A/N: Here is something I thought of yesterday. So far it's a one shot but enough people like it and review, I could use this as a prologue and make it a multi chapter story.
Full Summary: When Olivia has it all, the husband, the house, and the potential future spending the rest of her life with the man she loves. This was bliss. Just when she though life couldn't possibly get any better than this, God gave her a blessing. He gave her Bella Olivia Stabler. What more can a girl want! Just what the world needs. Another Stabler.
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Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson had met in their Captain's office sixteen years ago, they were to become partners.
It took ten years for that partnership to bloom in to love, then to develop in to a relationship. Another year to grow in to a engagement then in to marriage before finally becoming a family of three. Baby Bella Olivia Stabler was now three years old and was so beautiful. She looked the perfect combination of both her parents and was very intelligent for her age.
A baby Olivia always wanted and the baby Elliot always wanted to give her the
chance to have.
Ten years was one long rocky journey, the last six had been even more of a roller coaster but it had been worth it and Elliot and Olivia wouldn't change a thing.
"Mommy?" Bella called out happily as she ran out from the house in to the backyard, where Olivia was sitting on the porch swing on the back deck, in her chocolate brown bikini with pink polka dots.
"Hey, my Bella bug. What can Mommy help you with?" Olivia asked with a grin as she picked up the toddler, who was dressed in her own bikini. It was purple with pink straps and frill around her tiny waist.
Bella snuggled in to her Mommy and rested her little head on Olivia's shoulder. "It so hot," she whined. "When we go swim?" she asked, sucking on her thumb.
"Don't suck on your thumb, butterfly. You're too big to now," Olivia gently scolded her daughter, taking Bella's thumb out of her mouth.
"Mommy..." Bella whined again. "When we go swim?"
"Soon, baby. You've just had lunch. Let your tummy digest your food, if you don't, you'll get a tummy ache and you don't want that do you?"
Bella shook her head. "No, Mommy. No tummy ache."
"I didn't think so. Where's Daddy?" Olivia asked and kissed Bella's little olive toned cheek.
"Daddy on phone, talking ta Grandpa Don," Bella informed her mother. "Daddy say it gwown up talk, told me to come see you."
"Oh, I see, little one. Well, we'll wait till Daddy is finished talking to Grandpa Don and comes out here before we go for a swim," she said and kissed her baby girl's head as she rubbed her back.
"But I wanna swim now," Bella grumbled unhappily.
"And if you keep acting like that then you won't swim at all, Bella Olivia Stabler," Olivia told the moody toddler.
Bella pouted and folded her arms on her little chest.
"Behave yourself, Bella Olivia. Don't make me have to change you back in to your play clothes... If I do, you'll be staying inside and not swimming," she warned Bella again.
Bella bit her bottom lip as a tear fell from her mocha brown eyes and it broke Olivia's heart. Little Bella had her mommy wrapped around her little finger and she knew it... She used it to her advantage.
"Bella bug..." Olivia cooed and kissed Bella's head as she rubbed her back again.
"Mommy, you love me. You wouldn't do that," she smirked.
Olivia sighed. She wouldn't have and but didn't help when Bella knew it. "Don't get smart, Missy. Go get your floaties. They're in the small bottom drawer of your dresser," she said and stood Bella on the floor before patting her bottom.
Bella giggled and ran back inside the house. During the day in the summertime, they normally left the back door open for Bella to run in and out as she pleased but was to not adventure further then the back deck without Elliot or Olivia, even though the pool gate was locked.
One time, Bella tried to let herself in to the pool area but luckily was busted by Olivia and after that incident they put up a baby gate at the end of the deck, so Bella couldn't get near the pool area again. Elliot had modified the baby gate, making it higher, so Bella couldn't climb over it.
Olivia exhaled a deep breath and rubbed her hands down her face.
"What's wrong, beautiful?" Elliot asked as he walked out of the house, walking over to her.
Olivia looked up at her husband with a smile. "Hey, babe. Nothing, your son is just kicking me in the ribs," she said, rubbing her eight month baby bump.
Elliot sat down beside her on the swing, placing his large hand on her vastly expended abdomen, beside her slightly smaller hand. He smiled feeling his son's movements. "Wow, he's really going at it."
"No, kidding," Olivia groaned, rubbing her stomach in soothing circles, trying to calm down the active fetus.
"Is he more active then Bella was?"
"No, he's actually a little more mellow then Bella was."
"What I do, Mommy?" Bella asked as she walked back out to them, her pink floaties in hand.
"Nothing, sweetie. Come here," Olivia replied and opened her arms.
Bella ran in to her Mommy's arms, careful of her belly and passed her the floaties. "Here, Mommy."
"Pass them to Daddy, baby, he'll blow them up for you. Mommy needs to go to the bathroom," she said and waited for Bella to walk and stand between Elliot's legs before pushing her heavy body up and off the swing with difficulty, waddling in to the house.
"Daddy?" Bella spoke up as Elliot slid the blown up floaties on to her arms.
"Yes, princess?"
"How long is ten years?" she asked curiously.
"Why, Belle? What does ten years have to do with anything?" he asked confused.
Bella shrugged her little shoulders. "I heared Mommy say something 'bout ten years."
"What did you hear me say, Bella bug?" Olivia asked as she waddled back outside.
"I heared you talking to Aunt Casey on the phone. You sayed something about Daddy and ten years," Bella answered and wrapped her arms around her mommy's thighs.
"Oh, well, Daddy and I worked together for ten years before we fell in love, baby," she tried to explain.
"Oh, okay," Bella said, nodding with a smile. "How long is ten years?" she asked again.
"Umm," Olivia tried to think of how to explain it to her toddler. "A very long time, Belle. Come on, let's go for a swim," she said and took the hands of two of the three most important people in her life. The third was in her uterus, who was pretty mellow at that moment.
Elliot opened the baby gate and the three of them walked down the steps, walking down the path to their backyard swimming pool. Well in Bella's case, skipped down to the pool.
Elliot opened the pool gate before letting down of Olivia's hand reluctantly and helping Bella get her floating ring around her.
"I go in now?" she asked, pointing to the water excitedly.
"Yes, baby girl," Elliot replied, laughing lightly and taking his wife's hand.
He turned to look at Olivia and couldn't help but smile.
Sensing her husband staring at her, Olivia looked in to his calming cerulean blue
eyes and planted a kiss on his lips before quickly turning her gaze back to Bella, who was happily splashing around in the water.
Elliot stood behind Olivia and wrapped his arms around her, resting his hands on her baby bump. "Let's get in, beautiful," he said and kissed the side of her neck.
Nodding, Olivia couldn't help but moan. "Yeah," she breathed and the two of them walked down the pool steps without releasing their hold on one another.
Ten years is what it took before they stopped hiding their emotions, their love for each other. Ten years of fights and sexual frustration, of just being work partners and friends.
Ten years was a very long and bumpy road but if it hadn't have been they might not have gotten to where they were. In love and married with a beautiful little girl and a little boy on the way.
In the six years of their marriage, they'd had less then half of the fights that they'd had in the first three years of their partnership.
Despite all the problems, fights, arguments and minor disagreements they'd had, it was so worth it... They were happy and in love. It took ten years to finally realize it but they couldn't live without each other. They took on the world, did everything, hand in hand, and would continue to do so till they took their last breaths.