Olivia Benson is just a rookie. She's been at SVU a year and is in a steady yet secret relationship with her hot partner. Her whole world is turned upside down when news on her one year anniversary shakes her up. Does she accept it or does she fight it and what does she do when she realises she's getting everything she ever prayed for?

AU EO

DISCLAIMER: I don't own. I also do not own any rights to the story Charlotte's web which appears in this story!

The next day at SVU it was obvious that there was something going on between Olivia and Don. They weren't looking at each other and Don kept himself in the office while Olivia stayed particularly quiet and stony face. When Cragen did burst out the office everyone but Olivia lifted their heads in his direction.

"Cragen! Lake! DB Central Park ME and CSU en route." Don said passing the paper to Lake without even looking at Olivia.

"Ugh!" Olivia groaned grabbing her coat and walking up to her father. "Are you asking for trouble?"

"Are you threatening me Detective?" He growled tension thick in the air that had everyone in the squad room silent.

"No but you're putting my life at risk and his by sending me out with him." Olivia hissed her finger pointing out towards Lake.

"Detective Benson!"

"Oh so it's Benson now?" Olivia said with tears in her eyes.

"Olivia…"

"Screw you." Olivia snapped grabbing hold of the slip from Lake's hand and marching out before Don could say anything else.

"So uh what's rattled Daddy's cage?" Lake asked as they walked from the crime scene.

"None of your business." Olivia replied as she climbed into the driver's seat.

"Oh come on yesterday he was telling me to stay away from you now he's letting me go with you to a crime scene unsupervised." Lake replied.

Olivia just rolled her eyes and drove.

When she got back to the precinct Lake was still chatting her up and quite frankly it was getting on her nerves but as she walked into the bullpen he grabbed her ass. She turned on him, slamming him into the locker while taking her gun out with the other. Everyone in the bullpen reacted to the noise of Lake's body slamming into the locker but when Olivia drew her gun and pointed it at his balls cocking the trigger they all froze, even Cragen who'd rushed from the office.

"You already knew I was having a fucking bad morning Lake, you spent the fucking morning trying to fucking chat me up when I'm clearly not fucking interested but touching me was one fucking sorry ass move Lake now give me a reason not to blow off your man hood." She threatened pressing the gun harder into his crotch.

He whimpered and though Fin was sniggering, Munch was speechless, Elliot had a shit eating grin on his face and Don look frightened, Olivia kept up the look of pure hatred on her face.

"Give me a reason not to fucking pull the trigger!" She hissed angrily.

"Liv…" Elliot said walking towards her.

Her eyes didn't move from Lake's as Elliot called to her, she acted as if she didn't even hear him and he slowly walked to her and slid his hand down her arm before cupping it around the hand holding the gun.

The adrenaline making her hand shake still coursing through her body even as Elliot pulled her hand away and slipped the gun out of her hand.

"Lake! Cragen! My office!" Cragen yelled.

The two glared at each other before marching into Cragen's office.

"Now which one of you wants to tell me what that was?" Cragen yelled without even bothering to shut the door which wouldn't have made a difference anyway.

The two just stood in complete silence neither one wanting to say anything.

"Well?" Cragen shouted again.

"You sent me with Detective touchy fucking feely he's lucky I didn't pull the fucking trigger when I had the chance!" Olivia yelled. "If you weren't being such an insolent dick then we wouldn't be having this problem!"

"Detective touchy feely?" Cragen turned to lake deciding to ignore Olivia's teenage like arguing. "You touched her? How?"

Lake still said nothing unsure whether it was his superior or Olivia's Dad that was looking at him at that moment.

"He grabbed my ass!" Olivia snapped angrily.

"You did what?" Cragen asked in shock turning to look at Lake.

"I didn't mean anything by it…"

"I don't care if you didn't mean anything by it Detective that's sexual assault! You work in Special Victims! Three day unpaid… get out of my sight!" Cragen yelled.

Lake dropped his gun and badge on the desk and walked out for three days knowing that he was getting a mark in his jacket now.

"Why suspend him?" Olivia asked angrily. "I took care of it!"

