Can't Help Falling in Love

Okay, new chapter! By the way, my chapter titles deal with actual song titles. Sorry on the delay everyone I had finals this past week and I had to focus on those, but I have two new chapters up! And working on the third!

Oh, rights go to Dick Wolf, however, the characters I create are mine.

Wise men say only fools rush in

But I can't help falling in love with you

It had been a week since Elliot and Olivia had left the wilderness and in that week Olivia had been taking it easy. The doctor told her no actual exercise or training for at least 3 weeks, due to her ribs, but if it looked like it was healing fine, then she could potentially start training in 2. However it would have to be easy training, no field training.

Elliot hadn't stopped thinking about her the entire time, while he hadn't suffered any injuries, he had suffered one of the heart. He realized that while she may have been a tough cookie on the outside, she was the one he truly wanted be with. He was falling in love with her, even if she didn't love him.

Elliot was lost in thought when he heard a knock on the door.

"Come in."

And there she stood, even in crutches she looked beautiful. She was dressed casually, and one of sweat pant legs was hiked up to accommodate the cast. Olivia crutched her way over to the nearest bed and collapsed.

"Whew, it's tiring to crutch around everywhere."

"You know even in crutches you still look pretty."

"Is that a compliment?"

"Do you want it to be?"

"I," Olivia was unable to finish her sentence, no one had ever complimented her before and she wasn't used to it. Elliot moved over to the bed she was sitting on and moved her hair out of her eyes.

"I don't want to get hurt Elliot."

"I promise I will never hurt you." Olivia looked into his the bluest eyes she had ever seen. The attraction was there, and it was very heavy in the room.

"Thank you for being here." Olivia smiled and leaned upwards to give him a kiss on the cheek but at the same moment Elliot had leaned downwards moving in for the opposite cheek and their lips touched. At first, each was hesitant, unsure of what to do: kiss or pull away.

The kiss began to deepen and they lost themselves in it. Elliot pulled away smiling at Olivia. It felt so right, and they both knew it.

ONE MONTH LATER

"I can't believe that you and Benson are an item! And she hasn't ripped your head off yet."

"I have skills." Elliot joked.

"I'd believe that." Dean said taking a huge bit of his burger.

"Let's not all cocky and everything," Olivia said giving Elliot a hard time. Since they had begun dating Olivia had spent more time with her actual group, meaning Dean, Nick, Luke and Danny had become friends and enjoyed each others' company.

"Danny, I've been dying to ask you, are you named after?" Before Olivia could finish her question Danny answered.

"Yes, my parents thought it would be hilarious to name me after the character Frank Sinatra played since it was their favorite movie. I think they were on crack. While I was born 20 years after the movie, they felt it was appropriate." Everybody laughed as they continued to eat their food.

Now that Olivia and Elliot had finally become in sync, the whole group seemed to work seamlessly together in the big group competitions. It had helped them become the number one team. Olivia still couldn't do all of the workouts, but she helped direct many of the activities, such as the rowing, it was easier for her to direct them. In a couple of weeks, Olivia would be cleared to do all sports again.

"I can't wait to start back up with training." Olivia sighed.

"I bet you miss it." Elliot laughed, knowing that Olivia never liked sitting still often.

"Who is that babe?" Nick asked, directing all 4 other boys to the blond bombshell walking across the field.

"I don't know, but someone introduce me to her!" Dean said, giving a wolf whistle right after he spoke.

The blond ignored him and continued walking, and finally stopped in front of Malone.

"What does she see in him?" Danny asked. They seem to know each other, hugging and laughing about something.

"Perhaps they're friends?" Elliot suggested.

"Who'd want to be friends with Malone?" Luke asked.

"Who cares, let's go follow them!" Nick stated.

"Being a creeper is not really on my list of top 10 things to do." Elliot stated with the other 3 boys agreeing with him. Ignoring the other 3, Nick got up and began following Malone and the mysterious blond.

LATER THAT NIGHT

"I found out who that blond was and you'll never guess who she is!" Nick burst into the room that night, excited with his new information.

"And? Don't leave us hanging man." Dean laughed as Luke's sudden interest peaked.

"That's his sister!" Nick practically shouted.

"Whoa now, calm down, you'll wake up the whole wing." Elliot scolded.

"A pretty thing like that is ugly Malone's sister? Impossible." Luke stated as if it a fact and not an opinion.

"Apparently she is visiting for the week and she's going the dance this Friday, and she'll be my date!"

"That's not cocky at all, Nick." Danny sniggered.

