This my first fanfic so bare with me and please! let me know what you think.

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January 16th
2:43pm
SVU Squad Room

The air outside was cold as it whipped past Elliot face, he wrapped his hands tighter around his warm coffee as he rushed up the stairs to the precinct.

"Your wife called" Fin said as Elliot sat down at his desk.

"Already?" he asked "I just talked her an hour ago" just then Olivia walked in, her face still pink from the outside cold. "What are you doing here?" he picked the phone and dialed the number to his wife's cell phone. "I thought today was your day off!"

"It is" Olivia replied while searching through the bottom drawer of her desk "I just needed to pick up some paper work and talk to Cragen"

"Liv you really shouldn't take home work on your da." He cut him self off when his wife picked up on the other line. "Kathy? You called? ... ok . . . ok . . . I will, I know. I'm sorry " Elliot pulled the phone away from his ear so his wife's yelling wouldn't damage his hearing. "Kathy I'm sorry, I know Kathy, I'll try, I swear.. Yeah me too... I love you too bye." Elliot hung up the phone.

"What was that about?" Olivia asked not looking up from the folder she was going through.

"They are going to induce Kathy on Saturday" Elliot informed her then opened the folder on his desk.

"Why is she so upset, she knows Cragen will give you the day off?" Olivia said finally looking up to give Elliot a confused look.

"She said I've changed" Elliot said not looking up to meet Olivia eyes.

"I don't get" she said simply "I thought that was the point" she stood up with the file in her hand and headed toward Cragen's office. Elliot continued with his paperwork until he noticed a young girl standing in the doorway looking lost.

"Can I help you?" Elliot asked standing up and walked toward the girl.

"Yes" she said "I'm looking for Captain Cragen" Elliot looked at the captain's door and remember that Olivia had just went in to talk to him.

"Well he is busy at the moment, I'm Detective Stabler" Elliot extended his hand and she shook it. " Why don't you have a seat?" he gestured toward the chair beside his desk. "Can I get you anything? Pop coffee?"

"Coffee would be nice, Thank you" she said as sat down in the chair, crossing her left leg over right and crossing arms in front of her chest. Elliot returned with a coffee and handed it to her. He then sat down and pulled a notebook out of his top drawer.

"So tell me, what is your name?"Elliot asked. The girl brought the cup up to her mouth to hide the smile that was about to form on her lips.

"MaKayla, MaKayla Mason."She said putting her cup down on Elliot's desk.

"Ok MaKayla, why are you here?" he asked as he wrote in his notebook.

"I told I need to see Captain Cragen." She spoke softly, and Elliot could barely hear her.

"Well why do you need to speak with him?" he asked trying to find out why she was there.

"I'm the new detective" she said this time her voice was louder more confident. Elliot ripped the page out of his notebook and threw it away.

"Why didn't you just say that?" he asked leaning back in his chair annoyed that she had wasted his time.

"It was sort of amusing that another cop didn't even make me especially since we are in a squad room." She smiled and uncrossed her legs.

"Of course I wouldn't make you for a cop you look like you are twelve and you don't exactly dress like a cop either." He said referring to her very trending outfit.

"Ok we both know that twelve is way over exaggerating possibly twenty but even that is a stretch. As for the clothes, I don't find that the whole cop look works for me."

"Your right twelve is exaggerating but you still look pretty young. How old are you anyway?"

"Twenty-seven." MaKayla replied

"Wow" Elliot said surprised she is so young "How did you swing that?"

"You mean how did Iswing that" came a voice from behind him.

"Don!" MaKayla jumped up and hugged Cragen who was standing just in front of his office with the door open.

"MaKayla, it's good to see you! How are the girls?" he asked as he released her from the hug.

"Great, Great, they are really excited about living in Manhattan." She following Don into his office and closed the door.

"Who was that?" Olivia asked leaning against Elliot's desk and taking a drink of his coffee.

"MaKayla Mason, she's the new detective." Elliot rolled his eyes and turned his chair to face Olivia. She spit the coffee out of her mouth and started coughing.

"What?" Olivia asked her eyes watering from coughing "she looks like a teenager!"

"Yeah we already had that discussion. She's 27. Thanks for that by the way." He took his coffee away from Olivia and threw it in the trash. "You owe me a coffee now."

"Yeah right!"she stood up and walked toward the elevator " how many times have I bought coffee? you owe me like ten."

"See you tomorrow" Elliot said

"Yeah see you tomorrow" she called over her shoulder.