Sorry I didn't get this updated for Christmas Day; I just never had the time.

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Chapter 3

"Hey short stuff," said Dickie from under his blankets. "It's time to get up and see what Santa left," he said stretching and pulling the blankets off his face and looking over to Eli's bed. "Eli," he said sitting up and looking around the room.

"Dammit," he said jumping up. "You better have not gone downstairs alone," he said grabbing a hoody and pulling it on as he ran from his room. He banged on his sister doors before opening it.

"Is the little squirt in here?" he asked looking around at all three beds.

"No…why?" asked Maureen sitting up and rubbing her eyes. Cause he isn't in his bed either," he told them all as they all sat up looking at him.

"Bet he sneaked downstairs to open his presents," laughed Kathleen climbing out of bed, as Dickie took off downstairs. He ran past his dad's room and into the living room. All the presents were still under the tree and wrapped.

"Please be with Dad," he said heading back up the corridor. He pushed his Dads door open and froze to the spot as he looked at the bed. There cuddled up altogether his Dad, Eli and Olivia. He felt a lump rising in his throat and tears threatened his eyes as he watched them all sleeping.

"Did you find him?" asked Kathleen coming down the stairs. Dickie just nodded and turned to his sister smiling.

"What is it?" she asked him.

"Look," he said quietly nodding into his Dads room.

Kathleen came up beside and looked at her Dads. "Oh my freakin God!" she screamed loudly right in Dickies ear making him jump.

"Kathleen, Dickie, what is it," asked Maureen running down the stairs followed by Lizzy and sliding to a halt banging into Dickie and Kathleen and looking into the room.

"I think they have realised you're here," chuckled Elliot as Eli sat up with all the noise and rubbed the sleep from his eyes.

"You think," she laughed as Elliot rolled onto his back and turned his head towards his kids and Olivia raised herself up on her elbow, blushing slightly at being caught in bed with Elliot by all his kids.

"You came," smiled Dickie.

"Yeah," she smiled back.

"Thanks to you guys," said Elliot.

"No," said Eli looking at Elliot. "Because I asked Santa," he said climbing over Elliot and out the bed. "Can I open my presents now?" he asked.

"Sure," said Elliot. "Run upstairs and put something warm on top of your jim jams until I get the fire going again," he told him as he got up and pulled on a hoody.

The four kids were still stood in the doorway staring at Olivia.

"You lot okay?" Elliot asked them.

"God yes," said Dickie walking to the bed and jumping on flinging his arms around Olivia and hugging her. "Thank you for coming," he told her as he hugged her. Next thing Olivia knew the bed was invaded by the three girls as they flung there selves on top of her and Dickie all screaming.

Elliot stood smiling as he watched his kids hugging Olivia, knowing the kid's reaction would put her at ease about being here and being with him. Finally they all sat up and let Olivia sit up.

"I told you there was nothing to worry about," said Elliot as Eli came back downstairs with his transformer hoody on.

"Come on dad, I want to see what else Santa has left," he said pulling on Elliot's hand.

"Well why don't you help Dickie with the fire first so the living room warms up, while I make some coffee. Then we will open the presents."

"Okay," he sighed. "Come on Dickie," he said impatiently.

Dickie stood up and turned to Olivia. "I'm really glad you're here," he smiled leaning over and kissing her cheek. Olivia didn't say anything but everyone saw the tears in her eyes.

"Eli," said Maureen. "Did you bring your gifts down to give to everyone?"

Eli shook his head.

"Come on squid," said Dickie. "Let's go get them then do the fire," he said putting his hands on his little brothers shoulders and turned him towards the stairs.

"Erm, Elliot…. I err, I don't have anything to wear apart from the clothes I turned up in," she said looking a little embarrassed.

"Oh right, I never thought of that."

"It's okay Liv," said Maureen. "I'm sure we will have something. Come on let's go and look," she said climbing off the bed.

"I will put the coffee on," said Elliot as his three daughters walked past him grinning.

"I'm so happy for you Dad," said Kathleen. "For both of you."

Olivia climbed out the bed and Elliot took hold of her hand stopping her as she went to follow the girls.

"You okay?" he asked her.

"Never better, I still can't believe I am here with you and the kids on Christmas Morning, and they are all okay about it."

