A/N: I know I update soon on this story and maybe too soon but this is my favorite story at the time and my mind just keeps going for this plot, hope its not to quick for you guys but I appreciate the reviews and please keep sending them!
One Year later…
It was 1 in the morning, Olivia was already asleep and Mark was going over witness statements for work. He put his pen down that he was taking notes with and looked over at her. She was sleeping peacefully turned to the side, cuddling the blanket. He smiled looking at her and couldn't resist not messing with her since she always woke him up on purpose when he fell asleep while she was still awake. He put all his notes down on his nightstand and wrapped his arm around her stomach and cuddled closer to her.
"Wake up sexy girl" He whispered smiling.
"What do you want? Why cant you just let me sleep?" She groaned with her eyes still closed.
"I'm quoting Benson of course 'Mark shouldn't sleep without Olivia' so Mark will say Olivia shouldn't sleep without Mark" He said smiling.
"Stop using my reasons to wake you up against me" Olivia mumbled sleepily with a small smirk.
"But I love my detective" Mark said in a baby voice and kissed her on the cheek.
"Your detective wants to sleep so leave her alone" She mumbled smiling.
"We need to stop talking in 3rd person cause its weird" Mark said laughing, she started laughing.
"Don't make me laugh, your waking me up"
"So my plan works, I'm so evil I love it," Mark said smiling as he snuggled closer.
"Sure your evil whatever makes you sleep" Olivia said smiling cuddling closer to him.
"I want to talk" Mark said resting his chin on her shoulder.
"When are you not talking? What do you want to talk about?" Olivia asked smiling with her eyes still closed.
"I'm not sure but I want to have a conversation with you" He answered smiling.
"Oh I forgot to tell you I'm going to hang out with Elliot tomorrow after work"
"Why?"
"Cause he was there for me when you were gone so I'm returning the favor now that he is divorced, you have a problem with that?" She asked smiling as she turned around to face him and opened her eyes.
"No of course not, have fun. Oh I just thought of what we can talk about" Mark said excitedly smiling. She started laughing.
"What did your silly little brain think of now?" She asked smiling.
"Do you think Elliot is hot?" He asked smiling.
"What? I'm not going to have that conversation with you" Olivia said rolling her eyes.
"Forget that I'm your husband, think of me as a girl…"
"Don't wont be hard to imagine" She cut him off and started laughing.
"Funny." He said trying to be serious but it was obvious that he wanted to laugh. Olivia just laughed seeing he was trying hard not to burst out laughing.
"Do you think Casey is hot?" Olivia asked on purpose.
"If I tell you will you answer my question?" He asked smiling.
"Yes I will"
"Ok, yes I think she is pretty, do you think your blue eyed partner is hot?" Mark asked smiling.
"No" Olivia said and turned to the other side. Mark smiled knowing she was lying, he wrapped his arm around her stomach.
"You think he is hot I know it, c'mon he has those piercing blue eyes, a nice body and as a man who likes asses I have to admit he has a nice ass" Mark said smiling. Olivia burst out laughing.
"Are you checking out my partner? Are you sure you didn't want to marry him and not me?" She asked laughing hysterically.
"Oh please, I'm not afraid to say that another man is good looking, I'm secure with my sexuality thank you very much, plus you're the only one I would tell that to so don't even think about discussing this conversation with Casey or any guys" Mark said smiling.
"Ok I won't tell, but I can't believe you said he has a nice ass, really honey don't look next time" Olivia said smiling.
"You never answered my question. Do you think he is hot?"
"Yes he is attractive, can I sleep now?" Olivia asked giving him a kiss.
"Yes you can sleep and don't even think about dreaming of his blue eyes" Mark warned smiling and kissing her on cheek.
"Fine I wont dream of his eyes, I'll dream of his nice ass that you pointed out" Olivia teased laughing.
"What a coincidence, I was going to dream of his ass also," Mark teased back smiling.
"You dream of my ass, not my partners ass" Olivia said laughing.
"Can I dream of Casey's ass?" He teased on purpose laughing.
"Dream of whoever you want as long as you let me sleep" Olivia said smiling.
"Fine, Jennifer Lopez here I come" Mark said laughing. Olivia started laughing hysterically.
"Stop making me laugh, I won't be able to fall asleep" Olivia said laughing.
"Ok, excuse me for having a sense of humor" He said smiling and kissing her on the forehead.
"I love your sense of humor just not when I want to fall asleep" She said giving him a kiss.
