Hello my lovelies!

So I am sorry to say that I have some news for everyone. I know I briefly mentioned once that I was starting nursing school soon. WELL, that time has come. My first day is Wednesday and I am beyond excited to start this new journey in my life. Unfortunately, that means I will not have as much time to write. I am still going to try to push out a chapter every two to four weeks, but I cannot make that promise to you guys. The ONLY promise I can make to you all and to myself, is that I WILL finish this story. Whether it be in the next month or the next two years, it will be completed because I am determined to complete it.

This story has gone on way longer than I ever thought it would and it has taken turns that I never thought it would take. I want to thank ALL of you for all the support. Please feel free to message me and to post as many reviews as possible So I can remember to push out more for you all. If there is anything you would like to see, please let me know.

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When her lips reconnected with his at that moment, they were reconnected with a passion, not a sadness. Not only did his words always affect her emotionally but they also always affected her physically as well. The throb in her heart matched the one in her core so perfectly, in a way she had never felt before. In a way that guaranteed her time and time again, that she had never been in love before then.

Elliot had learned the difference between her kisses very early in their relationship. And the kiss that she was giving him at that moment, was the kiss of a woman who had one thing on her mind. "Ol… Olivia…," he mumbled through the closing of their lips, "Work, Olivia." Honestly he could care less about her having to go to work. However, he knew that once she was satisfied and sedated, her eyes would connect with her phone and she would murder both of them for her being late to work.

While she lifted the plate off her lap to set on the nightstand, she rolled her eyes. The man could be so forgetful sometimes. Reluctantly breaking their lips, she said, "Elliot, you woke me up an hour earlier. I have an extra hour to get ready, well maybe like 45 minutes because I really want to eat those pancakes. I think 45 minutes is way then enough time."

He grinned. Although he lifted the covers enough to begin his descent over her, he jokingly said against her lips, "I made those pancakes with love this morning, so you better eat them."

Spoken as a joke rather than a demand, she laughed, "I'll eat them, promise." Once their lips reconnected, she timed the lowering of her body with his, and they succeeded in getting her flat on her back with him on his elbows over her. She didn't waste any time hooking her hands in his shirt and pushing it up. With men before Elliot, Olivia was able to have sex with shirts on. It was easier that way, skin to skin was to intimate. However, that had yet to be a case with Elliot. The first thing either one of them were doing at the start of their love making, was removing one another shirts.

Elliot pushed her shirt up as well, so when they had to pull apart their lips, they were able to discard each other of the offending garments. Taking a moment to look at her, he still wasn't all the way certain how the woman was so breathtakingly beautiful. It wasn't until he started his descend towards her once more, to reconnect their lips, that he whispered, "You're the hottest Captain I've ever seen."

She smiled, "I would hope so. If you have ever seen a Captain hotter than me, that's probably not something you'd want to admit at this moment."

He chuckled and swept his tongue over the roof of her mouth. When she molded her lips to his and drew her fingernails slightly down his back, his hips instinctually thrusted towards hers. Causing his covered hard-on to crash perfecting into her covered core. The quiet moan of approval that she pushed into his mouth only made the blood flow to his cock quicker. His lips reluctantly detached from hers only so they could trail down her jawline to her neck.

Her hands explored every portion of him that they could reach. Wrapping around his head, down his neck, under his arms and across his backside. When his lips made contact with her collar bone, she lifted her legs up and around his backside, crossing them at the ankle. Effectively causing his body to inch that much closer to hers.

Skin to skin was always one of Elliot's favorite things. He could lie in bed all day, perfectly content, with her bare chest against his. Something that he had still yet to accomplish with her. As his lips trailed up and over her breasts, he made a mental note to plan another overnight date.

Her back arched when she felt a blow of hot breath on her already hardened nipple, "Jesus El, stop teasing me…" her voice was a mere whisper. Just loud enough for Elliot to barely hear. Her eyes dropped down just in time to watch him draw his tongue out and over her once before pulling her whole areola in his mouth. "Elll…" Right when she felt his mouth loosened its hold on her to flick his tongue against her pepple once more, her phone rang.

