Disclaimer: I do not own anything recognizable! A/N: So I know that it has been a long time since the last update... I hope you can forgive me... as a peace offering I give you this super long chapter.
When they arrived at the scene, Olivia got out of the car and walked over to the last person she expected to see. Melinda, the medical examiner. She was also one of Olivia's closest friends. The reason that she didn't invite her to the little get together they had, was she was supposed to be out of town with her family and no way of getting a hold of her.
Olivia immediately walked over and hugged her. "Later we need to talk." she said pulling away from her. "what are you doing back here? I thought you were going to be gone until like Thursday."
"Well we had to come back the old man got the flu can't stay too far from home with him sick," she laughed.
"So what is going on here?" Olivia said nodding towards the taped area.
"Little girl about 9 blunt force trauma to the head."
"Any signs of sexual assault?" Elliot said walking up behind Olivia.
"Well there were no bruises but there was one thing that may suggest it."
"What's that?" Olivia asked.
"The victim wasn't wearing any panties."
"Anything else?"
"Well so far we have pulled a couple fibers off her skirt and a hair from her face." Melinda answered.
"Could you tell if it was pubic hair?" Elliot asked writing in his notebook.
"Maybe. It didn't look like it but we cant rule anything out. I think it is possibly facial hair. But I'll know more when I get it all to the lab." She said walking away.
Elliot flipped his notebook closed and placed the pen and pad back in his inside jacket pocket. He leaned down to the body of a little blonde girl. His heart broke. She was still a baby. Who could do this to a child? All children are innocent. And none of them deserve to die. "Who could do this Liv?" He asked out loud.
She knew it was a rhetorical question. She placed her had on his shoulder. She knew that he always got too attached when it came to children, he did have five himself. He always put himself in the position of the parent who we had to tell that their baby, was gone forever.
Back at the precinct everyone sat at their respected desks. They were busy doing paper work. It was now around 9:00 am. And they still hadn't heard from the lab. And they still hadn't heard from missing persons. It was as if this was a dead case already.
Olivia was getting antsy, she wanted to talk to Melinda. She wanted to be able to tell her what she had told the others. And she wanted to tell her about the possible mistake she made when she purposed to Elliot.
She loved Elliot, and she would love to spend her life with him but they just started being a couple. This was all moving too fast.
Maybe he forgot about it, she thought to herself, yea fat chance that's going to happen. She placed both her elbows on top of her desk. She then placed her face in her hands.
"You ok?" Elliot asked looking up at her.
She gave a heavy sigh. "Yea I'm good. I think I'm going to go see what Melinda has so far." she said getting up from her desk.
"Do you want me to go with you?"
"No I think I got it." She said walking away.
He just sat there puzzled.
She walked in to the examination room where Melinda was standing over the body of the little girl they found in the wooded area of central park earlier that morning.
"What do you have so far?" Olivia asked.
"Well she was raped, by a male we found semen but it was like the perp tried to clean her out. We didn't find anything until we did the rape kit. The fiber we found was from a carpet that is only found in a vehicle. Probably got there when the perp took her to the park. She wasn't dead when she got there she was just unconscious. But because she was hit in the head she had internal bleeding died about 15 min after she was dumped. The hair we found was male. It was a mustache hair. Not pubic." Melinda noticed that Olivia was starring out into space. "Liv," she said waving her hand in front of Olivia's face. "Earth to Olivia."
"Yea," Liv said snapping back to reality. "sorry, I don't know where I was." she said with a heavy sigh.
"What's going on?"
"Too much." she answered looking down at her feet.
"Look I know this case is intense but Liv this is nothing you haven't dealt with before." Melinda said looking concerned.
"It's not that I mean the case is tragic but I have a lot of other stuff on my mind. that's what I came down here for. I think I'm engaged."
Melinda's eyes grew big. "What are you talking about I didn't even know you were seeing someone. I was only gone a week."
"It just kind of happened. We just started talking and we slept together and I just kind of got lost in the moment and asked him to be my husband."
Melinda seen something in Olivia's eyes that she had seen before but only when they would talk about one person. "It's Elliot, isn't it?" she said in a low confident voice.
All Olivia could do was nod her head.
"How did this happen Olivia?"
Olivia sat in a chair that was right beside Melinda. She rested her elbows on her knees, put her face in her hands and took a deep breath. Then she looked up at Melinda. "i don't know. Its all going so quick. I really can't gather it all together."
"Why don't you start from the beginning?"
