Second part of Please Operator, and I just gotta say it again. I LOVE GARTH BROOKS AND HE JUST TOTALLY ROCKS!!! All right, on to the story!!! ENJOY!!!
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Now I had to ask myself
If it were me
And I was out drinking
Well where would I be
Then I thumb nailed the label
And there I appeared
Hiding out in a bottle
Behind a three-day old beard
All right, it was official. Elliot Stabler was so drunk he seriously could not think straight. He kept asking himself that if it were him, where would he be? He didn't know the answer, since he wasn't too sure he was Elliot Stabler. No, he was sure that he wasn't Elliot Stabler, he was just a shell of Elliot Stabler. Elliot started peeling off the label, and suddenly Elliot Stabler appeared beside him, and the shell of Elliot could see what Elliot Stabler thought of him, a drunken, idiotic shell of a great man who was hiding out in a bottle instead of going out and facing the world. As Elliot Stabler vanished and left the shell of Elliot there alone, the bartender announced that the bar was closing down soon. Elliot was upset, since he really didn't want to leave, he was among drunk friends. But, he had to leave, and he stumbled home, well, he stumbled to his apartment, where he collapsed in his chair with the TV on and a bottle of whiskey next to him.
Please operator could you trace this call
Find out where I'm drinking
Which dirty beer hall
And send a cab driver to call for me here
No need to describe me
'Cause I ain't all here
Meanwhile, Olivia stared at Nathan in shock, the hurt and pain obvious in her eyes.
'Then why did you marry me?" She demanded in a cool voice, and he shrugged, saying,
"I like a challenge, and you were a challenge by itself. But then your partner got in the way, I could see that he wanted you, and I wanted to beat him to you. And I did."
"Elliot? You're an idiot, I'm just his best friend. Just goes to show how much you know about me." Olivia said disdainfully, trying to make him hurt just as bad as she was at that moment.
"You might think he's just your best friend, but he looks at you like he owns you, but he's wrong. I own you."
"I belong to noone! I am my own person!" She yelled at him, and he caught her wrist and smiled, saying,
"You belong to me, but that is going to change. I want a divorce." With those four words Olivia's world fell apart. She yanked her wrist away from him and said,
"You, you want a divorce?"
"Yes, I'm finished with you."
"If you think I'm just going to walk away quietly, you have got another thing coming, you SOB!" She yelled at him, and he sighed.
Well I may be lonely
But I'm never alone
'Cause I've been beside myself
Since she's been gone
Meanwhile, Elliot had finished half of his bottle and was staring to see double of the TV, and thought with a laugh that he was giving new meaning to the words 'double feature.' Elliot was feeling so lonely in that danged cold and heartless apartment, but then he realized that he was never alone, since the real Elliot Stabler had been sitting beside him the whole time, he just never realized it, and now that he did realize it, he just didn't care. And that was really sad, but he realized that he just didn't care about that or anything else. He didn't care about any one either, except for his kids and Olivia at that moment, but he was praying to God that none of them walked through his doors; he would hate it if they saw him like this, broken and drunk. It would just destroy him if his kids saw him like that, and if Olivia saw him like this, she would kill him, figuratively, for getting himself so drunk, and then she would haul his hide to bed, where she would force him to stay with no alcohol for at least a few days, if not a week. Elliot smiled, thinking of Olivia.
Please operator could you trace this call
Find out where I'm drinking
Which dirty beer hall
And send a cab driver to call for me here
And if he can find me
I'll buy him a beer
"Liv…"
"No! Don't 'Liv' me!"
"You are overreacting, as usual. Just get some divorce papers, we'll sign them and that will be over with."
"Just like that, huh."
"Just like that. Don't make this harder than it has to be." Olivia was stunned, like she had been slapped and then she said,
"Get out."
"What?"
"Get out. NOW! Get out of my sight! NOW!" He froze, and she shoved him towards the door, saying,
"I want you out! Now! Get out and leave me the hell alone!" He scrambled out, knowing that she had a gun on her. He slammed the door, and she locked it, leaning against it with sobs wracking from her body. She slid down the door and collapsed on the ground, wrapping her arms around her knees and hugging herself tightly, bawling, simply bawling from her shattered heart.
Meanwhile, across town, Elliot pulled his knees up to his body and tears began leaking out of his eyes, and soon his built frame was wracking with sobs, from all the pain, hurt and frustration that were from the last year. He had been on a roller coaster ride emotionally, and finally it was all coming out. The two partners, separated from each other cried their eyes apart, both of them needing each other's company, but thinking that they couldn't have it. If only they knew how wrong they were.