"Ok, I'll let you sleep, goodnight" He said returning the kiss.
"Thank you, goodnight" Olivia said snuggling closer to him.
"Now I want to talk about Fin and John and what we think of Fin's ponytail and John's glasses" Mark said not being able to resist not making jokes.
"Another night." Olivia said laughing and turned around to face him "Are you going to stop with the jokes?" She asked smiling.
"Yes. I'm sorry" Mark answered pouting. She smiled thinking how adorable he was when he pouted. She gave him a kiss and wrapped her arms around his stomach. He smiled and hugged her. "I love you," He whispered.
"I love you too," She whispered back.
Flashback
"Doc we need you to see our perp, captain said to call you" Elliot said to Huang as they walked down the hall of the FBI building. Olivia was right next to them.
"I will come by as soon as I can, I have to do a session with a perp for one of our agents" Huang said as they walked to his office to get papers on another one of their perps.
"George. C'mon Mark is going crazy waiting for you" An agent yelled out behind him. Huang stopped and turned around.
"Tell him to wait, I'm with SVU now, give me a minute…" Huang said but all of a sudden a perp and an agent flew out a door wrestling with each other. The perp grabbed the agent with his handcuffs and pulled on his neck. The agent grabbed the perp and threw him over his shoulder and kneeled down on his neck.
"You want a rematch?" The agent asked kneeling on his neck harder. The perp started choking.
"Mark let him go" George said rolling his eyes. Elliot and Olivia just looked at each other and smirked.
"This is what happens when your late doc" Mark said pulling the perp up and throwing him in the room and closed the door not even turning to look at George.
"I'll be right there, I'm with SVU, give me a minute" George said.
"Oh ok, should I…"Mark began but his mouth dropped when he finally looked over and saw Olivia. Olivia smiled and blushed. Elliot just smirked.
"Breath Mark" George said in a low voice smirking. Mark quickly closed his mouth and cleared his throat trying to be serious.
"Um…Hi, I'm Mark Anderson" he said smiling putting his hand out to Olivia.
"Olivia Benson" Olivia said smiling shaking his hand.
"Um…doc lets go get those papers" Elliot said smirking pulling George away from Olivia and Mark and walking with him down the hall.
"I should get going" Olivia said smiling at Mark and turning around to go down the hall to catch up with her partner. Mark quickly followed and walked with her.
"Look, um…can I ask you out sometime?" Mark asked nervously walking with her down the hall.
"If you want," Olivia said smiling and going into George's office. Mark kept following.
"How about I ask you now?" He asked smiling totally ignoring Elliot and George looking at him.
"Um…how about another time?" Olivia asked feeling uncomfortable that her colleagues were watching. Mark smiled nodding and left the office.
"Ouch., Jeez liv that was harsh" Elliot said taking the papers from George.
"I wasn't trying to be mean," Olivia said shrugging hoping she didn't give Mark the wrong impression.
"He won't ask just one time, trust me" George said smirking giving them the last paper. Olivia and Elliot left the building and started walking to their squad car.
"Benson!" Someone yelled out behind them, both of them stopped and turned around. An agent came over to Olivia and handed her a paper "From someone" the Man said smirking and walking away.
Olivia smiled and opened the paper Times Square restaurant, 9 o'clock tonight, sorry for asking you in front of your partner and the doc, please show up! Mark. Olivia just smiled reading it and got in the squad car. Elliot smirked at the small twinkle he noticed in his partner's eyes and got in the car next to her.
End flashbackOlivia walked into the precinct at 7 o'clock in the morning with coffee.
"Morning" Elliot said from his desk.
"Hey, did we find out anything on the perp?" Olivia asked as she sat down at her desk and sipped her coffee.
"John and Fin went out to find some records they should be here soon. We still up for mini golf?" Elliot asked as he got up to get some coffee.
"Yea, like I told you were playing mini golf after work and that's what we will do" Olivia answered smiling.
"Ok just checking, cause maybe you wanted to hang out with Mark and I'm ok with that" Elliot said as he sat down at his desk.
"No, I'm hanging out with you today, don't worry about Mark he finds ways to entertain himself easily" Olivia said smiling.
"Is he ok with you hanging out with me, I mean I am divorced and Mark gets protective over you?" Elliot asked not wanting to put Mark in a weird place.
