One Heart

Summary: See ch1

Disclaimer: I don't own them

A/N: Happy Easter

Pillow Talk

The family went to Donna's favorite restaurant for dinner, then back to her house for cake.

After presents Elliot's siblings and their kids returned home. They all still lived around there.

Donna started clearing the table, but Elliot stopped her. "Mom, let me do it." He told her.

"Nonsense Elliot. I'm the hostess, this is my job." She smiled, waving him off.

"No, Mom it's your birthday." He pushed. "Go put your feet up, and watch whatever movie your grandkids have on. Tonight is for you." He smiled, hugging her.

"Thanks baby. You were always my favorite." She smiled, leaving Elliot and Olivia in the dining room.

"You want a hand there." Olivia asked as he began clearing plates.

"You don't have to Liv. Why don't you go watch the movie too?" He offered.

"I want to." She smiled; kissing Elliot on the cheek, and gathering plates of her own.

They made their way to the kitchen.

"You wash, I'll dry?" Elliot asked.

"Sounds like a plan." Olivia answered.

They made fast work of the dishes. Elliot snapped his towel at Olivia and smiled, "All done."

"You are brat Stabler." Olivia laughed before snapping him back with her own towel.

"Yeah, but you love it." He teased.

"You're right, I do." She smiled before embracing him intimately.

Elliot smiled, and captured her lips in a kiss.

"Eww, Dad!" Kathleen squealed form the door frame. "And in your mother's house too!"

"Alright, alright, show's over." Elliotlaughed pulling away, blushing slightly.

"Grandma wanted me to tell you that set up all the bed rooms. Whenever you're ready, she'll tell us where we can sleep." Kathleen added.

Olivia and Elliot followed Kathleen back into Donna's den.

"Alright, now that everybody's here, I'll give out the room assignments." Donna smiled. It was obvious that she had spent many successful years running a house with six kids and a husband.

"Girls, you're in your aunts' old room, Dickey is on the futon in the office, and Elliot and Olivia, I set you two up in the boys' old room." She instructed. "When ever you're all ready to turn in, you know where to go. But I'm going in now. So good night all, I love you." She smiled before turning up the stairs.

"I think everyone should go to bed." Elliot said.

"But Dad, it's Saturday!" Dickey protested.

"Yeah Daddy, come on. It's only ten o'clock." Kathleen argued.

"Dad I don't even leave my dorm until ten on most weekends!" Maureen added.

"Okay, first of all Maureen, I really didn't need to hear that. Second of all, I don't care. Now, you kids can stay up until eleven watching TV, but then I want everyone in bed. It's one weekend out of your entire lives, so please, just do this for me, your father." He ruled. "Now I am going to bed, and I don't want to hear anything more about it!"

With that he made his way up the stairs. "Good night kids."

"Are you gonna stay up with us Olivia?" Lizzie asked.

"No, not tonight sweetie." She answered. "I'm really kinda tired."

"Alright. Night." She smiled as Olivia followed Elliot's path to the bedroom.

Upstairs Elliot and Olivia changed into pajamas. Olivia had on a pair of flannel red pants and a white tank top, and Elliot had on blue sweat pants and old marine tee-shirt.

The room they were sleeping in was the one Elliot had shared with his brothers while he was growing up. While the bedding had been changed to appear less childlike, and more like a guest room, the three twin beds still remained. Elliot had decided to sleep in his old bed, and Olivia took one of the empty ones next to it.

"Sorry about the sleeping arrangements." Elliot apologized as Olivia climbed into her bed. "With a family this size, Mom wants to have as many beds available as possible." He smiled.

"It's fine El. If I can manage to fall asleep in one of the bunks in the crib, I'm sure I'll be able to manage in here." Olivia answered.

"I love you." He sighed as he laid his tired head on the pillow.

"Love you too." Oliviayawned back. She hadn't been lying when she told Lizzie she was tired.

After a few moments of silence Olivia couldn't help but ask, "Hey El?"

"Yeah?" He asked wearily.

"I've been here all day, and met just about everyone in your family. But I haven't heard anything about your father. What was he like?" She asked cautiously. She was genuinely confused as to why no one had mentioned him all day.

"He was, he was a Dad." Elliot answered simply.

"Well that explains a lot, you know, considering I know so much about fathers and all." Olivia huffed.

"What do you want me to say Liv? He Worked hard all day, came home, ate dinner, and then sat in the den until fell asleep." He sighed. "Look, we didn't get along all that well."

"Trust me Elliot; I know all about not getting along with parents. But surely, you have some nice memories of your dad." She said, adjusting herself in her bed to look over at him. For some reason he had her back turned to her, and she was curious as to why.

