A/N: Once again advice is greatly appreciated! Sorry it took two days instead of one, I had writer's block.

Just as the elevator doors began to open, Munch jumped up and pulled Casey into a hug and kissed her right in the middle of the elevator. Fin stood with his mouth wide open and his eyes bulging out of his head as he watched Munch and Casey playing tonsil hockey. None of them noticed the fact that Elliot and Olivia were standing there, equally as shocked as Fin.

Fin still hadn't taken his eyes off of the two who have yet to release for air. "Oh come on guys. Seriously, last night I had to listen to the other two fucking each other's brains out and now I gotta watch this ? I have to gouge my eyes out."

Fin turned in the direction of the door and saw Elliot and Olivia standing there in shock, looking between Munch and Casey and then Fin. "Uh ... uh ... you didn't just hear me say that did you?"

They nodded as their shocked looks faded and embarrassment took its place.

"I think we'll take the stairs." Olivia said after a moment of silence and grabbed Elliot by the arm and took him away from the door and led him down the hall to the stairwell.

As they walked away they hear Fin yelling. "Come on guys, seriously are you guys even breathing ? Come on I don't need to see this!"

Olivia began to laugh as she heard him yelling when they closed the door to the stairs. She stopped laughing momentarily when she remembered that they had also found out about her and Elliot. "Oh my God. What are we going to do Elliot? They know. All of them know."

"How did they even find out? They were stuck in an elevator for God's sake. And I highly doubt Munch or Fin have a key to your apartment." he said looking at her making sure he was right.

"You're right El they don't, but Casey does." They both stood there letting it all sink in for several minutes before Olivia spoke again. "We should head to work now it would look odd to Cragen if we're both late." Elliot nodded in response and followed her down the stairs.

The day went by extremely slow as Elliot and Olivia failed to communicate except when they needed to for work. Fin and Munch occasionally looked over to see if the two were talking but other than that it was an eerily quiet day at the 16th precinct. Fin still had the image of Munch and Casey making out in the elevator and occasionally twitched when he looked at Munch. Elliot looked over to make sure Munch and Fin weren't watching as he casually dropped a note on Olivia's desk as he walked by. Olivia tucked it under some papers before she was certain Munch and Fin couldn't see.

Liv,

I hate not talking to you. I never knew it was so hard to ignore you. I don't know if you noticed but Fin has a twitch now. I wonder if he got it from us or Munch and Casey. I think we should go to my apartment tonight. I'm positive that no one has a key and no one will be able to see us. I have a plan. Go to the cribs in about 5 minutes and I'll come up there. See you then. I love you

-El

Olivia couldn't believe that he actually wrote "I love you" on a paper that could possibly be seen by the whole precinct. Five minutes went by and she got up from her seat and headed up to the cribs. When she got there Elliot was already waiting for her. He grabbed her by the waist and pulled her into him and shut the door by pinning her against it.

"El ... Elliot ... Stop we can't. Not here. Not in work."

"Come on Liv, live a little"

"Elliot, I think we should talk about what happened this morning. We really need to be more careful about where we do things. Which means not doing things in the cribs of our work" she said pushing him away and stopped but held her as she talked.

"I don't want to hide you, Liv. I want everyone in the world to know how much I love you." he said trying to kiss her again but she snaked out of his arms and walked over to a cot to sit.

"I love you too, El. But I just don't see how this can work with our jobs."

"I'll leave. I'll transfer to Narcotics or something." Elliot said as he sat on the cot across from her.

"No Elliot. I can't have you leaving this job just for me. I love you too much to let you leave. And there's no way I'm breaking in a rookie after all these years." Olivia couldn't take it anymore. She got up and left the cribs before Elliot could stop her and before he could see the tears threatening to fall. She walked up to the roof praying that just this once Elliot wouldn't follow her.

To her surprise: he didn't. She stood up there for 20 minutes before she got her emotions in check and could go back inside. Elliot wasn't at his desk but it was about lunchtime so she assumed he went to go get food. She hoped he would bring her back something; she was starving but had too much paperwork to do.

She immediately got to work and got almost half way through her pile when she looked at the clock and noticed it was close to 8 at night and that she was the only one in the squad room. There was a light coming from Cragen's office and decided to see if he wanted some company. She knocked on the door and he ushered her in and told her to sit. He poured her a drink and got himself a glass of water.

You guys were awfully quiet today. Anything wrong?" he asked after a moment of silence.

"Nothing really. I guess we were all just pretty tired." she responded without looking him in the eye but instead looking down at her glass and swirling it slowly in her hand before taking another sip.

"You're lying to me, Olivia." he said as he put his water down and walked out from behind his desk so he was right in front of her. "When you lie to me you can't look me in the eyes. At least not directly in the eyes."

"It's nothing Captain really." she said looking at him praying that the pain didn't seep into her eyes.

"I know something's going on out there, Olivia. Do you know how I know?" he asked as she stared at her until she looked up and him and shook her head no.

"Because, if in fact nothing was wrong like you say, Elliot wouldn't have come in here to hand me his transfer papers."

Olivia looked him right in the eyes, not caring if he saw the tears that were quickly forming in them. "Are you serious? You didn't send them yet did you?"

"No. I gave him a week of paid vacation and told him to come back in when it was over and see if he still felt the same way. Now are you going to tell me what's going on?"

Olivia looked at him and shook her head no. She thanked him for the drink and put it on the desk before running out of the office and out of the squad room. She drove like a mad woman as she raced to Elliot's apartment.

I can't believe he filed those papers. She thought as she drove madly through the streets. Why would he just leave me like that? I can't do this job without him.

She raced up the stairs to the front door of his apartment complex and flashed her badge to get in. She ran up the stairs taking them two at a time up to his floor. She knocked loudly and constantly on his door for a good minute before remembering that he had given her a key for emergencies. She believed that this counted as an emergency as she opened the door. She ran throughout the entire apartment before realizing it was empty. On the coffee table she found a piece of paper addressed to her.

Liv,

I'm sorry I didn't tell you about transferring. I knew you would be angry with me so I thought it would be best if I went away for a while. I love you

-El

P.S. Don't be mad at me, Liv. I'm only doing this because I love you too much to just be friends and colleagues.

Liv couldn't believe he just left her like that. She fell into the couch as sobs violently shook her entire body.