Story-Tell Me It's Not True
Author-nomdeplum9
Story Summary-Elliot's attempt at helping ends up costing them their partnership. Now they're at odds, at different ends of the country, and one little baby has caused it all.
Disclaimer-Neither the SVU characters or the song, Tell Me It's Not True from the fantastic musical Blood Brothers belong to me.
Tell me it's not true…
Say it's just a story
Something on the news
Cragen was the only one who knew their secret. He had been told only because if it worked, if they succeeded, then changes would have to be made around the squadroom. He was the only one who knew, and in reality he knew very little. He knew only what they had told him and what he could observe around the bullpen.
They had told him that he would be helping her in trying to get pregnant, and he could see that it was not working.
The dynamic duo of Benson and Stabler, succeeding at cases where others would've failed, could not give Benson a baby. Their apparent failure was manifesting in their partnership.
Cragen could see it. He noticed how Elliot stopped going to the doctor with Olivia the second time every month, where she undoubtedly heard the news that she wasn't pregnant. He saw how Olivia slowly stopped drinking coffee again only to have a strong cup whenever something in a case went bad. He noticed how they snapped at each other at the slightest thing, how their steps were no longer in sync.
This thing, this dream of Olivia's, would ruin them. He could feel it. He could only wonder what the cost would be for the pair and the rest of them, who could only watch and wait.
Tell me it's not true
Though it's here before me
"How could you fail to see that?" Olivia yelled, after an informant had tipped them off about a key fact in the case. It was a Thursday and everyone was tired. Olivia had found out the day before that, for the fifth time, she wasn't pregnant.
"Well, at least I'm not a total failure…" Elliot threw back.
"Alright! Enough, you two!" Cragen yelled. "I want you to go up to the cribs and don't come down until you've solved this thing!"
And so they went. Elliot stormed up the stairs without bothering to check to see if Olivia was behind him. Olivia turned to give Cragen a look of total despair and misery before slowly dragging her feet up, step by step.
An hour passed before Elliot stormed back down the stairs and out of the 1-6. Olivia came down the stairs soon after, looking so broken and sad that Cragen immediately pulled her into his office.
"Elliot is going to transfer. Kathy had been looking to moving to California because of the school system by her sister's house and it looks like they're going to move," Olivia said quietly. "He's going to make one more donation to the Benson baby sperm bank before he leaves. After that one I think I'm done, Don. Obviously, this wasn't meant to be."
He could only nod and she left, slowly walking out of the office to sit down at her desk. She sat there for the rest of the day, looking more like an overworked secretary then one of the top detectives.
Tell me it's not true
Say I only dreamed it
And morning will come soon
A month later, Elliot was halfway across the country and Olivia was in her OB-GYN's office listening to the doctor.
"Ms. Benson, I'm afraid I won't be performing any procedure today," said the doctor.
"Why?" she asked.
"You're already five weeks pregnant."
Author's Note-This is hopefully going to be my summer project. If you like it, tell me, because if I don't get any reviews then I'll just take it off. I have an idea of where this is going, I hope you all like it, and review!