Hi everyone, this is my first ever fic. I hope you guys like it and I am open to all reviews. Nothing like good feedback to help improve ones writing.

I don't own any of the characters, except for the mystery (for now) woman.

Thanks y'all!

Rafael's POV

I don't know when it happened, maybe it was the first time I saw her in the courtroom when they needed a new ADA. Maybe it was when I saw her working and saw how much she cared for the victims of these horrible crimes and how she was able to comfort them, or maybe it was just with time and I got to know what a great person she was. I never expected to fall in love with Olivia Benson, but now here I am sitting in my desk trying to figure out how to put the pieces of my heart together. I never thought that I would this heartache again, I always thought that Yelina would be the only woman that I would love enough to feel this much pain, but I was terribly wrong. The pain that I currently feel is ten times worse then what I felt all those years ago.

Weeks Later

All I can do now is go on with my life, pick up whatever pieces are left from my heart. The trouble that I've had with the threats has really helped me distract myself from Olivia. I know that this love is a lost cause so better to take care of my safety then to duel on this. We just got a new case and I have thrown myself into my work, it helps me feel better to know that we are putting away the bad guys.

3 months later

It's been months since the death threats and Dodds' death and things were starting to feel somewhat normal again. I still feel a stab to the heart when I see Olivia with Tucker, but I have learned to live with it and with each passing day it feels less intense. I was on my way to my office with my 2nd cup of coffee in hand when I accidently bumped into someone. Let's just say that I did not start this morning on the right foot. I woke up ten minutes late, I forgot to go to the store and didn't have any coffee in the house so I had to go to the coffee shop down the street from my place, which was packed and to make matters worse they got my order wrong and gave me decaf, so I had to get my caffeine fix from the cart near the office. It was safe to say that I was in a bad mood. So when I bumped into this rather beautiful lady in the street and spilled some of my coffee it was kind of the straw that broke the camel's back.

"Why don't you watch where you're going?" I told her.

"Funny, I was about to tell you the same thing, a-hole" she replied.

I really wasn't in the mood to get into an argument in the middle of the sidewalk with a complete stranger so I decided to just let it go and to walk away. I just wanted to get to the office and start looking over my case file. I was hoping that the lady that I ran into would just let the accident go and that I could just walk away but I should have known better, if I was on my game I probably would have kept arguing, she however didn't hesitate to give me a piece of her mind.

"A gentlemen would have apologized." She stated.

"Look lady, it's 8 in the morning and this is barely my 2nd cup of coffee, which in a normal day this would be my 3rd, I am late to work and I just spilled valuable caffeine on the sidewalk that should instead be running through my system. So look, I'm sorry. Happy? "

"I guess I'll accept your half ass apology sense it looks that it's all I'm going to get. Well I hope your day gets better." With that she walked away.

I'm on the elevator on the way to my office when suddenly I get a flashback of the lady. Her long light brown hair, those enchanting hazel eyes, she was a couple inches shorter than me, and her warm yet irritated voice was still echoing in my head. I honestly don't know what has gotten over me, I am so distracted by this stranger that I don't even notice that I have arrived to my floor until the elevator bell pulls me back to reality. I walk into my office and set my brief case on my desk and sit down and get to work on reviewing the case. After 30 minutes of trying to concentrate on the case and failing, I give up and go to get a cup of coffee, but for whatever reason I couldn't get that mystery woman out of my mind. Why couldn't I get her out of my head? It's not like there was a possibility that I would see her again. I mean, what are the odds that I would ever see her again?