Simply Sonny: An SVU love story

Chapter 36: Guests

"Ms. Collins, you will be staying in here." The agent opens the door to a large decorated room and places my bag at the entry. He continues his walk down the hall to the other side and opens another door. I faintly hear him say, "Mr. Carisi, this room is for you."

"Detective." I hear Sonny snarl back the correction and the man leaves him and walks back towards me and down the stairs. Sonny leaves the room he was standing at and comes back over to me, "this is insane." He shakes his head, his blonde hair starting to loosen out of its gelled state.

"It shouldn't be long, the FBI will get him." I try to make him feel better. He gives me a look and I realize I may have offended him, "not that you wouldn't have, I just mean.." but I trail off, not really sure what I mean.

"Don't worry about it," Sonny says cutting me off anyway. He walks into the room I've been placed in and sits down at a desk, "what do we do now?" He asks more to himself than me.

"We've got a state of the art gym upstairs, you can go work out a bit." I hear Jason's familiar voice.

I turn as he finishes his sentence and he smiles at me, a white towel thrown over his bare chest, "Hi Jason, sorry we're intruding on you like this." I say to him as he walks past me into the room.

He shrugs, "it's not a problem seeing as I did the same to you the other week." He returns, "sorry about that Addy, really, I am." He apologizes. I go to shake it off but he adds on, "at least he didn't follow me that time."

I eye Sonny whose exhaling intensely. I quickly walk further into the room and stand behind Sonny, "well, we appreciate your hospitality."

"It's our pleasure. I see they placed you in the guest suite. Very good, Sonny, I hope you're okay with your accommodations down the hall, it's not as large as this but it has sufficed before."

I can see a smirk forming on the corner of his lips and can already tell what he's up too. Instead of being the bigger person I usually am, I throw myself right into his game, "actually, he's going to be staying with me. We're dating, you know, only makes sense." I tell him, putting a hand on Sonny's shoulder. I don't know what it is, but it's like I'm back in college again, Jason playing his devious games and me willingly jumping in.

"Well, I hope to see you two for dinner in a few hours. My father will be joining us." And with that bit of information, Jason leaves the room.

He shuts the door behind him and Sonny stands and turns to face me, "I'm staying in here, am I?" He asks with a grin.

"Stop." I slap him playfully, "I feel safer with you around anyway, so will you?" I ask him properly, wishing I did that in the first place.

His smirks turns into a smile, "of course. I'll grab my things." Sonny leaves the room and comes back within moments. He throws his bag on the floor and comes up to the bed and lays next to me, "why don't you tell me about your parents?" He asks out of the blue.

"What?" I ask him, not sure where that came from.

He returns, "well, you met my mom and dad, got to see a bit of why I am who I am. I just want to know you more, know why you are who you are."

"Alright." I say back, wishing I didn't have to get into it, "well my father passed away when I just a baby." I start off.

"I'm sorry." He responds as most people do.

I shake my head, "it's okay, it was a long time ago." I continue, "a few years after his death my mom started struggling with money and we lost our house. We lived in our car for a while until she managed to get us an apartment. She was a brave woman, always putting me first and doing what she could to support me." I pause, thinking of where to go next. Sonny just lays next to me, rubbing his thumb up and down the top of my hand, "I went to school originally for nursing, wanting to somehow help people. However, halfway into my freshman year classes, I realized that wasn't what she would want for me."

"Why not? Nursing is a great profession." Sonny asks.

"Well, she was sick for a long time. I took care of her most of the time since we couldn't always afford doctor appointments and prescriptions."

"What did she have?" He asks calmly with wonder.

"She had schizophrenia," I tell him, worried with how he will respond.

He exhales slowly, "that must've been tough for you." He pulls me onto his chest, "so you switched out of nursing?"

I nod, "she wanted me to work with children, to help kids have a childhood that I never had. I switched majors and got a bachelors degree. One in business and one in education."

Sonny sits up, making me sit up with him, "you're a strong women Addison, don't you ever forget that."

His blue eyes are piercing through me and I swallow hard, the butterfly's heavy in my stomach, "I won't" I barely whisper back, tryin to sound confident.

He leans in and kisses me softly, "how about this." He says standing up off the bed, "why don't I draw you a hot bath and you can relax while I go use that state of the art gym Jason was bragging about." Sonny offers with a bit of sarcasm in his tone at the end.

"That'd be great, thanks, Sonny." I agree, thinking a bath would be good to help me relax.

He nods, "okay" and moves towards the bathroom. When he returns he grabs his bag and rifles through it, "your bath will be ready momentarily my dear." He fakes an accident and retreats back into the bathroom to change. When he's out again, he's changed into some shorts and a work tee and smiles, "you're all set. Enjoy." He walks over and kisses me on the forehead before leaving and closing the door behind him.