"Oh god El, you know he trusts you and he thinks of you like his brother, he gets protective if someone else touches me and I don't know that person, if for example a stranger puts their arm around me he would kill them, if you put your arm around me he would put his arm around you," Olivia said smiling and rolling her eyes.
"Yea I think he demonstrated that last year with Jacob" Elliot said laughing. Olivia started laughing also.
"Hey giggly factory" John said coming in the bullpen. Elliot and Olivia stopped laughing and looked over at John and Fin.
"Did you guys find anything?" Olivia asked getting up from her chair.
"Yea, the FBI also has our guy as the suspect for one of their cases" Fin said looking disappointed.
"So? Lets go talk to them" Olivia said grabbing her jacket. Elliot grabbed his and followed.
They got to the FBI building around 9.
"The Stabler and Benson duo again, how can I help you today detectives?" The AD said appearing behind them before they had a chance to ask for him.
"We need to talk about one of your cases" Elliot told him.
"Let's go to my office" The AD said motioning for them to follow him. They nodded and followed. The AD sat at his chair and Elliot and Olivia sat across him.
"What case?" The AD asked folding his hands on his stomach.
"Omar Mitchum" Olivia answered.
"He is our suspect and we are not handing him over, but let me call my lead agents on that case" The AD said and pushed a button on his intercom "Get Anderson and Willis in here"
"Do you have him in custody? Cause we need to charge him with rape" Elliot asked.
Mark and another agent walked in and closed the door behind them and just stood in the office and said nothing.
"No we don't, if you wanted this suspect all to yourself you should have worked faster" The AD said smugly.
"We did work fast enough, he raped a women two days ago how the hell do you think we could have him in custody before that" Olivia snapped back as she got out of her chair.
"Not faster then us, we had him as a suspect before you so he will go in our custody" Willis argued. Mark said nothing, not wanting to take either side.
"Then why don't you have him in custody yet if he was your suspect before us, if you did your work faster you could have prevented a rape" Elliot argued getting up from his chair and looking at Willis.
"You have no authority to speak to me that way detective" Willis said angrily glaring at Elliot.
"I'll work with SVU" Mark blurted out. Everyone just looked at him. "I'll work with them to find him, that way we are on equal grounds, no one is losing a case." Mark said looking at everyone.
"Fine. Anderson you work with them, detectives my agent will work with you on this case if you don't have any objections" The AD said looking at Elliot and Olivia, they just nodded. "Good, but I want to be updated on everything" The AD added.
"Fine you will be updated, lets go" Elliot said and headed to the door, Olivia and Mark following.
"Anderson?" The AD called out still from his desk. Mark rolled his eyes before he turned around.
"Yes sir?"
"You better not try to screw over the bureau on this case" The AD warned giving him a look.
"Yes sir" Mark said and turned around and followed Olivia and Elliot.
They arrived at the precinct around 11 in the morning.
"What's Mark doing here?" Fin asked when he saw Mark walk in with Elliot and Olivia.
"I'm working with you on this case" Mark answered.
"More like babysitting us," Elliot mumbled.
"Oh c'mon man, I know my boss is a dick, but you rather stand there arguing with an asshole like that or splitting the case," Mark said sitting down on a desk.
"Fine, but just cause your FBI it's not your case and you don't call the shots," Elliot said giving him a look.
"You know me better then that Elliot, as far as I'm concerned it's your case and your using me as bait not to lose this case to the feds and I'm fine with that" Mark said returning the same look.
"Guys lets just work, ok?" Olivia suggested not wanting them to argue more.
"Fine" Elliot said.
"Agreed" Mark said.
"Do you have anything on him?" Olivia asked looking at Mark.
"He is on the run and we don't know where he is but we do have an address on him, but we didn't get a chance to check it out." Mark answered giving her a paper from the file he brought with him.
"Lets call Novak for warrants and head over there" Elliot suggested and took out his cell phone. Mark nodded and got off the desk. All three of them headed for the address.
They got to the house at 12.
"No answer" Mark said after banging on the door a couple of times.
"We got warrants and CSU is on their way " Olivia said after getting off her cell phone.
"Lets knock it down" Elliot suggested looking at Mark. Mark nodded. Olivia got behind them holding her gun ready. Elliot and Mark knocked down the door, Mark pulled out his gun and went in first, Olivia following and Elliot behind her.
"Lets search" Mark said putting his gun back in his holster after seeing no one was in the house. Olivia and Elliot did the same.
All three pulled out their gloves they had with them.