The groan of disapproval that feel from Elliot's mouth was accompanied with the light shake of his head against her breast, "Don't answer that."

There was only one place that would be calling her right now. And with her now being Captain, there was absolutely no way she could miss it. When their eyes connected, the man had the sexiest pair of blues when he was aroused, she blew a breath out. Keeping eye contact with him the whole time she slowly reached over to grab her phone, "Captain Benson."

He kept his eyes on her the whole time. As soon as she gave him a look that meant she needed to leave as soon as possible, he gave her a small smile, kissed in between her breasts and lifted his body off of hers. He knew the job and he more than understood what it was like when the phone rang. Her promotion to Captain was going to make her life at work that much more hectic. She was now Cragen and he remembered how much shit Cragen had to deal with. By the time she got off the phone, he was handing her her plate of pancakes. "At least eat so you're not starving all day."

She smiled at him and took the plate, "Great, I'll just be horny all day."

"If it's going to disrupt your work, don't you think I have enough time to take care of you really quick?" When he was met with a corresponding glare, he raised his hands, "I was just offering."

"Well don't offer me something like that when you know I don't have time for it."

"I'm just saying that you could…" when she once again shot him a glare, he nodded, "I'm sorry. Rain check?"

"I'll hold you to it."

He grinned and leaned in to kiss her lips gently, "I'll make you lunch."

"Thank you."

Olivia was frantically ruffling through a stack of files on her desk, when her phone started ringing. They had caught a total of three cases that day, all having completely different MOs than the last. In addition, she didn't have enough detectives for every case to be properly investigated, and she already had to leave the unit four times that day to conduct interviews. That on top of her being overly hungry all day, she was losing her mind.

Without her eyes leaving the case files in front of her, she reached her hand into her back pocket and grabbed her phone. "Captain Benson."

"Hey baby."

She blew a small breath out of her lips. His voice now soothed her in a way that she never knew it could. "El…"

The sound of her voice at that moment, with the combination of exhaustion and irritation, made him want to rush right down to the precinct and wrap her up in his arms, "Oh Liv. After the kids are in bed tonight, I'm giving you a full body massage."

The thought of his hands around her waist at that moment was enough to make her take a sharp intake of breath, his hands all over her body was enough to make her core throb. She gripped the file she currently had in her hand a little tighter and allowed a small moan to escape, "With a happy ending?"

He chuckled softly, "With multiple happy endings, I promise."

"Mmmmm… multiple. I can't wai…" The knock against her door as it was opening cut her off. "I didn't say come…"

An out of breath Fin held his hand up to stop her, "I know Cap, but we have an emergency in the hallway. Vic's boyfriend and brother went blows and by the time we got to them blood was everywhere."

"Shit. Elliot I have to go," she said as she was making her way to the door.

"Wait, I called you because the realtor called. She wants us to offer no less than 800,000. Says that they already have more people scheduling walkthroughs and that it's going to go fast."

"Okay, tell her nine then."

"In cash?"

"Yeah, as long as that's okay with you."

"You're sure this is your dream place? I don't want you settling for less…"

"Elliot, as much as I would love to converse with you about whether or not it's my dream place, I really have to go. As long as we're all together Elliot, I don't care where we move."

"I love you."

"I love you too."

Her eyes connected with Fins as she hung up her phone. When she was met with a look of annoyance, she huffed. "Don't start with me Fin. I'm trying to juggle being a mom, a captain and a committed girlfriend for the first time in my life, and it is not easy." As she spoke, they walked in unison towards the hallway.

"I wasn't gonna say nothing."

She laughed lightly, "You're full of shit." When they entered the hallway, she almost couldn't believe how much blood there was. There was blood splatter on the walls and two pools of blood on the floor. From what she could see, the suspects had already been removed from the room. "Jesus, what the hell happened?"

