Hi, I'm not sure if any of you are still interested in this story, but I've got more ideas to add to it. I've been rewriting and making changes. I put a little spin on this chapter with Olivia's new partner. I hope it's not too "predictable comedy." Also, I'm going to give everyone a heads up that this chapter is probably an M rating. So I give you all full warning. Parents don't hurt me. Let me know what you think and if you have ideas on improvements on my writing please drop them my way. I am using this fun fiction as a learning experience, so let me know what I need to work on and let me know what you love.
Peace Out
Scarlett
Balance
The Special Victim's Unit squad room was unusually quiet for a Tuesday afternoon. Olivia walked in with Casey on her arm. They had just got back from lunch. Olivia was laughing as Casey told her about the date she had with a lawyer who liked costumes in bed. "Then I took the wig off and he lost it. It was like a scared turtle. That's when I knew I had to stop screwing men with a small-"
"Good afternoon, partner." Craig said as he stood holding a file and a cup of coffee for Olivia to take.
"Briefcase." Casey ended.
"Casey Novak?! Hi, I'm Craig Garner. I've been dieing to meet you. I've read and heard so much about you. You are the best ADA in the city according to the New York Times."
Casey looked at Olivia. Olivia sighed and hunched her shoulders a bit, "My new partner."
"Oh, good. Say, when did Cragen start recruiting from Best Buy?"
Olivia shook her head and held back a laugh.
Casey flipped her hair to the side and waved to Olivia, "I'll see you later, Liv."
"Thanks Casey." Olivia said and then smiled with a hint of annoyance towards Craig.
"You know, I know a lot of guys that work at Best Buy who are very intelligent people. And they make a nice salary too." Craig spattered on as he followed Olivia around the office.
Olivia ignored him and sifted through the messages on her desk.
"So you two are good friends then huh? She probably helps you out when you're in a pickle. That's good to know. You know, I didn't realize how tall she was. How tall do you think she is? 5'8? 5'9?"
Olivia's head was pounding from his constant yammering of idiotic questions. "Garner! Would you please shut up for two minutes?! Can you just not speak to me for 2 whole minutes, while I sort through my paper work? Please."
Craig backed up and nodded "Sure."
Olivia sat at her desk as he ran to his desk and sat down at the same time she did. Olivia ran her fingers through her hair and stretched. Craig yawned loudly and started writing up some reports. He clicked a pen slowly every time he stopped to think. Olivia typed on her keyboard and paused. "Click, click, click", went the pen. Olivia typed. "Click, click, click" Craig snorted and made a chuckle towards Olivia. She gave him a look of rage and he quickly put his head back into his notes. Olivia typed and read. "Click, click, click"
"Ok, give me the god damn pen." She ripped the pen out of Craig's hand and threw it in the wastebasket. She grabbed the keys off of her desk and placed them in Craig's hand. "Here, go see if the lab has any prints for our Megan mystery shopper."
"Aren't you supposed to come with me?" Craig replied.
"Just go." She yelled.
Craig shot up and ran out the door.
Fin was sitting across from her and he started to giggle.
"Don't even start with me Fin. I'm really not in the mood."
"All I have to say is that I'm glad my partner has moved on to Depends."
Olivia threw him a look.
Fin laughed, "Get it Depends. Diapers."
"Yeah, I got it Fin and I'm still not laughing."
Munch came from the filing cabinet and threw a stack of files on his desk. "Oh come on Liv, he's not that bad. He knows intelligent people at Best Buy."
Olivia laughed. "I'm losing my mind."
Fin threw an envelope at her, "Ah, Liv, don't get soft on us. You have a big case to close."
She picked up the envelope and opened it, "What's this?"
"Jenny Halgrin's fingerprints. Melinda dropped them by an hour ago. They were all over the glass you found near the building." Fin said as he walked towards the bathroom.
"How long were you gonna keep these from me?" Olivia cried.
"Long enough to entertain myself." He replied with a skip in his step and a smile on his face.
Munch winked at her and dug into the files on his desk. "Consider it a welcome back present."
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Elliot sat in a wheel chair thumping his foot and checking his watch for the tenth time.
