CHAPTER 10 Aftercare

It had been over week since Olivia was discharged and living with Elliot. When she thought about the past week a smile draped across her face. Besides the given circumstances she had been having a wonderful time. She had never been one to let people take care of her, but when it was Elliot doing the taking care of it became natural to her. He made her breakfast every morning, came home on his lunch breaks, to see how her therapy went, and bring her lunch. He always made dinner and the dishes. He was every woman's' dream.

Cragen had been really good about the whole situation. Allowing Elliot longer lunch breaks, and he had not given him a difficult case so he could work normal business hours, and take care of Liv. Munch and Fin were being great sports about the work overload. They didn't mind, they knew that Elliot needed a break, and they were more then willing to give him one for a change; and there was nothing they wouldn't do to give Liv the help she needed.

He was catching up on some much needed paperwork when Elliot looked at the clock. It was 5pm. He picked up the phone and dialed, "Hey Gorgeous," He said softly into the phone so that no one could here, "Listen I'm going to be a little later tonight. I have to finish up on some paperwork. I called Casey she's on her way right now. I'll be home around 7. Is that ok?"

"El, that's fine. You don't have to explain paperwork to me…"

"How's the rest of your day going? You seemed tired when I left after lunch, did you take a nap?"

"Yeah I passed out for about an hour then finished up my book…Hey El?"

"mmm hmm?"

"Thanks…"

"For what Liv?"

"Everything. I'll see you later."

Eoeoeoeoeoeoeoeo

"Dinner was wonderful. Thank you for coming over Case." Olivia said while sipping her wine.

"Stop thanking me Olivia, I wanted to see you!" She smiled at her friend, "You look great Liv," She said picking up her glass of wine and walking over towards Olivia on the couch. She stopped a photo frame that was hung on the wall. It was a large frame for multiple photos. They were all pictures of Elliot and Olivia, laughing, and staring at each other with those 'love eyes'.

"So how is it staying with Elliot? Driving you crazy yet?" She teased.

"It's great actually Case," She said unable to hide her smile, "We get a long so well, and he has been so good to me. He takes such good care of me. I'm telling you Case; he went out and bought me tampons last week!"

"Oh My God, true love!" She laughed at Liv.

"It's just, perfect." She said taking another sip of her wine.

"So, you guys sleeping in the same bed?" Casey couldn't help it. She was dying to find out.

"Casey!" Olivia felt her face get warm, she wasn't sure if it was from the wine or from the question.

"Come on Liv, Spill."

"Ah, is this the reason you are trying to get me drunk Case?"

Casey laughed, "Come on Liv, give me the dirt! I need some dirt in my life, I need a life, but that is a different topic all together…pleeeease! I won't tell Elliot that you have already had three glasses of wine, you know he's going to be mad when he finds out you were drinking on your meds."

"Correction Case, he's going to be mad at you for getting me drunk, you did bring the wine over. And as for telling Elliot about the three glasses, I think he's going to find out anyway" She laughed to herself.

Casey laughed when she looked at Olivia, her cheeks were red and she was giggling to herself. Elliot was definitely going to know Liv was drunk.

"We're quite a pair you and me," Casey said looking at Liv, "I can see us as old ladies sneaking wine into the nursing home, hitting on the male nurses." Casey laughed and hiccupped at the same time. Perhaps she was a little drunk too.

"Only if they are as cute as Elliot."

"He loooooves you." Case said in a school girl voice.

"I know." She said smiling slowing sipping her wine.

"So you ARE sleeping in the same bed!" Casey exclaimed.

"Casey!"

"I'm not dropping it until you tell me. I can be very persuasive and very pushy when I'm drunk."

"It's not only when your drunk." Olivia said below her breath, but loud enough so Casey heard.

"Funny. So since you are not answering me I can only come to one conclusion. You guys are sleeping together….But are you well enough? I mean aren't you still in a lot of pain?"

"You really babble when you're drunk," She took a deep breath, "No we aren't sleeping together Case, I'm still in a great deal of pain. Yes, I am sleeping in the same bed as him. BUT! Only because it makes sense."

Casey thought about what Olivia had just said, and then she let out a huge laugh. "It only makes sense that you sleep together? Is that what you said?"

Olivia thought about what she said. She had to explain, "What I meant drunk ass, is that sometimes during the night I need him, glass of water, meds…I get nightmares too Case…He holds me and tells me everything is going to be ok."

Casey nodded. She forgot about the nightmares. "I'm sorry Liv." She said hoarsely.

"No, no…don't. Come on, I just totally turned this conversation serious. I was having fun; can we go back to having fun?"