"Well he came over to my apartment the other night and I told him about what happened with Harris. And I was crying and he was crying and he told me he loved me and then the next thing I know we were lying in bed last night and I asked him to marry me."
"What did he say?"
"Nothing yet," she said with a sigh. "our phones rang with the case before he could answer."
"Wow," Melinda said, taking a deep breath herself, trying to take in what Olivia said.
"I know."
"Did you want to ask? Or was it just a heat of the moment type thing?"
"I don't know a part of me wanted to ask. But another part was screaming run as far away as you can."
"But you didn't run."
"I love him, I just... I know this is all way too fast but I don't know how to slow it down. It's like a car with no breaks, and I have a feeling that at the speed we are going we are going to crash. Soon. And I don't want that to happen. I have never loved anyone more than this man and if it don't work out I don't think that I could survive."
"Olivia how did you let it get like this?" Melinda asked worried.
"What do you mean?"
"How did you fall in love so far that there is no turning back? I mean I know you have always loved him but Olivia this is just a lot all at once."
"Mel, I have been asking myself that same question for 2 days. I know this is a lot I know I feel like I'm suffocating but I love him so much that I can't help but to stay. I crave more and the more I crave the farther it goes and the farther it goes the more I feel like I'm suffocating and I don't know how to stop it. I don't want to lose him; I have waited so long that I can't lose him now. I have to have him and now that I do, I can't help but to want him all the time. This is the worst feeling in the world. And the best at the same time." she was now crying, tears were running down both of her cheeks. "How do you tell the person you love so much you would literally die for that you are being suffocated?"
Melinda bent down to meet Olivia in the eyes, "you are over whelmed that's ok this is going to fast and that's ok. You just have to tell him that you love him. That you want to be with him but you have to slow down or you are going to have a complete breakdown."
"It's not that kind of feeling though. It's more of like we just jumped off a cliff and we are falling and falling and the ground is coming up and we still haven't pulled the parachute yet."
"I know and that's what you need to tell him. If you don't you are going to get to the point where you are going to run and then you will regret the whole thing you are going to live your life regretting something that you want more than anything. Olivia you have been given a chance at happiness, true happiness. And that is something that not many people get to experience at all in their life. You need to tell him how you feel or you are going to end up sad and lonely. Again. And that is something that no one wants to see. We all can see that you are happy and that you are in love. You are just scared Olivia. And that is normal but if you are going to be happy in life you have to communicate. Whether it be with a friend, a partner, or a lover all relationships need communication. And if you love him and want to be happy with him like we all know you do then you need to talk to him. You need to tell him what you are feeling. I can't stress that enough."
Just then Elliot walked in the examination room. He saw Olivia crying and walked over to her and knelt down. "What's wrong?" he said holding her hand in both of his.
"Nothing, nothing that we can talk about right now. We have to work. Have you got anything about an I.D?" she said wiping her eyes.
"a couple called in with a missing child she fit the description. They are on their way down here now." he said standing back up.
Olivia stood from the chair and walked out of the room. Leaving Elliot behind.
"Mel what's wrong."
"She is scared Elliot. She loves you so much that it scares her and she don't know how to deal with it." Melinda standing to look at Elliot. "she needs you to talk to her. She needs you to tell her that it doesn't have to go this fast and that you aren't going to be upset if she wants to slow things down."
"She is the one that purposed. She is the one that asked me. How am I the one that is moving too fast?"
"Elliot she wants to marry you and she wants to be with you forever but she is overwhelmed. But really you need to talk to her. She is the one that needs to get this off her chest. Just know that she loves you and that she doesn't want to lose you."
"She would never lose me ever. Not even if she tried." he turned and walked away.
"That-a-boy," Melinda said to herself.
Olivia was sitting in the interrogation room with a pretty blonde woman. She had just handed the woman a tissue and a cup of coffee.
"Mrs. Colt I'm so sorry for your loss. And I'm really sorry we have to do this but there are a couple things we have to go over. That would help us with your daughters case." Olivia said flipping the cover of her note book.
"Why can't Shawn be here with me? Is he in trouble?" the woman asked crying.
"No, no one is in trouble at this point we are following procedure, ma'am. Now why don't we start with what happen yesterday evening?"
"Well I got home about 3:30. Piper just got off the bus. I paid the babysitter."
"I'm going to need her name and address."
"Umm," Mrs. Colt said wiping her eyes. "Becky Simon, she lives next door. She's 15. We thought it would be good for her to make a little extra cash."
Olivia wrote down the information. "Ok what happened next?"
