Well hello again readers! It's been almost two years since I have updated this fan fic and oh how much I have missed it! I wanted to come back and finish this story (and my other one…but not for a very long time) because I recently fell back in love with writing and I have had sooooo many good ideas for my stories. I'm back, and hopefully I'll be better than ever!

Disclaimer: None of Dick Wolf's characters belong to moi, but Trent does…so that's worth something.

Chapter 4: The End's Not near, It's Here

Six Years Later

"I'm tired of being your second wife, Elliot." Kathy said

"What are you talking about Kathy? You are my only wife." Elliot asked in a sheer confusion.

"You know what I'm talking about." Kathy hissed, "I'm tired of being your second wife to Olivia!"

Everything went silent at that point. It has been six years since Kathy first met Olivia. It's been six years in the making of late nights at work, calls in the middle of the night for work, or just to "talk," having almost every word that came out of Elliot's mouth being about Olivia, even when he slept.

"You know that is not true. Olivia and I are partners! That's it, there is nothing more to what we have, and you're crazy for even thinking that Kathy!" Olivia is way more than his partner, he knew that, and so did she; but what Elliot thought and Kathy thought were two different things.

"I don't know what you're talking about." Elliot said sternly.

"Don't you start Elliot! All you do is talk about her. I bet you think about her all the damn time and I know really well that you dream about her! I can always hear you saying her name in bed!" Kath matched his sternness, but added anger in every word that she said.

Elliot realized that everything Kathy is saying was true then. He hated that their marriage has come down to these moments, to the constant fights and screaming matches just as much as Kathy did. The worst thing about all their arguments is that this was the time when Elliot finally could admit what is true to himself. Ever since the night he met Olivia, he was addicted to her. When she became his partner, Elliot found himself to be able to feel complete knowing he would be able to see her face every day, even if she was pissed off at him. The past six years with her had been the best years of his life, except all of the years watching his children grow up. With the good parts of his life like his kids, his job, and Olivia, his and Kathy's marriage started to slowly crumble into itself.

This was it. This was the last straw. At this time Elliot knew his marriage was over.

"You're…you're right. Kathy, you're right." Elliot smiled and Kathy looked at him like he was going crazy. "Kathy, I will always love you because you are the mother of my children but I can't keep on living this lie."

Kathy looked at him with a cold hard stare, preparing for his words.

"I love her." Elliot said quietly. He then walked over to Kathy so they were inches apart. Elliot gave her one last look. This was his past, he thought as he gently kissed Kathy's forehead; he picked up his jacket with speed and left the room.

Kathy stood in the empty room stunned. Did Elliot just leave me, Kathy thought. No, no, he couldn't have, Kathy started shaking her head as tears came silently flowing down her face. It finally hit her. Her husband, the man she's has been with for half of her life, was gone.

Elliot was now on a mission. The mission that he should have been on years ago, even before he married Kathy: to get the one he truly loved. In order to complete his plan, which he didn't even know yet, he had to get her alone. That he knew. Elliot jumped in his car, started the car and pulled out of the driveway. After fifteen minutes, Elliot realized he was driving around aimlessly just thinking of the right words to say to Olivia. Nothing is harder than trying to get the one you love, so everything Elliot said had to be perfect, and convincing. Elliot had no idea what to say as he picked up his phone and hit the familiar speed dial number that automatically dialed Olivia's cell number. He put the phone to his hear, praying silently that she would pick up.

Olivia, on the other hand has just successfully fallen asleep again when she heard her cell vibrate on the desk right by her bed. Rolling over, she hoped it wasn't a call she was too use to.

"Benson." Olivia said in a tired yet business-like manner.

"Liv, hi. Are you busy right now?" Elliot sounded like he was rushing something; Olivia could tell something was going on.

"Uh, no I'm just home. Is everything ok El?"

"Yeah, I'm fine…just something happened and I realized something."

"Are you sure you're ok?"

"Yes. Can you just meet me at the dinner down the street from your house?"

"Sure Elliot." By now, Olivia had gotten out of bed and started looking for clothes to wear. "I'll be there in less than ten minutes. The usual table?"

"Of course." With that, Elliot hung up and Olivia dropped her phone down to quickly throw on a pair of jeans she just found in her rumble of a closet and a tee shirt.

Olivia walked out of her room and wrote a note for Trent, just in case he wondered where she was if he woke up to an empty house. After Olivia wrote the note, she put on a pair of disregarded running shoes and walked out of her apartment.

Back at the Stabler residence, Kathy sat on what use to be "their" bed. Nothing felt right anymore. All of the years she knew her marriage were going to come to an end, but she never thought it would end the way it had. Kath sat up and quietly walked over to the dresser. The picture of her and Elliot on a date they had years ago, before they got married and had kids, stared at her as she stared right back. They were happy no doubt, but that picture was a reminder that that was the first and maybe last time they were truly happy together. She took the picture delicately out of the frame and stroked the faces of a younger and happier time. A silent teat formed and fell from her eyes as she thought about many past memories where they had pure happiness. Kathy then proceeded to rip the picture in two and from two into tinier pieces.

Sinking down to the floor, she felt her life falling apart at the seams and there was nothing she could do about it. All that went through her mind was how would she be able to live without Elliot in her life. The routine that they had been built for the years that they were married had become a part of herself as a person, and with every passing minute, the routine was collapsing. Kathy heard the wobble of the doorknob and jumped up, hoping it was Elliot, deciding that everything that was said between them was a mistake. She opened the door with hope in her eyes and saw her second oldest daughter, Kathleen, standing infront of her, looking into her eyes.

"Is it over for good?" Kathleen asked with a brave voice.

All Kathy could do was look into her daughter's eyes…the eyes that would always remind her of Elliot, and all the years they spent together; with that, Kathy broke down in her loving child's arms.

I'm sorry if you think this was a short chapter, I just need to get back into the groove of things and there will be longer chapters to come!

Also, my first story "A New Kind of Love" will be coming out with a new chapter soon, as will this story!

R&R love.