"El.." Olivia leaned against the lockers watching her partner lift weights angrily. "You're going to hurt yourself lifting like that."
Elliot didn't respond, just lifted faster.
"Damnit Elliot!" Olivia slammed her hand into a locker. "Seriously, talk to me".
Elliot Stabler set the weight on it's hook, before swinging himself to a sitting position on the weight bench. Olivia crossed to the chair and tossed him the towel he had set there, which he caught and wiped his face.
"What?" he asked her with a short voice.
"You know what Elliot, you haven't spoken all day, just snorted and pawed like a damn bull, the problem.. the problem is that I, and noone else in this place knows what!" she said with a sigh of exasperation.
Elliot looked up at his partner, she really was beautiful. What made her even more attractive was that, while she was confident, she didn't realize how breathtaking she was. She was so simple and easy to get along with, there was no fuss and frills to Liv. Elliot admired her a great deal. Too much, and that was his problem lately. Now that his divorce was final, and he could be dating, he found that the only woman he thought of was his partner… his off-limits partner.
Needless to say, meeting up with her semi-boyfriend when they had stopped for lunch today had not put him in a very great mood, especially when he had to watch them sit together and the bastard run his hands all over her. Elliot had sat with his fists clenched under the table the entire time.
There was no way he was going to tell his partner what the problem was. Number one, you aren't allowed to date your partner, and number two he had a pretty good feeling that Olivia did not feel the same way about him.
She watched her partner lost in thought, literally fighting with them. She knew he was having a rough patch, with his divorce being finalized last week, and she wanted to be there for him, because he was always there for her, whether he intended to be or not. Elliot Stabler was probably the most important person in her life, and she hated that she couldn't make him feel better when he was down. He always could tease a smile out of her, and make her feel better.
She stepped over to where he sat on the bench and sat down next to him. Their thighs pressed against each other, and she felt her heart skip a beat for a minute. Ridiculous, she scolded herself. As far as Elliot was concerned, she was like a little sister. She needed to get over this crush she harboured for her partner. Lately though, since his divorce she had been having more trouble, and she knew it was because it was just a matter of time before he started to date and she knew it would tear her up to see him with women. She had thrown herself into dating to try to get her mind off of it.
"Hey", she said softly as she punched him lightly in the shoulder, trying not to notice how hard his arm was, and that he wasn't wearing a shirt.. trying to be a friend.. which is what he needed right now.
He looked at her, and smiled. "It's nothing Livvie, just .. well you know."
"Yeah, the divorce?" she said sadly. She leaned her head on his shoulder, and he put his arm around her. God she felt so good in his arms, he thought to himself.
Finn opened the door to the locker room and stuck his head in, " Yo… lovebirds, we gotta get to the sub station, there's been a rape murder." And popped back out. Olivia jumped off the bench, blushing, embarrassed that Finn had said that and Elliot was probably repulsed. She failed to notice the blush he carried on his own face as he pulled his shirt back on and stood up, ready to fight crime.