"Umm... I yelled at Piper for leaving her book bag in the middle of the floor. It was her last day of school and she was excited. I shouldn't have yelled at her. I even told her that if there was one more time I had to tell her to do something that was in her routine that she would be grounded. I shouldn't have gotten mad it was just her book bag." Mrs. Colt began to sob.
"Mrs. Colt," Olivia began.
"Samantha, call me Samantha." she said wiping her tears.
"Samantha," Olivia said as she took the woman's hand in her own. "I know that this is a very difficult time and I know that there is no way I could know the pain you are going through," Olivia said with a slight tear in her eye that she wouldn't let fall.
Samantha just wiped her tears away again.
"But the more that we know the better chance we have of finding the sick bastard that did this."
"She took her book bag to her room. And I started dinner. My friend Steven came over. Dinner was done about 5:30. Shawn came home about five minutes after dinner was done. Steven left. He and Shawn never got along. Shawn couldn't understand how Steven could be gay. He was somewhat of a prick about it. We ate dinner and went to the park. We left the park about 8:00. Piper went straight upstairs and took a shower. I made popcorn and we watched her favorite movie. The little mermaid. She loved the little mermaid. The movie went off about 10:15, Shawn carried Piper upstairs she always missed the end of Friday movie night. I followed him up we gave her a night kiss and hug and then about 10:30 I got a call from work saying they needed me asap. A case just came in. Shawn started yelling about how I am always working and never see him or Piper. He said that he was tired of raising her by his self. He said he wanted a divorced." she explained squeezing Olivia's hand and sobbing.
"How were things in the beginning?" Olivia asked.
"Perfect Piper and I moved here when she was three. I met Shawn six months later and six months after that we were married."
"So Shawn isn't pipers father?" Olivia said furrowing her brow.
"No we were getting it so he could adopt her. But with all of his history even my connections we couldn't make it happen the way we wanted. He loved her she was his daughter. He fell in love with her the moment they met. And she was just ga ga over him. She started calling him daddy so the only thing we had left was for him to adopt her."
"You said something about his past?"
"Shawn started using drugs and alcohol at a young age. He started using when he was 12. and he didn't get clean until he went to foster care when he was 16. He had changed and he was making it stick. He has been clean and sober for 15 years. He now owns his own business and has truly cleaned up his act." Samantha said sniffling.
"That's wonderful. When did things change in your marriage?"
"About 3 months ago I had picked up extra work. I had the chance to make partner. And of course I started taking more and more cases. And he felt more and more neglected. And I know Piper did too. But I had no choice. I had to do it I had to get partner."
"Did you?"
"Yes. Three days ago. Shawn and Piper even threw me a party two days ago." she gave a forced chuckle. "They invited all the people from the firm and everything. It was wonderful."
"Who is Piper's real father?" Olivia asked.
"I don't know."
Olivia looked confused.
Samantha picked up on the confusion, "I was raped."
Olivia's expression changed immediately. This perfect child was like her. No, she thought, her mother loved her. My mother just drank. She had a wonderful life. She was a happy child. She was extremely lucky to have a mother who loved her no matter what. Her mother knew that even though she was the product of the worst thing that could have ever have happened to her, she was still her child. She was still a part of her. She was still a child. And she was lucky enough to not be reminded of what her mother went through to bring her in this world. This little girl was truly blessed and someone took that from her.
"I was at a party I had just passed the bar exam. I was already drunk. I don't even remember half the night. I met this guy at the bar when I went to order what seemed like the 100th round of shots for me and my friends. I remember him saying he would buy me a shot as a congratulations I said great and after that I don't remember anything, I woke up in the hospital the next morning and they told me I was date raped the shot the guy brought me had a roofy in it. And since I was so drunk and I was drugged I still to this day can't even remember what the guy looked like or even the name he gave me." she looked down, "I had Piper 9 months later."
"You are very strong." that's all Olivia could say. "It must have been hard, knowing that you got pregnant due to a rape."
"It was but I knew that she was a part of me a part of good. And I was going to love her no matter what. She was my baby. My only baby. And no matter how she became that way she was still mine. And nothing was going to change that. It wasn't her fault that bastard did what he did."
"Did Shawn know?"
"Yes, he knew and that made him cling even tighter to her he said that she needed a father and he was going to make sure that she never went without. And he did. She always had everything she needed. And she never wanted for anything."
"What about his family? Did they except her the way he did?"
