A/N: I forgot about this story again lol. Good thing it wasn't for long. Please read and review for the next chapter, which should be up quicker since it is already typed up and ready to go.

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Olivia woke up the next morning in Joel's arms and little Ruby was laying in front of her. She sighed, softly, happily. The one person missing from the bed was Sebastian.

Before long, she heard little footsteps running down the hallway. Her baby boy then appeared in the bedroom doorway with a huge half asleep grin.

"Mommy!"

Putting a finger to her lips, she whispered, "shh, handsome. Sister and Joel are still sleeping."

Giggling, Seb ran over to the bed and went to climb up.

"Come on, buddy, up you come," Olivia whispered to her young son and helped him up. "Cuddle up next to Roo, bud."

Sebastian smiled and cuddled up to Ruby.

Ruby stirred and opened her eyes to see her twin brother, cuddled up next to her. "Seb!"

"Morning, Roo," Olivia whispered to her daughter.

"Morning, mommy."

"Why don't you two go play for a little while, ok?"

Nodding, both twins jumped off the bed and ran out of the master bedroom.

Watching her beautiful children run out, Olivia smiled. They were so bubbly, so happy and full of life. She exhaled a deep breath slowly.

Olivia missed the father of her bundles of joy. Elliot Stabler. She missed his beautiful ocean blue eyes, which she used to stare in to. Swim and get lost in. His warm, strong arms, which he used to hold her in. his touch, which used to leave an electric, tingling sensation in her skin. His lips on hers, when they kissed. She even missed his hot headedness, which young Ruby had inherited from her father. She was well known for throwing temper tandrums, which involved throwing toys and ripping them apart, when she was angry. A mini, female version of the Stabler temper. And mixed with Olivia's stubbornness, it could be a deadly combination when she was angry.

Sebastian on the other hand, was looking more and more like his father each and every single day and it pulled at her heart strings. He was stubborn like her. He just couldn't let things go.

The feel of Joel caressing her belly and his breath on her neck, startled her out of her deep thoughts.

"You ok, baby?" he asked. Voice groggy, filled with sleep.

Olivia cleared her throat. "Y...yeah. I have to take Seb and Roo to the mall today. Do you need anything that I can talk to you at work?"

Joel kissed his fiancee's cheek. "No, I'm good, babe, thanks. You sure you're ok?" he asked as he sat up.

Nodding, Olivia sat up and got up out of bed. "Yeah, I'm fine, just a little tired, honey. I'm going to go make breakfast," she said and walked out of the room.

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In the mall, Olivia was looking at a little formal white shirt for Seb in the boys' clothing section of a store. She looked around for the twins, who had adventured off a bit too far for her liking and it made her edgy.

"Sebastian! Ruby! Back here, kids!" she called to them.

Sebastian wasn't looking where he was walking and bumped right in to a tall man, who was with his son, looking at the older boys' clothes.

The man squatted down to the children's height. "Hey. Where's your mommy, kids?" he asked softly, looking at both the twins. The boy looked like him at the age of three.

"Right there, sir," Seb said, pointing to Olivia, who was pushing an empty double stroller.

She was starting to regret letting them out in the quiet store.

Standing up, he looked at the woman carefully. "Olivia?" he asked in disbelief, not believing his own eyes.

Blinking, Olivia gulped. "Elliot?" She couldn't believe her eyes either.

Elliot looked at the twins and then back up at Olivia. He knew that these were his children. Sebastian and Ruby. Whom he hadn't seen a photo of since the day that they were born. He'd never met them before now. "Hey kids," he said, softly, with a big smile.

He looked back up at Olivia with a pleading look of 'why?'.

Looking down at the floor, Olivia sighed, shaking her head, too ashamed to look back at him.

He had a look of betrayal on his face. She'd kept his children from him for three years. Four, if included the thirty-seven weeks she was pregnant with them.

When she finally looked up again, Elliot was gone. She couldn't see him anywhere.

"Shit," she muttered, under her breath, thinking that she'd lost her chance again.

"Mommy?" Ruby spoke up from right in front of her.

Looking down to her daughter, Olivia replied, "yes, Roo?"