"Let's operate" Mark said in a fake British accent as he pulled on his gloves. Olivia laughed and rolled her eyes.
"Does anyone need Viagra?" Elliot asked opening a drawer filled with it.
"We don't need to know all your dirty little secrets El" Mark teased as he searched through cabinets.
"We have lots of porn," Olivia said as books started falling on the ground after she opened a cabinet.
"Pack it up, I could use some" Mark teased smiling. Olivia smiled and rolled her eyes.
"I don't need to know that" Elliot said smiling.
"I'll give you some relax, might as well take that Viagra with you" Mark said smiling. "Hey check this out" Mark called out after he saw a small hatch on the ceiling. Olivia and Elliot went over to him.
"Lets open it" Elliot said. Mark nodded and grabbed a baseball bat that was sitting near them and hit it open.
"Liv you need to climb up there, its too small for me and Elliot to fit" Mark said looking at her.
"Fine, a little help though" Olivia said as she moved under the hatch. Mark grabbed her by the waist and picked her up, she grabbed the edge of the opening with her hands and stepped on Mark's shoulders with her feet.
"Hurry up, I'm hurting" Mark said with her still standing on his shoulders.
"Don't be a baby, relax" Olivia said pulling herself up.
"You two are so romantic" Elliot teased smiling. Mark and Olivia smiled and rolled their eyes.
"You guys have a light or something?" Olivia asked sitting in a very dusty dark attic with her legs dangling from the open hatch.
"Yea, here" Elliot said grabbing a flashlight that was sitting on the coffee table and throwing it up to her. She grabbed it and turned it on.
She looked around and there were piles of bags with money, and small bags of drugs. She looked around and heard someone sniffle. She stepped into the attic completely.
"Liv where you going?" Mark asked not being able to see her anymore.
"Be quiet" She called back as she flashed the light in corners of the attic. She went to the corner that was most far back. She saw a small boy crying sitting there with his knees pressed against his small chest.
"Hey" Olivia said smiling slowly approaching him, "Come here" She said gently taking the boy into her arms. She carried him to the opening of the closet and noticed the CSU team got there. She sat down at the opening. Elliot was instructing the CSU team and Mark was still waiting for her.
"Get him Mark" Olivia said holding the boy down so Mark could take him.
"Hey Buddy" Mark said smiling and taking the boy. The boy looked into his eyes and wrapped his small arms around his neck. Mark motioned for someone to help Olivia climbed down and went outside with the boy.
"C'mon liv" Elliot said coming by the hatch to help her.
"Your drop me I will send Mark on you" She said smiling as she slowly slid off the edge. Elliot took her feet and took her hand and helped her down. "I'm going to go check on that boy" Olivia said and headed out the door. Elliot nodded as he returned to find what he could.
The boy was sitting in the car seat and Mark kneeling down by him.
"I'm Mark, what's your name?" Mark asked with a warm smile. The boy didn't answer and just took Mark's tie. "You like my tie?" The boy nodded. "My son likes this tie too" The boy looked up at him and quickly let go of the tie and starred at the ground.
"How old are you?" Mark tried again. The boy put up five fingers "Five, you are a big boy, do you have any brothers or sisters?" The boy shook his head and looked up at Olivia coming over. Mark noticed he was looking over his shoulder and turned around.
"I'm going to go so my friend can talk to you, is that ok?" Mark asked gently. The boy nodded slightly. Mark stood up and went into the house as Olivia kneeled down by the boy.
"Hi, you remember me?" Olivia asked smiling. The boy nodded. "My name is Olivia, what's your name?" The boy didn't answer. "Were you hiding up there?" The boy didn't respond. "Did someone put you up there?" The boy nodded "Who put you up there?" The boy just stared at the ground. "Honey can you tell me your name?" Olivia asked gently.
The boy still starred at the ground and mumbled "Alex"
"Alex can you tell me how you ended up being up there?" Olivia asked, the boy starred at the ground and didn't answer.
"Liv we got something!" Elliot yelled from the doorway.
"Alex, I'm going to be right back, but this nice police officer will stay with you, ok?" Olivia said as she motioned for an officer to come over to her. Alex just nodded and kept starring at the ground. Olivia went into the house.
"What do we have?" She asked as she came by Mark and Elliot.
"Blood money, and literally blood money" Mark answered as he pulled blood stained money from a bag.
"Lets find out who's it is" Olivia suggested.
