Captain Cragen walked in to find Elliot against Olivia both shoved up against the wall with his lips enclosed with hers in full embrace. Cragen stood there as his mouth dropped wide open, so many things began to run through his head and not at some random jogger speed at full usain bolt, speed of light speed, he couldn't speak or move just barely blink and just as soon as he did Elliot and Olivia realised what happened. Elliot lept back off Olivia and tripped over his own feet, missed the chair and landed straight onto his ass. Olivia wiped the syliva and excess lipstick from her face quickly and stood straight and faced Cragen, not even giving a second glance to Elliot laying on the floor.

"Wha-uh-um-wha-t?" Cragen blundered out as Elliot picked himself up and dusted off his suit trousers.

"Capt..."Olivia began to Elliot finishing her sentence.

"We can expla..."Elliot was too cut off, by Captain Cragen this time .

"No, no, get into my office right now!" Cragen whispered, but not gently, more like that angry whisper when someone's so angry that they don't shout because they're afraid of losing their voice or murdering someone, it was scary.

They both slumped over like grumpy school children being led to the principals office, everyone turned and stared straight at them walking shamefully into the Captain's office.

"Wonder what's happened here?" Munch asked,

"Maybe it's about that cat fight Elliot had with my witness,", Fin inquired.

Cragen waited for the two of them to walk into his office, as soon as they did, he slammed the door shut. He tried to think of an appropriate thing to say without sounding like an angry father or an unruly elderly man.

"Tell me now or IAB needs to know,", Cragen began, that was probably the best he was going to come up with so roll with it, he thought to himself.

"Cap, look, we've only started to talk about this, the first time we kissed was last night and we think we're going to take this further, so that's what that kiss was,", Olivia explained.

"Yeah, it's barely been 24 hours!" Elliot agreed with a smile, now he knows Olivia agrees with what he said in there before all the making-out bussiness.

"24 hours or 24 seconds, I should've been notified about this before anything I just walked in on happened! What if that had been someone else to walk in on you two,huh!?" Cragen questioned.

"Well I know a few who would've stayed for a show,", Elliot grinned smugly as Olivia elbowed him in the chest to tell him to wise up, he made a jokeingly cry of pain.

"Listen to me the both of you! If you're gonna take this relationship or whatever further then I need to know, this might threaten your partnership and the whole integrety of the team, tell me know so I can transfer one of you,", Cragen demanded.

"Captain! There's no need for tranfers, if this gets rocky we'll leave it at the sidelines when we enter this building! You know us, you can trust us!" Olivia begged.

"Yeah, come on Cap! You've known me for over twenty years!" Elliot stated encourgingly.

"Yeah, Elliot, exactly! I've known you for bringing in your emotions when it hits hard, when you see young kids get murdered or abused by scumbags it chips away at you and then that one case every so often just wrecks that last nerve you have and you lose it, threatening suspects, getting suspended! What do you think's gonna happen if you and Liv break up? You'll just drop it will you? Not get your emotions stuck in to perps and destroy your reputation? I know you,", Cragen harshly yet emotion-filledly shouted at Elliot, trying to keep eye contact but finding it hard because he didn't want to hurt his friend's feelings, he was like a son to him and a Olivia, a daughter but he couldn't let them hurt eachother. He was completely torn.

Elliot looked at the ground shamefully, he knew that if one of them had to get transferred he would go, he wouldn't let Liv get shoved out of her home, she loved this place, as much as you could love a police precinct. Elliot had to prove somehow that they could work together and be in a relationship, but how?

"How about we sign a contract or some sort of dependant agreement that insures that our relationship would never negatively affect our working environment etcetera, you know, get Casey to draw up a load of crap like that!" Elliot exclaimed proudly.

"I'll agree to that, no bother,", Olivia said, thankful of Elliot's cheeky ideas.

"Alright, I'll think about it, but what about the rest of the team, your going to have to let them in on it at some stage or do you want Munch being all paranioid about some sort of government controlled brain wash thing, again!"Cragen reminded himself of the total craziness that is John Munch.

Elliot looked over at Olivia and Olivia glanced at Elliot they both knew they would have to spill it at some point but Elliot had an amazing idea, that's what he thought.

"Okay, how about we tell them after our first date!" Elliot was so chuffed with himself.

"Wait, what? Elliot, we've never had a first date!" Olivia surprised at his outburst.

"Exactly! Olivia Benson, it would be my honour to take you out on a date tonight, it's up to you,", Elliot smirked as he got onto one knee and grabbed hold of Olivia's hand.

"Okay, but it's a little early to get down on one knee El!" Olivia giggled.

"Alright, alright, sorry,", Elliot was so pleased, now just to get the 'nod' of approvel from the 'father', Cragen.

Cragen gave it a long thought, he knew somewhere inside himself that these two were meant to be together, they just took so long to realise, it was amazing how daft some young people could be, they can look the love of their life straight in the eye and look straight through them. It was sad, they were too caught up in life, in work, in new trends and fitting in to realise how great the girl in front of their eyes is. He nodded his head in agreement, he couldn't see a great couple and some fantastic people go down the wrong path.

"Go ahead, let us know how you get on,", Cragen said.

Elliot grabbed hold of Liv's hand, led her out of the office and straight down the stairs.

"El, I need to get changed and washed and we haven't even finished our shifts yet! Where are we going?" Olivia questioned him.

"We don't need any of that, all we need is you and me, just wait and see." Elliot glanced up at her hesitating on the stairs, he knew how stubborn she was, if only she knew how much he loved her and how much he needed her in his life, but there was no words for what he felt, just actions and that's what he was going to do tonight. Take action...