A/N: A new partner comes in, temporarily, for Elliot, while Olivia's stuck behind a desk. Who is it?
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"Josh, please, stop, honey," Olivia said, rubbing her belly. "Calm down, Joshie."
Elliot walked over and handed her a banana and a glass of milk. "Hiccups again?"
"Every day for the last week. It's freaking me out," she said, peeling the banana. She dipped it into the milk, then bit it. She noticed Elliot staring at her. "What? When you get pregnant and start to do weird shit and I stare at you like that, you'll be sorry." She dipped the banana into the milk and bit it again. "At least I don't want anything crazy, like meatballs and chocolate cake."
Elliot laughed and leaned over to kiss her. "I love you, honey." He ran his hand over her head, kissed her again and sighed. "I love you, too, Joshie." He looked up at Olivia and smiled. "I heard you singing to him last night," he said. "Maybe tonight, you can sing us both to sleep?"
"Absolutely," she said, giving him another banana flavored kiss. "Tucker's outdoing himself. He restocks that fruit bowl every two days, and half of everything in that fridge says, 'property of Joshua Stabler.' Hey, do you realize that my initials are now O.N.S? Like, ons? As in there are offs and ons?"
"You're babbling, baby," Elliot said, smoothing out her hair.
She narrowed her eyes. "I'm eating a banana, which I hate, drinking milk, which I hate, and your son has the hiccups, which feels like someone is bouncing a tiny ball against my uterus. I'm allowed to babble."
"Yes ma'am," he said, smirking. He kissed her again and walked over to his desk, across from hers and sat down, just as Cragen came into the bullpen, followed by someone they hadn't seen in two years.
"Well, this place has certainly changed! Where is Ben...Benson!" he yelled as he saw her. "You look...absolutely amazing." The man walked over and sat on the edge of her desk, ignoring Elliot.
Olivia's eyes widened and her mouth was glued shut as she tried to swallow a bite of milky banana. She nodded and gulped. "Thanks. What are you doing here?"
"I don't really know, actually. Tucker came into Narcotics, said that SVU was gonna need extra hands for a few months. I have the experience and I, uh, missed you." He smiled at her. "How have ya been, Benson?"
She smirked at him. "Stabler, Cassidy."
"Oh, yeah," he said as he turned to Elliot. "Sup, man." He looked back at Olivia and grinned. "Happy? I played nice."
"No," Olivia laughed. "I was telling you that my last name isn't 'Benson' anymore."
Cassidy's face fell. "Oh, you, uh, you got married? I didn't...wow. To who? Will I get to meet him?" She grinned at Elliot, nodded at Cassidy, and got out of her seat to get more milk and Cassidy gasped. "Holy shit, you're pregnant? I mean you're not big, at all, but you were so tiny, before, it's like, obvious that...you are."
"Yeah, I am. Six months," Olivia said, rubbing the bump and sipping her milk, trying not to make a grimacing face. "That's why you're here. I can't go out into the field. I'm a desk-jockey for the next two months before I go on maternity leave. Thanks to little Joshua Elliot here, Mommy's not a real cop anymore."
Cassidy furrowed his brow. "Joshua Elliot? What, Stabler, are you the Godfather or something?"
"Or something," Elliot said, grinning smugly.
Olivia, instead of sitting back in her seat, walked over to Elliot. "Cassidy, you wanted to meet my husband," she said, gesturing to Elliot. "Here he is. You're gonna love working with him." She held her banana out to Elliot, and he bit it, with a shit-eating grin plastered on his face.
"Oh, my God," Cassidy muttered. "That's not cool. I mean, congrats and all, but...Elliot, you're not still mad at me for..."
"Hell yeah, I am," Elliot said, swallowing the banana.
Cassidy shook his head. "You were married to Kathy! Benson was completely single and free to date..."
Elliot interrupted him. "But, you knew, man. You knew and you did it anyway, and then when she didn't want anything more than that one night, you became a pushy bastard. I'm still a little mad at you," Elliot explained. "But, because we need to work together, and because I love and respect my wife, and I know that you really were just a one-night-stand, I promise not to kill you until after my son is born."
Olivia leaned over and whispered, "Or until he's sure he has you alone, where no one will hear you scream."
Cragen came out of his office. "Stabler, Cassidy, you're on. 130 in Central Park."
"Hmm," Olivia said. "It's Wednesday afternoon, Cassidy. The park is gonna be awfully quiet and empty." She saw the fear in his eyes and chuckled. She turned and gave Elliot a romantic kiss. "Be careful, please?"
Elliot nodded and kissed her again. "Always. I love you, baby."
"I love you, too, El." Olivia watched as her husband left for a case with someone else. And, for the first time, she couldn't be there if he needed backup.
"Hey," Elliot said, walking back into the bullpen four hours later. "Where's Liv?"
