Twenty years. Twenty years of marriage just gone. She had just given up and left him.
Okay, he knew that wasn't true if he was honest with himself, but he didn't want it to be true. He knew that his and Kathy's marriage wasn't working.
No
more carefree laughter
Silence ever after
Walking through an
empty house, tears in my eyes
Here is where the story ends, this
is goodbye
She wanted him to talk about work; he didn't want to bring that home to his family. Was there anything wrong with that? She had once accused him of loving his partner. Of course he loved his partner - they were best friends! Kathy had said she had noticed long ago the way he looked at her, he just didn't realize it yet.
When she asked for the divorce, he hadn't known what to say. She said she was taking the kids -his kids- with her to her mother's.
Knowing
me, knowing you
There is nothing we can do
Knowing
me, knowing you
We just have to face it, this time we're
through
(This time we're through, this time we're through
This time we're through, we're really through)
It didn't seem fair. He wouldn't be able to see his kids every day. He thought about them every day, though. Pictures lined the wall, all of happier times. He realized then that pictures only capture the happy moments. Pictures wouldn't show all the times he and Kathy had fought, or all the times she was angry with him for having to work late. They wouldn't be happy pictures if they did, he thought to himself.
Breaking
up is never easy, I know but I have to go
(I have to go this time
I have to go, this time I know)
Knowing me, knowing you
It's
the best I can do
As he looked back on the past few months, he knew he had treated Olivia badly. Knew that he has been taking his anger out on her, but he had to put it somewhere. He knew that was not a good excuse, but what could he say?
Mem'ries
(mem'ries), good days (good days), bad days (bad days)
They'll
be (they'll be), with me (with me) always (always)
In these
old familiar rooms children would play
Now there's only
emptiness, nothing to say
He realized a few weeks ago what Kathy had been talking about. He did look at his partner in a different way. He wanted to protect her from the smallest things.
That feeling he gets every time she says she has a date. Now he knew it was jealously.
When did life get so hard? Elliot wondered to himself. When did his marriage really end? He didn't think he would ever know, but he knew he had the rest of his life ahead of him.
Yes, he may be in love with Olivia Benson, but he could wait.
Knowing
me, knowing you
There is nothing we can do
Knowing me,
knowing you
We just have to face it, this time we're through
(This time we're through, this time we're through
This time
we're through, we're really through)
Breaking up is never easy, I
know but I have to go
(I have to go this time
I have to go,
this time I know)
Knowing me, knowing you
He heard a knock on his door. When he answered the door, he saw a woman in front of him.
"Hey El." she said.
He opened the door wider and she came in.
"Liv," He murmured.
It's the best I can do