A/N: So I could not think of a title for this chapter, not one that would work anyway. So thats why this chapter is entitled 'Chapter 15'. But if you have any ideas or can think of a better name for the chapter, let me know in the reviews along with your thoughts on this chapter. I hope your strapped in because the ride is about to get a little bumpy...

Chapter 15

Elliot was the first one at the restaurant, which was almost expected as he was going to be the one that was late. Elliot preferred to be early and have to wait a little bit than be late or cause other people to be waiting. However, most of the time, he found himself arriving just at the right time when he needed to. Elliot had called the restaurant ahead of time and booked the table in the upstairs section of the restaurant, it was more private up there and just the way Elliot liked it when he was with his friends. Then, being the first one there, he ordered the first round of drinks for the trio. It was a good thing he was so familiar with what the other two would like to drink.
"Elliot, my man!" Finn greeted as he walked across the restaurant floor towards the table as Elliot stood up to greet him. He was closely followed by Charlie.
"Hey Finn, how's it going? Charlie, so glad you could make it!" Elliot greeted the pair.
"Make it? For you, you know I'm always gonna be here" Charlie remarked as the trio took their seats.

"So, how are the kids? Still causing trouble?" Charlie enquired once they had decided they were all going to eat and placed the orders with the waitress.
"Well, no more trouble than usual. Now if only the same could be said for some of the help I have" Elliot remarked which surprised his friends.
"Really? I thought you only hired the best? You've never seemed to have too many issues" Finn asked.
"So did I, but apparently that is not the case" Elliot remarked, not really giving away too much information on what was going on just yet, it was going to be a long story.
"What happened man?" Finn asked again, clearly not wanting to continue to skate around this issue like this, wanting to get straight to the point. Elliot recalled his entire event with Dani and the issues she'd been causing for his family as well as the methods that he had gone through, and the support he'd got from Olivia. The two other men were shocked at how someone who was working with kids all the time, like Dani, had been so cruel towards Elliot's kids and so obviously been favouring one over the other.
Man, that sounds really rough. But this teacher you mention sounds like a god send" Charlie remarked as Elliot finished explaining all the previous events.

"She really is, would you believe, that now, whilst I have no nanny, she's agreeing to be my nanny for free?" Elliot asked, which absolutely shocked his friends.
"Free of charge? Elliot you have to pay her, it's not in her job description to run a babysitting service free of charge outside of school hours" Charlie remarked.
"I tried, she won't take my money, says she doesn't need it or want it, she genuinely wanted to help"
So, she's working for you, out of the goodness of her heart, for free...is she single? She sounds like the perfect girl for me" Charlie remarked again. Charlie was always known to be the one who was more of a player in the trio and there was absolutely no way that Elliot would let him anywhere near Olivia.
"No... you're not getting near her. She has a kid though, an adorable kid at that"
"How do you know she has a kid?" Finn asked, suddenly paying more interest in the conversation and the fact that there was more to it than Elliot was letting on.
"I met her, at the park on Sunday. Beautiful little girl, just like her mother" Elliot commented, thinking back to how cute Chloe was and how perfect of a mother to this little girl, that Olivia was.
"Hold up, now you're hanging out with her on the weekends too? At a park? Really?" Finn sat up straight, his friend was clearly hiding something.
"Well I didn't ask her to the park, Olivia just already happened to be there when we were there. Elizabeth spotted her and then whilst I played soccer with Dickie, Olivia offered to look over Elizabeth for me" Elliot tried to explain, hoping they wouldn't dig too much further into this.

