I'd Do Anything

(Chapter Thirteen: A Perfect Little Family)

Elliot sat on the edge of Olivia's hospital bed as she held the baby up so they could get a good look at her. She stretched out her little hands as Olivia moved her finger tip down the side of her face and under her chin. Olivia unwrapped the blanket and brushed her finger over each of her little toes counting them in her mind.

Elliot smiled and laughed a little as he watched her. Olivia wrapped their daughter back in her blanket and held her as she kissed her little head.

"Thank you," she whispered softly to Elliot as she reached out and held his hand.

Elliot leaned in and kissed her tenderly and smiled. "Well, thank you. I had the easy part."

Olivia laughed. "Would you like to hold your daughter?"

"I would love to." Elliot took the baby into his arms and walked slowly around the room with her patting her gently on the back as she grunted and looked up at him.

"Hey, beautiful girl. I'm your daddy."

Olivia watched almost in tears as Elliot bonded with their daughter. He carried her back over and sat next to Olivia in the bed. He held her as Olivia combed her fingers through the baby's dark hair.

"You know Liv, I was thinking…." she turned her eyes to look into his. "I want to do this right. I want her to have both of her parents in her life. I was thinking maybe we should get a place together. Then I could see her every day. Help get up with her at night and early in the morning. I wouldn't miss her first words and first steps. I could be there for her. And for you. Olivia, please. Just think about it."

Olivia felt the tears rising in her eyes a his proposition. "Elliot, I don't know."

"Olivia, come on. Just give it a chance. Give me a chance. I want her, but I want you too. And I want the three of us to be a family. I know, you aren't dating. But I think we can do this. You and I. I think we can make it as a couple, if we give it a fair shot. And give our little girl the family she deserves."

Olivia looked down at her daughter in his arms as she made her little newborn sounds and looked up at them. She took a deep breath and looked at Elliot. "I think you should move in to the guest room. And we can take things slow. I have to do things right Elliot, for her. I want to give us a try. But I think it would be better if we just start off dating and work up to something more serious."

"Really?"

"Really," she whispered softly.

Elliot pressed his forehead against hers and kissed her lips. They sat together staring down at their daughter.

Just then a nurse entered the room.

"I am sorry, Ms. Benson. There has been a terrible mix up."

Olivia looked down at the baby girl in Elliot's arms as he pulled her to his chest defensively.

Another nurse entered with a baby in her arms.

"I don't know how we could have gotten this mixed up. This is your son," she said handing the baby to Olivia.

"My son?"

Olivia turned and looked at Elliot who stared down at the now sleeping little girl in his arms. His heart sank at the thought of having to give her up. It had only been a few minutes, but he had already grown attached to her.

Elliot turned the baby girl around to hand her back to the nurse.

"Oh, no sir. This one is yours, too. This is your daughter and that is your son."

"Wait, what?" Elliot asked very confused.

"We had two babies?" Olivia asked as Elliot looked at her.

"Yes ma'am. Twins. A boy and a girl. Somehow they were separated in the nursery. Her bracelet was labeled Benson and his was marked Stabler. When they went to take the Stabler baby to his mother, we realized we didn't have a mother by the name of Stabler. It took a little while to realize that the Stabler babies, belonged to the Benson mother. So this little man has spent the last few hours charming the nurses in the nursery. I am so sorry for the mix up. We will get a new bracelet made immediately so that this does not happen again."

"Okay," Olivia said softly. "But when did I…"

"You had him in the delivery room. Then you fainted and the doctor cleared the room. They revived you and minutes later your daughter was born. Your little boy weighed in at five pounds eleven ounces and was eighteen and a half inches long. And baby girl Stabler was born twelve minutes later, weighing five pounds six ounces and was eighteen inches long. Very healthy babies, good weights for twins and really good for thirty seven weeks. Well, I will leave the four of you to get acquainted. If you need anything just push the call button."

"Thank you," Olivia said with a smile.

"Oh my God, twins." She laughed and looked at Elliot. "I guess that puts us back at square one with names.

"You don't want to name them Noah Matthew and Savannah Brooke?"

"I don't know. I still really want to name him after his father." She said looking down into the baby boy's blue eyes. And smiled again.

"Okay. But if you name him after me, I get to name her after you."

Olivia laughed. "Oh, we are going to have our hands full."

"Now we know why they say be careful what you wish for."

Elliot leaned over and kissed Olivia, then kissed his son and his daughter.

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Two days later Olivia carried her son around the apartment as she fed him a bottle. She was standing in the living room when she heard the front door open and the footsteps coming up the stairs.

