Casey's flight to Ohio got cancelled. There was a Midwest snowstorm that made it impossible to land in Ohio right now. She had been about to head to the airport when she got the news.
"DAMN!"
"Bad day?" Donnelly questioned.
"Cancelled flight."
"And that's why I take the train come Christmas time."
"It would be a long train ride to Ohio."
"Maybe tomorrow will be luckier."
Christmas Eve
It wasn't, at least not to start. Casey couldn't find a flight to Ohio to save her life. They were all cancelled. Frustrated, she got ready to spend her Christmas, home, alone eating Chinese food.
When her phone rang, she just said, "Novak!"
"Hey Novak, it's Stabler," Lizzie teased.
"Hey Lizze. How's your Chrismas?"
"Good. We have cookies and there are a lot of presents under the tree and Grandma made spiked eggnog and is drunk."
Casey laughed. "I'm glad you're enjoying it."
"How's Ohio?"
"I'm still in New York. My flight got snowed out."
"Who are you spending Christmas with?"
"Myself."
"Don't' be alone. Come over here."
"I don't want to intrude."
"You won't be. Liv used to come over here when she was single."
"But she and your Dad are partners."
"You and I are friends, and you work with Dad too. I'll ask Mom."
Before she could object, Kathy got on the phone and insisted Casey come over. "We have plenty of food, and we would love to have you."
Two hours later, Casey found herself at the Stabler house where Dickie and Lizzie were chasing each other around, Kathleen was on the phone, Maureen was on her iPad, and most of the adults had drinks in their hands while Kathy cooked.
Casey wasn't much of a cook, so she brought over gelato. She wouldn't admit to it, but she bought 5 containers for the price of 2 at the store, so she just took two of the unopened containers to their house.
She went to put it in the freezer and offered to help Kathy. "I'm kind of a cooking virgin, so you probably don't want to give me anything I can burn."
"How do you eat?"
"Takeout."
"You're just like Liv was. I swear she should have had a heart attack from all of those cheesesteaks."
Casey knocked on wood. "Although I usually end up eating more salads than cheesesteaks, well salad before my pizza."
"Tell me about your family."
Casey wasn't sure where to start. "Well, I have two older brothers. Kevin is married with two kids, and Ronnie is in the navy, with a girlfriend at every port. My parents are Irish Catholic and they keep waiting for me to settle down and start popping out grandkids."
"Anyone on the horizon?"
"Nope. I'm married to my job, and I'm almost okay with that."
"Just almost."
"It's been a while."
Kathy knew what she meant. "My second husband is my magic wand."
"Kathy, can you bring me another beer?" Elliot called from the living room
As Kathy brought drinks to the family room, Casey finally realized what Kathy meant by magic wand. She started to blush. She was more of a natural girl.
Dover, MA
Alex and Olivia took the twins to the main Cabot estate. Alex wanted to ride Chance and they wanted to show the twins the barn and its animals.
Lorelei enjoyed playing with the dog that still tried unsuccessfully to run with the horses, while Ollie watched Mama ride Chance.
Chance and Fantasia ran along side each other as Alex made her way around the ring. The bitter cold seemed to have no affect on them as they ran fast and made sharp turns.
The wind forced Alex's hair back as they went around the next bend.
Olivia couldn't help but watch Alex as her ass moved up and down.
I wish she was riding me right now.
As the baby grew, it was becoming harder and harder for Olivia to top Alex, which frustrated her. Alex was taking care of all of her sexual needs, but Olivia wanted to be able take the reigns sometimes, and to have to go for months without it was not ideal.
"Mommy, I have to potty," Lorelei told her.
"Me too."
They just started their potty training last month and had their pamper pull ups on.
"Let's go inside."
Alex, Olivia, and the twins returned to a full living room. Margo and Bill had arrived as had Liz and Serena Benson.
Hugs and kisses went all around. Sometimes, Olivia still couldn't believe that she had this giant family now.
