A/N:I'm sorry for any mistakes, I done my best to try and catch everything but I have no beta reader
Coming Home Chapter One
"Can I help you?" Amanda Rollins asked the teenager who just walked into their squad room.
"I need to see your captain." He said looking around.
"I'm sure we could help you" Kat Tamin said
"Are you my mother? That's the only way you could help me, lady." He said his blue eyes lighting up with his anger.
"Well I know the captain isn't your mom." Kat said
"Like hell she isn't" He said as the elevator dinged behind them and they all turned.
"Finally!" The teenager said making his way toward the elevator
"Eli! What are you doing here?" Olivia Benson asked, wrapping him in a hug.
"Dad sent me home, Mom I think something has gone wrong. He gave me this for you " The teenager, Eli said with tears in his eyes as he handed a small box and envelope to her.
"Okay baby, why don't you go with Uncle Fin and get a snack and drink while I try to figure out what's going on." Olivia said as Eli nodded his head and followed Fin to the break room.
"Keep running the background on the suspects, let me know what you find." Olivia said to Amanda and Kat, walking into her office and shutting the door. She sat down at her desk and glanced at the framed photo that only a handful knew was there or that the family in the photo even existed. She ran her hand over the smiling faces of her boys. She unfolded the letter that was attached to the box.
My love
I've been keeping a secret from you. In order to get the brass to fully reinstate me so I can finally come the fuck home. They gave me a way but they didn't tell me it was a full scale UC. And we're very close to the end. I'm so sorry baby, I didn't know what else to do so I sent our boy home to you and I promise I will do my best to come back to you and the kids. In the box is a phone. The only number in it is my burner, I will answer you as soon as I can. God baby I hope this is the end of this twisted road. I love you so fucking much and I am counting the days till we're together again. Tell Noah Daddy loves him and tell all the other kids that I love and miss them. And as for Eli, make sure he knows I didn't have a choice in this. And that I am doing this to try and put our family back together.
Semper Fi
El
She pulled the phone out of the box and wiped a couple tears from her eyes. She pulled up the text app on the phone.
Our boy made it home to me. me, him and Noah will be waiting for you. I love you, come home to us, to me ~O she hit send before she slid it into her pocket. She took a deep breath running her finger against her left ring finger and the E that had been tattooed there for years.
"Liv you okay?" Amanda asked, causing her to look up. Rollins could see the tears in her eyes which caused Amanda to shut the door and sit down across from Olivia
"Um yeah just an unexpected day" Olivia said.
"Is this about the young man with Fin?" Rollins asked.
"He's my son, has been since basically the day he was born."
"Your son?" Amanda asked with shock written on her face. Olivia picked up the framed photo from her desk and handed it to Rollins.
"Of course you know Noah, and you know my story with him. That a Judge gave me a chance. Well a few years before Noah I was given a gift of Eli and his dad Elliot."
"As in Stabler? Your former partner? "
"Yes Eli's biological mother decided once her other 4 kids were grown she didn't want to raise 2 year old Eli so she left. El and I started on this dance together, then the shooting happened and he was forced out by IAB."
"I thought he chose to retire?"
"That was the story he was told to feed people so just like that my little family was halfway around the world from me. But we went with the hand we were dealt, they've been in Italy with El paying his dues to try and get back, state side but still be with the NYPD which is apparently close to happening."
"And Eli's return?"
"He needed to be somewhere safe so El sent him home." Olivia said quietly
"Why did you not tell me?" Amanda asked with hurt in her eyes
"Amanda you have to realize Elliot and Eli are so dear to me and where the department is concerned El and I haven't spoken since he walked out that day. I couldn't risk them finding out otherwise. Because those three in that picture are my world and I didn't want to lose them."
"So your trips every so many months?" Rollins asked
"Is to Elliot and Eli." She said with a sad smile. An hour later Olivia and Eli were in her SUV heading to pick up Noah from dance class.
"Mom?" Eli asked, turning from the window where he had been looking at Manhattan as it passed them by.
"Yeah buddy?"
"Dad is going to be okay right?"
"Yes baby he's going to be fine." She said as she drove
"Am i going to have to go back to Italy?"
"Hopefully not your dad thinks after this the NYPD will let him come home."
"Good I hate being away from you and Noah and I know Dad does too."
"Me to Eli," She said. A few minutes later they parked and were walking to Noah's dance studio.