"He hasn't talked to his father since he went into foster care. His father beat him. And his brother and mother as well. Only one that was treated half way decent was his sister and that's because she was the baby. She was like gold. A princess in the eyes of 'daddy'. But his mother loved Piper and so did his brother and sister. That's what doesn't make sense detective; everyone who met Piper loved her."
"You said you had a party a couple of days ago. Was there anyone there that was acting funny or that was alone with Piper?"
"No everyone there was all people I know and care about and there was no one that was out of sorts. They were all acting normal."
"I'm going to need a list of all the people that were there. So that when the other detectives get back from the search of your home we can exonerate all the finger prints found. And isolate any that don't belong."
Samantha nodded her head. She began to sob again. "who would do this." she said through more heavy sobs, "why would someone hurt my baby? How could someone do this to a child? My child? Don't they know who I am? don't they know what I can do? What I can make happen to them?"
"Look at me Samantha," Olivia said. "there is nothing that you can do until we find out who did this. I'm going to need you to think, think hard about if there is anything you can think of that we need to know." Olivia said as Samantha looked her in the eyes. "Dig deep dig as deep as you think you need to that can help me get the monster that did this." a single tear ran down Olivia's cheek. "please." she begged.
"Detective," Samantha began.
"Olivia, please call me Olivia."
"I have already told you everything I can think of. Everything that I could possible reveal as already been laid on the table. I have nothing to hide. I want this man to pay. I want this man to be punished. He killed my little girl. He raped her and then he murdered her. If there was anything I could do to make sure he was put behind bars I would tell you. I loved my little girl. I have no idea how to live without her she was my whole world. I gave up everything to have her. I went through hell when I conceived her. And I loved her. And I know that the only way I will be able to sleep at night is to make sure her murder is justified. To make sure he goes to hell, right where he belongs." Samantha was no longer sobbing. She had a slightly raised voice.
"If you will excuse me," Olivia said standing up.
"Olivia," Samantha said as Olivia headed to the door.
Olivia turned around.
"I have faith in you. I am counting on you."
"Samantha you have my word I will do whatever I can to make sure that Piper's death will not be taken in vain."
"I know you will."
Olivia opened the door to the interrogation room and walked out.
When she walked out Don was standing on the other side, watching through the two way mirror.
"What do you think?" he asked Olivia.
"I think I have to keep my word," Olivia said walking out of the smaller room that separated interrogation room from the bullpen.
"You are not going to believe what we found at the house." Fin said walking into the bullpen.
"What?" Olivia said standing up.
"A male's shirt with blood on it. It's in the lab as we speak."
Olivia took a heavy sigh. "Was there any hits on the semen we found?"
"None in the system." Munch said with a frown.
"Damn it."
"Where's Elliot?" Fin asked noticing Olivia alone.
"He is still talking to the husband."
"What do you think? The husband?"
"No I have this feeling that we are going to have it a lot harder than that." Olivia said closing her eyes and putting her head down.
"Liv, why is this case getting to you?" Fin asked putting is hand on her shoulder.
"I just have a lot on my mind. Not just the case. Just a lot in general." she said looking him in the eyes.
"Anything you want to talk about?" Fin said looking at Munch.
Munch took the hint and walked away.
"No not right now, thank you though. Really, that means a lot to me."
"I'm here for you baby-girl." he wrapped her in a hug.
"I know," she said embracing him, "thank you."
They broke the hug. Olivia took another deep inhale and exhale. "So what else did you find?" she said looking at Fin.
"No sign of forced entry. About 100 finger prints."
"Samantha said that they had a party the other night. She made partner at the law firm she works for."
"Well that's great did you get a list?"
"Yea she gave me numbers and addresses of all the guests."
"I'm glad she's cooperating."
"She wants to find the creep that did this."
"Do you know how Elliot is coming with the husband?"
"I just came out of there about 15 minutes ago and from what I saw they both have the same recognition of what happened. I don't think they are making it up."
Elliot just walked into the bullpen, "For some reason I feel like this is going to be a long and tiring case."
"Tell me about it." Olivia said.
"What did you guys find at the house?" Elliot directed the question at Fin.
"We found a males shirt with blood. Too many finger prints to count. And that's about it. There was no forced entry. There were no signs of a struggle. Nothing."
"Damn it."
"That's what I said." Olivia added.
Olivia walked back into the examination room. Melinda was sitting at her desk doing paper work. She walked across the room to where Melinda was sitting.
"What's new? Anything on the blood?" Olivia questioned.
"Well the blood is Piper's. I also found a hair. I ran it through the system. Got a hit. Shawn Colt." Melinda said handing the file to Olivia.
