Baby Deals Chapter 2
Sreed
Disclaimer: I asked for them for Christmas, but I guess I wasn't a very good girl this year.
Spoilers: Ace
Author Notes: My first time to write a second chapter. Please be gentle.
Thanks everybody. I love writing and I love these guys so much. I have watched every season over and over again. So, as requested, here is another chapter.
Elliot continued to hold Olivia long after the kisses ended. Finally he loosened his fingers from where they were tangled in her hair and leaned back from her. She missed him immediately and leaned into him again, putting her head on his shoulder, suddenly feeling too shy to look at him.
"Liv?"
"Yeah?"
"What's going on?"
"I…it's just…I…I don't know how to be with you like this. You know? I mean we went from zero to sixty in like 5 minutes. Do you realize what we just confessed and just did with each other?"
Elliot chuckled. "Do I ever!"
"Elliot, I'm serious. This changes our relationship, forever. It's kind of scary."
"It's a lot scary. You are my heart, Olivia, and if this doesn't work, I don't think I will recover."
"I feel the same way. So, how do we do this?"
"First I get to kiss you again." With that, he lifted her head off his shoulder, placing his hands on either side of her head, tangling his fingers in her hair and massaging her scalp. He gave her another kiss. This time he softly nibbled on her lips, driving Liv nuts.
Olivia pulled back placing her fingers to her lips. "Stop that."
"Why?"
"Because, when you do that, I can't think straight."
"I'm okay with that."
"Elliot."
"I'm sorry, I'm just feeling lightheaded myself right now. I am so crazy happy I can't think straight either. Just give me a minute, okay?"
This time it was Olivia's turn to chuckle.
"What?"
"I'm just glad I'm not the only one being affected here."
Elliot sat back on the bed a little bit away from Liv, but took her hand in his and started making slow circles on the top of her hand while he talked. This was another first. They had never held hands for any length of time. She remembered him briefly holding her hand the day he picked her up off the airport parking lot and cradled her to him when he thought Porter had shot her in killing Rojas. She never realized how big his hands would feel around hers. She knew they were large and strong. She had seen him punch a perp, in anger slam them into a wall more than once and she had seen him wrap them around the throat of an interrogation witness, but now with her hand nestled in his, she hadn't expected tenderness and care and gentleness. Her heart swelled as she looked deeply into his eyes. Up until now, that was how they always communicated with each other. When things got hard, she would look into his eyes and would always find safety and understanding.
"Liv, I for one have waited for this for a very long time and I want you to know I am committed to you completely. I don't need to date you and I don't need time to decide if this is what I want. I know you as well as I know myself. Liv, I want to marry you and soon."
"El…"
"Do you feel the same way?"
Liv wanted to pinch herself. This could not be real. "Yes, more than anything."
Elliot slipped off the bed and onto the floor. "Then, and I know this isn't very romantic, but I can't help myself. Olivia Benson, will you marry me?"
Olivia threw the blanket aside and dove off the bed into Elliot's arms, knocking him backwards. She landed on him and wrapped her arms around his neck.
"YES!"
"Easy on the knees there Liv. I'm not as young as I used to be."
"You will always look just the way you did that day we became partners."
Elliot looked at her in a way that took her breath away. "I love you Liv."
"I love you back"
"You love my back?"
Liv giggled, she actually giggled. "And your front and your side and, well, you get the picture."
"This calls for a celebration and since we can't leave the apartment, how about ice cream. There's cookie dough ice cream in the freezer."
"How did you manage that?"
"Just put it on the list of food items we would want."
"How come I never saw this food item list."
"Uh…okay…well…"
"Elliot…"
"You eat weird stuff LIv. I didn't want to starve. We've been here for a week and I had to look out for myself, you know, keep my strength up."
"Uh, huh." Liv loved this interaction between them. It was the missing piece. They were finally able to be intimate in a way they had never allowed themselves to be. It felt so right finally.
Elliot tickled her and rolled her off of himself and raced to the kitchen.
"First one there gets 3 scoops!"
"Hey, that's not fair. You cheated." Liv leaped off the floor and ran and slid on the beautiful wood floors into the kitchen just as Ellliot took the ice cream out of the freezer and held it over her head. The more she tried to jump for it. The more he grinned at her.
"Drop it Stabler, or I will inflict bodily harm."
"You wouldn't."
"Oh, wouldn't I." She lifted a leg and her eyes shifted down his body.
"Liv. you wouldn't." Elliot squeaked out holding the carton in front of his manhood.
She shot him a stunning smile and laughed. "No, but I better get equal scoops."
"Don't I always divide everything with you?" He took a step towards her and put his arm around her, pulling her close and landing a sweet kiss on her lips. Just as Olivia sank into the kiss, he touched the cold carton to her neck making her squeal.
"OH, that was so not fair."
"Well, one of us had to "cool" us down."
"Ha, ha. Now scoop or prepare to defend yourself."
With that Elliot grabbed the ice cream scoop out of the drawer and started scooping while Olivia pulled large bowls out of the cupboard.
"How many scoops you want there, Liv?" He eyed the size of the bowls.
"Hey, I am getting my fill tonight because tomorrow I have to start dieting so I can fit into a really amazing wedding dress."
Elliot stops mid-scoop.
"Elliot? El? Hey, where did you go?"
"Uh…I was just picturing you."
"In my wedding dress?"
"No, on our honeymoon as I help you out of that dress."
"Scoop the ice cream and cool down there lover boy. Let's take this one day at a time, okay?"
"Yeah. Liv?"
Olivia is licking the first mouthful of goo off her spoon. "Yeah?"
"This is going to sound crazy, but would you be willing to…"
"Spit it out El." He is looking at his bare feet and not at her all of a sudden. "El, what is it?"
"Would you be willing to…to wait until we got married to…"
"To what?"
"You know to…uh…be together."
Liv's eyes are now as big as saucers. This was not what she had expected him to say. Wow! "I guess we could if it's that important to you."
"I sort of skipped the whole, special wedding night the first time around and I want it with you. I want to see you naked for the first time that night. I want to make love to you for the first time that night. Would that be okay?"
Liv's eyes are now filled with tears and she tries to find her voice. "Who knew Elliot Stabler was such a romantic. I would like that too El."
"Really?"
"Most definitely. I mean, heck, we've waited 11 years, what's a few more months."
"Months?" Elliot's face falls.
"Kidding. Come here you." She hops up on the counter and pulls him between her legs. "I would wait forever for you. I almost have already. We are not going to wait months. I think we can put something simple together in less than a month if we put our minds to it. Hopefully planning something that fast will keep our minds off of "other" things. We have to tell Cragen right away though, as soon as this case is over. Let's plan to take the week before the wedding off and then two weeks for the honeymoon. I know we both have at least 3 weeks vacation coming. What do you say, Baby?" This was Liv's first attempt at a pet name.
"What did you call me?"
"Baby."
"That's what I thought, Sweetheart."
"I like that. Now kiss me and then finish your ice cream."
Yes, Ma'm."
