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Elliot is walking down the busy streets of New York City, holding on tightly to Eli's small hand. It is Sunday afternoon and they have been out all day, having a fun day just the two of them. They had been to the park, where Eli excitedly pulled Elliot around to deferent parts of the big playground and later throwing a ball around. After the trip to the park, they went over to a deli to get some much-needed lunch.
They have just exited the movie theater, Eli loudly talking about the new Despicable Me 3 which they have just seen, when he sees her. She looks just the same. Same brown hair, same figure, same big, brown eyes. And that smile. A smile that can light up a dark room. A smile she is giving to a little boy in a black stroller. Who is that boy? Elliot thinks. Is it hers, and if it is who is the father? Elliot feels the pull in his hand and then the little voice of his smallest child, and he has to tear his gaze away from her.
"What?" Elliot asks, too distracted by the sight, to hear what Eli had said.
"Are we going home now?" Eli sounds tired, and Elliot understands, he is just as tired as Eli, having spent all day outside.
"Yeah, let's go home and make some dinner. The chance of your siblings making it is 0 to none." All the kids are home on Easter break, and with Kathy on vacation with her new boyfriend Matt, well not new anymore, after all, they have been together for two years and are on their anniversary trip, Elliot has them all week.
"Yeah," Eli says, and together they walk back to Elliot's car just around the corner.
Olivia had seen him out the corner of her eye and her breath hitched, but she did not acknowledge him. If he knew that she had seen him that would just be awkward, so she kept talking and laughing at Noah, because he was hyper after the movie they had just seen.
"Okay big guy, ready to go home and eat?" Olivia said pushing the stroller.
When they get home, Noah is sleeping in the stroller. Olivia lifts him up and puts him down for a little nap before dinner. When she sure that Noah is still sleeping she makes her way out his room and starts preparing dinner for the two of them.
As she is making dinner her thoughts drift off to Elliot. It has been seven years since she last saw him, and he hasn't changed a bit. Sure, he is older but his figure is all the same, big with muscles. Muscles she has on few occasions felt around her body. She loved them, they always made her feel safe. And what a turn on they were. He wasn't afraid to change his shirt in front her, and she loved him for his confidence, but at the same hated it. Sometimes she couldn't stop fantasizing about his strong body, late at night lying in her bed, how it would feel to have him lift her up against the wall, and just kiss her senseless.
"'Jesus," Olivia says to herself in the silent apartment. "Now is just the time to be thinking about your old partner." She could already feel herself getting hot.
Just think about something simple, Olivia thinks to herself. What is simple? Noah, he is simple. He is making me feel alive again. I would have fallen into a black hole if he hadn't entered my life.
The squad is also simple. Well not simple, it never is in our line of work, but I can't help but smile when I think of them, they are just like family.
With all her thinking, dinner is suddenly ready. Olivia walks into Noah's room and wakes him up. He is not happy, so I just whisper in his ear that dinner is ready, and he is out of his bed in a second, cause he knows that we are getting his favorite dinner, Lasagna.
Just a few blocks away Elliot was sitting in his penthouse apartment with his children, eating dinner. Since Elliot had seen Olivia he has not stopped thinking about her. She was all he could think about, and he has been quite since Eli and himself had gotten home. The children had noticed but had not yet asked him about it.
When they were all done with dinner, they help each with cleaning up, while Eli goes to his room playing Xbox before they would all watch a movie.
"Dad, can we ask you about something?" Maureen the oldest of the Stabler kids asks.
"Yeah, sure" Elliot answers and sits down at the dinner table, where they are all sitting looking at him.
"What is going on?" Lizzie asks, always the one to cut to the chase. "You have been quite since you and Eli got home."
"Yeah" Elliot clears his throat and continues. "I saw someone I haven't for a while today. It's bringing back memories." He doesn't tell who he saw today, not sure how they will react.
"And?" Lizzie says, not understanding why it has been keeping her dad quite all night, her dad is usually good at hiding when something is bothering him.
"And what?" Elliot asks playing dumb, knowing what she means.
"Well, who was it?" Maureen buts in knowing what her father is doing.
"Ehm… It was Olivia" Elliot says quietly. He hears a few gasps and sees Kathleen's head snaps up at the mentioning of her favorite person's name.
"Did you talk to her?!" Kathleen asks in a high pitch voice, with a big smile on her lips. Olivia had been like an aunt to all the Stabler kids, but at the same time a best friend they could tell everything to.
"No, I did not," Elliot answers knowing that he now will be interrogated by his own children. He knows that they were a bit mad at him for cutting Olivia out of their lives. He knew they loved her, and that she loved them back.
"Well, why the hell not?" Dickie asks.
"Dickie language!" Elliot says and then continues. "She was with a child and I don't know it is hers or not… Probably is." The kids could all see the sadness in Elliot's eyes when he tells them that.
"Are you gonna contact her?" Maureen asks hoping that he will. They had all seen how it destroyed their dad when he cut all contact with Olivia.
"I don't know, maybe," Elliot answers knowing that he won't contact her, but he doesn't want to let the kids down. "But now I think it is time for movie night. I will make the popcorn, one of you go get Eli, and the rest of you can choose a movie," Elliot says standing up.
"I will get Eli," Maureen says getting up and making her way to Eli's room.
Soon the Stabler clan is gathered around the TV watching a movie and eating popcorn.
That was chapter one. Leave a review if you want me to continue, thank you.
If there are any misspellings or incorrect grammar, let me know. I'd like for you all to tell me, because English is not my native language, and I will like to get better at it.