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Elliot was laying on the couch watching a movie when he got the call. It was Cragen. "Yeah, Cap. What's going on?"

"There's been an accident, Elliot." Cragen said, the worry seeping into his words.

"You mean we caught a case?" Elliot asked, sitting up and turning on the tv.

"No, Elliot." Cragen sighed. "We don't have a case. It's Liv."

Elliot almost jumped off of the couch before having to calm himself down. "What do you mean? Where's Liv? Is she ok?"

"I don't know, Elliot. We got a call saying that one of our detectives was in a car accident and it turned out to be Olivia. We're on our way to Mt. Sinai right now."

Elliot hung up the phone without responding and threw his shoes on while phoning Joe to tell him to have the car brought around. Elliot made sure everything around the house was off and safe before running out, grabbing a spare key from the glass bowl near the front of the door.

Elliot ran out of the apartment, thankful that the car was waiting and running when he got down there. He sped out into the street as fast as he could. He took the fastest route he could think of at the moment to get to Mt. Sinai. Elliot sped down the street, not caring that he was cutting people off and swerving in between cars. The only thing that he was thinking about was Olivia and if she was ok.

Elliot finally made it to Mt. Sinai and ran into the emergency room, demanding to know where Olivia Benson was. The nurse at the front desk told him to calm down and gave Elliot a minute to compose himself. "Now Sir, who was it you were looking for?"

"Detective Olivia Benson of the Special Victims Unit in Manhattan. I heard she was brought in during a car accident. I'm her partner Elliot Stabler." Elliot's voice was shaky as he tried to remember everything that needed to be said.

"Ok, sir the rest of your family is over there." She pointed to a seating area around the corner. "The doctor will be with you as soon as she's out of surgery."

Elliot's eyes widened. "Surgery? Is she ok?"

The nurse shrugged sympathetically, "I honestly don't know, sir."

Elliot nodded, thanked the woman, and ran over to the area where she told him to go. He thought about how she called the squad his family and assumed she took the meaning of partner differently than it was used. Elliot had gotten used to the confusion between the word 'partners' but he still found it amusing.

Elliot saw Cragen, Casey, Fin, and Munch sitting around staring at the wall doing nothing. Elliot walked into the waiting room and stood as he waited for someone to realize he was there. Cragen was the one who notice him first and stood up. "Elliot."

"What's going on? She's in surgery?" Elliot was trying to get as much information as he could on her condition.

Cragen nodded. "They needed to take out her appendix. She was hit on her right side and they said the glass punctured a hole in her appendix and it was slowly leaking out. They said if they needed to they would do some more reconstruction but that it was hard to tell."

"What do you mean by reconstruction?" Elliot asked as Cragen led him to a chair just in case he passed out.

"I don't know. They said it was only going to happen if it was absolutely necessary."

Elliot quickly surveyed the rest of the gang and saw that Casey had been crying. She noticed Elliot watching her and got up. "I'm going to get a coffee." she managed to get out through her tears.

Elliot got up and followed her, making sure she was ok. "What happened, Casey?"

Casey shrugged.. "I don't know."

"What happened at lunch?" Elliot asked after they got their coffees as well as coffee for the rest of the gang.

Casey began sobbing and Elliot didn't know what to do. He tried to comfort her but he couldn't without feeling awkward. Casey began trying to tell the story of lunch. "I thought she was happy to get rid of Chris so that she could fuck you. That's why I thought you guys were spending so much time together."

Elliot and Casey found a bench near the elevators and sat down, as they drank their coffee. "Then she got defensive and ran out. I followed her and she told me about being pregnant and how she wanted a baby so much but not Chris's. I felt like such an ass. I still do. I can't believe I accused her of being happy her fiancé was a rapist so that she could get with you."

Casey's tears started again and she sobbed on the bench. Elliot did his best to comfort her but he wasn't doing as good of a job as he would have had it been Olivia sitting in front of him crying. "Casey, this isn't your fault."

Casey half-nodded. "I know, but I just feel so guilty saying all of those things to her about you. And I didn't even mean it. I know you're a great guy, Elliot. Really I do. I just didn't know what to think. I felt like I was losing my best friend and there was nothing I could do."

Elliot moved to face Casey and waited for her to look at him before he said anything. "Casey, I know that Olivia doesn't think you actually meant everything you said. She was telling me before she left that you guys haven't talked in a long time and that you were going to be angry about it. She knew it was coming. Now about me and Olivia, I love her very much. More than I've loved anyone. What we have is special and it's different than just a friendship. You don't need to worry about losing Olivia. We can share her." Elliot said, with a little smirk. "She has enough love for the both of us."

Casey sighed and nodded. "God, I'm such a blubbering baby." she said laughing.

Elliot laughed and nodded. "Yeah, pretty much."

Casey sniffed. "So you really love her, don't you?"

"Yeah, I really do Casey." Elliot nodded as they got up to walk to the waiting area where the rest of the squad was. Elliot handed out the coffees and they sat in silence, each thinking about different things.

Overall, they were thinking about the same thing: Olivia. But Elliot was thinking about the past few weeks with her and how he needs to tell her that he loves her and confess everything. Fin was thinking about how much Olivia had been like a sister to him and how he couldn't bear the thought of her not being around anymore. Munch was thinking about how she listened to all of his wild conspiracies even when no one else would bother. Casey was thinking about how she would apologize to Olivia and how she would mend their friendship again. Cragen was thinking about Olivia as a daughter and how she didn't know how much he valued her.

They were all lost in their own thoughts for several hours. The doctor finally came up to them walking slowly. "Are you all here for Olivia Benson?"

Cragen stood up, and everyone else followed suit. "Yes, I'm her captain Don Cragen. How is she?"

"Olivia is out of surgery and is expected to make a full recovery. We had to take her appendix out, like I told you, but the reconstruction was unnecessary. She will be sleeping for a while but you can go in to see her as long as you are quiet."

They all agreed and the doctor showed them to Olivia's room. They stood inside the door, listening to the beeping of the machine that monitored her heart rate. Elliot walked over to her first, touching her cheek and holding her hand. Cragen motioned for the rest of them to leave as he stayed in the room with Elliot. "Have you told her?" he asked, watching Elliot with Olivia.

Elliot shook his head. "I never got the chance to."

"Do it." Cragen said, his voice almost demanding.

Elliot looked up from Olivia to look at Cragen and study what underlying meaning his words had. "Don't wait, Elliot. You might not get another chance."

Elliot nodded and looked back at Olivia pulling a chair closer to the bed so he could hold her hand while he sat. Cragen put his hand on his shoulder and turned to leave. Before he got to the door he turned around. "Elliot?" he waited to Elliot to face him. "You hurt her, I'll kill you."

Elliot half-smiled but he knew it was true. "I wouldn't dream of it."

Cragen nodded, knowing how true that statement was. He told everyone to go home and that Elliot and Olivia needed some time to work through things. This wasn't a lie. They needed to work through their relationship and these new feelings. Well, the feelings might not be new but the right to explore them as they please is definitely new.

Elliot watched her sleeping peacefully and couldn't believe he almost lost her again. Only this time, she wouldn't have been at work and he wouldn't be able to have tough-ass detective Benson she would just be gone. Elliot shook the thought out of his head and focused on the now since that was all he really had at the moment. He put his head on the bed next to Olivia and fell asleep holding her hand.

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