~ Turning Point ~

by Larisa

Larisa_Turning_Point

Top 25: May 10, 2004

Disclaimer: Songs by Mandy Moore, 112. They ain't mine, never wil be, their loss.

Sex, bad language and al the other stuff that I can toss in a FF is here.

Kiddy thing: If ya ain't old enough go the Hel away, I ain't got time fer ya!

Detective Olivia Benson wiped the rain from her face with both hands and looked down to where her partner Detective Eliot Stabler was looking under the black plastic

covering the newest victim on the night straight from Hel. Puling her colar tighter around her neck, she squatted down next to him. "Tel me this one's different than the one two

hours ago?"

"And make your night, not a chance Liv." He lifted the plastic higher and gave her a smal shrug of his shoulders. "Sure looks the same to me but I could be wrong."

"Why can't the sick bastards do this when its daylight and dryer, I swear my feet are webbed after being wet al day?"

Eliot sneezed so hard that he fel over into Olivia. "You have webbed feet and I've got pneumonia, if I fal over dead make sure Munch doesn't toss me in a dumpster and rifle

my desk." He wiped at his red nose with his handkerchief and struggled to his feet. "I've had it, let's get outta here; we'l wait and see what the ME says in the morning."

Olivia shivered and nodded her soaking wet head. "That is one conversation that I'm not gonna enjoy," She wiped her face and walked beside Eliot away from the crime

scene. "She's got three vics just for us and who knows how many in total, is it the weather, time of month…what?"

Eliot shrugged his shoulders and gave her a smal grin. "You mean like PMS…God I hope not." Olivia gave him a wicked grin and patted his back; she didn't envy him that

was for sure. Living with one woman was bad enough during that time of the month but four would be suicide in her book.

"You could always sleep on the Captain's cot during that time or buy a couple bottles of Midol on your way home."

"Believe me we have a medicine cabinet filed with Midol bottles, not to mention al the other things in the bathroom." He gave her a smal smile. "Maureen stil can't believe that

I can buy tampons without turning purple from embarrassment."

"Good next time I run out I'm sending you." She climbed into the warm car and turned the heat up, her body was aching and she wanted nothing more than to go home, have a

stiff drink and a hot shower in that order.

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Olivia poured another two fingers of bourbon, dropped down on the side of her bed and groaned. It was four in the morning and this was the second time she had been in this

spot in the last three hours, she hoped that taking a hot shower changed her luck. Draining her glass, she placed it next to her beeper and then crawled beneath the covers. She

roled to her side and looked to the doorway that led to her living room and knew this would be more bearable if she could share her life with someone other than her partner.

Sighing, she closed her eyes and let the pitter patter of the rain lul her to sleep.

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"Don't you two look like shit; ya know wandering the streets al night isn't good for ya?" Fin said and dropped a bag of bagels on Olivia's desk. "And since I got to spend al

night nice and dry, I thought I'd be nice and hit the streets bright and early." He waved a paper at Eliot. "Me and Munch came up with a possible witness to one of the crimes,

she said that she 'thinks' she saw someone running from the aley on the second vic last night."

Eliot handed the paper to Olivia and leaned back in his chair. "Did you guys bring her in?"

"Yep, she's in number two with Munch, he's teling her about the harmful events that can come from mixing Boones Farm and MD 20/20."

Olivia roled her eyes and got up from her desk. "Your choice El, the smel of formaldehyde or ripple?"

He scratched his head and gave her a smal grin. "I'l take the ripple, seeing three guys with their Johnson's missing is too much for me this early in the day."

"Oohh I see it's the macho thing or should I say lack of it huh?" She gave him a bright smile, grabbed her jacket and headed from the room. "Cal me if ya get anything." On her

way over to the ME's, she thought of how funny it was that men could look at women's bodies that had been cut up or worse but if a man had his privates cut off, they would

rather have their legs waxed then see the body. "OK Liv think, three dead guys al with their dicks hacked off, pissed off prostitute of pimp?"

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Captain Cragen and Eliot stood outside of the interview room and watched Munch and Fin question the wino, Eliot had to grin at the way Fin was handling himself. From the

way he kept wiping at his watery eyes and keeping his distance told a story Eliot was glad he wasn't in. "Oohh come on," Fin groaned and wiped at his eyes. "You remember

in what order you mixed your booze but you can't remember what the guy you saw running away looked like?"

"Told ya…it was dark and I can't sees good at night…gots that glaucoma."

"Oohh please you're what 25 at the most, I think your main problem is al those little capilaries in your eyes have burst from that gut rot you drink." Munch walked to the other

side of the room, looked out the window and then turned to look at her over the tops of his glasses. "What if…I got you an aged bottle of Boone's farm strawberry wine,

would that help with your memory and eyesight?"

"It couldn't hurt none…might make my eyesight come back…could use it."

"I bet you could," He nodded his head at Fin and headed to the door. "OK Eliot your turn, I give up." He and Fin stepped in to the halway and gave Cragen a slight nod. "We

tried but she seems to have not only memory loss but she's blind as wel."

"I heard," Cragen looked at the wino through the glass and rubbed a hand over his head, he had seen plenty of homeless but this had to be the worst one so far. Her clothes

were in layers because the ones beneath were rotting and leaving filthy skin exposed. "Do we have anything else, any other witnesses or clues from the crime scenes?"

Fin shook his head and looked back through the glass. "Uniforms are stil out there but with al that rain we had, it washed al evidence away and three cases almost at the same

time has us thin."

"I'l see if I can pul some officers from other departments, there's gotta be someone else who saw something. Where's Benson?" He looked to Eliot.

"She lost the bet, she's on her way to the ME's right now, maybe we'l get lucky and she'l find something."

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Olivia stood off to the side and watched the Medical Examiner weigh organs, dump them into a steel container and then toss more internal pieces into the steel tray that hung

from the scale. It reminded her of the old butcher shop where she bought her steaks, he would toss the fresh meat on the scale, throw it onto the wrapping paper and slide it

across the top of the show case. "Ya know when I finaly kick off and my body comes in here, I hope you're off that day."

The tal woman looked up and gave Olivia a crooked grin. "I hope I never see or hear of your body being in here other than walking," She finished weighing the liver, placed it

inside the metal tray and puled her gloves off. "Let's go in my office I've had enough dickless men for a few hours and that includes the walking type." They went to her smal

office, the ME grabbed some papers from the top of her outbox and handed them to her. "That's what I got from the vics last night and you'l be happy to know that it was the

same freak that did al three."

Olivia scanned the reports and then looked up. "Are ya sure about that…same weapon or what?"

"Same weapon, same pre and post mortem wounds and what you want to know is that yes they were alive when their penises were cut off. She picked up an x-ray and

handed it to her. "Take a look; you'l see a nice old crack up the back of this man's skul. Your perp knocked out each vic before doing the nasty stuff, now the head trauma's

could have been bad enough to be life threatening but with extreme blood loss at a lower point there's no way for me to tel if any of them would have died from cracked

heads." She shrugged her shoulders.

"So they were knocked out and then the little cut was made that ended it, either way they're dead?" She looked up from the x-ray and gave the ME a wicked smirk.

"Sounds like you and me have had the same kind of 48 hours, if you find the perp let me know, I have an ex husband that needs taught a lesson, son of bitch is trying to sue

me for support."

"I can think of a few I can toss this freaks way as wel," She waved the reports. "Are these our copies?"

"Yep al yours Detective and take a break you look like you should be on one of my tables."

"Oohh I plan on it as soon as we're done for the day." She waved the papers at her, left the smal office and headed down the halway; she was exhausted and could feel it in

the way she moved. Yawning wide enough that she felt the muscles in her jaw stretch; she shook her head and ran a hand through her hair. "I'd kil for eight hours of sleep, I'd

settle for four though."

"Do you always talk to yourself or is this just a special occasion?"

Olivia stumbled and tapped her chest with her hand. "Do you always lurk in dark doorways Counselor?"

"Only my own, I get the most enjoyable gossip this way." ADA Alex Cabot whispered and walked beside Olivia. "Are you on your way back to work or home?"

"I wish it was home but we're working that triple homicide from last night and I was just getting the ME's reports." She stopped and faced Alex; she looked at her attire with a

raised eyebrow. "I don't think I've ever seen you in anything but a suit, what's the occasion?" She looked at the faded Levis, mans button down shirt and the scuffed cowboy

boots that she wore.

"It's my day off, for once I don't have court and al the cases I'm working on are waiting their day in court." She flashed a quick smile at Olivia and caught her totaly off guard,

it wasn't often that the ADA let her steel wal down and showed any facial expressions. "About that triple homicide last night, anything as far as evidence or in need of my

assistance?"

"Alex it's your day off, go home and watch TV or something." She held up a finger when Alex went to say something. "Al the evidence was washed away in the rain and the

ME didn't find anything on the victims, they were al hit from behind and then…why are you here anyway?"

"I didn't know what to do with myself so I came in to get some old files and see if I could breathe some life into them."

"I don't have that problem on my days off; right now I'm wearing my last pair of socks and underwear. So I'l be washing clothes on my days off, cleaning my apartment and

cooking real food for supper." She stopped outside the door to the SVU offices and looked at Alex. "Go home or take a walk in the park…or go see a movie."

Alex nodded her head and brushed her hair away from her face. "Maybe I'l go have some lunch and browse the book store for something to read." She walked away and then

turned back. "You'l cal me if you need anything…"

Olivia roled her eyes and waved a hand at her. "Yeah we'l cal now go enjoy your day off."

Alex walked down the halway thinking of how depressing it was to be at work on her day off and worse that the case files she had with her were so old that she was sure that

al involved were dead. "Face it Alexandra you're a big loser."

Olivia was stil shaking her head when she got to her desk; she looked up and gave Eliot a raised eyebrow. "Did you guys get anything because I got zip?"

Eliot gave her his usual amused smirk and leaned back in his chair. "First what were ya shaking your head at?"

"Alex, it's her day off and she's in the building looking for something to do with her time." She handed him the reports from the ME and opened the folder in the center of her

desk. "Are these the identifications on al three victims?"

"Yep, Munch and Fin are out right now at the first ones house, we got the second one and we'l meet them at the third to compare notes."

She looked up from the papers. "These guys were al upper class, what the Hel were they doing in the aleys on the opposite side of where they lived?"

"Don't know maybe their families wil have some idea what's going on," He saw their Captain coming from his office and nodded at him. "We've got zip on the ME's report, no

DNA or trace evidence."

"Wel we have a cal in; since you two are here you get it." He handed Olivia a piece of paper. "Supposedly this person saw the perp up close and personal." He shrugged his

shoulders and adjusted his suspenders. "If that did happen why in the Hel did he wait until now to cal us?"

"Maybe he was afraid," Eliot said and got up from his chair. "Wouldn't be the first time that some witness saw too much and hid for a few days before coming forward?"

Captain Cragen nodded his head and shoved his hands in his pockets. "OK wel find out his story before you do anything else, we don't want him taking off."

Olivia and Eliot were on their way out the door when they ran into a wandering ADA; Olivia stopped and touched her partners' upper arm. "Hold on El," She touched Alex on

her shoulder and stepped back when she spun around. "You're stil here?"

"I just caled a cab so I'm waiting." She clutched her folders to her chest and gave Eliot a nod.

"Wanna come with us, we've got a possible witness, we can drop you off at home afterwards?" Olivia asked after looking to her partner.

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Olivia ran her hand through her hair and looked around the area under the bridge, she was getting the distinct feeling that they were getting the run around. The homeless didn't

move around as much as they portray on TV or in the movies, they stay in one area because they're afraid of loosing the smal area that they've been squatting in for years. She

turned and looked to see Alex leaning against their car with her cel phone up to her ear; she had caled the station house to see if someone had screwed up the location of the

witness. "Whad'ya think El are we getting screwed or what?"

"I think our witness got scared and took off, let's get out of here and maybe he'l show up again. Besides we got al those interviews to do and we gotta drop Alex off at

home." He squinted when he saw the ADA coming towards them; it was hard for him to tel what she was thinking because of her blank expression.

"Bad news guys that was Cragen, our witness was found inside a dumpster eight blocks from here. ME's over there now doing a prelim but they think that he was dead before

the dumpster." She stopped, crossed her arms over her chest and looked to Olivia, so what's next?"

"We've got the families to question," Olivia said and looked to Eliot and then back to Alex. "Might help if you're there, ya know the whole justice thing."

Eliot gave them a grin and wiggled his dark brows. "Can't hurt none but maybe we should have you help Munch, his personality scares the Hel outta innocent people."

"And I'd have to write out an arrest warrant on myself for murdering him." She said and didn't notice the grins on the detective's faces. "I can only take so much of his

conspiracy stuff before I start praying for 'his' alien abduction."

"Hey she does sorta have a sense of humor, who knew?" Eliot said and jogged around to get into their sedan.

"I heard that Detective Stabler." Alex said and gave Olivia a slight nod when she opened the back passenger door for her. They sat quietly in the sedan as Eliot took them out

of Manhattan, headed across the East River and towards Long Island. Where the traffic became congested, Eliot groaned and flipped the dashboard light on to Olivia's

amusement. Olivia glanced sideways at him and roled her eyes, the look on her partners face was one that he used during interrogations. The drawn brows over flashing blue

eyes and a slight upward lift to the corners of his lips was the look he used when he was not amused with a perp.

"What is it with you," she asked and snorted when he looked to her with raised brows. "You know you've drove most of the way looking in the rearview mirror, are we being

tailed?"

"Nope," he looked in the rearview mirror and back to the road. "It's Alex, she looks…human." He gave her a quick glance and a grin. "Ya know breathing and not so stony?"

Olivia gave him a raised eyebrow before looking over the seat and into the back where Alex was leaning against the door sound asleep with her head against the window.

"Ahhh how cute, she drools." She wiggled out of her black blazer, roled it up and then leaned over the front seat.

"Ahhh how cute, drool al over your blazer." He grinned and ignored his partner's growl when she slid sideways across the seat and into her own door. "Sorry, damn dog ran

out at us."

"Yeah right you jackass." She mumbled and then tucked her blazer between the ADA's head and where it rested against the window.

"Hey how come you've never done that for me?"

She sat back in her seat and gave him a rol of her deep brown eyes. "For the simple fact, that if you fal asleep I'l be too busy screaming to worry about your head bouncing

off the window."

"Guess that makes sense," he rubbed his chin and gave her a quick glance before training his eyes back on the traffic. "Is there something going on at the DA's office that Alex

doesn't have anything better to do than hang around with us?"

"No idea, I do know that it's her day off." she said, turned in the seat to look into the back and watch pale blue eyes flutter open. "You OK?" She grinned when Alex mumbled

something and then lay down across the backseat with her blazer as a pilow.

"She reminds me of the twins, two minutes on the road and they're asleep." He glanced in the rearview mirror and then over at Olivia who was stil watching the ADA. "We stil

have the camera back there?"

"Don't go there El, she'd have both of us strung up." She rested her chin on the hand resting on the back of the seat and took in the alabaster skin of the lithe blonde. For the

rest of the ride she just watched her, transfixed by the relaxed features and pale blonde hair that fel around her face.

After not being answered and feeling ignored, Eliot replied. "Not for her, I wanna picture of you drooling." He made a turn down a side street and cussed when he was

snagged in the very traffic jam he was trying to avoid. "I've never seen you this interested in anyone and that includes the ones you've dated."

"You realy suck Eliot," She turned back in her seat when he cut through an aley and parked outside of a smal deli. "And don't you dare say I'm buying or I'l cal Kathy and

tel her about your hooker that cals every single day."

"Informant Liv, she's my informant." He turned the sedan off and turned in his seat to give her a smirk.

"Oohhh sure," She raised her voice a few octaves, snapped her gum and spoke like a teeny bopper. "Detective Ely, I have some information for you. I'm wearing red silk

panties and black fishnets, interested?" She looked in the backseat when she heard a deep chuckle. "Whad'ya think there Alex, good blackmail material so he has to pay for

lunch?"

Alex opened her sleepy eyes and gave Olivia a wink. "I think it might be enough to make him pay for dinner as wel," she sat up in the seat and shook out Olivia's blazer. "Sorry

it's kind of wrinkled, you didn't have to sacrifice your blazer for me."

"It's not a problem," She got out of the sedan and opened the back door for her. "What's a few wrinkles compared to your face getting bruised?" She felt her cheeks redden

and turned to see where Eliot had gone. "Let's go get something ta eat I'm starving and I can hear your stomach growling."

Alex rubbed her stomach and gave Olivia a smal grin. "I can't remember when the last time it was that I ate; I forget most of the time and just grab something from one of the

vending machines." She sniffed the air and moaned. "God I can smel roast beef." She folowed Olivia to the front door of the deli and was surprised when she opened the door

for her and placed her hand at the smal of her back as she went through the archway and kept it there al the way to the table where Eliot sat. It had been a long time since

anyone had opened a door for her or showed protectiveness where she was concerned. She wondered if it was because Olivia was a cop and so used to protecting people or

if it was just the way the woman was.

"I ordered us Cokes to start off," Eliot said and went back to looking at the menu. "The waitress said she'd be back in a couple minutes for our orders."

Olivia looked to the back of the deli and nodded her head. "OK then I'm heading to the john, you men never stop for anything." She chuckled when Eliot roled his eyes and

mumbled something about his family. "It's true El and you know it." She walked towards the bathroom and turned to see Alex folowing her; she stopped outside the bathroom

door, pushed it inward and let her go first. She stepped behind her and caught her around the waist when she jumped backward; the force sent her sideways into the wal with

Alex stil in her arms.

"Sorry about that, damn stal door opens the wrong way." An older woman said as she walked past them.

"Olivia, you can let go now." Alex said as she looked over her shoulder into deep brown eyes. "Thanks for saving me from landing on my ass." The second the detective's arms

left her waist and she moved away from her, she missed the warmth of her body.

"Sorry about that," she let Alex go and rubbed the back of her neck. "I kinda got the wind knocked outta me, some cop huh?"

Alex watched her rub her neck and knew that it was a habit for her but wondered if she had gotten hurt in their colision. "You OK, I didn't give you whiplash did I?"

"Nope I'm fine," After Alex closed the stal door they walked into the bathroom. "Ain't this nice, I've seen closets bigger than this?" She moved up against the smal sink so that

Alex could open the stal door, feeling uneasy, she spoke to her. "I'm gonna wait outside until you're done."

"Would you stay and block the outside door, I don't want to smack someone coming in?"

"Sure and I bet the men's room is twice this size and they don't have this problem."

"We always get shafted," Alex finished and opened the stal door; they danced back and forth until they got past each other. "But this is ridiculous." She moved to the smal sink,

washed her hands and groaned when she had to use her shirt to dry them.

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Eliot looked up when Olivia and Alex came towards him and watched as his partner placed her hand on the ADA's lower back. He gave her a curious look and went back to

looking over the menu. "So I was about ready to cal for back up and then I remembered what Kathy told me about women and bathrooms," he looked up and gave them both

a wide smile. "She told me to not go there."

"That's exactly right," Olivia said, opened one of the menus scanned it for al of two seconds and moaned. "Oohhh I know what I'm getting." She closed her menu and then

leaned sideways to point to her selection on Alex's menu.

"Make that two." She handed her menu to Olivia and gazed at Eliot. "So do you think we can bust his walet?"

After their food had been brought to the table, Eliot looked at the amount and grinned. "Now this is a man sized meal." He looked over at the other two plates and moaned.

"Hel I shoulda got the roast beef sub." He grinned when Olivia traded half of her hot roast beef for half of his pastrami; Alex gave them both a strange look and went back to

eating. She watched them steal food from each other's plates and realized that they were more than partners, they were like siblings. She didn't have anyone that she was close

with like Olivia and Eliot were and then she realized that they spent more time with each other than Eliot probably did with his family. She worked long hours like they did but

it was just her, some nights she never left her office and fel asleep in her chair. Her social life was the time she spent in the SVU bul pen and passing other lawyers in the

halways, her days off she spent at home reading law books or preparing case files for court. It was one of the reasons she had a very high conviction rate but it didn't keep her

company or give her comfort when she needed it. Finishing her sub, she picked up her Coke and took a long drink before leaning back in the seat next to Olivia. She turned to

look at the dark detective and felt tingles in her stomach; she had always felt close to her but couldn't put her finger on it as to why.

"I don't know about you two but I want desert and a cup of coffee." She waved the waitress over and asked for the coffee and a slice of black forest cheese cake.

"Where did you put al that food?" Eliot asked and leaned back in the seat with a groan. "I'm stuffed and can barely breath and you're gonna eat cheese cake?"

Alex gave him a smug look. "That'l teach you to pass judgment, I can eat twice as much as most men; and I have a high metabolism so I burn it off quick." She cast a quick

glance at Olivia and saw the twinkle in her eyes. "It helps that I can't remember when the last time I ate." She moved back from the table when her plate was removed and

replaced with her coffee and a plate with her cheese cake on it.

"While you two are gorging, I'm gonna go cal dad and see if there's any more news on our cases." He puled some bils from his pocket, tossed them on the table and groaned

when he slid from the booth. "Maybe get some Rolaids on the way out." He stepped to the door and was about to push it open when his cel phone rang, puling it from his

belt, he answered. "Stabler…yeah she's with us why?"

"Tell Cabot that we need a search warrant for a Beth Johansson, girlfriend of our first vic." Munch said. "She's at the hospital getting her hands sutured."

"Oohh Hel John," He rubbed his face and looked back towards the table he had just left. "How soon before they turn her loose?"

"In about 45 minutes or so, I can see if the doctor will hold her for a bit longer."

"OK, let me talk to Cabot and see what she thinks about this. Hey John, can she be linked to the other two?"

"The only thing I can think of is…nope, unless Fin can charm a confession out of her."

"We can only hope that she does that, I'l cal ya back as soon as I see what the ADA can do for us." He hung up and watched the two women talking and almost fel over

when Alex fed Olivia some of her cheese cake. "Getting al cozy, next you two wil be picking out China patterns." He walked back over and dropped down across from them.

"Got a situation here Alex, John and Fin have the first victims girlfriend at the hospital, she's getting her hands stitched up. They wanna know if they can get a search warrant for

her apartment?"

Alex looked to him and felt her face heating up; she had just puled the fork from Olivia's mouth when he sat down. "Got anything else, her getting her hands stitched up isn't

enough; she could have cut them some other way?"

"How about we head over to the hospital and if need be you can get us that search warrant?" Olivia asked and took a sip of Alex's coffee before getting up from the booth.

Alex shrugged her shoulders and looked to Eliot. "It's up to you guys after al I'm just a tag along." They al got up from the booth and as Olivia reached for the bil Alex puled

it out from under her fingers. "I got it," she handed Eliot his money and squeezed past Olivia to go over to the cash register.

"Getting a little cozy with the ice princess aren't you?" He whispered in her ear and puled back when she turned to look at him.

"What are ya getting at El?" She asked with a raised brow. "Don't we share food al the time?"

"Yeah but this is Alex Cabot, high society ice princess of the DA's office. First you drooling al over her on the ride over here and now she's feeding you, ya know I never knew

you went for her type..."

"My type and just what do you know about my type?" She had never discussed her dating practices with anyone let alone the one person she was closet to, Eliot knew that

she had slept with Cassidy once but that was it.

"Oohh come on Liv…" He dropped his head and ran his hand across the back of his head.

"Alex is not gay Eliot," she gave him a crooked grin and walk towards the door. "Tel Kathy I'l pick her up at eight and to wear that little black dress, I love what it does for

her legs."

"What…hey you're talking about the mother of my kids!" He folowed after her and held the door for Alex.

"That's what you think," she gave him a wink. "The twins are mine." She went around to her side of the sedan and opened the back door for Alex.

"Is there a problem?" Alex asked as she went through the door before Eliot.

"Nope, just my partner letting me know that she has bigger bals then I do." He pointed a finger at Olivia and shook his head. "I have no words for you right now."

"Score one for me, so what are we doing?" She closed the door after Alex got in and then took her seat up front.

"I guess we head back across the bridge and go see this girlfriend."

"Let me talk to Munch and see what other details he has," Alex said from where she was leaning over the front seat. "It may be a waste of time going al the way back, plus I

can always cal the court house and have the warrant signed and faxed over to the hospital."

"Here use my phone," Eliot handed her his cel phone. "He was the last one to cal."

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"This fucking sucks," Fin said and tossed the doctors report to Munch. "Doc says that the cuts on her hands are from fluorescent lights, they had to dig pieces outta her palms

so that's her proof that she wasn't lying."

"Plus her alibi just checked out, she works the midnight shift over at some packaging place in Hels kitchen." He grabbed his phone and handed the report back to Fin. "Munch

…never mind beautiful it's a bust at this end." He winked at Fin and watched his partner rol his eyes. "Seems our prime suspect has an air tight alibi for where she was and the

cuts are from faling on one of those fluorescent light tubes." He listened for a few moments and nodded his head. "OK we'l see you guys there and then I'l take you out for

dinner and show you how charming I can be." He laughed and hung up his cel phone. "I just love that women, she's so spunky!"

"Did Alex threaten to fil al your orifices with hot pokers again?"

"Better than that, she say's she's sitting with two people who have guns and promises that she'l shot me in my ass if I so much as breath too close to her." He gave his partner a

grin. "I stil got it, al the women want me."

"Yeah dead."

"How'd you know it was Alex caling me?"

"Easy you cal Eliot gorgeous so I know it wasn't him and you didn't do the chest crossing thing so I know it wasn't Olivia."

"Damn I gotta come up with some new stuff every ones got me figured out." He adjusted his glasses and looked around. "Let's stop, get something to eat and head on over to

the last victims family."

"Ya know we ain't got shit on three murders, no evidence, no witnesses except that drunk wino bitch." He walked out through the ER door and turned to Munch. "We're

running outta time, a few more hours and it'l be dark."

"And our happy little nocturnal slasher wil be out looking for more Johnson's to slice off, I got your point."

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The grieving widow of Wiliam D Baskins sat with baled up Kleenex in her fists, she accepted the glass of water from Olivia and looked over to where Eliot was sitting in a

chair across from her. "He would stay late at his office on Tuesdays and Thursdays," she wiped at her nose and placed the glass of water on her coffee table. "He liked to take

it easy on Wednesdays and always came home early on Friday, that's why I never realy thought anything was wrong."

Olivia moved forward on the couch where she sat next to Alex and leaned towards the widow. "Mrs. Baskins where did your husband work and did he have anyone making

threats or have any known enemies?"

"He worked at McGruder and Siskins in the Bronx, he did their books. Everyone liked him, he was a sweet man. How many enemies could a man have who worked for a

company that makes plastic pipes?"

Olivia looked to her partner and then nodded her head. "How about close friends that we can talk to, did he go out after work with the guys for say a few beers?"

"Or maybe play bal at the gym…" Eliot asked and then stopped when he saw a questioning look on the ADA's face, she had been completely silent and had her normal stony

façade but something was wiggling around in her head. "Have something counselor?"

"Mrs. Baskins," she moved up on the couch and leaned around Olivia. "You said your husband did the books at this place, was he a certified CPA?"

"Yes, he graduated from Berkeley in 1996. Why what has that got to do with someone murdering him?"

"Maybe nothing ma'am," Alex said in a whisper before she used Olivia's thigh to push herself up from the low setting couch. "I'l be back in a minute, I'm gonna cal my office

about something." She left the immediate living room area and stopped near the front door to make her cal.

"Bil wasn't any kind of athlete, he was lucky if he could walk and not trip over his own feet and he never drank." She sniffled and handed Olivia a smal picture that she had

been holding on her lap. "He was a quiet man and I don't know what I'l do now without him." Olivia looked at the picture of the 31 year old man and handed it back to his

widow, there was something wrong with the picture the widow painted and what she had seen with her own eyes at the ME's office.

"Eliot I don't have anything else," she closed her notebook and stood up. "I'm going to check with ADA Cabot, we'l meet you outside." She didn't normaly leave her partner

behind but something was bothering her and she wondered if it was the similar to why Alex had left the room.

"Mrs. Baskins can you give me the address and name of your husbands boss, we'd realy like to stop by and question the people he worked with, maybe see if they had

noticed anything strange going on?" He looked to where Olivia and Alex were whispering near the front door and wondered what had gotten into the two women, Olivia was

acting weird for some reason and he wondered if it was because of having the ADA with them.

*************

When Alex hung up her cel phone, Olivia placed her hand on her shoulder. "Hey Alex, something's not right here, I saw Baskins in al his glory and that was the body of

someone who spent more time in a gym than behind a desk."

Pale blue eyes caught sable and held them; Alex looked over Olivia's shoulder and then whispered to her. "When she mentioned Berkeley and what year her husband

graduated it sparked a memory, back in 95 and 96 they had a problem with some of the fraternities there. I caled my assistant and she's puling up what ever she can find from

back then, it may mean nothing but his name sounds so familiar. You know the good old boy club where money covers up a lot of broken laws."

"Seems like a big fal, you know the rich kid going for his CPA at Berkeley and ends up working in the Bronx."

"Exactly, this house screams old money, it costs more than I make in five years and he's working in the Bronx." She watched Eliot come towards them waving a piece of

paper.

"OK girls let's go meet up with Fin and Munch." He handed the paper to Olivia and then opened the door for them. "And on the way you can fil me in on your little whispering

session, maybe give me some hints on how female intuition works. The lord knows I need al the help I can get living with three women."

****************

After interviewing the widow of the third victim, they al went back to the squad room to pour over notes and pul up files. Alex went to her own office to look over the stuff

that her assistant had puled up; she swung her door open and stood looking inside the dark room. The first thing that caught her attention was the strong scent of roses, shivers

ran up her spine and made the hair on the back of her neck stand up. Flipping the light on, she blinked and then felt every nerve in her body go on alert. On every surface in her

office was a vase of red roses, her briefcase and the files she had in her other hand dropped from numb fingers to scatter across the floor. "Son of a bitch…" She turned from

her door and went in search of her assistant, before she could say one word; the older woman gave her a bright smile.

"I have never seen so many roses in one place before, he must realy love you."

"When did they get here and who brought them?"

"I came back from lunch and they were there, I didn't want to invade your privacy but there might be a card among them."

"OK thanks, can you get me a couple big trash bags?" She saw the confused look come over her face but ignored it and returned to her office. Picking up her phone, she

caled Olivia's desk. "Do you have a few minutes; I need you to come look at something?" She hung up her phone and went back out into the halway to wait for the detective

to show up. After picking up her scattered files and briefcase, she slumped down onto the floor and waited.

**************

Olivia stood up and grabbed her leather coat off the back of her chair; Eliot looked up from the files he was reading with a questioning look. "Where ya goin?"

"That was Alex on the phone, something's wrong over at her office." She puled on her coat and grabbed the notes she had written up on what she had found so far. "I'l be

back in a few minutes; I'l cal if I'm longer."

"Don't worry about it," He stretched his arms up over his head and yawned. "Once I finish this I'm heading home. But if you need help just give a yel and I'l come over."

"OK then if I'm not back before you take off, give your wife my love." She gave him a cocky grin when she walked past his desk.

"Hey Liv ya know one of these days I'm gonna tel Kathy what you say about her!"

"Go ahead but I'l warn ya you might just lose buddy."

He shook his head and glanced over at a smirking Munch and Fin. "Not a word John, I spent the whole day with Liv channeling you, in estrogen Hel with her and Alex and in

an hour I'l be right back there with my own family."

"And here I was ready to build a statue in your honor and worship at your feet; I can't even bribe Cabot to get in the same room with me."

"Hel maybe I should charge you," Fin said and closed a file on his desk before getting up. "I gotta look at your ugly mug al day."

"Oohh believe me after al this time without a date, you're starting to look good to me." John said to Fin while looking over the tops of his glasses. "I'm already paying for four

ex-wives, what's a little more for you?"

"You're a sick fuck you know that?" Fin got up and headed to the coffee room leaving a smirking John and eye roling Eliot behind.

*****************

Alex looked down the halway when she heard the elevator door open; she continued to sit on the floor until Olivia stopped in front of her. "I didn't want to go in incase there's

evidence."

"What are you talking about?" she held out a hand and puled her to her feet.

"I have what the state of New York can't protect me against," She flipped her office light on and waved for Olivia to precede her. "I'm being stalked."

Olivia looked around the office and back at the ADA. "How long has this been going on and why didn't you tel us?"

"Months and you know as wel as I that unless he does physical harm, not a damn thing can be done about it. This is the first time that he's sent flowers here; I usualy find them

on my doorstep at home."

Olivia ran he hands across her face and walked further into the office. "Christ Alex what were you thinking?" She shook her head and looked to the ADA. "Has he ever left a

card, caled you or had any other contact with you?"

Alex leaned against her door jam and watched the detective walk behind her desk. "I get phone cals at al hours; I stopped answering them at home and got a service."

Olivia used the bottom of her shirt and puled a smal card from the dozen of roses that sat in the center of the desk; she placed it on the blotter and used her pen to pul the

card from the smal envelope. "You're mine." She looked up and caught pale blue eyes and waved her over. "That's what the card says, take a look and see if the handwriting

looks familiar."

"Probably not, what are the chances that he stepped into a flower shop and ordered al of this and signed the card?"

"Slim to none but there's always a chance that he's getting sloppy." She looked around the room and stil couldn't believe al of it. "First thing we need to do is talk to Cragen

unless you wanna use the DA's investigators."

"Are you kidding, those idiots couldn't find their own asses with both hands and a road map." She looked to the shocked expression on Olivia's face and sighed. "Listen, I'm

tired and so over al of this it isn't funny." She closed her eyes and pinched the bridge of her nose. "I need a vacation, a week out in the middle of nowhere. No noise, polution

or some sick fuck that keeps sending me roses." She opened her eyes and leaned close to Olivia. "I hate fucking roses; they remind me of funeral homes, what happened to

flowers like daisy's or those little tiny carnations?"

"Don't worry about it, let me do some digging and see what I can find out." She used a piece of paper from Alex's legal pad to preserve any evidence on the smal flower card,

folding it; she slipped it into her coat pocket. "You need help with these things…it's kinda hard to breath in here?" She looked to the door and saw Alex's assistant standing

there with garbage bags in her hands, stepping over to her, she took them and nodded her head. "Ya know I always thought that a single rose was romantic but after al of this I

can see your point." She handed a bag to Alex and started dropping just the roses in the bags, she saw the sad expression on the assistants face and handed her one of the

rose filed vases. "So you said that you get them at home, what do you do with them and have they ever been delivered when you're there?"

"It started at home first; I thought it was kind of romantic, you know the secret admirer type way until it became more frequent and not one peep of who was doing it. Now

when I see that damn long box outside my door, I kick it down the halway to old Mrs. Danderson's. This is the first time that they've been sent here and I don't like any of it."

She didn't want to tel Olivia that she felt her heart slam in her chest with just the thought of going home, that she had more locks on her apartment door than anyone in

Manhattan or that she jumped with the slightest sound. "I've been thinking…could you not tel Don and just see what you and Eliot could find out, if it's some whacked out

asshole then we'l bring your boss in on it?"

Olivia dropped her head and rubbed the back of her neck, she thought for a few seconds before nodding. "But if this gets worse than what it is now, I'm going to my Captain.

Alex this guy could be realy dangerous and from this little display he's out of control al ready." She dropped the filed bag of roses near the door and walked over and

stopped close to the ADA. "I'm gonna cal in a favor and have a cop keep an eye on your building during the day, you don't need it at night."

Alex gave her a raised brow look but kept her facial expression blank. "And what brings you to that conclusion Detective Benson?" She had noticed the slight change in the

way Olivia was carrying herself and the way she was taking in every little detail of her office. She roled her eyes when she walked over near the door and picked up a white

laundry bag and waved it at her. "So what, I bring my dirty clothes into work so I can stop off after work at the dry cleaners."

"Alex, unless your underwear need dry cleaned," She puled on the thin black elastic that hung from the bags opening and waved it at her. "I always thought you were the thong

type, Victoria Secret at that." She gave Alex a wicked grin and looked into the bag. "And I bet everything has a partner in here huh?"

"I can't believe you're playing with my underwear, now put that back before someone catches you." She started to walk towards her when her boss stepped through the door,

at the sight of Liz Donnely, her face went instantly red. Olivia swung the bag behind her and stuffed the thong in her coat pocket just as Liz turned her head to where she stood.

"Who died?" She asked and looked to the remaining roses.

"Some mix up at a florist," Olivia threw in and slyly dropped the laundry bag. "I'l look into this and let ya know if I find anything, Liz." She nodded her head and grabbed the

discarded bag of roses on her way out the door.

"What are you doing here; I know you have the day off because I gave you a direct order yesterday?" She took in the laundry bag and the suits in dry cleaner plastic hanging

on the coat tree and the thin bar in the smal alcove near the door. "Alex do you have any clothes left at home or are they al here?"

"I have clothes at home, that's stuff that I just picked up yesterday but forgot to take with me. Cab drivers hate me on those days so I was hoping I could mooch a ride with

Detectives Benson and Stabler." She knew that she was caught when Liz raised a long finger at her.

"You wil not be in this office past five o'clock, I'l have security checking al night so that you can't sneak back in here. You look like shit and I don't need one of my ADA's

faling over in the middle of court, go home and get some sleep." She turned and then stopped outside of the door. "I'l cal Detectives Benson and Stabler and have them

escort you home in cuffs if necessary."

*****************

Olivia walked back in to the bul pen and over to her desk, she sighed when she heard Cragen yel her name. "Get in here we gotta problem!" She pushed her chair back,

walked to his office and knew what the expression on his face meant.

"Don't tel me, we got another one don't we?" She closed her eyes when Cragen nodded his head.

"Park patrol just caled it in, ME's on her way over with Munch and Fin." Olivia nodded her head and got up from the chair that she had automaticaly dropped into. "Cal me

as soon as you guys get word from the ME and I'l send out uniforms to scour the area for witnesses." Olivia and Eliot left his office and headed out to the new crime scene;

they looked to each other and shrugged their shoulders.

"Looks like another long night, Kathy's gonna change the locks and throw my clothes in the front yard."

Olivia grabbed the phone book from the top of a filing cabinet and folowed him out; she puled it open and went right to the section with hundreds of florist's phone numbers.

"Oohhh fuck me blind," she mumbled and closed the book. "It's gonna take hours to do this."

"Do what?" Eliot asked and stopped to look back at her. "Why ya got the phone book?"

"I need to track down a florist that sent like 20 dozen of long stem red roses to Alex, her office was ful of 'em."

