Disclaimer: The characters of L&O: SVU do not belong to me. I got this idea and I had to run with it. I swear, it's not going to be a WIP, it's only a oneshot. I would love to add more WIP but I'm trying not to until I get some finished. Okay. So. This is completely AU for the most part so you don't have to really know much. El and Liv are together when the show begins. It's just not set in 1999, it's set in 2012. Hope you like! XD
It All Began With A Look
By Julia
The morning of the day that Olivia Benson was supposed to start working with her boyfriend in SVU was bright and sunny. Olivia was lying on her bed, her head in the crook of Elliot's arm. He was still asleep. She smiled as she watched his deep breathing. They'd been together for a year. Olivia wasn't sure when he was going to make things official. She wanted him to. She loved him more than anything in the world. Olivia didn't want to be with anyone else. She didn't know how he had stayed single before they met. But he had. Olivia continued to watch his breathing as he slept. She ran her hand over his short brown hair. Olivia loved his blue eyes. She didn't want to wake him. It was time to get up and go in to work. She was actually excited. She'd requested SVU. Not because of Elliot, though. She had a past that she'd never told Elliot about. She was afraid that he wouldn't love her anymore.
While she was thinking about that, Elliot's bright blue eyes opened. "Hey." He said sleepily. "How long you been awake?" He rolled closer to her, and pressed kisses on her face.
Laughing, Olivia kissed him back. "Not long. I was watching you sleep, baby." She snuggled up closer to him. "We do have to get up and get ready for work." Neither one of them made a move to get up.
Elliot pressed his lips to hers again. "I know we do. Do we really have to go? I just want to stay in bed with my sexy fiancee."
"El, we have to... wait... what?" She asked, looking at him. "What did you? Oh my God." While she'd been exclaiming, he'd gotten into the night stand, and pulled out a ring. Tears filled her eyes. "Oh my God, Elliot!"
Elliot looked at her. "You are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. I fell in love with you almost at the same time I saw you." He was holding out the ring, getting ready to put it on her finger. They had met in a coffee shop. Elliot had been with his partner and Olivia had been there by herself. She'd been sitting alone, drinking coffee. It had been like those old movies, and he had gone over to see her. It had been love at first sight. He looked at her brown eyes, which were brimming with tears. "Olivia, I somehow lived thirty-five years without you. I don't know how. But then I met you and things began to click and make sense. I love you. Please, marry me so I never have to know what it's like without you."
Tears filled her eyes, and she could hardly see. "I will." She said, and he slid the ring on her finger. She pressed her lips to his. "Can we be late? Suddenly you look irresistable to me."
Laughing, Elliot said, "Don't worry. Tonight I will give you the best sex you've ever had, but now we have to go to work." He laughed as she pouted. "Olivia Benson, you are starting a new job today, you can be right on time, okay?" He said, pressing his lips briefly to hers and then actually got up. "Come on, baby."
Sighing, Olivia got up, staring at the ring, she loved it. It was a beautiful white gold with a large 14 carat diamond. She loved it so much. She almost couldn't take her eyes off it. "Baby, please tell me you can afford this." She said, as she followed him to the kitchen to start the coffee maker. She put some bagels in the toaster.
"I promise that I can. I don't want you to worry about a thing, okay?" He told her, as he got out the butter. Then he got out grape and strawberry jelly. He gave Olivia a smile. "I love you, Olivia. You make me very happy." He gave her a kiss.
She kissed him back. "Then when are you going to move in here?" She asked, arching her eyebrow. "We should just do it." Elliot was Catholic. It was hard convincing him to do certain things. She was hoping he'd agree to move in. Olivia got out a coffee cup. "What do you think working together will be like?" She asked.
Looking at her, he shrugged. "If I do that, we can't get married in a church." Elliot didn't have much in this world, but he did have his Catholicism. Elliot knew it was always there for him. He wanted desperately to live with Olivia. He practically lived with her as it was. He just wasn't sure if he should agree to it or not. Elliot looked at her. "I do want to though."
