Hey, hi, and hello!

This is sorta my "comeback" to writing FF's! I haven't written in years, and I'm pretty excited! I never got a chance to write SVU fics, so if you're a fan, hang on for the ride! Thank you, and happy reading!

"Start at the beginning"

Beginning?

Something about that made Elliot burst out into a spurt of infantile giggling. What beginning? He had to give it to him, though. This shrink was a true professional. With Elliot's small fit of laughter, the therapist only merely peered at him. Expressionless as usual. Elliot was "summoned" to complete this round for at least a year, or he was threatened that he'd have his badge "removed quicker than you can fathom" Or, so he was told.

"I'm a life ruiner, doc. What else do you want me to say? I'm the greatest guy on the planet! I mean, you'd have to be to fuck up a marriage you were barely ever happy in. You'd have to be to ruin your partner's career, publicly humiliating her by being caught with her."

"Caught with her?"

Oh shit. This shrink was good. Great job, Elliot. You opened Pandora's Box. Now you have to speak about how your captain basically caught you panting like a pansy in the precinct basement with Liv.

Liv.

Elliot sighed faintly. He knew beyond this act he's put on, despite his flaws, despite his fuck-ups, he never wanted her in the mix of this. He never wanted to see that sadness in her eyes the way he saw them before she left forever. Left her badge on the desk. Not even informing anyone that she was done. Disappearing. Something he actually wished he could do himself. He didn't want to hurt another person, he didn't want this. Not at all.

Forgetting the question at hand, Elliot's mind went to the "beginning", as the inquisitive, yet slightly irritating and prying doctor put it. Sure, doc. Let's go there.

Let's go back to the beginning..