[228] A Key to Your Closet (Law & Order: SVU)

[ilthit]

Title: A Key To Your Closet
Fandom: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Characters/Pairings: Olivia Benson/Alex Cabot
Rating: General
Words: 190
Summary: Alex comes out to Olivia.


"You lied about your sexuality."

"Yes."

"Who else knows?" Olivia asks, and the concern in her voice makes Alex's throat constrict.

"As far as I know, no-one. Just you. I can't let this taint my career. I wouldn't be the first lesbian this office fires on the flimsiest of excuses."

Olivia reaches a hand out to hold hers. That kind of touch you can just about allow between a detective and an ADA, even if there's a yearning between them that makes it illicit. Even more so, now.

They have never discussed it, yet it sits like an open question between them. If they did, Olivia would say she has never felt this way about a woman before. Coaxed, would admit the kind of occasional fantasies any straight woman might have. Would overthink the way she feels, and keep so far within her own safe boundaries as to make them disappear. With all her measured, careful good sense, Olivia is so deep in denial it will take a better woman than Alex to bring her down.

God, Alex loves her. Those beautiful eyes locked into hers.

But that's her problem.

Comments

[streeptastic]

I love this! I'm a season and a half behind on SVU and I just watched the episode where Cassidy was accused of murder and he's like "You and I, we had a lot of good times together, a lot of mutual love and respect for one another, but please, you got to ad admit to me that you were never gonna bare your soul to me." And it got my femslashy blood pumping, like, she hasn't been able to come out yet. So. Long comment is long to say that this feels so canon and it's always been obvious to me that Alex and Olivia love each other. This really hit the femslash spot I was looking for <3

[ilthit]

Aww thank you! I'm glad! There is a ton of longer Alex/Olivia out there that I still mean to read as well. I'm rewatching svu from series 5 onwards now so I may not be correct on canon always but my goodness the potential.