Olivia stood next to him, and wrapped her arms around his waist. "Come on, baby. You already practically live here. You could still have a church wedding. Just not a Catholic one maybe. Please, baby. It's going to be horrible being apart."
Looking down at her, Elliot didn't know what he would say. Elliot knew that she really wanted to do that. Live together. She'd been begging for them to live together for a long time now. Elliot looked down into her beautiful brown eyes. He was one of the few people on the planet who was taller than she was. Elliot looked at her. "You know I want to... I really do." He knew he was wavering. He couldn't say no to her very often. She was beautiful and sexy. Elliot loved her. He had never loved anyone else in his life like he loved her. "Liv... I love you so much. You know that."
Olivia met his strong blue eyes. She loved looking into them. They were beautiful. It was like looking up into the sky. The beautiful sky free of clouds. She could stare into Elliot's eyes all day. It was her favorite thing in the world. She said, "I know you love me. I love you too. That's why I want to live with you. We'll find a church that will marry us, okay? Please, let's do it."
As the bagels popped, Elliot pressed his lips to Olivia's deeply and passionately. When he pulled back, he said, "Okay. We can live together." He smiled at him. Elliot laughed. "You know, I have fought for my country. I am a very strong guy. You, I totally fold to you."
Olivia giggled and kissed him, then pulled away so she could get their breakfast. "I know. But you love me." She said, buttering and jellying her bagel. "We just have enough time to take a shower after we eat." She said, giving him a bright smile.
Nodding, Elliot took a deep sip of his coffee cup and then a large bite of one piece of his bagel. "You are going to be great today. I just know it. You are an amazing cop. We will be great together." Elliot said, as he set his twinkling blue eyes on her.
She gave him a smile. She took a bite of her own bagel. That's when it hit her. This was going to be the rest of her life. This was it. It was her person. She was going to be happy with the person who loved her. It blew her mind. Olivia looked at him. She smiled and a couple of tears dripped out of her eyes. "You are amazing and I love you." He smiled right back at her.
When they got to work, they were right on time. Cragen came out to welcome Olivia to the squad, and then he ushered Olivia and Elliot into his office. He wanted to make sure that they weren't going to cause a problem being together and working too. It wasn't an official rule, but Cragen wanted to make sure they'd not get IAB after them. Cragen was a fair man, and they knew he'd fight for them if he had to.
They shared a glance before they turned back to Cragen, waiting for him to start the conversation. Olivia hoped they weren't about to get a big lecture. Olivia was not in the mood for a lecture. Especially since she was new in the unit. "What are we expected to discuss?" She asked him, her left hand finding El's hand.
Cragen eyed them carefully. He didn't know where he wanted to start. "I'm captain of the unit. I need to make sure that you two are going to be as professional as you can about this. It's not an official rule that you can't be together but I do want to avoid IAB coming after the department. We're the SVU, we get them after us enough."
They shared a look again. Elliot squeezed her hand before he turned back to look at Cragen. "Don, you should know, I asked Livvy to marry me this morning. So you've got that to worry about." Elliot thought he'd better employ full disclosure. It was easiest, Cragen would have all the cards, and would be able to deal with things if they came up.
Letting out a breath, Cragen said, "Okay. Well, first, congrats. I know you two will be happy together."
The talk was interrupted when Fin knocked on the door. "There's a body in Central Park." He told them.