"Does it match the hair found on the body?"
"No but I did find out that the hair found on her face does match the semen. If that helps any."
"Well it does and it would help a lot more if I had a name to match the perp's DNA." Olivia said sarcastically.
"For what its worth I think that the shirt was staged."
"What do u mean?"
"Well the blood on the shirt is about 2 days old. Both the trauma and the rape happened minutes before her death. I have this feeling the killer wanted to frame Shawn colt. It was too easily planted and like I said the blood was at least 2 days old. When I was doing the autopsy I found that she had a condition that made her have chronic nose bleeds. She I found traces of blood in her sinus cavities she had her last nose bleed about 2 days ago. I can't be positive but I would say it came from that."
"That's all circumstantial Melinda until we have a name for the one that left the semen Shawn is the only suspect."
Just then a young brunette walked in the room. "i have the results for that test you ordered." she said handing Melinda a file.
"Thank you." she said.
The young woman walked out of the room.
"Well here's new information. There was a hair and skin residue from two finger prints in the room that matches the semen and the hair we found on the body."
"That's great, now we just need to find out who it belongs too."
"I'll keep working maybe I missed something."
"Thanks," Olivia said as she turned and walked out the room.
Olivia walked into the interrogation room where Samantha was still sitting. She was drinking a cup of coffee. She looked up as Olivia walked in. her face was still tear stained and she was still sniffling. She had a box of Kleenex sitting beside her on the table but it looked like she had been using the same one for hours.
"Samantha I need to talk to you. I know that you said you told us everything you could think of but there are a lot of unanswered questions." Olivia stated as she sat in the chair she occupied earlier that day.
"Anything I can help with or think of I will tell you." Samantha answered.
"There was no forced entry to your home. Does anyone have a key besides you and Shawn?"
"Just Steven. He sometimes has to babysit if Becky isn't able."
"I am going to need his address."
"You have it. He was at the party."
"Is there any reason someone would want to hurt you Samantha?"
"Olivia I am the one that helps people just like you, I could not count on all my fingers and toes how many people who would want revenge. Or how many families want revenge. The list is too high."
"What about problems at work. Was there anyone who you recently had a problem or fight with?"
"Well my boss wanted me to take more cases but I told him I couldn't because I had a family. But he is a good guy like us. He wants to put the people who do this kind of thing away. And he doesn't have a key."
"You said that you were called into work at 10:30, correct?"
"Yes, but..." she started.
Olivia saw the wheels in her head turning.
"And were you at your desk the whole time?"
"I went to the bathroom," she said thinking hard.
"And when you got back was he gone?"
"No he was in his office. He came out and said that he was going to get some coffee and run an errand before he went home. He said that there was something that he needed to take care of and it would be a couple hours."
"And did he return?"
"Yes about 2 ½ hours later. He had the coffee. And he changed his clothes. He said that he was just going to sleep in the office that night. It wasn't anything unusual. Even I had done it upon occasion. When there is a case you are so into that you cant leave you just take a power nap and load up on caffeine and that's what he was doing."
"And did you leave your office again since he returned?"
"Yes once again we were drinking so much coffee that I was peeing like I was pregnant."
Olivia took a deep breath. "i think I just solved the case."
"What are you talking about?"
"Well when you went to the bathroom the first time he stole the house key. He used it to get into the house because he knew that Shawn was asleep. He went up to the bed room and woke Piper up. Got her dressed and staged the shirt to make it look like it was Shawn. Then he took Piper with him, probably telling her something like you wanted her and that he was going to take her to you. And then once he had her in the car. He hit her over the head. Knocked her out. Then he raped her and took her panties with him and then dumped the body in the park. When he got back to the office he was in different clothes that's because he went home and changed to get the blood off him. When you went to the bathroom again he put the key to the house back on." Olivia rambled before she knew what she was doing.
"Wow. Detective are you sure I mean where is the motive?"
"uhhh I have to go talk to my partner we have to get a warrant for his house. And the office." Olivia stood up. And walked out.
Once out the door she saw Cragen. "What the hell was that?" he asked.
"I just solved it."
"And you gave a mother a reason for revenge."
"Hold her tell her something anything. Just till we get him in here."
"I'll see what I can do but Olivia, that was a rookie move and you will be lucky if it doesn't get put in your jacket."
"I'll write it up myself Cap. But right now there is a little girl that I have to make sure didn't die in vain. That her killer is found and brought to justice." Olivia said walking out.