"I told you," he said pulling her to him and wrapping his arms around her waist, not noticing all his kids had stopped and were stood on the stairs watching them.

"Yeah you did," she said wrapping her arms around his neck..

"Hmmm do you know what I just realised?"

"What?" she asked him playing with the short hair on the back of his head.

"We are stood under mistletoe and you haven't kissed me yet."

"What, no we aren't?" she said looking up and seeing nothing.

"We are now," he grinned raising his hand holding a piece of mistletoe over them.

"Very smooth Stabler, of course you could have just me asked and I would have kissed you anyway."

"Kiss me," he whispered as he dropped the mistletoe on the floor and wrapped his arms back around her and pulled her to him, his lips gently pressing against hers, kissing her softly at first, the deepening the kiss.

"Not again," said Eli. "They done that when I was falling asleep, it's so yuk," he said loudly making all the older kids laugh.

Elliot and Olivia broke apart and she dropped her head to his shoulder embarrassed as she realised all the kids were watching them.

"You better go and get some clothes on before Eli gets annoyed," he laughed as she walked towards the girls and passed a grinning Dickie and excited Eli.

"Nice moves Dad," said Dickie winking as he walked past Elliot and down the corridor to the living room.

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Elliot came up behind Olivia as she stood in the kitchen and wrapped his arms around her waist.

"I think their happy with their gifts," he said kissing her neck.

"Yeah," she chuckled as she watched Eli sitting on his sled, playing with his gameboy and a multi coloured woolly hat on his head.

"Dad, Olivia, your turn," shouted Lizzy over to them.

"Sorry," said Olivia.

"Your turn for your gifts," said Maureen. "So come over here."

Elliot let go of her waist and took hold of her hand and pulled her towards the kids and down onto the large couch. The kids all handed them a present each.

"But I ….. I don't have anything for you guys," said Olivia as she sat with all her gifts on her lap. "And you already bought my plane ticket."

"Liv you have made our Christmas just being here, now will you guys please open your gifts," said Kathleen. "I for one want some breakfast."

Elliot shrugged and began ripping his paper off the gifts.

"Come on Olivia," said Eli. "You need to open your presents so we can have breakfast then go sledging," he told.

"Okay," she said copying Elliot and ripping open the gifts.

"Thanks kids these are all great," said Elliot as he looked at his aftershave, watch and various other gifts.

"Are your presents okay Liv?" asked Maureen.

"Yeah, there great."

"We had to guess your size so we hope they fit," said Dickie as Olivia held up the winter coat and looked down at the snow boots.

"We figured you might not come dressed for the weather up here especially if we are going out sledging and stuff today so we hope they fit."

"I'm sure they will be perfect thanks you guys, and this is my favourite," she smiled holding up the bottle of perfume. "I just wish I had thought to bring you guys something, but I just sort of ran out the precinct and jumped on the plane," she laughed.

"I thought Santa brought you here?" asked Eli climbing on her knee.

"Sorry I meant Sleigh, not plane," she quickly corrected herself when she saw the look on Eli's face.

Eli nodded and then looked at Elliot "Dad can we go sledging now I really need to try my sled out."

"Well how about we have some pancakes for breakfast first."

Eli gave it some deep thought before nodding "Okay I can go for that," he said jumping off Olivia's knee. "I will go and get ready while you're making them," he said running out the room and up the stairs.

"I will go and help him," said Kathleen standing up. She stopped in front of Olivia and bent over hugging her. "It's great to have you here," she told her before following Eli up the stairs. One by one all the kids followed her giving Olivia a hug on the way until it was just Olivia and Elliot left.

"How you feeling?" he asked her standing up and taking her hand puling her to her feet.

"A little overwhelmed," she said as he pulled her into a hug. "Your kids are amazing."

"Yeah they are, and I will never be able to thank them enough for what they have done, getting you here," he said kissing her. "You want to help me make the pancakes."

"I would love to," she told him. "But I could do with another kiss first," she said pulling his head to hers and kissing him.

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Elliot sat back on the couch and dropped his head back closing his eyes and felt the cushions dip beside him as Olivia sat down.

"It's just started snowing again," she told him as he wrapped his arm around her shoulders and she snuggled into him.

"What the kids doing?" he asked without opening his eyes.

"Playing monopoly in the girl's room. Everyone is a little tired from the day."

"It has been a great day though."

