Ok I had this story in my head for a while now and I wanted to write it. Please give it a chance. So as you may know this is not an EO story even though I am a big EO shipper. This is set right after Born Psychopath. Also there is no mystery man in Olivia's life, yet. As always READ, REVIEW, and ENJOY.

Chapter 1

Olivia Benson was a woman who wanted what many women wanted, a husband, a family. She envied those who had the life that she wanted. There were moments when she would wonder if all the sacrifices that she made, one being having a family of her own, to do the job that she do was worth it, because now she was alone, something that she hated. She did not like coming home to an empty apartment. There were nights she just cried herself to sleep because of the loneliness that she felt.

Olivia wondered if she'll ever find Mr. Right. Someone she could come home to, to love, to have a family with. She was getting older, every year that pass by she was getting closer to not being able to having children of her own. She thought David Haden was the one, but she guess she was wrong about that.

Today was her day off, Cragen force her to take it, saying she needed the break. She didn't mind the time off, it was the fact that she'll be alone. To pass the time she went for a walk in the park. As she was walking past the baseball field she notices someone. She walked over to the bleachers and sat down to watch them coach. It wasn't long before the person saw Olivia seating in the bleachers.

"Detective Benson, I'm surprise to see you here."

"We're not working call me Olivia or Liv." Olivia said as she stood up stepping down towards the person. "But I have a couple of days off. Decided to take a little stroll in the park, saw you coaching so I decided to watch." Olivia said smiling. It was nice to see him outside of work.

"Hope you're enjoying it Olivia and you can call me Bayard instead of Ellis." Ellis said smiling also, he like the more relaxed detective, seeing her out side of her work.

Olivia nodded, "Ok, so this is your daughter's team?" Olivia asked remembering being invited to a game.

"Yeah, I'll introduce you to her." Bayard said turning around, "Jessica, can you come here for a minute." Bayard yelled.

Olivia watched as a young girl with a lighter complexion then Bayard, long light brown hair, and surprisingly she had grey eyes. Olivia figured she most have got them from her mother, she was a pretty girl.

"Jessica this is Detective Olivia Benson, Olivia this is my daughter Jessica." Bayard said smiling.

"It's nice to meet you Detective Benson." Jessica said shacking Olivia's hand. "My dad talk's a lot about you."

Olivia smiled, "It's nice to meet you too Jessica. And please call me Olivia. And I hope he spoke all good things." Olivia said glancing up at Bayard; she was a little surprise that he was even speaking about her outside of work.

"Oh yeah, he was always talking about what a great detective you are. Working hard to put away the bad guys and how much you care about the victims." Jessica said. What she did not say was how her father face lit up every time he spoke about the detective.

Bayard smiled, "I was just saying what everyone else has said."

"Hey Olivia in about an hour we have a game, do you want to stay and watch us play?" Jessica asked excited.

Olivia chuckled a little at Jessica's excitement, "I'd love to stay and watch you play Jess. I love softball and baseball; I use to play it in high school actually."

"Really, do you think you can give me some pointers in batting?" Jessica asked hoping Olivia would say yes.

"Not a problem, come on I'll show you some tricks." Olivia said walking with Jessica back to the baseball diamond where she was introduced to the team by Jessica.

Bayard was surprised at how fast Jessica warmed up to Olivia. Jessica reminded him of her mother, they both took time in warming up to others, to trust them. He had a feeling that Jessica and Olivia would become close.

Bayard soon joined his daughter and Olivia on the field. He watched as Olivia pulled her hair into a ponytail and help Jessica and the other girls with their batting and the pitchers with their pitching. All the girls were having fun with Olivia and enjoying her help.

After Olivia finished giving out some valuable pointers, they all got ready for the game. Because they put to use Olivia's advice they won the game 8-3, they were all going out for pizza to celebrate their victory.

"Hey Olivia are you coming to get pizza with us?" Lisa the pitcher asked.

"Yeah Olivia you should joined us, you did help us win." Jessica said. She really liked Olivia, her father was right Olivia was a great person.

Olivia did not want to disappoint the girls, and plus she was hungry. "Sure, I will go get pizza with you all." After all it was better than eating alone.

The team, Bayard, and Olivia went to their regular pizza place where if they win their game their pizza was on the house.

"So you use to play softball in high school." Bayard said as they were eating their pizza.