"Olivia, what a beautiful name" Charlie remarked
"For a beautiful woman" Elliot commented which almost made the boys sit up and spit out their drinks. Elliot looked at the pair and realised what he thought he'd been thinking, he'd actually said out loud.
"Excuse me? Did I hear that right?" Charlie remarked, almost spitting out his drink, he couldn't believe the words that had just come out of Elliot's mouth. It had been a while since he'd made remarks like that on a woman's beauty, even when they had tried to get him to notice other women after Kathy left.
"Did I say that out loud?" Elliot asked, sitting up straight as his friends were nodding. He had hoped he was imagining this right now and he'd not actually made a remark about Olivia's beauty with his friends around as he didn't need a third degree about this from them. Sadly, he wasn't imagining and Elliot wanted to disappear now, he was never going to hear the end of this.
"She is a very beautiful woman and has helped me out a lot" Elliot commented again.
"Sounds like someone has a crush to me"
"What? No"
"Man, when was the last time you noticed a woman like this? Like properly noticed a woman" Finn remarked and Elliot knew he'd been caught out. Maybe he did have a slight crush on Olivia or maybe it was that he was just noticing things from a different perspective with this extra time they were spending together, he was never going to admit it either way.


Elizabeth was the first out of the car and heading inside, quickly followed by Richard with Olivia bringing up the rear. They were supposed to have their swimming lessons in the private pool but it had moved last minute to a public location due to requirements of the teacher and thus they had just returned after the lesson. All Olivia wanted to do was get the kids inside, showered and having a snack before getting their homework done so they could relax into the evening. Olivia had arranged to have Lucy bring Chloe over in about an hour once she'd been picked up from day care, as Olivia had confirmed with Elliot this was fine. Olivia was glad to be able to spend more time with her little girl whilst also watching over Elizabeth and Richard. She felt like she'd hardly seen Chloe this week with all the commitments at school and with the Stabler twins. Olivia also intended to see if Elliot had all the supplies to bake cookies as both of Elizabeth and Richard said they wanted to learn how to bake cookies, but they didn't have anyone to teach them as Elliot didn't know how and Chef didn't like them in the kitchen with him. Olivia felt rather confident that she could change that. However, everything changed the minute they stepped inside the hotel lobby, as they saw the face of someone whom they never expected to see again.

"Dani! You're here!" Richard called as Olivia watched Richard push past his sister and run over to where their previous nanny was standing. There was something about the way she was looking at the group just now that told Olivia this wasn't going to go well.
"Hey Buddy! I've missed you so much!" Dani greeted as she embraced the little boy in a tight bear hug. Elizabeth froze with terror as Dani looked at her.
"What? You not going to come and say hi? You always were a selfish spoiled brat with no manners" Dani remarked but Olivia knew she had to step in.
"Dani, what a surprise" Olivia greeted as she stepped up towards Elizabeth and held her hand out for the little girl. Elizabeth instantly grabbed it and then tried to hide herself in Olivia's side. Olivia knew the little girl was very uncomfortable at the moment.
"Miss Benson, what are you doing here?" Dani asked
"Miss Benson has been looking after us for daddy whilst you were gone" Richard quickly explained, wanting to bring the other woman up to speed quickly.
"Oh, how nice of her. But she can go now, I'm here and everything can go back to the way it was" Dani remarked, smiling over at Olivia but Elizabeth clutched harder at Olivia. Olivia knew the little girl had lost almost complete use of her voice from terror. Olivia could tell now that Dani had clearly had more of a negative impact on Elizabeth than she'd originally thought or that anyone knew about.

"I'm not going anywhere, Dickie come on we've got to get upstairs" Olivia tried to coax the young boy away from Dani, not really sure how this situation was going to continue to play out but wanting to keep the twins safe. Something was really wrong with Dani right now and Olivia really wasn't prepared to keep the kids close to her to find out what.
"But Dani?" Richard tried to refuse, he was very attached to their previous nanny.
"Don't worry little man, you can stay here with me...she can't take you from me. Your daddy is going to be perfectly happy for me to look after both of you now I'm back and I bet he's going to tell this teacher of yours to get out of here...I even think he'll take Elizabeth out of her class as I've heard some horrible things about her" Dani remarked and Olivia just raised an eyebrow as watched Dani start to hold the boy slightly closer. There were several aspects of this current situation that she could tell weren't going to end well if they continued. Olivia looked around and could see a small group of people forming in the lobby as well, she wasn't going to make a mistake here, she was going to have to be careful with how she went about things now.

