SVU Squad Room, Monday morning, 9:00am

Munch walks in with two beautifully wrapped gifts, which looks like a professional wrapped it. He sets both of them down on his desk, which startles Fin.

"What are those?" asked Fin, pointing to the gifts.

"They're for Elliot's kids." said Munch.

"No, I meant the wrapping paper."

"Oh, that was beautifully wrapped by me, it was some sort of conspiracy that came to me," jokes Munch, giving him a crazy look.

Fin rolls his eyes and thought, "what a crazy dude I have for a partner." He starts to talk to Munch about his stupidity, but is interrupted by a good morning from Olivia and Elliot, who come out of nowhere to their desks.

"Good morning, guys." says Fin and Munch.

"Elliot," said Munch, "here's the birthday gifts for the twins," handing him the presents.

"Thanks, John," says Elliot, taking the gifts from Munch, "may I ask what they are?"

"Actually, they are kaleidoscopes. I thought I'd get them something that wasn't considered a conspiracy," he says, and looks at Fin, who gives him an I'm-going-show-you-conspiracies look.

"Cool. They'll love them."

"OK, guys," says Cragen, who charges out of his office into the squad room with his let's get down to business look, "Here is the assignment for the day. I found another report from the Barron case and some paperwork left that needs to be done. Elliot, Olivia, you take care of that. Munch, Fin, you are due in court for the Hernandez trial at 10:00."

Munch and Fin look at each other in disgust, grabs their jackets, and heads off to the courtroom, leaving Elliot and Olivia behind to do the reports.

1:00pm

After lunch, Elliot and Olivia started on the extra paperwork left to do for the Barron case.

"Here you take this stack and I'll take the other half," says Olivia, smiling at her partner and giving him a stack of papers.

"Thanks," he said.

Elliot looks at the stack of papers sitting before him and stares at Olivia, who is intently concentrating on her stack. His mind flashes back to his thought of the other night about kissing Olivia, feeling her lips touching his and her tongue exploring his mouth. Going back to reality, he starts to work on the papers.

"Well, what a surprise, you guys actually finished this in one day," says Cragen.

"Yeah, surprisingly we did," says Olivia, "Everything was checked out and we put them on your desk for you to review over."

Elliot stands up from his desk and grabs his jacket, "Well, I think I'm going to call it a night and go home and give the twins their birthday presents from Munch and spend some time with my family."

"What did he get them this year?" asks Cragen, with a laugh and wondering what Elliot's answer will be.

"Kaleidoscopes."

Cragen looks shocked. "Well I know they will love them. Who doesn't like gifts from Munch?"

"He's always up to his tricks. Good night, Cap and Liv, see you tomorrow."

"Good night, Elliot."

Stabler Residence, 6:30pm

Maureen and Kathleen are in the kitchen with Kathy helping her with dinner while the kids are in the living room watching TV when the door opens and in comes Elliot.

"Daddy!" cried out the twins, who run up to hug their father.

"Hey, my little sport and princess," Elliot kisses and embraces both of them, "how was school today?"

"It was good," replies Elizabeth, "Dickie and me had cupcakes at school from our teacher and everyone else in class that had birthdays this month."

"Mine was shaped like a baseball and it had little candies and decorations on it," said Dickie, beaming.

"Wow, that's great," replies Elliot.

Around that time, Kathy, Maureen, and Kathleen walk in the living room to greet Elliot.

"Hey Dad!" says Maureen and Kathleen, who both go to Elliot as he hugs and kisses both of them.

"Hi, honey," Elliot turns to his wife and gives her a quick kiss.

They all sit down to dinner, discussing about each other's days. After a while, Elliot gives the twins the presents from Munch. They squeal with delight when they see the kaleidoscopes and looking inside at the interesting shapes. About a couple hours later, all four children are in bed, after many attempts from Kathy to get Maureen off the phone with her friend to go to sleep.

"We have some great kids," says Elliot, as he and Kathy are in their bedroom, getting ready for bed.

"Yeah, we do," said Kathy, in a crackling voice and thinking, if you were home more often, you would know how great your children are. The sound in her voice makes Elliot sense that something was going on that Kathy needed to tell him.

They climb into bed and after a long pause, Kathy says, "El, I think we need to talk."

"What about?" asked Elliot, giving her a concerned look.

"It's about me and---someone, someone that I've been having an affair with for the last month."