"I'm really sorry, Lillian. It's not like my girls to be late. You can go back to your job. I'll just sit here and wait."
The little Asian nurse standing behind him poked her head around to look him in the eye, "Are you sure Mr. Eriot?"
"Yeah Lillian thanks. I'll call you if I need a push."
"Oh Mr. Eriot, you are such a yokster. I gonna miss you."
"And I'll miss you too riria-Lillian."
She smiled and toddled away.
Elliot phoned Olivia.
"Benson."
"Liv, Maureen and Kathleen were suppose to take me home from the hospital today, but they're not here and they're not answering their phones. Can you stop by on one of your breaks and pick me up?"
"That's odd. Are they ok?"
"Who knows. I've done everything a man with a bleeding heart can do. I just need to get in my bed."
"I'm actually in the neighborhood. We'll swing by to pick you up."
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Ten minutes later Olivia rolled Elliot towards the squad car.
"You know, Liv, I can walk to the car. My legs aren't injured."
"Yeah but you're lungs are and I'm kind of in a hurry. Just sit tight."
Olivia rushed around the car to the passenger's side and pulled Craig out. "You, get in the back."
"Me? Why do I have to sit in the back? I'm your partner."
"Just do it."
Elliot moved like a robot from the hips up. He sat in the front seat and turned into the car without moving his chest or shoulders. Olivia hopped in the drivers seat and turned on the squad car sirens. "Elliot, we have to make two quick stops and you'll be in your bed watching MASH before you know it."
"Liv, you didn't have to do this right now. I could have called someone else or waited until your break."
"It's fine. We were right down the street."
Craig poked his head between the two of them. "You must be the guy we hear so much about. Hi, I'm Craig Garner. I'm Olivia's partner. Just so you know. " Elliot gave him a dirty look and Craig continued as usual, "You're a big guy. You must work out? I've never been shot before what's that like?"
"I'm going to show you what it's like if you don't stop running your yap." Olivia barked as she sped through the traffic.
Elliot wiped his mouth to try and hide the laugh from forming on his face.
"How much coffee have you had today, Liv?"
"Not enough." Olivia slammed on the breaks and got out of the car. "Craig. Now."
Craig jumped out and followed her to the doorway of the Halgrin's apartment. Olivia beat on the door with her fist. Jenny Halgrin opened it. Her face was bruised like she'd been beaten. "Detectives, haven't you badgered my husband enough?"
"I don't know Jenny, why don't you answer that question for me. What happened to your face?" Olivia asked.
"I…I fell into a parked car on my roller blades."
Craig pushed Olivia out of the way, "Really that's awful. You're very lucky you didn't hurt your wrist. I fell on my roller blades once and both of my wrists were broken. But it doesn't look like you even got a scratch on your arms. That's always nice since using your arms is such an important thing. With the eating and the going to the bathroom-"
Olivia grabbed Craig by the back of his shirt and pulled him to the side, "Jenny, you're going to have to come in with us and answer a few questions."
"What are you talking about?"
Craig pulled out the fingerprints and the shoe prints from the scene of the crime, "It's all here Mrs. Halgrin. Now if you'll kindly step outside we can take you in and read you your rights."
Olivia cuffed Jenny and took her to the car while Craig blabbered on about the right to remain silent and all that Jazz.
Jenny was out of control on the car ride to the station. "This is ridiculous. Just because my fingerprints were on a bottle doesn't mean that I did anything. I was frantically helping my husband. He's not a light man. I'm sure I touched the ground around him several times."
Craig sat next to Jenny in the backseat. He faced her and took in her rant carefully. "Mrs. Halgrin, the procedures at the SVU are only in the interest of the victim, which in this case, under the report your husband gave us, would be your husband. We're only doing our job."
Elliot closed his eyes and tried to ignore the noise in the backseat.
"I want a lawyer. Don't I get to make a phone call."
Olivia threw her phone in the backseat. "Make the call. If you don't have a lawyer we can provide you with one."
Craig jumped when the phone hit him on the knee, "Oh dear. Jennifer. May I call you Jennifer?"