"I've missed you Momma." Eli said. He wrapped his arm around Olivia's shoulders, his latest growth spurt making him just a little bit taller then her.
"I've missed you too and I know your little brother has been dying to see you."
"He messaged me the other night, upset because apparently some kids at school thought he was lying about me and dad." Eli said as they kept walking.
"I know, maybe you can walk him in one day or something?"
"Really? I thought it was so cool when Dickie did that for me." Eli said reminding Liv of a day years ago when a college aged Dickie had walked young Eli into elementary school when he was dealing with bullies
"Really, Cause I'm thinking we'll enroll you in the same school as him, they have a great soccer team." Olivia said in recent years Eli had become quite the soccer player.
"Awesome!" He said as they walked into the dance studio, Olivia felt a tear come to her eye as she saw Noah's little face light up at seeing his big brother. She had always loved seeing the love between the brothers and she once again found herself cursing the NYPD for separating her boys for so long and for separating her from the love of her life for years.
"ELI!" Noah yelled running toward Eli who caught him in a hug and swung him around.
"What are you doing here? Is Daddy here?" Noah asked, talking a mile a minute.
"C'mon little man we'll talk in the car." Olivia said as Noah took her hand and Eli's hand as they walked out, once they got into Olivia's SUV. Noah once again asked his question.
"Is Daddy here?"
"No little man, you know how Daddy has been working overseas before he can come home, he's got to do some stuff that will take him away from home more than normal so he sent your brother home to be with us."
"But he'll be okay right?"
"Yeah little bro he'll be okay! And he'll be home before you know it!" Eli said with a bright smile that looked so much like his dad's that made Olivia's heart hurt.
A little bit later after picking up Chinese the incomplete family of 3 made their way into Olivia and Noah's apartment.
"Mom, where am I sleeping?" Eli asked as he dropped his duffel bag to the ground.
"Your room of course." Olivia said with a bright smile.
"My room? But how?" Eli asked as Olivia wrapped her arm around him and led him down the hall.
"Your dad and I had some work done a few months back because we were hopeful your dad was at the end of his deal. So we started to work on getting this apartment ready for our family of 4." She said as she motioned for Eli to push the door open, Olivia watched as her 'First born' took in the sight of his room. Her and Elliot had the walls painted black and red along with a variety of other colors. She watched as he took in decorations and the family photos on the wall. She could see the tears In Eli's eyes.
"Hey Noh why don't you go wash up and get the food out okay?" Olivia said
"Okay Momma." He said running off as she stepped further into the room and shut the door behind her and wrapped him in a hug.
"What if we lose him Mommy?" Eli asked in between his tears, calling her something he hadn't in years.
"Oh Baby boy we won't your dad loves us to much to be stupid okay?" She said, rubbing his back.
"Okay."
"Let's go eat before your brother eats it all." She said, wiping his tears away. That night after she got both the boys to sleep, Olivia laid in her bed staring at the photo she always kept on her nightstand. It was of her and Elliot from the year before on their partner anniversary, something they still celebrated. Her mind drifted back to that particular anniversary that they had managed be together for, her and Noah had made the trip to Italy to see Elliot and Eli
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1 year prior
"I'm so glad we were able to work it out that we were together this year." Elliot said pulling her close to him as they watched the boys kick a soccer ball back and forth.
"Me to Sweets." She said, kissing his chest through his shirt.
"I talked to Beoing he said that he's close to getting them to approve me for the organized crime unit." He said
"God I hope so I'm sick of you and Eli being a world apart from me and Noah."
"I know baby me too." He said.
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Present Day
She was broken out of her memory by the burner phone buzzing with a text.
I'm glad he made it, at least the three of you are together
Don't you fucking talk like goodbye Elliot Stabler
I'm not baby, This is just more dangerous than almost any UC I've done. But I am going to do the best I can to come home to the three of you. I love you Baby and I promise I'm coming home. I gotta go, if i don't respond right away it's because I'm getting in deep.
Okay Sweets I love You
I love you too, Semper Fi.
She placed the burner phone by the photo and turned off her lamp as a tear fell down her cheek.
Meanwhile a half a world away Elliot Stabler stuffed the burner phone back into his boot before making his way back into the main room where the group he had been under cover with was.
"Hey Ashes, are you ready to go? The bosses want us wheels up in an hour!" One of the guys yelled.
"Yep let's go." He said sending up a silent prayer that he would see his wife and kids again.