"By putting your gun to his crotch!" Cragen snapped.

"Yeah in self-defence." Olivia shrugged. "He touched me up after I'd told him to leave me the fuck alone."

"I have to suspend you too Olivia! You put a gun to a co-workers crotch! It doesn't matter what he did to you! You didn't even pull your gun on him because he touched you, you did it because you were angry with me…"

"Oh don't think so highly of yourself Dad." She replied angrily. "You know what, see you at home." She said throwing her own gun and shield on the table. "Unless you'd prefer it if I went back to my apartment…"

"Of course not… Olivia." She was already walking away with her head held high.

Olivia arrived back at the house and made herself a coffee. Her mind played over what had happened that morning, she was still quivering with adrenaline as she sat down on the couch in the living room with her drink, her phone vibrating again, she's already turned it on silence because Don had been trying to ring her and Elliot too, she didn't want to talk to any of them while she was mad.

It had been a reflex, grabbing the gun and pointing it into Lake's crotch. He'd crossed a line and considering she was in such a bad mood already she was more surprised that she hadn't pulled the trigger than she was that she'd pulled the gun.

Whatever it was that happened she didn't believe that she or Lake should have been suspended, he shouldn't have touched her up but she wouldn't have called it assault and she handled herself so it wasn't like he was getting away with it, with how he whimpered like a scared child when she dug the business end of the gun into his crotch was punishment enough in Olivia's eyes and yes she knew she had over reacted when she pulled out the gun and flicked the safety off but then again it had been self-defence and should have been reprimanded without suspension, she didn't even know how long she was suspended for because she didn't stay in the office long enough to find out. Her guess was three days, just like Lake.

It was harder than she thought, keeping the distance between her personal life with Cragen as her father and her professional life where Cragen was her boss. Now she shared his name, it was harder and the fact was that when he got home she would still not be on speaking terms with him because of what happened at the office was proof that she was unable to separate the two.

When Don did finally arrive home Olivia had made her way to her bedroom so that she didn't have to see it. He'd had the day to cool down and take out all of his anger at Elliot and Munch and any other officer of third grade Detective that crossed his path and he wanted to speak with her. He made them both a coffee and took them upstairs with him, he knew she wasn't in the basement because she always left the door partly open when she was there because she was scared that she wouldn't be able to open it when she came up.

When he got to her bedroom he took a deep breath before knocking.

"Go away!" She called.

Of course, he wasn't going to listen and opened the door to find her sitting cross legged on her bed with a magazine that was upside down which proved she'd grabbed it quickly while her phone lay beside her with the light on which meant she'd been using it.

"Here." Cragen said passing the mug over.

"Thanks." Olivia replied shrugging and shifting up against her pillows while he sat down on her bed facing the wall.

"I'm really sorry." He said and her surprised face looked at him.

"What are you apologising for?" She asked softly.

"Over reacting." He replied. "You were… in every right to defend yourself even if it was by… by pulling your gun and thrusting it into Lake's crotch."

Olivia managed not to laugh at how uncomfortable Don was. She put her mug down on the end table and crawled on her knees so she was behind him. Her arms wrapped around him and she rested her chin on his shoulder.

"I love you." She said as his hands rubbed her arms.

"I love you too butterfly." He said softly.

"Why do you call me that?" She asked with a chuckle.

"What butterfly?" He asked turning his head a little.

"Yeah." Olivia replied. "I mean it's cute but…"

"That's what I called you when your Mom was pregnant with you and I was in rehab, whoever would listen would hear about how I was going to be the best dad ever to my little butterfly." He explained with a chuckle. "And in my head, whenever I thought of you when you were growing up into this, beautiful young woman, I would still call you my butterfly even though by then I knew your name."

Olivia smiled and squeezed her arms a little.

"Don't you like it?"

"It's nice, except for Liv by Elliot and Livvie by my Mom I never had a nickname." Olivia laughed. "And Dad…" She said letting go of him so she could sit beside him.

"What?" He asked as she slipped her hand into his.

"You are the best Dad ever." She smiled.