Once again thank you to everyone for your reviews. I have a lot in store for this story. It makes me happy to see that you are enjoying it so far. A lot more to come with this one.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of Law and Order SVU or it's characters. This story was written simply for fun and not for profit. They belong to Dick Wolf.

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Chapter Four

Olivia woke up the next morning a few minutes before her alarm was set to go off. She could feel Elliot's arms wrapped tightly around her. Their legs intertwined with one another. The memories of the night before came flooding back to her. She made love with Elliot. The feelings that washed over her were only those of pure joy and happiness. Never in her life did she expect to fall in love. She had given up all hope of settling down with anyone. Married only to her job. For the first time ever she woke up with the hope of a future with someone. A smile spread across her face and she shifted herself so that she was closer against his chest. Feeding off his warmth.

"Good morning."

I didn't think he was awake. Olivia turned herself around so she was facing him and was met with a smiling Elliot Stabler. He began to run his fingers through her hair and she closed her eyes at the contact.

"Good morning. How long have you been awake?"

"About twenty minutes. I was going to get up and make some coffee but I didn't want to wake you. You looked so pieceful and I knew if I got up it would disturb you." She gave him a puzzled look. "You kind of had my arms captive."

She couldn't help but chuckle a bit. "Oh yeah, sorry about that."

"No worries Liv. Now that I know what it feels like...I wouldn't trade waking up with you in my arms for anything in the world."

Elliot leaned close and gave her a quick kiss. As he went to get out of bed Olivia pulled him back down into to her.

"El? What are we going to do about work today? What are we going to tell everyone?"

"What do you want to tell them?"

She didn't want to tell them anything. She didn't want to jinx what they had. She knew that people in her unit expected something was going on between them. Rumors were always going around the 1-6 about a Benson and Stabler hook up. She knew however, that if they found out that they were in fact together, no one would accept it. Cragen would most likely split them up, if not transfer one or both of them out completely. The thought of it terrified her. It was all so new and perfect. She didn't want anything ruining that. Hoping he wouldn't take it the wrong way she told him the truth.

"I don't think I am ready to tell anyone yet El."

He gave her a quick smile and kissed her forehead. "Then we don't tell anyone." She let out a sigh of relief. "Too be honest I am not ready to talk about it yet either. What goes on between us is our business, not for anyone else. Right?"

She simply nodded. Elliot gave her another quick kiss and made his way off the bed. As he pulled off the covers and stood up Olivia couldn't help but smile from ear to ear. She watched a very naked Elliot begin to walk towards her door. My God I love his body. Right as he was about to exit he called over his shoulder to her.

"I am going to go put on a pot of coffee. Why don't you go wash up and then I'll shower when you're done."

Olivia couldn't help but laugh out loud as she got out of bed. She picked up his boxers from the floor and tossed them over to him. Hitting him square in the ass. He whipped around at the impact.

"You might want to put on some clothes first, don't you think?"

Elliot simply bent down to pick up the boxers and slipped them on. He gave her a wink, and a smile, and left the room.

It is going to be next to impossible to play this off at work.

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By some grace of God Elliot and Olivia made it through the day as if nothing had happened. As the work day was winding down Olivia thankful it was all over was sitting at her desk when she heard Fin call out to her.

"Hey Liv, we were all talking about going to Meloni's tonight to get some drinks. You in?"

Olivia couldn't help but smile. The mention of the bar made her heart flutter as the memories of her shared dance with Elliot, and the confessions of the night before, played over in her head. She got so caught up in her thoughts she forgot that Fin was even standing there.

"Ahh Liv?"

"Hmmm..what?"

"Meloni's...drinks...you coming?"

She wanted to ask if Elliot was going. She wanted to spend her night with no one else. She couldn't ask Fin that though. He couldn't know she was basing her plans on Elliot. As if on cue he walked into the room.

"Hey El, you up for some drinks at Meloni's tonight?"

He glanced over towards Olivia trying to read if she had given Fin an answer yet. Realizing she hadn't, he spoke. "Actually I was going to go stop by the lab and talk to Warner about those DNA results. She called Liv and me earlier and told us to stop by but we didn't get the chance to."

Genius. "Oh yeah, I forgot about Melinda. Sorry Fin, we'll have to catch up with you guys another night."

Fin just shrugged. "No problem. If you guys want to work instead of drink, that's your business."

"Want isn't really the correct word Fin. Trust me. Come on Liv. Let's get going." Being that he was behind Fin Elliot gave Olivia a wink and fluttered his eyebrows. She couldn't hold in her laughter.

"Oh yes. Lets."

Fin just shook his head and chuckled. "You two are one of a kind. See you guys in the morning."

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Later that night Olivia and Elliot laid in bed after making love for the second time. Olivia had her head placed on his chest and he had his arms wrapped tightly around her. As they were drifting off to sleep Olivia couldn't help but think about everything that was going on between them. She couldn't remember ever feeling this happy in her life, and yet... she also never remembered feeling so scared. She was terrified that something would happen and she would get hurt. If there was anyone in the world that could break her, it was Elliot. She had been hurt by people she loved so many times in her life. Her mother. Ex-boyfriends. The thought of Elliot hurting her scared her to death. She wouldn't be able to handle it.

"Liv? Are you okay?"

She was so caught up in her thoughts once again that she didn't even notice a single tear had fallen onto Elliot's bare chest.

"Liv..what's the matter?"

He sat himself up so he was sitting up against the head board and picked her up to cradle her in his arms.

"Please don't hurt me Elliot." It came out as a nervous whisper.

Elliot sat up straighter and cupped her face. He looked her straight in the eyes. His face painted with a look of confusion and fear.

"What are you talking about Liv? Why would I hurt you?"

Olivia raised her hand to her cheek to wipe away another loan tear and tilted her head down into his hands. "I couldn't handle it if you hurt me Elliot. Not physically. I know you would never touch me like that, but if this is really going to happened between us..with this.....with us.....I couldn't handle it if you hurt me. I have been hurt by everyone I have ever cared about, but with you..... I wouldn't be able to handle it"

Elliot pulled her into a hug and placed his hand on her head to cradle it against his chest. He let out a long heavy sigh and moved her face back up to his. "You listen to me and you listen good. I promise you Liv, I promise you that I will never do anything to hurt you. I am the last person in the world who wants to hurt you. I am not a perfect man Liv. I wont pretend to be. I will make mistakes. We will probably fight. Hell.. who am I kidding, we will fight. But you have my promise that I will never ever do anything to intentionally hurt you. Never."

He gave her a kiss and when she nodded in understanding he returned them to their previous position on the bed. He wrapped his arms even tighter around her waist. Olivia couldn't help but hope he wasn't lying.

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TBC

Short chapter this time. I hope you guys liked it though. Next one will be a lot longer.

(I've also started working on the sequel to Tell Her so I am hoping to start getting that up sometime this week. :cD)

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