Alex went to work on Monday with four new cases that happened over the weekend. Alex sighed and got to work. Once she assigned the cases out she started on her paperwork she needed to get caught up on.
Olivia walked into work with Fin talking about the murder rate over the holiday weekend. Munch a quip and how hot it has been. Olivia caught a case and the captain changed the assigned partners.
While Alex stepped out of a meeting her phone rang with Calvin's number, she smiled at the call and answered it.
"Hi sweetheart!" Alex says, answering the phone.
"Hi Ma!" Calvin says back happily.
"How are you doing?" Alex asks, walking down the hallway back to her office.
"I'm good, I'm about to go to the lake with my grandparents. We are going to have a picnic and swim for a little while." Calvin says happily.
"Well that's great sweetheart, I hope you have a good time" Alex says, shutting the door to her office.
"Thanks Ma!" Calvin says back.
Alex hears someone talking in the background and Calvin tells her he has to go. They hang up. Alex sighs out. Olivia and her have missed him since he has been gone but they know he will be home in a few short weeks.
Alex had to sit in with a few interviews the rest of her day with some of her junior ADAs.
When Alex got home for the night Olivia was almost finished cooking for them.
"Hey Liv" Alex says, setting down her briefcase and taking off her heels.
Olivia looked over her shoulder at Alex and smiled affectionately at her.
"Hi sweetheart" Olivia says back, turning the burner on low.
She meets Alex at the kitchen doorway giving her a quick kiss and a slower second one. They part and Olivia goes back to the stove and stir it once more before turning it off. Alex picked up the book that was in the middle of the table with a look of curiosity reading the back of it while leaning on the table. Olivia made both their plates and turned about to see Alex holding the book. Olivia swiftly sat the plates down on the table.
Alex raised an eyebrow at her. Alex lifted the book a bit towards Olivia's direction.
"Are you wanting to spice up our sex life?" Alex asks with a chuckle.
Olivia gave her a look of disbelief.
"I happen to think we have enough spice in our sex life, thank you. You'd really want to do some of these things with what we see everyday?" Olivia asked now with a bit more curiosity.
Alex shrugged, setting the book down and wrapping her arms around Olivia's waist pulling her closer. Olivia didn't fight it and learned into Alex's pull.
"What we see is the worst of what is supposed to be a beautiful act between two consenting adults." Alex says and pauses for a second.
"We are two consenting adults that know our limits, I don't see why any of this would be any different given we would both be okay with it. Now I'm not saying everything in this book is my cup of tea or yours but I'm sure not all of it is demeaning" Alex finishes.
Olivia hums thinking over what Alex said.
Alex leans in and kisses her cheek.
"Let's eat" Alex tells her.
Olivia nods and pulls back from Alex's grasp to sit down at the table.
They eat their food and clean up afterwards.
When they lay down in bed for the night Alex turns over watching Olivia flip through channels.
"So, if you didn't want to try something new for us, what made you buy the book?" Alex questioned scooting closer to Olivia cuddling up.
Olivia looked down at Alex. She scooted further down the bed to lay parallel with her.
"My case, honestly I'm not even sure if there is going to be a case. She doesn't want to press charges in fear of how her book is going to make her look. She feels guilty for being flirty all night. I don't know, I just don't understand with what we see everyday how bondage is a best seller" Olivia says sighing deeply.
"Mmm , well fortunately for the world they don't have to see what we see. Plus it doesn't have to be a bad thing to test kinks Liv, it's a healthy part of sex. You know this." Alex tells her.
"I know, it just seems like he used her book as a way to minimize the damage he inflicted." Olivia groans out.
"Well, we can only hope she gets the help she deserves even if she doesn't go through with the charges" Alex softly says back.
Olivia hums in agreement. Within a few minutes Alex had already fallen asleep so Olivia turned off the TV and started to fall asleep too.
The next night Alex and Olivia were woken up by a phone ringing. Olivia blindly grabs the phone and answers it.
"Benson" Olivia answers sleepily
"Detective Benson it's Jocelyn, Um Jocelyn Paley" Jocelyn says, voice shaking into the phone.
Olivia sits up in bed more alert. Alex mumbles in her sleep, her arm still wrapped around Olivia's waist.
"Jocelyn, is everything okay?" Olivia questioned her.
"No, no it's not. Listen, can we meet somewhere?" Jocelyn asked the voice thick with fear.
"I can meet you at the precinct" Olivia starts to say but Jocelyn cuts her off.
"No. No precinct, just somewhere private" Jocelyn tells her still with fear laced in her voice.
Olivia rattles off the apartment address.
Olivia gently gets out of bed to put on a cardigan and throws up her hair.
A few minutes later Jocelyn shows up at the door and Olivia lets her in. They talk about what happened earlier in the night and she decides she does want to press charges. Jocelyn leaves a few minutes later, more calm than she was when she arrived. Olivia locked the door behind her and turned around leaning against it, closing her eyes. Olivia sighed and opened them back up to see Alex in her robe leaning against the door jam of the hallway.
"Everything okay?" Alex asks her.
"It's going to be a long road ahead for her but she wants to start the process, he victimized her twice in two days" Olivia says disgusted.
"You'll get him, I know you will" Alex tells her tiredly.
Alex holds out her hand.
"Now let's go back to bed" Alex says back to her.
Olivia takes hold of her hand and they sleep for a few more hours until their alarms go off.
The next few days Olivia and the team dived into the case. Harris took Olivia and Rollins to meet Barba, a new ADA transfer from Brooklyn to Manhattan.
He arraigned Cain today.
That night Olivia went home to Alex. Olivia walked through the front door and saw Alex on facetime with Calvin and all the stress from her day got put on the back burner. She smiled widely at them, shutting the door behind her and going to sit down next to Alex. Olivia put her arm around Alex's shoulder and Alex leaned into the hug.
