My Last Request

Elliot sat there at her bed side starring at the woman he had been married to twenty five years, hooked up to so many machines and ready to take her final bow.

"Elliot could you please give this to Olivia for me please" Elliot stared at the envelope in her frail hands, taking it from her hand she smiled at him and said "Could you call her for me I want to speak with her" Kathy asked and forced a smile to her lips.

Kathy was supposed to die today her heart would not sustain her and neither would lungs, the cancer spread to fast to far and today would be the day she said her final good bye.

Olivia walked in the room and was beastly afraid she had been to the hospital so many times but she had never expected Mrs. K Stabler to ask her to visit her dying bed.

"Olivia have a seat an Elliot could you give us a minute" Kathy asked her husband and motioned for Olivia to take the chair.

"Yes Kathy what can I do for you before you …know" Olivia asked feeling like an idiot for asking.

"Here this is for you, I want you to read it and please honour my last request" Kathy said to her, handing the letter she had taken back from Elliot so she could deliver it her self.

Olivia took the letter and started to read and this is what it said:

"Dear Olivia

This isn't easy for me but what else can I do? Nothing it the answer it is destined to be so, but before I go this is my last request to you.

I know we aren't necessarily friends but you are friends with my husband thus I have this brilliant idea and hope you honour my wishes however crazy they may be.

I want for you to move in with Elliot and the both of you get married and raise Mickey as your own.

I want no one else to take care of my children but you I know Elliot can not do it alone, and when I am gone he will need to get over me so help him with that.

I know it's a lot to ask but quite frankly you have no life apart from work and I also know you admire and love my kids so please be a mom to them.

I will always be in there hearts but some one needs to be there for them and I chose you: Olivia Benson, as I trust no one else.

Thank you very much for understanding; I encourage you to make him happy, teach them to live after I am gone.

K. Stabler."

Olivia's hand shook as she finished reading the letter and tears welled up in her eyes.

"Kathy I can't do this" She spoke as the tears gently fell from her eyes.

"Yes you can" Kathy replied with a shaky voice. "This is all I want before I leave some one I trust to be there for them in this there time of need"

"Kathy you don't understand I can't marry Elliot"

"Why not? You love him more than the very air you breathe and he's going to need you to get through this. The kids are going to need a father and you are the only one that can save him from himself the moment I shut my eyes."

The tears where streaming down here face and the emotion lodged in throat she wanted to object to what Kathy was saying though she knew it was the truth.

"Olivia, look at me and don't deny it as I see it every time he smiles in your way you radiate the room with sunshine, he touches you lightly and you blush gracefully, he pays you a compliment and you hold them dear to your heart." Kathy said as a tear rolled onto here pillow.

"Kathy I can't, find some one else"

"Olivia for all the years you have know my husband and loved him you have never yet indulged in an affair with him, you sent him home at nights and you protected him with your life, I am moving on so I am begging you make him happy for your sake and this time love him Olivia like you have always done but this time love cause he's not just your partner but life partner."

"I….."