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Olivia woke up at 7. Her eyes were still red and puffy from crying all night, she turned around but Jeff wasn't there. She got up and went to the kitchen; Jeff was making coffee with only a towel around his waist and still wet from his shower.
"Hey" Olivia said quietly.
"Hi" he sad quietly and just took two cups from the cabinet, not looking at her at all.
"How did you sleep?" she asked, trying to make conversation as she watched him pour coffee.
"Not so good" he answered and handed her a cup and walked past her and went to their room.
Olivia took a sip of coffee and followed him to their bedroom. He was pulling up his jeans over his boxers when she walked in.
"You going to work today?" She asked standing in the doorway watching him and sipping on her coffee that he made for her.
"No, but I bet you are" He mumbled as he grabbed a shirt and pulled it on. Olivia heard him but didn't want to say anything. Jeff hated that she was going to spend the day with him so he had to provoke her.
"Where did you go last night, since I know you weren't drinking?" Olivia asked as she handed him his hoodie.
"Thanks. I went to the gym to blow off some steam, figured hitting a punching bag would be smarter then hitting Stabler's face" Jeff said as he pulled on his hoodie.
"You going to your brother's gym?"
"Yea, since that's were I hang out. Il see you later" Jeff said just walking past her and going out the door. Olivia started gagging and ran to the bathroom and started vomiting. Jeff heard her and came back to see what was wrong.
"Are you ok?" He asked turning the water on to run in the sink.
"Yea, probably stomach flu going around or bad Chinese food" She said with half a smirk as she put water in her mouth and spit it out.
"Ok, I hope it wasn't my coffee" Jeff said with also a smirk looking at the coffee cup that she dropped on the floor. Luckily she drank all the coffee and there was none spilled.
"No, the coffee was fine." She said smirking as she put cold water on her face. He took a towel and handed it to her. She looked up at him as she took the towel and smiled.
"I have to get going. I'll see you later" He said, hating that he wasn't that mad at her at that moment, put he just couldn't hate her at that point when she was sick. He smiled and left the bathroom
Olivia just watched him walk out the apartment. She picked up the coffee cup and was so glad there was no coffee in the cup when she dropped it. She felt horrible that she hurt him but even more that she didn't regret being with Elliot.
Elliot woke up at 7:30. When he got home last night Kathy wasn't there, he fell asleep before she got home. He looked on her side of the bed and he could tell it was slept in. He put on some jeans and grabbed a dress shirt and a tie and went down stairs.
Kathy was in the kitchen just sitting at the table and starring off at space.
"Where were you last night?" He asked putting down his shirt and tie over a chair.
"I was going to ask you the same thing," Kathy said calmly but coldly.
"I was here and I fell asleep," Elliot said with half a smirk as he poured coffee.
"Was that before or after you were with her?" Kathy asked getting up. Elliot felt like a brick just dropped on his head. He went numb and kept his smile and starred at her.
"With who? What are you talking about?" Elliot asked knowing exactly what she was talking about.
"I got a call from Jeff, you know the man Olivia is cheating on with you" Kathy said staring at him dead square in the eyes, folding her arms on her chest, wanting Elliot to feel intimidated. He did.
"Look Kathy, we were drunk but noth…" Elliot began but Kathy slapping him in the face cut his sentence off. He put his hand on his cheek and just looked at her. He didn't realize she was that strong, he could feel his face burning and he knew it was going to leave a mark.
"Don't lie to me, I know you have a thing for her and you always did, Jeff called and told me he saw you two kissing in her apartment" Kathy was now yelling. Elliot didn't know if he should lie or just tell her that he loved Olivia. He just stood there and let her yell, while he thought about beating the crap out of Jeff.
Jeff got in his car and headed for Queens. Knowing he had to make it right. Elliot should tell his wife what he did, not him. He finally reached Elliot's house and was prepared to fight him if he swung at him. Which he probably would.
He went up his stairs and rang the doorbell. Elliot answered the door, wearing only jeans and a white tank top he always wore under his dress shirt. He had a red mark on his face, which Jeff could tell where Kathy slapped him.
"What the hell are you doing here?" Elliot asked staring at Jeff, ready to punch him, he balled up his hands into a fist and starred at him dead square in the eyes.
"I came to save your fucking marriage, since you ruined mine" Jeff said calmly which made him even more intimidating when he wasn't yelling about something that he was obviously mad about. He also balled up his hands into a fist and stared at Elliot.
"Who the hell is it?…Jeff" Kathy said angrily but her voice became calm when she saw Jeff standing there.
"I came to apologize for calling you last night, I got in a fight with Olivia and got drunk and wanted to get her back by saying she was having an affair with Elliot, it isn't true" Jeff said looking at Kathy and Elliot. Elliot was totally confused why Jeff was covering up for him.
"You lied?" Kathy asked getting angry again staring at Jeff.
"Yea, I was drunk, I'm sorr…" Jeff began but got cut off with Kathy slapping him in the face, Jeff's face got swung to the side by the hard blow. Kathy said nothing and walked away from the door.