"Hey bud!" Olivia exclaims to him.
"Hey mom! I was just telling Ma, that I get to go to the music festival that's this weekend" Calvin tells her excitedly.
"That's great sweetheart, take lots of pictures for us!" Olivia replied back smiling at his excitement.
"I will! My friends Riley and Jamie are coming too. It's going to be so much fun!" Calvin says back happily.
"We hope you have a good time this weekend and call us to let us know how to goes." Alex says to him.
"I will! I'll talk to you guys later, bye!" Calvin says waving at them.
"Bye Cal" Alex says back
"Bye bud" Olivia says back.
They see the call hang up.
Olivia kisses Alex's head.
"He's growing up" Olivia says into her hair.
"He is, next thing we know he's going to be applying for colleges" Alex says sighing sadly.
"Oh, we still have some time before that" Olivia told her.
"That's what we thought about dating too and he already has a crush" Alex quipped back.
Olivia pulled them into a semi lying position, arms wrapped around Alex.
"True, but he will always be our kid, no matter how old he gets" Olivia says, kissing Alex's shoulder.
"I know, I know. So now that we know he's having the summer of his life. How was your day?" Alex questioned her nussling further into Olivia's embrace.
"Barba, the ADA we are working with on Jocelyn's case, he arraigned Cain today. Munch, Fin, and Amaro are going to Maryland tonight to ask questions about her past relationships" Olivia says back softly.
"How's he working out for you?" Alex asked, playing with the ends of Olivia's hair.
"He reminds me a lot of you. Sassy, confident, maybe a little arrogant" Olivia says back smirking.
"Hey!" Alex yells offended.
"But no, he seems to be good at his job so far" Olivia tells her.
"Good, Jocelyn needs someone competent on her side" Alex says back leaning in kissing Olivia's neck lightly.
"She does" Olivia agrees, hugging Alex a little tighter.
They were both quiet for a few moments.
"Have you eaten?" Olivia questioned quietly.
"I haven't, you wanna order something in?" Alex asked back.
"That sounds perfect" Olivia says back pulling her phone from her pocket and ordering a pizza and two salads.
A half hour later their food arrived. They munched until they were full and put the rest away.
Olivia went to take a shower and Alex asked if she wanted company. They stayed in the shower until the water turned cold on them. They barely dried themselves off before continuing their activities in their bedroom.
The next morning Olivia went to work. Olivia and Amanda were out interviewing previous assistants Cain had over the years.
Alex went to the sandwich shop not far from her office at lunch. While she was waiting in line she bumped into Serena Southerlyn much to her surprise.
Serena turned around with a sandwich and coffee in hand and became face to face with Alex.
"Hey!" Serena says in greeting.
"Hey Rena, it's been a long time" Alex says leaning in to hug her.
"Yes, it has. We should get a drink and catch up. Whenever you're free" Serena tells her.
"Yes, absolutely , I'll give you a call soon" Alex agrees.
They say their goodbyes.
Alex order's her lunch and heads back to her office.
The next couple days, Alex and Olivia were busy with their work schedules just seeing each other in passing in the morning and having dinner together at night.
Alex stayed late working on paperwork until her stomach grumbled and she realized how late it actually was.
Alex walked into the apartment and heard the shower running and knew Olivia was home. Alex sat down the Italian take out food she ordered on the way home for them. Alex changed and pulled her hair into a bun before going back out to the kitchen table. She washed her hands and sat out the food. Alex started to eat dinner pouring herself a glass of wine.
Olivia came out in her pajamas. Olivia kissed her cheek then sat down and started eating her dinner too.
"Long day?" Olivia asked.
"You have no idea. I was trying to catch up on some paperwork because I've been preparing my victim for trial against her abuser. It's a domestic violence case and I always hate the statistics of these" Alex groans.
"Yea me too, Al me too. Do you think she's ready?" Olivia asked, swallowing her bite of pasta.
"Honestly?" Alex questioned
Olivia nodded.
Alex closed her eyes for a second and when they opened they showed how worried Alex actually was about her case.
"No, not really" Alex says back, sighing.
"You just do the best that you can, sweetheart" Olivia says lightly rubbing Alex's hand.
Alex gave her a half hearted smile. Alex picked up her fork and went back to eating.
"Now that we talked about my day, tell me about yours" Alex says before taking a bite of her food.
"Well Barba got an indictment on Cain so that's a push in the right direction." Olivia tells her , she grabs the wine glass in front of Alex and takes a sip out of it.
"That's great Liv!" Alex says her mood is lighter at that.
They finished the night early due to them both being exhausted.
Alex was finishing up her trial prep for court the following week when her phone rang with a message. Alex said her goodbye to the detectives and her junior ADA that was working the case with her and went back to her office. Once Alex was inside sitting at her desk she looked at the message from Olivia letting her know she'd be late.
Alex had a hard day between witness prep and writing and rewriting her opening statements and going back over all the evidence. Alex sighed deciding it was enough work for the night. Since Olivia was going to be late anyway, Alex picked up her phone and called Serena. The phone rang a few times then the line clicked.
"Hello" Serena answers.
"Hey Rena, are you free for that drink tonight?" Alex asks packing up her stuff.
"Sure, how about that little dive by the precinct?" Serena suggested.
"Sounds great. Does an hour work for you? Alex asked.
" yes. See you there Cabot " Serena says back and hangs up.
Alex leaves her office to head home to change and drop off her paperwork.
Alex got to the bar with a couple minutes to spare. Alex looked around and saw Serena sitting at a table towards the back of the bar and walked towards her.
" punctual as always Alex" Serena says smirking handing Alex a glass of wine when she sits down