"It has," he said turning his head and kissing the top of her head. After breakfast that morning they had all got dressed and after putting the turkey in the oven they went sledging and snowboarding. This was then followed by a massive snowball fight and then making snowmen. They finally came in to warm up and have some hot chocolate as dinner cooked.

"I always envied you having this every Christmas, I never thought I would experience it."

"Well get used to it cause every Christmas will be like this full of chaos and love."

"I think I could handle that. It was lovely sitting around the table together and eating lunch."

"Yeah just all the dishes that suck," he chuckled.

"Yeah, I'm still stuffed from eating too much."

Elliot opened his eyes and stretched. "Come on," he said standing up. "Let's go for a walk and work off some of that food," he said standing.

"El it's snowing and starting to get dark."

"So we will wrap up and we won't go far, come on I need to stretch my legs."

"Okay," she said standing. "Let's get wrapped up."

They got dressed and Elliot called upstairs to let the kids know where they were going before pulling on his hat and gloves and following Olivia outside. He took hold of her hand and led her across the field towards the trees.

"It's so peaceful out here," she said the only sound coming from their feet as they crunched through the deep snow.

"It's beautiful here in the summer as well. We should come back here for a vacation then."

"I would love that," she said before they fell back into silence and walked through the trees as the snow continued to fall. After a few minutes they walked out of the trees and in front of them was a frozen lake.

"Oh wow," she said as they stopped walking and looked across it. "It is so beautiful," she said gazing across the ice to the mountains on the otherside.

"Yeah you are," said Elliot and Olivia turned her head to see him staring at her. "I thought that every single day as I looked across the desks at you."

"El," she said blushing.

"What it's true," he said stepping towards her and cupping her face with his gloved hand. "Everything about you is beautiful, the way you look, your heart, your soul and your mind. Everything is just perfect."

He reached forward and into the top of her coat and pulled the necklace she had around her neck out. "I was going to give you this in person, when I had the nerve to see you," he told her running his thumb over the words engraved on it.

"It was when I opened the box and saw it that I knew I had to come to you, I had to see you again."

"I'm glad you like it."

"I love it especially the meaning."

"Always faithful," he whispered.

"Yeah."

"I always will be," he told her as the snow fell heavier and it began to get dark. "We should head back."

"Yeah, it's getting a little cold and dark."

"Oh I don't know about that I'm feeling quite warm," she said as he put the necklace back inside her coat and his hand went to the back of her head and pulled her to him, his lips brushing across hers lightly.

"I want you more than I have ever wanted anyone in my life," he told her his lips brushing against hers.

She licked her lips her tongue brushing against his lips.

"Well why don't we see what happens later, maybe Santa has left another surprise for you," she winked kissing him quickly before taking hold of his hand and leading him back through the trees.

By the time they walked out of the trees it was dark and the snow was getting even heavier. As they walked across the open ground towards the cabin Elliot spun her around and pulled her to him and she fell into his arms.

"Elliot!" she laughed as she clung onto him.

"Dance with me?"

"What?"

"Dance with me," he said again smiling.

"Here…..Now…..In this snow…..We don't have any music."

"We don't need any music Benson," he said wrapping his arm around her waist and lifting her hand between them and began to gently sway.

"This has been the most perfect Christmas," he said his breath tickling her ear as they moved cheek to cheek. "And I never want the day to end. From the moment we woke up together it has been amazing."

"It's not over yet," she smiled turning her head to face him, looking into his bright blue eyes. "I love you so much," she told him.

"I love you too," he breathed before kissing her softly as they continued to sway.

"Hey guy's, come and see this," said Lizzy from the window.

"What is it?" asked Dickie coming over followed by the others and looking to where she was pointing.

"Oh my god that is just too cute," sighed Maureen.

"I have never seen dad smile so much as he has today, even when him and Mom were happy," said Lizzy.

"I know," said Kathleen unable to stop smiling as they watched their dad and Olivia dancing and kissing in the snow.

"You done well this time little brother," she said to Dickie.

"I just wanted our dad back and I knew the one person who could do that was Olivia."

"Come on," said Maureen let's give them some privacy and stop snooping," she said stepping back from the window.

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"Well I'm well and truly done for the day," yawned Maureen. "I'm off to bed."