"Both guys had fists of steel Liv. From what I heard boyfriend and brother have always had problems. This isn't the first physical altercation they've had. Brother thinks boyfriend is a lowlife, should have protected his sister from being assaulted and boyfriend…"

She was trying, really trying, to pay attention to the words coming out of Fin's mouth. However, her mind was clouded by a sudden wave of nausea. She tried to push the feeling away by blinking her eyes, taking a deep breath and swallowing the saliva that was building in her mouth. She had felt more than fine the whole day and slightly wondered if it had something to do with the last donut she ate. Deciding that that was the last time she ate, six donuts in one day, she tried one more time to get her bearings. However, when the room began spinning around her she dropped her hands to her knees and bent over.

"Olivia? Liv? Are you okay?" The slight shake of her head, was enough for Fin to reach behind him and grab the trash can they kept in the hallway. "Can you make it to the bathroom?"

If there was one thing Olivia hated doing, it was throwing up. She would do anything in her power to stop it from happening, even if there was no way to stop it. What she hated even more, was throwing up in front of people. So, although she knew the answer to that question was no, she nodded her head and tried to stand straight back up again. When the room spun faster than it did before, she felt the bile rise in her throat. All she had to mumble was, "Fuck…", for Fin to be pushing the can in front of her with one hand, while he placed the other on her back. She allowed herself to fully empty the contents of her stomach and tried to focus on the comforting of Fin's hand on her back. Once she was finished, she looked up and gratefully took the napkin Fin had somehow managed to get in his hand. "Thank you."

"You good?"

She nodded and leaned her body back against a wall, "Yeah, probably my stomach's way of protesting how many donuts I put in it today." With the raise of his brow, she groaned, "What?"

He shook his head, "Nothing. It was probably something you ate. You should brush your teeth. You gonna be good?"

"Yeah, I'm good. Thanks Fin."

"Of course. But if you throw up again, you're going home."

She laughed, "You can't send me home Fin. I'm the boss."

"I'll just call Elliot."

She laughed again, "You think you can threaten me with Elliot? I can still kick his ass and it's even better now because I can kick his ass and send him to the couch."

Fin smiled and shrugged his shoulders, "Just promise me if you continue to not feel well, you'll go home."

"I will Fin."

When she walked through the door at six o'clock at night, she was met with the bodies of two boys sprawled out on their stomach facing towards Elliot, whose back was facing towards her. They were all leaning towards the floor, with their hands moving in different directions. Their voices were full of laughter.

"Dad! It doesn't go there!"

Elliot chuckled lightly and threw the puzzle piece he had in his hand down, "Okay, Mr. Smarty Pants, then which one does?" After the boys had finished their homework for the day and he was done with dinner, Noah had suggested a puzzle that Elliot had purchased earlier that day. They had busied themselves for the last thirty minutes trying to get the thing together and for some reason they were all having trouble finding a specific piece.

"I don't know yet but it's definitely not that one."

Noah shrugged his shoulders and laughed lightly, "I don't know Eli, from far away it looks like it may… kind of."

The roll of laughter that erupted from both of the boys, caused Elliot to smile. "Okay, fine. But I don't see you two having anymore luck than I am."

Through his tears, Eli managed to get out, "At least we're picking pieces that have the same color."

Noah laughed harder, while Elliot chuckled, "That strategy didn't seem like it was working that well, so I'm trying a new one."

The laughter of all three of them, brought a small laugh out of Olivia's lips. She had always felt that Elliot was a good father. From the beginning of their partnership, she knew, that when he wasn't working, he was there for his kids. To actually experience it first hand, with an Elliot who was not busy on the job, was something amazing to watch. Her laugh caused all three heads to look at her, "Hey."

"Hey mom", "hey Liv", and "hey babe" were answered simultaneously. When the boy's eyes went straight back to the puzzle, Elliot rolled his eyes and pushed himself to his feet. When he walked towards the woman, who had successfully shut the door behind her and dropped her purse to the counter, he smiled at her. "I'll gladly take their hello hugs."

She smiled back and accepted his incoming body with open arms. His hands went around her waist, while hers went around his neck. She tilted her chin up to kiss him lightly on the lips, "I'll gladly give them to you."

He kissed her again, "How was work?"

"Exhausting? We did catch a perp though, so worth it."

"It always is."

"How was your day?"