"Hold on, she has you trying to find out what florist they came from, why?"

"Because they came from her stalker, I'l explain on the way over to the crime scene, but this is the deal, dad stays out of it for now."

He gave her a critical look about their Captain staying out of it but knew that the order came from the ADA. "How about if you narrow the florist down by size and location,

20 dozen is a lot for one of those smal places…how in the Hel can someone afford that many roses?"

"I have no idea but it's been going on for a while and she's terrified."

**********************

Alex climbed from the taxi after paying the driver, grabbed the suits that she had brought with her walked towards the front door of her building. Her fear had begun the

second the taxi had slowed, she hoped that because of the extravagant lay out that was her office that there would be nothing at her apartment door. She cleared the top step

and stopped dead, in front of her door were more roses. Long boxes as wel as vases sat blocking her door mat, she looked down towards the end of the hal and then to the

stairs. She didn't know whether to disturb everything or just turn around and leave. "Come on Alexandra, step over the shit and then lock your door." She stepped over the

flowers with one foot, unlocked her door and pushed the door open. Tossing her briefcase into the middle of the floor, she used the door jam for balance so as to not trip while

stepping over the flowers. The first thing she did after locking her door was check the answering machine for the line that only her relatives had the number to, she smiled when

she saw the red light blinking. Hitting the button, she headed into her bedroom and stopped when she got to her large closet. She tilted her head to the side and listened for the

message from her machine. "You can't hide from me, it took some doing but I found this number. I hope you liked the flowers, it was a killer to get them." Her blood

ran cold, she dropped the clothes she had in her hands to the floor and fel to her knees. She had used her grandmother's name for this other number and was so sure that he

would never get it. She bent over, rested her forehead on the floor and felt hot tears of frustration and fear slip from behind her closed eyes. She had no idea how long she

stayed on the floor but her knees were kiling her when she finaly got up. Grabbing a black duffle bag from her closet, she filed it with clean clothes and dropped it on her bed

before going into the bathroom. Shedding out of her clothes, she tossed them out the door to land on her bed and then climbed into the shower. She didn't care that the water

was cold, she was finished washing her hair just in time for the hot water and was done a few minutes later.

Grabbing an old dark blue hooded sweatshirt and a pair of black Levis, she dressed and puled on her old cross trainers. After puling her long hair into a pony tail, she puled

the hood up and grabbed her duffle bag. The biggest problem she had was where she was going to go, if she used a credit card he'd find her. There was only one place she

knew that was safe and where she wouldn't be endangering or imposing on anyone.

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"Wel this is a first," Munch said as he turned to Eliot and Olivia. "Park Patrol screwed up, this new vic isn't like the other three; this guy has so many holes punched in him he

makes Swiss cheese look solid."

Fin stepped from behind him and stopped next to Olivia. "Weapon was a piece of rebar from the construction site a short ways from here, we gave it to homicide."

"But I thought they gave it to us," Olivia said and watched the coroner push the gurney with the victim on it towards the bus. "How did they get the scene mixed up?"

"They freaked when they found the rebar through the guy's nuts, figured it was SVU." Fin shrugged and walked back towards the sedan he and Munch drove.

Eliot wiped at his nose and looked around the scene, everything was taken care of and since they weren't needed he was going home. "Hey Liv I'm going home can ya take

me off the board when ya get back?"

"Sure," she caught the sedan keys and watched him take off towards a taxi stand at the top of the park. "Come on John let's get out of here before they al change their minds

and give it back to us." On the way back to police plaza, she watched the business signs for one that was for a florist. She was thinking that one being close by would be the

best bet to check for the huge delivery to Alex's office. She slowed and puled over when she saw a sign for Academy Floral Company, she looked at her watch and then to

the dark windows of the shop. "Guess that'l wait until morning, probably too close anyway." She puled back out onto the street and continued on her way to the parking

garage, the whole while thinking of the blonde ADA. Ever since Alex had come to the SVU unit as their ADA, Olivia had watched the younger woman. When she and Eliot

had to appear for court, she always sat on the outside part of the bench so she could look at the long legs of a certain counselor. A few times she knew that she had been

caught by either her partner, Alex or both at the same time. It was at those times that she pretended to be spaced out and not know why they were giving her inquisitive looks.

She smiled and shook her head a little as she puled into the police garage, her behavior now reminded her of when she was much younger and would get caught doing

something totaly against everything a female was supposed to do. "Men never get yeled at for cat cals; don't know why I always did." She said to herself and got out of the

dark sedan. "Been slapped a few times as wel, it's just gotta be the company I keep."

"Of course it is, I hate being the only one that gets slapped but now that we hang out I'm not alone." Munch said and gave her as much of a grin as he ever gave anyone. "Feel

like joining me and Fin for a supper, he'l buy?"

"Can I have a rain check; I've got some files to check out before I head out tonight." She looked at her watch again. "It's past ten o'clock…could ya bring me some food?"

"Sure thing Liv," He squeezed her shoulder and went back over to where Fin was waiting for him. "We'l bring ya some real coffee to, the stuff upstairs walked past us on our

way back down." She waved and headed into the building, climbing the stairs to the bul pen; she walked over to her desk and dropped down into her chair. A royal blue

folder in her in-box caught her attention, she lifted it out and when she dropped it in the center of her desk, the scent of perfume caught her attention. Picking it back up, she

opened the folder and brought it up close to her face. She knew the scent but only smeled it when Alex was close to her; it was a subtle citrus scent with a slight vanila added

to it. She had closed her eyes and was taking deep breathes when Cragen tapped her on her shoulder.

"You know if Fin caught you huffing ink, he'd toss your ass behind bars just because." He smiled when she jumped and the folder fel from her fingers. "I'm heading home

before I start acting as strange as you and I better not hear from the midnight shift supervisor that you were in here distracting them…again."

"You won't, I just have this file to read over and then I'm outta here." She knew that he didn't believe her and more often than not one of them found her in the crib sleeping on

either the cot or one of the bunk beds. Hours later and after eating the Chinese food that Fin and Munch had brought back, she had given up on work and was asleep on the

cot in the crib. It had been the usual flipping of the coin that got her the cot while John and Fin slept in the bunk beds. She lay on her side in an old NYPD t-shirt and her low

rise Levis, her boots and socks lay under the cot. She faced the doorway, fluffed her pilow and closed her eyes to John and Fin's rumbling snores.

***************

The night security guard that kept an eye on the District Attorney's floor stopped outside of one the conference rooms, as far as he knew, no one was left. He opened the door,

peeked in and shook his head. The blonde head lowered over a thick book was not supposed to be there, he was told to check her office and if she was there to kick her out.

"Miss Cabot are you trying to get my ass kicked?" He walked in and stopped beside where she sat at the long table. "Miss Donnely gave me strict orders to toss you out on

your ass if I caught you in the area."

Alex smiled up at him and nodded her head. "I'm gone George you never saw me, I've been home for hours." She closed the book she had been staring at for the last hour,

grabbed her briefcase and left ahead of the security guard.

"And don't go to your office and try and hide."

"Don't worry George, I won't, see you tomorrow night." She gave him a smal wave and headed to the elevator, hitting the button for the floor she wanted; she rubbed her stiff

neck and yawned. Puling her hood up over her head, she walked out of the elevator and down the dimly lit halway, she hoped her new hiding spot was open, if not; there

were other's in the building. She walked between the desks and ran her fingers across the black leather coat that hung on one of the desk chairs and dropped her briefcase in

the chair. Going around a bend, she went through a door and stopped inside the room. Hearing soft snores coming from one side of the room she hoped she didn't disturb the

officers. Once her eyes adjusted to the darkness, she stepped to where the cot was and saw the outline of a body. She had turned to leave and stopped when she heard a low

raspy voice.

"Alex?"

"Olivia?" She squinted and saw her roling to her back.

"You lookin fer me?" She asked in a low whisper.

"No I…go back to sleep." She went towards the door and stopped when Olivia caled out to her.

"Come here," She moved over and patted the mattress. "Talk to me."

"It's late, I'l see you later."

"Don't make me get up and chase after you, the floors ice cold and I'm bare foot."

Alex sighed and moved back towards the cot, she sat down on the edge and tried to make out Olivia's features in the dark room. "I can't go home…" She dropped her head

when Olivia put her arm around her lower back. "He's got my other phone number." She let Olivia pul her down on the cot beside her and then roled over to bury her face

against her neck, for the first time in months, she felt safe.

"Go ta sleep; we'l talk in the morning." She pushed the hood off Alex' head and ran her fingers through the hair at her temple, minutes later they were both sound asleep in each

others arms.

******************

Cragen walked out of his office at eight o'clock the next morning and looked around the bul pen; he saw Munch and Fin at their desks and Eliot coming from the coffee room

with a fresh cup in his hand. "Where's Benson?" He asked and stepped over to her desk to see what was in her out-box.

"Funny you should ask that," Munch said and looked over the tops of his glasses. "She was busy last night and caught the uni-bomber while we were sleeping; they're stil back

there in the crib...sharing the cot."

"You spend too much time reading about conspiracies," Cragen said and turned to Eliot.

"For once he's not halucinating," Fin said and nodded his head towards the cribs door. "She caught someone or they caught her, don't know which."

"And she has this person in the crib?" Eliot said and looked to his boss. "I think she needs some time off, like a few weeks before we end up handcuffing her to the heat

register."

"Go wake her up and then I wanna know what you al have so far, we gotta move on this people." He walked back to his office but left the door open, he was curious as to

who Olivia had in the crib and would chew her ass later for it. Eliot cast a quick glance back to the other two detectives and then headed to the crib; he knew that he would

tease her about this until one of them retired.

**************

Olivia woke to the feeling of moist hot air washing over her ear and neck, she ran her hands across the body that was covering a good majority of her own and felt the silky

warm skin beneath her fingers. Opening one eye and raising her head a bit, she caught sight of blonde hair flowing from inside the dark hood and long fingers spread out over

her right breast. Taking a deep breath, she closed her eyes and continued to caress the soft skin of Alex' lower back and ribcage. At the click of the door's latch opening, she

froze and waited. She knew that she should have gotten up when John and Fin did but she was too tired and comfortable to even move. She would worry about everything

later; there were more important things to be taken care of.

Eliot had snuck into the room and now stood against the wal watching with crossed arms his partner sleep. This wasn't like al the other times he came to wake her; she

looked so different to him. For one thing the body lying on top of her, the possessive hand on her breast and the way their legs were tangled brought a blush to his cheeks. He

took one step and gave her shoulder a soft shake. "Liv time to get up, dad wants some news." He stepped closer and almost fel when he recognized the uni-bomber, shaking

his head; he cleared his throat and gave his partner a raised eyebrow. "Come on I know you're awake and dad knows you're not alone, better wake Alex before he storms the

crib."

"Damn," she opened one eye. "John squealed didn't he?"

"Actualy he said you caught the uni-bomber so Cragen has no idea who you're with, not like he won't find out if he comes in here."

"Oohh God damn," Alex mumbled and tried to disappear by burying her face deeper into Olivia's neck. "He's gonna kil me." Eliot chuckled and stepped back when Alex

roled over and sat up, she slipped her feet into her cross trainers, rubbed her face and stood up with a low groan. "That cot sucks, my back is kiling me." Rubbing her back,

she tried to stretch and gasped with a sharp pain. "Could one of you just shot me?"

"Nope, you're not getting off that easy 'cuz I'm not gonna suffer alone at dads hand." Olivia said and leaned over to get her boots and socks. "We'l cover you so you can get

out without him seeing you." She slipped her feet into her boots and stood up. "OK let's do this," she placed her hand on the ADA's lower back, waited for Eliot to go out the

door and whispered in her ear. "Once we get past his office you just keep on walking and we'l block his door." She snorted and shook her head. "This is like getting caught in

the dorm rooms, ya know trying to sneak the person out without getting caught?"

"I never got caught; I was good at shimmying down drain pipes." She felt her face blush. "Damn so much for my perfect ice princess reputation, I'm ruined."

Olivia puled her to a stop, stepped in front of her and looked into her bloodshot eyes. "Why are we acting like a couple of kids, we didn't do anything and I don't think your

rep is ruined, just glare at John and it'l be al fixed."

"That's right you caught the uni-bomber so I'm safe, unless I have to prosecute."

They stepped out into the halway, looked towards the captain's office and then walked right behind Eliot. As soon as he stepped into Cragen's office he glanced back and saw

Alex walking towards Olivia's desk. He stepped to the side to let his partner in and then turned to look at his boss. "Now that you two have graced us with your presence I

only need to do one other thing," he stood up and yeled out loud enough for the entire floor to hear. "MISS CABOT COME HERE PLEASE!" He watched the dark clothed

figure freeze, the shoulders slump and then the ADA turned and headed towards his office. He waited until she came in and stood beside a blushing Olivia. "OK people what is

going on with our case," He looked right at Alex. "Any idea's there counselor?"

"I was doing some checking into the Berkley Fraternities; in 1996 a case was dismissed due to lack of substantial evidence. It seems that the DNA from a violent rape was lost

and or damaged, al charges were dismissed and the Fraternity named was broken up."

Cragen gave her a raised eyebrow look and waved a hand for more. "And what has this got to do with our three vics?"

Olivia looked to her and nodded her head, she had read the notes and reports that Alex had left on her desk and knew what she had found. "Wiliam Baskins was in the

fraternity that was accused of the rape and assault, I don't know about the others because al the names were removed from the files except for his, seems that someone had

enough pul to expunge the records."

Cragen pointed to Olivia and Eliot. "That's your job, get to Berkeley and find out from their people what happened, could be a revenge type deal, what else do we have?"

"OK, the girlfriend we talked to said that her man always went to this sports bar in Queens, the last she saw him was the day before her was kiled. He caled her from there

the night he got kiled; she could hear the game in the background." Fin handed Cragen the paper with the bars address on it and leaned against the wal opposite Olivia, Alex

and Eliot, he smirked at the way the two women tried not to look at each other.

"OK, you guys folow up your lead, Alex I need to have a word with you." He dropped down into his chair and waited for his detectives to file out. He leaned forward, placed

his hands together and looked at her shadowed face. "What's going on Alexandra?"

She knew she was in trouble, the only time Cragen ever used her ful first name was when he was concerned. She puled her hood back, dropped down into a chair across

from him and raised her eyes to meet his. "Nothing I can't handle…about the crib, I was just too tired to get a cab home and…"

Cragen raised a hand and stopped her. "Alex I'm just glad it was Olivia you were sleeping with and not Munch, if it had been I'd have Huang lock your crazy ass up. Now how

is it that you ended up with two of my detectives yesterday?"

"I was around the building and Ol…Detective Benson asked me if I wanted to ride along. I'm going to see what I can dig up on that case from 96, there's got to be something

somewhere."

"Keep it up Alex and I may just steal you from the DA's office and don't worry, the kids won't say a word about the crib. Just be careful around here ya got me and if you're

wondering how I knew it was you sneaking out of here, you're the only one I know with 'Bottom Feeder' on a sweat shirt."

She narrowed her eyes and tried to blink the dryness from her eyes. "What do I have to be careful about?"

"Oohh I'm sure if you go out there and ask John he'l tel you." He smiled when she got up and left his office, sometimes she could be so dense, he wondered if it was because

she was a briliant lawyer that she forgot about everything else.

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Alex looked down at the legal pad on the prosecutor's desk and up to Judge Barry. "Your honor I ask to remand the defendant until his trial, he has no permanent residence, he

is not employed and the people feel that he is a flight risk."

Judge Barry leaned over her desk towards Alex; she narrowed her eyes and raised a finger. "Miss Cabot, the defendant is being charged with breaking and entering and

attempted rape. His place of residence is the courthouse steps, I trip over him every day getting in the building, I don't think he's going anywhere and besides, if you set bail at

$1000.00, he couldn't come up with the minimum." She looked to the homeless man. "$1000.00 bail or bond, next case." She slammed her gavel and handed the folder to her

bailiff, Alex ground her teeth and grabbed up her legal pad and briefcase before leaving the court room. She just couldn't win with the judges, if it wasn't Petrovsky it was

Barry. Both Judges hated her guts and did everything they could to make her life a living Hel. With this homeless man she had just tried to have locked up, it took Munch and

Fin two days to track him down after he broke into a basement window of the building next door and attempted to rape a lady in a supply room. If he tried to rape once, he

would try again and she didn't want that on her conscience. She had enough weighing on her mind as it was, she had three more cases for that day and two of them were

before Petrovsky. She knew what the detectives went through every day to find perpetrators, folow leads and talk to al involved before she had anything to take before the

judge. And the minute she got in there, they threw everything back at her. She stepped into her office, threw her briefcase into a visitors chair and shed her black suit jacket.

Throwing it on her desk, she planted her hands on her hips and stared at the opposite wal. "Fucking son of a bitch!"

"I've been referred to as many things but it's been a while since I was caled a son of a bitch by a felow coleague." George Huang said and walked into the smal dim office to

take a seat in front of Alex's desk. "So what has you al prickly this early in the day?"

"Judge Barry and a number of other things," she said and moved over behind her desk to drop down into her chair. "So what brings you here?"

"Oohh I was in the area and thought I'd stop by and see how you are." He leaned back in the chair, crossed his legs and placed his folded hands on his knee. "I heard that you

went with Detectives Benson and Stabler to question family members."

Alex roled her eyes and shook her head in amazement. "Is there anything not mentioned around here, I mean who would possibly care where I was on my day off?"

"Oohh you'd be surprised, the word I heard was that you were in skin tight Levis and with one word you ran off with the detectives."

"Tel me something George, who was it and when?"

"Oohhh it was just a conversation I over heard downstairs, be careful Alex." He got up from his seat and turned for her door. "I didn't like the expression on the cops face

when he was talking about you and Detective Benson; beat cops are another animal al together."

He left her office with a smal smile and a wave; she was beginning to worry more with each passing second. If her stalker was a cop, then it would be harder to catch him, he

could cover his tracks easily and never be caught. She grabbed her phone, dialed the operator and waited to be connected to the department she needed. Once again she was

having her phone number changed; she was running out of names that couldn't be traced back to her. Before she could be connected, she hung up and caled a number to one

of the other departments in the building.

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"What is it with these rich assholes?" Eliot asked and slammed the car door. "They act like they can do what ever the Hel they want and not have to answer for it?"

"Money can buy a lot of silence or a good hit man, so since we washed out at both their little office of we are better than you registration and the security office…"

"We run over someone, get hauled in and you can search their database while I stal for time?"

"I was thinking more of checking some florists on our way back home, the reason Alex stayed in the crib last night is because she's afraid to go home." She looked to Eliot and

rubbed her palms down her thighs. "From what I saw in her office, she hasn't been going home to stay there."

"But we've never found her in the crib before or did you tel her you were staying?"

"No I didn't tel her that, I didn't know she was stil in the building when I got back and then me, Fin and John crashed after the letters on the reports ran off the pages." She

looked back to the street and sighed. "I have no idea what to do if I find this guy, there's no law that says he can't send her flowers…wait, she said he cals her apartment…"

"We get her to get us the phone records, check the numbers and then go beat the shit outta him."

"Why didn't she do that to begin with, unless she was hoping that he'd just go away and leave her alone?" She slipped down into the seat and closed her eyes. "Maybe I can

get her to stay at my place?"

"Or you can stay at her place; maybe grab the asshole when he shows up."

"But to do that Alex would have to become bait, I can't do that to her; there's got to be some other way to get this asshole."

"First we check the flower shops, second we go over her phone records and third we gotta get something on this case before dad kils us."

Olivia thought for a split second, cussed herself for not thinking of it sooner and then tossed out her thoughts to Eliot. "Maybe instead of looking for the men involved in this,

we should look for the women who were there at that time. Maybe check with a rape crisis center, hospital, maybe the campus clinic if they have one."

Eliot groaned and gave her a quick glance. "But before we can do that, we need a warrant. If it's anything like what we ran into today, we'l need half a dozen and a few

threats to their lives to even get in the damn door."

************

Alex stood outside the court room doors with her briefcase in hand and half a dozen motions in her other from the last two scumbag lawyers; she hated the fact that when

anyone found out that she was a lawyer that she was grouped with the bottom feeders. These last two wanted al kinds of deals that basicaly let their clients out of jail free.

She had been threatened with contempt of court in both cases and almost let the bailiff take her there just so she could get some sleep. She yawned and blinked her eyes

hoping that the dryness would go away, she had taken her contacts out but her eyes stil itched. Feeling a slight pul in her lower back and right hip when she stretched, she

remembered why she felt so sore and felt the deep crimson covering her cheeks. She had never in her life thought she would end up in the same bed with Olivia, as innocent as

it was she stil felt like she had crossed a line somewhere. When a loud voice came from behind her, she jumped and spun to look at one of the court clerks. "Sorry Miss

Cabot, I have this file for you, it came in a while ago." The geeky little man said and handed the thick file to her. "You were in court when it came in so I'm so glad that I was

able to get it to you without delay." He nodded his head, turned on his heel and walked away at a pace that reminded her of a shuffle. Looking though the file, she realized that

it was the phone records she had requested, what confused her was why they didn't go to her office. Dropping everything into her briefcase, she headed for the courthouse

doors and out into the windy freezing day. Puling her ankle length black wool coat tighter against her body, she skipped down the stairs and out to the curb to wave down a

taxi. What puled up was not what she was expecting.

"Hey beautiful wanna lift?" Munch asked and jumped out to open the read door for her. "We had a little visit from the spook squad; they said you requested a phone tap on al

your phones."

She climbed into the back of the dark sedan, placed her briefcase on the seat and then leaned her arms on the back of the front seat. "OK and how did you guys get involved

in this?"

"Oohhh that's an easy one," Fin caught her eyes in the rearview mirror. "They were looking for your girl but she's stil out on the road somewhere, so they grabbed us, they

needed to get in your place to set everything up but I volunteered to set it up."

"Damn I forgot al about that," She searched through her pockets for her keys and then finaly found them in her briefcase. "So you guys know what's going on?"

Munch turned in the seat; he dropped his head to look over the tops of his glasses in his classic way. "No and that's another reason why we're here, what's going on Alex?"

"I'm being sort of stalked; I've got someone who keeps sending me roses at both home and now my office."

"Most women would be thriled to death if they got roses, what's the rest of it?" Fin asked and turned down West 78th street where Alex lived.

"I hate roses but the thing is that I've gotten close to 40 dozen in the last two days, and now who ever this is has somehow gotten the phone number to the line only my relatives

have. I'm running out of places to hide from this freak, that's why I ordered the phone taps."

"What does Olivia have to say about al of this?" Munch asked and noticed the light blush that worked its way up her face. "Oohh so she doesn't about this part does she?" He

chuckled and got out after Fin parked, he looked around for anyone watching before opening the back door for Alex. "Don't worry we'l protect you until she gets here." He

winked at her and then he and Fin folowed her into her building, as soon as she cleared the top step, she saw al the flowers crowing not only her door but the halway.

"Fuck," Fin whispered and then looked around the halway. "It looks like a damn grave site, how longs this been going on?"

Alex sighed and looked to the detectives. "Don't yel but a few months, it's realy gotten bad within the last week or so." She felt better when John took her keys, leaned over

the mess at her door and opened the locks.

"I can say this in al honesty, I have never seen so many locks on one door since I worked in Baltimore. We had this old man who was so paranoid he kept the Master lock

company in business, wrapped his house in tin foil and set up these huge satelite dishes in his front yard to send ilegal Government signals back to space…"

"What he's not teling ya is that it was his house." Fin remarked and helped Alex step over al the flowers.

John gave Fin a look reserved for knocking down a suspect and continued with his story. "Anyway, with this many locks on one door, I don't think you have to worry about

anyone breaking in. He'd die of old age before he could pick al of them." He saw the steel bar leaning against the corner of the wal and roled his eyes. "Is there anything you

don't have to keep your door closed?"

"A tank, know where I can get one?" She asked while placing her coat on the rack near the door. "So how long does it take to put the tap on my phone?"

"I'm already done," Fin replied and stepped back over to the door. "As soon as someone cals, the tap activates and does its job. The guys back at the station wil monitor it,"

he snapped his fingers. "I need a list of numbers for the people who have the number, ya know your moms and who ever." He looked around her large apartment and saw her

sound system; he dropped his head and gave her a version of his partner. "Damn girl but you gots some slammin shit here," he walked over and looked at some of her CD's.

"Mandy Moore, Beyonce, Alicia Keyes, Otis Redding, Barry White, Pink, Anastasia, and Natalie Merchant," he picked up a CD and waved it at her. "Black Eyed Peas?"

"What were you expecting to find up there?" She asked with a tilt to her head. "Oohhh wait, you thought because I'm a lawyer that I'd have Opera or classical?"

"Alex you scream blue blood…"

"Culture, the Met on a moon lit night, New York Symphonies on the arm of a tuxedo clothed distinguished man like me." Munch waved a hand at Fin. "Not hip hop spank your

monkey or what ever it is they yel."

"Spank your monkey…I can't believe you just said that." Fin roled his eyes, grabbed him by his arm and dragged him to the door. "I'l kil 'em for ya and let ya know if we get

anything on your phone lines." He took the paper with phone numbers from Alex, pushed John out into the halway and snickered when he tripped over flowers.

"Here take my keys and give them to Olivia, I know she's gonna scream and yel once you tel her what I did." She tossed Fin her ring of keys and then locked her door after

he went out. "She should be happy about this and why the Hel am I worried about what she thinks?" She went to her bedroom, stripping on the way she tossed her suit over

the foot of her bed before going to her bathroom. She knew damn wel that she thought very highly of everything the detective did and said. Turning the shower on, she

adjusted the water before getting under the spray. It was a quick shower unlike the half hour ones she would take before al of this stalking business started. Once she was

finished, she puled on her thick terry clothe robe and went out in the kitchen to cal her favorite restaurant for supper.

******************

Eliot stood off to the side and let his partner work her charms on the geeky little punk who was doing a soft shoe act, he tried to run from behind the counter and found

himself lifted off the floor by his belt. "Listen you little runt, did you or did you not send a shit load of red roses to the assistant district attorney's office?"

"Lady you're nuts!" He struggled and kicked his feet. "I don't hafta tel you shit!"

"Liv maybe you should just let him go and we'l report what he's got here under the counter to narc squad?" He lifted the ful sandwich bag of pot up and waved it. "Maybe

they'l search the place for more in the way of plants?"

"OK, we didn't have any roses so I told the guy to cal New York Floral Corp over on 68th street, check with them." He sighed when she put him down on the floor.

She looked to Eliot and winked. "OK so when did this guy cal or did he come in?"

"He caled at like eight in the morning and it was on a cel phone, I heard al kinds of voices in the background and then static." He wrote down the phone number for the other

floral shop and pointed to the door. "Now get out before I cal…just get out!" He watched them leave and then ran over to lock the door and drop the shades.

"Ya know Liv he could scream police brutality."

"But he won't," She stopped on her side of the car and winked. "Because if he does, I tel his brother and he'l get the shit kicked outta him."

Eliot narrowed his eyes and smirked. "His brother is who and what have ya got on them?"

"His brother is a beat cop in the 27 and a friend of Lenny Briscoe, one phone cal about pot and his ass is grass so to speak." She got into the car and grabbed her cel phone

when it vibrated on her belt. "Benson."

"Where ya at there stud?" Fin asked and chuckled when Munch choked.

"We're about 20 minutes from home why what's up and what's with the stud comment?"

"Oohh nothin just givin Munch a hard time, I got Alex's apartment keys, we're on our way out so I'm gonna put 'em in your desk drawer."

"Why do you have her keys and where is she?" She felt her heart rate speed up and nervous sweat form on her upper lip. "Is she OK, I mean where is she?"

"Relax Liv, we took her home and she gave me her keys so you can get in her apartment."

"If she's there then why do I need her keys?"

"Like I know what goes on in women's heads, she gave me her keys you figure out the rest, later."

Eliot cast a questioning glance her way. "What was that al about?"

"Alex gave Fin her apartment keys…for me."

He gave her a bright smile and snickered. "Guess you've got a date tonight."

"Yeah right, I make it a habit to date straight women. She probably wants to know what we found out on the case and about her stalker." She reached into her coat pocket and

felt something strange; she puled it out, coughed and quickly shoved it deep in her pocket.

"I see you forgot al about those," Eliot snorted. "Just think how I felt when I was looking for the car keys, Victoria secrets, I never pictured you in stuff like that."

"Makes me happy as Hel that you don't and besides they're…not mine." She whispered the last part and felt her face get hot.

Eliot puled the sedan into the parking lot and turned in the seat to look at her. "How did you get her thong with Fin and Munch in the crib?"

"Oohh for Christ sakes Ely, I stole them from her laundry bag." She slapped her hands over her face and groaned.

"Liv if she's straight and you're not interested then why did you steal her thong?"

"Just forget it; can you drop me off at her place on your way home?"

"Just take the sedan that way you two can drive in tomorrow and not have to wait on a cab."

"So you're assuming that I'm spending the night with her and you just wanna hurry home so you can tel Kathy."

"How'd ya guess, you're our number one hobby. And she had a good laugh last night over your drooling."

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Alex stood at her kitchen counter filing two plates with the Greek food she had ordered from a smal place just down the street. With the choriatiki salata on the dishes, she

added keftedes, large black olives and the main dish of psito. She knew that Olivia liked Greek food and hoped that she was hungry when she got there. Filing her glass with

her favorite Greek wine Rodos 2400, she took a long sip and let it sit in her mouth a minute before swalowing. Closing her eyes, she let the beat of the song flow through her

body and carry her away. Beyonce's song Naughty Girl blasted from the speakers throughout her apartment, she moved in a way that would have men and women faling at

her feet. One woman was close to it, Olivia had let herself in after hearing and feeling the music from the other side of the door. She now stood leaning against the wal that

separated the kitchen from the living room, her eyes trailed down the lithe figure dancing in front of her. Fire roared through her veins and pounded in her ears with the tempo

of the music. If she wasn't in lust before, she was now. Alex could pul the basics of sexuality to the surface and make a person drown in them. Her complexities were

overwhelming to Olivia; she was so used to seeing the stoic immaculately coifed assistant district attorney. Not a young woman dressed in cut off sweatpants, a midriff t-shirt

and barefoot dancing in her kitchen with total abandon. The song changed to one by Mandy Moore, Olivia let her eyes drop closed for a second before she opened them to

watch Alex dance.

Don't tel me how I had a vision

That this day would come to be

Cal it luck, cal it intuition

Here I am (here we are), isn't that enough

For a little bit of reality

Fate is good, fate can be real

If you believe it's what you feel

Oh, what a moment

When I looked into you eyes

I knew I got the prize

Oh, baby, what a sweet surprise

It only took a minute, to let you in my life

It only took a minute, for me to realize

It only took a minute, and i knew just what to do

It only to a minute to fal in love with you

Time and time again, boy I've always been

The only one who think things through

You got a hold on me, set me free

Who would've known that out of the blue

I discovered the magic of al my dreams that night

With just one look at you

I knew that everything would be al right

It only took a minute, to let you in my life

It only took a minute, for me to realize

It only took a minute, and I knew just what to do

It only to a minute to fal in love with you

Alex moved to the song, feeling the music in her veins and the words in her heart. She turned to go into the living room and stopped dead in her tracks, there right in front of

her was the person that came to her inner vision with the words of the song. She looked into her reddish brown eyes and felt her world fal into place. She stood stil looking

into Olivia's eyes until the song trailed off into silence so loud it deafened her.

Here I am, isn't that a vision

Here I am, isn't that a vision

Oh, what a moment

When I looked into you eyes

I knew I got the prize

Oh, baby, what a sweet surprise

It only took a minute, to let you in my life

It only took a minute, for me to realize

It only took a minute, and I knew just what to do

It only to a minute to fal in love with you

"Hey, ya hungry?" She asked and could have slapped herself sily with how smooth she handled her actions. She slapped a hand over her eyes and took a deep breath. "How

long have you been standing there watching me make an ass of myself?"

Olivia cleared her throat, rubbed the back of her neck and looked up with hooded eyes. "Long enough to know that you're a very dangerous woman, do you take a body

guard when you go out dancing?"

"You're here so does that count?"

"Nope, so what's for supper?" She pushed herself from the wal and walked to where Alex had been fixing their plates. "So are ya going to tel me why I have the keys to your

apartment, or was this the only way you thought you could get an armed guard?"

Alex turned her sound system off and flipped the TV on. "I thought it'd be easier to tel you what I had done then to explain it over the phone that I wish I could toss out the

damn window." She pointed to the smal box that Fin had attached to her phone. "I caled to have a phone tap put on my lines and Fin and Munch intercepted the cal that was

supposed to go to you." She cleared her glass topped coffee table off and waved to Olivia. "They picked me up outside of the courthouse and brought me home, Munch made

fun of al the locks on my door." She grabbed her plate, glass of wine and went into sit on her couch to eat her supper. She watched Olivia folow her and felt her heart

squeeze in her chest, for the first time she noticed how rumpled she looked. Her reddish brown hair was messy and faling over her eyes, soft dark stripes lay below her eyes

and the low moan when she sat hit her. "Long day?"

"Frustrating day, we struck out at the colege." She filed her mouth with the chicken and chewed slowly to savor the spices. "They told us that no such thing happened and that

they couldn't help us in any way. So then I told Eliot that we should check the local hospitals, rape crisis centers, maybe the campus clinic and see if anything comes up by way

of victims."

Alex nodded and chewed her food slowly before swalowing and taking a drink of her wine. "But you'l need warrants to open doors, I'l get them in the morning that is if

Judges Barry or Petrovsky don't have me shot the second I walk through the courthouse doors." She finished her supper and got up to go into the kitchen for desert. Normaly

she wouldn't have bothered but she had a taste for Baklava with warm honey poured over it. She popped a smal plate in the microwave and moved to the side when Olivia

came into the kitchen. "I got the phone logs; I just glanced at them so if you want you can take them back to the bul pen to go over. I was kind of surprised that the

courthouse clerk gave them to me," she puled the plate from the microwave and held it out to Olivia. "I don't know why he had them." She took the dirty plate from her and

placed it in the sink. "Forget about the plates, I'l get 'em later."

"He shouldn't of; I'l check into it maybe someone at the phone company screwed up. What judge signed the paperwork?"

"Judge Gaines, he was the only one I could catch before early court hearings." She popped a smal piece of the desert into her mouth and moaned at the flavor, she was glad

that she could eat anything and not gain any weight. The smal piece of baklava only had a couple milion calories and she usualy ate close to half a pound at one time. "Tel ya

what, screw work and al the pervs wandering around out there and let's crash on the couch and watch TV." She crawled over the back of the couch, dropped down onto the

cushions and put her feet out on the coffee table. Olivia rubbed her neck and looked to see how relaxed Alex was, it was like looking at another person al together. She

moved around and took a spot somewhere in between Alex and the other arm, when she leaned back into the cushions she felt exactly how tired she was. "OK let's see," she

flipped through a few channels and cussed low under her breath. "There it is, my favorite…court TV!" She cast a quick glance at Olivia and grinned. "Kidding I hate that

fucking show, they're al posturing for the damn camera. Let them go in front of some of our judges and see what happens." She gave up and handed the remote to Olivia.

"You're turn and I refuse to watch Cops or anything having to do with our jobs."

Olivia looked at her and chuckled. "That leaves a whole lot of a choice now don't it, it seems that the public wants to know what we're doing so they can get ideas on how to

screw up our investigations." She stopped when she reached the Sci-Fi channel. "How's this?" She looked to see that Alex was watching her with a smirk.

"No job talk Liv, we'l watch Colonel O'Neil toss Daniel through the stargate." She grabbed the bed pilow she kept on the couch, placed it on Olivia's thighs and laid down to

watch TV. "Maybe they'l kil some snakeheads and get rid of Anubis." Olivia draped one arm across the back of the couch and not knowing what to do with the other one;

she let it lay on the couch beside her. "You know you can touch me, I won't hit you or anything and after last night it doesn't realy make a difference does it?"

"I just didn't wanna over step ya know; I didn't wanna pul a Munch and get the Hel slapped outta me." She yawned and blinked her eyes. "Besides I should be going, with al

those locks on your door, no one can get in."

"I know no one can get in, it's the thought of him knowing I'm here alone, please stay with me." She turned over to look up into warm brown eyes. "I'l make you breakfast in

the morning, complete with real fresh coffee."

Olivia roled her eyes and groaned. "God it's pitiful how easy I am, coffee a donut and I'm history." She ran her fingers through soft blonde hair and watched pale blue eyes

flutter closed. "I won't let him get near you, you're safe." Minutes later, they were both stretched out on the soft couch sound asleep wrapped in each others arms. Sometime

during the night, Alex had removed Olivia's holster and handcuff case and laid them on the coffee table. Even though the couch wasn't that big and not realy comfortable for

two people, she never left Olivia's side.

***********

Olivia and Alex walked from the parking garage to the building's elevator, Olivia waited for her to step in before she folowed. She gave the ADA a smal grin and ran her

fingers down the front of the burgundy colored silk shirt she wore. "Ya know Eliot's gonna give me that smirk and tease me al day, he knows damn wel I don't have any silk

shirts."

"Wel the boys have probably been making up al sorts of little fantasies about what we did al night, tel 'em I plied you with expensive wine and food, had my way with you

and the shirts a replacement for the one I ripped off your body during foreplay." She gave Olivia a quick grin and puled her stoic mask back on when the elevator doors

opened.

"Alex are you trying to give me a stroke, geez." She folowed her from the elevator. "It ain't them that's gonna be having fantasies al day." She mumbled and then heard Alex

chuckle up in front of her. "Damn, you heard that didn't you?"

"Yes and I do my best to plant ideas in people's heads al day long."

"Wel, with some of us you don't have to work too hard, we just think like that al the time." She thought of what they both said and stopped in her tracks right outside Alex's

office door. "Hey are you saying…"

"What do you think I'm saying," She placed her briefcase on her desk and then shed her long overcoat. "Have you ever heard of me dating anyone?"

"No but then you're not exactly the type to flaunt someone around the courthouse either." She watched Alex come towards her with twinkling eyes. "You're enjoying this aren't

you?"

Alex hung her coat up on the rack near the door and leaned in close to her ear to whisper. "Of course I am I like seeing you off tilter, the bars I go to aren't the type you'd find

guys like Munch, Fin or Eliot having a beer. But you'd be in there hiding in a corner and keeping an eye out for any trouble."

