Authors Note: Thank you everyone who left me a review, here is the next Chapter.
Olivia POV
Olivia rushed out to her car, trying to make sure that Elliot does not get a chance to catch up. She was not worried about leaving Elliot in her apartment; she knew he would lock up for her. She got into her car and quickly drove off heading to the precinct.
"I can't believe he had the audacity to follow me on my date." Was all Olivia could say in her mind repeatedly, she felt the anger building up inside of her the more she thought about it. She was dreading working with him the rest of the day.
She finally got to the precinct, and went in, not hiding the fact that was pissed, she went into the office and saw that the captain was there along with Fin and Munch. Olivia went to her desk taking off her coat and then going to get some coffee.
"What's wrong with you?" Fin asked her, after seeing her stomp around the place for a while.
Olivia looked at him, "Nothing." Was all she said, hoping he would get the hint that she didn't want to talk about it.
"It must be an Elliot problem." Munch said not looking up from his paper.
Olivia looked at him and looked back down at the paper work on her desk. She took the first file, and quickly drowned herself in work, forcing herself not to think about her problem with Elliot.
Elliot POV
Elliot finished locking up Olivia's apartment and headed down to his car. He knew to wait a while before leaving, so she could have time to leave ahead of him. He went to his car and got in, heading off to work.
"I am such an idiot." Elliot continued to say to himself. It was true that he was watching her on her date, but he just wanted to make sure the guy wouldn't do anything stupid. He couldn't help but care about her well-being. She was his partner and his best friend, he didn't want anything to happen to her. After a while he finally made it to the Precinct, he parked his car next to Olivia's as he usually does, and headed in.
"This is going to be a long day." Elliot said to no one before finally walking into the office.
He saw Olivia bent over the desk, drowning herself in her work. He knew she would try to avoid speaking to him. However, he was going to try his best to apologize to her and get her forgiveness. He just didn't know how he was going to do it.
"Hey, are you in a bad mood?" Fin asked from across the room when Elliot sat down after taking his coat off.
Elliot looked over at him. "No, why?" He asked having an idea why the question was asked.
"Because, she is." Fin said pointing to Olivia. "And normally you would to. But since your not mad then I am guessing it was your fault." Fin finished then looked back down at his paper work.
Elliot didn't respond, he just looked at Olivia who continued to do her paper work. When she didn't even look up he went to get some coffee. Elliot then sat down and too began his paper work, while trying to figure out how to get her to accept his apology.
Later that day, Olivia finally finished her paper and work, then went to the file room to file the paper work.
Elliot took this chance to talk to her. He got up and followed her to the file room.
"Olivia?" Elliot asked softly trying to make sure that he does not upset her anymore.
Olivia looked at him, "What?" Olivia asked before looking back down at the file in her hand.
"I want to apologize for watching you on your date, I know you are upset about it, but I want to tell you that I did it because I care about you. And I wanted to make sure you were ok and that no one tried anything with you." Elliot said, hoping that Olivia would forgive him and stop ignoring him.
Olivia slammed the file on top of the cabinet which sort of startled Elliot.
"No! I will not forgive you and I don't care about your apologies. I am a grown ass woman; I don't need you watching over my every move." Olivia steamed.
"Olivia.." Elliot tried to plead.
Olivia cut him off. "No Elliot, I don't want to hear it. It's not the fact that you were looking out for me, it's the fact that you are acting I am not able to look after myself. I am fine by myself. So how many times have you followed me on my dates. Huh?" Olivia questioned him.
"Well…I mean maybe a few…" Elliot began.
"A FEW!" Olivia yelled. "So you are always watching me! Elliot, I can't believe you. If you wanted to make sure, I was ok. You could have asked me to check in with you. But no, you had to just spy on me." Olivia, looked down.
Olivia walked over to him, and stood in front of him, looking him in the eyes as hers began to water. "I will never forgive you for this." With that, Olivia walked out of the file room and went back out to her desk.
Elliot sighed, pissed off at himself for spying on her. He thought she was over reacting a bit, but he knew he was wrong by violating her trust. He eventually went back out to his desk, to find Olivia talking to a man, and she was smiling. Elliot went over to see what was going on.
"Hey Olivia?" Elliot said getting their attention.
"Elliot, this is Mike Logan." Olivia introduced.
"You must be detective Stabler." Mike said sticking his hand out.
"Logan? As in Detective Logan from homicide?" Elliot asked, while shaking Mike's hand.
"Yes." Mike answered. Then looking at Olivia who had a small smile on her face.
Elliot looked at the two of them, and felt a small hint of jealousy that he never felt before. "What brings you to Special victims?" Elliot asked, trying to get Mike's attention from Olivia.
"He came to drop off a case that was turned over to us." Olivia interjected, still smiling at Mike.