Munch looked up from his paperwork. "Your son was playing soccer with her kidneys. She's up in the cribs sleeping it off."
Elliot chuckled. "Cassidy's bringing the asshole up, can you and Fin handle..."
"Yeah," Munch said. "Go be a daddy."
"Thanks," Elliot said.
"And please, if you two are gonna do anything, uh, newlywed-ish, keep it down," Munch said, heading into the interrogation room.
Elliot chuckled again as he walked up the steps. He turned the knob and his heart melted as he saw his wife, curled up on the first bunk, cradling her baby-bump. He tilted his head and smiled, padded over to her softly and climbed into the bed with her. She stirred, and he rubbed her back gently. "It's just me, Liv," he whispered.
"Hmmm," she murmured with a smile, nuzzling into his arms. "Did you kill Cassidy?" she mumbled.
"No," he said with a laugh. "Not that I wasn't tempted. He kept asking about our sex life, and about...forget it, it's not important. Thank God you only slept with him once," he said, kissing her on the forehead.
"Mmm hmm," she hummed, nodding into the crook of his neck. Then she mumbled something he couldn't quite understand.
"Did you just say 'bacon bits'? If you want bacon bits I'll go..."
She laughed, waking up a little. "No, El. I said, I faked it. With Cassidy. He...couldn't do it. And he was making an ass out of himself. I needed to put him out of his misery." She wrapped her arms around him and snuggled closer.
Elliot furrowed his brow. "Liv, you've never...uh..."
"No," she said, before he could finish the question. "I've never had to fake an orgasm with you, honey. Every single time, it's all you and it's all real." She looked up at and smirked. "And it's always more than one."
"I aim to please," he said, with his cocky attitude.
Olivia smiled and chuckled. "You always do, baby." She pressed her lips to his, letting them linger there for a moment. "You get the bad guy?"
Elliot nodded. "Fin and Munch are interrogating him," he said, skimming his hand down Olivia's back. "I needed to see you." His face grew serious, and he held on to her, tighter.
Something in his voice made her sit up and look down at him. "El, what..."
"The vic...the girl, she was pregnant, Liv. And...now she's not. And it's all his fault. As soon as we got back I needed to see you, and Joshie, and know that you were both safe and tell you how much I love you and I am never going to let anything or anyone hurt you." Elliot looked into Olivia's eyes and she could see that he was fighting, so hard, the urge to cry. "He just...beat the...how could he..."
"Shh, El," Olivia pulled him up so he was sitting with her and pressed his head to her shoulder. "Baby, we've seen that before, a lot of times. God, in the last three years..."
"I know, but it's different now. I looked at her and I saw you," he admitted. "I couldn't help it." He blinked and shook his head, lifting it to look at her. "I'm fine, though, I'm good. How are you feeling? I heard we might have ourselves a star soccer player."
Olivia ran her hands through his hair and kissed the top of his head. "He is one hell of a kicker. I'm better now, the nap helped." She made a face and seethed. "Okay, spoke too soon. I think he's excited because he hears his daddy," she said. "Gimme your hand." She took Elliot's palm and placed it over a spot on her bump, under her belly-button. Elliot laughed as he felt a tiny nudge. "This is the most amazing feeling, El."
Elliot nodded, laughing again. "I know, he's moving around in there and..."
"No," she interrupted him. "Love. Family. You. Me. The kids. This baby. All of it. Nine months ago, I was just dreaming about all of this with you."
Elliot pulled her toward him and kissed her, wrapping his arms around her. "Liv, baby, it's the best feeling in the world." He leaned in to kiss her once more and felt the baby kick again, hitting him in the side, barely. "Hey, Joshie, I'm not hurting Mommy," he joked. "Liv, are you sure he couldn't feel..."
"El, he can't feel anything in there," she said rolling her eyes. "You need to stop asking." They chuckled together as they kissed, completely unaware that someone had been watching them for quite some time. Someone who, though hurt and jealous, just couldn't bring himself to be mad or vengeful.
Cassidy smiled to himself as he quietly closed the door, knowing that they were about to do something he shouldn't be watching, and walked back down the steps.
"What's up, Cassidy?" Fin asked.
Cassidy shook his head. "Nothing. Just thinking. Those two, uh, it was kinda unavoidable wasn't it?"
"You have no idea," Munch chimed in.
Cassidy smiled sadly. "I do, actually. I'll be right back."
"Where ya goin'?" Fin asked, a bit irritated.
Cassidy turned and smirked. "To get them a late wedding gift." He walked out of the bullpen and down the hall, out of the precinct, knowing exactly where he was heading and exactly what he was bringing back.
A/N: Whaa?? What does Cassidy get them? Is he seriously happy for them? Only time will tell! Reviews? You guys are so awesome!