"So is it an attraction because I can be dangerous or something completely different?" She was hoping against everything she believed in that Alex saw her for what was

underneath and not the gold badge on her belt. Too many people wanted details into the perversion she wadded through every day; it had happened more times than she cared

to count and that was with other officers as wel. She knew that Alex knew every detail to the cases they worked but it was different reading it and having it spoke to you in the

bedroom. She backed against the wal when Alex closed her door and leaned further into her personal space.

"What we see and hear every single day is exactly what I don't want in my bedroom, you understand why I can't have it there. But that's not everything Detective Benson," She

placed her hand on Olivia's chest right over her heart and then looked deeply into her reddish brown eyes. "You have compassion and once a case is over with you don't toss it

to the side."

"So you want someone with lots of luggage and could fal apart in a matter of seconds?"

"We al have luggage but only you can make me lose concentration in the middle of a courtroom hearing, make me sit and day dream when I'm supposed to be writing briefs

and get away with carrying one of my thongs around in her coat pocket." When she ended, they were only inches away from each other. Olivia had reached out and placed her

hands on Alex's trim hips and was letting her fingers work back and forth against the soft material. She wanted so much for the ADA to step closer to her so she could feel her

body heat soak into her and give her something to remember al day but most of al she wanted the press of her soft lips. She watched her tilt her head to the side, move in

closer and then yelp and fal into her. "God damn it al to Hel!?" She yeled from where they were smashed behind the door. "I hate this office, its too fucking smal." She

rubbed the back of her head and caught site of a grinning Olivia. "Sure laugh it up Benson, you'l get yours later."

"Sorry Miss Cabot I didn't know you were here already." A tal man with shoulder length sandy blonde hair said as he stood in between the doorway and her office. "I have

your mail and a large manila folder from the Internal Affairs Bureau."

"Why is IAB sending me files, I didn't request any?" She held out her hand for her mail and looked into his brown eyes when he wouldn't release the items. "Thanks I've got

them."

"Sorry Miss Cabot I didn't know you had company." He shot Olivia a glare and shoved the mail into Alex's hands.

Alex folowed him down the halway with her eyes and then turned to a concerned Olivia. "Go tackle him and ask him who he is," when Olivia just gave her a funny look, she

roled her eyes. "If you love me you'l go arrest him and beat a confession out of him as to why he had my mail."

"What…he doesn't work here?" She stepped past Alex and looked down the halway. "Why didn't you say so?" She took off down the halway at a sprint and tried to catch

up to the now sprinting man. She pushed past people in the halway and almost went down the stairs head first when a man shoved her sideways. When she made it outside,

she saw the man go around a corner and against every thing she had been taught, she folowed. As soon as she cleared the corner, she found herself looking up at the sky and

then nothing.

*****************

Alex tossed al her mail on her desk and was about to turn and see if she could find out what was going on with the strange man when a heavy weight slammed her face first

into her desk. She struggled to move and growled when her hair was twisted at the back of her neck and her nose was smashed to her desk top. "Break it off with that bitch

or you'l be sorry, you're mine Cabot, never forget that!" Was said close to her ear and then she cried out when her face was slammed into her desk and hard blows landed in

her lower back and ribs. She sunk to the floor in front of her desk and gasped with pain, it felt like her back was broke and it was hard to breathe. Tears came to her eyes to

trail down her cheeks and moisture dripped from her nose. Wiping at her face, she moaned when she saw that her fingers came away red with blood. Using the edge of her

desk, she puled herself to her feet and stumbled out into the halway. Looking around, she saw no one except a few women talking in front of one of the other offices.

Stumbling forward, she stopped and leaned against the wal.

"Did a man come running by here?" She asked and wiped at her nose again.

"A few men have run past us, Jesus what happened to you?" One of them came forward and offered her a Kleenex.

"Cal Detective Stabler at the SVU for me and tel him I need his help at the front of the building." She pushed off from the wal and walked unsteadily down the halway and to

the stairs; she hoped she could make it without faling on her face.

***********

Olivia got up from the aleyway and used the building to stay on her feet; she pressed one hand to her throat and winced from pain. Tears flowed down her cheeks when she

tried to swalow and it got worse when she took a deep breath. The back of her head hurt like a bitch and her shoulders hurt from the fal, she knew she would catch Hel from

al sides when she got back in the building. Holding her throat, she slid around the corner and started back towards the front doors of police plaza. Wiping at her face, she

blinked trying to stop the tears. She had been caught in the throat before by a punch but this was far worse, every time she swalowed it burned. She stopped and leaned

against the side of the building and then shook her head when she saw Alex coming towards her. Her pulse picked up when she saw the front of her pale blue silk shirt covered

in blood and blood stil running down from her nose. Moving forward, she reached out to Alex and held onto her. When she spoke it came out as a deep growl and more tears

poured from her eyes. "What happened?" She tilted Alex's head back and wiped at the blood running from her nose.

"I got attacked from behind in my office," She looked at her blood covered hands and shirt cuffs and grinned. "This wil look good in court today." She took the handkerchief

Olivia produced from her coat pocket and pressed it to her nose. "Sure glad you didn't hand me my thong."

Olivia wheezed when she tried to laugh. "Let's go in…" she said and wiped at her cheeks. "Sucks."

"Yeah it does and it's about to get worse." She wrapped an arm around Olivia and turned her to where Eliot was running towards them, they both knew he was going to throw

a fit about their condition.

"What the Hel happened to you two, I got a cal and…"

"I'l tel ya everything once we get back inside, we'l go up to the bul pen while you go grab the mail and envelope off my desk. It should have finger prints on it from the guy

that clocked Liv; the guy who got me is a mystery."

"He saw al the blood covering Alex and then the nasty bruise forming on his partner's throat and upper chest. "You two need to get over to the hospital," he puled Alex's hand

down and looked at her nose. "You're lucky, it's not broke but you're gonna have two black eyes."

"Fucking great, we should have stayed at home." She saw the look come over Olivia's face and she shrugged her shoulders. "Wel we should have, now look at us." She took

Olivia's arm while Eliot walked beside them to the building. "I'l be blind in a few minutes and you're mute." She groaned with each step to the elevator and thought her lungs

were going to jump right from her chest. "Can one punch break ribs?" She blinked her sweling eyes at Eliot when he turned to look at her. "He punched me and it realy hurts

to breath."

"They might just be bruised, you'l need an x-ray to find out and that's exactly why you two are going to the hospital," He pointed at Olivia and shook his head. "Don't go there

Liv, you two are going even if dad has to take you." He held the elevator for them, hit the button for the garage and handed his partner the keys to their sedan. "And don't think

about running off because dad wil cal the hospital and if you two aren't there he'l put out an APB."

Alex removed the handkerchief from her nose and looked at him from blurry eyes. "Wil you write up the reports for me, I want to file charges for assault on a police officer

and assault on a public official, I think it's penal code 120.08."

"Sure no problem and I'l get that stuff off your desk; maybe we'l get lucky and get prints."

"Security cameras…" Olivia said in a deep raspy voice. "Halway and maybe the stairs."

"Don't worry about it I'l take care of everything now get your asses to the hospital and I'l tel Liz and dad what happened." He waited until they got into the sedan and puled

away before going back to the elevator, he knew the minute that he told Cragen and Liz what happened al Hel was going to break loose. Flipping his phone open, he caled

Munch's desk. "Hey I need some help; I need the security tapes from the front and back doors and the halway where Alex's office is."

"Sure no problem, what's going on?"

"Alex got attacked in her office; I'm heading there right now to colect possible evidence. Liv's taken them both to the hospital because she went after one of the perps and he

clocked her in the throat."

"This all happened downstairs, Jesus Christ what is the world coming to when a cop and an ADA are attacked at work?"

"I don't know but out of the two of them, I'd say Alex is the one whose libel to kil someone." He walked into Alex's office, puled a pair of surgical gloves from his jacket

pocket and puled them on. "Tel the Captain that I'm running this stuff over to the lab, hopefuly we'l get some prints."

"Will do and I'll call the hospital and check on our girls." He hung up the phone, waved to Fin and pointed to Cragen's office. "Come on we got a big problem."

************

Olivia brushed Alex's hair back from her forehead and said in a raspy voice. "Wil you stop already; you're such a big baby."

Alex fought with Olivia's hands when she tried to keep her from removing the bag of ice off her face. "Yeah wel let 'em stuff a few pounds of cotton up your nose and see

how ya like it." She said with a nasaly voice.

"I'l trade ya, you let them gag you with that scope thingy and I'l let 'em pack my nose." She dropped her head down to rest on Alex's shoulder and sighed. "I don't want you in

your office alone until we get those assholes," she raised her head up and looked into Alex's swolen eyes. "And that goes for your apartment, I don't care if you have a door

made by the Fort Knox safe company, I don't want you there."

"OK, then where am I supposed to work and sleep?" She lifted the ice bag from her face and tried to focus. "And don't you dare say you're gonna stick me in some witness

safe house because I'l beat the shit outta my guards and escape just to kick your ass."

Olivia chuckled and grabbed her bruised throat. "Don't worry I don't trust you in a safe house, you can work in the bul pen and stay with me at night."

"My boss is gonna have a shit fit over al of this not to mention Don when he finds out al the details. And then with me staying at your place and when I take you on my

midnight romps through the park naked the rumor mil wil burn down."

"Maybe you should have a cat scan done, ya know to make sure ya don't have brain damage or something."

"My brains just fine, my face hurts like a royal bitch but that's it, after last night you doubt that I would run naked through the park?"

"Wel dancing in your apartment is a lot different then going sky clad through Central Park, Hel I hate going there in broad daylight."

"OK ya got me; I just stand by my living room windows and howl at the moon."

*********************

Eliot watched the lab tech spray down everything that had been on the ADA's desk, what he wanted special attention paid to was the thick envelope from IAB. There was no

reason for her to be getting files from them and it was highly unlikely that they had come from them. It was easier to stop the world on its axis than to get information from the

IAB, it was al fine and good if you were a dirty cop and being investigated, then you had their undivided attention but other than that, no one saw their files or knew what they

were doing. "So what's the chance that our guy left his prints behind, Alex didn't say if he had gloves on or not?"

Te lab tech shined a black light over the envelopes and grinned. "We have a Hel of a lot of prints here, it'l take me a few minutes to scan al of them and then match them

through the system."

"Give me a cal if you get anything, I've gotta get back and check on my partner and the ADA." He handed him a card with his phone numbers on it. "Cal my cel phone if we

get a hit on anyone not finger printed for the court house or police plaza."

"Wil do but I'l tel ya right now that it's going to be a long list, you have to remember how many people have touched this mail before it got here."

"Just run what you have on the big envelope," he snapped his fingers. "Slide the stuff out of that for me, the ADA may need the information." Grabbing the papers, he fled them

in half and left the lab at a jog. Once out into the halway, he sped up and took the stairs to the bul pen. As soon as he was near his desk, Cragen yeled his name; from the

tone, he knew he was in deep shit.

"What in the Hel did you five think you were puling," He closed his door after Eliot walked in. "Our very own ADA is being stalked, now attacked and it could have been

prevented if she had been put under guard?"

"Benson was with her," Eliot said and dropped down into one of the chairs. "She went after one guy and when Alex was alone, that's when the other one got her."

Cragen jabbed a finger at him and yeled. "That's exactly what I mean, if Alex would have been under guard, none of this would have happened and sleeping with Benson

doesn't count."

Fin looked to his partner and slumped further into his chair, now he knew that Cragen was pissed, he would have never thrown such a low blow at Olivia otherwise. "What has

her sleeping accommodations have to do with her getting attacked in her office," Munch asked. "If she was assigned a detail, she would have one guard and the same thing

would have happened. Now we know that it has to be in house, how else would they have gotten their hands on her mail?"

Eliot unfolded the papers in his hand and started to leaf through them, when he came to some 8x10 pictures, he stared and then folded them back up. What he saw, he didn't

want anyone else seeing except for Alex. "I've got the lab trying to ID some prints from an envelope supposedly from IAB plus Alex got a good look at the guy so we can get a

sketch. We can show it around and see if anyone knows the guy."

"And what about the triple homicide case, we're losing here people." He waved a hand at them. "You three work on the triple, against my better judgment, I'm putting Benson

on guard duty."

************

Fin whispered to Eliot once they were far enough away from Cragen's office. "What's gotten into the old man, no matter who was with Alex it would've gone down the same

way?"

"I think it stings a little bit, ya know he's always had a crush on Alex and now he finds out that she would rather go to Liv for help then him."

"Oohh for cryin out loud, he's old enough to be her father and that comment about them sleeping together." He shook his head, grabbed the radio from his desk and waved at

Munch. "Come on and move your bony ass, we got work to do."

"Oohh that's right, we have some winos to rol and just maybe someone wil fal from the sky with the answers to al our problems."

**************

Olivia signed her release papers and then handed the clipboard to Alex; the hospital staff was ready to commit both of them to a long forgotten wing. Olivia for flashing her

badge every time someone got near the ADA and Alex for singing at the top of her lungs, five minutes after giving her a shot of Demerol and some pils for the pain and

sweling in her face, she went off the deep end. They had given Olivia pain pils but she would wait until she was at home before taking any of them, she didn't want her driving

impaired and there was no way Alex was getting behind the wheel. "Come on Alex, we're going home."

"Nope I have some work to do, court briefs or brief court which ever works." She draped her arm around Olivia and leaned into her. "Guess my dating is put on hold huh,

who wants ta be seen with me and my black eyes?"

"Why would you say that, if the person you're dating won't go out with you because you're a little bruised then you need to find someone else?"

"That's the thing; I don't know how this person thinks. Is it just my looks that catches their attention or is something deeper?"

"I realy hate the pronoun thing, who are ya talking about?"

Alex leaned in close to her ear and spoke in a husky whisper. "Who have I been sleeping with?"

"And I supposed to know this how, come on Alex it's not like I have a window into your private life…" she watched a smirk come over her features and blossom into a briliant

smile. "You're fucking with my head again, why didn't you just ask me?"

"Because I'm a bottom feeder and I like fucking with you and right now I want nothing more than ta bust a dozen penal codes with a certain detective."

"Oohhh God Alex on drugs," she held back a moan when her hand slipped inside her coat and squeezed her right breast. "We're stil in the ER…can you hold on until we get to

the car?"

"Sure I can, it's easy holding on to your tit."

Olivia stopped and tried to remove her hand as they waited for the ER doors to slide open, she blushed when a young couple walked in and looked directly at her and Alex.

"That's not what I meant, you're gonna get us both busted if not worse…fuck, the damn reporters are here!" She spun Alex around and back through the doors just as a

reporter yeled out. "Come on Aley move your hand we've got company." She was able to move her and a held onto them both as she turned them back towards the door.

"Now behave yourself or we'l both be out of a job."

*************

Eliot saw the mob of reporters at the ER door and knew that he was too late, tossing some bils over the seat to the taxi driver, he jumped out and pushed his way to where

his partner and Alex were standing. "Come on don't you have anything better to do like harass some crooked city official?"

A reporter pushed to the front and pointed his microphone at the two women. "Miss Cabot is it true you posed for Playboy?"

"Do you stil get royalties for the videos you did in colege?" Another one asked.

"Get the fuck outta my way before I arrest everyone!" Eliot yeled and shoved the last reporter out of his way. "Come on let's get you guys back home, at least there we can

keep the damn press on ice."

"I wanna make a comment," Alex slurred and struggled in Olivia's arms. "Let me show 'em my resume." She tried to lift the bottom of her shirt up and groaned when Olivia held

her tighter.

"You can show us as soon as we get in the cruiser." Eliot said and opened the back door for his partner and Alex. "Keep her company; she's acting too weird to be left alone."

He grinned when Alex blew him a kiss and shook his head at Olivia. "What did they give her, she's…"

"Completely uninhibited and loud," Olivia mumbled and crawled into the backseat. "Almost like she was slipped a ruffie and what's this about videos?" She turned to Alex and

felt her mouth go dry; she had unbuttoned her shirt and was in the process of unsnapping her bra. "Aley what are you doing?"

"Showing ya my resume, it paid my tuition through school." She flashed Olivia and laughed when she dove across the seat to keep her from completely stripping. She held onto

a squirming ADA while Eliot laughed hystericaly in the front seat and flipped the siren on to get through the traffic faster.

"We realy need a camera set up in here," he looked over the back seat and laughed harder. "I can't wait to tel Kathy what happened to you today, she's gonna wanna come

into work just to make sure I'm not making al of this up." Olivia gave up with the struggle and just let Alex do what ever she wanted, she just lay with her face pressed against

her chest and breathed in the soft scent of her skin. There wasn't much she could do anyways; Alex had her so wrapped up in her arms and legs that she was lucky to move an

inch. "Now I know how the taxi drivers around here feel, titty flashes, sex romps in the back seat and New York's finest just ignoring it." 30 minutes later he puled into the

garage and waited for everyone around them to move away, there was no way he was opening the back door so they could see his partner held captive by the ADA. "OK girls

we're home," he puled the door open and looked down into clouded blue slits and grinned. "So how ya feel there Alex, you look realy stoned?"

"Feel that way to, why'd ya tie me up?"

"You are realy wasted," he waited for Olivia to wiggle free before helping Alex to sit up and then quickly buttoned her shirt for her. "Can't have you flashing your resume

around, we've got enough problems without that." He puled Alex from the car and waited for Olivia to join them. "OK Liv you take Alex while I get the elevator and make

sure no ones gonna give us any problems, if the reporters were at the hospital then they might be hiding around here." He wondered about the reporters waiting for them at the

hospital, it had to be connected with the men who had attacked them earlier. He would have to check into that once they got upstairs. "You two sure make the pair, the wasted

ADA and her sex toy." He gave Olivia a wide grin and stepped to the side so they could get into the elevator. "Ya know the last time I saw someone grab your chest, you

dropped him like a bad habit."

She struggled with Alex and her groping hands and stuck her tongue out at her partner instead of flipping him off. "Count yourself lucky, I could have taken the pain kilers they

gave me and you would have had me the corpse and Alex to put up with al by yourself."

"Oohhh that would have been fun, me driving us down Centre Street with you comatose in the backseat and Alex flashing her tits at everyone," he gave the ADA a closer look.

"I think she's getting ready to crash," he stepped forward and swept Alex up into his arms. "And there she goes." He watched her eyes rol back in her head and then her head

drop back against his shoulder.

"I'm glad you came and got us, there's no way I would have been able to carry her al the way to the bul pen." When the elevator door opened, he walked out and through the

bul pen to the crib. Olivia pushed the door open and then moved over to fix the cot up.

"Thanks Ely, so is the captain ready to kil me and Alex?" She stepped back and gave him room to put Alex down on the cot.

"Worse, he cracked on you big time and you're on guard duty." He waved a hand at Alex and shot her a grin. "There's your charge." He gave her a soft smile and squeezed her

shoulder. "Maybe you should get her a clean shirt, if someone comes in here and sees al that blood they may arrest her for murder and when you're done I've got something to

show you." He shrugged his shoulders and walked from the room.

"Right," she rubbed the back of her neck. "One of my shirts or go foraging in her office for one of her own?"

"You in my office now," Cragen yeled and walked away from the door to the crib. "And bring Stabler with you."

Olivia dropped her head and rubbed her neck al the way to where she could see her partner; she waved a hand and nodded her head in the direction of Cragen's office. It

was the slowest walk she had ever done, it reminded her of the times when she was sent to the principles office. A wicked smirk came over her face as she stepped into her

captain's office.

"I don't see anything funny with what's happened," Cragen said from where he paced behind his desk. "Now tel me why you didn't come to me with this?"

"Alex just wanted me to check to see if I could find out who was sending her flowers, neither one of us thought it would go to this extreme in a matter of two days." She

dropped down into a chair and saw Eliot come through the door.

"I guess I should be chewing on her ass as wel, that can wait. Now what in the Hel happened today and how's the throat?"

"I'm fine a little sore but I'l live, and what happened this morning. I think I was set up." She went on to tel Eliot and Captain Cragen everything that happened from the minute

the guy showed up with the mail until Alex found her outside. Eliot told him about the reporters outside of Belevue ER and the comments about Alex posing for Playboy and

something about videos.

"Then it's gotta be someone who knows her or has a way of getting information on her private life, now what about this envelope from IAB, what was in it?"

Eliot rubbed the back of his neck and handed Cragen what had been inside the envelope, he looked to Olivia and handed her what he had in his pocket. "I didn't want anyone

to see those except Alex, they're…revealing."

Cragen leafed through the papers and then at Eliot. "These were sent to Alex by way of an envelope with the IAB seal on it, did you look at these?"

"No I'd forgotten about 'em actualy, what is it?"

"It's every thing that Alex has ever done in her life, starting with High School right up until she came here as the ADA for SVU."

Olivia swore under her breath and looked to her partner. "What a sick son of a bitch, where…better yet how did he get these?"

"What's the matter Benson?"

"Nothing besides the fact that who ever sent that stuff to Alex has been watching her and taking pictures," she flipped through them, found one that showed only Alex's naked

back and handed it to Cragen. "That's from the window in her living room, the other ones I can't show you because…"

Cragen looked up from the picture and nodded his head. "I understand, when Alex wakes up, I want you to take her back to your place. I'l let Liz know what's going on and

we'l handle the rest on this end. When she's coherent, I want you to ask her who they have doing al of there investigations for the DA." He looked up when Fin waved a

paper in his doorway.

"Finger prints on the envelope come back to a Dale Banister, priors of assault and battery, two counts aggravated assault, six counts criminal possession of a firearm, rape in

the third degree, 24 counts of possession of child pornography, yadayadayada." He stepped in and handed it to Olivia. "Ya got lucky he didn't realy hurt ya Liv, he's a mean

son of a bitch, and someone needs ta cap his ass. Sorry Cap but that's how I feel, wish I knew how the hump is stil walking free."

"Filth like him have scum bag lawyers that can pul miracles and don't worry about it; I'd be the first one puling on him. OK what else we got on these people?"

"Munch is doing the peep thing; he's going over al the security videos. So far there's only a shot of a man's back leaving the area of Alex's office. He had on a grey suit but

then more than half the damn building is dressed like that."

"OK people, Olivia you stay here and keep an eye on Alex, sit in the crib if you have to but don't go anywhere without teling me, Eliot you grab Jeffries and go talk to Liz and

see if she can think of anyone that would want one of her ADA's injured." He looked to Fin and waved a piece of paper at him. "You and John see if you can track down this

Banister creep." He clapped his hands and got up from his desk. "Let's go people, if ya need me I'l be down stairs stealing uniforms for another sweep of witnesses from this

mornings attack."

Eliot nodded his head and turned back to Cragen. "How is it that I got Jeffries, not that I'm complaining?"

"I'm stealing her from the other unit, now go do some work."

Olivia folowed the guys from the office and headed for her locker, she couldn't remember what al she had in there but she did know that she had at least one clean t-shirt.

Stuffing the pictures in her back pocket, she rummaged through her personal items and found a dark blue NYPD shirt. "This should do…how do I get it on her?" She asked

herself and felt a deep blush working up her cheeks. "Oohhh damn…suck it up Benson, you take down bad guys and you're worried about changing Alex's dirty shirt." She

took a deep breath and headed for the crib, she opened the door a slit and peeked in; what she saw made her pulse race. "You would just have to make this hard as Hel didn't

you?" She was stretched out across the cot with her shirt pushed up below her breasts and one hand on her stomach with the tips of her fingers under the waistband of her

trousers. "Nope I can't do it." Olivia chickened out and went to her desk to get some files she had been working on, grabbing the legal pad she had written notes on, she went

back to the crib to work at the desk that sat against one wal. Dropping into the old chair she groaned and grabbed at her sore throat. After taking a look over her shoulder at

Alex, she set to work on the files she had in front of her.

*************

Munch got out of the sedan and folowed Fin towards the skanky apartment building in Soho, just incase, he placed Vicks under his nose and smirked when Fin roled his eyes

at him. "Such a wuss, how many years ya been doin this?"

"Too many that's why my sinuses can't handle the stench anymore." He said and winched at the garbage piled up in the doorway. "Damn people live like pigs; the city should

just burn the damn places down."

"Not a bad idea except ya got al those fucking bleeding hearts, then again would anyone even notice the places missing?" He climbed the stairs and stopped outside of the

apartment that was supposed to be occupied by Banister; he looked to Munch and then pounded on the door. "HEY MAN THE PLACE IS ON FIRE!" He yeled and

pounded harder on the door. Stepping back he pounded on the door until it opened and a man came stumbling out trying to get his pants on. "Ain't this predictable," He

grabbed him and tossed him against the wal. "Dense asshole aren't ya, smel any smoke?"

"Who are you people?"

"Oohh we're your local firing squad, you're history Banister." He puled a plastic card from his pocket and read him his rights. "So now that we have you, we're taking you in so

the cop you hit this morning can pound your ass into the floor."

Banister struggled against the wal and grunted when Fin slammed him face first into the wal. "I didn't hit no cop!"

"OK then is it everyday that you clothes line women as they come around buildings?" Munch asked and thumped his head. "Did the shiny gold badge on her belt and the big

ass gun not give you a clue there genius?"

"But she was chasing me!" He fought against the cuffs and tried to plant his feet on the floor.

"You sure are stupid aren't ya," Fin snorted. "You just admitted to assaulting an officer and you know al those other things you've gotten away with, we'l you're gonna pay for

those this time around, now move your ass or you may accidentaly fal down the stairs."

"This is police brutality, you can't threaten me!"

Munch turned and looked at him from over the top of his glasses. "If that was to happen, it would be your useless word against ours. Now who do you think the judge is

gonna believe?"

They dragged him al the way to the sedan and then tossed him into the back for his ride back to one police plaza; the entire way there he screamed that he was innocent. He

was stil screaming when they parked and puled him out.

**************

"So where's Olivia," Jeffries asked and looked to see the DA stepping out into the halway. And how did Cragen pul me from my unit?"

"She's on guard duty and out of commission for a few days anyway, she got popped in the throat this morning."

"I heard that someone got smacked, I had no idea it was Liv." She stood back and let Eliot approach the DA, she hadn't the slightest idea of what was going on so it was

better that he handle it.

"He closed lined her when she came around the corner of the building, laid her right out." He shook his head and approached Alex's boss. "Do you have a spare minute, it's

about Alex?"

"Sure," she saw Jeffries and waved them both back into her office. "Don caled me but didn't get into specifics over what went on, where is she now?"

He waited until the door was closed and Liz had taken her seat behind her desk. "She's asleep in our crib; Detective Benson is on guard duty." He rubbed the back of his neck

and gave her a smal smile. "Captain Cragen won't let either one of them leave the bul pen," he cleared his throat and looked to Jeffries. "Do you have any idea who would

want Alex hurt; we know her stalker has been able to get information on her that he shouldn't have been able to? I'm thinking one of your investigators or another lawyer she

may have pissed off."

Liz chuckled and leaned back in her chair to rest her chin on the tips of her fingers. "Who hasn't she pissed off, I wouldn't be surprised if some of our judges haven't put a hit

out on her." She flipped open a black book on her desk and copied some names down on a piece of paper. "Here are the primary investigators that we have at our disposal;

Alex never uses them so maybe there's a grudge there. Now for the other lawyers, just pick anyone that she's ever gone up against…" she raised a finger in the air and pointed

to her door. "The roses in her office the other day, those were from her stalker and what kind of information?"

"Yep and those aren't the only ones she's gotten, they get delivered to her apartment as wel and stuff dating al the way back to when she was in High School, you know

transcripts complete with SATS and pictures of her in colege." He looked at the paper she handed him and gave to Jeffries. "Thanks for the help, if you think of anything else

would you cal Cragen?"

"Son of a bitch, this idiot has realy been doing some digging. Tel Alex I said to get her ass someplace safe and get some rest, she looks like shit. If I remember anything that

wil help, I'l cal Don."

"Oohhh yeah, two black eyes, a bruised nose and a knot on her forehead to match; Mike Tyson would have done less damage." He and Jeffries stood up and left the DA's

office to stop in the halway.

"OK Eliot now just what in the Hel is going on here, Olivia gets knocked around, Alex has a stalker who did what?"

"He's been sending her hundreds of red roses and this morning," He explained how everyone fit into the picture and what John and Fin were doing while they tracked down

any information they could find. "Alex is in rough shape, she slept in the crib the other night and then Liv stayed with her last night. Our stoic ADA is close to the breaking point

even though she tries to hide it."

Jeffries dropped her head and looked at her feet before turning her head sideways to look at Eliot. "The best place to find out information from the other lawyers is to go to

that bar they hang at, you know lurk in a corner and listen to them brag?"

******************

Olivia sat with her face resting in her hands, she had gone over al the files she had and stil couldn't come up with anything new on the triple murders. She stil wondered if they

would be able to find out anything by checking for female victims. Booting up her laptop, she waited for it to finish and then started her ISP. A few minutes later she was

looking at al the health care facilities near the colege campus. "Did you check gynecologists, there's a couple in that area?" Alex whispered in her ear and then ran her fingers

across her tight shoulders and up the back of her neck.

"Uhhmm what…," she shivered from the warmth of her fingers running across her skin.

"Private physicians, some women would prefer their own doctor to one of a hospital or clinic.

"Nope, didn't think of that." She punched in the search engine and waited for it to kick out the information, while the list was building; she closed her eyes and let her head drop

forward. Alex's strong fingers massaging the tight muscles of her neck and shoulders had her wishing they were home. "Only problem is they won't be able to disclose that

information, patient confidences and what not and going by the number of women who attended the colege, we'd be dead and buried before we found anything."

"Not necessarily, I may just be able to get in touch with a few of the women who went to Berkeley, I think that one of the law clerks went there, she might remember

something."

Olivia leaned her head back against Alex's chest and realized that she had changed her shirt. "Now for the more important case, dad wants to know who you've pissed off

lately and this here is what was in that envelope." She cleared her sore throat and puled them from the folder she had put them. "Eliot gave 'em to me because he didn't want

anyone else seeing them." She turned in the chair when she felt her back grow cold from Alex's departure; she rose from the chair just as the ADA dropped down onto the cots

edge.

"How the fuck did who ever get pictures of me in High School?"

"He probably went to your school; they keep stuff like that on file."

"I want my windows replaced with one way mirrors, God damn perverts in this city."

Olivia dropped down beside her and looked to her feet. "There's something else, do you remember the reporters at the hospital?"

"I don't remember anything after they packed my nose," she ran a finger across her bridge and winced. "How bad is it?"

"Not bad, your nose is a little bruised it's your eyes and forehead that look bad. You're a couple different colors and you've got a goose egg between your brows."

"That's from having my head slammed, now what did I miss at the hospital?"

Olivia gave her a big smile. "You'l love this; you flashed me and Eliot in the car and tried flashing other drivers. What worries me is the posing for Playboy and some videos

you supposedly did?"

"Oohhh fuck," she ran her hands through her hair and let her head fal back on her shoulders. "I didn't pose for Playboy but there were videos, Spring break videos if that

helps give you an idea."

Olivia felt her mouth drop open; she knew exactly what Alex was talking about. "Wet t-shirt contests and al…damn how come I couldn't be ten years younger?"

"That and skinny dipping in the hotel pool, I was sick as a dog after that night. One of the reasons I don't drink whiskey anymore, chugging from a bottle of Jack Daniels and

then Jagermeister shooters just about kiled me."

"You know I can't see you as a party girl," she bumped shoulders with her. "I can picture you in the library buried in law reviews and periodicals, searching for some case that

wil completely floor your professor."

"Wel the first few months away from home was party central and then it got old and I calmed down to make Law review. But I never thought anyone would find out about

those damn videos, Hel there were thousands of kids down in Virginia Beach. I think I was in a video for al of a minute combined, there goes my chance to be Governor of

New York."

"I don't think you have to worry about that, look at al the Presidents have done and they stil got elected." She dropped her voice a few octaves. "We didn't have sexual

intercourse it was just a blow job." She noticed Alex twisting her hands and groaned. "Oohh don't tel me that…that's just…gross and disgusting."

"I'm not saying I gave anyone a blow job, a gun to my head couldn't make me do that but I was on the receiving end when we got caught. I just hope no one ever finds out

about that or I'l have to change my name and move to Canada or Maine, dontcha know."

Olivia tried to chuckle but it hurt too much. "Everyone has sex, OK so I don't but you were in colege and it's kinda expected. So what's the big deal if someone knows about

it?"

Alex turned and leaned in close so that she could focus. "Because she'l kil me if it ever gets out, she's a family court judge up in Minnesota."

"Oohhh, yeah you're a dead woman. When's the last time you talked to her?

"Years ago, I caled her to congratulate her on becoming a judge. She's got a different life now, the successful husband, four kids and the big white house with the huge yard

and hundred year old shade trees."

"So it was just an experiment for her not a lifestyle, I've never been that curious to just try something. Either you are or you're not, there's no such thing as I think I'l be gay this

week." She looked to her laptop and saw a whole page of different names for clinics in the White Plains area. "Let's see what we've got, maybe we'l get lucky and something

wil reach out and slap me." She scanned down the list and sighed, there were a lot of names but none of them were close to the colege or White Plains New York. She

relaxed into the chair when Alex stepped behind her and went back to massaging her neck and shoulders, she knew if she kept it up, she would fal asleep.

"How about if I cal the Aliance rape center and see if they know of any places where a Berkeley colege kid would go if they were raped or assaulted?"

"I can do that besides you sound funny, almost like you're from the Bronx."

"Sounds kinda sexy don't it, ya know like Lorraine Bracco? Besides, I'l throw my title around and open doors that you can't." She puled Olivia's cel phone from her belt and

dialed the number that was on the computer screen. As she waited to be connected, she played with the hair at Olivia's nape. She was glad the detective was letting her hair

grow out, she always like her with longer hair. A few minutes later, she had the information she needed and hung up. Taking a pen from the desk, she wrote the information

down and then placed her chin on Olivia's shoulder. "So what's next," she draped her arms around Olivia's shoulders and leaned on her. "I'm starving to death here; can we go

get something to eat?"

"Ya know anyone can walk in here and catch us."

"I don't realy care; they can al kiss my ass. Now can we go get something to eat?" She squeezed Olivia and rocked them from side to side. "What ever ya want I'l buy."

"A farm house in Virginia with a smal stocked pond?"

"I'l think about it now come on I'm hungry." She whispered in her ear and felt her shiver. "I'l even get us desert, how about strawberry pie with French vanila ice cream on

top."

Olivia brought her hands up to cover Alex's arms and ran her fingertips across the soft skin, she was just about to turn her head and face her when she heard someone clearing

their throat. "Hate to interrupt but Fin and John brought in Banister," Jeffries said and then stepped al the way into the room. "Damn girls but you two look realy bad; I

would've gone home and relaxed in a hot bathe for a few hours."

They stayed just the way they were, neither one of them cared what Monique thought of how they were in intimate positions. "If we weren't under strict orders and someone

hadn't been drugged to a comatose state, that's exactly where we'd be…"

"Yeah right," Alex stood up and grabbed Olivia's cel phone. "I can't even get her to leave so we can eat." She dialed the phone and placed an order at a nearby restaurant and

ignored the look Olivia gave her. "Our food wil be here in a little while, let's go see if this is the creep from this morning." She puled Olivia up from the chair and folowed

Jeffries from the crib and down the halway to the interrogation room.

Jeffries stepped to the side and touched Olivia's upper arm. "You two make a good couple," She looked to where Alex was standing next to Cragen. "Anyway, me and Eliot

got some information on the investigators and other lawyers that could be involved. But maybe Fin can scare asshole in there into teling us who he works for."

***************

Fin roled his eyes, shook his head and in a split second he had Banister cringing from the loud slam of his hand on the table. "Come of it asshole, we have you on tape in the

ADA's office, so don't try and pul this shit that it wasn't you!" She slammed his hand down again and smirked when Banister yeled out. "Some tough guy, I bet you only beat

on women, wanna take a chance on me?"

"I'm innocent and I want my lawyer!"

John looked up from where he was fixing his shoe lace. "Now that's interesting, you caled him what an hour ago and he's stil not here. If it was me, I'd take that as I'm shit out

of luck." He went back to tying his other shoe lace and held back a smirk when Fin busted out laughing.

"Only one thing left and that's for you to admit you hit Detective Benson," he looked towards the door when he heard a knock. "Ya got two minutes to think about it, wave

your rights and let us get on with our jobs." He went to the door and stepped out into the dim area between Cragen's office and the interrogation room. "What's up?"

"Olivia, Alex is that the guy who was in your office this morning?" Cragen asked and watched Banister flinch when John dropped down into the chair across from him. He saw

them nod their heads and turned to Alex. "You wanna go in there and wheel and deal or should I cal and ask for another ADA?"

"No I'l do it; maybe it'l scare the bastard into giving us his boss." She moved to the door and preceded Fin, taking the seat next to John, she stared directly at Banister. "I'm

quite sure you know who I am, so either you waive your rights to counsel and we get this over with or you sit here and wait for a public defender to show up." She watched

him squirm for a few minutes before she spoke. "You know you're looking at a class B felony that carries 10 to 25 years for assaulting a police officer, help us out and tel us

who you're working with and I can put in a word for you with the DA?"

"I want it in writing that you won't go back on your word; I don't trust none of ya!" He looked around the room and directly at the one way mirror. "Is she back there…the

cop?"

"That's none of your concern," Alex said and leaned back in her chair.

"That is unless you want her to come in here and even out the fight, after al you ran like a fucking wimp ass." Fin said and stood to hover over him. "You're times up, I think we

got us rapist in lock-up, he likes blondes."

"Al right I waive my rights, what can ya do for me?"

"No it's what you can do for us; I want to know who you're working for." She leaned forward and held his eyes. "You see what your boss did to my face, unless you come up

with his name, you're going down for everything including conspiracy to commit a crime."

"But I didn't hit you why should I have to do time for that?"

"Give us your partners name and you won't," John remarked and slid a pad of paper and a pen across the table. "Better yet, if you don't want to say his name, write it down."

Banister looked at the paper then to Alex and John.

"I do this you go easy on me?"

"That's the deal, but the information has to pan out and we get a conviction or it's no go." She said and watched him write a name on the paper. John and Fin looked at it and

shrugged their shoulders.

"John Marva?" Fin read off the paper. "Who the Hel is he?"

"He's the guy that gave me fifty bucks and the key to the basement door, ya know so I could get into the mail room."

