Title: Red
Pairing: Elliot Stabler/Olivia Benson
Rating: K+
Author's Note: These characters aren't mine. If they were, things would be different, and I wouldn't have to worry about paying for college. They belong to Dick Wolf and NBC. Do I have that right? Anyways, the only things I own are almost a dozen textbooks, an empty box of old candy canes, and a laptop I got for my birthday.
Author's Note 2: This story is based on the song "Red" by Taylor Swift. I don't own her or the rights to this song.
Chapter 1
Loving him is like driving a new Maserati down a dead-end street" Faster than the wind, passionate as sin, ended so suddenly. Loving him is like trying to change your mind once you're already flying through the free fall, like the colors in autumn so bright just before they lose it all.
She knew it was supposed to be a one-night thing. But, somehow, one night turned into one weekend which turned into one week. One week turned into one month. And then she woke up one morning and it was their first anniversary.
But that was where it ended.
She spent what should've been a nice, relaxing day for the both of them wandering aimlessly around her apartment. She couldn't eat, couldn't sleep, couldn't hold still. She tried to let herself cry, but the pain was too deep, too consuming.
Instead, she paced, she cleaned, she cooked. She did anything she possibly could to keep her mind off of him. But nothing truly worked; she just kept hearing his voice on the answering machine.
"Olivia, it's Elliot. I can't. I'm sorry."
When she finally settled into bed that night, memories of the two of them bombared every one of her senses.
Remembering him comes in flashbacks and echoes. Tell myself it's time now, gotta let go. But moving on from him is impossible when I still see it all in my head burning red.
Author's Note: I know this first chapter wasn't really all that good. It gets better, I swear.