Love Always, Liv
By: Liv-x-Case-Benson & dcmasters
Ch. 3: Attention-Grabbed
She deliberately woke before Olivia to get herself up and ready but groaned in frustration when her lack of muscle coordination in the morning combined with her shakes prevented her from doing up the zip on her skirt or the buttons on her blouse.
"Want some help?" Olivia asked, sitting up and walking over.
"I don't have much choice."
Olivia smiled, buttoning Casey's blouse and zipping her skirt. "You know, if you ever need help with this again and we haven't been together the night before, just walk into the precinct bathroom. I'll follow you."
Casey nodded. "You shouldn't have to, but thanks."
Olivia hugged her tightly. "It's no trouble. Do you have more meds to take?"
"Yeah, all of the ones from last night and the fourth."
Olivia grabbed Casey's bag and the four pill bottles, setting them on the nightstand before grabbing Casey another half glass of water and walking back in. She set the water on the nightstand, extracting the four pills, handing them to Casey. "Here."
Casey's hand shook as she raised it to her mouth having a few attempts at picking up the glass before finally taking them. "Sorry, looks like today is a bad day," she apologized.
Olivia shook her head, holding the glass up to Casey's lips. "Here, baby."
Casey gave a small smile as she drank enough water to properly swallow the pills down then sat on the edge of the bed with a sigh. "Can you drive me this morning?"
Olivia nodded, kissing her soundly. "Call me if you need me to come grab anything. Otherwise, I'll take you to lunch, ok?"
"Can you bring me lunch? I'd rather not eat out on a bad day."
Olivia nodded. "Call me around a quarter to and I'll run and pick something up, ok?" she said, hugging her.
"Ok," Casey smiled, kissing Olivia gently before they set off.
Casey's morning seemed to be going slowly, and Olivia's not much better as Elliot sat observing her during surveillance. He'd been watching her troubled face for the past hour and finally decided to break the silence. "Liv..." he said, placing a supportive hand on her knee, "What's wrong? You look miserable."
Olivia looked up. "Just couldn't sleep. I'm ok, really."
His eyebrows furrowed. "Come on, I know you better than that. You look like you've got the weight of the world on your shoulders.
Olivia sighed, shaking her head. "I'm just having a tough time with Casey."
"You want to talk about it?"
"No, I'll be ok. Really. You'll be the first to know if I need something," Olivia said.
Elliot nodded. They both knew better than to push the other to talk. "There's our guy, let's go. Radio it in."
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