Alex took the paper and left the room, she had never heard the name before. She wondered if it was real or something made up, she would run it through her computer and

have Olivia run it through theirs as wel. "I have no idea who this guy is." She handed the paper to Cragen.

"What kind of deal are you giving him?"

She smirked and shook her head. "None, that bastards going down for 25 years and I know Liz wil back me on it." She left the smal area and headed back to the crib to get

her blood stained shirt. "Liv our foods here!" She yeled and grabbed at her forehead, taking bils from her pocket, she handed them to the delivery man and took the three

bags to Olivia's desk. Dropping into her chair, she started puling containers from the bags and placing them in the center of the desk. She had ordered enough food to feed al

the SVU detectives; she knew that they hadn't the time to get anything. Filing two plates with Ribs, chicken strips, potato salad and a corn bread muffin, she kept one for

herself and handed the other to Olivia when she got there. "OK tel the others it's time to take a break and eat, you people can't work if you pass out from starvation." She

patted the other chair and moved down from the center of the desk. "You can have my usual chair, now sit down and eat."

"Has anyone ever told you that you're bossy?" She sat down and grabbed napkins from the pile and a plastic fork after waving to the others to come and get something to eat.

"Yeah but it's usualy the defendants lawyer so that doesn't count," she bit into a chicken strip and chewed slowly while watching Olivia fight with a BBQ rib. "How is it, I can't

taste anything?" When Olivia turned to face her, Alex used her thumb and wiped BBQ sauce from her chin. Licking her thumb clean, she saw reddish highlights flare in Olivia's

eyes. "Problem?" She grinned and gave her foot a smal kick.

"Nope, not a one." She lied, she knew damn wel there was a problem and it was them being at her desk and not at home where she could act upon her compulsion to show

Alex just what she did to her.

Eliot groaned and licked his fingers of BBQ sauce. "Hey Captain, Alex can't go back to her office, ever. She brings us hot food and not those stale old donuts." He squeezed

her shoulder on his way over to his desk across from them. "So you two have any ideas on where to go with this John Marva?"

Olivia punched his name into her computer and waited to see what would happen, Alex leaned sideways and watched as a picture of an ancient man popped up. "How about

pushing him off the banana he's standing on," She blinked her eyes and looked again. "He's been at Rikers going on 50 years and he's spent the last two months in the hospital,

he's dying of lung cancer and heart failure."

"Damn…" Eliot waved a hand at Cragen. "Our guys a bust!"

"OK how about if we get pictures of al the ADA's and lawyers that are regulars to the building, we put them in a card and have him pick out his John Marva?" He raised his

hands and gave a smal nod to his head. "Let's get on it people, as long as he's out there Alex wil be breathing down our necks." He grabbed a chicken strip on his way to his

office. "And I wanna hear something on the other case!"

*********************

Olivia had looped her building a couple times before she parked, she knew it didn't realy matter if they were folowed; the stalker probably knew everything about her anyway.

Climbing from the sedan, she walked around and puled the other door open for Alex. She watched al the dark areas near her building and puled her weapon just incase

someone was waiting for them. Placing her hand on Alex's lower back, she ushered them up the steps and to the door to her building. A few seconds later, they were inside her

apartment and she was puling her blinds down and her curtains closed. "OK if they want pictures they better have x-ray telephoto lenses with 'em." She turned and watched as

Alex slumped on her couch and pushed off her shoes. "If you want a shower, its right through there," she pointed to a door down a short halway. "There are clean towels on a

shelf in there and a new tooth brush in the medicine cabinet." She sat down next to her and saw how tired she was. "You want some tea or maybe some wine?"

"Tea would be good; I don't want to mix wine with pain kilers." She sat up and pushed to her feet. "Point me in the right direction and I'l make it while you take a shower."

"I'l get it you can…" She was cut off by a long finger pressed to her lips.

"It's your apartment you go first; it'l give me a chance to check out the real Olivia Benson."

"Oohh I see how ya are, you're gonna go search through my underwear drawer." She winked and headed to her kitchen to get the tea bags down for her. "Here's the tea bags

and I'l be done in a few minutes," she puled the sugar container down from the cabinet and then headed for her bedroom. "I'l leave some clothes in the bathroom for ya."

They might be a little thread bare and revealing but I'll enjoy it. Olivia stripped out of her clothes, tossed them in her hamper and got under the water she had started

beforehand. Dropping her head, she let the water beat on her neck and shoulders and felt the tight muscles relaxing. It had been a long day and night and for once she didn't

argue when Cragen told her 'to get the Hel out of his bul pen' after washing her hair and soaping her body, she rinsed off and climbed from the shower. That's when she

noticed that she had left the door open; she never bothered any other time because she was the only one there. Now two pale blue eyes watched her as she puled her robe on

and then grabbed her brush from the bathroom counter. "Can you see me or am I just a blur?"

"Oohh I can see just fine, I wear glasses to read, plus they make me look smart." She gave her a cocky grin and sipped at her tea. "Some detective you are," she moved from

her stool and went around to pour another cup of tea. "Where's an extra pilow and a blanket for the couch?" She handed Olivia the cup of tea and then headed for the

bathroom.

"You don't need one, my beds big enough for the entire SVU team."

Alex tilted her head to the side and grinned. "Now George would say that either you feel very comfortable and close with the other detectives or that you're into group activities

in more ways than one."

Olivia leaned against the kitchen counter and sipped at her tea, she had to swalow quickly to keep from choking. "Does anyone else know how your brain realy works; we're

al used to seeing the Stoic Alexandra Cabot who goes out for blood not Alex who is insinuating that I'm into kinky sex?"

"If I didn't let my true self come out and play every once in a while, George would have me locked up in a very smal and rubbery waled room." She placed her cup down and

went towards the bathroom; she knew that Olivia was watching her. On her way; she puled her t-shirt and bra before she disappeared from Olivia's view.

"She likes to fuck with my head too much, worse part is she enjoys the Hel outta herself." She sipped her tea and finaly noticed that there was honey in it instead of sugar.

Rubbing her throat she winced and went in search of her pain pils, she knew if she didn't take something tonight, she wouldn't be able to move her neck in the morning.

Remembering that she had left them in her coat pocket, she went over to where she had tossed it across the back of the couch. Reaching into one pocket, she felt silk and

grinned; checking the other pocket, she puled out the pil bottles. Checking the labels, she became confused at how they were labeled. "This can't be right," she checked the

medications names and became even more confused. "Aley someone at the hospital fucked up." She went to stand against the bathroom door jam so Alex could hear her

better. "The pils we got at the hospital can't be for us, I know we don't need Buspar or Halcion."

"OK ya got me on that one," Alex said and stepped from the shower. "What are they?" She smiled when Olivia's mouth fel open when looked up at her. "Or should I say what

they would do to us if we took 'em?" She grabbed a towel and started drying off while Olivia stood in shock. "Come on Liv you're acting like you've never seen anyone naked

before."

"I have…it's just been a while since the body was in my own bathroom."

She turned and snapped the towel at her. "You're such a Monk, you need to go out more and not with those dick swinging cops either. Strip clubs are degrading and besides

you can't bring them home." She took one of the pil bottles from Olivia and looked at the name. "That's some combination there, Benson Cabot, OK now what are the drugs?

"

"Tranquilizers for crazy people, now if we were having problems with depression these would work." She looked at Alex and knew she saw the anger in her eyes. "When you

take pain kilers do you always get whacked in the head and then pass out?"

"No, I've been wondering about that." She grabbed the clothes Olivia had placed on the counter and dressed. "Would I be too far off to think that whoever's stalking me can

hack into a computer and change stuff?"

Olivia rubbed the back of her neck and cussed. "Son of a bitch, I never even thought of that, with the condition we were in everyone knew where we were headed. I wonder

if I can get computer crimes to check into this." She headed for her bedroom and started puling drawers open, she stopped when long fingers wrapped around her wrists.

"It can wait Liv, anyway chances are that the computer entries have been deleted and we wouldn't have anything anyways. I just wanna colapse and sleep for the next twelve

hours or so," she dropped her chin on Olivia's shoulder and whispered in her ear. "I feel safer with you next to me so that means you can't go anywhere." She puled her back

into her body and gave her a tight hug before releasing her to drop back on her king size bed. "Damn, pul me up I for got to brush my teeth." She wiggled her hands and

groaned when Olivia puled her up from the bed. "And don't you sneak outta here or I'l make a spectacle of you."

"Realy and how would you do that?" She asked and grabbed her tooth brush from the holder.

"Easy, I'd wait until you got al the way out to the sedan and then yel out the window," she caught brown eyes in the mirror and grinned wickedly. "To make sure you

remembered that we need the little C batteries for the smaler dildo."

She put toothpaste on her toothbrush and grinned when Olivia choked and wiped the bubbles coming from her nose. "That's just not right," She mumbled and then spit. "My

neighbors would be in the halway listening at the door from then on." She rinsed her mouth and kept an eye on Alex to make sure she didn't pul something, she was enjoying

their time together and loved it that she was so playful. Going into the living room, she checked to make sure that the door was locked and the dead bolt was engaged. When

she felt comfortable that they were safe for the night, she went into her bedroom and found Alex lying across the bed.

"You know I've never slept in a bed this big," she roled to her side and watched Olivia search through her drawers for something to sleep in. "Lately I've been sleeping in my

desk chair or on that little loveseat in my office."

"You have got to be kidding me, why didn't you come to me sooner?" She lay down beside her after puling her t-shirt on. "You could have come here or slept in the crib while

me or El were there."

"I didn't wanna face it that could be spooked so easily or that I couldn't do anything about what was happening. In the court room I can do anything, outside it I'm just as

vulnerable as every one else." She ran her fingers below her eyes and felt the puffiness and then sweling when she got closer to her nose. "Which side do I get?"

"Any side you want, I'm not picky…actualy I end up al over the bed." She winked and gave her a bright smile. "I've even woke up on the floor in the middle of the night." She

moved so that they could get under the covers and felt weird for the first time in days. The crib and Alex's couch were different, this was her bed and it had been quite a while

since she had shared it. "Damn I forgot my damn cel phone." She got out of bed, went into the living room and came back with both their cel phones, she prayed that neither

one of them would ring at al that night. "First one that rings gets thrown across the room." She crawled back into bed, flipped the night stand light off and felt Alex rol over

beside her. "Night Aly."

"Night Liv and I'm gonna warn ya now, I've kiled a few of those body pilows." She moved right up against Olivia and wrapped around her, placing her head on her shoulder,

she took a deep breath and sighed. "Thank you." She mumbled and fel asleep.

"You're welcome Aly," She whispered and ran her fingers through her wet hair. "Wil you give me more than this?" She ran her hand under the soft t-shirt and over the smooth

skin of Alex's back, she stopped when she came to the downy hair on her lower back. Minutes later her hand lay stil and deep snores rattled from both women.

*****************

"OK this is what we've got," Munch waved a couple pages of notes at Eliot and Cragen. "I did a detailed search of the campus records and al the clinics that Olivia and Alex

had found. We have one woman claiming that she was raped during the specified time period." He handed everyone a copy of the sheet and dropped down on the edge of

Olivia's desk. "The problem is finding her; last known address was Hackensack New Jersey."

"Jersey," Eliot said and looked up form the report. "We got anybody in Jersey we can cal?"

"I got someone there," Fin said and puled the phone from his desk closer. "He's NARC squad but he might be able to get us a lead on our girl." He dialed the number and

waited.

"OK people now this is what we got from the colege a few minutes ago, someone found the missing pieces of our victims." He held out a report for al of them. "Get over

there and see what the CSU has, ya can't miss it either. They nailed them to the sign on the Dean's building."

"That should get it through his head that he's a dick." Munch said and grabbed up a radio from his desk. "Are we caling Liv in on this or what?"

Cragen nodded his head and pointed to Eliot and Jeffries. "Cal her and have her and Alex meet you at the scene, tel her to make sure that Alex has some search warrants

handy. Let's go people." He walked back to his office, dropped into his chair and started making phone cals to get things started on another investigation.

*************

The shril ringing of a cel phone pierced a foggy brain, a hand reached out and slapped around until the offending device was found. "Huh?" Came out in a raspy voice just

loud enough to be considered a whisper.

"Who is this?" Eliot asked and then grinned . "Is that you Alex…is Olivia awake?"

"Huh…yeah…minute."

He heard grunts in the phone and then his partner's equaly raspy voice come over the line. "Benson…I think." She ran a hand across her face and then place it on Alex's hip.

"What time is it?"

"Oohhh it's going on nine o'clock, did you two stay up half the night?"

"No, I think it was al those days of no sleep. What's up?"

"Oohhh dad wanted me to tell you that we're on our way over to examine some missing pieces, someone nailed some dicks to the sign on the Dean's building. So

that means you two have to get outta bed and bring some search warrants."

"That's the last time I bring a sedan home, we'l meet you guys up there." She hung up and wrapped her arms around Alex; she wished that she had turned the phones off

before they went to bed. It was important to solve the cases but she was worn out from lack of sleep and her throat hurt worse now than the day before. "Sometimes I realy

hate my job," She roled to her side and buried her face in long blonde hair. "Got blank warrants in your briefcase?"

"Yeah…ya want me to make one out to have SVU arrested for disturbing our sleep?"

"I have a feeling that you could make that happen," she placed a kiss on Alex's head and roled from bed. "Come on Aly we have a long ride ahead of us, we'l stop for

breakfast on the way to Berkeley Colege."

"Fuck," She roled to her stomach and buried her face in Olivia's pilow. "This realy sucks!" She yeled and then started whining.

"You whine to, you fit right on in with the rest of us." Olivia said with a chuckle and sat down on the side of the bed to get dressed. "Eliot whines al the time when we're on

stake out." She placed clean clothes down on the bed next to Alex and then puled the t-shirt she had slept in off and tossed it on the foot of the bed. She arched her back and

looked over her shoulder when fingernails trailed across her skin.

"Just seeing what you would do." She sat up and groaned, rubbing her temples, she looked to her side and into concerned brown eyes. "How bad is my face, I'm afraid to look

in the mirror?"

"Not that bad, you're just…colorful." She winced from the pinch to her ass and slapped at her hands. "You are and if anyone says anything mean, I'l give you my gun and you

can shoot 'em."

Alex crawled from the bed and stumbled to the door that connected with the bathroom. "So you wouldn't shoot 'em for me?"

"Hel no, that's entirely too much paperwork, if you shoot 'em it's half as much and easier to slip onto El's desk." She puled her boots on and got up to go into the kitchen.

"You want coffee for the ride?"

"Nah, got any juice?" Alex yeled back.

"Grape juice, wil that do?" She turned the water on in the kitchen sink and washed her face before searching for travel mugs.

"Perfect, I can't drink coffee first thing in the morning it kils my stomach." She came from the bathroom dressed and her hair damp, went to the closet by the front door, and

puled one of Olivia's leather coats out. "You know I have clothes al over New York but never where I need 'em." She puled the thigh length black calf skin coat on and ran

her fingers down the front. "I've always loved this coat, she sniffed the sleeve and closed her eyes. "Stil smels like leather and," She opened one eye. "Men's cologne?"

"And your point would be?" She handed her a travel mug filed with grape juice.

"I always wondered what that is that you wear; I didn't think it would be men's cologne though." She puled the colar to her nose and took a deep breath. "What is it?"

Olivia leaned forward and took in the scent of juniper, citrus, patchouli and other scents and wiggled her brows. "That's some stuff I picked up on a street corner, its Cerruti

1881, I think it's from France." She looked up into clear blue eyes and couldn't help but lean closer, tilting her head to the side. She moaned and closed her eyes when Alex

met and kissed her with an intensity that stole her breathe away. She wrapped one arm around Alex's neck and puled her tight against her body, when they broke for air, she

saw that she had some how ended up in the corner between the front door and the closet. "Uhhmm…Christ Aly," She ran trembling fingers across her lips and moaned from

the pounding between her thighs. "I'l kil Eliot if we drive al the way to the colege for nothing," she said in a raspy voice. "I would do anything to be able to stay here and see

where this would lead."

Alex pressed against her and then whispered against her lips. "Think of this as incentive to hurry their asses up so we can come home." She captured Olivia's lips and then

plunged her tongue inside to dual with hers; soft moans came from them both and then gasps for air when they parted. "Let's go before we have to come up with a plausible

excuse to keep from getting fired."

Olivia whimpered and dragged her feet al the way to where her coat lay on the couch; she took a deep breath and puled it on. "Think of Munch in a Speedo, Fin in a thong

and Eliot in a bikini." She mumbled al the way back to where Alex was waiting at the door. "I hope you're suffering as much as I am, 'cuz you sure deserve it."

**************

"God this is just plain wrong," Fin said and turned away from the blood stained white sign on the building. "It takes a real sick fuck to haul around three dicks and then nail 'em

on a sign." He shook his head and walked over to where the colege campus security police were gathered.

"Makes an interesting statement," Munch tilted his head down and looked over the tops of his glasses. "Now everyone knows the Dean's a three time winner of the dickhead

award." He gave Eliot and Jeffries a smal smirk.

"Now he's only one dick away from your record." Monique said and gave him a huge toothy grin. "Where's CSU and why isn't the Dean out here screaming like a maniac?"

Better yet, where's Liv and Alex," Eliot asked and looked to where Fin was talking with a few colege students that were wandering too close to the crime scene. "Maybe I

should send Fin to look for 'em, he looks like he's ready to draw down on some kids."

"So how long have they been dating?" Monique said loud enough for just Eliot and John to hear.

Eliot drew down his brows and shook his head. "They're not dating…"

Monique moved to stand right in front of him. "From what I saw yesterday, those two are dating." She winked and then stepped back to see Olivia and Alex coming towards

them. "Don't look know but here they come and it sure does look like Alex is wearing Liv's clothes?" She took in how the leather coat was a little big on her as wel as the

faded Levis. "She looks so damn young dressed like that."

"She could be mistaken for one of the kids around here," John said and chuckled when a few of the campus security cops practicaly fel over when she walked by. "Come to

think of it, she's not that much older than some of these kids."

Eliot counted on his fingers, shrugged his shoulders and grinned at Monique. "I don't remember being that young," He watched them stop to talk to Fin and busted out laughing

when one of the security guys sided up too close to Alex. She took one step back, reached for the chain around her neck and shoved her gold ADA's badge in his face. "Bet

he wasn't expecting that?"

"How come I think she picked that up from Fin," John shook his head and walked towards them hoping he could get there before someone got hurt, namely a campus

employee.

**************

"Hey now I thought you was one of the students, no need to be so fucking rude." The tobacco chewing campus security cop wheezed and waved a hand around them. "Ya

don't look no different then them."

Alex planted her hands on her hips and shot him a disgusted look. "So you're admitting to sexualy harassing al the female students, because that is exactly what I cal it when a

man offers to 'bang me til I drop'?"

"He said that to you?" John asked and then stepped into the other man's personal space. "I should shoot you just for looking at her; get the Hel outta here before I change my

mind!"

"And who the Hel are you to her?"

"I'm her…father so get the fuck outta here before I haul your ass in for being a dick headed asshole!" John reached under his coat and held back his smirk when the security

cop turned and left the area. "Damn rent-a-cops," he turned to give Alex a crooked smirk. "So Alexandra you look better than the last time I saw you."

"You have to mean conscious because it's defiantly not my looks."

He tapped Olivia on her shoulder to get her attention. "Liv do something with her ego, even with the bruises you stil turn heads so just get over it. I'd use the lingo Fin does but

I have the feeling that I'd use them wrong and your girl would kick the shit out of my boney ass." He waved to them and walked back up to the building. "Come on we have

work to do, don't know what kind yet but I'm sure someone can figure it out."

Alex looked up to where Eliot, Monique, John and now Fin were standing near the building with the CSU team and realized that they were al dressed in black and looking

more like the FBI than NY police officers. With what their job entailed it seemed fitting that they al wear black to fit the constant mood. She looked down at what she wore

and realized that she wasn't much better. "Come on Aly let's go see if we can't get the Dean to show his face, the guy I talked to said that he talked to him on the phone but he

refused to come to the door."

"Sounds like he knows something, maybe waving a warrant around wil get us in?"

"That sounds good but we don't have one and don't you dare try and pul what you did the last time…"

Alex squeezed her upper arm and leaned into her side. "Stop worrying, I won't do that, what I'm saying is we give him a choice. Either he talks to us or I get an arrest warrant

for obstruction of justice and impeding an investigation. What ever I charge him with is a B misdemeanor with only a maximum 90 jail sentence if pushed, but the colege won't

look too highly on him being charged with anything."

"We'l see if he'l talk with us, if not threaten him with the warrants."

They stood behind Monique and watched Eliot pound on the door with enough force to make the window rattle. "Come on Mr. Saxton we need to speak with you!"

"Go away I don't want to speak with anyone, I had nothing to do with this!" He screamed from behind the door.

"We need to ask you some questions, just open the door."

"I'm not opening the door for anyone, just go away and leave me alone!"

Alex walked up and placed her hand on Eliot's upper arm. "Let me try before you break your hand on the door." She stepped closer and looked through the glass pane beside

the door and saw the man cowering. "Dean Saxton, I'm ADA Alex Cabot; you're not making this any better by not speaking with us. The picture you're painting is one of guilt,

if you know who did this we need you to tel us."

"You can't do anything and you can't make me talk either!"

"Sir, I can have an arrest warrant in a few minutes, I'l charge you with impeding an investigation, obstruction of justice, refusing to aide a police officer and if given enough time

I can have you in court for a week getting motions filed."

"Sir open the door before we break it down, this is a crime scene and you're violating it." Olivia threw in over Alex's shoulder. Normaly she had patience with people involved

but when it came down to whiny ass men who were keeping her from doing her job, then al patience was thrown to the gutter. She looked to Alex, saw her nod her head and

was ready to let Eliot take the door down when they heard the locks click open.

"I didn't do anything to anyone," the old man said and waved a hand to where the CSU guys were taking down the sign from his house. "Who ever did that needs to be locked

up not me, I'm an innocent man that's been terrorized for years for something I had no control over."

"Hold on sir, what are you talking about?" Olivia asked and watched as his eyes traveled to each person at his door to finaly land on Alex.

"I'l talk to one of you and that's the Assistant District Attorney," he saw an untrusting look come through dark brown eyes and shook his head. "Don't worry about her, I won't

hurt her."

"It's alright Liv," she reached out and touched her hand. "He's not about to hurt me with al of you right outside his door." She turned and walked into the house with the schools

Dean.

Olivia planted her hands on her hips and turned to look at the ground in front of her, she didn't like it one bit that Alex was inside the man's house al alone with no one to

protect her. "Take it easy Liv," Eliot placed a hand on her shoulder and gave it a soft squeeze. "One peep and I'l have that door in splinters and don't underestimate Alex, she's

tougher than she seems."

"I know I just don't like the idea of her in there alone, look how long it took for him to open the door and now our ADA's in there alone."

"Liv you're bringing personal feelings into this, leave it at home." He squeezed her shoulder one last time before going to talk with Jeffries and Munch.

************

Alex looked around the smal dark office and saw right away that the man was terrified; the number of locks on his door hit her square in the chest. She was seeing what she

could so easily have become if she hadn't gone to Olivia for help, the thick curtains covering the windows blocked out al of reality. Folding her arms across her chest, she tried

to squeeze out the feeling of complete terror that leaked from every surface. "Please sit down, I'm sorry about how I acted but I'l explain everything in due time." He flipped on

a green shaded desk lamp and then dropped wearily into his chair. "If it hadn't been for the campus security teling me what was right outside of my door, I wouldn't have

known what was there," he looked to Alex and could just make out the glow of her pale eyes in the dim light. "It's been months since I left my home, I have groceries delivered

and al my meetings are taken by my assistant. I'm terrified Miss. Cabot, I could be next."

Alex crossed her legs and rested her hands on the arms of the chair; she had relaxed a bit after seeing how terrified the little man actualy was. "Have you any ideas who is

doing this and exactly what else have they done to you?"

"I've never met the person face to face but I've gotten letters, phone cals, my car vandalized and now this." He puled out a desk drawer and handed her a thick brown

accordion type folder with a thick rubber band keeping it closed. "I've kept everything that was sent to me, I tried to turn it over to the campus police chief but he thinks I'm

making everything up because I'm a bored old man."

Alex took the folder and weighed it in her hand, it had to be quite a few letters to weigh as much as one of her case files. "Did he give you any reason as to why he wouldn't

help and do you have any idea as to why you were picked by this maniac?"

"He's the kind that wears the badge for power not for the good of the people and I don't know if you know of what went on here back in 1996, but I was here. I've been the

Dean over 25 years and that was the first time that things got so out of control that I had to order Frat houses broken up."

"You mean the rape cases, we've been trying to look into that angle for the murder case we're working on and we've been stone waled the entire way. Is that a lawyers doing

or the colege itself?"

"A little of both, you see old money keeps this place running, without it…" he raised his hands out to the sides and shrugged. "It's not right but there are people that keep

what's right from ever coming to the light of day." He puled out an old tattered folder and handed it to her. "You never got that from me and once you leave here you'l never

talk to me again. I'm going back home to get away from al of this, I'm too old to be afraid of my own shadow."

She stood from the chair and gave him a nod of her head. "Thank you for talking with me, when I'm done with the files where should I send them?"

"They're yours to keep; I don't want the darkness near me any longer. Burn them if you want and don't let the taint of evil get into your pores like it has mine, before long, it

eats you alive and leaves behind nothing but a resentful old crone like me."

Alex nodded her head and made her way to the front door thinking of what he had just said to her, he was right, the darkness of her own demon had worked its way into her.

That was one of the reasons she had stopped basicaly living in her own apartment, the darkness had started there and she thought if she ran it would just go away, never had

she thought that it would folow her to work. She shivered and thought of Olivia, she prayed that it didn't creep into her life as wel, she would do anything to keep it away and

that meant her leaving if she had to.

***************

Olivia was close to wearing out the concrete path between the sidewalk and the front door of the Deans house. She ignored the amused looks from her team members, spun

around quickly when the front door squeaked open and sighed with relief when Alex stepped out. "You know I was close to storming the castle so to speak, you were in there

way too long for my likes." She brushed a hand through her hair and rubbed the back of her neck. "What did he have to say and don't you ever do that again." She whispered

the last part and saw a gleam of understanding in pale blue eyes.

"I think we have everything we need to bust open that case that was closed years ago and get the freak that kiled those three men." She handed Olivia the folders and shoved

her hands deep in the coat pockets to hide the fact that her hands were trembling. "He was the Dean back then, those are his personal files and letters from the person he thinks

is responsible for the art display."

Eliot mimicked Olivia with the rubbing of his neck and shook his head. "You make us al look like incompetent dumb asses, you go in there and get what we've been trying to

track down for days. Cragen's gonna fire al of us and steal you from the DA to solve and prosecute cases, this realy sucks."

Alex gave him a smal grin. "Oohh I'd look great totting around a gun, chasing down perps in my heels and bouncing them off wals before cuffing them." She shook her head.

"Nope I'l leave that al up to you guys, I'l do battle in the court room; I'm deadly there."

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"Oohh man this is just…sick!" Fin remarked and handed the letter to Olivia and walked over to where buckets of fried chicken and al the fixings sat on a table. Alex had taken

advantage of the credit card that was for her ADA expenses, she never used the thing unless she was caled away to another area and needed a motel room. So she knew that

Liz would be questioning the use of the card, she would tel her that since she couldn't go home and her office was no longer safe that they should be so lucky that she wasn't

staying at a five star hotel and ordering room service.

"One by one they wil fal, but it wil never be enough to satisfy my hunger for revenge. I have jars sitting on a shelf just waiting to be filed with their bals, three down, six to go

and when I'm done with the last one. I'M COMING FOR YOU!"

Olivia shivered and handed the note to Eliot, they had just gotten them back from the lab and weren't surprised that the only finger prints were from the Dean himself. The kiler

was keeping up the game of leaving them no evidence what's so ever. While they looked over the personal notes, Alex was sitting at an empty desk with her laptop hooked up

to a phone line and reading over the file that contained information from 1996. She fought herself to not go over and rub the hunched shoulders of the ADA and wrap her arms

around her to keep her safe. She knew that she was faling for her and she was finding it hard to leave those feelings at the door. It was al new to her, anyone else she dated

she never worried about where they were while she was working. But with Alex, even them being in the same room, she kept looking over to make sure she was safe. "You

have got to be loosing your fucking mind Liv." She heard her inner voice say and knew that it might just be right. Before she realized where she was or what she was doing,

she was standing behind Alex with her hands on her shoulders. "Find anything?"

"A lot of covered up law breaking and palm greasing, I have the list of al the men involved so there's the victim list. And I have names of some women that were possible

victims over a six year period; either it's one of them or a family member seeking the revenge." She handed Olivia a copy of both lists and pointed to the possible victims that

were high lighted. "Those ones I ran checks on and came up with no warrants or past court hearings, maybe you'l get a hit on your system. I crossed off the ones who are

deceased or already locked up and I made sure that they're stil there and not released."

"Three women are locked up for assault and battery against men, where the Hel was their lawyer's heads? Couldn't they see that there may have been an underlying reason for

what they did?"

"I can't answer that Liv and you know that I try my best to help where the defendant is a victim but not al prosecuting attorneys wil do that. They're more concerned about

keeping their win rates high and hoping to step into the DA's job."

"I know you do…it just pisses me off that victims get screwed and when something like this happens, they get screwed again by the same system that didn't protect them to

begin with."

Alex rubbed her eyes and then pinched the bridge of her nose. "Anything on the other stuff?" She leaned her head back against Olivia's stomach hoping that the contact would

calm them both down.

"A lot of sick notes about how they stalked their victims and gory details about the deed, this freak makes al the other serial kilers look sane. I just hope that while we were

getting the run around that he or she didn't kil someone else."

"If that is the case then I'l file charges against the campus security and everyone else who threw up road blocks and believe me if I get those rich assholes in my court room,

they're not getting off." The look that came over Olivia's face told her that she thought she was turning on her own kind. "Liv, I paid my own way through law school, I worked

two part time jobs and clerked for judges to be able to pay for everything." She grinned at the slight blush that worked its way up her tanned cheeks. "Didn't know that did

you, you thought I was some rich kid that got my colege diploma by way of a few checks to the right people?"

"No I just thought that your tuition was al taken care of, you're too damn good at your job to have gotten your diploma by any other way than busting your ass. Besides, the

DA wouldn't have hired you if you didn't know what you were doing."

"Don't be too sure of that," She smirked. "I've seen plenty of ADA's that should have been left out on the damn courthouse steps; they're nothing but ambulance chasers in

disguise."

"Speaking of disguise, do you need to go by your apartment and office for anything, you know like clothes?"

"I guess that means that I'm staying with you huh?"

"Or Munch if you want, I know he wouldn't argue." She grinned and puled away when Cragen came in waving a paper in his hand.

"I would sleep on the court house steps first, my bags in my office so I just need to go by there."

Cragen stopped in the middle of the floor and waved his hand to get everyone's attention. "OK people we got two more victims, one in Flatbush right on the edge of Prospect

Park and the other is in Queens. Munch and Fin go see what you can get from their investigators and see why they didn't let us know about it, Stabler, Jeffries you two have the

other one in Queens and find out the same thing. How in the Hel do they expect us to clear cases if no one tels us anything?" He looked to Olivia and Alex and held out a

finger. "And you two are on desk duty, Alex, your boss gave al your cases out and you're not to show up until we have your stalker. I think Liz is afraid of any backlash if you

get attacked again and Olivia you're stil on guard duty. Work on any angles you can think of for the triple and just so you know, Banister came up nada on the mug shots we

set up for him."

Alex nodded and rubbed at her eyes. "OK, so that means that my stalker doesn't work in the building, that doesn't mean he doesn't come here or go to the court house. What

if we have a surveilance camera set up to catch my apartment door and have the camera outside my office swung to catch my door?"

Olivia sat down on the edge of the desk and looked to her captain. "It might be a good idea, after attacking her in her office he's shown us that he's not hiding in the shadows

anymore. He may be keeping an eye on both places, maybe visiting his crime scenes so to speak?"

"Now you're sounding like me," George said and handed Cragen a sheet of paper. "The handwriting results you wanted, our kiler is way off the charts in every direction." He

moved closer to Alex and bent over to look at her. "Are you doing OK with al of this?"

"I'm fine, Hel I've got NY's finest at my beck and cal." She grinned and squeezed Olivia's thigh.

"You had that before al this started," Cragen said and handed the paper to Olivia. "If you need anything Alex, make Liv get it." He grinned and headed back to his office.

"That's true in some cases but not al of them, now what do you think about my stalker George?"

He leaned against the side of the desk and crossed his arms over his chest. "I don't think the roses were meant as a romantic gesture of any kind, he knows you so that means

he knows you hate roses. I think you need to think of when you were in school, did anyone pay too much attention to you and you spurned them or have you done something

in the last few months…maybe win a court case by making opposing counsel look incompetent?"

Olivia smacked her forehead and got up from the desk. "Damn I knew I forgot something, I'l be right back." She jogged from the room and disappeared through the doorway.

"I can't think of anyone that I don't piss off in court," She said and leaned back in the chair. "That's almost a daily thing, with al the motions I file and arraignments I have to go

to." She shrugged her shoulders.

"OK now for a more personal question, did any cop, lawyer, judge or someone connected with law enforcement ever proposition you?"

She thought for a few minutes and shook her head. "No, they cal me the Ice Princess so not many men want to risk their jewels being ripped off verbaly from a turn down.

I'm at a complete loss as to who it is or could be; now I know exactly how other victims feel when we question them over and over again."

George leaned in close to her and held her eyes with his. "You are not a victim until you give in to his game, if you keep doing your job; you're showing him that you're not

afraid."

"But won't that make him go even further off the deep end?"

"It's possible, it may also make him make a mistake and reveal himself. Don't take unnecessary risks get some body armor and a weapon for protection, don't become a victim

Alex." She nodded her head; she agreed with him but knew that Olivia and Cragen would see it differently. She looked around George when she heard the unmistakable

mumbling of Olivia; a crooked grin puled a corner of her lip up and caught George by surprise. "She's become more than your body guard and friend hasn't she?"

"So much for my stoic expressions or is it a head shrinker thing?"

"Just human observation at work here, no shrink stuff, I promise. I've seen that grin right before you rip the throat out of a defense attorney so it's not your expression, it's your

eyes, they become a darker blue when Olivia's around."

"I had no idea they did that and yes she's more than a friend, I feel safe with her." She watched Olivia search for something on her desk and then go over to Eliot's. "And you

know it's not just the fact that she carries a gun and badge." She looked up at George and shook her head. "There's something deeper there and how come I'm spiling here?"

"Must be my charming and understanding ways that makes people tel me what's on their minds." He placed a hand on her shoulder and smiled. "You'l do OK with al of this;

just remember you're only a victim if you let them make you one. I'l see you later, take care of Olivia."

Alex wondered what he meant by take care of Olivia; she was the stronger of them both but with George it could mean something entirely different. She watched Olivia move

between everyone's desks and then stop at the row of lockers; she puled an envelope from the manila envelope taped to her locker and tore it open. "Always the last damn

place I look," she headed back over and handed it to Alex. "I had someone check on why that court clerk had your phone print outs and the judge and his clerk knew

absolutely nothing about it, and the one who gave you the print outs isn't a clerk. I had someone check into the IAB folder and of course those idiots are denying ever knowing

you and slammed the phone down when I was mentioned. And for the last thing that came up empty, the hospital has no idea how our prescriptions got mixed up and couldn't

even find records that we had been there." She took a deep breathe and sat down on the edge of the desk.

"Ya know that movie with Sandra Bullock where her life gets switched with someone else, that's how I feel right now."

Olivia nodded her head and dropped the papers she had in her hands on the desk. "Wanna bet the hospital stil sends us a bil even though they say we weren't treated?"

"I'm not betting you on that because I know damn wel we'l get biled and probably for a heart transplant or something." She closed her laptop and swiveled the chair so she

could look at Olivia. "Can we go to the shooting range after we go by my office; I need to keep up my qualifications."

Olivia raised her right brow and gave her an unbelieving look. "You have a gun, how come I didn't know this and where is it?"

"Sure I do, we live in New York and you've never seen them because I can't find the right holsters that don't make my suit jacket bulge, plus I'd be too tempted to use them in

court so I leave my toys in my office safe."

Olivia dropped her head and shook it. "Ok now let me get this right, you've been stalked for months now but you leave your 'toys' in your safe…why?"

"I have a long list of people I wanna shoot in the ass; I'd go in to debt and run out of ammunition before I ever got to shoot my stalker." She ran her hand across Olivia's hip

and winked. "So can we go to the range or what?"

"I am so easy," She felt her pulse pick up and just couldn't believe Alex was teasing her right in the middle of the bul pen. "You know you've shocked the Hel outta me the last

couple of days and if you keep playing with my ass, I'm gonna fal off this desk."

Pale blue eyes caught dark brown and held them; she let the corner of her lip raise in a smal mischievous smile. "So I can rock Detective Benson's foundation with just a touch,

who knew I had such a power?"

"Who knew you were such a trouble maker, Oohh wait I know you're a trouble maker, that's why the judges keep tossing you in jail for contempt." She leaned down close

enough that she picked up the scent of her own cologne on Alex's clothes. "I think you piss them off just to get some peace and quiet by way of the holding cel."

Alex gave her a ful smile and raised both brows. "Oohh then you know that I've been waiting for you to get tossed in there with me," she slipped her fingertips beneath the

waistband and brushed the fine hairs on Olivia's lower back. "It'd be so much more fun."

Olivia bit at her bottom lip to hold back a moan; she grabbed Alex's hand and puled it from behind her. "OK let's get out of here before I have to explain to Cragen why my

heads stuck in the freezer." She slipped from the desk and kept an eye on the ADA as she headed towards her captains office, she ducked her head in and told him where they

were going. After grabbing her coat from her desk chair, she watched Alex do the same and then walk towards her with a smirk on her face. "You know you're a mean and evil

person and I'm stil not used to not seeing ADA Cabot."

"Then you better prepare yourself for when we get to the shooting range," She grabbed Olivia's hand and puled her towards the elevator. "Because I turn into Dirty Harry with

my toys gripped in my hot little hands."