Serena had been knitting a scarf. Lorelei took it and started wrapping it around her head.
"I'm not done with that yet." Serena had started knitting while she was in rehab. It gave her something to do.
Alex and Bill started talking about the law, as always. They had opposing views of Justice Scalia.
"You don't find him remarkable?" Bill questioned.
"I find his opinions entertaining. I don't always find them meritous. Similarly, I found Olivier Stone's biopic of the Doors very entertaining, but much of it was fiction."
"Oliver Stone, really?"
"Scalia's no Orson Wells."
Somehow their legal debate became a film debate. It mattered not what the debate was only that they were having it.
"How do they change what they're arguing about so quickly?" Olivia questioned.
"I gave up trying to understand those two when Alex was a teenager. They just have that quirky lawyer mind. How has your day been?"
"Really nice. We went out to see the horses. Alex went for a ride and the farmer's dog came over to play."
"Oh Sheeba is a sweetie, a bit of a licker though."
Liz and Serena played with the grandchildren.
"Did you want children of your own?" Serena asked her.
Liz shook her head. "I loved Alex, and Trey and I love most of my nieces and nephews, but I was too career driven for motherhood. I didn't want to be the kind of mother who hired a nanny and left them to raise my kids. I do everything 100% and I didn't have 100% for motherhood in me."
Serena couldn't say she had either. "I never thought I'd be a mother. I was all about being the feminist, academic who didn't need a man or a baby to be happy. I never thought a woman could have it all."
Her daughter and her daughter in law seemed to be pretty damn close. They both had their careers, beautiful kids, and a third one on the way. They made it happen.
Right before dinner, the last guests arrived. It was Trevor and Elsa Langan. They came bearing gifts for the twins.
"Welcome," Jennifer hugged both of them. "I'm glad you could make it."
"We almost didn't. The roads coming out of New York are a mess." They got through just before the roads started to close.
Wadsworth took their bags, and they went to freshen up before dinner.
"This house is even bigger than the Southerlyns.'" Elsa was already intimated.
"Don't worry about a thing. They're normal people, well as normal as Cabots can be." He calmed her with a kiss.
"EW! He has cooties!" Alex declared as she threw a nerf ball at him. It bounced off his belly.
"You little punk!" He started to chase her.
They were running around the living room before Walter chided them. "Aren't you two a bit old for these shenanigans?"
"She started it … He started it." They had both said at once.
"What did I do?" Trevor questioned.
"Your face."
"Real mature."
Walter shook his head. They'd always be like this.
Thirty minutes later, they were all around the dinner table, getting ready for a big feast.
The first course was an arugula, pear and goat cheese salad. Usually Olivia slides her salad over to Alex, but this time she scarfed it down.
"Like your salad?" Alex teased.
"I'm eating for two."
"Remember that the next time I'm pregnant," Alex told her with a smile. Liv had relentlessly teased her for how much she ate with the twins, especially when she ate pizza at 3AM.
"Already working on baby number four," Trevor teased.
"I'll always take more grandchildren," Walter told her.
"Calm down," Liz told him. "You're about to get another grandson as it is."
"Maybe we should get the twins in kindergarten before we have another baby," Olivia told her.
"That's a good idea."
Elsa couldn't help but be a bit jealous. She wasn't ready for children yet, but she wanted to be ready. She wanted to give Trevor little Langans to have running around their house.
The next course was pumpkin soup, served in hollowed out little pumpkins.
"These are so cute," Margo told her sister.
Lorelei got soup all over her face. Alex kept cleaning it, just for her to mess it up again.
"Why don't you wait until she's done?" Olivia suggested.
"I'm just trying to keep the soup out her hair."
After soup came pork chops and roasted potatoes followed by a cheese plate and then a cinnamon white chocolate soufflé to finish off the meal.
The drinks kept flowing for those who partook in alcohol and everyone was feeling good by the end of the evening.
