Beautifully Broken

(Chapter Twenty Six: Made For Each Other)

"This will do," Olivia said with a smile as she laid her purse down on the foot of the king sized bed.

"Nice, huh?" Elliot asked with a smile.

"It's beautiful," she replied wrapping her arms around his neck and kissing him. "I still cannot believe you talked Cragen into letting me go. I figured he would put up a fight."

"He tried to."

"So, how did you talk him into it?"

"I reminded him how unpleasant the next week of work could be if you were unhappy and missing me."

Olivia laughed.

"Whatever works, I guess."

She kissed him again and moved out to the balcony to check out the view.

"El, seriously, this place is incredible."

"It has really changed since the last time we stayed here, huh?"

"This is the same place?" she asked trying to remember the place where they spent their last night together.

"Well, the same building. Completely renovated, obviously. That place was a dump compared to this. But I wanted to get us a suite here, this place had history."

"Yeah, you knocked me up in the shower. Some history," she replied with a sarcastic grin.

"So, this time we use condoms. Even in the shower."

Olivia laughed.

"We don't have to use condoms," she said patting her hand against his chest. "I'm on the pill," she whispered with a wink as she crossed the room to check out the bathroom.

"Sweet," Elliot said fighting back a grin as she looked back at him.

"What was that?" she asked.

"I said neat….the mini bar….it is…neat. Completely stocked," he pointed out opening the cabinet. "Look at that."

Olivia laughed and shook her head as she disappeared into the other room.

"Oh El, there is a Jacuzzi tub," she said poking her head out from around the doorway. "We could have a lot of fun in here."

"Only the best for my girl," Elliot said picking up the remote control to check the score of the Yankees game on television. "There is also a really great restaurant downstairs. And the beach and several shops are within walking distance. Now aren't you glad you took a little break from work, Detective Benson?"

"I am, Detective Stabler."

"No baby, in San Diego, I am a Marine. Not a cop."

"Oh, I'm sorry."

"Don't be, beautiful. For you, I would be anything you like."

Elliot kissed her tenderly.

"I'm starving," Olivia said with a smile.

"What do you say we freshen up a bit from the flight and then we go check out that restaurant?"

"That is a great idea!"

Elliot moved to the side of the bed and pulled a paper from his wallet as he picked up the phone.

"I just need to call and check in. See when they need me on Monday."

"I'm gonna…" Olivia said grabbing her hanging garment bag and motioning toward the bathroom behind her.

Fifteen minutes later Elliot knocked on the bathroom door.

"I'm almost ready," she said from the other side of the door.

"Alright. I'm ready whenever you are. I'll just be out here watching the game."

Ten minutes past before the bathroom door finally opened and the scent of her seductive perfume lingered his way. Elliot turned his head to look at the beautiful woman standing across the room. Olivia's hair was long and wavy and she had a small section of it binned back. Her make up was flawless and seemed to highlight her beautiful brown eyes. She wore a soft cotton halter dress, yellow with matching strappy espadrille wedge sandals. And around her shoulders laid a pale blue wrap.

"You look gorgeous," Elliot finally managed to spit out after staring at her for about five minutes.

"Thank you," she said with a smile as he leaned forward to kiss her.

"You are wearing your necklace," he said staring into her eyes. By her necklace, he meant the small heart shaped diamond pendant he gave to her just moments before he flew off to basic training leaving her behind all those years ago.

Elliot placed his fingertip against the little pendant as it laid against her golden skin.

"See, I told you I would never give my heart to another girl. You have kept it right here safe and sound for me all of these years."

Olivia looked at him with tears in her eyes.

"And now you want it back?" she asked tipping her head slightly.

"No baby, it belongs to you. Forever."

"El," she said drawing a deep breath, "I want this to work so badly."

"So do I," he admitted.

"I just think maybe it is a little soon to talk about forever."

She stared into him and as he gazed into her big brown eyes, he knew with out a doubt that there was no other woman in the world who could make him feel the way he felt when he was with Olivia. She was his soul mate, his perfect match and his other half. Now all he could do was give her the time she needed to hopefully realize that he was hers as well.

"I didn't mean to scare you. I just want you to know that my heart is yours, as long as you want it. I am not going to be looking for something else, so you don't have to worry about that. I wont cheat, I wont stray. Because what I want is to be right here with you. I love you so much, Olivia."

"And I love you. I just think that we should just be together for a while. I don't see any reason to be in a rush. I'm here with you and you with me. And I think this is a good place for both of us. I just want us to be able to enjoy this. I have never loved someone the way that I love you. Rick is the only other guy I have even been serious with and that was nothing like this. This, what I feel for you right now….it is exactly the same thing that I felt all of those years ago when we were just two stupid kids trying to find out place in the world. I may have grown up, Elliot, but I haven't really changed. Not much anyway. I still want all of those dreams I shared with you back then. I just am afraid that if we jump into this too fast…."