She found Elliot and filled him in and he called Alex.
She got the warrant.
They went and arrested Ralph Montaque for the rape and murder of Piper Michelle Colt. It was going to be a short trial because they found the underwear with blood in them at his house and his suit that also had blood on them in the garbage can in his house. Once they found the missing panties and the suit that was enough to subpoena a DNA test to see if it matched that found at the scene and at the house. And sure enough it matched.
Case closed.
Olivia was sitting at her desk. It was already 9:00 and they had a rough day. A lucky day, they ended the case that they had no clue what the victim's name was just 12 hours before. It was a quick case considering the lack of evidence.
"You know you work better when you are stressed." Cragen said walking up to Olivia desk. "Can I see you in my office?" he asked.
"Cap I still have to finish up this paper work."
"That wasn't a question Olivia." he said as he walked away.
She followed.
Once in his office she closed the door behind her.
"What you pulled today was inexcusable."
"I know. But I got caught in the moment, and..."
He put his hand up to cut her off. "Olivia you are one of the best detectives I have ever seen. You don't make mistakes like that. What is really going on?" his voice went from reprimanding to concern in a matter of seconds.
"I'm sorry captain I just have a lot to think about and a lot on my plate. I have been thinking all day and I think that I just need to take some time and collect myself."
"Do you want personal time? Because Olivia I will give it to you."
"No I just want this day to be over. I just want to go home and relax."
"Ok well I'm sure that Fin and Munch can finish the paper work you and Elliot go home."
"Thanks captain." she said turning toward the door. "for everything."
"You're welcome Olivia."
She opened the door and walked out.
The bullpen was rather empty when she walked over to her desk. Elliot was sitting in the desk across from hers.
"You ok?" he said looking up at her with his deep blue eyes
Those eyes made her melt every time she seen them. She was going to go crazy if she couldn't just take him home and have her way with him. "Yea Don just said we could go home. Said Fin and Munch could finish up. Where are they?" she said looking around.
"I don't know probably getting coffee or something." he answered. "But I'm sure that Cragen can fill them in if you want to go."
"Yea I am sure he can."
They sat in the car in silence on the way to her apartment.
She was thinking the whole time about what Melinda had said. They did need to talk. And she wanted to so bad but she didn't want to make him think that she didn't want to be with him. She loved him and she wanted to spend the rest of her life in his arms. But on the other hand, it was still early in the relationship no matter how long they knew each other. But with everything they had been through together all that would change would be the title from single to engaged. She was so confused on what she wanted that she didn't even notice that they stopped at a little diner down the street from her apartment.
"I assumed you were hungry," he said with a smirk.
"I don't think you have had a better accusation in years," she said smirking back at him.
They got out of the car and walked into the diner and sat in the booth way in the back. She was still thinking about the last 3 days.
The waitress came and took their orders. They both ordered the same thing. A burger with fries and the largest cup of coffee they could.
While waiting for their meal Elliot spoke first, "i didn't forget," he said not looking up from the table.
"I was kind of hoping you would have," she replied in a low voice.
"What is that supposed to mean?" his head shot up and he looked her right in the eyes.
Olivia took a deep ragged breath. She knew that once she started talking she was going to cry and she didn't want to. If she cried his first thought would be to get defensive and he would think that she wanted to end it. He would think that she would want to end the only thing in her life that has truly made her happy.
"Elliot," she spoke his name softly, "we need to talk."
There they were those words that every person dreaded hearing in a relationship. The only difference is she was saying them out of love. She wanted to save the relationship not end it.
"I know we do."
The waitress came with their food. And placed it in front of them. "Thank you," they said simultaneously. The woman nodded and walked away.
"Elliot I love you. I would die for you. I want to be with you forever. And that scares me. I have never had anyone that I have had so many feelings for. I want to have you with me when I sleep. I want to wake up in your arms. But the title wife or fiancée scares the hell out of me. I can't think straight. I start rambling about things I shouldn't."
"Liv," he tried to slow her down she was talking a million times a minute.
"I think about you all the time and I think about what I would do if I ever lost you and what I would do if you left me or what if the kids don't want you to be with me."
"Liv," he said louder.
She stopped.
"I love you the kids love you. It's not like this will be the first time that you have ever met them."
"Elliot I don't know what this feeling is that I have but I know that it's something I only feel when I'm with you. I can't stop that. I can't have that go away and I know that you think I'm psycho."
He chuckled, "always have."
She squinted her eyes at him. A look he knew meant she was serious.