"Ready to go upstairs," Elsa asked a bit loudly.
Alex snickered at her.
Before they all went their separate ways, the twins got to open one present before Christmas Day.
Alex grabbed one present for Lorelei and Olivia grabbed one for Ollie.
"From Uncle Bill and Aunt Margo," Alex read before Lorelei tore open the packaging. It was a toy convertible car. Right away, she started wheeling it around.
Margo thought she saw a bit of a tomboy in her.
Ollie's present came from Trevor and Elsa. It was a toy xylophone. He started to hit the keys with his hands while Lorelei was zooming around.
Jennifer took way too many pictures.
"Mom, the flash is going to make me blind," Alex fussed.
"But the twins are so cute. They make the best Christmas cards." This year's card was a picture of them opening their presents last Christmas.
New York
The Stabler house had fewer overall people than the Cabot house, but it had more youth, so it was a wilder affair.
People were yelling over each other trying to hear bits and pieces of conversation. Kathleen was texting under the table to her mother's chagrin.
Kathy's parents were eager to talk to Casey, as they had not met her before.
"How long have you been working with SVU?"
"Almost two years now." It had started off as a temporary assignment and then it became the real deal.
"How did you get the assignment?"
"I was filling in for a coworker who had been on maternity leave, but when she came back, she ended up getting a promotion, so I kept her job."
"Whatever happened to Olivia? She used to come over sometimes," Kathy's mother asked.
"She's married now," Kathy told her.
"And she has two kids," Dickie added.
"Soon to be three," Lizzie added.
"Oh how lovely," Kathy's father stated. "What does her husband do?"
Elliot had a smirk. Wait until they her this!
"Her wife is the Bureau Chief of SVU," Kathy said cautiously.
"Damn it," he cursed as he handed his wife $20.
"I told you."
"What?" Elliot questioned.
"I pegged her as gay years ago. I knew he'd have to pay up eventually."
"You knew?"
"I suspected. Come on, the short hair, leather jacket, cocky swagger, I may be old but I'm not dead."
If Kathy's parents minded Olivia's persuasion, they did not say so. Instead, Kathy's mother asked if they had any pictures of Olivia's family. Kathy found the Halloween picture for them to look at.
"Oh they have twins, and they're so cute."
"Her wife is a looker."
Kathy's parents were Catholic and conservative, but they were fond of Liv, and they wanted her to be happy. They also noticed Elliot's attraction to the brunette, and it was in Kathy's interest that Liv bat for the other team.
Kathy was happy to see that her parents were becoming more open minded with time. She didn't think they would have approved ten years ago or even five years ago.
Elliot merely grunted. He didn't see how Kathy's parents approved of Alex for Olivia. She's a woman, and an uptight bitch at that. Elliot considered himself a good catch. He was a marine, went to college, became a police officer yet his in laws still looked at him as if Kathy had settled.
"You said something about another baby?" Kathy's mother questioned.
"Olivia's pregnant," Kathy told them. "They're having another son."
"They better be ready to run around. Little boys can be a lot of trouble."
"Dickie is living proof," Lizzie teased.
Dover, MA
Trevor usually fell asleep right after sex, but Elsa was a post-sex chatterbox.
"Do twins run in your family?"
"Huh."
"They either run in your family or Alex's and if we try to have a baby, we might need to be prepared for twins."
"Oh, um I don't know of any other twins in my family. Are you thinking about having a baby?"
"It's too soon, but I wish it weren't."
"What?"
"Alex and Olivia are so in sync with each other. They're basically finishing each other's sentences and know when to pass the other one food. I wonder if that came from parenting together."
"You think a baby would bring us more in sync."
"Yeah."
"Maybe they knew they were ready because they were already in sync," Trevor countered before turning to his wife. "I love you, Els, and I'd love baby Elsas running around, but I think we need at least another year or two before we try for that, and that's just fine. Why not spend the time getting to know each other, intimately."