"The man giveded this to us," Ruby replied and Seb passed the business card to their mother.

Gently taking the offered card, she looked at it. It was Elliot's business card. He'd made Captain. She was proud of him. She doubted that she'd make it any further then first grade detective, working part time in Computer Crimes.

Olivia turned the card over and quickly read the back, keeping an eyes on the mischievous three year olds, who could run off again at any second.

On the back, it read: 'Call me tonight. We need to talk.' And below was his home phone number.

Olivia licked her lips and put it in her pocket. "Okay, kids, what do you say we get lunch instead of looking at clothes?"

"Yay!" the twins cheered.

"Okay, back in the stoller," she told them softly, pointing to it.

Seb and Ruby climbed back in the stroller, in their respective sides and Liv buckled them in safely before heading out of the store.

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It was eight that night and the twins had just fallen asleep and Olivia was trying to work up the courage to call Elliot. But it was now or never and it was easier to call with the kids in bed and Joel, being at work, working late. She was still in love with the father of her gorgeous twins in one of the three bedrooms upstairs, in their four bedroom home. One of the spare rooms, which was downstairs was the playroom, the other, which was upstairs was the office, since Ruby and Sebastian refused to sleep in seperate rooms yet, but as soon as they started school, Olivia was going to move one of them in to the office and move the office in to the playroom, to share space.

Nervously Olivia picked up the cordless phone from the coffee table and dialled the number on Elliot's card before she sat down on the couch.

Elliot answered after just two rings. "Hello?"

"Hi, Elliot," she greeted him, nervously.

"Hi Olivia. I'm glad you called." Olivia could hear the smile in his voice.

Olivia took a deep breath and exhaled it slowly. "Why don't you come to my house, so we can talk properly while the kids are asleep?" she suggested.

"Sure. What's the address?" he asked her as she took off her engagement ring and stuck it in the drawer of the end table beside the couch.

She gave him the address and hung up before beginning to pace around the living room, waiting for his arrival.

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Elliot arrived about twenty minutes later and the two of them took a seat on the couch, with a couple inches in between them.

Taking a deep breath, Olivia exhaled it slowly and said, "thank you for coming."

Elliot just nodded and waited for her to continue.

"I... I really missed you," she whispered.

Shaking his head, Elliot yelled, harshly, "why the hell didn't you call me then?!"

Before Olivia could reply, they heard tiny footsteps come down the stairs followed by a soft voice. "Mommy?"

"In the living room, Roo," Olivia told her softly.

Ruby walked in slowly. She recognized the man from the mall sitting on the couch.

Furrowing her little eyebrows, Ruby looked at her mommy, with a slight, curious tilt to her head. "Mommy?"

Why was the man in their house? Why was he yelling at mommy?

Picking Ruby up delicately and sitting her on the lap, Olivia asked, "it's ok, baby. What's wrong? You should be sleeping like your brother."

Ruby shok her head and rested her head in the curve of her mother's neck. "Feel icky, mommy. I wakeded up when I heared yellin'."

Sighing, Olivia rubbed Ruby's back and looked at Elliot. "I... I..." She bit her bottom lip in an attempt to hold back her tears.

Seeing Olivia's welled up eyes and the tears starting to flow, Elliot softened. He sighed and put his hand over Olivia's, which was resting on Ruby's back. "I missed you too, Liv. I still love you and I want to get to know my kids. Please."

Nodding, Olivia rested her head on Elliot's shoulder. She sighed, contently.

Once Elliot saw that Ruby had fallen asleep in Olivia's arms, he kissed her forehead.

Olivia smiled and lifted her head. "I love you so damn much, Elliot Stabler."

Leaning down, Elliot claimed Olivia's lips with his, starting a very deep, instense, passionate kiss.

Pulling back for oxygen, Olivia smiled. "Just let me put Ruby back to bed and then we can 'talk' some more," she whispered with a wink.

Elliot grinned. He liked the sound of that. "I'll be waiting."

Getting up, Olivia laughed lightly. "I'll be back in one minute," she told him and carried a sleeping Ruby upstairs.