"My name is Jenny thank you very much and I'd appreciate it if you didn't call me anything. I want to go home."
"Jenny, those earrings are lovely. Where did you get them?"
"What? I don't know."
"Does your husband shop at Jan's Jewlers on 4th and 16th st?"
Jenny grabbed at her ear, "No. He didn't buy them for me. I found them. I don't know. Will somebody just get me to where we're going so that I can explain myself?"
Elliot took a deep breath and lightly touched Olivia's hand. Olivia was so stressed that she didn't even feel him. Elliot could see the wrinkle that she got above her nose when she's upset or thinking to hard and all he could think about was kissing her. He loved that wrinkle. She pulled her hand away suddenly to turn the wheel and pull the car to the front of the precinct.
"Craig, out of the car I need to speak to you."
They got out and she pulled him to the side. "Take her up to a room, make her comfortable, and wait until I get back. I'll only be 15 minutes. Do not, under any circumstances start without me. You got it?"
Craig smiled and took Jenny up to the squad room.
Olivia got back in the car and drove towards Elliot's house.
Elliot sat like a statue in the front seat. "Looks like you've got your hands full."
Olivia let out a sigh, "Yeah. The transition has been difficult to say the least. I'm getting a little scared. I mean, what's going to happen when we're in a dangerous situation? I can't even imagine him with a gun in his hand let alone being able to control a hostile perp."
"Liv, Cragen knows how to hire good detectives. I'm sure there's a reason for him getting the job."
"Yeah, his reason is to annoy the hell out of me."
Elliot laughed, "I almost lost it when you said you were gonna shoot him."
"You think it's funny, but I'm not sure it's very far from the truth. Ah, whatever I'm just glad I'm working again and I'm really glad to see you right here next to me." She leaned in and gave him a kiss on the cheek.
"Alright Detective Benson, settle down or I'll have to arrest you."
"Ooo should I call my lawyer?"
"Only if she's hot."
They smiled at each other and Elliot rubbed her knee with his hand. She pulled up to his building, threw the hazard lights on, and helped him into his apartment. They walked down a shabby looking hallway and to a door that looked like it had been shot at and possibly kicked in a couple of times.
"You live here?"
Elliot messed with the keys to find the right one, "Hey, I have four child support payments and a kid in college. This is all I could afford."
"Point taken."
They walked into Elliot's tiny apartment. It was one room with a bed, a stove, a tiny refrigerator, and a television on cinderblocks.
"Welcome to my linen closet."
"Wow, this makes my place look like the Hilton."
Olivia carried Elliot's hospital bag to a corner and started to clean off Elliot's bed.
"Liv, don't' do that. I'll get it. You need to get to work."
"You have some serious feng shui issues in here, El. We need to get you a picture or some color or something. "
"Ah, I'm never here. There's no need for color."
Elliot's phone started to ring. "Maureen. Where the hell have you been? I waited for 2 hours."
Olivia kissed him on the cheek and headed towards the door.
"Thanks, Liv. Love you. Call me."
Olivia paused by the door. "Did he just say that? In front of Maureen?" She thought. She turned towards him, but he was deep into a long-winded reprimanding conversation with Maureen about her irresponsible behavior. With a twinkle in her eye she slid through the door and flew back to the precinct.
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Cragen was fuming when Olivia walked into the squad room. "Olivia where the hell have you been?"
"I had to make an important errand. I told Craig I'd be right back."
"What's so important that you had to skip out on work?"
"It's personal boss. Just know it was important."
Olivia confidently walked into the interrogation room where Craig was having a soda with Jenny and talking about the artistic dimensions of a diamond.
"You see you're earrings are oval shaped which causes the cut to look feminine. Can I see it up close?"
Jenny pulled out her earring and handed it to him. "Do whatever it is you need to do, but I didn't get arrested to sit here and talk about earrings, now what do you people want from me?"
Olivia sat down and apologized to Jenny for making her wait. Craig took the earring and swiped the prong on the back.
"Jenny, I'd like to hear you're end of the story one more time. Tell me again how you found your husband?"
"I told you he was on his stomach."
Olivia grabbed a picture of the crime scene. "Can you point to the spot on the ground where he was laying?"