Mike felt the tension between Elliot and Olivia. "Well I better get going." Mike said, backing up to the doorway. "Well, first, Olivia may I speak with you?" He asked giving her a genuine smile.
Olivia nodded and put the file on her desk and walked over to Mike. "Sure thing." Mike and Olivia headed off into the hallway.
Olivia stopped and leaned against a wall, anxiously waiting for Mike to say something. Mike looked at her nervously, "I was wondering if you would like to have lunch with me later today?" Mike finally spat out, hoping for her to accept.
Olivia smiled at his nervousness. "Sure, I will meet you across the street." Olivia answered with a blush and small smile.
Mike smiled at her, "Great I will see you around noon then." Olivia nodded her head. Mike continued to back up, knocking into someone coming out of the elevator. Olivia giggled at him, as he waved then stepped into the elevator.
Olivia slowly walked back to her desk, still smiling brightly. She had to admit she was very excited about lunch with Mike. She found Elliot looking at her, he looked upset, but Olivia really doesn't care about how he feels about it.
Elliot watched her sit across from me. "So he asked you out huh?" Elliot asked.
Olivia looked at him. "Yes he did, and no I am not telling you when or where, you will just follow me again." She answered with an attitude.
Elliot rolled his eyes and went back to his work, getting pissed off. He did not like Mike, but he really had no reason to dislike him, Mike didn't do anything to him. Elliot was not use to this feeling of jealousy. He has never felt this way before, he has caught Kathy kissing a man when they were dating and he didn't even feel this way. He reminded himself to find a way to control this feeling, because he didn't like it at all.
Soon noon came around, and Olivia sat watching the clock intensely, waiting for her break to come. Finally it did, she stood up and put on her coat, heading out to lunch. Elliot saw her and knew she had lunch with Mike.
"Going to lunch with Mike?" Elliot asked.
Olivia looked at him and nodded her head before walking out of the office, getting on the elevator. When she got off, she saw Kathy heading the opposite way. Olivia said hello and kept walking, her and Kathy never got along. She didn't know if it was because Kathy didn't like Olivia and Elliot being friends, or if it was because she just disliked her. What ever reason, Olivia and Kathy stayed out of each other's way.
Elliot POV
Elliot was sitting at his desk thinking about what to have for lunch when he saw his wife walk in. He stood up and walked over to her.
"Hey Kathy." Elliot greeted her, then giving her a kiss. She smiled at him.
"I came to have lunch with you." Kathy said with a smile, holding a bag that Elliot guessed had food in it. He smiled down at her and walked with her to his desk and she sat next to him.
"So, did you finish all of your work yesterday?" Kathy asked looking down at the files on his desk.
"Uh, yea sure, most of it." Elliot lied, he didn't like lying to her, but he knew that if she found out he was at Olivia's she would cause a scene.
"Oh ok, well when do you think you will be off today?" Kathy said looking at him with hope in her eyes.
Elliot looked at her and looked for something in her eyes, something that confirmed that they still love each other. Before he could find it, she interrupted his thoughts.
"Elliot?" Kathy said breaking his thought.
"Oh, well I don't know, maybe late I don't know, depends on how long it takes me to finish my work." He answered truthfully.
Kathy looked disappointed, she wanted her husband home early since it has been so long since they even slept together in the same bed. She didn't want him working so much, he wanted her husband back, before he became a detective.
"Elliot." Kathy asked him, while he was eating the food she brought.
Elliot looked up at her. "Yes?" He answered, seeing the distress on her face.
"Have you ever thought about leaving all this and doing something else?" Kathy asked, looking away from him and looking across the room through the window.
Elliot paused, and thought about the question for a second. "Well, no, I love my job. I don't want to do anything else. Why?" Elliot answered honestly.
Kathy looked at him with a bit of an attitude. "Elliot I am tired of you working long hours and not being home with me ever, I miss you." Kathy said.
"I'm sorry babe, but this is what I love to do, I can't help that my job consists of me working long hours." Elliot said looking at her.
"Oh." Was all that Kathy could say, she had to accept his decision to stay at his job.
Olivia POV
Olivia was sitting down at a table waiting for Mike, she looked at her phone for the time and saw that it was, 12:03 pm, she was beginning to feel stood up, when she saw him walk through the door. She smiled brightly and waved him over, he walked over with a smile and sat down.
"Sorry it took me so long, traffic is bad." Mike apologized.
"No worries, its fine." Olivia answered.
Mike looked at her, and looked like he wanted to ask her a question. Olivia noticed it and asked him, "What do you want to ask me?"
"How did you know I wanted to ask you a question?" He asked her.
"Because, you had the look on your face that said you wanted to ask a question." She answered, smiling sweetly.
"Well, what is up with you and Stabler? You two were tense." He asked, not trying to pride in her personal issues with her partner.
"Oh that, we are just having some problems with trust that is all." Olivia answered looking out the window. She really didn't want to talk about it, but she felt comfortable with Mike.