"Yeah me to," said Lizzy. "And I think the little dude was ready a while ago," she said looking down on the floor at Eli fast asleep still wearing his multicoloured hat.

"I will carry him up," said Elliot standing up from the couch were him and Olivia had been cuddling up together as they had all watched Christmas movies.

"I will tidy up down here," said Olivia standing up.

"I will give you a hand," said Dickie picking up the empty hot chocolate cups and following Olivia into the kitchen as Elliot picked up Eli and carried him upstairs followed by the girls.

"Night Liv," they all called out.

"Night Girls," she smiled as she put all the cups in the sink.

Dickie went to go back to the living room when Olivia grabbed his arm to stop him.

"I just wanted to say thank you," she said to him. "For coming to see me, and telling me everything."

"You don't need to thank me Liv," he said. "I just want Dad to be happy and to do that he needed his Partner back… The night I found the card and letter to you, Dad was drunk. I had come down for a glass of water and he was in the living room sat on the floor with a bottle of drink. He had the photo of you in his hand and he was crying. I had never seen him cry before …. Ever. I didn't say anything, I just went back upstairs. I heard him stumbling around awhile later and his bedroom door shutting so I went down to check on him. I looked in his room and he was passed out on the bed the photo of the two of you in his hands. I went in the living room to turn off the lights and saw the letter and card on the floor next to the empty bottle. I know I shouldn't have but I read them both, and I knew then I had to do something. All I kept thinking was if you felt the same for him as he did for you then you would be just as miserable as he was."

"I was," she admitted. "I didn't want to admit it or show it to anyone. Instead I closed myself off and wouldn't let anyone in, I became a total bitch."

"Yeah I saw that side of you in the café," he grinned.

"Well you reminded me so much of your dad and I hated that you were making me face my feelings. I'm just thankful you are just as stubborn as he is and never gave up…. Thank you so much," she said pulling him into a hug.

"You're welcome," he said back. "I'm just thankful you used the plane ticket. This has been the best Christmas ever."

"Yeah it has," she said as they continued to hug.

"Everything okay in here?" asked Elliot leaning against the wall.

"Everything is great," said Olivia as they parted and she reached up and wiped away the tears from Dickies face.

Elliot nodded. "The girls are watching a movie in bed and have asked if you want to join them."

"Sure," he sniffed wiping his eyes. "As long as it's not a soppy one."

"Well they said they were watching your favourite Christmas film."

"Yes!" he smiled. "Die Hard."

Elliot laughed and as Dickie went to walk past he pulled him into a hug.

"Thank you Son," he said as he held him.

Dickie just nodded smiled at him and walked out the room and upstairs.

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Elliot lay on the bed in only a pair of shorts after his shower. The room was still warm from the fire. He lay his head back and thought of Olivia in the shower, the hot water running over her body. He felt a twitch in his groin. They hadn't even talked about what had happened the night before in bed all her knew was that he needed her and in more ways than he had the night before, but he didn't want to push her.

He opened his eyes and looked over to the bedside table the card and letter he had wrote to her were laying there. He reached over and picked up the card reading the words he had written inside.

I miss My Partner, I miss my best friend and I know I don't deserve it, but if I could have one Christmas Wish it would be to have both back in my life.

I know I have never showed it because I couldn't I was married, but I love you Liv. I love you and I need you in my life. I'm not complete without you.

Please forgive me

El.

He remembers how he woke up with a serious hangover the morning after he wrote it. He stumbled into the kitchen and found Dickie reading that and the letter. He had gone mad grabbing it from Dickies hand. Dickie had tried to convince him to send it to Olivia, but he had refused and threw it in the bin. He never knew Dickie had removed it and taken it to Olivia until she showed up last night. He couldn't believe it was only 24 hours since she had walked back into his life, so much had happened since then, and all good.

He put the card back down as the bedroom door opened and Olivia turned out the bathroom light before she came out.

"Liv did you want anything to dri…" he stopped talking and froze at the sight before him.

"Happy Christmas El," she said still stood in the doorway of the bathroom. She was wearing only a short towel and a red bow tied around her. Her hair still damp flowing over her shoulders. She looked stunning.

He swallowed hard and licked his lips still not moving.

"You still have one present to unwrap," she said her voice only just above a whisper.

"I do," he said climbing off the bed and walking towards her.