She pointed at it quickly.
"And did you see anyone around him?"
"No, he was alone."
"You see Jenny, that doesn't add up. According to Jason he was hit on the back of the head while he was standing." Olivia grabbed Craig and placed him on the wall. "So if the woman was standing here and Jason was me and someone hit me from behind I would have fallen like so. The only way for Jason to be where you pointed was if somebody dragged him there. There were no drag marks from your husband body in the gravel, Jenny. There were also only three sets of footprints, one being yours, and the only set that looked dragged was our mystery Megan's. Now can you tell me why that might be?"
"I don't know what you're talking about. I never saw that woman."
Very suddenly Craig moved into Jenny's face. His face was serious and he spoke in a deep slow voice, "If you never saw her then why are you wearing her earrings?"
Olivia's brow lowered with surprise and confusion as Craig transformed into a man before her eyes.
Jenny started to cry, "What? My husband gave those to me."
"But you said in the car you found them. Did you find them on the woman your husband was fucking?"
"I didn't."
"Jenny, don't play games with me I've already swabbed the back of this earring. If I find one speck of Megan's DNA you'll be put in jail for stealing, rape, and abduction. Now tell us what happened to Megan?"
Jenny began to hysterically cry.
"Tell me you liar. What did you do to her? Did you get jealous and kill her? Did your husband find out and smack you around?"
"Stop it! Stop it! I didn't mean to kill her. He just wouldn't stop."
Olivia pushed Craig to the side and gently forced the rest out of her, "He wouldn't stop what Jenny? Did he beat you?"
"Yes. And he cheated on me all of the time. I couldn't take it anymore."
"Tell me what happened."
"I found them next to the grocery store having sex and I took a beer bottle from my grocery bags and smashed him on the head. Megan started screaming and I stabbed her in the face with the head of the bottle. Oh god I didn't mean to. She fell to the ground screaming and I grabbed a piece of pipe lying in the alley and hit her on the head. She passed out and I dragged her to my car and put her in the trunk. I was so angry that Jason would do this to me again so I just started jamming him with anything I could find that would fit up there. I don't even know why I did it. I just couldn't control myself. After about 10 minutes he started to wake up and I realized what I did. I told him he was raped and I drove him to the hospital."
Craig sat down in a chair across from Jenny. His temper had subsided and he spoke with a controlled attitude, "Why did you make him turn the rape in?"
"Because I wanted him to know what it felt like to be humiliated and belittled."
Olivia handed Jenny a tissue, "Jenny, what did you do with Megan?"
Jenny sobbed harder. "When Jason and I got home from the hospital he was so mad at me for calling the police that he hit me and told me to get rid of Megan. He told me that I couldn't come back in the house until I got rid of her body. I…I…I left her in my trunk and I drove until I found a cliff. I stopped my car and I pushed her off."
"Can you write down where that cliff is?"
Jenny wrote down the information with a shaky hand. Fin came through the door and took it from them.
Jenny looked up from the table with fear in her eyes, "What happens to me now?"
Olivia sat down next to Craig. She felt bad for Jenny. Although Jenny was their perp in the end, she was also a victim. Olivia replied, "We'll bring in our ADA and she'll tell you what kind of charges and sentences you'll owe. She'll ask you about going to trail and you'll probably have to do some jail time. Jenny, I'm sorry that this happened to you, but you can get help. I'll see if I can get you a lawyer."
Jenny whispered "Thank you", and buried her head in her hands.
Craig and Olivia walked to their desks.
"Nice job in there Garner. I never would have guessed you had that in you."
"I took a lot of acting classes."
"How did you know those earrings were Megan's?"
"I saw them on her in the videotapes."
Olivia nodded.
"So do you think Megan landed head first or feet first? I would bet head first because it seems heavier."
Craig went back to his normal self and Olivia appreciated his questions for the first time.
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Elliot was in the deepest sleep of his life when he was awoken by a knock on his door. "Huh?! Who is it?"
"NYPD. Open up."