"Well, there was this one time." He began. "I was young, and I had to make this model of the dinosaurs." He smiled remembering his project. "Dad sat up with me all night gluing these stupid little plastic trees to a shoe box. When we finished we had this whole little Jurassic scene complete with dinosaurs, trees, rocks I mean, it was pretty awesome." He smiled

"What'd you get on it?" Olivia asked, smiling along with him, and relaxing herself back into the bed.

"I failed." He said tersely.

"Why? What happened?" Olivia asked, raising her upper body back out of the bed again.

"My Dad broke the damn thing." He huffed.

"Why?" Olivia questioned, astonished as to why anyone would do that.

"I moved one of the damn trees." He stated simply. "Dad smashed it, and then smashed me."

"He hit you?" Olivia asked shocked. She knew that her mother would fly off the deep end at the slightest thing, but she never figured Elliot faced the same problems as a kid.

"Hey, but, whatever. That was a long time ago." He breathed, wanting to forget about it.

"If it's any consolation, I know what it feels like Elliot." Olivia said, now sitting up in her bed. She felt guilty about bringing up these memories, and wanted to let him know she went through h similar things.

"What do you mean Liv?" He asked, sitting up now as well so that he could look at her.

"When I was 16 I almost killed her." She breathed.

Elliot was speechless. He knewthe 'her' was Olivia's mother;withouther even having to say it.

"She came after me with a broken bottle, and I hit back." She sighed, looking at her hands.

"Why would she do that?" Elliot asked.

"Well, I told you she was a professor right?" She began.

Elliot nodded.

"Well, I was dating a one of her students, and he proposed. I said yes, and she freaked when she found out." She explained.

Elliot didn't know what to say. He had known her for seven years, and had dated her for four months, and he never knew she was engaged.

"Some cop huh?" She said, forcing a laugh.

"Don't feel too bad. I've been there before." He said, continuing down the path of confessions. There was something about being with the woman he loved in his old house that made him feel the need to completely open his heart to her.

"When I was in college I got into this bar fight. I hit some kid over the head with a bottle and put him the hospital. Fortunately my Dad was still on the force. He bailed me out, and erased my record. Paid for it when I got home though." He sighed.

Olivia noticed him wipe a rebel tear away, and felt the compelling urge to just hold him. After opening up like they had that night, they both needed to just feel each other.

She crawled out of her bed, and padded across the room to him. She pulled back his covers.

"Scoot over." She whispered.

Olivia crawled in the small bed next to Elliot, and curled up close to him, covering them back up with the blankets.

"Looks like we both had some pretty screwed up childhoods, huh?" She asked snuggling closer into Elliot's chest. "I'm sorry I brought all this up."

"Hey, it's not your fault. It actually felt good to finally get that out." He told her, holding her close.

"It means a lot to me, that I could tell you that you know. The only people who know about that night are the prosecutor who helped me, Casey, and you." Olivia said with a smile.

Elliot kissed the top of her head. "Well it means a lot to me that you trust me with that." He smiled. "Now I don't know about you, but I think we both could use some sleep." He whispered. "I love you."

"I love you." Olivia whispered back. She lifted her head up so that she could place a lingering kiss on Elliot's lips, and snuggled back into his chest.

Just as Olivia was falling asleep, Elliot couldn't help but reveal one more secret to her. "Do you know how many times I lay in this bed as a kid and wished a beautiful woman would crawl in here with me?" He asked with a smirk. "You're just makin all my dreams come true, huh?"

"Yeah, well I don't think all those dreams will be coming true tonight!" Olivia answered with a chuckle.

"Ah well, it was worth a try!" He joked.

Olivia simply swatted his chest and laughed. "Just go to sleep Stabler, and maybe if you're good, I'll make some dreams come true when we get back to the city." She smirked, loving to tease him. It wasn't that she didn't want him; hell there was never a moment she didn't, but not in his mother's house; espically not on the first visit!

Elliot laughed with her, pulled her closer, and whispered, "Well, I better get to sleep then because the sooner I fall asleep, the sooner we can leave! G'ngiht."

"Night." Olivia finally said, settling her head down, and drifting off to sleep.

Later that night, when Donna softly knocked on the door to check on her son (an old habit that she just couldn't kick, no matter how old her son got), her heart melted when she saw how peaceful he was sleeping. She could see how much he loved the woman cramped onto his bed with him. snuggledinto his arms. She could also see how much Olivia loved her son, and how happy she made him. That was all she needed to know to accept Olivia.

TBC... Since the episodes aired when Olivia and Elliot aired those secrets I have wanted them to share with each other! This chapter was just a way for them to finally get it all out!

The next chapter will have the mother/Olivia sit down that some people have requested!

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