"I understand. We have waited eleven years to be together, Olivia. We can wait a little while longer," Elliot replied gently kissing her forehead.

"I don't mean that we have to wait on everything," she said with a smile.

"Just the forever part?"

"Exactly."

"Deal," Elliot said pulling her tight into his arms. "Now lets go get some dinner."

"Okay," she laughed.

After dinner they danced and he held her tight in his arms. They kissed slowly and passionately all the way back up to their floor in the elevator. Inside their room, Olivia tossed her purse on the dresser and let the wrap around her shoulders fall to the floor.

Elliot held her close and stared into her eyes as he rocked her gently against him as if the music was still playing around them. He traced his thumb gently over her lips and placed another soft kiss against them.

Elliot pulled back for a moment and just watched her.

"What?" she asked softly.

"Nothing. Just that I have thought about this moment for so long. Dreamed about it even and now that we are standing here, I don't even know where to start," he said softly. "I want this to be everything you have ever wanted," he said tracing the fullness of her lips once more.

"You are everything I have ever wanted."

Elliot smiled.

"El," she whispered as she reached for him. "It is just you and me and a hotel bed. Kiss me," she whispered moving slowly toward him. "Kiss me," she whispered again giving him a seductive smile.

Elliot moved slowly forward brushing her lips against hers, but leaving her wanting more. He kissed her slowly and passionately as he slipped his hands up her thighs, bunching up the material of the skirt and pulling the dress over her head and dropping it into the floor.

"That's better," he said cupping his hand against the side of her face and kissing her.

Olivia giggled feeling almost intoxicated by his touch. Elliot lowered her slowly to the bed and began to kiss his way down her body.

"El," she said softly as his lips met hers once more.

"Yeah, baby?"

Olivia pushed him back for a moment.

"I was with someone else," she blurted out as she stared into his eyes.

Elliot smiled.

"It has been eleven years, Liv. I kind of figured you had been. You were engaged to Rick and you were together for years. I know you slept together. It's alright."

"I just needed to say it, I guess. I needed to tell you. What about you?"

"I didn't sleep with Rick."

"El?"

"Liv, I don't know what this is going to…."

"I told you."

"You really want to know?"

He watched as she nodded her head.

"I really do," she said softly.

"This is…" he began to protest as he watched the disappointment in her eyes. "There were a few woman. But it was only sex and it didn't mean anything. I don't even remember their names."

"A few?"

"Maybe three."

"Oh."

"Oh? What about you? Only Rick all that time?"

"No. Four."

"Four?"

"Four, my whole life. There was a guy in college. Court set me up with him to help me get over you. He went to her school. Another guy that was a friend of her boyfriend's, years ago. If that even counts."

"If it counts?"

"Well, he was fast and all over the place and I cried the whole time."

"He hurt you?"

"No. But we were drinking and I was thinking about you. It was all over in a few minutes and I am not even sure either of us enjoyed it. And Rick… Courtney sat me next to him at her wedding reception. She sort of hooked us up. We were together a long time."

"And?"

"And then you. Four."

Elliot smiled.

"Maybe we should try to concentrate on this….right now."

"I'm sorry. I'm just nervous."

"Don't be. It is just me. Besides, confidence is extremely sexy."

Olivia smiled and kissed him slowly as things began to heat up once more. Every kiss and every touch between them was exactly how she dreamed it would be.

The sex was incredible, of course. But this was so much more. Olivia kept pausing to stare into his eyes, part of her still a little unsure if this wasn't all some wonderful dream. But he was real. She could touch him and kiss him and feel him inside of her. And they made love until they just couldn't take anymore, then she fell against his chest.

Elliot kissed her tenderly as he wrapped his arms tight around her and kissed her again.

"I love you," she whispered raising up to look into his eyes.

"I love you too, angel. Always you and only you, forever."

Elliot held her as she drifted off to sleep in his arms the way she had done so long ago.

Several hours later Elliot awoke to the sound of thunder. He opened his eyes in the darkness and smoothed his hand over her side of the bed, but there was no one there. He exhaled softly, thinking she must have been a dream. He rolled over and pulled the empty pillow in against his chest as he felt a summer breeze blow across the room. On that breeze, the smell of her sweet perfume surrounded him pulling him from the bed.

