Author's Note: Heyy everybody! Thank you for the amazingly positive feedback! I'm glad you all have enjoyed this story :) I don't want to keep you too long in this author's note so without further adieu, CHAPTER TEN...

Disclaimer: I am not Dick Wolf, therefore I do not own L&O:SVU...sadly

CHAPTER TEN

"You ready?" I asked him for what must have been the millionth time as we stood outside Maureen and Kathleen's apartment door, able to hear the Stabler children all fighting over something.

"I don't know Liv." He replied to my question, obviously worried about it all.

"Elliot, that was a rhetorical question. I don't really care if you are or not. You have no say in this matter anymore." I stated before turning and opening the door.

"Livvie!" I heard Eli yell as the door opened followed by the sound of footsteps and a small child running into my legs. "I missed you!" He said to me, clutching my legs for dear life.

"Buddy, I was only gone for three days." I said to him as I tried to pry him off my legs so I could move out of the doorway.

"They was long days." He replied to me, causing me to laugh.

"All right, I'm sorry Eli," I said as I finished laughing. "but I have a surprise for you and you brother and sisters." I told him, watching his eyes light up at the thought of a surprise.

"What'd ya bring us Liv?" Maureen asked as she joined Eli and me.

"Is it good?" Lizzie asked, walking over.

"God Liz, can you be any ruder?" Dickie said, lounging on the couch.

"You're the one laying on the couch instead of getting up to greet her!" She fired back at her twin brother.

"Would you two shut up for like two minutes?" Kathleen said, walking out of her bedroom. "Hey Olivia." She said to me.

"Hold on everybody, it's in the hall." I said, managing to pry Eli off my legs and take the three steps back to retrieve Elliot from the hall.

"El?" I whispered, not seeing him. At that second I heard the elevator ding and looked to see the doors closing between him and I. I could see the sorry expression on his face as they closed, which just angered me. "Not again." I said as I started running for the stairs in an effort to race the elevator down the five flights of stairs to the main floo.

As I made it into the lobby I saw him walking out the front doors. "Elliot!" He turned at the sound of his name. "Don't you do this to them again. Don't you dare do this to me again." I said, knowing that through the mess of people in the lobby right now and through all the sound going on around us, he could tell what I was saying.

We stood and stared at each other for a moment before I walked out the doors and stood in front of him again.

"What the hell are you doing Elliot Stabler?" I asked him, reaching for his bag.

"I can't do this Liv, I just can't. They're happy, how can I take that from them." He said to me, dodging my attempt to take his bag.

"Elliot, please." I all but begged.

"What can I say to them?" He asked. "I'm sorry I left, I couldn't handle it so I ditched you for another state, another job, another life all together, all because your mother died, hope you don't mind I missed the last three years of everybody's life. No Olivia, No."

"Elliot, get your head out of your ass for five minutes, and go reconnect with your kids." I demanded, managing to grab the bag in his hand. "We aren't fighting over this again, now let's go." I stated as I pulled him back into the building and towards the elevators.

As we made it back to the correct floor I noticed Maureen standing in the hall.

"Olivia, what was that?" She asked me before noticing the man behind me. "Dad?" She questioned, letting everything sink in before running past me and into his chest. "Dad! You're back!" She all but cried into her father as he closed his arms around his oldest daughter.

"Hey kiddo." Elliot said, obviously at a loss for words, causing some small tears to start welling up in his eyes that I didn't see him try to wipe away.

After about a minute Maureen managed to pull Elliot into the apartment and to the living room where Elliot was enveloped in hugs from his four oldest children while I stood by watching.

"Livvie?" I heard Eli say as he tugged on my pant leg.

"Hey sweetie, what's up?" I asked him, kneeling to his level.

"Who's dat?" He asked me, looking at Elliot. My heart broke when I realized that the last time Eli saw his father, he was only days old.

"Eli," I said to him as I picked him up and stood. "That is your daddy." I answered. "Ellliot." I yelled over all the commotion.

"Yes Olivia?" He answered as soon as everything quieted down.

"Somebody here would like to know who you are." I smiled as I walked over with Eli clinging to me.

"Eli?" Elliot said as he slowly tried to take him from my arms.

"It's okay bud." Maureen said to her little brother. "That's daddy." She stated, seeming to make everything right in the world again.

"Thank you Olivia." Elliot said as he walked into the kitchen of my- his house. Everybody had come back here earlier tonight, wanting to spend as much time as possible with Elliot.

"What for?" I asked as I finished loading the dishwasher with the plates from the pizza feast that we had for dinner.

"For everything." He stated simply. "I owe you big time."

"Yes. You do." I replied, turning to look at the man who had become my life since the first time I stepped into the 1-6 precinct. He owed me more than big time, and he would never forget it.

So? I hope ya'll liked it. I plan on this being the last chapter, I have left room for a sequel if I ever have the time and feel like writing it, I have enjoyed everybody's comments and look forward to this chapters. Thank you all so much! Until my next story... :)