"Well there you go, I lose my wife and I get slapped by yours," Jeff said holding his cheek, noticing a new cut on his face that was caused by her…wedding ring.
"Why…why did you say that?" Elliot asked totally confused.
"I rather you hurt with guilt and how your going to tell her, cause she needs to hear it from you, not me" Jeff said staring at him and then going to down the steps but stopped and turned around "you hurt Olivia, I'll kill you" Jeff said and then went down the steps and to his car. Elliot just stared at him, not believing what he just did.
Elliot got to work at 9. Olivia was already there sitting and doing paper work. Fin and Munch both looked at him and whispered something to each other.
"How the red on your face get there?" Fin asked looking at his red cheek.
"Kids threw ball by accident and it hit me" Elliot lied. Munch sighed and passed a 5-dollar bill to Fin who smiled satisfyingly. Elliot just rolled his eyes and sat at his desk.
It was 1 in the afternoon. Fin and Munch were out talking to witnesses. Olivia could hardly work how much she was thinking about what happened last night. Elliot kept thinking about how he was going to tell Kathy, he almost wished Jeff never showed up that morning, it would have been easier if Jeff told her. But him telling her would be so hard for him, so he just thought Jeff was pretty smart for getting him back like that.
Olivia just got up without saying a word and left the bullpen. Elliot looked up and knew where she was going.
Olivia let the chilly air hit her face, she stared at the sky and leaned on the ledge and just looked at the busy city.
"Hey" she heard a familiar voice behind her. She turned around and Elliot was walking up to her.
"Hey" she said with half a smirk. He leaned on the ledge by her.
"Jeff called Kathy last night" Elliot said staring at the city.
"He did?" Olivia asked almost shocked and looked over at him.
"Yea, that explains the red on my face" Elliot said looking at her with half a smirk.
"What did she say?"
"She slapped me and yelled, but then he came to my house this morning and told her he lied"
"He did? Why?" Olivia asked shocked and confused.
"He said he wanted me to suffer with the guilt, and I quote this 'to save your marriage since you ruined mine' that's what he said when I asked him what he was doing there"
"El, I'm sorry," Olivia said taking him into a hug; tears were already forming in her eyes.
"I'll always be there for you," he whispered wrapping his arms around her.
"Same here, I love you" She whispered as a tear rolled down her cheek.
"I love you too, liv, I always have" he whispered as his eyes started getting watery realizing he had to tell Kathy the truth and probably get a divorce, he realized that Olivia was going to get a divorce also.
"I don't regret being with you, I just regret how he found out"
"Same here" Elliot whispered as he wiped his tear.
"We better get going downstairs," Olivia suggested as she wiped her tear away.
"Ok" Elliot said letting going of her, she started walking but he grabbed her arm and pulled her in for a kiss. She smiled and kissed him back.
It was 5 in the afternoon. Jeff was at a gym hitting a punching bag. He was there all-day, all sweaty and wet as he hit the punching bag. Imagining Elliot's face on it. He talked to his older brother, Andy.
"Dude what's up with you?" Andy asked holding the punching bag for him.
"Nothing" Jeff answered and hit the punching bag hard.
"Yea right, yesterday you came here instead of being with your wife, what the hell is going on?"
"I'm thinking about getting a divorce," Jeff said as he swung at the bag. Andy let go of it on purpose and Jeff's hand slipped and he tripped but didn't fall "what the hell?" Jeff yelled looking at his brother.
"You want to get a divorce from Olivia, are you out of your fucking mind?" Andy yelled staring at him.
"Yea, its not working out were not the same people. Lets box" Jeff said as he passed some gloves to Andy and climbed into a boxing rink.
"Why isn't it working out?" Andy asked as he put on the gloves and followed him.
"Were not the same people, she's changed" Jeff said as they hit their gloves together to know they were going to start.
"Or you changed" Andy said angrily and hit Jeff on the side of the face. Jeff shook it off and walked around the rink, looking at his older brother.
"Why the hell do you always defend her?" Jeff yelled angrily and punched him.
"Because she's my sister in-law" Andy yelled back and hit him on the side of the face.
"I'm your brother" punch "you should be on my side" punch. Andy wiped his lip and moved away and started walking around the rink, the whole gym was watching them yell at each other.
"Not until you tell me," punch to stomach "why you're getting a divorce from the best thing that ever happened to you" punch in face. Jeff wiped his lip and tackled him. Everyone in the gym just watched.
"You don't need to know everything" Jeff yelled wrestling with him, Andy grabbed his arm and twisted it behind his back.
"What did you do to her? You never told me how you got that cut on your face" Andy yelled as Jeff grabbed him by the neck and threw him over his shoulder. Andy fell on his back and breathed hard, both of them were sweaty and exhausted.
Olivia walked in the gym and heard commotion by the boxing rink. She went through the crowd and saw Andy and Jeff fighting.