*******************

Olivia was in the booth next to Alex loading her clips when she heard rapid firing, she leaned back and saw Alex eject the clips, spin her weapons and drop them back into her

holsters. Placing her own weapon in its holster, she stepped behind Alex and watched her reload the clips and then pistols. Drawing them from their holsters, she fired al the

shots and repeated her earlier actions. Watching how Alex drew her weapons and fired made her heart jump in her chest, her form brought back memories but she couldn't

place them. "So can I join the boys club since I can handle a pistol?" Alex asked and turned to see reddish brown eyes move from the target to her. "Wanna make a wager

there Detective Benson, I win you cook supper, you win I cook."

"Before I make a wager, can you cook?"

Alex grinned and shrugged her shoulders. "Yeah if you like macaroni and cheese and hotdogs, that's why I plan on whipping your ass."

"Oohhh now that's something I just can't pass up," she held out her hand. "Lemme see your piece." She looked over the pistol Alex placed in her hand and looked up into

smiling blue eyes. "I never expected you to use a Glock 35 Tactical 40," She glanced up at her. "What no laser sights?"

"Of course I have laser sights, I just didn't put 'em on. Now how about that bet and what are ya cooking for me?"

Olivia gave her a crooked smile, handed the Glock back to her and thought for a few seconds. "How about steak, loaded baked potato, cauliflower with cheddar sauce and

what ever you want to drink." Puling her shooting glasses down, she winked at Alex. "Best out of two clips, now remember I have to reload there quick draw." Olivia ran a

new target down the range, puled her weapon and fired until the clip was empty. Replacing it with a ful one, she felt Alex behind her and turned to see her holding her target.

"Go ahead fire your last clip slow poke." She crossed her arms over her chest and leaned back against the wal.

"Why do I get the feeling that no matter how good I shoot, I've already lost?"

"I have no idea but its fun watching you sweat, now hurry up 'cuz I'm hungry."

Olivia turned back to her target, took a deep breathe and squeezed off her shots until the clip was empty. Hitting the button to bring the target back, she colected her clips and

placed them in her belt pouch. "OK Alex let's see how bad you shot."

"Oohhh you're gonna pay big time Liv," she held out her target and grinned. "Go ahead Liv; you can whine I won't tel anyone." She stuck her fist through the head area of the

target. "Now about that steak, I like mine medium rare."

"Who taught you how to shoot?" She took both targets up to the desk and handed them to the officer. "And don't tel me you were on the colege shooting team 'cuz Harvard

doesn't have one."

"Oohh I have a friend on the SWAT team, he taught me years ago after I got jumped in central park. Would you sign my qualification record for me, that way it's done and I

don't have to worry about it?" Olivia signed the paper and handed it to the officer so that he could put it on file.

"Ya know I feel set up," she crossed her arms over her chest and tilted her head to the side. "You're a ringer Alex and I think you should be protecting me."

Alex leaned in close to her and whispered. "I have some ideas about that, we'l talk about that after you feed me." She went to where they had hung their coats and puled hers

on over her double shoulder holsters. She looked down and noticed that she couldn't see the bulges under her arms. "That's solved; you're never getting your coat back. I bet

Judge Petrovsky would throw a fit if I wore leather into court."

Olivia took in the way Alex looked in her leather coat and would do anything to see her dressed in al leather. "Come on quick draw and you know I've never seen anyone

draw across their body like you do, Hel no cops shoot like you do."

Alex wiggled her brows and smiled. "I like cowboy movies; I saw it in one so I decided I'd perfect it. I'm a perfectionist in many things, the court room and shooting are just

two, and some of the others are better left behind closed doors." She walked from the shooting range with an open mouthed Olivia staring after her.

"Oohhh fuck am I in deep shit here." She mumbled and then jogged after her.

*************

Continued In Part 2

The Athenaeum's Scroll Archive

~ Turning Point ~

by Larisa

Part 2

Olivia bent over and used a pot holder to pul the oven rack with the broiler on it out, flipping the huge family steak over, she then poured more marinate on it and closed the

door. Before she straightened up, she looked to her side to see Alex watching her. She had the distinct feeling that Alex had stripped her of her clothes and she was cooking in

the buff with only the pot holder in her hand. Straightening up, she grabbed the beer she had puled from the refrigerator and took a long sip before putting it down. "A few

more minutes and the steak wil be done," she checked on the cheese and turned the heat off under it before grabbing the steamer pot with the cauliflower in it. "So you can't

cook at al huh?"

Alex stepped beside her and puled down plates from the cabinet. "I can, I just choose not to, it's easier ordering take out. I hate eating left overs and cooking for just me

sucks." She reached over Olivia's head and grabbed a bowl for the cauliflower. "You know what I mean, you go to buy meat and it always comes in a family pack. So ya gotta

freeze most of it, you go to get chicken and it's cheaper to buy a whole one then parts and pieces but I can't eat a whole chicken at one time and reheating it sucks." She

pressed up against Olivia just for the Hel of it and carried the plates to the kitchen bar. "I feed the neighborhood stray cats and dogs a good portion of what I do cook

because I forget about it and then I'm to afraid to eat it because I don't remember how long it's been in the refrigerator."

Olivia dumped the cauliflower into the bowl and then poured the cheese over it before handing it to Alex. "I feed the bul pen when I make too much," she opened the oven

door and puled the broiler out to place on top of the stove. "I love lasagna but I can't make just enough for me, it just kils the recipe. So I eat that night and then take the rest

into work with me, it works out good because there's three of us bachelors there." She cut the steak in half and then placed the pieces on the plates along with the potatoes

she puled from the oven. "With the three of us bringing in food al the time, Kathy wants us al locked up because Eliot brags about what he eats at work." She sat down next

to Alex at the bar and handed her a knife and fork. "You know you can come to the bul pen and eat with us any time you want, you've always been part of our little family."

"I'l remember that next time I'm looking at one of those disgusting sandwiches from the vending machine." She bit into a piece of her steak and moaned from the flavor

bursting in her mouth, she had eaten in some of the best restaurants in New York and nothing compared to this. Swalowing, she wiped her mouth and looked at Olivia. "You

cook for me every night and I'l give birth to al your children."

"What if I don't want kids?"

"I'l do or give you anything you want…to be honest, I don't want kids either." She took a sip of Olivia's beer and then filed her mouth with the twice baked potato covered in

three cheeses, fresh chives and sour cream. "This world sucks too much to try and raise a kid; you know what I mean, look at the sick shit we see every day."

"I know what you mean and I see Eliot struggle every day with himself, he tries to hide it but he worries about his kids. He doesn't take our work home with him but its stil

there, it's in the news, the TV shows and the kids see it at school." She looked to Alex and shook her head. "No shop talk here, this is a cop and ADA free zone." She took a

long pul of her beer and thought of what they could talk about. "OK now tel me more about these things that you've perfected."

Alex snorted and reached across the counter for the cap from Olivia's beer, placing it between her thumb and forefinger; she pressed it in half and dropped it in front of Olivia.

"There's one for ya, the others are better for another time."

"But that's an easy thing to do; anyone can smash a beer cap in half."

"Realy, OK ya wanna make another wager there Benson, I'l serve you breakfast in bed if you can do it? She got up from her stool, got another beer for them and twisted the

top off. "Here ya go, now ya gotta do it like I did and no cheating either."

Olivia picked it up and placed it between her fingers. "Piece of cake Aly," she pressed her fingers and gritted her teeth together but it didn't help with smashing the beer cap.

"Son of a bitch!" She dropped the cap and looked at the indentations in her fingertips. "I think you cheated and you're just trying to get me to bring you breakfast in bed." She

rubbed her fingers and shook her head when they stayed red.

"Oohhh please like you wouldn't bring me breakfast in bed if I asked," she picked up the lid, held it right in front of brown eyes and smashed it in half. "See that no cheating

either, that's what four years of law school gets ya."

"OK I would serve you breakfast in bed and so far I'm skil less…does that make sense?"

"Who cares, one more beer and I won't know my own name let alone be able to play scrabble." She finished her food and looked at Olivia with a raised brow. "Did I ever tel

you that I can't spel worth a damn and if not for spel check al my motions would sound like a kindergartener wrote them?"

Olivia chuckled and placed her empty plate on top of Alex's before getting up and going to the sink. "And where did you place in your graduating class?"

"At the top, I'm always on top." She grinned when Olivia paused before getting to the sink; she loved throwing the detective off balance. She glanced to the microwave and

saw what time it was. She got up from her stool and pushed Olivia out of her way. "I'l wash you dry and then we're getting outta here."

"And just where are we going at nine o'clock at night," she saw a grin forming on her face and knew she was in trouble. "Oohh Hel no…you're gonna get me in some kind of

trouble aren't you?"

Alex laughed and hip checked her. "You sound like Fin and no I'm not gonna get you in any trouble, may give you a stroke or two but that's al."

*******************

Fin tapped knuckles with a few of the guys on his way to where the sound system controls were, a couple times a month he spun for a club that belonged to one of his

childhood friends. He climbed halfway up the stairs and turned to look out over the crowd under the flashing and strobe lights. As usual, the place was crowded and pounding

with the music's beat. Going al the way up to the top, he slapped hands with the DJ and stepped over in front of the second set of controls. He hit a button and a loud siren

pierced the air before a loud thumping replaced it along with yels of recognition. Everyone knew what he did for a living and while he was in the club, there would be no

problems or he would personaly run the trouble makers in. Playing with the light buttons, he set lights to flash red and blue over the dance floor with a white light searching the

crowd. It wasn't just for looks; he was actualy searching the crowd for familiar faces.

***********

Alex had a tight hold of Olivia's hand, she puled her through the crowd and over to the bar against the one wal. She had to grin at how Olivia had just about thrown a fit when

the taxi dropped them off in a dark aley in the middle of Queens. When a siren started wailing, the cop in Olivia clicked on. It took Alex dragging her to a side door of the

dance club and pushing her inside to convince her that they weren't in the middle of a raid. "Loosen up Liv we're completely safe here," she yeled in her ear and puled her

closer to her at the bar. "You seem surprised."

"You can say that," she looked around and saw that a majority of the place was people in their early 20's she felt ancient and out of place. "How often do you come here?"

"Not often, actualy only when I can convince someone to come with me," she waved a hand at the bartender and took the two bottles of water he handed her. "My body

guard might already be around here someplace, he's very imposing." She grinned at the narrowed look Olivia gave her. "Are ya jealous that I come here with a man?" She

pressed into Olivia's body and roled her hips into her.

"Why would I be jealous of that…" she shivered and grabbed a hold of the bar to keep from faling when Alex thrust against her. "Do you dance with him?"

"Sometimes, depends on our mood that night." She ran her hand up under the midriff shirt Olivia wore and caressed her stomach. "I'm gonna dance, you coming?" She

shrugged her shoulders when Olivia leaned back against the bar and shook her head.

Olivia watched as Alex worked her way further into the crowd and to the main dance floor, she felt her stomach jump when she started to move with the beat along with the

other dancers. What surprised her was the spot light that settled on the blonde and the change in music, it became a pounding Jamaican beat that brought more dancers to the

floor. She watched for a ful half hour before Alex came back to her and fel against the bar panting. She drank from one of the water bottles and used her forearm to wipe the

sweat from her face before turning very pale blue eyes to her. Olivia had never seen Alex look like she did now, sensuality poured from her. She felt intoxicated and moved into

Alex's personal space, she ran her hands up her back and puled her into her body. "That was…I have no words." She ran one hand through Alex's wet hair, pushed it back

from her face and ran her fingers down her neck. When the spot light hit them she looked up to where the DJ's were. "Friend of yours?"

"You could say that," Alex yeled into her ear and then held up two fingers and waved her hand in the air. "You wil dance this one with me and then we'l go home before the

crowd lets out and we can't get a taxi."

"Aly, I can't do hip hop," She whined but it did no good as she was dragged out onto the dance floor. "Don't scream when I step al over your feet." The lights lowered and the

music changed to something slower, Olivia looked around and felt panic set in. She didn't see any other same sex partners in the place and was ready to pul away when Alex

stopped her.

"Liv stop worrying and dance with me, these people don't care what we're doing." She moved against her and felt her loosening up, wrapping her arms around her neck, she

puled her even closer. "Listen to the words Liv." She said in her ear, tucked her face against her neck and listened to the song by 112.

Oh I need to know

Where we stand

Do we share this special thing caled love

I know I do

What about you

I just can't get enough of your time

Where do I go

What do I do

I can't live without your love

Thinking of you

Makes me feel

Like I'm the only one for you

Girl I want to

Be with you

No one else

Only you

Why can't we just

Make it happen

Baby I need you in my life

Every time I'm with you

Never want it to come to an end

Always make me so happy

You'l always have a place in my heart

Olivia couldn't ignore the fingers caressing the back of her neck or the lips kissing the area beneath her ear, she tilted her head further to the side and moaned when Alex

slipped her thigh further between her legs. Puling back a bit, she tilted her head and captured Alex's soft lips in a hungry kiss. Her blood roared in her ears and left her dizzy

with need when they parted, she swore she heard sirens again and then her body started to vibrate with the speakers. Before she realized what was happening, Alex puled her

off to the side. "Look up there to the DJ's and tel me who you see."

Olivia squinted and almost fel over. "Oohh my fucking God…why didn't you tel me Fin was up there?"

"Would you have kissed me like you did if you had known?" Her lips stil burned from the kiss and she wanted nothing more than to drag Olivia from the dance club and home.

Olivia tilted her head to the side, looked around them and then backed Alex up against the wal. "Alex, I just threw you out of the closet…"

"No you didn't, I'm not in any closet here that only happens at work." She gave her a crooked grin and then moaned when her lips were capture once again in a burning kiss.

"Uhh huh leave you two alone for a second and ya end humping each other against a wal." Fin said close to Olivia's ear and snickered when she froze and puled back slowly

from Alex. "Let me help you two get outta here, Alex always has to be escorted from this place. She's a damn trouble maker and causes more fights than anyone I know." He

wrapped his arms over their shoulders and guided them to a hidden door in the back. "Go right home and no sex in the back seat of the taxi." He grinned when Olivia groaned

and then opened the door to a wel lit aleyway for them. "There ya go girls and don't worry Liv, your secrets safe with me."

She turned and gave him a funny look. "What secret is that, I've never been in the closet, I was worried about Alex."

Fin roled his eyes. "I mean you two humping against the wal." He gave them a wave and waited until they got into the taxi before closing the door.

Olivia gave the taxi driver her address and looked to see Alex grinning like a maniac. "You are so proud of yourself aren'tcha, ya set me up big time now every time I look at

Fin I'm gonna turn bright red."

"Ya know he's known about me for years," she ran her hand up Olivia's thigh and played with the inner seam. "He's never said a single word to anyone and plays the innocent

game to a T, so when you were trying to convince Eliot that I was straight, he was dying."

Olivia dropped her head back against the seat and turned to face Alex. "I forgot that nothing is sacred in that office," She leaned closer to her and looked into her dark eyes.

"So about that song at the club…did you request that?"

"Yep, Fin knew there was a chance that we'd show up tonight, so he knew to play that song if I got you on the dance floor."

Olivia looked out the window when the taxi slowed and saw that they were already at her building, she puled some bils from her pocket and then opened the door. Taking

Alex's hand, she helped her from the taxi and then they ran for her front door. They hadn't worn coats to the club and now stood shivering in sweat dampened clothes while

Olivia unlocked the door. Once opened, she let Alex go first and took in the low slung desert cami pants and pale blue midriff t-shirt that showed off her defined abs. When

they got into Olivia's apartment, she tossed her keys on the kitchen bar and took Alex by her hand. "The words of that song, is that how you feel?"

"Every single word," she whispered in a hoarse voice and watched dark brown eyes lighten to a reddish brown. "Now what?"

"That's up to you." Olivia whispered back and felt her stomach flutter with the seductive smile that came over Alex's face. With a slight tug on her hand, she folowed Alex to the

bathroom and waited while she turned the shower on.

"Right now I need to get the stench of smoke off me," Alex started striping out of her clothes and looked up to see Olivia watching. "Strip Benson or I'l pul you in there

clothes and al."

"It just amazes me that most of the time I see you in an expensive suit and when you're not in it, you go commando." She let her eyes trail down across her stomach to stop at a

thin strip of blonde hair.

"Liv stop babbling," She grabbed the hem of her t-shirt and puled it up over her head and then unsnapped the front latch on her bra. "You've got two seconds to get in the

shower." She let her fingers trail across her nipples before she turned and climbed into the shower.

"And everyone thinks you're just bossy in the court room," she was trying to ignore the pounding between her thighs, she had never been this aroused before from just a little bit

of touching. Most times, sex was just a release, a way of getting rid of tension. But with Alex, it would be much more. Shedding the remainder of her clothes, she tossed them

in the hamper and stepped into the shower. The scent of body soap tingled in her nose and the sight of the lather sliding down Alex's body sent tingles lower.

Alex could sense Olivia behind her, she kept her eyes closed and shivered when her chiled body pressed into her back. She had no modesty around Olivia and she often

wondered why that was, any other woman she would have been the prim and proper assistant district attorney. She wondered if it was impart to the job they did, that she

needed to toss away the costume and lay bare who she realy was. A low moan rumbled from her chest when fingers ran down across her breasts and stopped to investigate

her naval and lower abdomen. Since before they had left the club, she had fought with her arousal and now with just a caress, she was ready to fal to her knees. She turned in

Olivia's arms, turned them around and backed her under the shower spray. Closing her eyes, she dropped her head down to rest on her shoulder as the water warmed them.

"If I give you my heart wil you keep it safe?"

Olivia puled back and blinked water from her eyes; she lost al means of speaking and went with what was in her heart. Slowly leaning forward, she captured Alex's lips in a

gentle kiss and then puled away to turn off the water and then lead Alex from the shower. She turned the bed side lamp on and sat down on the edge of the bed. "Til my dying

day," She puled her down on top of her and roled them so that she was on top. "I'm in love with you Alexandra." She moaned when Alex puled her down to capture her

mouth in a deep soul stealing kiss, when they parted al she could do was gaze into dark blue eyes and wonder what she had done to deserve someone like Alex.

"What's wrong Liv…did I do something wrong?"

"No, it's just that I'm wondering why me when you could have anyone?"

"I don't want anyone, I want you, and we talked about this al before." She roled them over and took total control, with one hand; she brushed Olivia's wet hair back from her

face and lowered her lips to hers. For what seemed hours, they just kissed and caressed each other. It was when Alex ran her hand down between Olivia's legs and felt how

wet she was that she made her way down her body to linger at her firm breasts. Cupping each one in her palms, she ran her thumbs across her nipples and watched them

become hard and deepen in color. Licking around each one and then nipping her nipples, she looked up when fingers threaded through her hair and puled her down to languish

attention where needed. The soft whimpers and moans that came from Olivia had her center twitching; she rose up over her and looked deeply into her eyes. "I love you Olivia,

I've been in love with you from the first day I saw you…wasted so much time." She leaned down and brought their lips together in a soft kiss before kissing her way down to

her naval. She grinned when Olivia thrust her hips upward and moaned deeply when she dipped her tongue into her naval. With just her fingertips, she made whispering

movements over her stomach and ribs and watched the muscles flex. Where she was wilowy, Olivia was hard with muscle; they were complete opposites in so many ways but

the same as wel. She was the strongest woman she knew and in so many ways, but when she touched her she was soft and yielding. She watched Olivia's back arch when she

brought the flat of her tongue across her nether lips, her hands grip the bed covers and her heels push into the mattress. She moaned with the taste of her lover and slipped her

tongue into her folds to tease her center. She licked the flowing juices from her and then teased her clit with the tip of her tongue until she whimpered. When Olivia started to

thrust against her, she moved back up her body and captured her lips in a deep kiss. Bracing her weight on one forearm, she let the other one trail down to slip between

Olivia's thighs. Pushing two fingers into her center, she pushed in al the way and stopped. "You stop me if I hurt you." She whispered and started to pul her fingers part way

out before pushing them back in, she pumped faster when her lover met her thrusts. When two fingers slipped between her folds and into her center she gasped out against

Olivia's neck, they rocked together and panted out against sweat soaked skin until Alex bucked against her lover and went rigid. She grunted and shuddered with her climax

but never stopped moving her fingers in Olivia's center. With the tremors stil traveling throughout her body, she brought her lover to the edge and the over when she hit a

certain spot.

Olivia gasped and puled Alex down into her body as she bucked and thrust against her with her orgasm, with the last of the tremors roling through her, she wrapped both

arms around her lover and buried her face in her wet hair. When Alex let out a long groan and relaxed into her body, she couldn't help but grin. Long minutes later and after

they recovered, Olivia relaxed her hug, moved Alex's hair away from her neck and kissed and then nipped at the salty skin. When she whimpered, she bit harder and then

sucked knowing that it would be a nasty bruise later.

"I hope you have a turtle neck I can wear," she grumbled and then whimpered when Olivia bit her again and then roled them to their sides. "You know I bruise easy."

"Uhh huh and that means they'l last for a couple days," she puled back and looked into a stil flushed face. "I feel like a kid giving you hickeys." She ran a finger across a faint

bruise under her eye and down her cheek to stop at her jaw. "You're beautiful even with black eyes."

"You need glasses Liv, I look like some boxers sparing partner." She snuggled into her body, rested her head on her shoulder and tried to do something with Olivia's spiked

hair. "Ya know I never thought this would happen, I figured I'd go through life with you staring at my ass and legs during court."

"How come I can't ever live that down…maybe because I get caught a couple times a month huh?" She grabbed the blanket, puled it over them and wrapped herself around

Alex. "I'm stil gonna do that ya know but now I got more visuals to add in there."

"That goes both ways there Liv," She nipped her chin and then her neck. "But I've got the privacy of my office to explore certain day dreams."

"I've got…your office 'cuz you're gonna share with me." She kissed her lovingly and then brushed her tangled hair from her face. A few minutes later they were both sound

asleep and snoring softly.

***************

Eliot had tried caling Olivia's cel phone and got the message saying that her phone was turned off and to leave a message, so then he tried caling Alex's cel phone and got the

same thing. He lost al patience when he caled both their apartments and got no answer from either place; he caled the patrol car that was to do drive bys and had them go up

to Alex's apartment and see if they were there. The officer told him that they pounded on the door for fifteen minutes and had no answer. The last thing that he could do was to

go over to Olivia's apartment and pound on her door until one of them answered, to be on the safe side and keep Cragen off his ass, he had Monique with him. So now he

stood outside Olivia's door pounding on it with the night stick he had brought with him and Monique stood leaning against the wal with a smirk. He had been driving her nuts

for the last three hours, if he got this bad over his partner, she could just imagine what kind of basket case he would be with his wife and or kids. "Ya know Eliot if you break

her door she's gonna be realy pissed at you and why the urgency here?"

"Some hump left a note on Liv's desk saying that he knew Alex was with her and they would both pay."

"What the fuck is wrong with this idiot, if Alex was straight how could she show interest in someone who doesn't have the gonads to even face her?"

Eliot stopped mid strike and looked at her. "Am I missing something here?"

"You miss a lot Eliot; open your eyes once in a while."

He went back to banging on the door and getting dirty looks from the other people in the building.

***************

Alex puled the pilow over her head harder but could stil hear the irritating noise coming from somewhere in the apartment, she moved so that one ear was pressed to Olivia's

chest and clamped her hand over the other one. "What is that noise?" She mumbled and jabbed Olivia in her stomach. "Go kil it or something!"

"I don't wanna get up and I'm kinda getting into the primal beat." She grunted and yelped after being poked and pinched. "At least I'm not the only one who's not a morning

person." She wiggled out from under Alex, grabbed a t-shirt and shorts from her dresser and hopped around trying to get the shorts on. The entire way to the door, she yeled

enough insults that the steel door should have been melted. Unlocking the door, she flung it open and growled. "Do you ever sleep?" She walked towards the kitchen without

waiting for an answer and started to make coffee. "What happened that you're here at the crack of dawn waking me up by beating the Hel outta my door?"

Eliot took one look at his partners, evil black eyes, sheet wrinkled face, hair that stood out at a hundred different directions and shirt on backwards and knew that he was as

close to Satan as he ever wanted to be. "Our mysterious stalker left a note on your desk sometime after we al left last night." He waited for her to face him before continuing.

"It said that he knew Alex was with you and that you would both pay, but if he shows up with you stil looking like this, he'l drop over."

"Fuck you Ely, I should plant my foot up your ass, Monique you want some coffee?"

"See that Eliot, be a dick and you get dick." She slapped him on his shoulder and took a seat at the smal kitchen table, when she caught movement from her right; she looked

over and almost fel from her chair.

Eliot looked to Alex and bit back the remark that was on the tip of his tongue. "Morning Alex…"

"How would you like me to stick that night stick up your ass?" She took the stick from his hand and tapped him on the chest.

Monique grinned at her. "You'l have to wait until he gets Liv's foot removed." She looked at the blonde ADA and held back her laughter, her eyes were stil bruised but they

had nothing on the marks on her neck and upper chest. And the way her hair was beyond bed head almost had her screaming; wind tunnel on high was the picture that would

stick with her every time she saw Alex. She gave Olivia a nod when she placed coffee in front of her and stuck her tongue out at Eliot when he had to get his own. What made

her smile was when Olivia handed Alex a glass of OJ and puled a chair out for her.

"So the freak walks right into the bul pen, puts a note on my desk and no one notices, where the Hel was everyone?" She started to pace behind Alex and came to a jerking

halt when Alex grabbed the back of her shirt.

"Liv drink your coffee and calm down, you're ranting and I'm not even awake yet." She looked down at the robe she wore and sighed with relief. "For a minute I couldn't

remember if I put anything on."

"Oohh believe me I would have let you know if you came waltzing out here naked." Eliot said and winced from the kick to his shin. "Maybe I should just tel you about that

note huh?" He looked from Olivia to Alex and leaned in closer, when he recognized the marks on her neck and chest, he looked to Olivia with his mouth hanging open. "The

note right, the other shift were al out checking a double homicide involving two prostitutes with their johns so the bul pen was empty." He shrugged his shoulders and looked

from Olivia to Alex and then to Monique who had an 'I told you so' expression. "The boss says for you guys to come in today and go over al past cases where someone

showed any interest in Alex other than what's considered normal," he waved a hand at them. "You know what he wants and we've come up empty on the rape victims, the ones

that are stil in this area have solid alibis."

"I think we need to check a different angle," Monique puled a paper from her pocket and handed it to Olivia. "That's my notes on what we found out."

Alex rubbed her face and ran her fingers half way through her hair before they got caught in tangles. "What about the men, can they be watched and if someone goes after one

of them you guys swoop in and help kick his ass?"

"Liv's got you corrupted already," Eliot gasped. "It took her a whole month to get me corrupted and that was with the rubber hose beatings twice a week."

"Don't go dragging me in on your sex fetish, how soon does Cragen want us in?" She placed one hand on her lover's shoulder and ran her thumb across the nape of her neck.

"When ever you get there as long as it's not tomorrow," he said and got up from the table. "We're outta here." He headed to the door and waited until Monique joined him

before puling it open. As soon as they were in the halway, he ran a hand across his mouth and shook his head. "They're a grumpy couple in the morning and those hickeys?"

"Would you and Kathy be happy if they started pounding on your door at six in the morning?"

"Wel no, and if I put hickeys on my wife like that, I'd be sleeping at the station in the crib." He looked to Monique on the way down the stairs. "I'm stil having trouble thinking

of Alex being a lesbian and why did Liv keep teling me she was straight?"

Monique snickered, pushed the door open and walked out to where their sedan was parked. "Ever think that maybe she did that because she wasn't sure and wanted to

protect Alex no matter what her preferences?"

"Ok I can accept that, learn something new every day."

***************

"So does it bother you that Ely and Monique know about us?" Olivia asked from where she had her face against her lover's neck.

Alex brought one hand up and ran her fingers through Olivia's hair before turning her head and placing a soft kiss to her lips. "Nope, I'm just glad that I don't have to hide like

before, it gets tiresome to play the straight game." She stood up and puled Olivia into a tight hug. "Guess we should shower and head on into work huh?"

"Or we could go in as is and scare ten years of everyone's lives, ya know we're gonna catch a lot of flack?"

"I can handle anything they throw at me," she groaned when a hand snaked inside her robe and caressed the side of her breast. "Think Don wil be pissed if we show up in say

two hours?"

"Just one question, why only two hours, is your stamina wearing out and why was Eliot looking at me a weird, what'd you do ta me?"

"I think he was looking at you because of what you did to me." She started walking Olivia backwards to the bedroom and didn't stop until they fel onto the bed. "I seem to be

the only one marked, so that means I have a lot to catch up on."

*************

Olivia couldn't get the stupid grin off her face, they were late getting into work and her water bil would be astronomical but she didn't care. They would both be walking a little

stiff as wel for the next few days, wel she would be, Alex was like Gumby woman and said it was from doing Yoga a few times a week. She looked up from the file she was

reading and just watched as her lover worked on a brief she needed for court the next morning.

"Dirty thoughts I hope."

"Where you're concerned, always," she dropped the file on the pile that she had already read and stretched her arms over her head. "I've gone over al the files and I stil ain't

found squat, could your stalker be some kind of geek ya pissed off before you came to SVU?"

"I did have a few white colar crime cases but that was years ago, I can't see them doing anything like this though. It's gotta be someone in this building or the courthouse,

someone who has computer access…Liv what about the computer guys?"

Liv sat up on the smal couch and blinked her eyes, she hadn't even thought of the computer crimes people. "How often do you use that department, I mean we use them when

ever we confiscate a persons computer but other than that?"

"I can't remember the last time, besides al I do is get you guys the warrant for the computer and then it's in your hands. I don't even know any of the people in computer

crimes, what about wandering down there and seeing if anyone pays undue attention to me?"

"Alex you're putting yourself out there as bait, I can't let you do that."

Alex got up from her desk, stood in front of her and crossed her arms over her chest. "Listen here Liv; I'm not going to let this creep turn me into a victim. I saw how the Dean

lived in total terror and there's no way I'm living like that, so if I have to be bait to get this asshole then that's what I'l do."

"Aly please just let me go down there and check them out; I know what the guy's description is, if he's down there then I'l haul his ass up to the bul pen."

"And then what, I can only identify him by voice, it's not enough?"

Olivia rubbed her face and sighed in defeat. "Let me go down and talk to the computer cop that helps me and Eliot out al the time, I trust him and maybe he can tel me how

the hospital record thing was done and if any of their computers were involved in it?"

"OK but if you strike out down there then I'm going back to business as usual, I can't do my job for the SVU and I refuse to be locked up."

Olivia nodded, stood up and held out her arms to her lover, as much as she hated the idea of Alex going back to her normal schedule, she knew it would be pointless to argue

with her. "I'l be back after I'm done down there, you have your Glocks?"

"Yes I have them and I'l even wear one of them to make you happy, but if you hear of a shooting in the court room, I'm not guilty by reason of they pissed me off." She

stepped into Olivia arms and rested her chin on her shoulder. "I'l be OK, what can happen in a court room ful of people?" She kissed her lover's neck and inhaled the scent of

her cologne. "I gotta go; I've got a hearing in half an hour."

"Be careful he could be anywhere and cal me when you're done and I'l come get you."

"Liv calm down, I've been dealing with this for months now." She gave her a deep lingering kiss and then puled back to pul her shoulder harness on; colect her brief case and

Olivia's leather coat. "I'm armed and more than happy to put an end to the fucker's reign of terror." She gave her a quick kiss before leaving her office. Olivia stood for a few

moments thinking of what just happened, she no longer had control over what went on around her lover and panic was raising its little head. She grabbed the files she needed

from the couch and headed out of the office to go to the computer crimes area.

**************

Munch tossed his empty coffee cup into the trash and then turned around to scan the street outside of the building they had been watching. They had two possible hits that they

hadn't been able to contact by phone so now they were waiting for them to get home so they could warn them. Fin blew on his cold hands and hunched his shoulders against

the cold wind. "If this guy is one of those workaholics that never comes home, I'm gonna kick your bony ass and then Stablers."

"Like this was al my idea, I was ready to settle on a Halmark card, ya know sent by snail mail so that it would take a few weeks to go two blocks and by then we either have

the bad guy or another body in the morgues cooler."

"If I didn't think we'd be seling hot dogs on a corner after Cragen canned our asses, I'd go get the damn card myself." He jumped up and down and cussed from the sharp

pain shooting up from his bad knee. "This fucking sucks, where is this dumb fucker?"

"I think that's the dumb fucker walking up to the door now." He slapped Fin in his arm, puled his badge and approached the man. "Mr. Adam Matheson, I'm Detective Munch

and this is Detective Tutuola, we're from the SVU, we'd like a minute of your time."

The man turned and looked at them through thick glasses; he wiped wispy hair from his forehead and squinted. "Did you say SVU, why do the sex police want me?"

"God I hate when they cal us the sex police." Fin mumbled and waved for the man to go inside his door. "Come on my nuts are somewhere in my chest looking for heat."

"Let's just say that we're doing or civic duty to warn certain members of the public that they may be in harms way." Munch would rather throw the man down the steps than

warn him but he had to do his job. They stepped into the man's apartment and shivered with the temperature difference, the first thing Munch noticed was the emptiness. Al

that was in the room they were standing in was a recliner, a TV and a smal TV tray with a remote on it.

"Now tel me why you're here…nothings happened to my sister has it?" He looked between the two detectives and then to where his answering machine sat, the total number

of messages was 0. "Please tel me what's going on; if it's my sister then I have to go."

"It's not your sister; we're here to warn you of a potential threat against your life." Munch puled his black leather gloves off and slapped them in the palm of his hand.

"Remember colege in 96, the trouble that was going around, wel it's back with a vengeance and a number of your male classmates are now deceased and missing the family

jewels."

"But I wasn't involved in what happened to those girls…"

"Ohhh no, then why was your name included in the police reports, and your Frat house was the first one to be torn apart?"

"I was in the Frat house but I didn't rape anyone, I wasn't even there."

Fin snorted at him. "Likely story, they al tel us the same thing, come on Munch we told him let's get outta here."

"Always in such a big hurry, Mr. Matheson, no matter what you did or did not do back then we had to warn you." He puled his gloves back on and turned to Fin. "Come on

let's go home I'm cold and sick of running around this damn city." Matheson waited until they were gone before grabbing the phone and placing a cal, he twitched and looked

out the window for anyone watching him. When he heard it picked up on the other end, he whispered in a hoarse voice.

"Just what did you stir up this time; the cops were here warning me that someone wants me dead?"

"Don't worry about it, no ones coming after you. It was just a smal problem that needed taken care of." The person on the other end said and then hung up.

*****************

Olivia tried to digest and understand every thing the computer tech was teling her but it would be easier to train her to fix the Space shuttles thrusters, she knew how to turn a

PC on and type. He was getting into al kinds of stuff that made her head spin and her ears bleed, she had no idea what back doors were in the computer world or the other

things he was saying. "Detective Benson to put it simply, he hacked in to the hospitals mainframe and altered the records, you should be thankful that he didn't change the meds

to something that could have kiled you guys."

"Can you tel where al of this was done, you know the PC that was used to screw with us?"

He smiled al the way to his brown eyes. "He's good but I'm better," he typed a few lines and hit enter, a few seconds later a list came up. "Good news, wel kinda, it was al

done in this building. It was done on ADA Cabot's office computer."

"She was with me so that means the son of a bitch went back to her office." She stood up straight and looked around the room; no one fit the description of the man seen in

the security video. "Is everyone that works here in here now?"

"Yeah, there's only three of us techs period. Olivia it's none of us, we would never have left a trail behind. This person learned how to hack by spending a lot of time on-line

and chances are they got lucky making it into the hospitals system."

"OK can you put a security system type thing on Cabot's PC, you know if someone other than her uses it a flag goes up or something?"

"Have her change her password and I'l monitor her PC from here, now I won't be able to see what she sees but I'l know when it's being used and if her password has been

bypassed. Have her cal me before she leaves for the day and I'l set up my system to monitor."

Olivia ran her hand through her hair and pushed it back from her face. "I don't know if this is possible, is there a way to put a camera inside the monitor?"

"I can put a pinhole camera in the cover of the monitor; it'l be activated with movement."

"Do it and if you need a signature to get it done then I'l sign." She left the large room and headed back up to the bul pen to see if anything had come in on the case every one

was working. She jogged up the stairs and automaticaly stopped on the floor where Alex's office was, she walked down the hal and stopped when she saw her assistant

coming out of her office. "Is Ms. Cabot back from court yet?"

"I haven't seen her since she left earlier, she may stil be there." The woman said and walked away from Olivia like she hadn't even spoken at al to her. As Olivia looked into

the office, she noticed a single rose lying across a note. She moved around her desk and read the scrawled letters.

You didn't listen to me now you'l pay!

Olivia felt terror reach up and squeeze her heart, she used her cel phone and caled Eliot's desk. "Hey can you come to Alex's office, she's got another note and rose here…I

gotta go find her?"

"Wait, what do ya mean ya gotta find her, you're supposed to be guarding her?"

"She's supposed to be in court and I had to check in at computer crimes…you have to remember who I'm dealing with here."

"Yeah the one who wears the pants in the family, we'll be there in a minute, go get Alex and cuff her if you have to."

Olivia hung up and ran from the office, she charged out the door and waved down a cab to take her to the court house.

***************

Alex stormed into her apartment and threw her briefcase on the couch along with her coat and shoulder harness, next came her pumps as they flew through the air. "Fucking

assholes!" She cussed and striped out of her suit before she reached her bedroom. "How the fuck would I see their God damn files, I'm not a fucking fly on the wal!?" She

used her blouse as a whip and beat the foot of her bed with it and then threw it across the room. "I hate them with every fiber of…they blow!" She grabbed a pair of running

shorts, a hooded sweat shirt and socks from her drawer before going into the bathroom to change. She stil couldn't believe that she had been slammed in court; al she had

been asking for was the maximum of ten year sentence on a sodomy one charge. The man was a repeat offender and had to be brought back from Maine to be tried for the

charges after he ran. The Defense attorney Barrows argued that the sentence was extreme and that the case should be dropped al together because his case files had been

stolen by the ADA, they were brought before the judge and Alex received the reaming of her life. Judge Bates threatened to bring Alex before the bar and wanted to know

how she was able to get a hold of the other attorney's case files. She argued that she hadn't seen them and how it was that he thought she had them in the first place. He

handed the judge a signed affidavit from his secretary that she had seen Alex leaving his office with an arm ful of files, when asked to stop, she ran from the building and

disappeared in a cab. The judge gave Alex a look that should have fried her on the spot; he ordered a fifteen minute recess and puled both attorneys into his chambers. When

al was said and done, the trial was dismissed, Alex was on report and the judge was going to investigate her alegations that it was her stalker or his accomplice who broke into

the other attorney's office. He said he would be talking to both her boss and Captain Cragen to see if she was in fact being stalked and if so then she was to stay out of the

court room until the problem was solved. She stormed from the court house, caught a cab home and was going to run her frustrations off in the park. She knew as soon as her

lover caught up with her that she would be wishing she were in another country.