"Good. Offered the realtor the 9. Cooked, cleaned, went for a run. Picked up an application for a personal trainer at the gym down the block. Thought I could do it for four hours a day, so I don't feel like I'm suffocating in here all day." Elliot Stabler had never been a stay at home dad. After years of being on the job, it was something he really enjoyed doing. However, while the kids were in school, he felt like he needed something else to do. The housework was always pretty well kept up with, so he couldn't spend his day cleaning and he definitely was not the man who could sit on the couch and watch TV all day.

She nodded, "You definitely look like a personal trainer." The man had the most incredible muscles she had ever seen.

His voice dropped an octave lower and his lips feel to her ear, "I can train you."

The flirtatious giggles that Elliot was able to coax from her on a daily were a noise that she wasn't quite sure she was capable of making before then. "The way you're thinking about training me, better not be the same way you're thinking about training your possible clients."

"You have nothing to worry about, I only have eyes for you Liv."

Their lips connected in a brief kiss once more, "Good." They gave one another one last squeeze before reluctantly letting go. While Elliot made his way to the stove to start serving plates, Olivia walked to the fridge to pull out the pitcher of iced tea. "So what did Sally say to the offer?"

"She said it was good. Said she would be surprised if they completely rejected us. May try to come up some, but she said we'll negotiate it."

She was lining up a line of four glasses when she asked, "And if they don't want to negotiate it?" The reality that they may not get the place they all loved was one that was stuck at the forefront of her mind.

"Then we find a different place. Don't worry baby, there's a lot of places for sale in Manhattan, we'll find something else."

As he spoke, Olivia turned her body to look at him. He was facing toward the stove, dishing lasagna, garlic bread and asparagus on to four plates. "Are you trying to say you don't like the condo Elliot?"

His eyes peered at her over his shoulder. It wasn't that he didn't like the condo, he thought the layout was perfect, however he couldn't get over the fact that it was thirty stories in the air. Riding up the elevator after a long day of work, he was bound to find Olivia asleep on the floor eventually. "No, no. I love it. Just what floor it's on, throws me off a little bit. I'll get used to it."

"If you didn't like it, why did you make an offer?"

"I just said I like it Liv. The set up, size, pool and gym are perfect, just the ride up and down is going to be exhausting at first. It's something we'll get passed eventually."

Everything about the condo was perfect, except for that. He was one hundred percent right. Riding up and down an elevator for thirty stories was something that she was most likely never going to get used to. And heaven forbid if they forgot something and someone had to go back up to get it. She sighed, "Do you want to keep looking then?"

This time he turned his whole body around to face her, "I want to do what you want to do honey. If you want to keep looking then we will. If you want that condo, then we'll get it. Whatever makes you happy Olivia."

"It's supposed to be what makes us both happy El."

He smiled at her, "I'm happy as long as I'm waking up with you in my arms and those two boys safe in their beds."

She shook her head slightly and couldn't help the way her lips turned up. There was no way they were going to decide on whether or not to look at more places when they were both equally sappy towards one another. When her eyes left his briefly, to look in the direction of the boys, and then back at him, he nodded his head. If they couldn't decide, the boys could. "Eli, Noah?"

"Yeah?" They both answered simultaneously.

"So, we're wondering how much you guys liked the condo we looked at."

They're answer was once again in unison, "We loved it!"

"Why? Do you guys not like it?" Eli asked.

Elliot, who had busied himself with setting the table, said, "No, we both love it. We're just a little concerned about what floor it's on and were wondering if you two may be interested in looking at something else. If you don't want to and absolutely love it, we don't have to look at anything else."

Eli nodded his head in understanding and looked at Noah, "It is a long elevator ride."

"Yeah, but it has a pool."

Eli looked at Olivia, "Are there other places with pools?"

"We could look. We have an app on our phones that show us all the available places in the city. Maybe after dinner, if you two want, we can scroll through them and see if you see anything you may be interested in looking at. If nothing looks better than the condo, then we have our answer."

The nod of their heads, caused Elliot to smile. "Sounds like an afternoon plan then. Let's eat."

What do you think? Do you think the boys are going to want to look at more places or are they going to be happy with their thirty foot high condo?