"Watch me!" While Dean, Luke and Danny found other dates through the Marine women, Nick spent most of the week chasing down the Malone's sister, however she was not interested at all.

"Hey El." Olivia said as she slid into the seat next to Elliot at the lunch table the next day. Elliot pushed over his tray and allowed Olivia to place hers next to him.

"Did you hear about Malone's sister?" Nick asked eagerly.

"Yeah, I did, she seems nice, I guess." Olivia chose her next words carefully. She had heard about Nick's idea of trying to get Malone's sister to go to the dance with him. She did not like the girl at all, she seemed stuck up and rude. She was only 17 though and a little young to going to a dance filled with people that were mostly in their 20's.

"Her name is Kathy, she's only 17, so she's jail bait."

"She's only a year younger than you." Dean reasoned.

"Wrong, I turned 19 last month." Olivia corrected.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Elliot practically whined.

"Birthdays aren't a thing for me, I didn't want to make a big deal out of it.

"Oh." Elliot sounded like someone had told him that his puppy had been shot.

"But that's not the point, El. Nick, I don't think she's good for you." Olivia stated trying to steer the conversation away from her birthday.

"Why not?"

"Well ignoring the fact that she is not legal, and that she is Malone's sister, she's quite rude to the other Marine women. On top of all of that, she flirts with of all the Marine men who are taken."

"You make her sound like the devil, Benson." Nick said.

"Perhaps she is." Olivia muttered under her breath. Elliot snorted and then tried to cover it up with a cough. It was at that moment that Kathy walked in with her brother.

Unbeknownst to Olivia, Kathy continually rejected Nick's invitation to the dance because she had her sights set on someone else. That someone else was Elliot. She felt that at 5'5" blond blue eyed knockout with a nice set of breasts that any man would swoon for her. Most of the Marine men did, except Elliot. In fact, Kathy took it as a challenge, nothing was going to stop her from getting Elliot in her hands.

Sidling next to Elliot, she took the other side that Olivia did not occupy and whispered in his ear.

"Are you going to the dance?" Revulsion almost hit Elliot's face, as he slid away from her, and put his arms around Olivia.

"Yes I am, with my girlfriend, Olivia."

Kathy's face turned sour as she noticed the girl sitting next to Elliot. She was instantly jealous of the tanned skin olive tone, beautiful chocolate brown eyes, the lucsious hair that passed her shoulders, the tall fit body and the perky little breasts. Certainly Olivia was not nearly as well endowed as Kathy, but everything else was far superior to Kathy. Kathy instantly threatened by Olivia deciding that this girl was in her way and she had to either get rid of her or get her away from Elliot.

"Well, then, have fun." Kathy got up and sauntered off.

"Dude, why did you reject her?"

"Um, hello Nick?" Elliot said smacking the back of Nick's head.

"Oh right, sorry Benson." Nick looked sheepishly at Olivia who had raised her eyebrows at him but not glared yet. Though, Olivia had been dating Elliot for awhile, his friends still called her Benson after knowing her for three years and that's all she referred to them as for quite some time.

Kathy was not going to give up that easily, after coercing one of her brother's friends to take her, she dressed in a very slinky dress that showed off all of her curves. She knew she looked good, and all of the men's jaws dropped when they saw Kathy entering in with one of Malone's friends. It was tight fitting and had multiple cut outs

This dance was almost the equivalent to what high schoolers would have as a prom. Every 2 years the Marines Luckily, the Marines invited some other units to join them.*

Olivia was nervous as she got dressed. She bought it awhile back because she felt there would be an occasion one day to wear it and here was the day. She had the dress on, but she wanted to wave some of her hair that was down.

Elliot didn't know what she was wearing yet, but he was excited to see her. All she had mentioned was wear something that complimented purple and silver. So here he was standing in front of door, nervous, he had worn a nice black tux with a purple iridescent bow tie and cummerbund.

He knocked and the moment the door was opened his breath was taken away, Olivia stood looking beautiful as ever, her hair was some up-some down and it was slightly waved and the dress itself was beautiful, it had sequence all over it and it was ruched, it was also strapless. She was wearing low heels seeing as she was 5'9"

"Wow, Liv, you look beautiful." It was the first time that Elliot had shortened her name and Olivia didn't even notice it since she was slightly embarrassed by the stare that Elliot was, he was practically devouring her with his eyes.

"Thank you, shall we go?" Olivia asked taking his proffered arm.