"How intimately?"
He grinned and pulled her back under the sheets.
Christmas Day
When Alex woke up, she was hungry. She was about to get out of bed and get a snack when she saw the sun shining on Olivia's perfect body. Alex licked her lips and rolled on top of her wife.
Alex kissed her cheeks and her forehead before giving her a soft kiss on the mouth.
Olivia opened her eyes to see Alex over her.
"Merry Christmas Baby."
Olivia grinned. "Do you have a present for me?"
"I do."
"Show me!"
Alex kissed her neck and started caressing her shoulders with her long fingers.
"OOHH!"
"I want to devour every inch of you," Alex husked into her ear before licking her wife's neck.
"FUCK!"
Alex relished in her wife's sweet and salty skin, moving along her collar bone, lavishing her breasts with kisses and caresses before kissing her wife's stomach, hips and inner thighs.
Olivia's legs automatically opened. She was so close and her wife hadn't even gotten to the good part yet.
Alex skipped her wife's sex and went on to her feet. She started to massage them.
"Stop teasing me!"
"You don't like this?"
"You know I love it when you rub my feet, but right now I want you to eat me!"
"Okay," Alex teased before sucking on her wife's toes.
Olivia glared.
Alex smirked before making her way up to her wife's swollen lips and sucking on them.
"MORE!"
She plunged two fingers inside, curling them forward to touch her g-spot.
"AHHHH!" Olivia shrilled loudly as she came all over her wife. Her hormones made her come so easily that Alex couldn't tease her for too long. Olivia swore that she could come just from Alex watching her lustfully.
The Chief wanted to see how much she could get out of her wife, so she kept licking her, forcing orgasm after orgasm until Olivia pushed her head away.
"Merry Christmas, Liv."
Olivia needed to rest. "Oh Lord."
"I'm Alex, remember."
"You cocky bitch."
"You know you love it."
"I don't know about that, but I love you."
They shared a sweet kiss and cuddled before it was time to freshen up. They had to get themselves and the twins ready for Christmas breakfast.
The cook had two options for breakfast: crab cake Benedict with bacon or pancakes with fresh fruit and a choice of meat.
Olivia ordered the pancakes for herself, but she couldn't help but eye her wife's breakfast as well.
Alex offered her a bite, but then Olivia ate half her plate, so Alex had to order another one.
"I'm eating for two," Olivia said in defense of a silent accusation.
"But I still need to eat for one."
Olivia kissed her nose. "I love you."
They were about to go to the presents when the doorbell rang. It was Trevor Sr. with presents for the twins.
"Trevor, come in."
This was the first time he saw his daughter in law since she and his son eloped. This was a bit awkward for him. Eventually, he moved one foot after the other and got himself to the Christmas tree.
"Did you want any breakfast?" Jennifer offered.
"I already ate, but thank you."
The twins ran right up to their grandfather. He always came with presents.
The family gathered around the Christmas tree. The twins kept trying to run to the presents.
"Patience," Alex told them as she tried to get them to sit on her lap.
"Mine!" Ollie declared as he saw a box.
Jennifer and Walter started cracking up. "Oh he's just like his Mama. We couldn't keep you out of the presents when you were little."
Alex pouted before she handed him to his Mommy. "Your brother's in there."
"BRUDDA!" He poked his Mommy's belly.
Lorelei bee-lined for the presents, but then Serena scooped her up. "Come to Grandma!"
Trevor Sr. noticed that she had a bright smile when she picked up her granddaughter. He could see where Olivia had gotten her beauty.
The little monsters got all kinds of toys from stuffed animals to a car they could move with their feet. Each time the twins opened a new toy it immediately became their favorite one.
The adults happily looked on as they played.
"We're so lucky," Alex whispered against her wife's skin. They had two precious babies and a new one on the way.
Olivia held her hand. "I'm even luckier because I have all of this and you."