Elliot rolled to his side and put his feet to the ground. He felt like he had been hit by a truck. The blood rushed past his eyes and he was blind for a few seconds. He stumbled to the door. "I'm coming. I can't see."
Olivia stood on the other side of his door with a bag and a plant in her hand. Elliot squinted his eyes from the light in the hallway and gave Olivia a delirious closed mouth smile. "Did I die and go to heaven? Cause I see an-"
Olivia put her hand over his mouth, "You can't say that line."
Under her hand he mumbled, "Why not?"
" Because we're not at a bar and I am feeling very knotty."
Elliot looked down and noticed that she was wearing a long leather jacket and black pumps, but her skin was showing in places that would normally be covered.
"I have dinner, condoms, and some house warming happiness. Let's Chrisian this bachelor pad before we get too old."
"Any thing you say detective. I am yours for the night. I'm yours for the taking. I'm yours until you can't stand looking at me anymore."
Olivia closed the door behind her and turned on a lamp. "Sit."
Elliot felt like he was stuck in a dream. He watched her place the houseplant on the windowsill. The only thing that kept him in reality was the pain shooting from his chest because his painkillers wore off 2 hours ago. He leaned towards his nightstand to get his pills and they fell on the floor.
She sweetly guided him to lay down on the bed and whispered in his ear. "I'll take care of you just relax." She kissed his ear and nibbled on the end of his lob. It sent a chill down his spin. "Oh god, I hope you're not teasing me."
She took the pills from the floor and placed two in his mouth. "No teasing? But that's the best part."
If he had had full movement of his torso he would have grabbed her and laid down the law right there.
Olivia took several red candles from the bag she brought and placed them around the room. "Elliot Stabler, it is time to begin your recovery to a healthy happy life. The green plant will bring you life and healthy energy." She lit one candle. "The red candles will bring you romance." She lit a second candle. "The scent from the burning wax will relax you." She lit the third. "Dinner will fill your stomach." Lastly, she lit the fourth and turned off the lamp. "And I will release your tension."
Olivia unbuttoned her coat and dropped it to the floor. The candlelight flickered off of her naked body. It was the first time Elliot saw her in entirety and he was convinced it was worth the wait.
"Liv-"
"Shhh."
Olivia crawled up to his waist and pulled off his pants. She kissed his thighs and ran her tongue over the tip of his penis. Her hands ran up to his shirt. "Sit up." She softly said to him. He sat up and she pulled his shirt off. She grabbed his hands in a finger lock and straddled his waist. He looked into her eyes for a moment. He loved looking into her eyes. He felt like she could see his soul if she wanted to. He would surrender all of it to be with her everyday. "Olivia Benson, you are undoubtedly the most beautiful woman I've ever laid my eyes on."
She gently kissed him. He ran his fingers down her neck to her nipple. She reacted with a fit of excitement and ruffly kissed him. He could feel her getting wetter. She carefully pushed him down and took him inside of her.
"Oh god, Elliot Stabler, I'm going to make you come." She cried.
"Not if I make you come first."
"Oh that's it. This time you're going down."
She stopped and slid the condom on his very well endowed erection and got back on him.
Elliot hadn't had sex in such a long time he wasn't sure he was going to be able to hold out much longer. He watched her move up and down. She took all of him in faster and faster. She bent down to kiss his neck. Elliot's mind was spinning. She started to moan over and over again. He cried out "Oh god, I'm not gonna make it. "
"mmm keep talking to me. I'm going to come."
"Liv, you're an animal. You're breasts are perfect."
"My breasts are perfect? Kiss them."
"I'm gonna come, Liv."
"Kiss them!"
He took her into his mouth and moaned.
"Ah. Yes. I'm…I …keep" Her mind went black and her body tensed and released at the same time with one explosive thrust. Elliot felt her insides pull him in and he cried out as he released inside of her.
Olivia lay on top of him breathing heavily, "You know that thing that you said to me earlier?"
Elliot played with her hair. "What thing?"
"You said the Love thing to me earlier today?"
"Yeah."
"Did you mean that?"
Elliot pulled her face to look at his, "I meant every syllable of it."
She laid her head on his shoulder and closed her eyes. "I love you too."
" I know."
