The next day, Alex strutted into the squad room with her usual grace. Olivia watched her partner look anywhere that wasn't Alex and she found herself trying to calm a racing heart. She wasn't sure why she was nervous. Alex was her friend. Although she usually didn't watch her friends dance around a pole, on a table with almost nothing on.
To make matters worse, Alex sat on the edge of Olivia's desk. This was not unusual, but Olivia took notice of how high Alex skirt rose when she sat and how the pale expanse of leg looked toned and firm against the wood of the desk.
"So," Alex readjusted her glasses, "What's the news?"
Fin walked over to Alex and handed over a fold, "The perp has been spotted in his old neighborhood. A source of mine said that he's hiding out at his mom's house."
"Is the informant reliable?" Alex asked looking up from the folder at Fin.
"He's provided information to narcotics on a regular basis," Fin put his hands in his pockets. He glanced at Elliot whose head was down with his hand covering the half of his face closest to Alex.
The blonde looked back down at the folder, "Are there any special privileges he is getting from informing?"
"We're not busting him for the coke Fin found in his car," Munch added from his chair. "What's going on?"
"With what?" Alex asked, looking at Munch with a quirked eyebrow.
The eldest detective stood and gestured between Olivia and Elliot who were on either side of Alex at their desks.
Alex smirked, but only for the briefest second. When her lawyer face was back on she answered, "It looks to me like they're working." She repositioned herself on the desk and her skirt on Olivia's side hiked up just a little bit more.
The female detective shot our of her chair, "I need some coffee." She briskly walked over to the kitchenette and poured some coffee. She glanced back at Alex, "Do you want some?"
"Please," Alex nodded graciously with a small grin.
"Does this have something to do with the sting you guys pulled last night?" Fin asked eyeing the three.
The ADA shrugged, "I don't know. I don't think so."
"What exactly happened?" Munch didn't quite believe her.
Olivia walked over with Alex's coffee and carefully handed over the mug. The blonde explained because both of the detectives were silent, "I was bait. I walked into the alley and they caught the guy. Then I went home to catch up on some work. I don't know what they did."
Somehow the connotation of what she just said caused both of them to look at her. Alex innocently stood and started flipping through the folder Fin gave her.
"I went home," Olivia stated firmly, squashing the questioning that was in Munch and Fin's eyes at the implication Alex saddled them with. She added to Alex, "Alone."
The blonde smirked, "You don't have to convince me."
Olivia rolled her eyes and set her coffee on her desk. She crossed her arms, keeping her eyes on Alex's face to keep them from drifting.
"Anyway," Fin interrupted, "Do we have a warrant?"
Alex nodded, "Right after lunch. I haven't eaten since yesterday."
"Alexandra," Olivia opened her desk and grabbed her keys, "Get your ass out that door and in my car now."
"What?" Alex asked, slightly taken back by Olivia's order.
"I'm taking you to lunch," Olivia grinned, having thrown the attorney off kilter.
The blonde decided to fight back for a second, "A please usually works."
"Uh huh," Olivia nodded and took Alex's hand, picking up Alex's attaché on the way out the door, "C'mon."
Alex allowed herself to be pulled out of the precinct.
"I don't think Elliot is going to look at me ever again," Alex mused as she followed Olivia to her car.
Olivia grinned and looked across the roof of her car at Alex, "I'm still having problems looking at you."
When they got in Alex asked, "Do you have a problem with nudity detective?"
"I don't have a problem with it," Olivia tried to sound aloof, "I just don't want to see me coworkers naked." Then she thought that might have sounded offensive so she added, "You being the exception."
"You wanted to see me naked?" Alex smiled wickedly. She knew what Olivia meant, but was having fun with the slight blunder.
"What? No!" Olivia started to panic. "It's not to say that you're not attractive. It's just that…" At her pause Alex finally burst out laughing. Olivia rolled her eyes, "You're an ass."
When her laugher subsided, Alex finally answered, "I know. I'm sorry."
"You enjoyed that way too much," Olivia couldn't not smirk. Alex's laugh was infectious.
Alex nodded as Olivia pulled to a stop, "I did. So to make it up, I'll take you to dinner tonight?"
"It better be a nice dinner," Olivia cut the engine, "I just stuttered my way into an extra week of awkwardness."
"Deal," Alex nodded and got out of the car.
Olivia caught herself watching Alex's legs as she got out. She shook herself out of it and exited her car.