"Care to share?" Mike asked, looked into her deep brown eyes. He wanted to hold her, and take all her worry and pain that showed in her eyes away.
"Well, he has been following me on dates. He said it's because he was looking out for my safety and he does it because he doesn't want me to get hurt. I just feel that he doesn't trust me with my self." Olivia confessed to Mike, who is indeed a stranger but she felt close to him.
"Well you can't be upset with him for trying to be a good friend and partner. I know he was wrong for spying on you, but he cares about your safety you can't get upset with him about that." Mike told her, trying to get her to get over her anger at Elliot.
Olivia looked up at him, then realizing that she was over reacting a bit. "Well I guess I over reacted a bit." She said. "God I feel so bad now, I treated him so bad when he was just trying to keep me safe." Olivia said. Tearing up.
Mike grabbed her hand on the table to comfort her. "Its not your fault, you were upset and angry and I bet you told him you didn't want to hear any of his excuses or apologies and that you were never going to forgive him." Mike said.
Olivia looked at him surprised. "How did you know?" She asked.
Mike smiled. "Well, it's just a guess, I don't know. Was I right?"
Olivia nodded, looking down. Mike smiled at her and got her eye contact. "Well then, don't I deserve a cookie?" He asked causing Olivia to smile and laugh.
"Well, at least you are smiling." He said smiling.
"Thank you." Olivia said, looking at him with soft eyes.
"For what?" He asked smiling.
"For making me feel better and making me realize that I was over reacting." She said still holding his hands.
"No problem, making people feel good is my specialty." He gloated with a smile.
"Really?" Olivia asked with a concerned look on her face.
"Oh no not that kind of feel good." Mike laughed which caused her to laugh with him.
Olivia had to admit she was having a good time with Mike and she felt calm and happy around him. She wondered if he was the one she would be with forever. She quickly shook the thought out of her head, trying not to jump to conclusion.
With Elliot, he and Kathy were just finishing up, and he was getting ready to walk her out to her car, when Fin came over.
"Hey Elliot, do you have the file from the Martin's case?" Fin asked him.
"Sure thing, why do you need it?" Elliot asked handing him the file.
"Well, I was supposed to get it done last night, but you weren't here so I couldn't get it from you." Fin said then went back over to his desk.
Kathy turned to Elliot. "You weren't here!" She said, then looking at him waiting for an answer.
"Well, no, I wasn't I stayed at Olivia's" He answered truthfully, not wanting to lie to Kathy any more.
"You were sleeping with Olivia!" She said loudly, but not loud enough for other people to here.
"No, I was not sleeping with her, I just stayed the night." He said, trying to calm his wife down.
She walked away, and he followed her to the elevator. They both got on, as she ignored him. "Kathy, nothing happened, I didn't want to be home so I was driving around and saw her walking, we talked and it was late so I just stayed in her guest room that is it nothing else happened." Elliot tried to explain.
Kathy looked at him, then the elevator doors open and she walked out, with Elliot following. "Kathy, talk to me." Elliot kept asking.
When they got outside, he grabbed her arm lightly. "Kathy Please!" Elliot slightly yelled.
"Elliot, what do you want me to say, you are cheating on me with that bitch!" Kathy said sternly.
"She is not a bitch and I am not cheating on you, how many time do I have to tell you that, I love you, why the hell would I go to some other woman when I have what I want right here in front of me!" He said getting upset.
"Why are you defending her? Huh? It's because you are sleeping with her isn't it!" Kathy started to yell.
"No! I am not defending her. You just have no right to call her a bitch!, you don't even know her, you don't like her for no reason." Elliot said, trying to calm down.
Kathy looked at him, and shook her head. "Fine you have to choose! Me or her!" Kathy finally said.
Elliot looked at her. "Of course I am going to choose you, you are my wife, Olivia is just my partner nothing more nothing less, we are just good friends. That's all." Elliot said.
Kathy looked down. "Fine, if you love me and are going to choose me, then quit your job and stay away from her." She said looking back up at him.
Elliot sat their looking at her surprised, "Kathy, I am not going to quit my job, I love this job, and if you fucking love me, you won't try to make me choose." Elliot pleaded with her.
"Fine, but stop being her partner." Kathy said sternly to him.
"I cant, part of my job is being her partner, so she is part of my job." Elliot said, hoping Kathy would drop the whole thing.
Olivia was just leaving the restaurant saying good-bye to Mike. They agreed to have lunch again tomorrow. After Mike got into his car and drove off, Olivia looked across the street and saw what looked like, Kathy and Elliot arguing. She decided to not get involved and just walked across the street and was going to walk pass them and go right inside.
Elliot saw Olivia coming across the street, and so did Kathy. When Olivia finally crossed the street, Kathy walked over to Olivia and slapped her.
"Stay the Fuck away from my husband Bitch!" Kathy yelled at Olivia.
