#liv.dodds

[rahleeyah]

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[rahleeyah]

Oooof thinking about that ask from @headswillrolll and. Elliot following Dodds and Liv when they leave, discreetly. Elliot watching from the shadows while they stop to talk. Hearing Liv say something like yeah, you know, it's been a hard road. And

Speaking of a hard road, I heard about Ed. I'm so sorry, Liv.

(and Elliot thinking who the FUCK is Ed???)

Thank you

Yeah, you know, I never liked the guy

I don't think anybody did

But as far as I'm concerned he had one redeeming quality. He loved you. That makes him ok, in my book.

(Elliot is now quietly dying)

Thank you, for that

Listen, you wanna go get a drink sometime? Sit somewhere quiet and sing sad songs about the death of kings

I'd like that

It's a date

And Dodds leans in and kisses her cheek, and then opens the car door for her, and Elliot and Dodds both watch her drive away, thinking

[rahleeyah]

It’s been a few days and I’m sitting at work late still thinking about your Liv and Dodds long term secret affair post and it is canon to me now. But also thinking about the potential that backstory adds to their last scene together where he tells her “don’t worry about me, I’ll be back”

Bring him back then!! Give me Dodds showing up as the new Deputy Chief for OC after clawing his way out of his Staten Island traffic purgatory. Give me Liv at the OC office to say hi to El (newly back from undercover) or meet with Ayanna and Dodds stopping by and them running into each other

And the last time they saw each other was the last time they slept together: after her captain promotion ceremony (he stood in the back and came over that night to bring her flowers) and they shake hands like professionals but there’s something in the way they’re looking at each other that makes Ayanna smirk and Elliot glare

“I told you I’d be back, Captain” and she can’t help how much she’s smiling at hearing that from him. “We miss you over at SVU, Chief.” “Bet you never thought you’d be saying that back when we met.” And they catch up on squad news, standing close, radiating their Amicably Divorced Co-Parent Energy through the room

And Elliot’s always been jealous of the men Liv sleeps with but consistently throughout the show he’s been even more jealous of the men that she’s worked with, especially if she’s worked with them well and they have a rapport (see Porter, Ash, etc). And here’s Dodds: a man Liv has both slept with and worked well with and Elliot can tell, he can always tell, so he hates him at first sight but this is his boss’s new boss and he’s been working on that whole self control thing since he’s been back so there’s nothing he can do but grimace as if the two of them are stabbing him in the eyeballs (they kind of are)

Liv does have to get back to work though, and Dodds offers to walk her out since he only came by OC to introduce himself. And maybe he lets his hand linger against the small of her back as they head to the door, he’s not her boss anymore so it’s not technically inappropriate. And maybe she lets him because she’s pleasantly surprised by how nice it is to see him again like this. And maybe Elliot wants to eat his desk while Ayanna (who is beyond sick of this hetero drama) just pats him on the shoulder and tells him to get back to work and save being a jealous boyfriend for his own time

“I’m not her boyfriend” Elliot grumbles, almost petulantly, because they haven’t exactly had time to discuss what him being home for good now means for them, what they want it to mean (but wait maybe they already kissed once when he got pulled out but they haven’t talked about it because this is EO, so Elliot’s irritation is compounded by that). “Well it seems like someone else might be interested in the position, so if you really want it then maybe you should work on that”

THIS!!! IS!!! EVERYTHING!!! OH!!! MY!!! GOD!!!!

Amicable exes Dodds and Liv. Her relief at having someone she cares for back in her life. Elliot eating his own liver. Every. Single. Word. Of. This.

Bestie you did that

I need this I'm gonna revisit this ask like it's a fucking fic EYE-

(I'm literally watching s18 right now and he is in her apartment and I am feeling all the things)

I want Elliot to see it so bad. To see that Liv's life is full of people he doesn't know. To see that she's not just waiting around for him, that if he doesn't make a move he will lose her, to someone brave enough to reach for her. And he can't stand the thought that maybe it's too late, that maybe he waited too long.

This is so messy and delicious I love it