Okay so I decided not to go into loads of detail about what Olivia is doing undercover and concentrate more on relationships instead. Mainly what is happening back home, what happened whilst she is undercover will come out later. Enjoy.

Chapter 9

3 weeks since Olivia left

"FUCKIN STUPID THING!" He cursed as he threw his computer mouse across his desk and hitting his screen.

"Yeah like that will fix it," laughed Munch, lying back in his chair and grinning.

"Screw you, John," said elliot pushing his chair back and storming off towards the cribs. Dani watched him and got up to follow him.

"Don't worry, I got this," said Fin standing and following elliot up the stairs. He heard the slamming of a locker door as he opened the door, and looked in. elliot was stood leaning forward against the locker looking down at the floor.

"Is it safe to come in?" he asked.

"Yeah, man It's fine," sighed elliot turning around.

"You still not heard from Baby girl yet."

Elliot shook his head. It had been over three weeks since Olivia had left and he had heard nothing. He had tried calling Dana's work number but all he got told was she was unavailable. He tried that Porter guy but all he got was answer phone, he had left a load of messages, it was driving him crazy.

"I'm sure she is fine," said Fin. "We would have heard if anything had gone wrong, or at least the Cap would have."

Elliot looked at him knowing he was right but it still didn't help. Fin was the only one who knew about him and Olivia in work, he had asked everyone, as in Casey and Melinda, to keep quiet about it till olivia got back, and they could let everyone else know they were together.

"I just miss her, you know. It took all these years to finally admit how we feel and she gets taken away for an undercover job."

"Didn't you tell her to go?" asked Fin.

"Yeah…. But I expected her to be home by now, it's been almost four weeks." Elliot sat on the edge of the bed. "I never thought I would miss her so much."

Fin had watched him over the last couple of weeks snapping at everyone, losing his temper more than usual and being a complete prick most of the time towards his new partner. He sat on the bed next to him.

"Look Man, I know your missing her we all are, but it aint like she has left you, she is working. Undercover work is never predictable time wise, you know that. But taking it out on all of us cause she aint here isn't helping. I mean you hardly speak to your new partner…"

"She aint my new partner!"

"Okay your temporary partner, since she started and when you do you just snap at her, it aint her fault she got assigned here."

"Yeah well that's because she hasn't got a clue how to speak to or treat the victims. She rushes in head first without thinking. She almost fucked up two cases by not listening."

"Yeah well I'm sure we all started out like that, when we first got here, me included."

"Liv didn't. she fit in straight away, she was great with the Vic's, it's like she was meant to be here."

"Yeah well Dani aint Liv, maybe you need to help her a bit, show her how to handle the Vic's instead of snapping at her or ignoring her like you have done….. you never know you may even like her."

Elliot sighed and stood up, "Fine …. I will think before I go off on one. Listen do you fancy going for a drink after work I hate going back to Liv's place alone every night, it gives me too much time to think."

"Yeah, sounds good. We could ask Munch and Dani to tag along as well.

"The more the merrier," he replied trying to smile as they headed back down to the squad room.

Munch looked up as elliot sat back at his desk. "Hissy fit over with?" he asked grinning.

"Fuck you, John," he laughed, laying back in his chair.

"You know I miss her as well" he said standing up and laying a hand on elliots shoulder as he walked past, "I just hide my feelings a bit better."

Elliot smiled up at him and looked around the room, "Where did Dani go?"

"She said she needed some air," shouted Munch over his shoulder. Elliot stood up and walked out the squad room heading to the place everyone went when they needed air, the roof.

He walked up behind Dani who was stood leaning over the railings looking down over the city.

"I know I've been a pain in the ass to work with, but don't jump," he tried to joke as he walked up behind her.

"Believe me, your not worth it." She said without turning around. elliot stood beside her and leaned his back against the rail.

"Listen, I know I haven't been the easiest person to get along with….." she turned and looked at him raising her eyebrows.

"That's an understatement." She told him smiling slightly.

"Yeah ….. well that's how I am, but I didn't mean to be such a prick to you, you didn't deserve that. It's just been a bad few weeks…"

"I heard your partner left, it must have been tough after so long together."

"Yeah it was, but hopefully she won't be gone to long."

"What you think she will come back?"

"Yeah, I hope so, the undercover job was only supposed to be three weeks." He told her.

"Yeah I know that but didn't she leave before that and go to computer crimes, from what I heard the two of you had a big bust up and she transferred."

"Well you shouldn't listen to rumours," he said beginning to tense up. "We sorted things out so hopefully she will be back here soon."