Grabbing her keys and cel phone, she slipped them in the pouch of her sweatshirt and left her apartment. As soon as she cleared the downstairs door, she set off at a fast pace

across the street and into Central Park west.

******************

Olivia slammed her hand into the court room door and cussed under her breath; she had checked every court room and stil hadn't found Alex. When she got back to Police

Plaza she would kil her lover's assistant. She had caled her to find out what court room Alex was supposed to be in and what judge was presiding over the case, the woman

gave her the wrong information and made her look like an ass. Now 30 minutes later she stil hadn't found her lover and her nerves were on their way out. She caled Eliot's

cel phone to ask him if he had heard from Alex and got a negative on that. She caled her lover's cel phone and got her voice mail, three phone cals later she was standing in

front of the court house ready to car jack someone. Finaly a taxi puled up to the curb, she jumped in and gave the driver Alex's address. What normaly took fifteen to twenty

minutes was pushing it along with Olivia's patience. She tossed some bils to the driver, jumped from the cab and started running down the sidewalk and then into the park, it

would be longer but the way traffic was, it would be quicker.

*************

Alex was stil running at a good clip on her way back towards her apartment, she had no idea how far she had run but sweat was running down her face and neck to soak into

her sweat shirt. She rounded a part in the path and dodged a slower runner and then had to slow when she came to a few kids that were just taking up space. She ran off into

the grass to get around them and then went down another path that would take her back to her apartment, she could just make out her building when she saw a hooded figure

running right at her, she veered off to the side and froze when a pistol came up to point at her chest. She raised her hands and started walking backwards thinking that maybe if

she turned and ran she could dodge a bulet. She stumbled, righted herself and then saw her lover sprinting towards her and the armed person, she opened her mouth to yel

and felt a sting in her chest. She looked down and saw red blossom and start to run down her cream colored sweatshirt, before she could look up, three more blossoms

erupted. She grabbed her chest and looked up just as Olivia slammed into the person and took them to the ground in a loud grunt. She patted her chest and then noticed that

there were no holes or extreme pain except for a stinging. "ALEX!" Olivia yeled from where she was sitting on the downed person and then looked up.

"I'm OK, its paint." She walked over to where Olivia was trying to cuff the person and picked up the pistol used to shoot her, she looked at it and cussed. "Little fucker, I

should ram this up your ass and pul the trigger!" She wanted to pul her foot back and kick the shit outta of him but knew her lover would throw a fit over the extra paperwork

and she herself didn't need any more trouble.

"Stop moving or I'l break your arms!" Olivia grunted and finaly got the cuffs on; she looked up and saw Alex looking down at her. "Are you sure you're OK, I…damn it

Aly…"

"You can yel at me later, right now I think we need to cal for a car and get this smuck to the bul pen." She stepped back when Olivia got to her feet and dropped her foot in

the center of the person's back.

"Ohhh you can bet your ass I'm gonna yel at you," she puled her cel phone free and hit speed dial to Eliot's desk, when she got no answer, she caled Cragen. She winced

when he yeled at her for letting Alex escape her protection and then hung up. "I take it al back, dads gonna kil us both and I don't wanna die being mad at you."

"How sweet, no wonder the boss wants you dead, fucking gay cop and ADA." Her prisoner said from where his face was pressed in the grass and cried out when she put

more pressure on his back.

"Shut the fuck up you'l have plenty of time to talk once I get your ass in to the station."

*************

"This is like never ending isn't it," Fin said and pointed to the punk in the interrogation room. "This is what three assholes so far that've tried to get to Alex?"

"Ohhh he got me alright," Alex said and pointed to her chest. "Little bastard got me four times to be exact, good thing it was just a paintbal gun." She nodded her head to the

punk in the room. "Has he said anything helpful like who in the Hel sent him after me?"

Cragen shook his head at her. "Nothing yet, he's just been spouting off at the mouth caling us al fucking pigs, he's so original." They al watched as Olivia and Jeffries walked

into the room and stood looking down at him, Cragen figured that since he had a problem with women, who better to send in to question him.

**************

"What a piece of work you are," Monique remarked and dropped down on the edge of the table. "Dressed like a bad ass gang member complete with colors, you know that

there aren't any gangs where you were?"

"What ya think we just hang out in one part of town, get real bitch?"

Monique laughed and then slammed her hand down on the table in front of him. "Listen you shit head, next time watch a damn documentary, your colors are fake so stop the

gang bang shit and tel me who sent you after ADA Cabot."

"I ain't teling ya shit, go fuck yourself bitch! He flipped her off, puled his hood over his eyes and sat slouched down in the chair. As soon as he was settled, she kicked the

chair backwards and watched him struggle to get on his feet. "Cal me a bitch again and I'l put a bulet between your eyes!"

"Fuck you I want my lawyer!"

"Too late asshole," Olivia said and dragged him to his feet. "You waived your rights, now who sent you after the ADA?"

"Send her in and I'l tel ya, after al it's her ass that's gonna end up in a ditch somewhere."

Olivia looked to the one way mirror and back to Monique. "It's just gotta be the blonde thing," she went to the door and looked to Cragen. "What do ya want us to do?"

"It's up to you Alex; you wanna talk to the asshole?"

"Maybe we can put an end to al of this shit and I can go back to a somewhat normal life." She walked past Olivia and into the room, she held the punks eyes and stood next

to Monique. "Who sent you after me, if you tel me I'l put in a good word with the DA?"

"Al I'm gonna tel you is the message I was supposed to pass along. Next time it'l be a real gun and you won't be so lucky."

"Sorry that just won't do," She narrowed her eyes and looked over the tops of her glasses. "Who sent you?"

He jumped up and punched her in the jaw hard enough that she fel sideways into Monique, the whole time yeling at the tops of his lungs that she was a dead woman. The next

instant he was picked up and slammed into the wal, Olivia rammed her knee into his crotch and bounced his head off the wal again before Eliot and Monique could pul her

off him. He fel to the floor and lay gasping for breath and clutching his crotch. Eliot carried Olivia out of the room and put her down in the corner so that he could keep her

from charging back into the room. The expression on her face sent shivers up his spine; he had never seen her react like she just did and wondered if she didn't need some time

off. When he felt a hand touch his arm, he stepped back and let Alex take his place. What he saw amazed him, with one touch from Alex, his partner was calmed and sliding

down the wal to sit on the floor. "What were you doing in there?" Alex asked in a deep whisper. "What if he presses charges against you for police brutality?"

"I don't care," Olivia replied and touched the bruise forming on her lovers jaw. "He attacked you twice and…"

Cragen came from the interrogation room and pointed at the women. "Benson you're off this case, Alex get her home and don't either one of you step outside unless your

buildings on fire! And I'm gonna have a word with Liz, she shouldn't of had you in here today. I hate having a judge cal me and get his nose in my cases; Bates is an asshole of

the first order." He turned to leave and then turned back to Alex. "You knew that you weren't supposed to go anywhere without Olivia, what were you thinking?"

"I wasn't, I was pissed and if Bates caled you then you know why I was pissed, this asshole is fucking up my life and career. If I can't prove that I didn't steal those damn files

then I'l be waiting tables at some bar after my jail sentence is up." She stood up and reached down for Olivia's hand. "We're going home but somebody better find out whose

after me or I'm gonna go postal and just start shooting." She grabbed Olivia's hand and puled her from the room with everyone watching.

"What is up with your partner, she busted that perps gonads quick?" Fin asked. "But ya know I don't know whose more dangerous, her or her girl Alex, she sure can take a

punch." He walked away shaking his head.

"They're both scary as far as I'm concerned," Eliot said to no one in particular. "Let's get that asshole in the tombs, Monique wanna do the deed of dragging his ass outta there

while I grab his file?"

"It'd be my pleasure; he may just have to crawl al the way."

*******************

Olivia checked a sedan out for their ride home, she figured that if anyone needed the car they could come and get it. There was no way that they were taking a taxi and

opening themselves up as targets after al that had happened in a few short hours. She was about to get into the car when Alex took the keys from her hand and pushed her in.

"I'm driving, with the way you were in the interrogation room; you may just loose it and run people over just for the Hel of it." She crawled into the car and caught obsidian

eyes glaring at her. "You're not about to beat me to it, I wanna take out as many assholes as I can before I go to jail for something I didn't do." She slammed the car door and

started the car. "As far as I'm concerned today, there are no innocent people!" She made good time on their way to her apartment, she used both the flashing strobe lights and

siren to get through the traffic jams and snarled and growled the entire way. It was so out of character for the cool ADA that her lover kept an eye on her until they parked on

the street right in front of her building.

"You drive worse than Eliot," she got out of the sedan and heard the locks click after Alex hit the button on the door. "We need ta talk Aly," she waited for her lover to round

the car and join her on the sidewalk. "And I wanna know why your assistant sent me on a wild goose chase?" She folowed Alex into her building and then to her apartment,

she noticed a large garbage can across from her door and from the heavy scent of flowers, she knew what it was for. "Looks like the asshole is stil at it, anymore flowers at

your office?"

"No idea," she unlocked her door, stepped inside and heard al the locks go home after Olivia closed the door. "I'm fucked Liv, the judge wants me barred and this asshole

wants me dead." A lump formed in her throat, tears filed her pale eyes and started to trail down across her cheeks, she never cried but wanted to just fal down and weep. She

puled her sweatshirt off, tossed it on the floor and dropped onto her couch. As soon as Olivia wrapped her arms around her and puled her tight against her body, the damn

broke and sobs tore at her chest. Olivia just held her and felt her own tears trail down her face to drip into her lover's hair. She felt her lover's pain as if it were her own, she

had to find out who was doing al of this even if it meant going against Cragen's orders. They both woke a few hours later, cramped and stiff from the way they had falen

asleep on the couch. Alex shivered when Olivia moved her arm and cold air touched her bare back, moving closer to her lover, she pushed them down further into the

cushions. "What time is it?" She tried to look at Olivia's large silver watch and blinked her bloodshot eyes a few times to focus. "I can't read it and it doesn't realy matter

because I know it's late and I'm starving." She groaned and roled off onto the floor and then puled herself up to stand hunched over. "This wil be a day you never forget, your

dirty, sweaty girlfriend crying al over you and turning you into a cripple by smashing you into the couch cushions."

Olivia stretched out on the couch and gave her a crooked grin before winking. "I happen to like you al sweaty, you OK?" She got off the couch and puled Alex into her arms.

"You know I'm gonna get the son of a bitch whose doing al of this, if I have to haul everyone in the building in, I'l do it."

"Liv right now I'm not worried about that," She nipped at the tender skin beneath her lover's ear. "I know you'l get whoever's doing this, right now I want a shower and food."

She placed a lingering kiss to Olivia's lips and then left her to head to her shower. "Would you order us something while I take a shower, my refrigerators a barren place?"

"Any preference, ya know Chinese, Tai, or Italian?"

"Your choice," she yeled from the bathroom and then hung out the door. "Look in the end drawer there; I've got al the menus for take-out food." A corner of her mouth curled

up when Olivia's eyes wandered down to her breasts and stayed there. "Now I know your weakness, it's realy not my legs is it?"

"You're my weakness, every single inch of you." She blinked and shook her head. "If we weren't ordering food, I'd join you in the shower and prove it to ya." She ran the tip

of her tongue over her upper lip and wiggled her right eyebrow. "But afterwards there's not a deal you could make me that would keep me from licking every inch of your

body." She smiled at the quick blush that raced up her lover's chest to color her cheeks.

"I'm gonna take my shower…you…God" she shook her head, waved a hand and went back into the bathroom and turned the shower to a cooler temperature.

Olivia puled a menu from the drawer and placed an order for them, she knew that the person probably thought that she was ordering for the NY Mets but she hadn't eaten

anything al day and Alex was always hungry. Checking her watch, she walked towards the bedroom while puling off her gun, badge and then her shirt. She ran her fingers

across her hip and winced from pain, her holster had left a nice sized crease in her skin and a smal bruise. Stripping down to just her underwear, she searched through her

lover's closet until she found a man's old button down shirt. Thinking twice, she slipped her underwear off and went trough the connecting bathroom door. She would have to

control herself and hoped that her wil was strong when faced with a wet and soapy Alex. Climbing into the shower behind her lover, she pressed against her back and felt her

wil circle the drain. "We've got maybe 45 minutes to play before our foods here." She said in a deep purr and ran her hands down the front of her lover's body to linger on her

stomach and then delve deeper when Alex pushed her hands lower.

"45 minutes is more than enough time, you have this power over me that with just one look, I'm wet." She moaned when long fingers slipped between her folds and teased her

center. "Two minutes…three tops…" she wrapped one arm behind her and tangled her fingers in Olivia's hair. "I've fantasized about this al day." She turned in Olivia's arms.

Slipped her thigh between hers and brought them together in a deep consuming kiss that had them both faling sideways against the shower wal. Hands roamed across wet

skin, hips thrust and ground slowly against flexing thighs. Olivia moaned when the flesh at the side of her neck was puled between even teeth and then sucked hard. The slight

pain went straight to her center and made her thrust harder; she gripped her lover's shoulders and shook when her climax overtook her. Alex felt hot juices pour out over her

thigh she moaned and sucked harder when, Olivia's bucking against her took her closer to the edge. She puled back a bit and looked at her lover's flushed face and parted

lips, when her eyes opened and showed blazing red orbs, she knew it would be a long and very satisfying night. When Olivia sunk to her knees and buried her face between

her thighs, she gasped and tried to keep from faling. She placed one leg over her lover's shoulder and thrust forward when her warm wet tongue plunged deep inside and then

puled out to lavish attention on her throbbing clit. Blindly reaching out to the wal, she braced herself as wave upon wave crashed over her. When she opened her eyes again,

they were cuddled in the corner of the shower with warm water washing over them. "What you do to me." She whispered and brought their foreheads together. "I love you

Olivia." She looked into her eyes and saw her future. "Let's take this to our bed, I'm feeling a little water logged."

"I love you too and not only water logged but my ass is cold." She tilted her head to the side and listened; someone was pounding on the apartment's door. "Shit that must be

our supper." They crawled from the shower and slipped and slid al the way to the bedroom, Olivia grabbed up the shirt she had gotten earlier and puled it on. She headed to

the front door and clutched the shirt closed before opening it. As she puled it open, she yeled to Alex. "Baby get my walet from my pants pocket!" When she turned her eyes

to the person standing in the doorway, she felt her heart stop and al the air in her lungs gush out. "Liz…shit," she looked to the side and saw the delivery boy with their supper

and held up a finger. "Just a minute," she felt Alex come up behind her and fal into her back from shear shock.

"Liz what are you doing here?" Alex said in a forced breath and waved her boss in. "We were Uhhmm…" she puled her robe closed tighter and handed Olivia her walet.

"Damn."

"This is quite a surprise Alex," she turned with a raised eyebrow and a smirk. "I never expected to see a half naked Detective Benson answer your door." She dropped her

briefcase onto the couch, puled her calf length coat off and watched Olivia carry the bags of food to the kitchen and then disappear into what she assumed was the bedroom.

"Sorry to interrupt your dinner but I came over to see what the Hel is going on with Judge Bates, he caled me today and threatened to drag me in front of the disciplinary

board for your high jinx?" She watched as Alex tried to finger comb her wet hair and act normaly. "Wil you stop already, you're acting like a teenager that's been caught by her

parents."

"Good then I'm right on target," She moved to the kitchen and grabbed a bottle of Scotch from the cabinet. "Can I offer you a drink; I've got Scotch, Vodka and red wine?"

"Scotch, I like the color, it seems richer some how." At that moment, Olivia came from the bedroom in a pair of Alex's shorts and brushing her hair. "At least now I don't have

to worry about you not being safe from who ever." She took the offered glass and waved a hand at Olivia. "Don't let me stop you, go on and get your supper." She held back a

chuckle when Alex dragged Olivia into the kitchen; she roled her eyes when she heard whispering. "Ohhh for God sakes Alex I don't care about your love life, its work that

concerns me."

Alex dropped her head in relief; she thought that this was the end for her and her career. Squeezing her lover's hand, she leaned in for a quick kiss and went back out with two

plates of food in her hand. "Have some supper, we have plenty and I know you haven't eaten yet today." She took a seat on the love seat, placed her dish on the coffee table

and took the glass of Pepsi that Olivia brought out to her. "So now I know that Bates caled both you and Cragen, what did he say?"

Liz chewed the sweet and sour pork that filed her mouth and swalowed before speaking. "First, why in the Hel were you in the office, I told you not to come back until

everything was solved?"

Alex puled her briefcase across to her, opened the side pouch and puled a hand written letter out. "You left this on my desk." She handed it to her boss and then sat back with

her plate on her lap.

Alex,

We're jammed up; I need you to take the Sandborn case in the morning.

Liz

"Wel this is interesting," she waved the paper and placed it on the table. "It's real close to my handwriting but I didn't write it," she pointed to the center of the page. "There's

no water seal on it either, so who ever wrote it doesn't know about my personal letter head."

Alex let her head fal back with a groan; she turned her head to look at her lover. "I was set up again, what's next for this asshole to do to me?" She continued to look at Olivia

and play with the dark hair that brushed her colar.

"Hopefuly I'l have a suspect nailed and in the interrogation room, I had the computer tech guy put a tiny camera in your monitor. Hopefuly he swapped it out today and no

one's the wiser."

Liz chuckled and shook her head in amazement; this was a side of Alex that she knew she would have never seen if not for coming over unannounced. Her ADA was in fact

human and not as prickly as she thought she was, she looked to the couple and smiled. She couldn't think of anyone other than Olivia who was an equal to Alex. "OK so what

else have you found out about this stalker and how are they managing to pul so much shit without anyone catching them?"

Olivia took a drink of her Pepsi and set it on the table before answering. "I think that whoever it is doing al of this, is hiring these skel's to do the dirty work and then when the

time is right, they swoop in at the end." She gave her lover's thigh a light squeeze before looking back to Liz. "And when that happens I'm gonna take the asshole down, I'm

tired of the games and I know Alex is as wel. Now I have al the time in the world to look into this and lurk in the shadows."

Alex looked to her boss and shrugged her shoulders. "Cragen ordered us both back here and not to leave unless the building was on fire but everyone knows that it won't last,

only if they chain us to a wal in the tombs." She looked to her lover and let one corner of her lip raise and wickedness show in her eyes. "I know a few judges that would be

ecstatic with the idea of me locked up."

Liz snickered and nodded her head, she knew of a dozen people right off the top of her head that would love to see her ADA locked up. The worst part was that they weren't

criminals but other attorneys, cops and a few expert witnesses. "From now on unless I tel you right to your face, you are not to believe anything in note form with my signature

on it that is until after this shithead is caught." She finished her supper and got up to carry her plate into the kitchen; she rinsed it and placed it in the sink before going back into

the living room. "Thank you for dinner and the Scotch; if I need you I wil cal you. Do not under any circumstance make yourself a target or I wil personaly put you in the

tombs." She grabbed her brief case, her coat and let herself out of the apartment. Alex put her plate on the table along with Olivia's and puled her up from the love seat, after

locking al the locks on the door and placing the steel bar in it's holder, she started towards the bedroom.

"We have some unfinished business in the bedroom," She untied her robe and let it drop to the floor on her way to the bedroom, she heard a low moan and then a hand run

down to caress her ass. "So it's my ass you're always checking out?"

"Ohhh yeah especialy when you wear those grey slacks and that jacket that doesn't come down over your hips, but then you know al of this because you always catch me."

"And that's exactly why I make sure I stand right in front of you." She pushed Olivia back on the bed, flipped the light off and crawled on top of her. "We are not answering

the phone, the door or anything else until noon."

*******************

OK people what've ya got?" Cragen asked and dropped down on the edge of Munch's desk and watched Monique wave a paper at him.

"Late shift caught someone wandering around one of our possible victims place last night, she's down in the tombs and you'l never guess who it is?" She waited and knew that

her partners were ready to strangle her. "John's girlfriend the wino."

Fin chuckled and looked to his partner. "You're kidding right, damn Munch you must have made quite the impression on her."

Munch snorted and waved a hand at them. "It must have been my expertise with mixing MD 20/20 and Boones Farm, so why'd they haul her in?"

"Says here that she refused to leave the area and she flashed 'em." Monique handed the paper to Cragen and leaned against the edge of her desk. "From what the uniforms

described, if it'd been me, I woulda capped her ass." She saw the raised brow look her captain gave her. "She was giving them a striptease and they said that the stench that

came off her made their eyes burn and their noses run. It was so bad that they caled for a wagon because they didn't want her in the back seat of their cruiser."

"Is she stil down in the tombs?"

"Yeah until she gets arraigned this morning, you wanna put a hold on it?"

Cragen nodded his head at her. "Go down there and bring her up here for questioning, it's a little strange that she was at this guy's building." He pointed a finger at everyone

else. "What else we got?"

Stabler leaned back in his chair and rubbed his hands together. "Everything else comes up blank, we've checked al the rape crisis places and gone by Cabot's notes but

nothing panned out. I'm thinking that maybe the victims were paid to remain silent and al records were shredded, so I was thinking about getting a hold of the colege funds

records for the years we think this happened?"

"We'l have to get a warrant for al that," he rubbed his bald head and sighed, as much as he hated to do it he was going to cal Alex in. "Get a hold of Benson; have her bring

Alex in for the warrants and tel her I need her dressed as an ADA." He saw the looks between his detectives and shook his head. "Her in blue jeans and a sweatshirt ain't

gonna do it for this. And there's only one other ADA I trust besides Alex and that's Abbie Carmichael, unfortunately she doesn't work for us anymore. Get on it and let me

know if ya get anything." He went back to his office and picked up the phone to return Liz's cal, he had been checking on other things when she had caled and he was curious

as to what his two trouble makers had done this time. "Liz its Don, what can I do for you?"

"For starters find out who in the Hell is stalking my ADA and then find out who is forging letters from me."

"I'm working on the first thing but the second I had no idea about, explain to me about this forging of your name." He listened as she explained about the note that was left for

Alex the day she was attacked in the park and the two other notes she just happened to find in Alex's filing cabinet. She remembered the instances where she had chewed on

her ass royaly for puling a stupid stunt and blew Alex off when she swore up and down that she had told her to get the warrants and run rampant al over another ADA's

cases. She almost fired her for accusing her of being a senile mean spirited bitch; she had bit her tongue and ordered Alex from her office before they both did something

regrettable. "OK I'l see what I can do and just so you know I'm having her and Benson come in to question a suspect and issue some warrants."

"When they get in, have Alex come by my office, I have some files I need her to look at."

"OK it's as good as done." He hung up the phone and rubbed his face, the stalker business was making so many twists and turns that he had no idea where in the Hel it was

going. What realy concerned him was the threat on Alex's life, neither woman had come right out and said it but he had a good idea that it was because of their relationship.

He rubbed his eyes and got up from his desk, he needed to move around or go nuts waiting for something else to happen.

***********

Olivia limped up the stairs behind her lover and couldn't help but watch her ass move beneath her grey slacks and grin like an idiot. She almost ran into her when she stopped

and looked over her shoulder. "Stop it." She started back up the stairs and looked over her shoulder again. "Just stop it." Alex knew damn wel that her lover was thinking of

the bite marks she had left on her ass and that she was gritting her teeth with each step she took. She had woke that morning to her lover licking and nipping her back and

almost shredded her sheets when she worked her way lower. What they had done in the hours before being caled into work was nothing compared to the night before, she

could honestly say that they were kinky. Olivia had found out just how adept she was with restraining someone when she found herself handcuffed to the headboard.

"Ya know even with wearing my coat on I can stil see everything."

"That's because you're a few steps lower and I mean that in al departments, I never knew you were so…"

"Perverted," she winked and limped faster up the stairs so that they were side by side. "I'm only that way with you and I wasn't the one reading the Miranda or using handcuffs,

I only used ice cubes."

Alex stopped, turned to look at her lover and she gave the smal smile that was reserved for when she was about to slam someone on the stand. "And if I'm ever asked about

that by anyone, I wil say it was al your idea, now let's go see Liz first and then I'l get the warrants for Eliot." She gave Olivia a wink before brushing fingertips with her and

then moving down the halway towards her boss's office. "We're just freaks and I'l show you how freaky I can get…later." She whispered in a hoarse whisper and saw sparks

of arousal flash in her lover's eyes.

*************

Cragen stood looking through the one way at the wino, he hardly recognized her from the last time they had her in the room. She had to be realy bad if they cleaned her up

down in the tombs, usualy they left the same way they came in. What surprised him was that she was a lot younger than thought at first. With the dirt and grime gone and clean

clothes, she looked to be in her early 20's. With the squeak of the outer door he turned to see Olivia and Alex. "Good of you to join us this lousy day," he pointed to where

Munch was leaning against the wal staring the wino down. "They brought her in last night; she was lurking around one of the men that we're trying to protect."

"And she did what, brandish a knife and admitted to the other crimes?" Alex asked and dropped her briefcase to the floor, after her meeting with Liz, she just wanted to go

home and cuddle in bed with her lover not play 20 questions with a drunk.

"She refused to leave and stripped for the uniforms, they brought her in because she was being a nuisance. What we wanna know is why she was there; it's quite a walk from

where she witnessed the other crime to where she was last night. She was in Staten Island, that's just too much of a coincidence."

Alex looked through at the woman and then to Cragen. "And you want me to do what?"

"Nothing for her, we need a warrant to get the colege financial records; Stabler seems to think that they paid off the rape victims."

Alex narrowed her eyes and shook her head. "You would have to have the financial records of the victims as wel as the colege; we need something to compare them to." She

raised her hand and pointed to Cragen. "That's not guaranteeing that anything wil show up or that a judge would sign off on the warrant to begin with. What about this wino

here, if she was booked then that means they have her prints, run her and see if anything comes up." She saw the grin and sparkles in her lover's eyes and knew that she was

thinking the same thing.

"If she hauled her ass al the way to Staten Island then she's got to be involved somehow." Olivia said, left the room and headed out to her desk to make the cal downstairs to

the booking sergeant.

Cragen took in the dark stripes below the ADA's eyes and the slouching shoulders. "You look warn out Alex, what in the world have you been doing?"

"Worrying," she lied, there was no way she was going to tel him that she only had a few hours of sleep because of the sexual Olympics she and Olivia had. "Look at al the shit

that's been faling on me and it's only getting worse, I promised myself that I wouldn't become a victim in al of this and that's exactly what I'm becoming. I can't even go for a

run in the park without someone trying to shoot me," she puled the top of her white blouse to the side and showed him the bruises from the paintbals. "Those things hurt like a

bitch and now I'm carrying to protect myself from this invisible chicken shit asshole who wants me dead." She puled back her coat to show both Glocks in shoulder holsters.

"You do have a permit for those and a carrying concealed weapon license," he saw her rol her eyes and then flipped her badge case over to show her permit. "Just checking,

be careful Alex I don't want anything happening to you." He looked her right in the eye and tried to convey his feelings. "I know that no one would be able to stop Olivia from

kiling if you got hurt, I know how important you are to her, she showed that yesterday." He grinned when her color grew deeper. "By the way, the punk took the deal Liz

handed to him; he won't be out until he's ready to colect social security."

"But he was only going to be charged for assaulting an officer of the court, what did she do?" She was curious as to what her boss had puled over on the punk and his

attorney.

"After slamming the door so hard that the wals shook, she started making up charges before she was even into the room. His lawyer's head was spinning so fast with her

words that he threw his hands in the air for her to stop. The punk had priors of assault and battery and a few other misdemeanors but she threw a premeditated something or

another on the table with special circumstances of malicious assault, attempted murder and I can't remember what else."

Alex shook her head and grinned. "Who was the kid's idiot lawyer, and attempted murder?"

"Never saw the guy before but he was shaking so bad that I thought he was gonna pass out, your boss is a scary women when pissed off, she told me that the attempted

murder was what would of happened if it had been her out there, she would have dropped from a heart attack."

"Believe me, I was close, if not for Liv who knows what else would have happened to me." He saw the sparkle in her eye and knew how deep her relationship with his

detective was.

**************

Olivia came up the stairs with the rap sheet and other printouts from the booking room; she shook her head in anger. They hadn't even bothered to run her through the

computer because she was a witness to a crime and a homeless person. She walked into the bul pen and waved the paper at Eliot. "Take a look at this and tel me what you

see." She dropped down on the edge of his desk and watched his eyes browse over the pages.

"Katrina Perkins, she's been arrested a couple times for picketing abortion clinics…picketing experimental labs that use animals…chained herself to a buldozer, that's radical.

Ohhh Hel Liv, she works at a rape clinic on the campus grounds, which means…"

"That she knows about what happened in 96 because she found the files in her office," she slapped hands with him and went back to where her lover and Cragen were stil

talking. "I think we've got our kiler," she stepped right beside Alex and discreetly tangled their fingers. "For the second time around."

"Son of a bitch!" Cragen growled, waved at Eliot and left the women standing alone.

Alex looked around before bringing Olivia's hand up to place a kiss on her palm. "So what do you guys need from me?"

"I know what I need but I think Eliot and the other's are gonna want a search warrant for Perkin's apartment and her office at the rape clinic." She leaned into Alex's side and

breathed in her spicy perfume.

"I thought you were one of the primaries on this one?"

"Was, is the operative word, remember I'm only you're body guard." She winked and ran her tongue over her upper lip. "How have I been doing in that area?"

"You won't hear any complaints from me, now I think I have a warrant to get ready so that means you have to come with me."

"And watch your ass the entire way," she looked around them and leaned forward for a soft lingering kiss. "I just hope we can bust your stalker and get back to somewhat

normal lives, not like I'm not enjoying this one but I wanna be able to take you out and not worry about someone jumping us."

"Yeah that kinda blows, I hate getting jumped." She ran her foot up the inside of Olivia's leg and watched her eyes catch fire. "If you're up for it we can have a romantic night

out tonight?" She bumped hips with her lover and whispered in her ear. "I was thinking of having it on my tiny ass little balcony, my huge ass BBQ, some Nathan's hot dogs and

Mac and Cheese?"

"Ohhh so you're gonna cook for me tonight, no take out and ain't kinda cold for a BBQ?"

"My stove hates me ever since it caught on fire, now it only let's me heat water for tea, besides, hot dogs taste so much better off the gril." She slipped past Olivia and walked

slowly to the door that would take them to the bul pen. "We'l have to stop at the market on the way home and pick up the stuff we need and I want some good beer and

that's your job."

Olivia walked beside her and gave her a quick grin. "Ohhh I get to buy the beer, you want that snobby micro beer or real beer like Sam Adams?"

"I said you get to pick the beer," she smacked her in the leg with her leather briefcase. "Any kind of beer except that nasty ass Schlitz Natural Ice, Milwaukee's Best or Roling

Rock." She saw Olivia's brow wrinkle and a look of pure disgust come over her face.

"And just when did you fal down in the gutter and drink that stuff, that has got to be three of the vilest beers you can get, I always thought of you as the micro beer type?"

"When you're in school and al you've got is a few bucks for beer, that's what you get stuck with and if you ever tel anyone, I'l tel the bul pen you have little L's and R's on the

toes of your socks."

"I don't have letters on my socks…"

"But they don't know that now do they?" Alex gave her a wicked smirk and raised one dark eyebrow.

"My God you're evil and I thought you went to boarding school?"

"I did, so you can imagine what we went through to get beer and stealing the wine from the church was forgotten after we tasted it. I think turpentine would have been healthier

than the shit they used for communion."

"So the janitor got you guy's beer and charged ya to do it huh, I woulda done it for say…" she leaned in so that her breath was ruffling the hair at her lover's ear. "Your panties."

She reached into her coat pocket and cussed under her breath. "Ya took 'em back, that's not fair."

"You're just mad because I took away your fantasy prop, remind me to stop by my office and get the rest of my clothes, I'm running low and going commando is…gross and

very uncomfortable."

*****************

Munch and Fin walked into the apartment of Katrina Perkins, what first caught their attention were the piles of picket signs in the corner and then the posters covering the

wals. It looked more like an office for political activism then someplace where someone slept. "Would ya look at this shit," Fin lifted a page from a stack of papers. "Chemical

castration, do you trust the rapist to take his medication blahblahblah?"

Munch looked up from where he was searching a desk drawer. "She's got a point there; if they don't take their meds then they're not castrated. But then if they do take their

meds to prove that they are folowing the rules, al they have to do to reverse it is take testosterone shots."

"Either way the sick fucks are back on the street and to their sick games, they should just cut their nuts off and be done with it; maybe Alex can request it the next time?"

"And make it world war III between her, Jeffries and Benson to see who gets the primal joy of the deed of hacking and slashing the family jewels off?" He shook his head and

then gave his partner his trade mark smirk. "We could sel tickets to that." He puled open another drawer and grinned. "Ohhh just look what we have here," he used two

fingers of his gloved hand to lift the knife out of the file folder he had found in the drawer. "I'd say this is filed properly under…" he looked at the tab on the folder. "Scum

sucking rapist, catchy phrasing; cal Cragen and tel him what we got while I bag and tag."

******************

Cragen stepped from his office, looked around and then saw Jeffries coming from the coffee room; he waved at her and pointed to the interrogation room. "Find your partner,

Benson and Cabot; we've got the possible murder weapon and a whole bunch of other shit from the suspect's apartment. See if you can get a confession outta her while the

labs testing the knife for blood and what ever else they need." He turned and started back to his office when he saw Alex and Olivia coming back into the bul pen, what he

didn't expect were the trash bags and suit bags in their hands. "Please tel me that you're not moving into the crib?"

"What…no, these are the clothes I had in my office." Alex felt her face heating up. "I never got the chance to take them home with al that's been going on and…" She stopped

when he ducked his head and raised a hand at her.

"I don't need to know, you two check with Monique, we have the possible murder weapon from Perkins apartment."

Alex dropped her bags near her lover's desk and looked to where she knew the Perkins woman was behind the interrogation room door, she found it hard to believe that they

may have solved a case on strictly luck. She wondered if the women hadn't planned this al along to see how long she could play with the detectives before getting caught. She

pushed her glasses up on top of her head and pinched the bridge of her nose. "I want her Mirandized again; I don't want anything to go wrong where we lose her." She puled

her hand away and looked from Cragen to her lover.

Olivia found it a little spooky that she could change from her lover to ADA Alex Cabot in the blink of an eye, even her mannerisms changed. Her back straightened, jaw flexed

and her eyes grew to a lighter shade of blue. "OK then lets see what we can do here." She slipped her glasses back down and walked with the click of her heels towards the

interrogation room. Knocking twice on the door, she opened it and walked in ahead of Olivia. She looked to Monique and then took a seat across from Perkins. "Would one

of you read Miss. Perkins her rights?" She looked around for her brief case and remembered laying it on her lover's desk. "Shit…" she whispered and was part way up from

her chair when Olivia touched her shoulder and placed her brief case on the table for her. "Thanks…Detective Benson," she puled out a pad of paper, laid it on the table and

then waited for Olivia to read Perkins her rights. She wasn't surprised to hear her wave them and spout off about the rights of the rape victims. Alex just gazed at her and let

the corners of her lips arch a bit, crossing her legs; she continued to watch her until she shut up. "Are you quite done now, I have other things to do today besides listen to

whiny little piss ants make excuses for their irrational behavior." She placed one hand on the table and leaned towards the woman. "You know that what you did is just as bad

as the original crime, you almost got away without paying, just like they did and if you would have come to us with the information you had, we could have put those men away

for what they did."

Perkins roled her brown eyes and snorted. "Get real; the statute of limitations was up on that crime. You know damn wel that it would have been covered up again, those

assholes with al the money always get away Scott free. Throw a few checks here; throw some there and bingo, no more problem." She leaned in and looked directly into pale

blue eyes. "What would your lover do if it was you that got raped and tossed to the side?"

A slight flicker came to pale blue eyes and then left, Alex leaned back in her chair and felt Olivia's fingers brush her back. "This isn't about me; this is about you and what you

did."

"What slicing their dicks off," she let out a burst of laughter that was deep and humorless. "They deserved more but I just didn't have the time." She leaned back I her chair and

looked to each of the three women for the first time before smiling wickedly. "How special, I get Charlie's Angels. Are al the men afraid to come in here now that they know

who I am?"

"They're busy off doing something else," Olivia said from where she stood behind Alex. "So why did you take justice into your own hands and why wait al this time to go after

those men?"

"Ohhh please you know why I did it and no one has answered my question yet, what would you do if your lover there was raped and no one was brought to justice?" She

watched Olivia's expression change and knew she had her off balance. "You would do the same thing I did; you're not much different than I am." She laughed and slapped the

table when Olivia left the room. "Touched a raw nerve there, she's too sensitive you need a tougher girlfriend."

Monique looked to Alex and then to Perkins. "Shut the fuck up, go ahead Alex I'l watch this sick bitch." She tossed a note pad and pen at her. "Write your statement down."

She crossed her arms over her chest and kept an eye on her as Alex left the room to go after her lover.

Alex met Cragen in the doorway and waved a hand at the door. "I'm going for the Murder in the first with the death penalty on that one, no deals or anything; did you see Liv?"

"Check the bathroom; she was headed in that direction. I'l have them put Perkins back in the tombs and get the bal moving with everything else."

*************

Olivia slammed her hand into the wal ignoring the stinging of her palm, next came the toe of her foot until tears flowed down her cheeks, she then wiped at them with the back

of her hand. When she heard the hinges of the door squeak, she took a deep breath and was about to turn around when two arms wrapped around her from behind. She

stiffened at first and then relaxed when Alex whispered in her ear. "It's alright I'm here." She held her and rested her chin on her shoulder.

"She's right I'm not much different than her…I could be violent, I have been." she turned to face her lover. "If it's hereditary then I'm fucked." She whispered hoarsely and tried

to pul out of her lover's arms. "Please Aly let me go…I have to go." She puled free and ran from the bathroom leaving a confused and hurt Alex watching the door swing

closed.