"Look I know what you are feeling. Its love and nothing is going to happen to me. Nothing at all I promise you that I will not ever leave you. I will never let anything come between us. I will always love you. I will always want you in my arms at night. I will always want to wake up next to your beautiful face. And I want your smile to be the first thing that I see when I open my eyes. I love you Olivia Benson and I can't stop either. And I know that you are afraid. But what happened this morning. What you asked me. That was real. That wasn't just a heat of the moment thing. I know you Olivia. I know that you meant it and I know that you were glad that we got the case because that meant that you wouldn't have to hear an answer and then you thought that I would forget all about it. You wanted me to pretend that it never happened so that you could blame it on the heat of the moment. I love you and I want you to be my wife."
She knew that although the tough effort there were tears falling from her face. She didn't want to cry. She didn't think she had any more in her. It seemed that was all she was doing for the last 3 days. She loved him. She wanted to be with him and the fear was the only thing holding her back.
"Let's not call it wife. Let's call it partners. We have been partners for years now. So why don't we just stay 'partners' in life. That's a less scary word. I want you in every part of my life. I want you to be my partner for life. Olivia I can't live without you."
"Ok."
"What," he looked at her confused.
"Ok. Partners for life. Partners in life. I love you too. And I would not be able to live without you being my...partner."
"Really?"
"Do you want me to spell it out Elliot?"
"I just thought I would have to fight harder than that. You've gone soft on me Benson." he said with a smile. "Now that that's all straightened out I'm really not hungry."
"Me either, but they have really good peach cobbler. We could get some of that."
Elliot waved to the waitress that had brought them their food. She walked over to them.
"Can we have 2 slices of the peach cobbler?"
"Sure I'll bring it right out."
"thanks." he said as she walked away.
"I just want to get home so that I can relax." she said rubbing her face with both hands.
"Here's your treat enjoy," the waitress said placing a slice of cobbler in front of Elliot.
She placed a plate in front of Olivia too. Only Olivia's was empty. Except for a small diamond ring. It was gold. With the perfect diamond. Olivia gasped as she picked it off the plate. She looked at the ring and noticed it was engraved.
My partner in life and love
~Elliot~
Tears were running down her face. She was sobbing again. This time it was because she was so happy. When she saw the ring every fear she thought she had was tossed right out of the window.
Elliot stood up; he gently took the ring from Olivia and knelt on one knee.
"Olivia Benson you are the most amazing woman I have ever had the pleasure of having in my life. You are smart, funny and you don't take shit off of anyone. And that's what makes you, you. There is nothing about you I don't love. I love how you cry when you see the dog commercials about abuse, but you don't like dogs. I love how every time a song plays in the car you sing. But only if you think I can't hear you. And most of all I love how you know exactly everything there is to know about me. Even things I have yet to discover. But I would love to spend the rest of my life with you telling me all about them. Olivia Benson. Will you be my partner forever? Will you marry me?"
"Yes," she said taking a deep breath. She was still crying.
Elliot slipped the ring on her finger and kissed her deeply. Then hugged her, "you just made me the happiest man in the entire world." he whispered in her ear.
All of a sudden the entire diner burst in to clapping and celebration. Olivia looked around. It was all their friends. Everyone that was at the party the night before. There were a couple people that Olivia didn't recognize but she figured it was just the regular customers. She smiled really big.
"When did you plan this?"
"Today, I have had it planned for months actually. I just had to find the right time and place. And let everyone know. I did that easily." he said with a cocky smirk.
"How did you know I would say yes?"
"When you asked me this morning I knew you would say yes that's why I knew today was the day. I knew it was now or never. I know you Olivia."
"I love you Elliot." she said wrapping her arms around his neck once more and kissing him.
They broke apart. "I love you too baby."
After everyone gave them the congratulations and the I'm so happy they left and really went to her apartment.
She walked into the door and looked at the clock on the wall. 11:30. she was so exhausted after no sleep and the case and all the crying she was about to fall over right there and go to sleep.
Elliot began kissing her as soon as he shut and locked the door. He took her jacket off. And threw it to the floor. Then he began to lead her into the bedroom. Never breaking the kiss. Once in the bed room she took his belt off and threw it across the room. And he did the same with hers. She began to unbutton his shirt. But becoming impatient, she broke away from the kiss and forcefully ripped the shirt open in one swift motion sending buttons flying everywhere. She unbuttoned and unzipped his pants and he did the same to hers. They both pulled down their pants and underwear. Then she pulled her shirt over her head and threw it to the side. And they went back to kissing.