"So I'm just her replacement till she gets back….. wow make a girl feel wanted why don't you." elliot was about to say something back when he saw her smiling. "Look I'm here for now, not Benson, so why don't we just try and get along, you never know you might actually start to like me."

Elliot nodded "Yeah okay, I guess I could do that." He held out her hand and she took hold of it giving it a shake.

"To a fresh start," she said looking up into his eyes, holding his gaze, for a few seconds. Elliot pulled his hand away.

"I'm going back down, you coming?" Dani nodded and she followed him back in, smiling as she watched him from behind. "a few more weeks" she thought "and he will putty in my hands, just like her last three partners, and then he will do anything for her."

7 weeks since Olivia left.

Cragen watched Elliot and Dani come into the squad room laughing and joking. It had taken a while but the two of them had finally settled into working together, and seemed to be getting along ok. He opened the door to his office.

"Elliot, can you come in here?"

Elliot looked at Dani and shrugged as he walked into Cragen's office. He closed the door and was about to speak when he saw Agent Dean Porter standing there.

"What's happened? Is Liv okay?" he asked suddenly feeling a little sick. He hadn't heard a thing since she had left.

"No elliot she is fine, Agent Porter is just here to give an update."

Elliot glared at Porter "An update!" he snapped. "She has been gone for 7 fucking weeks and you thought you would stop to give us an update now." Cragen looked at Elliot and recognised the signs that he was going to lose it. "Did you not think we were worried about her, did you not think of replying to the dozen or so calls and messages I left you asking you if she was okay! Dana told us you would keep us informed!" he shouted.

"Elliot calm down" said Cragen standing between him and Porter, "he is here now so let's hear what he has to say."

Elliot took a deep breath and nodded and saw Porter smirking behind Cragen's back.

"It's been a little busy" he finally spoke. "We got Livvy in with girls no problem."

Elliot glared at him "Fuckin Livvy, who the hell does this prick think he is." He thought to himself, biting his tongue.

"We got her back to the states and set up in an apartment with her girls, and she made contact, through Dana pretty quickly. I can't say too much as its all still on going, but it turns out there was a lot more going on apart from getting young girls into the country, so we needed Livvy to stay in a bit longer."

"How much longer?" asked Elliot trying his hardest not to show his hate towards the man.

"We aren't too sure."

"Is she okay, I mean is she holding up okay?"

"Yeah she is fine, I see her as much as possible, she is an amazing woman. She really knows how to handle herself." Elliot sat glaring at him. "In fact when I took her for a meal the other she looked great."

Cragen looked at elliot noticing him tensing up and start to stand up.

"You took her for a meal?"

Porter smirked again, "Yeah we have gotten quite close over the last month or two, as I'm her only contact away from the job, I thought it would be nice to go for a meal instead of a seedy bar or the back seat of a car." Elliot moved towards Porter his fists clenched. Cragen postioned himself inbetween them.

"Elliot don't" he warned him and then glared at Porter. "Do you have anything else you need to tell us, any message from Olivia.

Porter shook his head "Nope, she didn't really talk about home that much, I just thought I should pop in as Dana told me I had to keep you guys in the loop."

Cragen could feel elliots body shaking against his hands which had hold of his arms. "Well if you have nothing more, then leave" he ordered him. Porter headed to the door before he turned back to them.

"I will be sure to let Olivia know how well your getting on with your new partner without her. It might make her decision a bit easier."

"What decision?" asked Elliot.

"She has been asked to join us full time after this job, it will mean moving to Washington…She didn't know what to do when I asked her. She was torn between it and her job here. But I'm sure that once I tell her how easy you have moved on it will make it a lot easier for her."

"YOU FUCKIN PRICK!" yelled elliot lurching forward. Cragen grabbed hold of him.

"GET THE HELL OUT!" he shouted at Porter. Porter laughed at elliot opened the door and left.

Elliot slumped into the chair in front of Cragen's desk.

"You okay?" asked Cragen looking down at Elliot his body was shaking. "Elliot you know that was all bullshit, Porter is just trying to get a rise out of you."

Elliot looked up at him. "Yeah and there isn't a damn thing I can do cause he is the only one talking to her. I don't even know the prick, I only met him the once when he picked up Olivia. What the hell is his problem?"

"I don't know, but I will find out. I will make some calls. But elliot I don't want you going after him, leave it to me, to find out some answers."

"Yeah okay cap." He said standing up. "Do you mind if I get off for the day."