There was no way for Alex or Olivia to top the past presents they had given each other on Christmas. They got engaged one year. They got a house and car for their family the next year. They had everything they needed or wanted. It didn't mean they didn't try though.
Alex gave Olivia floor seats like she did last year, but she added a twist. "I already called Kathy, and Dickie is free to go to the Knicks/Bulls game next month." She knew her wife wanted to spend more time with the boy.
"That's perfect," Olivia kissed her.
Alex had also given her wife a ticket for a pregnancy massage, and a new ergonomic chair for her desk at work. "I know you'll be going on maternity leave soonish, but you can take the chair with you back to SVU."
Olivia kissed her, "taking care of me as always."
Olivia had a present for Alex that she knew would make her woman smile.
Alex opened it and saw a photo of an island sunset. She turned it over and saw taped to the back a reservation for a house in Molokai in October. They had a week there.
"You're not the only one who can plan a trip." Olivia had thought about surprising the blonde, but she hated keeping secrets, so it would have been hard to pull off.
Alex had always wanted to go to Hawaii. "I can't wait to see what you planned for us."
They shared a quick kiss.
The Stabler children were excitedly opening their presents. While her siblings opened them in whatever order, Lizzie sorted her presents.
"What are you doing?" Kathy asked her.
"I'm ranking the presents, so that I open the best one last."
"How do you know which one will be the best?"
"Liv and Alex are both good at reading people. I don't think they could give a bad gift, well unless they didn't like you."
Dickie opened the present they got him. "A Stephan Marbury jersey." Inside with the jersey was a note. We thought you could wear this to the Knicks/Bulls game in January. See you at the Garden! "WOOHOO!"
"I rest my case," Lizzie told her mother.
Kathy shook her head. "Our kids like them better than me."
Casey patted her back. "I always liked my mom's friends better than her too."
Kathy's jaw dropped. What a bitch!
"I'm just teasing. They love you. Just let them be materialistic this one day."
Kathy snorted. "You're mean."
"You know you like it."
Maureen got a coupon so she could have heated seats put in her car. "There is a god."
Kathleen got a cute dress with matching shoes and a note. If Danny sees you in this, I'm sure he'll ask you to the Valentine's Dance.
Lizzie got two one-hour sessions in the batting cages and two tickets to a Yankees game. The note said, we wanted to send you to the NCAA Softball World Series but it's in Oklahoma. "Casey, will you go with me?"
She looked to Kathy for confirmation and she nodded. "Sure."
"Awesome!"
Elliot frowned. Why was Casey the first person she asked?
Kathy liked everyone who cared for her children, and Casey clearly cared. Lizzie was quiet. It was hard to get her to open up to people, so it was notable that she had taken to Casey so quickly.
Dover, MA
Alex had another surprise for Olivia once they got upstairs. Jennifer and Walter would be watching the twins first. They were so popular that the adults would argue over who got to watch them and for how long.
The Chief handed her wife a box. Olivia opened it to see a green dildo and black spanks that it could affix to. "I think this will be easier for you than the straps."
"How am I going to take you with this big belly?"
Alex grinned. "Leave that to me."
They started with simple kisses and caresses. Before they knew it, the two women had fallen out of their clothes. Alex helped Olivia get into the spanks and then attached the cock.
"Lie back on the pillows."
Olivia got comfortable and then Alex straddled her. She leaned back so she was on her forearms. With her legs opened wide, there was plenty of room for them to maneuver.
Alex started to rock her hips back and forth. "Take me Baby."
The detective heard that throaty groan and started to drive her hips. She was always horny and having a naked Alex on top of her only made it worse. "Touch yourself," Olivia hissed at her. "I want you to come with me."
Alex started stroking her own clit.
"OH FUCK, LIV!"
"LEXI OH LEXI!"
Their voices were full of desire and desperation. They both had this aching feeling that was …
"OH FUCK!" They came as close to the same time as possible before Alex slipped off her.