There was no winner in this battle at least not at the moment. They were both putting up a hell of a fight for dominance. And neither would submit so easily.
Elliot pinned Olivia to the wall. He then unbuttoned the clasp of her bra that was easily enough in the front this time. He slid it off her shoulders and let it fall to the floor. He grabbed one of her legs and wrapped it around his waist. He then took his hand and began to massage her breast. She could feel his long member wanting to enter her. And she knew that he could feel that she was ready. His ready shaft teased her as he began to thrust into her but not enter her. He broke the kiss and began to move his kisses and suckles down to her neck. He released her breast and took both of her hands and pined them to the wall above her head. He shifted so he was holding both her arms up with one hand and then he took her other leg with his free hand and lifted it to his waist. Just as he had done before. She was now only supported by him.
"Come on baby stop teasing me," she said moaning.
He looked at her and smirked. Then with one very powerful, very precise thrust, she got her wish. He was deep in her. He was giving her just what she wanted. With every thrust came a moan and grunt of pure pleasure from both of them.
He ravished her lips once more. As he continued to thrust harder and faster, his mouth now engulfed all the moans she was letting out.
He began to move to her neck once more. This time he wasn't just suckling but nibbling too. And the small bites gave her a pleasure that she needed to go over the edge. She was going to cum already.
Already Olivia? She thought to herself. Come on you can wait. Then it hit the warm sensation ran throughout her entire body. Through her veins making her blood hot. Just wait come on you can wait. She repeated in her thoughts.
"You want to cum baby?" he asked teasingly.
"Yes baby." she moaned.
"Too bad." he gave a sly smirk and exited her.
He then spun her around and dropped her on the bed. He climbed on top of her and began to wrestle her lips for dominance again. And then he began to move downward. To her neck. And then her breasts.
He took his time at her breasts. He knew that she loved it when he would suck on them and even nibble them. So that's what he did. Then he moved to her stomach. She was shaking like he had never seen before.
This meant that he was doing his job as her man.
With every kiss to her abdomen came a jolt of pleasure in her stomach. She couldn't believe she was shaking like this. It was a first that it was visible to other people. Elliot was the only man to have ever gotten her to that point.
He moved lower and lower. And then there he was at her nice and moist slit.
He began to flick her clit with his tongue. She arched her back with every flick.
Every sound that came out of her mouth from that point on were just unrecognizable noises.
At one point Elliot thought he heard his name followed by, "oh yes." but he wasn't sure.
A rush of pleasure coursed through her body making her throw her hands above her head to grab the head board. She need something to grab onto or she was going to climb the wall.
She couldn't hold it any longer. In an instant she released and filled his mouth with her creamy fluids. He looked up at her and smiled.
She was still shaking. He slithered his way up her body, and lay on top of her. He was going to enter her again when she flipped him over.
"Your turn to cum baby," she said kissing his lips. She then climbed on top of his erected shaft. And they both let out a loud moan as every inch of him entered her. She began to ride him. She bucked her hips and began to glide back and forth at the same time.
Back and forth, buck, back and forth, buck, back and forth, buck. His whole body stiffened and she knew that this was it and it was for her too.
Again. Oh my god again, she thought.
There it was, simultaneously they both released. He grabbed her hips and lifted upward thrusting into her to make sure every single centimeter was insider her core. And he held her there until they both her done cumming.
She collapsed on top of his chest not letting him out of her just yet. "i love you so much Elliot." she said panting.
"I love you too baby." he said breathless.
"Can we stay like this forever?"
"I wish Liv. I really wish we could."
"This is everything I have ever dreamed of."
"Me too baby."
After those final words she drifted to sleep. He rolled her over and pulled out of her. Then he covered her up.
They had a long day. With a lot of ups and downs. He only hoped that tomorrow would be different.
The newly engaged couple walked into the bullpen and sat at their respective desks. They both had a cup of coffee in their hands and a smile on their face.
"I see you two are doing better." Fin said.
"We are. We are madly and completely..." before she could finish she heard a familiar voice behind her.
"Benson, Stabler. Interrogation room. NOW!"
A/N: wow that was a very intense chapter. A lot of just about every emotion I could think of. Lol I hoped you all enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. I had a little help from my sister Julie tho. The case was totally her idea. I just added the details. Lol. Love you sissy!
well anyway who wanted Olivia and Elliot? What did they do? Was it good? Was it bad? What will they do to get out of what ever they think they got into? Wow am I rambling... Please review :)!