Here's an other E/O story. Just a quick side note, we are going to pretend olivia & david never happened because...well... because I said so. Happy reading:)

'This is Captain Cragen speaking how may I help you...Never thought I would hear from you again... Ok, I'm listening...what time? Alright that's fine, don't do anything stupid you hear me?.. Good bye...' Cragen hung up the phone and walked to Olivia's office.

'What's up Captain?'

'Liv, I want you to go home early today. You can leave at 3. You need some rest.'

'I'm fine.' She looked at him confused.

'I know, but you deserve some time off. If something big comes up that we can't handle I'll call you, but if we don't call, then don't come in until Monday. Don't argue with me please.'

'Ok, thanks captain.'

He walked back to his office and Munch and Fin followed him in.

'Hey Captain, did you get the call?' Fin sat in the big leather couch.

'Yeah he called me; he's going to see her today at four. I hope she lets him talk to her.'

'She's going to kill us when she finds out that we knew where he was this entire time.' Munch said.

'She'll castrate me, I stayed at her house for 3 weeks and she just cried and cried.' Fin said as he sunk deeper in the couch.

'We'll find out tomorrow what happens.' Captain said and the guys walked out.

3 o'clock rolled by and Olivia got her things and said good bye to Fin, Munch, Nick and Amanda. She was secretly jumping for joy that she had an early start to the weekend.

She got to her apartment, took a quick shower and threw on one of Elliot's dress shirts and a pair of panties. It had been 5 months since he had left, and every day when she was home, she wore a piece of his clothing. She grabbed a beer and sat on the couch and watched re-runs of Friends.

An hour and two beers later, there was a knock on the door. She looked through the peep hole and opened the door as tears rolled down her face.

'El!' She jumped into his arms giving him a huge hug. She never thought she would miss him this much after all the tears and alcohol and cigarettes he put her through.

'Liv, we need to talk. I'm not sure why you're hugging me; you should be holding a gun to my heart about to pull the trigger.'

She removed her arms from his neck, whipped the tears from her face with the shirt sleeve and let him in. She grabbed two more beers, turned off the television and sat on the other side of the couch.

'Start talking.' Her voice became serious.

'I spent a week at home crying after the shooting. I told Kathy and she filed for divorce.'

'Why?'

'She didn't want to be married to a child killer.'

She took a sip of her beer, ' continue.'

'I let her keep the house; I moved in with my mom and saw the kids every other weekend. Mo, Lizzie, Dickie and Eli forgave me for the shooting. As for Kathleen, I haven't talked to her in months. She refuses to talk to me, she even asked for a paternity test because her real father would never kill a child. Tests came back and I am her father. Which I was surprised about by the way.' She let out a quiet laugh. 'I had all this anger built inside of me that I decided to go to anger management camp for 2 months. I came back to my mom's house after the 2 months, worked at the local deli. It took me the last two months to realize what I did to you. My partner for 13 years. I have no excuse for why I didn't answer your 325 calls, 498 texts and 217 emails. I read and listened to every single one though. I miss you so much Liv and I just had to come back and tell you where I had been. As of now, I'm starting to look for an apartment in the city again Uhm, well that's all I have to say. I should get going I'm sure you have some sort of plans for tonight.'

He stood up and started walking towards the door. She got up and grabbed his arm and turned him around and held him tightly. When he realized what she was doing, he wrapped his arms around her back and held her close. She began to cry in to his chest. They stood in the middle of her apartment in each other's embrace for at least an hour until she stepped back.

'I can't begin to explain what you put me through. Elliot for weeks, all I could do was cry. Cragen ordered Fin to sleep on my couch for 3 weeks just in case I did something stupid. Huang wanted to put me on suicide watch. Casey held me like a baby while I cried. You destroyed me El. I can forgive you for what you did to Jenny. I am not mad or angry about what you did that day. But it's going to take time for me to forgive you for what you did to me.' Elliot looked down and for the first time he was speechless.

'I am willing to start forgiving you as long as you promise not to ever leave without saying good bye. I'm not ready to throw away a 13 year partnership.' She walked closer to him.

'I'm willing to fight for our friendship Liv.' He whispered.

'El I've missed you so much.' She hugged him again.

'I thought you would never want to talk to me again since I killed a child.'

'I would never not talk to you El. You could have shot me and I would still be happy to see you.' Their laughs echoed in the room.

'You want to get some dinner?'

'Can we stay in and order Chinese? Like old times.'

'Sure, you have to update me on your life.'

'I will.' She grabbed her phone and ordered the food.

'So tell me Liv, what's the latest office gossip?' He said in a girly voice making Liv laugh.

'Cragen's getting married, Munch is married again, wife number 5 I think, Fin is seeing a girl. Casey is pregnant. We have two new detectives, Nick Amaro who's my partner, and Amanda Rollins.'

'Woah, I missed a lot. Are you pregnant, getting married or seeing anyone?'

'No, I accepted the fact that I am going to be married to the job until death do us part.'

'You never know Liv. Someone might come by and sweep you off your feet.'

'I'm not going to get my hopes up. Have you found any one yet?'

'I haven't been looking.' There was a silence in the room, the buzzer made them both jump. He got up and paid for the food.

'You didn't have to pay.'

'I wanted to.' They ate in silence.

'Are you thinking of going back into the police business?'

