Give a Little Bit Chapter 3, a law and order: svu fanfic

Liv woke one morning a month later to a loud knock on her door. When she opened the door, Elliot was standing there, wearing nothing but his boxers. He was dirty, cold, and embarassed. She ushered him in and handed him a blanket to wrap up in.

"What happened?"

"The apartment next to mine caught fire. Their kitchen connects with my bedroom, and now I have no stuff." Elliot looked pissed. "All my stuff is gone. We're talking total damage." He buried his face in his hands.

"My couch has a pretty comfortable bed that folds out. We can clear out the hall closet and you can stay with me." Olivia brought him coffee. He looked at her skeptically. "I'm about to become a Mommy, and I am pretty sure you know more about this than I do." Elliot shrugged, tossing the idea around in his brain. On one hand, they had shared one kiss, and she was a beautiful single woman who he worked with. On the other hand, she was his best friend who needed him, who was offering to help him when he needed her help just as badly. The third and most important part was he loved her and he wanted to be here for her and the baby. "Please stay, Elliot," she asked.

"I'll stay."

"I'll call Cragen and let him know what's going on." Liv excused herself from the room to make the phone call in private. Elliot took in his surroundings. He could tell the Nesting phase had hit full force. Liv was usually clean, but this was far beyond her usual. Every chord was moved out of crawling and grasping range, the coffee table was gone, and the kitchen was completely gated off, aside from the little swing door. "Cap gave you the rest of the week off to get things in order."

"Thanks Liv."

"You still have clothes here," she said, getting his duffle from the closet.

"How did those end up here?"

"You were left those here last week when your apartment flooded when the people upstairs left the bath running." He nodded and headed off towards her bathroom. Olivia laughed lightly and started to cook some breakfast. She listened as he sang in the shower, smiling to herself. "Elliot," she yelled. "There's food!" Less than a minute later, the shower was off, and he could be heard thumping around, dressing quickly.

"Oh, that smells good." He took an omlett and, purely out of instinct, kissed her cheek. "Thank, Hon." As he walked away, he froze, realizing what just happened. "Do I say anything?" he thought to himself. He decided against it, and just took a seat. "These are wonderful." When he looked up, she was still blushing. "Liv, come sit down. I'll fix you some hot chocolate."

"You know what I want."

"Have you already had a cup today?" She nodded guiltily. "One more, and that's it." He fixed her some coffee and walked it to the table. As he leaned to set it down, he gently put a hand on her shoulder. "Just how you like it."

"Thanks," she whispered, sipping it as though is was a sweet life-giving nector God had created solely for her. Elliot's heart nearly skipped a beat at the look of gratitude she showed off as she sipped. "Elliot," she called.

"Hmm?"

"A kiss on the cheek never hurt anyone," she said. "I could get used to it." Elliot smiled.

"So, Liv," he said after a moment. "Today is your first official day on maternity leave. What would you like to do?"

"You need new clothes."

"I'll go later. Why not take some time to relax. See a movie?" Olivia smiled.

"Sounds great. I've wanted to see A Scanner Darkly." Elliot gave her his best smile and took her hand.

"Then see it we shall." He placed his hand on her belly. "Does that sound good, sweeite? Se a movie with Mom and Elliot?" After a kick, he patted the giant mound and stood tall again. "Let's go?"

"Let's go."

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Elliot and Liv exited the movie without making eye contact; not with each other, nor with Kathy, Lizzie and Dickie, who'd been to the same show. Elliot walked close to Olivia protectively, but Liv suspected she was protecting him.

"So," Kathy said. "When are you due?"

"In about a month."

"Really? Are you having twins?" Elliot winced at the cheap shot. "They run in Elliot's family, you know."

"Interesting. I know there aren't any twins in her father's family," she said rubbing her belly. "But she's a healthy one in there."

"Is that my little sister?" Lizzie asked.

"No, Lizzie," Olivia replaied. "Her dad's name is James Wilson. He lives in New Jersey."

"Are you and Dad together?" Dickie asked. Liv looked to him for help.

"Yeah," Elliot replied. "Liv's my best friend, and I live there now." Kathy went white. "What? We're not married anymore, you're dating someone, and Liv and I are not dating dating. My apartment burned last night and Olivia took me in. She's my best friend."

"Guys, why don't the three of us discuss this over dinner when you 12-year-old children aren't going to be party to it?" Liv asked. Elliot nodded, as did Kathy. "Let's go get lunch. I'm starving."

"Mom, can we go with Dad?" Elliot and Liv called a conference off to the side.

"I have an appointment. Today is an ultrasound," Liv said. "They'll see the baby. It'll be fun." He nodded.

"I'll talk to Kathy." Elliot pulled Kathy aside. "We'd love it if they can come out with us; we'll have lunch, and Olivia has an ultrasound today. They can see the baby. Very educational."

"I don't think its good for the kids to be around such a...strange home life. Come on kids. We need to get home." Kathy took the twins and left.

"Elliot, I'm sorry," she said, placing a hand on his shoulder.

"Its not your fault. If I was out with Munch, she'd accuse of us being gay lovers." He took her by the hand and lead her to the car. "Why don't we grab some Chinese and head over to your appointment?"

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Elliot woke in the middle of the night with a jump. Thre was a loud bang and the lights from outside went out.

"Elliot?" Olivia called.

"What's wrong?" He felt his way into Liv's bedroom. "You okay, Liv?"

"Power is out. There's a flashlight in the bed side table." Olivia heard him digging through the drawer.

"Did I hear you yell a minute ago?"

"Bad dream." He turned on the flashlight. He found his way to the window and looked out.