"Miss Benson, how are we this afternoon?" Parker asked as he made his way over to the group. Parker was one of the receptionists that worked the front counter in the lobby and he had become quite familiar with Olivia over the past few days from all the coming and going. He was clearly coming over to try and see what the commotion was.
"I'm alright thank you Parker, we were just on our return upstairs. Can you let Mr Stabler know that we've returned please?" Olivia asked calming, she was trying to let Parker know to contact Elliot but not give it away in case that made Dani react dangerously or something.
"Certainly Ma'am, but may I ask why?" Parker enquired, clearly wanting more of an explaination that Olivia would have liked.
"He requested that he would like to know when we were home as our swimming lesson location changed" Olivia said, though she was sending a completely different message with her eyes but Parker wasn't responding.
"Yes Parker, be a dear and call Mr Stabler. Let me know that Dani is back and that he can dismiss Miss Benson as her services are no longer required. I have everything under control and Elliot trusts me so he'll be more than happy to have me back" Dani interrupted the pair.
"Ma'am?" Parker asked Olivia for further clarification that this is what she wanted.
"That will be all, thank you parker" Olivia smiled as she dismissed the young man and looked down at Elizabeth who was holding her tight.

"Don't go, don't go, don't go" Elizabeth cried into Olivia but Olivia just bent down to the little girls height.
"Honey, I'm not going anywhere and I promise I won't let her touch you. But I really need you to be a big girl for me now and head upstairs with Dicke to Bertie. Let her know what is going on and I'll be right behind you in a few minutes. Daddy is going to be home soon too" Olivia tried to comfort the little girl.
"But, no! I don't want to leave you...No, no no" Elizabeth cried
"Lizzie, sweetheart you can do this for me. I promise you it will all be fine"
"You know you shouldn't make promises that you won't keep to such an impressionable little girl" Dani interrupted, drawing attention back to her but Olivia just glared over at her. She didn't know what game this woman was playing but she couldn't take her focus off Elizabeth right now.
"Lizzie, your precious teacher is lying to you and you don't need that. Come over here and we'll get rid of such a horrid woman" Dani remarked but Elizabeth just clung to Olivia tighter. Dani was not taking the girl's refusal well, Olivia could see that from her body language.


Elliot was sitting in his office, gazing out the window and lost in his thoughts when he heard someone calling his name.
"Mr Stabler...Mr Stabler, are you there?" Ashley called through the door, dragging Elliot back to reality from his thoughts.
"Yes Ashley, come in" Elliot answered.
"Sir, I've got Parker from the hotel on the line, he says he needs to talk to you" Ashley explained as she stood in the doorway.
"Transfer him through please, thank you" Elliot said as he picked up the handset to his desk phone. He knew that Parker would only call directly if something was wrong and the fact he was calling now, meant that there was something going on at the hotel. Elliot waited a couple of minutes as Parker was patched through to him before speaking again.
"Parker? What's wrong?"
"Sir, Miss Benson asked me to call you and tell you they were home as you had asked them to when the swimming location changed. But there is another lady here too, she's got a hold of Richard sir and is saying you don't need to worry and Dani is back to look after the kids and you can dismiss Miss Benson" Parker tried to explain and Elliot could hear the commotion in the background. There is no way that is happening Elliot thought to himself, he was not going to dismiss Olivia like that. He was not going to dismiss someone who cared for his kids more than she cared for herself. Olivia gave her everything to help him out where she could and he was not going to dismiss her for someone who couldn't even bother to show up to a meeting or let him know that she wouldn't be there. Elliot knew that he had to get to the hotel, he had to know what was going on and he had to get Dani away from his kids. I should have known that she was never going to go easily Elliot thought as he told Parker he would be there soon and to let Miss Benson know he was on his way.

A/N: Uh Oh...