Tangled Webs II: Normal For The Spider - An SVU fic

13.Silver lining

Langan home...

A week later, everything was in place to leave for Paris the next day but Olivia lay in bed that night too nervous to sleep. Tomorrow night she and the children would be leaving their home with no idea of how long it would be before they'd return, not to mention the fact that Trevor would be gone a lot of the time. With the firm going through major changes in merging with another firm, the attention of all partners was absolutely necessary to make the transition a smooth one. He'd fly with them to Paris and stay a week to get them settled but had to return to the states after that and it would be two weeks before they would see him again; to say that she was anxious was an understatement.

Unable to deal with the quiet that was only interrupted by the sound of Trevor breathing she got out of bed and went downstairs to call Alex figuring that talking to her best friend would at least help to still her nerves.

***

Sixteenth...

Amanda sat at her desk staring at the door to Olivia's office, watching Dean inside from the windows that looked out onto the squad room. She couldn't believe that she'd been so foolish and had given in to him a week ago. What started out as breakfast and an apology ended up as filthy, mind-blowing sex; sex that she swore would never happen again but that didn't stop her from wanting it to.

They hadn't since that day even though Dean tried but she had a hard time believing that he was letting go of his preoccupation with Olivia so easily no matter how much he tried to convince her otherwise. So far, he'd given her no reason to doubt him but she was still gun-shy after the way he'd tried to use her the first time. She liked Dean a lot, maybe a lot more than she should but she would not be involved - even indirectly with helping him cause trouble in Olivia's marriage. She considered her boss a friend and still hadn't forgiven herself for the moment of weakness she had with Elliot years ago and there isn't a day that goes by that she isn't thankful that Olivia never found out about that indiscretion - or where she doesn't wonder what she and Elliot's child would have looked like had it lived through the beating that killed it.

She didn't notice that Dean had emerged from the office and was now standing beside her desk pretending to be reading a file.

"Penny for your thoughts"

"I... nothing important" she said as she shook out of her reverie.

"Well, it's late so I'm gonna call it a night. You wanna come back to my hotel, let me help you get nothing important off your mind?"

"I don't think that's such a... "

"Come on" he insisted as he leaned over her shoulder and dropped his voice to a near-whisper "a nice, hard fuck; my mouth on every inch of you"

"I could have you brought up on sexual harassment for this you know" she grinned

"But you love the way I harass you sexually!"

"Cocky bastard!" she rolled her eyes, thankful that the squad room was practically empty this time of night.

"And I own it! Your nipples hard yet?"

"Why, you wanna feel em?" she smirked

"Would that I could without getting us both fired. Hell, I'd bend you over this desk and fuck you senseless right here, right now if I could. But we'll just have to settle for every surface of my hotel suite, all night long - that's if you agree to come.

"fine, but I catch you even lookin like you wanna think about Liv and I will tie your dick in a knot. We clear?"

"Crystal"