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Story is mine! Hope you have enjoyed the first few chapters!
When they arrived at Olivia's apartment, Elliot hesitated before deciding it wasn't a bad idea to be with his best friend tonight. They got to Olivia's apartment and went in and sat down on the couch. Olivia grabbed the remote off the dining room table and automatically turned it to ESPN. Olivia was about to get up when she felt Elliot grab her hand. Olivia turned back around to find Elliot crying and repeatedly asking himself "Why?"
Olivia took him in her arms and rocked him back and forth as she assured him that everything was going to be alright. Elliot lay on Olivia's chest, while he wrapped his big strong, tan arms around her. The head-strong, confident, hard-core, bad-boy that Olivia was use to was now a complete mess and in total shambles about what to do with his life.
Olivia lifted his head up and said, "Elliot whatever it takes, we are going to get through this."
"We?" is all Elliot mouthed.
"Yeah we, I'm not going to let you go through this alone, I love you and you know I'll do anything for you," she said trying to be supportive.
Elliot looked in her eyes and said, "Thank you; I know I don't tell you that often, but I wouldn't be who I am today if it weren't for you."
Olivia wanted to be sarcastic, but the moment just didn't call for it.
Olivia asked him did he want something to drink or eat and Elliot nodded his head.
Olivia got up and went to see what was available. She had some frozen chicken, fries, a salad, cereal and a dinner. Elliot got up and walked into the kitchen to see what he wanted.
Elliot gave her a bland look as he said, "I'll take the frozen dinner."
Olivia handed it to him as she got the salad out and some dressing for her to eat.
Olivia fixed her salad as Elliot waited for his microwaveable dinner to finish. They both sat down on the couch and Elliot handed the remote back to Olivia, offering her the TV for tonight. He rarely ever gave her the opportunity to watch whatever she wanted, but tonight she didn't want that opportunity. All she wanted was for Elliot to be happy again and if it took her having to be by his side and hold him at night, she was ready to do that.
Ten thirty blinked on the front of Elliot's phone. He was so tired, but him mind was racing intensely. Olivia had dosed off, but woke up when she felt her let kick Elliot in the side.
"Sorry El," Olivia said unaware he wasn't paying her any attention.
Ten minutes later, Elliot had picked Olivia up and laid her on her bed before he climb on also. Olivia was half asleep and half awake and knew Elliot was in her bed, but she figured it wouldn't do any harm. Olivia rolled over and like she had promised, she held Elliot in her warm embrace and all the tension and stress in his body released into her as he quickly fell asleep.
They lay in the same bed all night until Elliot got up at seven ten to use the restroom. Olivia heard him stir and rolled back over to hide her face from the light in the bathroom.
Elliot came out and went downstairs to the car to retrieve his duffle bag that had a few spare clothes to last him for three days. He came back up and opened the door as he suddenly came to a screeching halt. Olivia was in a tank top with no bra, panties, and a robe that was widely open. Elliot took in the sight as he realized Olivia hadn't heard him come in.
"You may want to close your robe, I can see your underwear," stated Elliot.
Olivia gasped as she realized how she had let her robe open knowing Elliot was somewhere near. She apologized quickly, although in her head she knew he secretly enjoyed the sight as much as she enjoyed him looking.
Elliot asked her was the bathroom available and she nodded her head. Before he entered her bedroom, he looked back and asked, "Would you like to go get some breakfast at Tony's this morning?"
Olivia turned around and looked into his eyes as she realized they had some spirit in them. "Sure why not," she complied.
They were both fully clothed by eight thirty and were headed to Tony's for breakfast. When they arrived, they spotted the gang and walked over to join them. Casey, Munch, and Fin were seated at a booth, but quickly moved to a table when they saw Elliot and Olivia walk in.
Olivia said, "He guys, have you all ordered yet?"
Fin shook his head and said, "Nope waiting on Mel, she's in traffic."
Elliot asked to be excused as he scooted his chair back and headed for the men's room.
"So how is he doing?" asked Casey?
"As well as to be expected," relied Olivia.
Munched raised an eyebrow to asked, "Where is he staying?"
Olivia shot him a look and replied, "With me, he doesn't need to be by himself."
Munch smirked as he confirmed his theory about Olivia and Elliot. As Elliot made his way back to the table, Melinda arrived and everyone was ready to order.
After they ordered, everyone made small talk and played on their phone til the food came. They all ate in silence and spoke maybe one or two words when needed.
"Today was going to be a long day" Elliot thought to himself.
They all arrived at the precinct before ten, clocking in and getting comfortable before they had to spring into action on a case. Cragen arrived at ten thirty pleasantly surprised to see his detectives hard at work on whatever paper work they hadn't finished on their previous cases.
Fin jumped up, "I got it, I think I made a connection between all four victims."
Everybody listened as he started to explain how all the women lived in different parts of town, but used the same park on the same days and nearly around the same exact times. Everybody started digging into their paperwork and making phone calls to determine what the women were doing before and after they went to the park. As the day rolled on, they collared to perps as suspects to the crimes. Olivia and Elliot took one perp, while Fin and Munched worked on the other.
The first perp was 5'8, broad shoulders, small build, Caucasian, and had a bad temper. His rap sheet stated he killed two dogs, beat up a guy when was 18 because he was drunk and had several restraining orders on him from women.
Olivia read his sheet like she was reciting a play then she leaned in and asked, "So you must really hate women, since you went through all that trouble just to prove a point."
"You don't know what you are talking about, you stupid bitch," the perp spat out.
"Do you not like my authority or do you leave that up to your mother," stated Olivia with sarcasm in her voice.
He shook his head as to be contemplating his actions, when Olivia got off the table and walked over to the wall. Elliot was outside the interrogation room because Cragen pulled him out to talk to him. Cragen asked him was he able to do his job without letting his feelings cloud his judgment and Elliot nodded giving him a stern face to match.
"Well get in there and find out if this man's ass is grass," stated Cragen.
Elliot walked back in as Olivia was asking him another question.
"What, did these women not obey you, did they tell you to get the hell on?" she asked strongly.
The guy stood up and lunged toward Olivia and Elliot sprang into action, jumping infront of her and slamming the guy up against the wall. Elliot picked him up and slammed him against another wall then threw him in the wooden chair not speaking one word. The perp knew that he wasn't playing so he set back and took the ridicule from Olivia.
Once everyone finished their interrogations, they all met in the bullpen to discuss what they found out. As they realized that the men were both men weren't capable of doing something like that, they let them go and started doing more digging. By eight thirty that night, they had finally caught the perp and sent him to central booking. By nine twenty-five, Elliot and Olivia were packing up to leave, when Fin asked them to stop by his house for a little down time. Olivia looked at Elliot, who didn't seem to mind so they agreed.
Everyone arrived at Fin's place at nine forty-five and were glad to see the two bottles of champagne he had sitting in a cooler by the table. Once everyone got there, everyone mellowed out and snacked on the food he had ordered before he left the precinct. Everyone sat around drinking and talking and Elliot actually opened up and engaged in conversation. People started getting tipsy as they watched a movie and attempted to play some board games. By eleven Olivia knew it was time to go, when Elliot was kissing on her and calling her everything but her name.