She nodded. "I know we said we should take things slow but….I was lying, I don't want to take things slow. I think we have taken things slow for the last 14 years."

Elliot didn't speak as he got closer to her finally standing in front of her, the ribbons from the bow tickling his chest. He reached up his fingers lightly tracing over the bow.

"I think we have waited long enough as well," he said giving her a smile as he looked into her eyes and his fingers found the end of the bow and he pulled at it slightly feeling it coming loose. His eyes dropped from hers to the top of her towel and the bow as it began to unravel.

He swallowed hard as it came undone and he let it drop to the floor leaving her in only the short towel.

He ran his finger gently over her collar bone and along the top edge of the towel his finger dipping between her breasts, stopping were the towel was tied.

"Your sure?" he asked her his eyes never leaving the top of her breasts.

"Just unwrap your present El," she breathed as he took hold of the towel with both hands and pulled it apart letting the towel fall to the ground.

"Sweet Jesus," he mumbled as he looked at her stood naked in front of him. "You are so beautiful," he told her. "So fucking gorgeous," he said as he stepped back to look at her properly.

Olivia blushed slightly as his eyes roamed over her body, taking her all in and she saw him licking his lips. He stepped forward again and ran a single finger over her breasts and down over her stomach around her belly button and back up again to her breast circling her nipple. He leant in and whispered into her ear.

"Don't move stay perfectly still, while I explore you, need to check my present is okay."

She felt goose pimples covering her body as he moved behind her.

"El?"

"Ssshhh," he blew into her ear as he dragged a finger down her back in a wavy line stopping at the top of her ass cheeks.

She swallowed hard as his hands moved over her back his fingers tickling her back as they moved lower and lower or her ass cheeks, squeezing them softly in his hands.

"Hmmmm this side seems to fine," he said kissing her shoulders as his hands rested on her hips and he made his way lower down her spine.

Olivia moaned as he kissed across her ass cheeks his skimming lightly over her thighs until he kissed his way back up. He wrapped his hand around her waist and pulled her back towards him. It was then that she felt his erection pressing against her back and she realised he had taken off his boxers.

"Turn around Liv," he ordered her as he sucked the skin on her neck into his mouth. "I need to explore the front of you."

"El," she said again not moving, it was the only word she could actually get out of her mouth.

"Baby, I have waited so long for this, spent nights dreaming about you, wishing you were with me and now I have you . I want to take my time getting to know the parts of you I have only imagined about…. Fantasised about. Now turn around," he growled in her ear.

She closed her eyes and bit her bottom lip into her mouth as she slowly turned around.

"You're not the only one who has had dreams or fantasies," she told him.

"Oh yeah?" he asked as he dipped his head and gently kissed her breast before sucking her nipple into his mouth.

"Oh god," she moaned as he sucked a little harder swirling his tongue around the extended bud.

"Yeah," she struggled to say as he released her nipple with a little pop and slid his tongue between her breasts as he dropped to his knees in front of her. He swirled his tongue around her belly button and she ran her fingers through his short cropped hair.

Elliot sat back on his heels and looked up at her his mouth hung slightly open as he took deep breaths.

Olivia looked down to him smiling as she passed his face with her gaze and saw his erection as he knelt in front of her.

"Shit," she mumbled as she saw his size and how hard he was. "My dreams were shit compared to real life," she said mainly to herself, but she saw Elliot smiling.

He grabbed hold of her hips as he moved his head foreword and took a deep breath taking in her scent and arousal as he placed his mouth against her shaven mound and kissed her softly as he closed his eyes.

Olivia felt her legs turning to jelly as he kissed his way over her pussy avoiding her folds.

"Oh my god," she said grasping as much of his hair as she could as he kissed her folds and stood up cupping the back of her head and pulling her to him kissing her hard his tongue delving into her mouth. She could feel his erection pushing against her stomach long, hard and thick. She groaned into his mouth as she felt her arousal pooling between her legs.

"El," she mumbled into his.

"Mmmmm."

"We should….I need to …..Oh god I need to lie down," she told him as her legs give way as his hand tweaked her nipple and he bit down on her neck sucking gently.

She felt Elliot smile against her neck as he put his hands on her ass cheeks and lifted her up. She wrapped her legs around his waist and felt his cock pushing against her pussy as he carried her to the bed and he lay her gently down.

He leant over her and grinned as she dropped her legs off the bottom of the bed.

