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"Elliot. Uh, hi." Olivia stammered, making sure to not look the man she had avoided for a year in those captivating eyes.

"Holy shit, Olivia! You look great!" Elliot was more than excited about Olivia's reappearance. He had questions about where she had been, but that could wait. Right now, all he could see was her.

"You can hate me...I'll understand." She whispered sadly, looking at the tiled floor.

Elliot gently put his large calloused hand under her chin and lifted it up. "I don't hate you, Liv. I missed you."

Olivia finally looked up into his Sapphire pools as the tears started forming in her own. Alex quietly excused herself, and walked into the squad room to ward off anyone who dared try and interrupt.

"Elliot, I--I mean we, uh we need to...to..." Olivia was beginning to cry, and cursing herself for doing so.

"Talk. I know. Let me go talk to my captain and see if I can have a break until after lunch." Elliot smiled as best he could before walking away.

Olivia nodded and sat on the bench as he walked off to talk to his captain.

Alex walked out and found Olivia sitting on the bench. She sat down beside her.

"Are you alright, Liv?"

Olivia nodded. "I think so. Elliot went to talk to the captain so we can have a proper talk."

"Good." Alex said smiling. "Livvie, look at me." When Olivia complied Alex continued. "You can do this, Livvie. You are so strong. You just tell him everything. Don't hold back, promise?"

Standing up to hug her best friend she nodded. "Thanks, Lexy. I'll call you after."

Elliot emerged from the squad room at that moment and smiled.

"Let's go, Liv. Are you hungry cause we could try the new Chinese restaurant two blocks away."

Olivia nodded. "That would be nice."

"Great." Elliot replied as he took her hand in his, walking to the elevator.

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At the restaurant, they were seated and had placed their order when Elliot slid his hand across the table and took Olivia's. "Are you ready to talk, honey?"

"El, please don't judge me on everything I am about to say, okay?"

"Olivia, I wouldn't judge you even if you committed a crime and framed me. I love you Olivia, please say you know that."

"I--I was raped a few years ago, a gun point in my own home. My mother witnessed the whole thing. I kept begging her to make the man stop..." she whispered as she tried to hold back her tears but it was hard to keep them back anymore.

"Oh, Liv..."Elliot began before Olivia stopped him.

"Please, just let me get this all out." She whispered.

"I ended up pregnant from it but my mother forced me to abort it when I was six weeks along...that was the last time I ever spoke to her. I wanted to make emends. She was my mother and I still loved her... I never got to make things right between us." She whispered and began to sob.

Elliot stroked her hand as she went on. "After she died, I felt horrible. When you took such good care of me, I felt alive again. I wanted you and me to be something, El. I still do. I don't know what happened next, it was such a whirlwind. I blinked and the next thing I knew I was in Albany dating that jerk."

"What jerk, honey? Did he hurt you? If he did I will break his neck..." He spoke softly.

Olivia shook her head. "No. He didn't hurt me physically. Just mentally but I am a big girl. I can take care of myself. I have done for years." She replied in a sad whisper.

"But you shouldn't have to, baby. Let me take care of you. Let me make you happy." Elliot was pleading at this point, but he meant every word.

By this time they had finished eating and Elliot paid.

"Look baby, I have to get back to work, can I come over after?"

Olivia nodded, sadly. She didn't want him to leave. "Yeah, see you." She replied before rushing out of the restaurant.

"Liv!!!" He called out to her, hoping that she would stop. Elliot realized that he'd upset her by saying that he had to return to work.

Elliot called his captain, told him a white lie about some bad sushi, and set off to find Liv. He went to her apartment, then his, then Alex and Casey's office, but all to no avail. He had nearly given up as he thought about the cemetery.

He found Olivia, kneeling in front of her mother's grave crying and it looked like she was talking but Elliot couldn't make out what she way saying from where he was.

He slowly walked up and he could finally hear what she was saying.

"Mom, I miss you so much. I can't believe I never told you goodbye. Why did you have to turn to that fucking bottle again, mom? I could've helped you! I want to hate you mom. You have left your mark on me. I am so messed up because of you! Now Elliot wants to take care of me. Mom, I've never had that. I can't hate you though. You gave me life. You are the reason I am here to love. I love you mom."

"Liv." Elliot whispered as he walked up.

Olivia turned and looked at him, startled.

"Are you stalking me? How did you find me?" She asked as she wiped away her tears.

Elliot kneeled down beside her and took her soft olive toned hands in his. "I'm not stalking you. I was looking all over for you. I have the rest of the day off, so let's spend some time together."

"Okay, Elliot. Just let me say bye to my mom. I'll meet you in the car."

She looked back at her mother's headstone. "Thanks mom, I get the message. I'll let Elliot in and I'll be okay. I love you."

Elliot sat in the driver's seat of the car listening to the radio when he saw Olivia walking up. He could see how lonely and depressed she felt and he was determined to help her through this rough patch.

Olivia opened the front passenger door and got in before buckling her seat belt.

"Liv?" He questioned as he put his key in the ignition.

"Yeah?" she replied looking at him.

"Are you alright? I'm here, for whatever you need, I promise."

"Thanks El, there is something I need..."

"Anything, baby."

"I need..." Olivia laughed nervously and Elliot picked up on it.

"What, Liv?" You can tell me." He spoke softly.

"I need your love and support right now. If it isn't too much trouble of course."

Elliot took her hands in his and kissed them. "No trouble at all because I love you."