Olivia Benson and Rafael Barba

Barba's Place.

She was walking around trying to find the TV remote, when she seen a white gift bag. She moved the bag and got the TV remote. "Liv. You okay in there?" Barba asked after hearing the bag fall. "Yeah all good. I just dropped something when I had to rescue the TV remote." She said to him. He walked in with the coffees. "Hey. Yeah I forgot to tell you about the remote it feel behind there this morning when I put it back this morning." He said with a smile. He said next to her and gave her the coffee. "Wow Rafael that's amazing." She said. "You think that's amazing. Go to my bathroom and look in the mirror the coffee has nothing on you." He said sweetly with a smile. She kissed his lips. "Thank you Rafael. I better the food will be better than both." Rafael just smiled and laughed a little. He moved her hair with one hand out of her face and slipped his coffee with the other. "Peter Stone called me earlier, you had gone back to your place and I was on my way to work. I didn't answer because I was busy talking to the uber driver." Rafael smiled and began to laugh. "Chicago still?" he questioned. Liv nodded and said "Yeah I checked before you came over to my office." Barba smiled and rubbed the back her neck and continued to sip his coffee. "Rafael, he left me a message asking me out, on a. Date." Olivia said with a small stutter at the word date. Barba moved away from her and took her empty coffee mug and his half full one into the kitchen silently. Liv went back to the coat stand slipped on her coat and walked into the kitchen. "I am going to go back home Rafael. I'll message you went I get home." Liv said quietly. She rested her hand on Barba's shoulder and kissed his left shoulder. "Goodnight Rafael." Just as Liv left the kitchen Barba was sad. she had gone home because she thought he was angry. "if you wanna see stone for a date it's fine you know." Barba said. Liv heard him and didn't say a word and left his apartment building. She walked past the doorman who stopped her. "Lieutenant Benson are you okay?" He said with a warm smile. Barba's doorman was Tom who used to be Olivia's doorman. "Yeah I just need to go home." She said. Tom smiled and opened the door for her and handed her a tissue and a card with his number on it. "In case you need to talk or you need security," Tom said

Olivia smiled and thanked tom and left to go home.