"Damn it!" She ran her hands through her hair and left the bathroom to look for her lover. She looked around the bul pen and saw Jeffries coming back in and walked quickly

over to her. "Did you see Liv…she…fuck!" She puled her glasses off and stuck them in her pocket before going over to where her stuff was by her lover's desk. Grabbing a

black duffle bag, she puled her cel phone out and dialed Olivia's cel phone number. She let it ring for a dozen times before she hung up the phone.

"Alex what happened in there?" Monique asked and placed a hand on her shoulder. "I've seen her mad before but the haunted look in her eyes is new, what did she say?"

"She had to go…that's what she said, I have to go." She placed her hands on her hips and looked to the floor. "Where…where would she go?"

"Wait right here, don't go anywhere without me." She said and then ran to Cragen's office to tel him where she was going and with whom; she knew he would throw a fit if she

just took off. When she came back out, she found Alex slumped in Olivia's chair with her head in her hands. She placed a hand on the ADA's shoulder and leaned down next

to her ear. "I'm not sure where to look but I'l take you to her place first." She waited for Alex to get up and then helped her with al the bags. "When we find her you gotta let

me kick her ass at least once."

"It was something Perkins said but I don't know why it affected her this way, son of a bitch." She mumbled under her breath. "If she's not home would you drive me around,

she may be walking off steam somewhere."

"Sure, we'l keep looking until either she cals you or we find her." She lifted more of the bags from where they sat on the floor and waited for Alex to do the same before they

left the bul pen on their mission.

*************

Olivia handed the cab driver some bils and climbed from the back seat, she had no idea why she was here except that it held pieces to her mother's past. Looking around at

the garbage filed aley ways, buildings stained from polution and other things she would rather not think about and stray dogs and cats searching through trash for food.

Stuffing her hands deep into her coat pockets, she dropped her head and took the walk that her mother had 40 some years before. She had walked this route numerous times

before and tried to imagine what her mother had gone through the night she had been brutaly attacked and raped. She stil hadn't found any answers as to why the attack

happened and now was a time that she wished the buildings would speak to her. She wanted to know if the rage that ran through the man who fathered her ran in her veins as

wel. She had read everything she could seeking the answers but they were ilusive or just not there at al. She knew that certain behaviors had been linked to hereditary or by

up bringing, but she wanted to know if she would turn violent one day. She stopped in a dark aley way and looked towards the spot that she knew to be the place where her

mother was raped and she herself conceived.

Checking for traffic, she crossed the street and took the last few steps to the same spot. She looked around and felt the chil of the air and the one in her soul wrap around her.

"Am I different then him or the same," she asked the darkness and shivered. "I see violence everyday; I wade through it and feel it seep into my pours, I have the power to kil

at my fingertips." She brought her hands up to her face and pressed her fingers over her eyes, rubbing them, she tried to blot out Perkins expressions and her manic laugh. "I

can't take the chance, I can't hurt Alex." She slumped down against the wal and felt the coldness of the stone steal into her bones. She had no idea how long she sat there but

her body ached and, considering the bad area she was in, she wondered if she would be able to catch a cab at al. Getting up from where she had been crouching, she looked

up and down the street, the flashing beer and liquor signs of a liquor store grabbed her attention and puled her closer. "I'm an adult, I'm alowed to by the stuff." She said and

breathed hot air into her chiled hands.

***************

Monique helped Alex with her bags and looked around as they went into Olivia's bedroom, after dropping the bags on her unmade bed; she snorted and pointed to the trail of

clothes leading to the bathroom. "I never took her as someone who would do that; ya know leave her clothes on the floor."

"Wel you're not wrong there, those are my clothes." She gave her a smal grin. "But she tossed 'em there." She rifled through one of her lover's drawers and puled out an old

NYPD sweat shirt and then grabbed a pair of her own faded Levis from a bag. "I'm gonna change and then we can go."

Monique shook her head and went back out to where the kitchen was; she puled open the refrigerator, grabbed a Coke and then sat down at the table. She was stil having a

time with Olivia and Alex being more than friends but knew that the two women defiantly belonged together. What had her worried was that Olivia was out wondering around

somewhere, she wasn't worried about her safety, it was hypothermia. The temperatures had been dropping al day and with it getting dark in another hour and a half, she

prayed that they found her in a bar somewhere instead of out in the cold.

"OK I'm ready," Alex said as she hopped into the kitchen puling on a pair of Olivia's Bates patrol boots. "She must never wear these ones, they're covered in dust." She puled

the zipper up the side and fastened the Velcro strap across the front.

"You two are just…I don't know." Monique shook her head and brushed her braids back over her shoulders. "I guess it's easier to share clothes with your lover when you're

the same sex, me wearing some guys underwear would be…unlikely."

Alex gave her a ful smile that had Monique puling in a deep ragged breath from shock. "But this is like a one way thing here; Liv would never be caught in one of my suits or

my pumps for that matter. This way I get ta be butch without al the shopping that would be involved." She went to the closet and puled out her lover's leather trench coat and

a pair of leather gloves she found on the top shelf. "I only know of that one bar where we have drinks every once in a while and that little hole in the wal Chinese restaurant

she likes to eat at, so where we going to look first?"

"Actualy, I don't think she'l be at either one of those places; where do you go when you need some alone time?"

"Usualy I just close my office door and sulk for an hour or so," she looked at the floor and then up at Monique. "I have no idea where she would go; we've never had this kind

of problem that I would know where she'd go."

"Then we'l just start scanning the streets and I'l make some cals to patrol cars, every cop knows your woman, if she's been seen, they'l tel me."

"So you're saying that we have no private life what's so ever if a cop sees us?"

"That's right Hip Hop, ya know the guys at the bar cal you B Felony, they say they'd risk life in jail to get your booty."

"You've seen me there?"

"Ohhh Hel yes, I almost fel over when I saw you. I was up with Fin one night and he dropped a light on you, you caused a Hel of a lot of chubs that night." Alex felt her jaw

drop and closed it after they had left Olivia's apartment. "Ya know, you surprise me the more I hang around you and don't worry about the lock picks you used on her door, I'l

never tel."

**************

Olivia had walked more blocks this night than she had since being a beat cop, her feet were cold and wet, her pant legs were frozen but the rest of her was hot. She dropped

down onto a bench at a bus stop, puled her bottle out and took a long drink. She had bought two bottles while in the liquor store but hadn't touched the second one…yet. She

knew that she was being folowed ever since she left the liquor store and knew that the homeless drunk had to be desperate to folow her so far, she was giving him a chance to

catch up just so she could scare the shit out of him. She was tired of her puppy and wanted him to run off and play in traffic somewhere or crawl back under his rock. She

screwed the cap back on her bottle, placed it between her feet and slipped a hand inside her coat. As the bum came with in a few feet, she drew her weapon and badge and

pointed them at him. "Take a hike or I'l put some holes in ya!" She slurred and blinked her eyes a few times to focus. "I ain't kidding there, now move it along!"

"Come on baby gimme some lovin," he purred and pushed his floppy hat back to show his arched black brows and twinkling brown eyes. "If you won't, I'm sure Alex wil." Fin

said and dropped down beside her. "You know you walk entirely too much for a detective and you're buying me breakfast when you get back to work."

"Why am I doin that?"

"Because I've tossed a dozen would be suitors in dumpsters since Munch dropped me off that's why." He looked out across the street and down a few blocks to see one of

their sedans coming towards them. "Do yourself a favor and talk to your girl; she's been going nuts since you took off today." He squeezed her shoulder and lumbered off

across the street to where Munch had puled up behind Jeffries and Alex.

"I can't even go fer a walk without body guards." She took a drink from her bottle and then watched as her lover got out of the car and walked towards her. "You spyin on me

to or did ya just get them ta do it?"

Alex stood in front of her and looked into her flushed face and saw the pain in her eyes. "Actualy, they caled and told us where you were, I've been worried about you. We

need to talk but first we need to get you home, you're half frozen." She reached out for the bottle and roled the paper bag down to read the label. "One thing I have to say

about you is you pick expensive Vodka to get drunk on, Grey Goose is like 30 bucks a bottle."

"And wel worth it now gimme my bottle and go home." She braced one hand on the bench and reached out with the other to where Alex was holding the bottle out of her

reach.

"Nope, you're coming home with me and I've got three cops that wil be more than happy to help me get you there." She blew out a deep breathe and dropped her head.

"Listen Liv, I don't know what's going on in your head but I love you and I wanna know what's wrong, please come home with me."

"That's right you don't know what's going on but if you hang with me, you might just see the beast and then whatcha gonna do?" She looked up with narrowed eyes and waved

a hand at her. "Go on counselor go home."

Alex turned and looked to the two sedans sitting behind her and saw the doors opening up to let the detectives out. She knew it was probably not a good idea but Olivia was

beyond reasoning with and she had no other choice. "You are a hard headed ass," she tucked the bottle in an inside pocket of her trench coat, grabbed Olivia's service

revolver and badge from the bench and held out a hand. "Come on Liv before they carry you to the car."

"Why ya doing this…I wasn't botherin no one." She stood up and took her lover's hand. "Send the Gestapo after me," she waved a finger at Munch and gave him the German

salute. "Man in black and the black man, some pair." She wobbled and fel against Alex before they got to the car. "Ya know you're mean and peoples have caled ya a bitch

before?"

"I know about al the names I've been caled," she pushed her lover into the back seat and watched as her eyes roled up in her head as she passed out. "I'm sure they'l cal me

a few more before I'm dead and buried." She got into the back seat and puled Olivia up to lean against her.

************

Alex was glad that it was dark out and that her lover lived in a quiet part of town, because Fin ended up carrying her up to her apartment and then to her bed. He shook his

head at al the bags and suit bags scattered around her bedroom, he recognized them from the bul pen and gave Alex a raised brow. "So ya movin in or what?"

"No, Monique brought me here earlier to see if Liv was here, I left everything here until I can get it home."

"Might as wel just fil her closet, the way you two bounce back and forth between apartments."

Alex gave him a confused look. "And how is it that you know this, are you guys folowing us?"

"Nope, it's the way you guys are dressed when ya come in, one day Liv's wearing silk shirts, the next," he waved a hand at Alex in the NYPD sweat shirt and patrol boots.

"You're wearing her clothes and looking like a cop, ya even wear Glocks, how many ADA's do that?" He punctuated the last with a jab of his index finger. "Now let me get

outta here before Munch goes balistic, I gotta get him some Geritol stress tabs or something." After he left, Alex locked the door and then undressed before taking care of

Olivia. She was surprised to find another bottle of liquor inside a pocket in Olivia's coat; she put the bottle of Jack Daniels on the dresser and then went to undressing her

lover. Once she had her naked, a bloodshot brown eye roled open and looked at her.

"Ya take advantage of me yet?" She asked in a gruff voice and roled to her side. "Ya know ya got a nice ass," she tried to lift her hand and touch Alex as she stepped closer

but found it impossible. "Ya paralyzed me."

"Nope, that's caled intoxication, just go to sleep Liv." She puled the blankets over her and placed an extra one on top before going into the bathroom for a hot shower. She

hoped that the hot water would ease the tight muscles in her neck and back, when stressed, she always felt like a whiplash victim. Turning the water on, she waited until it was

hot and then climbed in to let it beat on her neck and back. At the sound of the shower door sliding on its rail, she dropped her head and waited for her lover's touch.

"I'm cold," she mumbled against Alex's back and hugged her tight. "Share the love baby, lemme at the water."

Alex chuckled and turned so that the water pounded on Olivia's back, she had to admit that she was funny when wasted. "You sound like Fin and just how drunk are you?"

"He's a good teacher and I'm sobering up some, where's my bottle?"

"Ohhh no, you're not getting anymore tonight. When we're done in here we're going to bed."

Olivia turned her around so that she was able to rest her head on her chest and wrap her arms around her waist; she closed her eyes tight and prayed for the room to stop

spinning. "Shouldn't have drank that stuff, why'd you come looking for me?"

"Because, what did you expect me to do, let you wander around out in the cold over something a sick bitch said?"

"But she's right," she puled from her lover's arms and got out of the shower. "I'm like her and there's nothing I can do about it." She walked dripping water al the way to the

kitchen and searched the refrigerator for something to drink, grabbing a bottle of water; she opened it and drank half before putting it back. "I could flip out, slap ya around

and then rape ya just like dear old dad!" She searched through her cabinets and puled out a bag of sea salt and vinegar chips. "So whatcha say ta that Aly?"

Alex stopped in front of her took the chips from her hand and handed her a robe and a towel. "I say you better start at the beginning and tel me what this is al about, I'm not a

mind reader." She got the bottle of water from the refrigerator, handed it and three aspirins to her lover. "Now take those, they'l help with your hang over in the morning." She

went to the cabinets, puled out some cans and then what she could find that was stil edible from the refrigerator. In a few minutes, she had food cooking on the stove and

Olivia sitting at the table drinking Gatorade. "You are not like her, you hear me?" She gave her a glare and went back to what she was doing. "OK Benson start talking, I want

to know what this is al about, start with the slapping me around and raping me." She watched as her lover's head snapped up and dark furious eyes met hers. "You don't scare

me so knock it off and start talking." She went over to the stove, grabbed the flipper and smacked Olivia on her upper arm with it.

"Why'd you hit me?" She rubbed her arm even though the smal smack didn't even penetrate her robe.

"Ya wanna hit me back?" Alex asked and went back to fixing their late supper.

"No, why would I wanna do that…" she dropped her head to the table and bounced her forehead a few times before looking up at her lover's profile, she knew what she was

doing. She ducked her head and raised her shoulder when the flipper came at her again. "Oww that one hurt!"

"Wanna hit me yet, maybe bitch slap me?"

"NO, no matter what you do ta me I won't ever hit…you." The last word fel off in a quiet whisper

She reached out and smacked her harder in her arm a few times and then held eyes with her. "How about now, maybe throw me down rip my robe off?"

"Why are you doing this?"

"I'm trying to show you something that you should never have questioned in the first place, your honor."

"I'm just afraid," she looked down at her twisting hands and back up to her lover. "I know it's stupid but...you don't know me or my past."

Alex filed a plate with the scrambled eggs mixed with tomatoes, green peppers, onions and bacon and placed it in front of her lover. "Eat; it'l help your body burn through the

alcohol." She filed her own plate and took the seat across from Olivia and waved her fork at her. "I only know what you've told me and what's in your jacket, so fil me in."

Olivia looked up to her and felt tears fil her eyes, she didn't cry for herself or for her mother, she cried for al the ones who didn't have a voice. The way she brought a voice to

the other's was by working the SVU unit and helping what victims she could. She knew that if her mother had chosen an abortion, she wouldn't be here and the victims would

be with one less voice in the world. "My mother was attacked and raped one night on her way home from work, a few weeks later, she found out she was pregnant." Alex

reached across the table and took her lover's hand; she hadn't any idea that this was what was bothering her. The violence part though rang loud and clear, it's what they dealt

with every day but this was closer to home. Olivia wiped at her tears with one hand and looked into clear blue eyes. "Nine months later she had me, see my point, I was

conceived in violence."

"I'm sorry Liv, I had no idea." She puled her hand up to her lips to place a soft kiss to her palm. "But that has nothing to do with anything, we both know that, you can't stop

living because you're afraid of what may or may not happen. No one has shown more strength when it comes to dealing with the violent world we live in than you, if you were

going to be a violent person you would have been one way before you turned 40."

She narrowed her eyes and tilted her head to the side. "It doesn't bother you…at al?"

"Your mom being raped, yes it bothers me but that she chose to have you, not at al, if she hadn't, where would I be?" She got up from her chair and moved to stand in front of

Olivia. She leaned down and pressed her face into her lover's neck and whispered. "I love you Olivia Benson, al of you." She raised her head and kissed her lips gently. "And

just think of al the good you've done in your life, how many people you've touched." She used her fingertips to wipe away her tears before puling her against for a long tight

hug that she prayed pushed away any doubts that lingered. She puled back and gave her a deep smoldering kiss before releasing her. "Now eat before it gets ice cold and

nasty."

*******************

George Huang gave Perkins a smal smirk and nodded his head at what she said, he was an expert at playing with suspects and this was no different. They al thought that the

reason behind their crime was a good and honorable one; in this case, she thought that she had done the world and the past/future victims a favor. George would be the first to

admit to having the same thoughts but he as wel as the SVU Detectives would never kil a perpetrator unless it was a life and death matter and absolutely the only thing they

could do. He leaned back in his chair and watched at Perkins lit another cigarette from the one she was smoking, he found it strange that someone so concerned about saving

lives would risk lung cancer from smoking. "You know those are bad for you?"

She took a long drag until the tip glowed a briliant red and then held the smoke in her lungs to then seep from her nostrils. "Like that makes any difference now," she waved her

hand at the mirror. "I know that blonde bitch is going for the death penalty, so I plan on smoking enough that cancer gets me before the injection does." She shrugged her

shoulders and closed one eye as the smoke curled upward. "So why are ya wasting your time with me, I'm nothing special?"

"I was just curious about the reason behind the murders, and if you were personaly involved somehow, you know like a relative of one of the victims or just a concerned rape

counselor?"

"I came across the file in the bottom of an old box when I was cleaning out a supply room, I tried to look into what happened and found out that the Dean and a bunch of

other holier than thou assholes paid the victims off if they never mentioned what happened to them." She leaned forward and held George with her intense gaze. "It pissed me

off, ya know that those punks got away with al of that and didn't even get as much as a slap on the wrist. So what if their Frat house got split up, they just hung out

somewhere else and raped some more women when they were in the mood. Ya know there were others over the years. And just a few weeks earlier, I found out that they al

met at some bar and made plans as to what they were gonna do with the dates they picked up that night." She let a wicked grin come over her face and laughed hystericaly. "I

broke up their little party every time they got some women, nothing like a woman screaming in the middle of a rich ass bar that she got the clap from one of them."

"If you knew al of this why didn't you tel the police?"

"What and have them do like they always do, what's the conviction rate on rapists, what's the longest time they get in jail?" She held out her hands and waved them. "New York

Penal Code 130.35, class B Felony of rape in the first degree, what 5 years if no priors, eight to ten if they do have them?"

"The SVU teams do catch them and then the ADA puts them behind bars, but they need the help of the victims or witnesses to do their job."

"I've seen how they do their job, I've been in the court room when a rapist has been on trial and I've seen them slapped on the wrist and given two years and three of

probation. My way is so much more fulfiling and we never have to worry about them raping again."

"That may be true but now you're going to prison for kiling those men, when you could have just turned them in with al the information you had on them and done more good.

Now that's one less person to help the police against their fight, but it's a mote point now."

"Sure is, but if the police have my office files, they also have information on other rapists." She held out her hand, shook his and then yeled for the guard to take her back to

her cel. George just sat staring at the over flowing ashtray and wondering about her beliefs.

"Maybe she can stil do some good from where she is?" He got up when the guard caled his name and left the interview room with a heavy heart.

************

Eliot sat at his desk reading over some new files that came in on the late shift; it was the same old thing. The names and faces changed but not the crime, some variations

occurred but it stil formed a burning mass in his stomach. He looked up and across at his partner's desk and felt a loss, as much as they argued and drove each other nuts, he

wouldn't trade her in for anyone. He grinned and shook his head, he wanted to cal her cel phone and wake her up just to be mean, it wasn't fair that she got to sleep in while

he was at his desk before it got light out. "Have some real coffee," Monique placed a tal cup on his desk and a smal white bag. "I got the last of the cheese Danishes, so

what've we got this morning?" She leaned against his desk and picked up the file he had been reading. "Geez don't these people have anything better ta do then drug each other

and end up dieing at the end of a dog leash?"

"Nope, what ever happened to just regular sex, ya know without the leather, handcuffs and whips?"

"You're asking the wrong person, I have to use my cuffs just ta get a date." She shook her head and groaned. "I'm becoming Munch and it's scary as Hel."

"Maybe you should stop going to cop bars, I hear those guys are just plain kinky?" He wiggled his dark bushy brows and laughed when she roled her eyes.

"OK people what have we got this morning?" Cragen asked on his way out from his office. "Any ideas on Alex's stalker yet, we need to find this person, they've gotten to the

point where they're forging the DA's signature on notes and files?"

Monique waved a sheaf of papers in her hand and shrugged her shoulders. "I went over her phone records and the only cals to her house besides family came from this

building, namely her own office. I don't know but I've never caled my own place for anything so I can't see Alex doing it either."

Cragen nodded and looked to see if anyone else had anything. "OK, Fin, and Munch you guys go see Liz about the notes she has, Eliot, Monique, check with the computer

crimes people." He ran a hand over his head to rub the back of his neck. "Olivia had Hernandez put a spy camera in Alex' monitor, see if they got anyone wandering around

her office yesterday or last night, if ya get anything let me know." He watched his detectives grab their coats and head out of the bul pen, he hoped that they could get this one

solved and put to bed, he needed al of his people back on the job and the ADA was counted as wel. He had been getting complaints from other shifts about the sub ADA's

they had to deal with in Cabot's absence and he feared a mutiny. "As cold and prickly as Alex is, she's liked and respected more than she knows." He dropped into his chair,

leaned back, closed his eyes and wished he was anywhere but in his office.

*************

Eliot looked to al the computer parts scattered on Hernandez' desk and shook his head slowly. The computer he had at home was a mystery to him except for checking his email; the kids used it al the time for their homework and made him feel old. "So tel me that you've got our stalker on tape and al we have to do is go pick the asshole up."

Hernandez chuckled and shook his head. "Sorry Eliot, I wish I had your stalker but al I've got is a geeky little bi-speckled woman that reminds me eerily of my mother. She

goes in front of the monitor to put files on Alex's desk and then leaves."

Eliot narrowed his eyes and waved a hand. "Wait a minute, some woman is putting files on her desk, she's not working any cases…lemme see this tape."

"Sure, just come on over here to the monitor and I'l patch you in, I've got it saving to not only her hard drive but to mine as wel, you know as a back-up." The three of them

stood and waited for him to sign in to the program he had running in the background of Alex's office computer. "Now this only comes on when there's movement," he pointed

to the screen when it went from black to show the interior of Alex's office. "In a second you'l see her drop the files and leave, she's been pretty regular al day, I'd say every

few hours she shows up."

"What is she doing in there," Monique said out loud to herself. "Who is that women, I've never seen her before?"

"I think that's Alex's assistant, you know how the DA's office works, they replace people like we change underwear."

"I can print up a screen capture of her and you can ask Alex who she is," Hernandez hit a few keys and went over to a color printer; he came back with the picture of the

woman in question and waited. "Should I keep monitoring her office and her PC?"

"Yeah, keep doing what ever Olivia had you doing and we'l let you know when we get the perp." He handed the picture to Monique and left Hernandez and the other police

office geeks to their PC's. "Come on Monique lets see what else we can stir up around the ADA's offices, maybe we'l get lucky and the little geeky woman wil be wandering

around the halways."

"Come on Eliot, its never that easy."

***********

"That woman scares me more than my own moms," Fin said in a low voice as he and Munch stood in the halway outside Liz's office. "So what's next besides seeing if the lab

can pul prints other than the hundred or so people who've already handled the letters?"

"Ohhh but we have something better than the letters," Munch looked over the tops of his glasses. "We have the files that Alex supposedly stole, unless this person wanted to

look like a total fruitcake, I don't think she would have worn gloves when she stole them."

"Now what if we take a picture of Alex, slap her in a six pack and see if this secretary can pick her out, if she can't then maybe the DA wil calm down and take care of the

judge and that asshole lawyer?"

Munch looked at him for a few seconds before nodding his head, he hadn't even thought of doing a six pack with Alex in it. "OK, we can get her picture from her file and then

we'l just toss a few similar ones in it. You can cal the Captain and tel him what we're doing, he won't yel at you."

"He yels at me, just not as loud as he does everyone else, plus I don't screw up as much as you guys." He puled his cel phone free and caled the captains office, hopefuly he

could get them some pictures to put in their six pack.

*************

Olivia stood at one of the long windows in her living room; she placed her forehead against the cold pane and closed her eyes. She had awakened at an ungodly hour and had

wandered around her apartment looking for something to get into, normaly; she would have gone into work and went over case files. She was so restless because her

conscious was bothering her, she wondered if Alex would even look at her when she got up. She knew that she had to have been an ass at some point in her inebriation, she

usualy was and she almost always did something stupid. That was how she ended up screwing Brian Cassidy, they had gone out after a tough case was solved, got drunk and

ended up in her bed. What realy worried her was what Alex realy thought about her conception and childhood; most people wondered how her mother had treated her. With

having a child born of violence, they wondered how she could even look at her own kid and not remember what happened to her.

"Liv it's something o'clock in the morning, come back to bed." She wrapped her arms around her and rested her head beside hers. "Why are you up anyways?"

"Not realy sure," she placed her hands over her lovers and gave them a slight squeeze. "I just woke up and couldn't get back to sleep." She leaned her head against Alex's and

took a deep shuddering breath. "Why don't you go back to bed, I'm gonna watch TV or something."

"Liv, stop worrying about nothing and put the little voices to bed. I love you and there's nothing that can change that." She hugged her tight before releasing her and then puling

her back into the bedroom. "If you're good, I may just let you be the top for a change."

"God if anyone knew what a wimp I am, they'd never let me live it down; ya know Eliot thinks I'm a top." She fel back on the bed and yelped when Alex bit her on the

shoulder. She then moaned and thrust up into her lover's body when she licked and then bit the sensitive spot beneath her ear. "You can be the top forever…I'l even cal ya

Mistress Alexandra."

Alex raised her head and looked down at her lover, thinking of what she had just said; she busted up laughing and fel on top of her. "I may just change my answering machine

to that, 'this is Mistress Alexandra, pick a penal code and I'l cal you back.' whatcha think?"

"I think you'l get al kinds of perverted messages and a good number of 'em wil come from Munch." She wrapped her arms around Alex and roled them to their sides. "Sorry

for getting drunk and acting like an asshole."

"Liv, if you hadn't gotten drunk would you have told me what was bothering you? And besides, you didn't act like an asshole."

"Ahhh nope, probably not," she snuggled into Alex's body and took a deep breath. "I can be a giant chicken at times, next time if I won't tel ya something just smack me."

"My choice of weapons?" She chuckled at the wide brown eyes and hugged her tighter. "Don't look so worried, I was thinking of the flipper."

*************

Fin handed the six-pack of pictures to Miss. Davies the secretary who had signed an affidavit to seeing Alex steal client files. "Is the woman you saw leaving your bosses office

there?" The woman looked over each picture carefuly and handed it back to him with a shake of her head.

"No, she was…the only word that I can think of to describe her is mousy, she wore those little black square rimmed glasses and her hair looked like it'd been fried a dozen

times by bad perms."

"Wel look at this picture here, she's wearing glasses."

"Nope that's not her, she was like I said mousy, this woman is no where near mousy."

"Wel ADA Cabot wil be very thankful you think of her as not mousy," Munch said and handed the secretary a pad of paper and a pen. "I need you make a statement stating

that you did not pick ADA Alexandra Cabot out of the photo line-up. How about this woman, is she the one?" He handed her another picture that Eliot had given him and

waited.

Her eyes grew wide with the information; she shook her head and stuttered. "But that's who my boss said it was when I gave him her description, he had me make that sworn

affidavit so that he could 'nail her to the wal' his words not mine." She swore under her breath and looked to both detectives. "I don't know who that other woman is either and

who do I see to straighten this out?"

"You might start with Judge Bates and then go see the District Attorney; I'l let ADA Cabot know that she's off the proverbial cross."

"I'm realy sorry about al of this, my boss said it was her and I believed him. Kind of stupid to believe a lawyer but when he's the one who writes out your paycheck what are

you supposed to do?"

"We understand, but if I were you, I'd be looking for someone else to work for, your boss hung you out to dry right along with Ms. Cabot. Not only that, his scum sucking

client is back on the street because of al this."

***************

Olivia waved her hand in front of her face to clear the smoke and coughed. "Tel me again why I'm doing this," she coughed and turned her back to wipe at her eyes. "It's not

even lunch time yet?"

"Such a baby, here use this." Alex handed her charcoal fluid and a Bic candle lighter. "Just make sure you jump back, I'm not gonna explain why your eyebrows are missing."

She slapped her on the ass before going back into the kitchen to get the hot dogs and hamburgers.

"I can't believe I'm doing this, it's like 40 degrees out here and I'm lighting a tiny little BBQ. I've seen Frisbees bigger than this, if Eliot could see this he'd die, him and his manly

man gas gril with the side burners to make what ever."

"Are you stil whining?"

"Yeah and I'm getting realy good at it, so much that I'm irritating myself." She squeezed out the charcoal fluid, leaned back and reached out with one arm to light the smoking

briquettes, when it whooshed, she fel back into Alex. "This is fucking insane," she ran fingers across her eyebrows to make sure they were stil there. "I got lucky that time."

Alex ran her fingers across Olivia's brows and then down to tip her chin up. "Thank God, you'd look realy weird without them." She placed a soft kiss to her lips, handed her

the plate with the hot dogs and burgers and then went to the coffee table. "Put those on the table out there and then come have a shot with me."

Olivia roled her eyes; Alex's table was a milk crate. What the BBQ sat on was another milk crate with a piece of tin on top to shield it from heat. "Who knew that I could get

such a classy woman, she has al the makings of a keeper." She went back in to the living room, slid the door closed and raised an eyebrow at the bottle of Monte Alban

Mezcal and two shot glasses on the table. "Aly, two shots of that stuff can drop a man Eliot's size."

Alex held out a shot glass, the salt and then balanced a piece of lime on the top of the glass. "Ohhh come on and have a shot with me, Eliot's a light weight, I can do three

shots before I fal over in a coma that lasts twelve hours or more."

"Sounds like experience talking there, ever eat the worm?"

"Yeah, my insight from eating that damn thing was to become a lawyer so I could get myself and friends outta jail."

Olivia licked the area of her hand between index finger and thumb, poured salt there and then licked it. Slamming the Mezcal, she then bit into the lime and grimaced. "Damn

…three shots…you can do three shots of this stuff?" She closed her eyes and let the heat run through her body.

Alex took her shot and then placed her shot glass on the table. "Yep, but I'm not gonna do that today." She puled Olivia into her body and hugged her tight. "Cuz we got

wieners to gril."

"You know I think I'm a bad influence on you, your speech patterns have gone ta shit."

"Nah, I just know that my ten dolar words don't impress you anymore."

"I have news for ya baby, they never did." She gave her a big grin. "It's actions that impress me and what you did early this morning impressed me for the next century," she

pressed her hips into her and groaned deeply into her ear. "I may have to take up yoga, I can't bend like you do and I think I broke a hip." She let go of Alex and dropped

down onto the couch. "Remember, I got ten years on you," her grin widened. "I robbed the cradle!"

"You're channeling Munch again and just wait a few minutes and the Mezcal wil numb al your pain."

"Like the vodka I drank isn't enough to kil my liver and numb my body, why are we doing shots on a Saturday afternoon anyway?"

"I always do at least one shot on Saturday, it's to celebrate that I survived another week at work and I'm not sitting in jail on the weekend, ya know contempt of court?"

"Yeah I know al to wel about you and warming a bench behind bars, you've set a new record, John usualy has to pay but you get to do both." She reached up and puled

Alex down onto her lap. "So back to the shot thing, I get it now; you take a shot as a way of saluting the worm, your profession and the fact that you're able to do it because

you're not in jail."

"You put a lot of words to my simple little superstition, but yeah that's it." Wrapping her arms around Olivia's neck, she puled her up to her, looked into her dark eyes and

roled her hips down into her. "Ya ready for wieners?"

"With you doing that ta me, you ask if I'm ready for wieners, that's the last thing that comes to mind."

"Too bad for you 'cuz I'm hungry," she got up from the couch and headed towards her balcony. "And the charcoal is just perfect; wanna cut up the onions and tomatoes for me

while I watch our wieners?"

"Ya know you saying wieners is somehow…dirty, I guess it messes with the whole ADA Cabot vision."

Alex leaned in from the balcony and gave her a wink. "You ain't seen nothing yet."

*************

Munch looked to his partner, grinned and walked up the stairs to Alex's building. "Come on Fin its good news for a change."

"Yeah, but it's the weekend and Alex might be busy, we should've caled first; ya know to warn her and Olivia?"

"And that's why you're going up to the door first."

"Remind me again why I haven't traded you in on a hot little number like Monique?"

"Because I look better in black than she does," he stopped beside Alex's door and crossed his arms over his chest. "What are ya waiting for?"

"You to change your mind and cal this off until Monday," he watched John lower his head so that he was looking over the tops of his glasses and knew it was hopeless.

"Alright but if we interrupt something I'm blaming you."

John looked at his watch and snorted. "It's three o'clock in the afternoon; no one has sex at this time of the day."

*********

Alex lay on the living room floor with one leg on the coffee table, her arms out to the side and the empty Dijon honey mustard bottle beside her. She opened one eye to watch

her lover limp from the living room and grinned, she would admit to herself only that her lover had more stamina than she did. Not to mention that Olivia had a wicked

imagination and she would never look at mustard the same or at least not without a smirk. She also knew that she didn't have to buy hot dog buns ever again; Olivia dipped

them in mustard and ate them like little kids do. "You're gonna help me up right?" She asked when Olivia came back in the room after turning the shower on.

"Actualy no, I like the view from up here," she let her eyes trail over her lover's body and growled. "But considering you're a funny yelowish color from the remains of

mustard, I'l help ya up."

"You're so kind, I'l remember this next time you get a leg cramp." She groaned when Olivia puled her up from the floor. "And you're the one who squirted mustard al over

me."

"And licked it off," she winked and ran a fingertip through the damp blonde hair at her apex. "Next time we'l use hot mustard."

"You're one of a kind Liv, most people would use honey or some kind of love gel or chocolate syrup, you're the queen of condiments."

"You should see what I can do with Reese cups and Hershey bars," she puled her into the shower and had just soaped up her body when she heard someone knocking on the

door. "We just can't get a break, every time we get in the shower…" She moaned and clutched at her lover when she shut her up with a sultry kiss.

"I'l get the door, maybe me covered in just soap wil send them screaming from the building."

"Nah ahhh…I'l go, shoot 'em and leave the body for someone else to report." Grabbing Alex's robe from the back of the door, she puled it on and headed to the door with a

scowl plastered firmly in place. "I have a big gun and a badge that makes it legal to shoot and ask questions when I feel like it!"

"Well, our two badges beat your one badge so open up and let us in!" John yeled through the door and gave Fin a smirk.

Olivia opened the door and gave her friends evil glares. "But if I throw in an ADA badge it beats your two badges and have I completely lost my mind?"

"Possibly," John said as he walked into the apartment and looked around at the disarray. "Do I smel charcoal and griled hotdogs?"

"In the kitchen, Alex goes nuts when she BBQ's, we could feed the whole bul pen. Lemme get dressed, it'l give ya time to come up with good excuses as to why you're here."

She headed back to the bathroom, once inside; she dropped her robe and climbed back into the shower with Alex. "John and Fin are here and we're feeding 'em left overs."

Alex turned and blinked water from her eyes. "What did we do this time…ohhh Hel…where's the vibrator?" She climbed from the shower grabbed the robe that Olivia had

dropped and puled it on. "Please let it be under the couch." She mumbled as she tried to walk from the bathroom with some dignity.

*****************

Munch looked out into the living room from where he stood in the kitchen and tilted his head sideways and then back before tapping Fin on the shoulder. "Tel me that's not one

of those Jely dildo vibrators standing up on the coffee table."

"OK I won't, that's a new foot massager by foot med…let's see how she handles this." He whispered after seeing Alex try to sneak out into the living room by way of her

bedroom, she scanned the room and felt her face take on a heat that could rival a volcano. Moving quickly to the table, she grabbed up al the items that littered the top and

slipped the dildo into her pocket. "Hi guys, did you find everything you needed?"

"Ohhh yeah and then some," John said around a mouthful of hamburger. "Kind of cold out for a BBQ isn't it?"

"It's never too cold for that," she placed the dirty dishes on the counter and pointed to her bedroom. "Lemme go get dressed."

"The echo finaly reached us didn't it?" Fin said and grabbed a Coke from the refrigerator. "They're just too funny; I wonder if she knows the dildo's too tal for her pocket?"

"Probably not, we'l send her and Olivia a memo on the difference between proportions."

***************

Olivia watched Alex fal face first into bed and just lay there, puling a t-shirt on, she dropped down beside her. "Did you find our toy?"

Alex puled it from her pocket and waved it in the air before dropping her arm. "It was standing up waving at the guys, I know damn wel they saw it, how could they not see a

neon green jely dildo in the center of the coffee table!"

"Ooops, guess we're busted on having horrible taste in dildo colors." She snickered and fel over to cuddle up to her lover. "It's not like they al don't know what goes on;

remember we're the sex police."

"But this is realy embarrassing Liv, I mean they know about our dildo."

"I'l tel 'em it's mine and to drop it." She got up after placing a kiss on her neck and went out to find the guys stil eating. "A lot better than those ones we get from the street

venders huh?" She squeezed past John and started to make a pot of coffee. "So what brings you guys over here besides free food?"

"We got Alex cleared on the file theft thing," Fin handed her a copy of the report that the secretary wrote and went back to eating. "We did a mug shot six pack with your

girlfriend's picture in it, she didn't pick her."

"You put one of Alex's security pictures in a six pack?" She laughed and sobered when she saw her walk from the bedroom dressed in a faded NYPD sweatshirt and jeans.

"No we got one from when she was doing titty flashing movies," John smirked and winked at Alex as she stopped in mid step and paled. "Hey Alex, you know you should have

gotten some royalty checks from those videos."

"I am so screwed; there goes my chance to be Governor of New York." She slumped down onto a bar stool and dropped her chin down on top of her hands.

"Hey I'd vote for ya," Fin said. "It'd be the first time we had someone in office that wasn't so damn stuffy and holier than thou. And ya look a Hel of a lot better in a skirt than

the one we got now." He noticed the looks directed at him and shrugged his shoulders. "I ain't sayin nothin."

"OK, so I'm cleared on stealing those case files, what about the rest of the case, anything new on my stalker?" Both men shook their heads and then John raised a finger.

"We did find out that the woman who took the files was mousy, know any mousy little woman?"

"Besides my assistant no…wait, did you guys check her out?"

Olivia slapped a hand down on the counter and looked to her lover. "She's always there and she has access to you computer, files and anything else in the building."

"But she's been there longer than I have why would she be stalking me?" She asked and then looked around for the cel phone that was ringing. "Someone's phone…where's

our phones?"