"No go, its quiet, I will see you tomorrow."

Dani pulled up a bar stool and sat down next to elliot.

"You want to talk about it?" she asked ordering another two beers and shots.

"Nope, talking is over rated," he said finishing his bottle of beer. "What are you doin here anyway?"

"Cragen said you left early after that Porter guy from the FBI stopped by, I called your apartment and got no answer figured you would be here. I take it he came about Benson?"

Elliot looked at her "I said I don't want to talk about it." He picked up the shot and knocked it back before drinking half the bottle of beer in one go. He got the bar tenders attention and ordered some more shots. "You gonna drink that or just look at it?" he asked pointing to her drink. She picked up the shot glass and drank it, feeling the burn as it went down.

"So you and Benson were close then?" asked Dani two hours later her words becoming a little slurred.

"Yeah… well I thought we were" he shook his head as if to try and clear it. "I don't …want to talk about it, about her." he went to stand up and fell forward. "Damn….. I got to go and take a leak."

"You gonna be okay?"

"Yeah," he laughed getting his balance. "I'm a big boy now, can Pee by myself and everything." He staggered off the mens room leaving Dani with her drink. She smiled to herself "Tonight is definitely the night" she thought to herself. "A few more drinks, and he will wake up in the morning wrapped up in my arms."

Elliot staggered back towards her "Okay night sweetheart." She heard him say before putting his phone in his pocket.

"who was that?" she asked him, slightly worried he had someone else she didn't know about.

"Er… my daughter Maureen, just checking up on her old man," he grinned. Dani grinned back.

"That's nice."

"Yeah she's a good kid, bright and beautiful, just like all my kids."

"They must all take after their Dad then," she said resting her hand on top of elliots on the bar. Elliot looked down not moving his hand.

"Nah, their all way better than me." he pulled his hand away and picked up his drink. Dani moved her stool a bit closer.

"Oh I don't know, I don't think your to bad" she said their shoulders just touching.

"Yeah well that's cause you don't really know me," he grinned, they sat for a few minutes in silence.

Dani nudged his shoulder, "Well don't you let me in a bit." He felt her hand on the side of his face turning his head to face her, they were only inches apart. "I won't bite" she said moving in closer.

Elliot gulped, as he looked at Dani, his head was spinning and his vision was blurry, he knew he had to stop this ….

"Well it looks like we got here just in time" said a voice just to the side of them. "How much have you had to drink?" elliot turned his head to the side.

"Hey" he grinned, "what you guys doing here?" he asked trying to stand up and only succeeding in falling back onto the stool.

"Well after that slurred phone call, we realised we were just round the corner so we thought we best come and get you." said Maureen folding her arms across her chest. "What the hell you doin getting so drunk, has something happened to Olivia or one of the guys, you never get in this state."

"I don't want to talk about it, that prick called her Livvy," he said with a stupid look on his face as he looked at his two daughters. "I miss you guys." He said pulling Kathleen into a drunken hug.

"Yeah well, it looks like we got here just in time, before this blond bimbo got her claws into you." said Kathleen glaring at Dani.

Elliot looked at her a bit confused. "No Sweetheart, this is Dani… my partner…. temporary partner." He grinned.

"Yeah….. well I stand by what I said" she said not taking her eyes off Dani. "Come on Dad lets get you home."

"I'm sure he is fine, he is a big boy now," said Dani getting annoyed at been glared at by his two daughters.

"Yeah I can Pee by myself and everything" laughed elliot as Maureen helped him up.

"That's good Dad, let's get you home," she said wrapping her arm around his waist. Dani went to move forward and was blocked by Kathleen.

"Back off" Kathleen warned her. "As he said you're his temporary partner and that's it till Olivia comes back. He doesn't need any help and he doesn't need you coming on to him."

"Elliot knows what he wants."

"Yeah he does and believe me it isn't no blonde slut. Do you really think he would of looked at you twice had he not been so drunk. What's the matter is that the only way you can get a man, fill him with drink first." Sneered Kathleen.

"You little Bitch!" snapped Dani stepping towards her.

"Go ahead, hit me" she laughed. "Would love to see you explaining that one to Uncle Don in the morning, not to mention Dad." Dani stepped back as Kathleen turned and followed her Dad and Maureen out the bar.

Dani picked up her beer on the bar and finished it off. If anything she was even more determined to get Elliot Stabler into her bed now, nobody stopped her from getting what she wanted.

Think it could be time to bring Olivia home in the next chapter. please keep the reviews coming. Going to try and update again this weekend if possible.