"Hey," she said with a smile as five Stabler children filed into the living room to meet their brother and sister.

"Oh my gosh," Maureen squealed as she brushed her fingertips over the little boy's head. "He is so cute."

"Do you want to hold him?" Olivia asked with a smile.

"Can I?"

"Yeah, you are his big sister." Olivia handed her the baby and he grunted and started to cry. Maureen looked up at Olivia with a worried look in her eyes.

"It's okay. He just wants you to give him his bottle," Olivia said softly handing the bottle to Maureen.

Olivia walked across the room to the other bassinet and picked up her daughter.

"Can I hold her?" Dickie asked stepping forward with a proud big brother look on his face.

"Sure, but you have to feed her." Olivia said with a smile.

"Oh, I know how to do that. Mom used to make me give Eli his bottles. But I don't remember him ever being this little."

Elliot laughed.

"Dickie, Eli weighed almost nine pounds when he was born. He wasn't this little."

"Oh."

"So what are their names dad?" Kathleen asked still punching away at the keyboard on her cell phone creating a text message.

Elliot looked at Olivia and grinned.

"Well, we went through a lot of names before we finally found the ones we decided to keep."

"Daddy, what are they?" Elizabeth asked taking her baby brother from Maureen.

"That is Aaden Elliot Stabler," he laughed as he looked up at Olivia. "And this is Arianna Olivia Stabler.

"I like those names," Elizabeth said with a grin.

"Aaden and Arianna, yeah," Kathleen agreed.

That night Olivia sat in the nursery rocking Aaden and giving him a bottle as Elliot walked around the room with Arianna and fed her.

"We're quite a team," he said with a smile. "Almost looks like we have been doing this for years. You would never guess my other set of twins are almost fifteen."

Olivia smiled. "Well, we have a system. This way we both get up every three hours."

"They are so perfect."

"I know. Elliot, I have never been happier in my life."

"Me either, Liv."

She stood up and they placed the babies back into the crib and turned off the light. Elliot started the mobile and he and Olivia stood and watched as their son and daughter fell quickly back to sleep.

Elliot needed her shoulders in his hands. "We did good, they are so beautiful."

"Yeah," Olivia said turning to look at him. "I never would have imagined twins. Of course it shouldn't have been that big of a surprise. You already had one set of twins and I was taking those hormone shots. But I cannot believe we went that long and never heard a second heartbeat or saw an extra hand on the sonogram."

"No wonder they couldn't tell for sure if the baby was a boy or a girl. It was probably a different baby each time they looked."

"It still amazes me, twins. Our son looks like you and our daughter…"

"Looks just like her beautiful mother. Our son and our daughter. God Liv, did you ever think we would ever hear ourselves say that?"

Olivia laughed and placed her hand against his chest. "We should get some sleep. We have three hours tops, before they are awake again."

"Yeah," Elliot said as he moved his hand up her arm and held hers as he locked their fingers together.

Olivia stared into his eyes and smiled. Elliot leaned in and kissed her slowly and passionately as he moved his thumb over her jaw bone.

"Elliot…"

"Olivia," he stared into her eyes. "I'm crazy about you." He gazed at her for a minute. "I love you, Liv. I have for a long time. I want us to be a couple. To give this a fighting chance. Not just for our kids, Olivia. But for us, too."

"Okay," she said with a smile. "But you know, I can't do anything…"

"Oh, I know. I have seven kids remember? My goodness….seven kids."

Olivia smiled, "and two sets of twins."

"I am a very lucky man."

"You are a very fertile man."

"That, too."

They both laughed. Olivia yawned and stretched.

"You should get some rest."

"You're right," Olivia took his hand in hers and lead him down the hallway.

"Liv?" Elliot cupped his hand and placed it on the side of her face.

She turned her head and leaned in to his chest. Elliot wrapped his arms around her and kissed the top of her head. She tipped her head up and stared into her eyes.

"We can't have sex, Liv. But that doesn't mean we can't just be together."

Elliot crawled into her bed next to her and wrapped her in his arms as she nestled in against him.

"Thank you," Olivia said softly.

Elliot smiled. "For what?"

"For being such a wonderful man. For giving me the two most beautiful children in the world. For being my best friend. And just for loving me."

"I love loving you, Liv. But I have no control over it. It just kind of happened. One of the best things that ever happened to me."

She smiled. "I love you, Elliot."

"I love you too, baby."

He held her tight in his arms and they fell asleep together for the first of many nights to come.