Elliot walked slowly in the darkness across the suite to see the long curtains on the balcony door floating on the wind. Thunder boomed in the distance as the storm moved in and lightning lit up the room. It was then that the shadow appeared to him. The silhouette of a woman's body as she stood on the balcony looking out over the ocean in the distance.

"I thought you were a dream," he said softly leaning against the door frame to look at her.

Olivia stood covered only by the thin sheet from the bed looking out at the lightening as it danced across the water. The way the sheet twisted and draped around her body it appeared almost dress like with a long train fanned out behind her on the balcony.

She turned her head slowly to look over her shoulder at him.

"I love the smell of the air just before it storms," she replied softly looking back out at the water. "It is so beautiful. The lightening….the way it illuminates everything around it. I love thunder storms. You can just feel the electric in the air."

Elliot reached out to touch her warm skin as he slipped his arms around her.

"Come back to bed," he requested softly kissing her cheek.

Olivia smiled and kissed him tenderly as lightning lit up the midnight sky once more.

"Come back to bed," he whispered again as she smiled at him.

Elliot picked her up and carried her back to the bed. He laid her down and crawled in beside her. Olivia rolled over and stared up at him over her. She reached up and touched his bare chest with her fingertips as she smiled at him. She kissed him passionately then backed away laying against the bed and staring up at him with a fire in her eyes.

"Make love to me," she breathed smoothing her palm over his chest longing to feel his touch once again.

Elliot smiled a shy smile as he nodded his head in agreement, it were as if she read his mind. Elliot positioned himself over her and kissed her passionately with slow scorching kisses as he entered her once more. Olivia moaned and trembled at the feel of him as she stared deep into his soul.

Elliot moved slowly with her, inside of her as he kissed her tenderly. Within moments they both gasped for breath and moaned softly, their mouths barely parting. Olivia gazed into him knowing she was so close already, but refusing to let go so soon in fear it would all be over.

She drew a deep breath and closed her eyes only for a moment remembering a time when Elliot had to guide her through her very first orgasm. She moaned softly, on the edge merely moments after their union. They all came so easily now. Starting out slow and rolling like the thunder through her body. Building up power and emotion as they ripped through her. One after another like an electrical storm until every hair stood on end, sweat covered her body and she couldn't form the words to speak even if she knew how to describe the feeling.

It had never been this way with anyone but Elliot. No other man could touch her the way that he did. No other man could love her. She was his and she belonged to him. Fully and completely. She always had. From the first moment their eyes met when she was fifteen years old, he owned her. She could never imagine giving herself this way to any other man. Ever. And that was why as much as she cared about Rick, she just couldn't bring herself to marry him. Her heart and soul already belonged to Elliot.

Olivia clawed against his back as her body trembled beneath him. She moaned and tipped her head back as Elliot kissed under her neck and thrust firm, smooth thrusts inside her. She was so close she could feel it, but refused to let go until he did.

"Oh God yes," she whimpered kissing him as he moved inside of her.

Olivia stared into him and kissed him once more and she could tell he was about let go. The thunder boomed outside and the sound and smell of the rain filled the air around them as the wind blew in through the opened balcony doors. Olivia smiled up at him listening to the sounds they made together, gasping and moaning and trying hard not to scream out in ecstasy. She took a deep breath and kissed him once more studying the intensity and passion in his eyes as they finished together, moaning and moving together until she felt his release inside of her.

Elliot fell over her, kissing her tenderly and whispering softly to her. He laid beside her in the bed as she curled into him and he closed his arms tight around her. He kissed her slowly and passionately, mumbling little I love you's between kisses. He combed his fingers through her dark wavy locks as she kissed him back.

"I love you so much," she whispered staring into his eyes and trying so hard not to cry.

"And I love you," he replied kissing her again.

"It was never like this. With Rick….it was just sex, El. Nothing like this at all."

Elliot smiled.

"I wish I had waited," she said softly and he could feel her tears against his chest. "If I had known….If I had ever thought that I would see you again….I was just so lonely."

"I don't blame you," Elliot said kissing the top of her head. "I am glad that you found someone. That you weren't alone and someone cared about you."

"Really?"

"Yes. Liv….with those girls, it wasn't anything like this either. The only time the sex was any good was when I would close my eyes and pretend I was with you."

"You really did that?"

"Yeah, I did."

"Those poor girls."

"It wasn't love, Liv. We knew that before it started. It was just sex. Plain and simple, from the start. I never lied to them or told them I loved them. And they never pretended to love me. It was sex and it wasn't always even good."

"Not like this?"

"Not even close. Baby, I have only had this with you."

"Maybe we really were made for each other," she said with a soft smile.

Elliot kissed her tenderly.

"I like to think so."