the door.
" Ignore it." Said Munch firmly. The banging stopped, but was replaced by a familiar voice, " Olivia! You in there?" Stabler. Thought Munch. This was not good.
"Liv, get up, get dressed. Want me to hide?" He asked, jumping up from bed and beginning to change into the clothes he had worn the day before. Olivia laughed, "Where would you hide?" She asked incredulously.
"Just forget it."
Olivia was at the door in record time, only looking slightly ruffled. To bad Elliot was a detective, he'd probably figure it out. "Hi, El." She said, opening the door. "I must have forgotten to set my alarm".
Which was part true, she hadn't set it last night, but there was no way he was going to find out why. Elliot cocked an eyebrow. Darn, looks like he didn't believe her. "I'll be down at the station in fifteen minutes El, thanks for waking me up."
"Want me to drive you?" He asked sincerely.
"No, that's okay, really, I'll just- he interrupted her, " You'll just call your old boyfriend to pick you up?" Elliot teased. Munch must have thought Elliot had left already, because as if on cue, he walked into the main room. "Livvie," he looked at the scene before him, Olivia was covering her face with her hands and Stabler looked about ready to bolt. That, or vomit all over Olivia's floor.
Oh, Crap.
"Stabler." He acknowledged. Elliot just nodded dumbly. After a moment he spoke, " I'll- I'll go now, see you guys at work, s-sorry to intrude, it's just..." He was rambling, and he knew it. Munch just smirked at the poor guy.
"Just don't tell anyone about this, okay Stabler?"
Elliot nodded, gulped, and left, closing the door behind him.
"Think we scarred him permanently this time?" Asked Munch.
"Well, since you forgot to put your shirt on, I'd say, yeah." Munch looked down, and sure enough, nothing was covering the upper part of his body. He laughed, "Poor guy."
"Yeah, now we better get ready before the captain has our heads. We're already a half hour late as it is." Said Olivia. Munch nodded, and made a move to go back to the bedroom. Olivia grabbed his arm, "Don't bother, you always keep a change of clothes in your trunk, right?" He nodded.
"Good," she said, "I'll go get them."
She walked down to Munch's car at the end of the street, and returned five minutes later with his clothes. "Here. Go get changed, I'll make breakfast."
"Yes ma'am!" Munch mock saluted and grabbing his clothes from her hands, headed down the hallway.
Within a half hour they were both seated on the couch eating pancakes as fast as they could. When they finally finished Munch grabbed his and Olivia's coat off the floor.
" Come on," He said, pecking her on the cheek, "Let's see how much Finn tries to interrogate us this time. Though I'm sure he won't want to know the answer," He said, then thought for a moment, "That is, if Stabler hasn't ratted us out already."
"Oh, god, I hope not," She said tiredly. Together the walked down the street to Munch's car and hopped in.
TBC