Elliot and Olivia got up and went off with Fin and Munch. They followed them in Elliot's car. He was in a great mood. He was glad that they'd escaped mostly unscathed from their meeting. Olivia was playing with her long brown hair, making sure she could still see their friends' car in front of them. Elliot thought that Olivia was completely beautiful. She was sunny and happy and it made her glow from the inside. He was wondering if all the time together wasn't going to start causing problems. He doubted it, since they spent so much time together now. He was with her nearly 24/7, and he knew that they'd probably be fine. It was how he knew they'd be okay living together, even if he was still nervous about moving in officially. Elliot wanted to mention that they should get a place, but maybe it would be better if they saved up for a little while. Livvy's apartment would never fit a kid once they'd decided to have one. Olivia was on birth control, Elliot had wanted to put up a fight but he'd decided it was okay until they got married. Livvy had agreed to go off of it when they got married.
The crime scene was mobbed with CSU techs and beat cops already. They got out of the car, and they walked up with Munch and Fin. Olivia wondered if they always acted that way around each other, flirty. She knew she should probably not mention it, since she was the new detective. She didn't want to start fights if it was the case. Olivia and Elliot went to talk to the ME and Munch and Fin went to talk to the witnesses. Olivia pulled out her pad to start working on asking questions. Liv was a snazzy dresser. Very feminine too. She asked, "What's your estimate of the type of death?"
The ME, Melinda Warner, was knelt over, examining the body. "She appears to have been strangled." She said, pointing to the neck. "She's got rope burns. I'll know more when I get her to the lab."
Elliot asked, "What do you think about how long she's been dead?" He had his own little pad out. He was scribbling just as quickly as Olivia was.
Melinda shrugged as she checked around the body with her gloves on. "I think it's been about twelve hours. It's just a guess. I'll let you know for sure when I examine her more."
That's when Munch and Fin came over to debrief them on what they'd heard. Munch said, "The witnesses say that they saw a man dressed in black with the victim, and they heard some screams. By the time they saw him, he was done with the raping and the murdering and he was running away." He said, "I assume that we'll find out more when we know who the victim is. Did she have any id?"
Elliot held up his notebook. "Yeah. I wrote down her info. Her name's Janice Wheeler, she lives on the Upper East Side." He finished talking and put his notebook away. He looked to Munch and Fin. "Do you guys want to go and interview her family or find out where she works? Liv and I will do whichever you guys don't."
Fin was the one who replied. "We can go interview her family. You and the little woman can go to her work." Fin and Olivia got along fabulously. They were like brother and sister. They'd spent a lot of time hanging out since Olivia had been dating Elliot.
Smirking at him, Olivia nodded. "Okay. We'll meet you guys back at the station." She said. She managed to not grab onto Elliot's hand as she was standing there.
"Just behave yourself on the way over there." Fin said, making a face at Olivia. He liked teasing her.
Laughing, Olivia nudged him with her shoulder. "Always." She replied, as she went to follow Elliot back to the car. She couldn't keep her hand out of his on the way back to the car. She knew she was going to like working with Elliot. Fin, too. She didn't know Munch that well just yet. But he seemed very cool. "When they reached the car, Elliot opened the car door for her. She climbed in, and he went back around to climb in. They were quiet on the way to the station to look the woman up on the computer so they could find out where her job was.
When they finally got to go home that evening, they had some Chinese food and beer. They had even gone to Elliot's apartment and got some clothes and things. They went back to their apartment. Olivia went to the kitchen to open the containers and Elliot took his things to their bedroom. Olivia called, "Do you want plates, baby, or just eat out of the containers?"
As he came in the kitchen, dressed in sweats and an NYPD shirt, he said, "Containers, it will stay hot longer." He went to open one of the beers. He sighed. "This day was so long." They'd talked to Janice's co-workers, and they were no closer to finding out who attacked her. Munch and Fin didn't have any leads, either. They were going to start fresh in the morning. Elliot gave her a kiss. "Go get comfy and we'll watch a movie while we eat this." He told her.
"OK." Olivia said as she headed off to the bedroom. She put on one of El's football jerseys from college and then headed back to the kitchen. She grabbed one of the beers to open it up. Then she grabbed one of the forks, and some of the containers so they could go pick a movie from the DVD cabinet. Elliot carried the rest. He let her sit down while Olivia started eating moo shu pork and rice. "Pick something good, baby. I'm exhausted." She said.