Olivia finished chewing her food, "Yeah, was the coach also. I did a lot of extracurricular activities in school." Olivia said not mentioning that doing so allowed her to stay away from her mother while she was drunk, giving her some time to pass out or at least sober up some. "You have an amazing team here Bayard what made you decide to coach softball?"

"I do it for my daughter, she loves the sport, the last coach retired and the team was facing ending without another coach, so I jump at the opportunity. It also gave me the chance to spend time with Jessica." Bayard responded.

Olivia could tell he loved his daughter and would do anything for her.

"Hey dad can I stay the weekend at Lisa's house, please?" Jessica asked with a pleading look.

Olivia smiled at the scene, she knew that Bayard would say yes, just the look on his face; yeah Jessica had him wrapped around her finger.

"I have no problem with it. Just make sure you guys are not late for the game tomorrow." Bayard said smiling at his daughter.

"Thank you daddy, love you." Jessica said bending down giving her father a hug and kiss. "Hey Olivia coming to tomorrow's game too?" Jessica asked turning to Olivia.

"I'm off, so sure, I be there rooting you guys on." Olivia said getting excited also.

"Cool," Jessica said bending down to give Olivia a hug also, "Thanks for your help today."

Olivia hugged Jessica back, "It was no problem, and I had fun today. I'll see you tomorrow at the game." Olivia said pulling back.

Jessica smiled, "Ok bye Olivia, bye dad love you." Jessica said walking over to Lisa and leaving barely hearing her dad saying love you too back.

Olivia sighed, "Well I guess I should be heading home, Thanks I had fun today." Olivia said standing up and getting her things.

Bayard stood up also, "Thanks Olivia for hanging out with us today, the girls really did have fun with you." Bayard said smiling at Olivia, "Let me take you home, no need to pay for a cab." Bayard said starting to leave leaving no room for Olivia to argue.

Olivia just smiled and followed him out of the pizza place. The drive to Olivia's place was quiet. Olivia was thinking about how much fun she had today. It was the most fun she had in a while. They arrived in front of Olivia's apartment building.

Olivia looked over at Bayard, "Want to come up for some coffee, it still kind of early." Olivia said looking at the time seeing it was only 7:30pm.

Bayard turned off the car, "Sure I can go for some coffee right now." Bayard was surprise that Olivia invited him, maybe this was a chance for to get to know the detective.

They both got out of the car and headed up to her apartment. When they enter Bayard glanced around, "This is a nice place Olivia."

Olivia gave him a small smile while she set her purse on the table near the door, "Thanks, just make yourself comfortable. I'll go get the coffee started." Olivia said as she headed towards the kitchen.

When Bayard entered the living room, he looked around, looking at the pictures on the coffee table and on the wall. In all the pictures Olivia was smiling, something he rarely saw from her, he likes to see her smile. Except for today he has never seen the detective smile. Bayard made his way to the couch and sat down. Olivia walked out a couple of minutes later with two mugs of coffee, she handed one to Bayard, "Thank you." Bayard said as Olivia handed him his coffee.

"No problem, Bayard you have a lovely daughter, she's great at softball. You and your wife must be proud of her." Olivia said taking a sip of her coffee, noticing Bayard change of mood. "Um…is the coffee ok?" Olivia asked thinking maybe he didn't like the way the coffee was made.

"Oh no it good," Bayard said, he felt like he should explain his change of mood, "For the past four years it's just been Jessica and myself. My ex-wife left us when Jessica was nine," Bayard laughed a little, "She left us, her daughter to be with a twenty year old then moved to California. We haven't heard from her since, she sign over full custody of Jessica to me. Jessica took it hard, she thought she did something that made her mother leave. For a while I blame myself for not being a good enough husband for her. Over time though, both Jessica and I realize that it wasn't either our fault that Kelly my ex-wife left." Bayard said taking a sip of the coffee, he would have to ask Olivia what type of coffee it was because it was really good.

Olivia couldn't imagine how difficult it must have been on them especially Jessica considering she was so young when her mother just walked out of her life without a word. She knew how that felt to have someone leave you without a goodbye, an explanation. She no doubt believes that neither of them got closure from it. "I'm sorry Bayard. I'm glad that Jessica and you are doing better though."

Bayard nodded, "Yeah, I can't stay mad at her forever, she did give me Jessica, she's my life so I'll always be grateful towards Kelly for that." Bayard took another sip of his coffee, "So how's everything at SVU?"