"Yeah. So Liv tell me something, when you are all better, you are totally going to bang right?"

Olivia took a pillow and hit Casey with it. They both laughed.

"Hey! Looks like you guys are having a good time." Elliot said as he came in. He tossed his keys on the table along with his badge and gun.

"Hi Elliot!" Casey called over to him.

"Hey Case," He said walking over to the couch, "Hi beautiful," he said giving Liv a kiss on the cheek.

It just made Casey and Liv laugh even harder. They couldn't get a word out, they were dying laughing.

"What?! What did I do?" Elliot said confused, almost embarrassed. He studied the pair, "You guys are drunk?"

"Casey did it!" Olivia said pointing her finger at her.

"Nice Liv." Elliot smirked.

"Elliot- I left a plate for you in the microwave." Casey said while standing up and bringing her empty wine glass into the kitchen.

"Thanks Case, you didn't have to do that."

"No problem Elliot." She said while she gathered her things. "Ok Liv, it was a pleasure seeing you," She said as she bent down and kissed her goodbye, "Elliot, take care of our girl." She winked at him.

"Wait Case! You need me to drive you home?" Elliot asked concerned for his friend.

"Took a Cab. Thanks though El! Talk to you later Liv!" She called out and left.

Eoeoeoeoe

Later that night Elliot and Olivia were snuggling on his oversized chair. Olivia was reading a case file to Elliot snuggling up to his warm chest.

She paused from the reading to add in her 2 cents, "You need to talk to the Vic again El, you need to ask her about the missing half hour…" She looked down at him. He was staring up at her with a dazed look on his face.

"Elliot are you even listening to me?" She asked almost annoyed.

"I see your lips move,"

She cut him off with a "HUA!" followed by a frown of the brows.

"I see your lips move," He repeated, "BUT I get so distracted by them I lose concentration and all I can think about is how good it would feel to press my lips against yours…" He said looking into her widening mocha brown eyes, "and then I think about how good you taste," He said rubbing his fingers over her lips.

She was practically drooling over his every word, "Just kiss me El!" She shouted out, she was still a little tipsy from earlier.

He pulled her chin up to his with his fingers; he smiled showing her his pearly whites. He placed his lips against hers and kissed her softly. He broke through her lips with his tongue and met hers. He moaned softly into her mouth. His hands combed through her hair. He broke away to catch his breath.

"Casey asked me if I was sleeping with you."

He looked at her wondering how fun that conversation must have been, "What did you say?"

"The truth you jackass! What did you think I told her?"

"You know Liv," He said kissing her forehead, "A lot of questions and a lot of rumors are going to be going around about the two of us…"

"Elliot, are you oblivious?" She asked looking at him like he was stupid.

"What?"

"There are already questions and rumors going on about us. I mean shit, since the first year I came to SVU everyone was asking me if we were sleeping together!"

He smiled and giggled, "So it wasn't just me getting the 20 questions?"

"Definitely not." She said, and locked her lips with his.

He placed his hand around the front of her waist, carefully avoiding her wound. He knew where it was by heart. He could tell you how many moles, scars and wounds Liv had on her body, and there exact location. It wasn't sexual; it was just that over the past few months he had been helping her with most everything. Bathing, dressing, eating…things tended to get personal. It was nice though. To have that kind of comfort with someone. It was the first time that Olivia had been intimate with someone with out sleeping with them.

She pulled away from his steamy embrace. She got scared for a second, "El?"

"Hmm?" He said nuzzling his lips on her neck.

"I'm getting used to this…" She was too embarrassed to look at him.

He let out a small laugh, "What's so wrong about that Liv?"

"That doesn't scare you?" She said almost in shock that he didn't understand what she was saying.

"Why would that scare me? I'm getting used to this too Liv."

"What am I scared of? Do you not know me by now Stabler? I mean…what are we even doing? I mean are we? …when I'm better are we…." She let out a breath she didn't realize she was holding, "I just…ahhh...wow." She had 1,000 things running through her head and not one could get out.

"Shhh…Liv, Relax. I love you," He said stroking her hair, "And I think the technical term of what we are doing is called, 'dating' or 'seeing each other' perhaps you would even like, 'going steady'." She laughed at him as he used his two fingers like quotes as he mentioned each label.

"So we are actually doing this then?" She asked looking up into his deep blue eyes.

He crashed his lips into hers and kissed her deeply and then pulled away, "And incase that doesn't answer your question, Yes. Liv, we are actually doing this." He smiled at her and put his lips back where they belong, upon hers.