Laughing, Elliot said, "Yes, dear." He opened the doors on the side of the entertainment center. Elliot looked through the DVDs and blurays. Smiling happily, he selected The Princess Bride and then put it in the bluray player. He joined her on the couch. He picked up one of the containers and started eating some chicken. He put his legs on her lap. She made a face at him. "You love me, and you know it."
"I do." Olivia agreed, and they settled into eating and watching the movie. It was times like this that Olivia treasured. Just evey time they got like this, it made her practically glow. It felt very domestic, Olivia hadn't always had a very good home life. Her life with her mother had been very tumultuous. Life with Elliot had been far from that. It had been everything she'd wanted and more.
About an hour later, they were kissing madly on the couch. Olivia was underneath Elliot, and her arms were around his waist. She was groaning. His kisses were driving her crazy. Olivia didn't think she could go on much longer. She parted her legs, letting him slide easily between them. She groaned some more as his hand slid up her shirt, to cup one of her breasts. Her hips rocked a little against him. His kisses always set her on fire. She held him even closer, and he stopped kissing her long enough to hoist her and carry her to the bedroom. After he'd dropped her on the bed, he peeled his jersey off of her and dropped it on the floor.
His mouth took one of her breasts and he sucked on it, his tongue flicking her nipple. Her back arched hard, and she groaned, one of her hands running through his short hair. She tugged a little as he moved to the other one, sucking and licking that nipple, too, and let out a soft groan. Olivia was definitely getting wetter by the minute. His hand went to her sex, and slipped two of his fingers inside her. She let out a long moan. "Oh, honey, I love the foreplay, but I need you inside me right now." She said breathlessly.
Lifting his head, he met her brown eyes. Liv definitely meant business. He parted her legs even more, and reached for a condom from the drawer. He unwrapped it and carefully slid it onto his length. Then he held himself above her, and before he could enter her himself, she grabbed him and did it herself. Then his hips began to rock, and Olivia sighed it felt so good. Elliot's breaths came in short pants, and his lips claimed Olivia's as they moved together. She moaned as she kissed him deeply. Her orgasm was close. Her legs wrapped around him, holding him in close.
Elliot groaned, as his body shook with his orgasm. Olivia was groaning too, her own wasn't that far behind. He kissed her one more time and then carefully slipped out of her. Tying off the condom, he pitched it. Then he joined her on the bed again, curling up next to her. "Wow." He said, as he wrapped one arm around her waist. His eyes were already starting to droop a bit.
Olivia nodded, yawning a bit. She was tired, too. She turned to face him. He was lying on his stomach aas he looked at her. His eyes were barely open. He half smiled at her. She said, "You know, we should probably go to sleep." She yawned some more, as she leaned to kiss him lightly.
"Yeah. We probably should." Elliot agreed as he almost fell asleep right there. He nudged closer to her, and his breathing began to even out. She smiled as she watched him sleep. Before she let herself drift off to sleep, she went into the bathroom. Her period had been late. She'd ran out of birth control two weeks ago, and she'd gone a couple of days without them. She had never thought that they'd have to worry about it since they used condoms, too. But her period was late. Olivia hadn't told Elliot just yet. She wanted to make sure that she was or wasn't before she told him. Olivia got the test out of the cabinet and peed on the stick. She set it on some toilet paper on the counter. She sat and waited impatiently for the stick to proclaim whether she was or wasn't. She pulled Elliot's jersey again and her underwear. She had to wait five minutes. There was three minutes left. She didn't know for sure what she wanted it to be. Olivia wanted to be a mom, but she had just started in SVU. But these things happened. She didn't know what she'd do if she was. She supposed that she'd have to deal with whatever happened. The timer dinged.
Author's note: Okay, I lied. It's going to be a work in progress. XD