'No, my friend owns a restaurant in Manhattan. It pays well and I'm guaranteed my life at the end of the day. I could never go back to holding a gun on my hip.'

'Well that's good, as long as it pays the bills.'

'Yeah, I have some apartments that I want to look at, would you want to go tomorrow with me?'

'Sure.'

'It was nice catching up Liv, I should get going.'

'Its 2 in the morning, you are seriously going to drive all the way back to Jersey?'

'No, I'll go find a hotel, I packed an overnight bag, just in case it got too late for me to drive back home.'

'You can stay here if you want.'

'Are you sure?'

'Yeah, why spend money at a cheap hotel when you can sleep in a nice comfy bed with clean sheets.'

'Liv, I don't want to make you sleep on the couch, I'll just go to a hotel.'

'Who said I would sleep on the couch. Elliot, we have known each other for 13 years, I have pretended to be your wife twice, we have seen each other practically naked, and one night in bed together won't kill us. Go get your bag and come back up.' She cleaned up the take out containers and beer bottles. She let him in again and they headed to the bedroom.

'Do you need to shower?'

'No, I showered before I came here.' He stripped down to his boxers; she kept his dress shirt on but took off her bra. When she turned around, her jaw dropped. She walked around the bed and stopped in front of him.

'New tattoo?' She brushed her fingers over the side of his ribs. It was Olivia's badge number with 'Semper Fi' underneath it

'Do you like it?' She didn't answer, instead she lifted up her shirt, her breasts barely covered and turned to the side. She had his badge number with 'Semper Fi' underneath it, on her ribs.

'Great minds think alike.' She smiled as she put her shirt back down. He held her face in between his hands and leaned down and kissed her, her lips were so soft against his. She didn't pull back, she lead him to the bed without ever breaking the kiss. She pushed him down on to the bed. She straddled on top of him; he ran his hands slowly up and down her thighs. His hands found her panties; he played with the waist band as her lips moved to his neck. Her hips started to sway back and forth over his semi hard member.

'Li...Liv, wait.' He said trying to catch his breath. She removed her lips from his neck and sat back.

'What?'

'Even though I've wanted to do this for 13 years, I can't do it now. We need to fix things and having sex isn't going to make it better.'

'But El I want you.'

'Liv, I want you too, so much. But I can't not right now. We need to figure things out between us.'

'Like what El?'

'I've been gone for five months Liv. I can't just come back and sleep with you. I don't want to take advantage of you like this.'

'you're not taking advantage of me, but if you don't want to do this now, then that's fine.'

'one more kiss wouldn't hurt though.' She smiled and leaned down to meet his lips. She got off his lap, pulled the covers over their shoulders and drifted off.

The next morning, the sun peaked through the blinds right on to Olivia's face. She woke up with Elliot's arms around her waist, his breath blowing soft on her shoulder sending chills down her spine. She turned around, still in his arms and gave him a small peck on his lips.

'Mmm.' He slowly opened his eyes to see dark brown eyes staring at him.

'Good Morning.'

'Yes it is. Your lips are extra soft in the morning.' He leaned over her, supporting himself with his hands, he leaned down and kissed her. She pushed him away,' I'm sorry.'

'For what?'

'For coming on to you last night, now that you're single I found you ten times more attractive and I couldn't help myself.'

He laughed at her, he leaned back down except he didn't go for her lips, he went for the spot right behind the ear he moved down to her neck.

'Wait El. What happened to we need to figure stuff out.' He didn't answer; he moved his lips to her collar bone. She let out a quiet moan. 'El.' He took his one hand and slid it over her stomach, he slipped it underneath the waist band and felt how wet she was. She gasped. Even though she didn't want to she put her hands on his hard chest and pushed him away.

'Elliot, I want to do this I really do, but we have to fix things first.'

'Fine, but the minute we fix things I am going to make love to you on the closest surface.'

'Anything you say. Come on, we should get ready and go look at those apartments.'

Elliot and Olivia spent 3 hours looking at 5 different apartments, they decided five was enough for the day and went to the local diner for lunch.

~Meanwhile at the Precinct~
'Have you guys heard from Olivia?' Fin asked as he sipped his coffee.

'No. She is probably trying to find a place to bury his body.' Munch said.

'She could get away with it.' Cragen added.

~At the Diner~

'Which one do you like the most El?'

'I think the third one. It's close to work, has nice view, it's only 3 bedrooms but I can make it work with the kids.'

'I like that one too.' She smiled.

'So what things do we need to fix?'

'I don't know.'

'Me either, I feel that I hurt you so bad and I don't know. I left you without saying good bye. Which is so fucked up, I wasn't thinking straight.'

'I honestly got over it, I didn't get over you. Just what you did, I didn't know if you were ever coming back. So I didn't want to spend all my life thinking about how you hurt me. But I am happy you came back, because I've missed you so much. Everyone thought I would be a total bitch and flip out on everyone. But I kept my cool; I did lose it when I had to clean out your desk.'

'I'm sorry Liv, I'm so sorry.'

'Were you planning on ever coming back when you left?'

'If you never tried to contact me then no.'

'El, I know I'm a bitch but I couldn't just not try to contact you.'

'You're the farthest from-'Olivia's phone rang, stopping Elliot mid sentence.

'El, I'm sorry, but I have to go.' She got her things, gave him a quick kiss and left the diner.

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