"I have no idea," she went into the bedroom and grabbed the ringing phone, flipping it open, she listened and stopped dead in her tracks.

"Is she there with you…I told you that I didn't like that and that you would pay?"

"Yeah I'm here and you won't do a damn thing because you're a coward, come and get me asshole...ohhh wait you can only make threats by leaving notes and caling on the

phone. So that means we're safe, I've already taken out al your flunkies." She made her way to the kitchen, grabbed the notepad lying near the phone and wrote down the

number that came across the smal screen on the cel phone. Fin grabbed his phone, caled the bul pen to have Eliot and Monique check to see who the number belonged to.

"You won't get away with this, she's mine and she will always be mine!"

"Keep on dreaming asshole and al those damn roses you keep sending, we toss them in the nearest dumpster, Alex doesn't want them or you." She looked at the note Fin

wrote and then to John. "What's the matter is it finaly sinking in that she doesn't want anything to do with you, is that why you're so quiet?"

"I'm coming for you Detective Benson!" Then the line went dead.

"OK what was that al about?" Alex asked in a low threatening voice and grabbed the notepad from where it lay. "Wait a minute; the cal was made from my boss's phone?"

"That's what Monique said, they were headed there to see if they could catch whoever it was making the cal."

"Like that's gonna happen," Alex whispered and looked to her lover. "What did the asshole say before they hung up and was it a woman?"

"Ohhh that they were coming for me and I have no idea what sex the person is they were using one of those electronic voice devices." She laced her fingers with Alex and

looked to her friends. "I think this goes way beyond stalking, stalkers want the person to know who they are. This asshole is too secretive and keeps sending flunkies after us."

"Hopefuly the camera's picked something up and we've got this picture for Alex to identify, the woman was at her computer." John handed the picture over and waited to see if

Alex knew who it was.

"She was at my desk…I've never seen her before and where the Hel was my assistant when this woman was in my office which is supposed to be locked!"

**********************

"Fuck where the Hel did she go," Monique looked around them and then to the stairwel doors. "Shit, I bet she took off down the stairs and is wandering around on another

floor."

Eliot planted his hands on his hips and looked around with narrowed eyes; chances of catching the woman were slim. "Take your pick, these stairs or the ones at the other

end; we meet out front after the outside is taking care of."

"I'l take these and then check the back aleyways, make the loop and meet you out front." She took off at a jog to the stairwel while Eliot took off in the opposite direction to

the stairs that came out closer to the front doors of the building. Just down the halway from Alex's office door was the public bathrooms, a smal redheaded woman walked

out carrying a large blue book bag with her black wool coat draped over her arm. She stopped in front of one of the office windows and checked her hair before heading to

the elevators. She had seen the two detectives searching for her but never paid any attention to her as she slipped into the bathroom, they needed to pay more attention to their

surroundings, she had been walking among them for months and they never knew.

"Now to go take care of Detective Benson and ADA Cabot in one shot or should I say two?" She laughed manicaly and ignored the strange looks she got as she walked from

the elevator.

************

Cragen sat on the edge of Olivia's desk and looked to his four detectives and then down to the toe of his brown shoe, at every turn this stalker was getting the best of them; he

was wondering if it wasn't a cop or one of the investigators that the DA used. What he wanted to do about the person and what was lawful were two different things, he

wanted to just turn his detectives loose and let them do what ever to nail the stalker but he had to remember that no matter what the person did, they had rights. "OK people, I

want two of you to ghost Alex and Olivia," he held up a hand when he heard mumbling. "I know that they'l both throw a shit fit over this, blame me. The other two sit in the

security office and watch out for any female going towards Alex's office or Liz's for that matter. Someone goes in that isn't identifiable, grab 'em."

Eliot looked from Monique to John and Fin and shrugged his shoulders, he realy didn't want to ghost his partner, he had caught Hel the last time he had her watched. It took

weeks before she was civil to him and didn't send fiery glares over the desk tops at him. He had done it because he was afraid for her and because she had ignored the threat

to herself. "We can flip for it or we'l take the boring job of watching the monitors?" Monique spoke up and watched Eliot breathe for the first time in a few minutes.

"So we get to watch the nymphomaniacs…I didn't say that." John said and looked over his glasses at Eliot. "You know if they catch us Olivia's gonna hang a foot up both our

asses?"

Eliot gave him a wide grin and shook his head. "Better you than me, I got the royal reaming last time remember?"

"Ohhh how could any of us forget, she sat across from you and shot daggers al day long, not to mention pouring Tabasco sauce in your coffee when you weren't looking."

Monique gave them al an evil grin. "I would've done worse, Ipecac is nastier."

"See that," Fin waved a finger at her. "They're worse than any serial kiler and just plain evil, they bat their eyelashes to distract us and dump Ipecac in our coffee."

***********

Olivia had both hands stuffed deeply into her coat pockets; she looked to her side and at her lover who was staring back at her with a raised brow. "Wil you loosen up Liv;

you're acting like we're going to a firing squad." She reached out and yanked one of her lover's hands from her pocket and twined their fingers. "I'm tired of being cooped up

and worrying about if that freak is gonna get me," She puled Liv up against her side and whispered in her ear as they walked. "Besides we have two of New York's finest

folowing us."

"Oohh don't tel me Eliot is playing body guard."

"Nope, we got the other two, ya know the men in black. Has anyone ever told John that he does not blend in with the general population?"

"Yeah and ya know if he dresses in anything other than black it's hard not to just stare at 'em, he looks so different."

Alex looked to her side and smirked; her lover was jittery and kept looking around them like the stalker was going to jump right from the side of a building. "Calm down Liv,"

she changed her tone of voice and had Liv stopping dead in her tracks to look at her as if she had grown two heads. "Dontcha know ya give yerself a nervous condition, ya

know I was hoping we could just take a walk, relax, catch a movie, and be regular people dontcha think?"

"That is just…ya sound like…I have no idea...freaky."

Alex chuckled and bumped shoulders with her. "That's just super, ya think I'm freaky. Imagine having to listen to someone speak like that for years, after a while ya start ta talk

just like you're from Brainerd Minnesota."

"I can just picture you in the courtroom talking like that; the judge would lock you up. Who do ya know from Minnesota?"

"Colege room mate, it took me a while to get used to her speech patterns, she never swore, she would always say 'What's the Christ' instead." She looked to wide brown eyes

and grinned. "So ya think putting up with the other detectives is weird, try someone that says 'what's the Christ al the time."

"Munch and his conspiracy theories sounds good compared to the other, how about we take 'em to see a chick flick that should drive 'em nuts?"

Alex grinned evily and shook her head. "I'm thinking much worse, a dyke bar, with lots of leather."

***************

"I think Alex made us." Munch said and stepped to the side to let a huge woman walk between him and Fin.

"Ohhh you mean that's what she meant when she turned her head, winked and mouthed I see you guys?"

"That would be it, ohhh Hel Fin look where they're taking us."

Fin ran a hand across his mustache and goatee, shook his head at what kind of luck he and his partner were having. "We can deal, you should be used ta women not wanting

anything ta do with ya." He slapped him on the shoulder and waited a few minutes before going into the dyke bar. "I'm gonna make Alex pay for this, talk about frustrating."

He and John took a spot in the corner nearest the door and stayed in the darkness, with a flash of their badges; the bartender left them alone with their Cokes and kept the

other patrons from bothering them as wel. "Leave it up to Alex to drag us to a dyke bar where men were considered the enemy."

"Ohhh come on Munch, that's what al your wives considered you even before ya got divorced." He looked around and watched as the women mingled and spoke in normal

tones. "Ya know this is kinda nice, no loud music blasting your ear drums, pushing or pissing contests, maybe they got something here."

"Yeah civilization, the way it should be." He raised his glass for a refil and then spotted Olivia and Alex sitting at a far table watching them. "I think this is their idea of fun,

watching us try to hide in a bar ful of women."

**************

"OK now who's watching who now?" Olivia asked and took a sip of her beer.

"I think it's funny, not like you guys haven't been in al sorts of places before but for those two to just sit and be uncomfortable as Hel makes my night." She leaned in and

looked into dark eyes. "So tel me about al the titty bars you guys have been in?"

Olivia took a longer drink, placed her bottle on the table and looked off into the distance like she was trying to pul a memory forward. "Seen one set of tits seen 'em al

…maybe I should just eat my gun now huh?" She wished that someone would come along and start a fight or some other distraction to help get her out of the trouble she had

just put herself in. "That didn't come out right, of course you have the best pair of…just shoot me…please?"

The entire time Olivia was stumbling over her words, Alex's smile was growing wider until she blinded her lover with it. It wasn't often that she smiled but when she did it was

breath taking and a total shock to those who saw it. She placed her fingertips over her lover's lips to stop her babbling and intertwined their fingers together. "I think this is the

first time that I've ever seen you at a loss for words Detective Benson, and in bed doesn't count if that's what you're thinking."

"Wel what am I supposed ta say to you when I've put both feet in my mouth?"

Alex leaned in and whispered against her lips. "Don't say a word." She brushed their lips together before tangling her fingers in her lover's hair and deepening the kiss.

***************

"Go back in your apartment this is police business." The female police officer said to an older man who poked his head out into the halway and went back to work trying to get

the locks on Olivia's door opened. She knew that both Olivia and Alex had top of the line locks on their doors but nothing could withstand a crowbar and a set of master keys

for every door lock made. It paid to know people in different lines of business and have people owe favors. She heard the final click and pushed the door open with a quiet

whoosh. Leaning in with her pistol out in front of her, she stopped and listened for any sounds. When no sounds came to her ears, she put her gun away and made her way to

Olivia's bedroom, the first place she started looking were her dresser drawers. "I know you have one, every cop has a couple back up weapons." She searched every drawer

being careful to leave it as undisturbed as possible, her next area to search was the bathroom, she knew of people hiding backup weapons in plastic bags in the toilet tank.

When she came up empty, she searched the bed, closets and ended up in the living room. "Come on Detective Benson, you're not the type to not have an extra piece, where

do you hide it?" She went into the kitchen and puled open a drawer closest to the door, there she found ful clips and a Berretta. "I knew you had one, now to make good use

of it." She looked around to make sure that nothing was out of place and then left the same way she came.

*************

"Damn Davies to Hel and back, she would have to quit and leave me to find everything on my own!" Barrows yeled and flung file folders off his secretary's desk in a shower

of pages and post-it notes. She hadn't even given him a second to beg and plead before she threw the office keys at him and slammed the glass door hard enough to crack the

glass. Now he had court in less than twenty minutes and couldn't find the briefs he needed or the investigation reports, without them he didn't stand a chance of winning the

cases. Yanking the bottom drawer of her desk out and dumping it on the floor, he made a bigger mess and added to his problem. His screaming obscenities about women in

general was brought to a halt when the door opened and one of New York's finest stepped in to look down at him.

"Are you the counselor who caused the problems for ADA Alexandra Cabot?"

Barrows looked up with narrowed green eyes and nodded his head. "If you mean having her suspended for stealing files then yeah that's me, what's this about, is she having me

served?"

The officer puled the Berretta from behind her back, fired one shot between his eyes and dropped the gun to the floor. "Consider yourself served." She turned and looked

around the outer office before stepping into his and looking for the VCR to the security system, after puling the tape out, she turned and left with it in her hand.

**************

Eliot looked up from where he was watching the empty halway on the security monitor, Monique had falen from her chair when her cel phone woke her up, she was now

looking at him with wide eyes and her mouth hanging open. "OK we'l be right there…where's Benson now?" She hung up her phone and waved a hand at the door. "We got a

big problem; we got us a dead lawyer and Olivia's Berretta at the scene."

"Ooh don't tel me she went and finaly did us al a favor, she was supposed to let me watch!" He jogged after Monique and stopped when his cel phone rang. "Stabler…yeah

we heard, where are they?"

"Right now they're on the dance floor and I'm not about to describe what they're doin." Fin shoved Munch and waved a finger in front of him. "Don't you dare,

someone will kick your bony ass and then I'll have to rescue you." He took a deep breathe and waited for Eliot to stop laughing. "Munch wants his ass kicked by a bar

full of lesbians."

"We're headed over to the scene now, keep Alex and Liv…hel I don't know what you can do where those two are concerned."

"We can handle them; let us know what ya find out."

"OK, gotta go Monique is ready to kick my ass." He hung up his cel and ran for the car as it was creeping away from the curb. "You're worse than Liv; she's left me standing

on the sidewalk before."

"As slow as you move I can't figure out why ya don't have moss growing on ya. Now get your ass in here so we can go see what the Hel is going on."

"I'm not slow; I just can't run and talk on the phone at the same time."

***********

"Let's ditch the boys and head on home," Olivia said close to her lover's ear and then slipped her hands down across her hips to her ass. "I just wanna lay on the couch with

you, watch some TV and eat ice cream."

"Ya know you're a cheap date, a container of Ben and Jerry's and you're happy." She took Olivia's hand and puled her towards the back door to the bar. "We'l stop and get

ice cream on the way home, there's that little place near my building that stays open al night. We can rent some DVD's there to; maybe get a scary movie or something."

"You don't mind just hanging out at home," she looked at her large silver watch. "It's like seven at night and we're headed home, is that a sign of old age?"

"With our screwed up lives, being able to just lay around and relax with you is the best thing in the world." When they got outside, Alex pressed Olivia up against the wal and

leaned into her body. "How long before the guys know we've snuck away?"

"A few minutes at best why?" She didn't have a chance to say anything when Alex pushed her along the wal and into a dark cubby hole used to store empty soda canisters.

"Ohhh Hel Aly we're gonna get caught…" Her head fel back on her shoulders when Alex unbuttoned her Levis and slipped her hand between her thighs. "Aly…you're evil…"

Her words were cut off when Alex captured her lips in a consuming kiss and caressed her slick folds, reaching out she wrapped her arms around Alex's neck to steady herself.

She couldn't believe what they were doing out in an aleyway with Munch and Fin just inside the building. Their kiss broke and left them gasping for air and then panting when

Olivia slipped a hand down the front of her lover's baggy khaki's and into the wetness that gathered between her thighs. Feverishly they thrust against each other until Alex fel

against Olivia and grunted out her release against her shoulder. With her climax stil pounding between her thighs, she pushed deep inside of Olivia and felt her muscles clamp

and then flutter around her fingers. They stood in the darkness holding on to each other while trying to catch their breaths; it started out as a low chuckle and then grew when

Olivia thought of what they had just done.

"What's so funny?" Alex asked and fastened her pants back up while Olivia tried to straighten her own clothes.

"I can't believe what we just did," she gave Alex a quick kiss and puled her against her body. "This moves to the top of my risky places where I've had sex, I thought the

church was up there but this."

"Wait a minute; you've had sex in a church?" Alex puled back and puled her into the dim light of the bars lights.

"I just gave you my deepest secret," she took her hand and puled her towards the street where they could catch a cab for home. "It was a very long time ago and it was in the

basement where they have the boiler room, damn my legs are stil shaking." She stopped and leaned against a street sign.

"You realy are kinkier than I am; I thought this was very risky."

"Remember baby I'm older and I led a life the complete opposite of yours, my teenage years were Pink Floyd, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin and Kiss. We got wasted and did al

kinds of stupid ass stuff that you would never have thought of." She thought a few seconds and grinned. "Come to think of it, you'd be arrested today for what we did and got

away with because it was considered a kids prank."

Alex moved to her side and stood close to absorb some of her body heat and get out of the cold wind that had kicked up. "Like what?"

"Stealing the light bars off police cruisers, one night we stole the city bus shed off Broadway and West 97th. If my mom had ever found out what I was doing she would have

locked me up herself." She waved a hand and moved forward when a yelow cab puled up to the curb and stopped. They climbed in, gave the address and sat close together

in the back seat.

"I bet ya never did anything like flash your tits to a couple thousand drunken colege students while riding on a spring break float going down Bourbon Street in New Orleans?"

"Uuummm nope, does yours or my apartment count, 'cuz that's the only place I'm doing any flashing?" She tossed bils to the cab driver and waited for Alex to get out of the

cab before folowing her to the front door of her building and then inside.

***********

"Ohhh fuck dad's gonna kil us if we don't catch up to those two," Fin grumbled and peeled around the corner and up the street where Alex's building was. "I should've known

they woulda puled something like this, damn women."

"Were we supposed to folow them into the bathroom as wel; it's not like they're just regular citizens that can't take care of themselves." John said and grabbed onto the

dashboard to keep from being tossed through the windshield. "You're driving sucks, it's worse than Monique's!"

"Yeah wel we never did get those drivers licenses, didn't need 'em in our neighborhoods." He slapped the NYPD placard on the dashboard and got out of the car. "I hope

they came here instead of going to Liv's place, it's bad enough she's gonna flip out when we tel her what happened but to go home and find cops in your crib."

"So instead we get to witness the meltdown with no back-up, just great." Munch mumbled and opened the car door.

*****************

"Detective Benson I'm Officer Judas, I'm here to take you into the 15th precinct." The female officer said as she walked towards Alex and Olivia. "You're needed for

questioning in regards to the murder of Attorney Barrows."

Olivia blinked and pushed Alex behind her, there was something with the way the officer moved that didn't feel right. "What has that got to do with me and why didn't my

Captain cal me?"

"I'm not sure, I was told to come over here and bring you in." She slowly moved her hand behind her and puled out the M-18 air tazer she had and fired it at Olivia. The

second the EMD wires hit her, she went rigid and dropped to the floor. Alex back peddled until she hit the wal behind her and then turned to run for the outer door. She got

right to the door and felt the coldness of a gun barrel press against the back of her neck. "Move and I'l blow your head clean from your shoulders; now move real slow out the

door, any sudden moves and you're history."

"You can't get away with this; there are two cops right outside this door."

"Yes I can, I can kil you and then what ever happens to me doesn't matter, I just want those stupid cops to see that I win in the end no matter what. And the best part is that

Detective Benson has to live with the thought that she lost you because she failed at her job and at protecting her lover."

"So you've been stalking me al this time just to kil me and then die yourself, that is completely asinine." Alex said and stood looking out into the park, she hoped that she could

either talk her stalker into putting her gun down or at least stal her long enough for Olivia or the other two detectives to come to her rescue. "Why me, I mean there's plenty of

other people out there you could have stalked?"

"Yes but there's only one Alexandra Cabot, High Society snob turned Assistant district attorney, you put innocent people in prison and let the real criminals walk around." She

jabbed her in the back of her neck harder. "You let the man who raped and kiled my sister get away with it, our father was walking around until I kiled him and the best part is

you people just now caught on to what was going on?"

Alex felt weakness in her knees as the realization hit her. "Al the men that have been turning up dead…you're part of that?"

"Of course I am, you got my sister but that's because she wanted the cops to get her, my job was to play with you and keep you off balance."

"I never had any of those men in court, so you wasted a lot of time stalking me to keep me off balance." She slowly turned to face the smaler woman and held her with ice

blue eyes. "I'l ask you the same question I asked your sister, why not go to the SVU and tel them about everything? If they had known what your father had done they would

have arrested him."

"Ohhh like a corporate big shot with more money than brains would end up behind bars; he paid off so many people to keep the truth hidden that it would take centuries to

uncover it. But then you people al know about the money changing hands, it's too late now, my little sister is dead and so is the asshole who abused us sexualy for years." She

watched Munch and Fin step up behind Alex and grinned. "Your Key Stone Cops showed up, a lot of good it'l do, they shoot me, I shoot you. Or the other way around,

either way you're dead counselor." She waved the gun in front of Alex's face and then held it at her forehead.

She watched Olivia step up behind the officer but keep to the side so that she could see her. "Wel then get it over with, I don't have al night for this," she let her ADA façade

slip into place and saw that her lover had noticed. "Such a pity that I'l be shot by a coward, you couldn't handle this any other way?" Straightening her shoulders and placing

her hands behind her back, she dipped her head and took one step to her right. When her lover's eyes darkened, she lunged to the side and hit the ground hard. The sounds of

shots firing and then a searing pain across her hip sent her deeper into the pavement. She didn't move until Olivia knelt beside her and then puled her onto her lap. "What took

you so long?"

"I thought I'd flop around on the floor for a few moments, you know take ful advantage of a few hundred volts of electricity running through me." She slid her hand under the

Kevlar vest she wore and rubbed a sore spot. "The vest helped but not much and don't you ever play with a nutcase again,"

"You guys OK," Fin asked and held out his handkerchief to Olivia. "Alex ya know ya caught a shot in the ass?"

"I thought so, it burns like a bitch." She dropped her head onto Olivia's shoulder and winched when she applied pressure to the area. "Liz wil just love this; I get shot in the one

place she's always wanted to kick."

"What about our imposter there?" Olivia asked even though she knew the answer, she wasn't going for a wounding shot; she shot her in the back of the head.

"One word," Munch walked up to them. "Swiss cheese, or is that two words, either way she's harmless now. And what in the Hel were you thinking counselor, I saw that

courtroom dip thing?"

Alex chuckled and then groaned when pain shot through her ribcage. "I didn't know that anyone paid that much attention to how I moved in the courtroom besides Liv, it

worked so who cares right?"

"Yeah and that's the good news of the night," Fin said and then shrugged his shoulders. "Wel maybe not but it's in the way ya look at it, we got a dead attorney and he was shot

with Liv's off duty piece." He grinned when Olivia closed her eyes and dropped her head down to rest on her lovers.

************

Olivia walked down the halway attaching her badge and holster back on her belt; it had taken IAD a week to clear her of the Barrows shooting. That alone proved that

they're incompetent assholes, she had a solid alibi with being in a bar with hundreds of people, two detectives folowing her and Alex and the cab drive to her lover's building.

IAD stil had to check with everyone and their damn grandmother to make sure that she couldn't have possibly snuck away and kiled the attorney. There may be crime in the

police department and it started in IAD, it was a crime that those in charge of weeding the problems out were al brainless. She checked her cel phone and realized that she

had grabbed Eliot's instead; she wondered how many phone cals he had received that made no sense to him what's so ever. Even though they had been partners for years, she

had different contacts than he did. Turning the corner to the bul pen, she saw her partner raise the phone to his ear and knew that it would not be an easy day for them when

his face turned a bright red and his mouth dropped open in shock. "Wanna have hot steamy phone sex?" Eliot's mouthed moved but nothing came out until he saw Olivia

standing next to him.

"It's for you." He handed her his cel phone and sat shaking his head and thinking of what kind of sex life his partner had.

"Detective Benson can I help you?" She asked and then groaned when she heard her lover laugh hystericaly on the other end. "What did you do to Eliot, he's in shock?"

Alex sobered enough to talk and then laughed more after teling her lover what she had said. "I know I called your phone, I was just as surprised as he was when I heard

no reply for my phone sex offer."

"I may have to cal 911 or his wife," she went around and dropped down into her chair. "So is that what you realy wanted or is there something else?"

"What I realy want and what I can have are two different things, right now I want nothing more than to be at home. But, I need the ME's reports on my stalker so I can close

out my end. And a shoulder massage would do wonders for my attitude, my floor wants me locked up or my desk moved to the bul pen."

"So you can bother us al day instead of them, I can handle that." She searched her desk and then Eliot's for the files and puled them from his out box. "I got 'em right here, I'l

be there in a few minutes as soon as I get Eliot to stop looking at me like I'm nuts." She hung up with Alex and then looked to Eliot. "So you and Kath don't have phone sex?"

She grinned and waited for him to say something.

"If we have sex period it's a total shock, with four kids running through the house it's hard to have any quality time if ya know what I mean. So besides phone sex, what did

Alex want?"

"She has to close out her reports and needs the ME's report before she can do it, any word on how her stalker was able to hide among us?"

"Yep, Monique was able to trace her activities to of al the damn places, the records archives. She's worked for the city for six years and in those years, she's been able to

hack into every rape case file ever investigated."

"Wel that just told me how she was able to get so much information on Alex," she took a copy of the report from Eliot and scanned over the pages, when she came to an area

for expenses, she snickered and looked at her partner. "The city paid for al those roses that went to Alex?"

"Yeah, she somehow got into the city council funds and charged al those flowers to a certain councilman and a few law firms as wel, we turned that part over to the white

colar guys. I know they'l be having al kinds of fun looking into why no one noticed the money missing and why there are al kinds of charity checks being deposited in

personal accounts."

Olivia felt the burn in her stomach start up again, with another senseless death more bad guys would be brought down. "If they had just stepped forward with what they knew,

we could have helped them."

"But somewhere along the line, we failed them and the only way they could see justice done was to take it in their own hands. Sometimes we win and sometimes we get

smacked around because we're blind," Cragen said and handed Olivia her off duty weapon. "We just have to do better in the eyes of the public," he handed Olivia a folder.

"Now we can start by getting these over to Alex, this should be the last of the files on the two combined cases." He went back to his office to get the bal roling on other cases.

"Guess I'l run these over to Alex, ya need anything?" She got up, switched cel phones with Eliot and waited for him to answer.

"Nah, knowing that the honeymoon is stil in ful swing, I may not see you for hours."

She gave him a smirk and a smal wave as she left the bul pen with the files in her hand, she knew he was right but she wasn't about to admit it.

***************

Alex laid her glasses on her desk, leaned back in her chair and rubbed her tired eyes with the heels of her hands. Even with the other ADA's taking over her cases while she

was out of the office, she stil came back to a ful in box and numerous other files that haunted the place. Days before when she returned, her assistant had caught her blowing

up the seat cushion that was used by people with hemorrhoids. The bulet shot had healed but it was stil tender and her doctor advised the use of the cushion. Now she wished

she had never brought it into to work with her, Liz had poked her head in her office just to laugh at her. "Maybe private practice needs to be looked into further…nah, I'd have

to deal with scumbags." She let her head drop back and closed her eyes, that left her wide open for her visitor to sneak in and lay a single pink rose in the center of her desk

and then drop to her knees beside her desk.

"I don't know about private practice but I can give ya a private performance."

Alex opened one eye and looked down into her lovers mischievous dark eyes and knew that she was completely serious with her offer. "And what would this performance

entail and wil it get me in deep shit?"

"Al you gotta do is sit back and let me take care of you and the only way you'l get in trouble is if you scream." She crawled on her knees until she was in front of Alex; she

placed her hands on her knees and pushed her fingers under the edge of her gray skirt. Pushing her lover's shirt higher, she saw the edge of her silk hose and moaned deeply.

"Ohhh God, you wore stockings with a garter belt."

Alex let her head fal back again and whispered in a deep voice. "It's the black lacy one that matches everything I'm wearing," she jumped when Olivia took her shoes off and

started rubbing her feet. "What are you doing?"

"What I said I was gonna do, give ya a private performance." She ran her thumb up Alex's arch and pressed in to massage a sensitive spot, a wide grin came over her face

when Alex whimpered and then slapped a hand over her mouth. "I'm gonna get you one of those foot massagers, ya know the ones that you put your feet on and they vibrate?"

"What do I need one of those for if I have you?"

"For the simple fact that Cragen won't be getting a cal from me about one of his detectives being under one of my ADA's desks, that's why she's getting you one."

Olivia looked over her shoulder and up over the top of Alex's desk to see Liz standing in her doorway. "Hi Liz," she got to her feet and backed away from her lover's desk. "I

brought those files you needed, guess I'l be heading on back to the bul pen." She started to leave and stopped when Liz waved a hand at her.

"Just to let you know Alex, we have court in the morning," she held up a finger when she saw that she was going to argue. "You're second chair, this is a slam dunk molestation

case, we're going for the max on it so relax and read over this file and I'l see you at 0900 in courtroom three." She tossed it on the messy desk and left with a smal smirk on

her face.

"We were so busted," Alex grunted and let her head fal back on her chair again. "Good thing you were only rubbing my feet."

Olivia walked to the door closed it softly and then locked it before going back over to her lover. "Remember when we talked about day dreams and you sharing your office,

now's the time to share." She dropped down onto her knees between her lover's legs and pushed her hands up under her skirt. "Anyone cals or pounds on the door can go to

Hel, we're busy." She puled Alex to the edge of her chair, pushed her shirt up around her waist and ran her fingers down to unfasten her garter straps.

"Liv search a little better, you don't have to unhook everything." When a deep moan came from her lover, she knew that she noticed that she wore crotchless panties.

"You're an evil evil woman but I love you anyway." She dropped her head between her lover's thighs and moaned deeply with what she found. Alex gripped the arms of her

chair in a death grip when Olivia's tongue licked between her folds, moving her legs so that they were over her lover's shoulders, she gritted her teeth to keep from making a

sound and pressed her feet into the edge of her desk. Her hips thrust upward and roled with her lover's tempo, she gripped the chair arm with one hand and used the other to

cover her mouth. She was rapidly moving towards orgasm and knew that no matter how quiet she was someone might stil hear. When two fingers slipped inside her center,

pumped in and out and then hit her sensitive spot, she bit down on her hand and let the waves from her climax wash over her. After a few minutes went by and she was able to

catch her breath, she looked down into twinkling dark eyes and grinned.

"You know we're getting good at the risky stuff, wanna try my desk tomorrow?" Olivia asked and wiggled a brow when Alex shook her head. "You're no fun," she wiped her

chin and stood up to pul her lover in for a deep consuming kiss that had them both moaning and faling into the desk chair. When they parted Olivia rested her forehead against

her lovers and mumbled. "Now for the agonizing hours before we get home," she was about to pul away when she felt Alex tug at her belt and then lower the zipper on her

pants. "Whatcha doin counselor?"

"Living out a day dream, can't let you be the only one." She pushed Olivia back until she was sitting on the edge of her desk with her pant's hanging off one foot.

*************

Cragen came from his office and looked around the bul pen for his detectives, when he saw that Olivia was missing stil, he knew damn wel Eliot had to know where his

partner was. Where's Liv, we've got what the Bronx cops think is Jeremy Perkins. They found his abandoned car at some warehouse over there and found him in the trunk…in

pieces."

"She's stil with Alex I guess, how come Bronx homicide isn't looking into this one?"

"Because it fits in with what Perkin's told Alex and he's missing his family jewels, we just need their reports and then we can close out everything on this end. So go grab your

partner and when you're done, cal it a day." He waved to the other detectives and then dropped a file on Monique's desk; he was keeping her in the SVU department to help

with al the paperwork generated by the numerous cases. Pointing to Fin and John, he held out a smal piece of paper. "We got a rape of an elderly man at the old age home

near the hospital, check it out and let me know what ya got." He watched as the place cleared out and headed to the coffee machine for 10w1000 sludge. Some of the cases

they worked he found it hard to believe, this rape of an old man was one of them.

*****************

Alex looked at her lover from over the tops of her glasses when she came into the living room, a wide grin came to her when she noticed how tired she was. She moved the

files from the spot next to her and then patted the couch. "I see you got my message, I didn't want you going to my place and then panicking when you saw I wasn't there."

"I got it right before we left the scene in the Bronx, which was a fucking mess. The Perkins girls hacked and slashed dear old dad beyond repair." She shook her head and then

laid it on Alex's shoulder. "No shop talk, what's for supper or are we ordering in?"

"I thought we'd order pizza and then turn in early," she wrapped her arms around Olivia and puled her into her body. "Are we at the part in a relationship where we can have

just one residence?"

"I think we are, it would be easier than running back and forth, the question is which place do we keep?"

"I own my place but I could sel easily if you wanna keep this place or maybe find something else."

Olivia puled back just enough to look into dark blue eyes; she shook her head and leaned back into Alex. "Nope, this place sucks; we'l keep your place."

"And maybe later on look for a bigger place where I can actualy have a real BBQ and lawn chairs?"

"Anything you want baby, I'l go where ever you go no questions asked."

"OK then we're going to the bathroom, I wanna soak in a hot tub and forget that my ass hurts and that Eliot knows we had sex in my office." She laughed when Olivia

groaned.

"Another thing I'l never live down, my luck to get the tail of my shirt zipped in my fly."

"We got it undone, I'm just glad Eliot noticed before you went running around on the streets. You have to admit it was pretty funny and then Eliot trying not to laugh at us." She

got up from the couch, puled Olivia up with her and then puled her al the way to the bathroom. She pushed open the door and breathed deeply of the scents that escaped

with the hot air. "I was hoping you got home before the water got warm and the candles burned out, I caled Eliot as my back-up plan and had him promise to get you home

early." She turned Olivia around and started to undress her. "That's why he dropped you off before going back to the precinct." With her lover's clothes in a pile, she puled her

sweatshirt and shorts off and stepped into the tub. She sat down and sighed when the hot water started to relax her tired muscles, she held out a hand to Olivia and waited for

her to sit down and lean back against her. Using the thick bath sponge, she squeezed water out across Olivia's breasts and watched her skin turn pink. "Would I be pushing it if

I asked you to wear this?" She dropped the sponge, slipped her silver ring from her finger, untwisted it into two rings and held half out in front of Olivia. "I know it's kinda soon

and everything but I…need this…mentaly if that makes sense."

Olivia turned her head and looked into terrified blue eyes; she held out her left hand and watched tears flow down her lover's cheeks as the ring slipped down her finger. "You

were realy afraid that I would say no weren't you?"

"Why wouldn't I be, I'm not the easiest person to live with, I get stalkers and I'm an uppity bitch, etc..."

"I'l take everything you throw at me," she leaned forward, kissed her and tried to put al of her feelings into that one action. "I love you Alex and that includes the ADA Cabot

persona as wel, you just beat me to the asking part is al." She reached out for her Levis and dragged them over by one pant leg. She searched through the pockets and came

across a smal blue velvet bag, once she was cleared by IAD; she had run across the street and down a few blocks to a jeweler. It took her a whole five minutes to find what

she wanted and then less time to take a serious chunk from her checking account. But after looking at the rings a couple times since she got them, she knew it was worth it.

Even more so now since she now knew how much it meant to both of them. "I got these today and I was gonna wait and do a romantic thing," she turned so that she was

looking at her lover, puled her forward and then wrapped her legs around her waist. "I can't think of anything more romantic than sitting in the tub with you and with candles lit

al over the room." She dumped the rings out in her hand and then lifted one up to blue eyes, a smal smile came across her face when Alex looked to her with tear filed eyes.

"It's not the rock of Gibraltar or anything but sometimes big is just plain gaudy." She slipped the diamond ring onto Alex's finger and then kissed her palm. "I love you

Alexandra Cabot."

Alex took the other ring from Olivia's hand, slipped it on her finger and noticed how the rings matched. She puled her lover to her, pressed their foreheads together and

whispered in a soft voice. "Liv, you could have given me a paper clip twisted in a circle and it would have meant the world to me. I love you and I plan on making your life a

living Hel to the very end."

Olivia laughed and gave her a tight hug. "What are ya gonna do to me that can last for years on end?"

"Something that could drown one of us if we stay in the tub," she tilted her head and brushed her lips across Olivia's and whispered. "We're gonna eat before we play because

you're gonna need the energy."

*****************

Eliot and Olivia sat a few rows back in the court room watching Alex walk back and forth before the jury; she was second chair to Liz but was giving the closing remarks on

the child molestation case. "Tel me something, does she like practice this stuff before she comes in here?" Eliot asked in a hushed tone.

"Nope, she reads the case file the night before and then comes in here and scares the Hel outta everyone." She tilted her head to the side and looked from her wife's calves al

the way to her hips. "I'm the luckiest damn woman in the world." She mumbled and jumped when Eliot grabbed her hand. "What are you doing?"

"I'm not blind Liv and did you realy think that you could hide a diamond ring and wedding band on your finger?"

"I wasn't hiding anything; if I wanted to I could have kept my hand in my pocket." She sighed and roled her eyes when he whistled low and roled her hand back and forth.

"She put out a chunk of money for this didn't she?"

"Yes I did and it's something I wasn't to sure about but I'm glad I did it, ya know I never thought I'd be with anyone let alone Alex."

"I think of that every time I look at Kathy and our kids, life is precious Liv and I'm glad you two have each other." He looked up to the judge when the gavel pounded and then

saw Alex come there way. "You're in deep shit, you missed her closing comments and I'm gonna narc on ya."

"Gee thanks El, I'l remember that next time you want me to shop for Kathy's birthday present."

He grinned and looked up as Alex stopped beside them. "Congratulations Alex, it's about time someone tied her up."

"It's the other way around Eliot," Alex winked at him. "She's trying to make an honest lawyer of me by handcuffing me to the head board every night." She looked around them

and saw the jury coming back in. "They can't be done already," she looked to Liz who was standing in the door and arched a brow. "She won't be fitting through the door if we

get a guilty on this."

"You know that's what's gonna happen and I'd say it was your closing argument that won it."

Alex gave her a smirk. "You mean the one that you two whispered through?" She turned back to her table and waited for the judge to take his seat again.

************

"I can't believe you missed my closing statements," Alex said and took the spoon from Olivia's hand and dug into the container of ice cream.

"I'm sure it was briliant as always," Olivia mumbled around a mouthful of ice cream and then swalowed. "Liz is scary, not only does she make kids cry on the stand, she

makes men cry like big babies," she puled Alex back against her chest and buried her face against her neck. "One more skeil of the street, so many more to go before we're al

safe."

"Enough shop talk Liv, it's depressing as Hel," she waved the spoon in the air and then stuck it into the container. "Now about al the furniture we're gonna have in here once

we move your stuff outta your apartment."

"I'm thinking I'l let you pick what you wanna keep from there and the rest can stay, it's not like I have anything that has sentimental value or what not."

"Oohh nooo, you're helping me with this, I'm not gonna toss away your favorite coffee cup or anything. We'l bring everything here and then go from there, it'l be like that show

they have on TV but not as drastic. I Know I have stuff around here that should have been in a dumpster years ago."

"For starters I'm getting rid of something that's been bothering me for a long time," she grabbed the bottom of the old ratty sweat shirt Alex wore, puled it over her head and

tossed it to the floor. "How's that for starters?"

"I think we're headed in the right direction," she got up from the couch, held her hand out and then puled Olivia to her feet. "And it's a good thing neither one of us is on cal

tonight because when I'm done you won't be able to lift a finger, the world wil have to survive without Detective Benson for one night."

Olivia folowed behind and laughed al the way to the bedroom. "Funny, I was thinking the same about your future condition." She closed the bedroom door knowing that if

either one of their cel phones rang that they wouldn't hear them, she had already taken care of the ringer on the bedroom phone earlier that night. She would try her hardest to

keep the world out for just one night, after what they had been through in the past weeks; she would gladly suffer at Cragen's hands if an emergency cal went unanswered.

The End.

Turning Point

By Larisa

Hecate3366@frontiernet.net

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