"Um…liv we know who's it is, its your victims" Mark said pointing at a dead body in one of the bags.
"Oh god. Lets get Warner here" Olivia said starring at the body. Elliot nodded and took out his phone.
"How's the kid?" Mark asked.
"Doesn't want to talk, all I got from him is his name, Alex, did you get anything from him?"
"That he is 5 years old and doesn't have any siblings," Mark answered.
"Lets get him over to Bellevue and I'll call Fin and John to come here. Do you need to stay here for your case?" Olivia asked.
"No, what ever they find is fine with me, lets go" Mark answered. Olivia nodded and followed him outside.
They got the boy at Bellevue so Huang can talk to him and they went back to the precinct.
"I looked at missing person's and no description matching Alex" Mark told them sitting at John's desk.
"Same here, nothing has been reported, not even a clue where he belongs" Olivia said.
"Why don't you three go see if the doc got anything from him and I will contact ASC" Cragen suggested. Elliot, Olivia and Mark nodded and left the precinct.
George was standing by the mirror of the child interrogation room when the three showed up.
"Did you get anything?" Mark asked walking up the George.
"No, he doesn't want to talk and he doesn't want to draw, he just sits there and stares at the ground." George answered still looking at the boy.
"Is he traumatized?" Olivia asked.
"Maybe, but this behavior often shows that he wants to be able to connect with someone, he isolates himself by not talking, most of the time because he is scared or is disapproved by someone" George informed them.
"Can I go try and talk to him?" Mark asked.
"Sure, just try to connect with him." Huang told him.
"That won't be hard" Mark mumbled and went into the child interrogation room. Elliot and George looked at Olivia not knowing what he was talking about.
"Just watch" Olivia said feeling their eyes on her as she watched through the glass. Elliot and George turned toward the mirror as well.
"Hey Alex," Mark said as he closed the door behind him. Alex looked up. "You remember me?" Mark asked as he sat down across him. The boy nodded and got up from his chair and went over to him and took his tie and played with it.
"Alex can you tell me why you were in the attic today?" Mark asked gently. The boy shook his head quickly "Did something bad happen?" The boy looked up at him and let go of his tie and walked away and sat on the ground and stared at the wall.
"Something bad happened to me also when I was your age" Mark said getting up and kneeling by the boy. The boy looked up at him.
"What?" Alex asked in a small whisper barely able to hear.
"I lost my parents. Alex did you lose someone?" Mark asked. The boy looked at the ground and nodded.
"How did you lose your parents?" Alex asked getting up and sitting in Mark's lap.
"Um…my dad wasn't a good man, he took my mom's life and then took his own. Who did you lose?" Mark asked holding the small boy in his lap. Alex took his tie and held it.
"My mom. How do you know your dad did this?" Alex asked.
"Um…I saw him do it, it happened well I was watching cartoons after school. Who was your mom, do you know her name?"
"Jill Berkley, last name is the same as mine. Why did your dad do this?"
"I don't know to tell you the truth. Do you know your father's name?"
"No, I never met him. Would you want to know why he did it?"
"Sometimes but I rather not know. Did you know who took your mom's life?"
"Yes, mommy kept yelling out a name and screaming at someone, she said Omar a lot. I'm sorry about what your dad did," Alex said as he started crying and hugging Mark. Mark took in a breath not to let out a tear.
"Thanks Alex. I'm sorry about what happened to your mom too, did your mom put you in the attic so you wouldn't hear or see anything?" The boy nodded as he cried.
"Can I be alone now?" Alex asked as he wiped his tears.
"Sure, if you need anything call this number" Mark said taking out his card and writing his cell number on the back. "You can reach me when ever on this number ok?" The boy nodded and took the card and got off his lap and sat on the chair and just starred at the ground again.
Mark left the room and passed by Elliot, Olivia and George and headed to the bathroom not looking at anyone. Olivia wiped the tear that was forming in her eyes and followed him quickly.
She came in the men's bathroom slowly, Mark was washing his face with cold water. She came by him and gently placed her hand on his back. He felt her touch him and he stopped putting water on his face and just stared at the water go down the drain.
Olivia grabbed some paper and handed it to him. He took the paper and wiped his face still staring at the sink.
"Come here" Olivia whispered and took him into a hug. He hugged her and rested his chin on her head and just stared at the wall as a tear rolled down his cheek. Olivia hugged him tighter knowing it was hard for him to talk about his father's murder-suicide.