The following day Olivia told Cragen that her and Alex were officially a couple and he congratulated her. He didn't see any conflict of interest as long as they kept it professional in the squadroom. Alex told Cutter also and he agreed to let her stay in SVU for the time being. Alex called Trevor to let him get started on the custody papers. They decided to keep their relationship under wraps with the rest of the squad. Fin and Munch pretty much knew but they didn't verbalize it with anyone but their bosses. The next case they caught Alex was the primary but since they officially disclosed to their bosses Cragen and Amaro had to go ask Alex for the warrant. That night when Alex got home she opened the door to smell food cooking, she set her bag down on the table next to the door, took her shoes off and closed the door behind her. She walked into the kitchen to see Olivia stirring a bubbling sauce.
"Welcome home counselor" Olivia says over the shoulder to the blonde.
Alex is leaning against the door jam of her kitchen.
"Well this is a nice surprise" Alex says to her with a smile starting to grace her face.
"I got off a little early today given that I'll be working late tomorrow. I've heard you will also be there for the sting" Olivia says turning down the heat and turning to face her.
"I will, but I'll be in a cosy hotel room away from all the real action monitoring you guys." Alex tells her.
"Ah, so you'll be watching me all night huh" Olivia says smirking back at her.
Alex grins playfully
"You bet your ass I will" she says crossing the small kitchen to where Olivia is standing and giving her a kiss.
Olivia kisses back pulling Alex closer to her. The oven timer goes off and they separate. Olivia takes the garlic bread out and sets it on the counter and then turns the sauce off completely.
"You are just in time, dinners ready." Olivia tells her.
"Smells great, let me go change" Alex says, giving her a quick peck and turning away and going to her room to get changed.
Olivia makes two plates and pours them each a glass of wine. Olivia sits and takes a sip of her wine as she is waiting for Alex to come back. Alex comes back in sweats and one of Olivia's NYPD shirts. Olivia loves when Alex wears her clothes. They eat dinner and Alex enjoys her home cooked meal because even though she's gotten better at cooking due to witsec she is still not the greatest. When they finish dinner Alex cleans up while Olivia gets changed into more comfortable clothing like Alex had before dinner. When Olivia gets back from getting changed the kitchen is cleaned and the dishwasher is started. Alex walks into the living room to see Olivia turning on the TV and shakes her head.
"I want to show you something before we start watching a movie" Alex tells her and Olivia looks towards her slightly confused.
Olivia doesn't think she's forgetting anything. They walked down the hallway to where Alex kept her home office and opened the door. Olivia walked into the room shocked at what she was seeing. The desk Alex had in there was off in a corner with her chair pushed up to it. There was a new bed with a blue and white striped comforter and a dresser next to the bed. The new blinds Alex put up matched the blue on the bed. Olivia's eyes welled up with tears of joy.
"What do you think? I don't really know him and I figured we could take him shopping when he gets here but to start out with I just thought-" Alex was rambling like she does when she gets nervous or has uncertainty about a situation.
Olivia turned around and kissed her deeply gently, moving her back until her back hit the wall behind them. Alex deepened the kiss as Olivia picked her to hold her against the wall and Alex wrapped her legs around Olivia's waist. Olivia carried her to her bedroom and placed her down on the bed giving her kisses all down her jaw and neckline. Alex took the opportunity to pull Olivia's shirt off of her in the pause between kisses and Olivia did the same thing to Alex. Alex flipped them and started kissing down Olivia's torso. Olivia's breath hitched in anticipation. It was late into the night before they finally let go of eachother satisfied and tired from their activities.
The morning came too early for them given the lack of sleep they had the night before. Alex's alarm went off and they both groaned at the noise. Alex stretched and felt sore from their latest activities and just grinned at the thought of the previous night. Olivia yawned and sat up letting the blanket fall from her bare chest. Alex licked her lips and was blankly ogling Olivia's chest in the slightly lighted bedroom. Olivia grinned at her girlfriend and reached over to give her a good morning kiss, morning breath be damned. Alex kissed back, gripping the back of Olivia's hair pulling her down on top of her.
"Mmm, Alex, We have to get ready or we will be late" Olivia told her in between kisses running her hands down Alex's bare legs.
Alex leaned her head against her pillow with a huff.
"Tease" Alex grumbled out
Olivia smirked at her annoyed girlfriend and raised an eyebrow in challenge.
"Wanna shower together?" Olivia questioned, eyebrows still raised.
Alex smirked and nodded as they both got up and headed to the shower.
They were both late that morning but not by a noticeable amount.
The case went on Olivia and Fin in the bar subtly listening in on Cragen's 'date' with their suspect and Alex in another room in the hotel with Amanda and Amaro watching the surveillance video footage. They arrest the girl to try to get her to talk. Olivia and Fin talk to her first with Cragen listening in while Alex, Amanda and Nick are in the other room verifying the information they are getting. According to Amanda everything she is saying checks out. Alex wants to use the girl to go against her boss. As far as the boss knows Lena is still on her date with Cragen. He sends Nick and Amanda out of the room and asks for Lena to be sent in. Olivia and Lena come in and they all talk to her, she helps them, they help her. Lena sets up a second date at a restaurant with Cragen for the next day and all the detectives are there for the sting to catch her boss. The sting ended with the boss getting killed by Amanda and Lena walking the detectives into a trap. During the ambush Fin got shot in the vest giving Lena time to steal the rookie's gun from him, killing him and trying to escape. Nick and Olivia caught up to her and Olivia arrested her. When they got back to the squad Lena's fiancée was there to talk to Olivia and Cragen, he told them Alex wanted him to testify against her. He felt foolish about being played by her but they assured him that she was very good at pretending and anyone could've fallen for it. They know they fell for her sob story at first. When he left Cragen implied that what he said during his 'date' with Lena he wanted to be kept between them and Olivia just went along like nothing was said clearing the air that everything was okay.
It was two days after the case ended that Trevor called Alex letting her know he finished the papers for her and Olivia to come look at regarding custody for Calvin. Alex set up the meeting after hours and they went to look over everything. Trevor drew up papers saying Alex and Olivia would both have full custody of Calvin and they agreed that his grandparents could have him two weekends a month and half the summer with alternating holidays if they wanted. The papers also said until Olivia and Alex moved in together Calvin would live with Alex and she would have school jurisdiction for him. They both agreed and signed it. Trevor had a notary there to accept their signatures. Olivia called Calvin's grandparents to ask when a good time would be for Alex and Trevor to fly over and go over the paperwork with them.
Alex and Trevor flew to Vermont to meet with them while Olivia stayed behind to work on a new case they got. Calvin's grandparents signed off and now all they had to do was wait until they could get in front of a judge to get signed off in the courts eyes. Trevor left after he submitted the papers to the Vermont courthouse. Alex stayed an extra couple of days getting a hotel room to get to know Calvin, which his grandparents were okay with.