"How was that Baby?"
Olivia groaned happily.
Alex kissed her and then pulled down her spanks. She was sure she could get Olivia off again with just a few licks.
Olivia put her hand in Alex's hair, at first to push her away, but then she gripped her hair. She was sensitive and it almost hurt, but it still felt really good.
"I need to … OH FUCK!" Olivia came again and then pushed Alex's head away.
The Bureau Chief grinned as she kissed her way back up to Olivia's neck. "Merry Christmas Love."
"Merry Christmas indeed," Olivia mumbled as she started to doze off.
Serena and Trevor Sr. were next in line to watch the twins. Their grandmother decided to read to them Where the Wild Things Are, which she read to Olivia when she was a little girl.
Trevor played the harmonica as an accompaniment, which Serena thought was goofy yet charming.
The twins also got Green Eggs and Ham, Ramona and the Pest, and The Tiger Who Came to Tea.
Trevor thought it was cool that Serena had books from Olivia's childhood to read to the grandbabies.
"I can't say I was the best mother," Serena said, far from it. "But I wanted her to be able to reach for the stars. Books teach you how to do that, well they had taught me."
She would say the simplest things, but they always amazed him. Trevor didn't know what he was feeling right now, but whatever it was, was something new, something that wasn't there before.
Before he could think further, Margo and Liz came to kick them out.
"It's our turn," Margo declared.
The twins were conked out on the couch.
"Why don't you check out the main house?" Liz suggested. "There's more to do over there."
"I haven't been over there since the wedding," Serena told them.
"Then we should go," Trevor insisted. "The horses are lovely."
Serena was actually scared of horses. She only signed up Olivia because the girl had begged, but she felt embarrassed saying so, so she said, "okay."
They got in his car and drove off.
"It's nice that they're getting along," Margo pointed out.
"Oh, I just wanted to make sure they didn't try to swipe the twins," Liz chuckled.
"You're sneaky."
"Oh I know." Serena got to babysit them anyway. It was time for Aunt Liz.
A half our later, Trevor was getting Pollux (Jennifer's horse) ready. "He's the most docile," Trevor told Serena. Chance was second and Fantasia was a bit wild.
"I've never been on a horse before," she admitted.
"Oh, I'll show you. It's easy."
He got on and showed her how to get the horse to start. "Just kick his side. It's more of a tap. Use the reins to steer and pull to get him to slow down or stop." He slid down and then helped her get up.
This is high! It was cool though, once she stopped freaking out.
He got Chance ready and got on him. "Shall we?"
They went into the ring, starting with a slow and easy walk. Serena wanted to yelp every second of the way but it was fun. She never thought she'd be on a horse. For a long time, she never thought she'd be able to do much of anything.
They only stayed out for a half an hour. It was rather cold outside even though it had stopped snowing the night before.
They got the horses back into the barn and then went into the main house.
Serena still couldn't believe people grew up in this house. It was huge and majestic and so unreal.
Trevor started searching for food. He was hungry. "All I see is chocolate and milk."
"Then hot chocolate it is." Serena got a pot and started to make some.
The day after Christmas, Elsa and Trevor were flying to Paradise Island for their honeymoon.
They were about to leave for Logan Airport when Trevor's father asked for a word with them.
"I wanted to apologize for freaking out when you told me you two had gotten married. Even a blind man could see how happy you two are together, and I hope we can start again."
Elsa hugged him readily.
"We'll talk when I get back, Dad." It was nice that someone in his family supported his marriage. He knew his mother never would. She was not the kind to get over grudges, ever, choosing to spend Christmas being pampered by masseuses and manicurists instead of with her family.
She didn't even see her own husband until after dinner, since he chose to eat at the Cabots.
He went to greet her and she glared. "How long does it take to drop off presents?"
"I stayed to play with them," and talk to Serena, but you need not know that.
"Humph."
Classic Audra, Trevor thought as he headed to his office.