"Looks like the whole block is out. Where are the extra blankets? Heat's out, its gonna get pretty cold pretty fast."

"Closet." Elliot went into her closet and came out with several extra blankets, and a pair of wool socks for Olivia, and her favorite maternity sweater. "Thanks," she said, pulling the sweater on. He spread the blankets over her and closed the blinds and curtains. "Stay in here, its going to be warmer with two of us."

"Don't have to tell me twice," he said, climbing into the warm bed. "As soon as its light out, we'll get out. The car will be warmer, and we'll get breakfast somewhere. What time is it now?"

"About 3. Jesus, its gotta be 15 below 0 out there." She shivvered and Elliot instinctively pulled her close. He smoothed her hair down gently as she relaxed in his arms. Olivia was surprised how naturally they fell into the comfortable relationship they had. It was platonic, but there was an occasional kiss here, a hug there, and he would hold her whenever she asked. 'Maybe I should ask more often,' she thought. It was warm in his arms as they could see light filtering thorugh the curtains. His watch told them it was 7:50am, and they needed to get up soon.

"Hey, El," she started, but her thoughts were inturrupted as the power came back on. They lay there until he could feel the heater kicking in.

"I'll see you in a while," he said, moving from the bed.

"You can stay," she called over her shoulder. He didn't move from where he stood. "I would like it if you would stay." Liv felt Elliot climb back into the bed and drape an arm around her, hand over hers over the baby.

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"We'll have plenty of time, babe. Take a deep breath, put in your favorite CD, and relax," Elliot said, helping Olivia into the car. He quickly put her overnight bag into the trunk and skidded around to the driver's side. He wopened the door in time to hear a string of words he'd never known to all be used together.

"And Kathy did this HOW MANY TIMES?" Liv yelled, glaring at Elliot. She swore again, in a long harsh sentance.

"Wow, Livvy, I did know that word could be used as a noun, pronoun, verb, and adjetive all in the same sentence."

"Drive." Elliot knew better than to disobey her at this point. As the contraction ended, she took a deep breath. "Oh my god, no wonder my mother hated me."

"No one could hate you. How we doing?"

"We're doing great, how long?"

"Another half hour with this traffic," he said. He looked at the clock in the car when another contraction started. "Oh...crap."

"What?"

"They're less than 5 minutes apart, Livvie. You may be giving birth here." She grabbed hi tie and yanked him over.

"I am not having this baby in the back of a sadan. Drive." Elliot picked up his cell phone and dialed a number.

"This is Detective Stabler, NYPD Special Victims. I need a bus Detective Benson is in labor, less than 5 minutes apart." He gave the adress and parked back in the garage of the building. "I need to look, Liv."

"Hell No."

"I delivered three of my kids, including the twins. I know what its all supposed to look like! I need to know if your giving birth now, five minutes from now, or 4 hours from now!"

"She's not coming out until I have more drugs in me than a hooker on smack." Elliot had to laugh at her. "Okay, I don't feel the need to push yet; we got time." Elliot nodded and talked her through another contraction.

"Do you want me to use the siren?" She glared at him. "Okay, that's a negative. We'll wait here for the ambulance. Let me rub your back. It'll help." She maneuvered herself in the seat. He was right, the back rub was helping. She cried through three more contractions when the paramedics showed up. "Liv, come on," he said, helping out of the car. He took her hand to get her attention. "I'll follow," he said.

"No!"

"What?"

"Don't make me go through this alone, El," she whispered, holding tightly onto his hand. Without so much as blinking, he held his keys over his shoulder, pressed a button, and the car locked.

SVU

"One more, Livvie," Elliot told her. He held her back and helped her sit up. "You can do this, babe." Liv glared at him, and pushed. She screamed as she could feel the baby sliding out. Soon there was crying. "Olivia, meet your daughter," he said, handing the baby to Liv.

"She's got a good set of lungs," Liv said, wiping tears from her eyes.

"She sounds pissed." Elliot took the baby's tiny hand. "Hi kid. I'm Stabler. You'll be seeing a lot of me around for a while. I'm Mommy's partner at work."

"Did you call the guys?"

"Cap has them pacing the waiting room. Casey should be here by now, too." The doctors continued to work on Liv. After a few minutes of bonding, the baby was taken to be cleaned up.

"She's perfect," the nurse said as she took the baby.

"Yeah, just beautiful, Olivia."

"She needs a name."

"Oh, no, not this again. You aren't dragging me into this argument ag-"

"Allison Paige," she said, looking across the room at her daughter. Elliot gave her a questioning look. "You liked that one."

"That was my favorite one, but you said you hated it."

"It fits her, better than Kirsten. Its grown on my. Allie Benson just sounds right." Olivia thought for a moment. "Allie Stabler doesn't sound too bad either," she thought to herself. Elliot kissed her fore head.

"You did awsome, Liv." The baby was handed to Elliot.

"Here you go, Daddy," the nurse said. Neither bothered to correct her.

"Can I take her to meet the guys?" When the doctor gave his okay, Liv nodded sleepily. Elliot wandered from the room, cooing at the infant. She stared at him, learning to trust him instantly. "Hey, Captain," Elliot called into the waiting room. "Got you a new rookie. Meet Allison Paige Benson. Allie, this is Fin, Munch, Captain, and Casey." They all looked at the tired baby. "You want to hold her?"

"No," Cragen said. "Looks like you are doing just fine. Go be with our girl." Elliot smiled and headed back with the baby to Liv's room. As the doors shut, Cragen looked at the group.

"Cap, he's in-love."

"You think I don't know this?" He rubbed his forehead. "While I couldn't have hoped for anything better for the two of them, there's going to be a lot of paper work involved, and they are not going to like getting new partners."

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