Tradition
Disclaimer: I don't own them, I just like to play with them for a while
Summary: Elliot and Olivia get closer as a case threatens to pull them apart
A/N this is my first fanfic, so please be nice! I hope you like it!
Chapter 5
Christmas had been amazing. It was the first year that Olivia had spent the holidays around people who truly loved her. The best part of the whole day was the mistletoe that Kathy had hung in the hallway. Elliot seemed to always catch Olivia just as she was walking under it. Although she didn't object, she wondered how he always seemed to know just when she would be there.
It wasn't until later that she discovered that his kids alerted him whenever she approached the mistletoe. What she didn't know was that they wanted her to become their step mother as much as she did.
Elliot had also enjoyed the holiday. He had talked to each of his kids, and asked them what they thought about him asking Olivia to marry him. They all agreed that it would be a great idea.
The day after Christmas he stole his daughters for they day and had them help him pick out a ring. After hours of searching they found on that seemed perfect. There was a square cut diamond in the middle with two smaller ovals cut ones on each side. The diamonds were set on a white gold band, it was beautiful. Elliot had planned on asking Olivia to marry him on New Years Eve. His plan was to take her to watch the ball drop, and ask her just before midnight. Little did he know at the time that fate had something else in mind.
Olivia had noticed Elliot had been acting a little strange over the days that followed Christmas, but was too busy with the Kane case to ask him. He had skipped bail, and now the entire squad was working round the clock to find him.
Olivia was napping in the crib when Cragen came in
"We got a tip; someone thinks they saw him going into a warehouse on 23rd."
He didn't need to tell her twice. Olivia jumped out of the bed, and hurried to meet Elliot at the car. They raced, along with the other detectives, in silence to the warehouse. Once they got there the two jumped from the car and surrounded the building with the others. Elliot, Olivia, Munch, and Fin, cautiously entered the building, and split up.
Olivia entered a dark room, and cautiously searched for any hint of where Kane might be. She thought the room was cleared, but when she turned to leave, she was caught off guard by someone kicking her off her feet. She fell to the floor and soon discovered that she no longer had her gun in her hand. She went to get up, but someone grabbed her by the neck, and pressed her gun to her back.
"So we meet again Olivia." A voice growled into her ear. She knew the voice. It was Kane; she could never forget that voice. Olivia refused to let him do to her what he did to all of his victims. As she felt his hand begin to find its way up her shirt, she managed to kick him off his feet, as he went down a shot echoed out through the building.
The other detectives jumped at the sound, then ran in the direction of Olivia. Elliot was stopped in his tracks as he entered the room, and saw Olivia lying in a pool of blood on the floor.
"Son of a bitch" was all he could say. He rushed over to Olivia's limp body, and searched for the wound. He found it, and ripped off his jacket to try to stop the bleeding.
Munch went over to Kane and cuffed him "You better hope to God that she pulls through" was all he could manage to say to him. Fin called for an ambulance. The two detectives rushed outside to meet the paramedics and lead them into where Olivia was.
Elliot cradled her in his arms. "Live, Liv baby, you have to stay with me. Come one talk to me baby, just keep talking to me." He told her
"I…..I….." She said. "I'm so sorry Elliot. I'm sorry."
"No, don't be sorry, you have nothing to be sorry for." He comforted.
"I… I love you." She said. "I….just want….. you to…. Know that…. I…I want you….to promise me… that…. That….you're gonna be…..ok….your…your kids need you….you need to…live for…. them…promise me."
"Liv, stop talking like that. You're gonna be fine. The ambulance will be here soon, and you're gonna be ok." He said tears now freely flowing form his eyes.
It took most of her strength, but Olivia reached up to his face, and traced it with her hand for one last time. "Just…kiss me Elliot…I just need…one last kiss." She asked, her eyes pleading.
He looked into those eyes, and for the first time he saw fear in them. For the first Olivia was scared. She wasn't afraid of dying, but afraid of leaving him. She was afraid of all that she would leave him with, afraid of all that she would miss. For the first time in her life Olivia had found true happiness, and now it was all being taken form her.
Elliot leaned down, and kissed her blood stained lips. "I promise." He said to her. "you have to hold on, though, just hold on baby. Hold on. You can't leave me Liv, we have to grow old together, I need you." He said pleading.
"I'm…so….tired…" Olivia managed, as her eyes finally won the battle that she had been fighting to keep them open.
"Liv, you have to stay wake. Please" Elliot begged.
Elliot heard the paramedics foot steps running toward him as Olivia's body went limp in his arms.
Olivia could feel the world slipping away from her as she fell into the darkness below her. She tried to hold on to Elliot, tried to keep his voice in her head, and a picture of him in her mind. She was angry that her life was being ripped away from her just as she began living. To her surprise, the last thought she had wasn't one of hate, or anger over what was happening, but one of thankfulness. She realized that even though everything she loved was slipping away form her, she had been granted the last six months. She had found true love, and finally known what it was like to be needed. The only regret she had was that she was leaving Elliot alone; she just hoped he would be able to make it without her. On the inside Olivia cried, but not for herself, for those she was leaving behind. Her final thought was that she had at least been lucky enough to say goodbye. Then everything went numb.