"Oh, before I forget, I got you a corsage, I hope it fits. He handed her a beautiful corsage that had one main flower and small flowers around it. He slipped it on her wrist and the pair left to go meet Dean, Nick, Luke and Danny.

"Wow, Benson you sure know how to clean up!" Nick joked and then received a sharp jab from his date. Clarissa had agreed as a friend to be Nick's date since Kathy had refused him. Julia was Dean's date, and was his girlfriend for 3 years. She came up especially for this occasion. Luke and Danny were going solo, but they didn't mind since they were hoping that they would meet some girls at the dance.

"Thanks, Nick." It was the first time that Olivia had actually used his first name, and not called him Miller. Nick smiled as they entered the dance.

"Wow, they really outdid themselves!" Dean called out. This year's theme was Save the Last Dance, and many of the items dealt with dancers. Eventually they all separated finding a different spot on the dance floor. Elliot and Olivia were having a grand time when a red nail polished hand slid onto Elliot's shoulder. He turned around and saw Kathy, she had her hair down straight and sleek like her dress. She had ditched her date earlier that night and waited for Elliot to show up with his date, now that he was here, she planned on stealing Elliot away.

"Hi, Elliot, have you saved a dance for me?" Kathy said sultry. Olivia backed off at first since she didn't know how Elliot would react. Elliot removed Kathy's hand from his shoulder and kindly said, "Kathy, I'm sorry I'm not interested. I have a date, her name is Olivia, and she is my girlfriend."

"Well, that doesn't mean you can't dance with me." Kathy pouted. Olivia wanting to stop anything bad from happening cut in, "Just dance with Elliot, we have all of our lives to dance."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, go ahead." Elliot reluctantly took Kathy's hand and began dancing with her. Olivia watched and almost didn't notice Malone slither up to her.

"You know Elliot shouldn't leave you alone." Malone hissed at her. He began to touch her back, and before he could really do anything he was flat on his back.

"I told you before, Malone stay away from me. I mean it this time." Malone just laughed as he got back up. If he couldn't have Olivia no one could was his rational. He looked over at his sister trying to sink her claws into Elliot.

"So, your girlfriend Olivia, she must not want you to just give you up to me."

"Excuse me, she was being polite."

"Sure she was." Kathy was just trying to find his weakness, and knew that Olivia was it. As they were dancing Elliot kept his eyes on Olivia. He saw at one point she looked like she was in a fight with Malone again. He tried to move over there, but Kathy had prevented it.

Olivia was sitting with Dean, Luke Danny and Luke and their dates when Lt. General John Cragen entered the dance. Olivia was the first to notice that he was coming towards their table, and he eventually stopped in front of Olivia.

"Benson. I need to talk to you can we step outside?"

"Yes, sir." Olivia followed Cragen outside and it was then she found out her mother had died.

"I'm sorry, Benson, your mother died earlier this morning, she fell down the subway."

"My mother never takes the subway." Olivia insisted.

"She had been drinking and because she was drunk, she lost her footing." Olivia slowly sat down and began to cry. She didn't love her mother, she didn't even like her mother, but she couldn't believe her mother was dead. She hadn't seen her mother in almost 3 years. She just never wanted to see her, and now she almost regret it.

"I can't believe it."

"You'll be returning home tonight, and be honorably discharged, you need to take care of funeral matters. It's been an honor serving with you." Cragen held out his hand and Olivia shook it.

"Can I say goodbye to my friends."

"I'm sorry Benson, the chopper is waiting to take you."

"It'd be easier for me to leave tomorrow, I don't have everything packed and."

"Don't worry, everything is covered, but this is the last chopper that will be leaving before winter, there is a blizzard coming in later tomorrow and I want to ensure that you are able to get back home."

"Okay, sir." Olivia followed him trying to hold back the tears that were threatening to fall. She didn't want to leave, she didn't even get to say good bye to Elliot. It was all she could think about as the got out of her dress and into her uniform to take the chopper. In the chopper, she finally allowed herself to cry.

What hurts the most
Was being so close
And having so much to say
And watching you walk away.
And never knowing
What could have been
And not seeing that loving
Is what I was trying to do

They take four classes a day at one hour each and then they spend the rest doing training.

Quick note: The original Ocean's 11 was in 1960 with Frank Sinatra, and that's who Danny Ocean in the story is named after. In case everyone was thinking of the one with George Clooney.

Oh as for the other units, not sure if Marines have separate units, but I thought it would be easier.

I wanted to show what the styles looked like, but I can't show them for some reason if you wanted to know I can send the link.

This is for the people who wondered what the style looked like.