Olivia set her coffee on the coffee table and making herself more comfortable, "Good, just finished a case. We had a ten year old psychopath, first he pushed his little sister down the stairs for fun, then he almost burned down the apartment building he was living in down because he wanted to see his sister melt from the inside out, tied up his friend killing their pet dog in the process, and held a young boy as hostage with a gun, then shooting Amaro, his vest stop the bullet he was just bruised. Oh he also cut his mother's hand because he didn't want to go to sleep." Olivia shook her head, "He's going to be spending basically the rest of his life in a mental hospital."

Bayard sat there in shock at the details of the case; all of this was down by a ten year old, "Wow… at ten years old…the parents must have taken it hard."

"Yeah, especially the father, they were in denial, saying 'he'll grow out of it', that it was just a phase he was going through." Olivia said thinking that if the father had listen from the beginning then none of this would have happened.

"Some have to learn the hard way." Bayard paused "How's your brother doing?" He asked, he had been wondering for a while now how Simon was doing since the whole mess with his kids and girlfriend happened.

Olivia didn't know what to say, "Um… well I really haven't been in touch with Simon in a while. So I'm not sure how he is doing right now." Olivia said, she tried to stay in touch with Simon, she didn't know what happen. They were talking for a couple of months then it stop. She just hopes he was doing ok.

Bayard could tell that she was worried about her brother, "Well I'm sure he is doing well." Bayard said trying to reassure her. He received a small smile from her. "What's the story behind you and Simon? I remember you saying that you didn't know about him until five, six years ago."

She usually try not to talk about her past, her mother, and conception but for some reason Olivia wanted to talk about it, to tell him the story. "Where do I begin? I never knew my father…part of me wanted to at least meet him but the other part doesn't. My father raped my mother…she got pregnant with me; I was the product of that rape. About six years ago I ran my DNA through the system hoping to find him, instead I found Simon, found out that my father died tens earlier." Olivia said

"They never caught him." Bayard said, "Did your mother know that you found out who this guy was?"

"Nope, he went his whole life without being caught. By the time I found out who my father was my mother had been dead for about six years. I wished she had received closure. She became a drunk because of it, she could never move on from it, especially with a reminder of it every day." Olivia paused, "This is why I do this job, to give victims justice, something that my mother never received."

Bayard gave Olivia a sympathetic smile. He could tell that not only did her mother suffer, but she did also. "Olivia you're an amazing person. Because of your past it drives you to get justice for victims, putting the right guy behind bars. Many detectives in this field do not show the amount of passion and determinations for this job then you do. They do not show compassion and understanding to the victims like they should. That is why victims trust you, because you take the time to help them, going beyond the call of duty to do so." Bayard said firmly, this is why he respected Olivia because she had passion for her job, she was determined to put the right guy in prison not just anyone.

Olivia gave Bayard a genuine smile, "That's what keeps me going, knowing that not many people will do this job or will do it with passion. I tell many people that working SVU is not for the faint hearted, hence why the normal rotation for SVU detectives is two years." Olivia knew if she didn't do her job, who would.

They fell into a comfortable silence for a couple of minute. Both observed in their thoughts. Bayard was the first to break the silence, "I was thinking… since you know and play softball, if you would consider being a second coach for the team." Bayard suggested thinking it would be good for the detective, "The girls love you and would love to have you part of the team, I could use the extra hand." Bayard said hoping she would agree.

Olivia thought about it for a minute, it would be fun to coach alongside Bayard, yet her crazy work hours would limit her help. "Bayard I would love to join the team as a coach, but I work crazy hours so my help would be limited." Olivia laughed a little at the smile on Bayard's face, she was starting like that smile.

Bayard was thrilled that she wanted to coach alongside him. He really did could use the extra hands in coaching the team, especially from someone who played it and coach it before. "Don't worry we can work around your hours, let's just give it a trail run and see how it goes from there." Bayard suggested.

Olivia laughed, she could tell Bayard was happy that she wanted to help him coach too, "Ok, let's give it a try and see how it goes." Olivia said laughing again, to be honest she was excited herself.

Bayard loved hearing Olivia laugh, "Good we can tell the girls tomorrow at the game, they'll be excited about it." Bayard said.

Well, what do you think? I know it's not an EO story but please do give a try. Let me know if you want to read more, reviews will really help. So don't forget to REVIEW.