"Now I get to taste you properly," he told her kissing her once before he kissed his way down to her stomach as he used his hands to spread her legs and he dropped to his knees at the foot of the bed.

Olivia raised her head and looked down her body, the sight of Elliot between her legs almost made her cum there and then as he smiled at her and licked her lips, before spreading her legs a little further apart opening her up to him and dropped his mouth to her glistening folds and licked her full length just the once, moaning at the taste of her juices as they covered his tongue.

"Fuck me!" she moaned as she dropped her head back and placed her hand on the back of his head.

"Soon, sweetheart, soon," he told her just before he circled her clit with his tongue making her whole body jump, as he moaned and licked the full length of her again before dipping his tongue into her hot wet opening and swirling his tongue as deep as he could inside her.

Olivia raised her hips towards him pushing her pussy towards his mouth needing his tongue deeper as she lifted her feet and planted them on the edge of the bed and dropped her knees opening herself up as much as she could to him.

Elliot moved his hands up her body and cupped her breasts squeezing her nipples rubbing them between his fingers and thumbs as he continued his assault on her with his mouth.

"Jesus," she gasped when he moved one of his hands back down and began to rub her clit as his tongue moved in and out of her, he had never tasted or felt anything so good in his life. He could feel his cock throbbing between his legs as his senses went into overdrive.

He could hear her moaning as she writhed against his mouth and fingers, her inner walls pulsing against his tongue.

"Fuck," she gasped her finger nails scraping against his scalp. "So close….. so fucking…..close."

Elliot never relented, and never eased up on the pace that he fucked her with his mouth as his fingers pressed and rubbed her clit. She felt her release building deep within her as her body began to convulse and she finally came clamping his head between her thighs as she grabbed a pillow from above her head and bit down on it as she screamed to muffle her cries.

She finally released her hold on his head with her thighs as she dropped her feet back to the floor and she gasped for breath.

"Fuck me Stabler," she panted. "What the hell was that," she chuckled as he continued to gently lick at her. He finally gave her clit a soft kiss before making his way up her body and helped her move up the bed.

He lay next to her and his side and looked down at her flushed face.

"That was me living out my fantasies," he smiled kissing her softly. She ran her tongue over his lips.

"And fulfilling mine," she smiled as she tasted herself on his lips.

"I never realised your mouth was so talented," she smirked.

"Oh trust me," he grinned as he moved on top of her and between her legs. "It's not only my mouth that is talented," he said wiggling his eyebrows making her laugh.

"So prove it," she said as she stopped laughing and felt his cock pushing hard up against her. "Make love to me."

"I would love to," he said against her lips kissing her gently as he raised himself up. Olivia closed her eyes as he reached down between them and took hold of himself lining himself up against her opening.

"Liv….. Open your eyes baby….." he whispered. "….. And look at me."

She opened her eyes and saw his bright blues looking down at her.

"I will never leave you again," he told her as he eased into her, stretching her wide as he gently pushed into her. Olivia's breath hitched as he entered her but she kept her eyes locked on his.

"I love you so much," she told him. "And I always will."

Elliot kissed her softly as he pulled almost all the way out before sliding back in deepening the kiss with each thrust his tongue finding hers as he filled her completely.

She wrapped her legs around him pulling him to her with every thrust as she raised her hips to meet him.

"Fuck me," he grunted as he pushed himself up on his hands and looked down between their bodies and watching his cock disappearing into her as he picked up his pace thrusting harder and faster into her. Sweat covering both their bodies as they moved together in perfect sync.

She reached up around his neck and pulled his head down to her wrapping her arms around him as Elliot done the same with his arms holding each other as close as they could as he continued to bury himself as deep as he could and circled his hips.

"God baby ….so close," he muttered. "So fucking …..Close."

"Me too…"

Elliot lifted his head from her shoulder and kissed her hard as he thrust a few more times before releasing inside her, his seed coating her inner walls.

Olivia screamed into his mouth as she came again, clamping down hard on his cock squeezing him tight as he released inside her.

Elliot dropped his head to her shoulder as he gasped for breath, his body shaking from his release.

Olivia ran her fingers up and down his back as her legs fell from around his waist and relaxed on the bed.

"Merry Christmas to me," he chuckled into her neck making her laugh as she slapped his back as she continued to control her breathing.

