Author's Note: Chapter 12! Yay! thank you to everybody who commented on the last few chapters, ya'll are so nice! I'm so excited to get this chapter out so here ya'll go! :)
Disclaimer: Still don't own L&O:SVU...sad face
CHAPTER TWELVE:
"Mommy, Elliot's here!" Lucy yelled down the hall towards the bedroom, where Olivia could hear her daughter and best friend fighting over Sesame Street.
"Grover is my man." Elliot told the little girl.
"Elmo is bester!" Lucy countered.
"No way kiddo, Grover all the way." Elliot replied.
"Not uh!" The little girl yelled back at the man.
"All right you two, enough fighting, Lucy are you ready to go?" Olivia interjected as she walked out into the living room.
"Yes mommy." Lucy answered. "Can you help wit my shoes?" She asked her mother.
"Of course baby, go get them for me." Olivia said before watching her daughter run down the hall and into their bedroom to find her shoes. "Elliot, you do realize you just fought with a three year old over Sesame Street characters?"
"She started it." He replied.
"Can you please not fight with my daughter El?" She asked as she picked up the Barbie dolls Fin had bought Lucy a couple days ago. "She is going to win every time anyway, she is just as stubborn as me."
"I noticed." He said to her.
"You better watch yourself Stabler, I'm still mad at you for the other day." She said before adding, "And I highly doubt that she started it." She said as she turned and noticed Elliot within inches of her.
"She did, I swear." He whispered and then smiled before pulling her into his arms and cradling her face in one of his hands while the other rested on her back before placing his lips onto hers.
Olivia let the kiss slowly deepen before she was startled by a small voice.
"Mommy! I can't find them!" Lucy screamed from the bedroom, interrupting the kiss that Olivia hadn't wanted to end.
"Check in your back pack sweetie!" Olivia yelled back while still staring into Elliot's eyes longingly.
"Are you still mad now?" Elliot asked, holding Olivia close to him.
"What happens if I say yes?" She said playfully.
"Mommy, I found them!" Lucy said, giving little warning for Elliot and Olivia to pull apart before she was back in eye sight.
Olivia looked in the mirror on the wall worrying about needing to fix herself quickly before her daughter saw and realized that her and Elliot were holding hands. They both looked at their connected hands and quickly pulled them apart, both blushing a bit as her daughter ran down the hall.
"You look perfect Liv." Elliot whispered to her as Lucy reached the two.
"It's got two bedrooms, one bathroom, and an open floor plan..." The realtor listed off the details of the apartment as he led Olivia, Lucy, and Elliot around.
After he had finished talking, the three looked around the apartment on their own a bit.
"What do you think Luce?" Olivia asked as they walked into the smaller of the two bedrooms.
"Is this gonna be mine?" Lucy asked her mother.
"Yep." Olivia said as she picked her daughter up and balanced her on her hip. "And Elliot can even paint it purple for you." She added.
"Thanks for volunteering me Liv." Elliot said as he smiled.
"And mommy will be right next door in the big bedroom." Olivia added realizing that her and her daughter had been sharing a room for almost a month now.
"I like it mommy." Lucy finally answered her mother's original question.
"I think I do too baby." She said as she placed a kiss on her daughter's forehead then turned to look at Elliot, "What do you think? Is it big enough?"
"I think it's perfect for you two." He replied. "It's got everything you wanted." He said then added, "It almost resembles your old place…with an extra bedroom."
"Yea," She thought about her old apartment and realized it did resemble this one…a lot. "I think that's what I like about it."
"Then you should get it Liv, and it's even close to Fin's place," He said, then thought and added, "and mine."
Olivia smiled and handed Lucy to Elliot so she could go find the realtor.
"Uncwa Fwin! Uncwa Fwin! We founded it!" Lucy screamed as she ran for Fin when he walked in the door from work with Chinese food in his hand.
"What sweetie, what'd ya find?" He said as he put the take out bags down and opened his arms for her.
"A parmen!" Lucy yelled.
"A what?" Fin asked as he and Lucy separated and he picked up the food again to take to the kitchen with her in tow.
"An apartment Lucy, not parmen silly." Olivia voiced as she walked down the hall towards the voices.
"Ahh…that makes more sense now." Fin said as she walked into eye sight. "Chinese anyone?" Olivia nodded and headed into the kitchen to join Fin and Lucy.
"Mommy?" Lucy said as the three started to eat their take out.
"Yes baby girl?" Olivia replied.
"Why was you and Elliot holding hands today?" Olivia froze mid bite and looked at her daughter.
"Do what honey?" she said, trying to think of an excuse while her daughter was occupied with asking the question again.
"You was holding hands wit Elliot today." She restated.
"We were…uh…" Olivia was stumbling through the list of excuses in her head when Fin piped up, saving her.
"So what's this new apartment like Lucy?" He asked as he eyed Olivia, letting her know that the details were going to be discussed later.
Okay, I liked this chapter a lot! Hope you do too! Reviews are welcome and appreciated! Thanks! :)
WARNING: school and indoor soccer both start again tomorrow and I am going to be a little tied up with the homework and games, so updates may take a little longer and I would like to apologize in advance, but I am going to try my hardest to keep updating as often as possible.