"It wasn't from her, it was from another girl" Jeff said punching Andy in the face, Andy wrestled him to the ground and hit him twice.
"What the hell is going on?" Olivia asked Jeff's younger brother, Lucas.
"Sibling rivalry, this is how they communicate and talk," Lucas answered smiling, watching his two brothers fight, while everyone passed money around and betted.
"If you cheated on her, I swear…" Andy yelled hitting him and putting his neck into a headlock. Jeff hit him in the stomach with his elbow and grabbed him and pinned him to the ground and put his knee on his back.
"Just the opposite" Jeff said breathing hard. Andy hit the rink with his hand. Jeff got off and sat on the ground. Half the guys watching complained and passed money to the other half of the audience.
Lucas grabbed two water bottles and passed it to each brother. Jeff took a sip and poured some over his head. He got up and went out of the rink.
"Hey" Olivia said softly as he walked by her, she followed him.
"How do you feel?" he asked taking off his gloves and going into the back where he had his own room, since Andy was the owner of the gym. Olivia closed the door behind her as she came in.
"Fine, thanks. Um…I came to talk," she said as she looked at pictures of them on shelves with his sports equipment everywhere and extra shirts in his locker.
"Fine, talk" Jeff said as he took off his sweaty shirt. Olivia managed a small smirk looking at his body, which was the first thing that drew her to him when they first met.
"Um…Elliot told me you called Kathy last night"
"Yea, I was pissed about what he said to me, so I called her" Jeff said putting on a dry shirt.
"Oh ok, how come you went over to his house today?" She asked as she took a seat across his table.
"He should tell her not me, plus having guilty on his conscious makes me feel better" Jeff said as he sat down across her and took a small basketball and threw it up in the air and caught it. Olivia looked at him realizing what she did changed Jeff, since he would never say something like that or even think about hurting someone in that way.
"I'm sorry that you found out the way you did, I still love you," She said getting up and sitting on the desk, right next to him sitting in the chair, she grabbed the basketball; he just looked up at her.
"I love you too, but how much did you love me when you kissed him and had sex with him?" Jeff asked rolling his chair toward her so he was in between her legs.
"I…I was drunk I wasn't thinking at that moment" she choked out placing her hands on his shoulders. He got up and was face to face with her, standing in between her legs, she looked up at him. He grabbed her face and gave her a long passionate kiss; she dropped the basketball out of her hands and placed her hands on his muscular chest. He pulled out after a while and just stared at her as his eyes began to water up.
"It's not the same liv, I'm sorry," he whispered still close to her face, her eyes began to water up and she just stared up at him.
"Don't," she said as she started crying.
"I have to, its not the same, every time I look at your lips I imagine them on him, I'm sorry" he whispered as a tear went down his cheek.
"Don't do this" she choked out as tears just ran down her face.
"I need to, liv, I want a divorce," He said now crying.
She grabbed him and hugged him. He hugged her and held her.
"I want you to be happy, and if it's with him then so be it," he said wiping his eyes since it was killing him inside.
"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry" She whispered crying.
"Me too" he said still holding her. "Do you love him?" he asked stroking her hair.
"Yes" she whispered hugging him tighter. The word cut through him like a knife through butter, he was so glad that he fought his brother earlier so he could feel something. Pain. Because now he went completely numb but he couldn't show her that and make it harder on her.
"Good" He whispered even though he hated it that she loved another man, but Elliot made her happy it didn't matter how he felt.
"I love you also" Olivia whispered and she was telling the truth, she loved Jeff for being such an amazing man, she loved him but she didn't know that she loved Elliot more until his lips touched hers.
"I know," he whispered, he knew he had to do something to make this easier on her. He knew what she hated and he had to do that to make her hate him. So signing those divorce papers would be easy for her.
"How about a quickie?" he said as he started kissing her neck, he hated himself for doing it but he had to.
"What?" Olivia asked shocked moving away from him. She didn't know why he was acting like this and she was getting freaked out.
"C'mon, sex, one last time, no strings attached," He said pulling her closer, he wanted to grab the gun from her holster and shoot himself for doing this.
"No, stop, Jeff what's the matter with you?" Olivia said with a disgusted look pushing him away from her.
"Think of this when you sign those papers" He whispered very softly into her ear and gave her a kiss on the cheek and walked out of the room.
Olivia watched him leave the room and smiled understanding why he did that. He acted like something he hates. Perverts. Just to make it easier for her to give him a divorce. She just smiled and looked at a picture of them sitting on his table.
Jeff went in the bathroom and turned on the cold water, he put his face under the water so he can numb the pain, the pain that was inside of him, the pain that was slowly killing him. He wanted to yell at her, tell her how much she hurt him, and ask her why it had to be Elliot? Why not someone he wasn't a friend with or someone that didn't watch him say his vows to her? He looked at the mirror and just stared. He couldn't yell at her, he couldn't get angry with her. For only one reason that made him get angry with himself. He was still head over heals in love with her.
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