He lifted his head and looked down at her using his hand to wipe her damp strands of hair from her face.

"You okay?" he asked her.

She nodded gently touching his face.

"Never better."

Elliot looked a little embarrassed. "I'm erm sorry I didn't last a little longer," he told her. "It's just I have wanted this for so long…."

Olivia put her fingers to his lips. "Ssshhh, that was amazing," she told him. "And for the record I was the one that came twice unable to hold on," she grinned.

He smiled against her lips as he spoke "I guess."

They kissed slowly and passionately as he was still buried deep inside her, his cock getting harder again by the minute.

"Promise me you will never leave me again," she said to him breaking the kiss.

"I promise you," he told her.

"It's just I meant what is said before, I don't think I could live without you."

"And you won't have too," he said as he began to move gently inside her again. "I'm never leaving you again Liv and if I'm honest I never really left you last time."

"What do you mean?"

He reached for her hand and placed it on his chest above her heart.

"You were always here Liv," he smiled at her. "You were always in my heart…. Exactly where you have been since the day you walked into the station and became my Partner. There wasn't one day I never thought about you," he said stilling inside her. "You have to believe that."

"I do," she said cupping his face. "I just want to know you are going to be beside me every night I fall asleep and every morning when I wake up."

"There is nowhere else I want to be….. Liv I almost lost everything in the last six months, I'm not making that mistake again. You and the kids are the most important things in my life, I'm not planning on screwing it up again."

He kissed the tear away from her cheek as he slowly slid out of her.

"El… What you doing?" she asked as he slid from her and climbed from the bed.

"Put some clothes on," he told her as he pulled on a pair of sweat pants and a t-shirt.

"But…."

"Just trust me," he smiled picking up a pair of sweats the girls had leant her and throwing them onto the bed for her. She picked them up and pulled them on along with a t-shirt.

Elliot took her hand and led her out the bedroom and up the stairs. He pushed open the door to the girl's bedroom and they both looked inside. Dickie and Eli were lay in one of the beds whilst Lizzy and Kathleen shared another and Maureen had one to herself.

"El I don't understand," she said as he wrapped his arms around her and rested his head on her shoulder.

"Liv everything I care about most in the world is in this one room….. You, and the kids. I told you that when we get back to New York I'm going to have to move in with you, well I'm not planning on that being permanent."

Olivia went to pull out of his arms but he kept a tight hold on her.

"What I mean is I'm hoping me staying with you will only be short term until we find somewhere else to live. Somewhere big enough for me, you and the kids."

Olivia looked at him shocked.

"You mean you want us to move into together?"

"I told you Liv, I can't be without you, I need you and I need my kids and I want us all to have a home together, back in New York. I want to wake up every morning with you all and have the kids there when we get home at night. I want to go on romantic dates with you and vacations in the sun. I want to live with you. And when we are ready I want to make it permanent. I want to put a ring on your finger to let everyone know you are mine."

Olivia looked at him her mouth open in shock.

"I told you Liv, this is forever and forever means marriage….. Now can you stop worrying that I'm going to leave you again and get your cute ass back downstairs, so I can prove to you how much I love you."

Olivia just nodded unable to speak still in shock at his words. She just nodded and Elliot watched her walking down the stairs in a daze as he reached in to close the door.

"Get to sleep the lot of you," he smiled as he looked into the room. He heard the girls giggling and looked towards Dickie who sat up and looked towards him.

"Smooth Dad…. Real smooth," he smiled at him.

"Go to sleep," he grinned pulling the door towards him shaking his head.

"Dad!" said Dickie stopping him. "Your not the only one who's Christmas Wishes came true" he told him. "We wanted our Dad back and for him to be happy and we got those wishes…Now get down stairs, I think from the look on Liv's face right now, she might be in a bit of shock," he laughed.

"Thank You," he said to all of them. "For everything."

"You're our Dad and we love you," said Maureen.

"Just don't screw it up," said Kathleen.

"I won't… now go to sleep," he told them. "And I love you all."

"Love you to Dad," they all said as he closed the door and walked downstairs, he was going to have to plan something real special to top this for Christmas next year.

Couldn't think how to actually end this, but I had to so that's that lol.

Time to start work again on Ice Cold Heart, and Doctors and Nurses.

Thanks for the reviews.