It silent for a few seconds before Olivia noticed that Elliot was laughing.

"You're laughing?" Olivia asked, "What the hell?"

"You're funny Olivia, but that hurt."

"Elliot what the hell are you talking about?" Olivia asked confused.

"That was a joke right?"

"It's not a joke El," Olivia said flashing him her ring, "I didn't want to tell you this way but you left me no choice. Elliot, I loved you. I waited for 13 years for you. I understood that you had a wife and kids which is why I waited so long. Then you left! You left the job! You left me!"

Elliot wasn't laughing anymore and Olivia was in tears. She couldn't believe that this was the first time she had seen Elliot in 6 months and they were arguing. She still loved him. She would always love him, but she loved David too. She was starting to doubt getting married which scared her. She felt like she was cheating in a way.

"Look, Olivia," Elliot said standing up and facing her, "I don't want to argue with you. I still want to be friends and I will do whatever it takes. I want to meet your fiance."

Olivia couldn't believe that Elliot was acting this rational. He was never rational about things. Maybe him quitting the job was the best thing.

"Well," Olivia began, "Casey is coming over tonight for dinner and if you'd like you can come over too."

"I'd like that," Elliot admitted.

"Come over about six," Olivia said as she stood up and headed back to her apartment where David was waiting.

XXX

Olivia had informed David about Casey coming over earlier this morning and he was fine with it, but when she had told him that Elliot was going to join them, he got angry.

"Seriously Olivia?" David yelled, "You think you can just go around inviting your ex's over for dinner?"

"He is not my ex!" Olivia yelled back, "He was my best friend!"

"Your best friend that you loved!" David hollered as he slammed his fist down onto the kitchen table.

"David," Olivia said lowering her voice, "I love you. Not him. You."

"I know that," David said, "I trust you. I don't trust him though. I've never met him! How do I know that he won't try to plant one on you?"

"You should trust me enough to know that if he even tried I would stop him," Olivia answered.

David sighed, "I can't believe we are arguing."

"It doesn't have to be an argument."

"I know that," David said sipping a drink of his water, "I'm sorry honey."

Olivia grinned, "Nobody's ever called me that before."

"Really?"

"Really," she answered honestly.

"Not even your mom?"

"Especially not my mom," she said, "My mom hated me."

David was intrigued with learning about Olivia's past. He knew she had a tough life but he didn't fully understand why, "How could anybody hate you?"

Olivia showed a painful smile, "My mother hated me because I was a reminder of her attack. She always told me that I looked just like him and I would end up no good just like him."

"Olivia you know that it's not true," David said touching her hand, "She loved you."

"I know she loved me," Olivia admitted, "If she didn't love me she wouldn't have kept me, but she never showed it."

"I can show you what it's like to be loved," David smirked standing up from the chair and walking over to pick Olivia up. He swooped her up in his arms and carried her into their bedroom so they could get ready for dinner.

"I think you should wear the pink dress," David said as Olivia showed him all her dresses.

"Really?" Olivia asked raising an eyebrow, "Pink isn't my color. What about the black one?"

"You always wear black," David stated, "Wear some color."

"I don't like color."

Olivia was posing in front of the mirror as she admired the pink dress that was on her. It did fit her body pretty good but it was too pink. Too happy. Behind her, sitting on the bed was David staring at her backside. Olivia noticed and turned around swiftly, "You need permission to look at that."

"Alright then," he said, "May I have permission to look?"

"Only if I can wear the black dress."

"You're black mailing me already?" David kidded, "What about if we both compromise and you wear the red one?"
Olivia looked over and eyed the red dress that was hanging in her closet. She remembered when she first bought that dress. It was the day before her mother passed away. They were suppose to go out to eat but Olivia had caught a case and couldn't go. That's why her mother was at the subway that day and Olivia had blamed herself for it every day.

"Fine."

Olivia secretly liked her red dress but she didn't want David to know that. It would make it all the more fun later on.

XXX

"So what do your friends like to eat?" David asked Olivia when they were done getting dressed.

"Take-out," she answered blatantly.

"Ha ha, you're funny."

"I know," Olivia smirked, "I don't know what they like to eat. We always had take-out."

"Well then I guess we can make whatever," David said opening the cabinets to see what was available.

"What about fettuccine?" Olivia asked.

"Alright then student," David said, "I'm going to teach you how to cook your second meal."

Olivia had never laughed so much in her life as she had sense she met David. They laughed about anything and everything, sometimes when it wasn't even funny. Olivia liked having time off from work but, she also missed busting perps.

They had just added the finishing touches to the meal when there was a knock at the door, "I'll get."

Olivia went to answer the door while David made plates and sat them down around the table.

"Hey Casey!" she greeted when she saw Casey and Elliot had arrived together, "Elliot!" She was going to try her hardest to get things back to how they used to be.

"Let me see the ring!" Casey exclaimed.

Olivia held up her hand and flaunted the ring in front of Casey and Elliot.

"Oh my gosh it's huge!" she gasped.

"Isn't it gorgeous?"

"That's a beautiful ring Liv..." Elliot said, "I'm happy for you."

"Let's go ahead and head to the kitchen so you can meet David," Olivia said to Elliot. She led them into the kitchen even though Elliot had been there plenty of times before. She remembered one time specifically when she was sick. Cragen had sent her home from work and Elliot had stopped by after to check on her. He found her puking her guts out and told her he would sleep on the couch. He held her hair up for her that night.

She sighed quietly and went to stand by David in the kitchen, "David this is Elliot. Elliot this is David, my fiance."

"Nice to meet you," Elliot said as he reached his hand out for David to shake.

"You too."

"You already know Casey," she said to David.

"Of course, ADA Novak."

It was awkward for a few moments because nobody knew what to say to each other.

"Well," David finally said, "Dinner is done and it's delicious if I do say so myself so let's eat."

They headed into the dinning room where there was a nice cherry wood kitchen table. David and Olivia sat next to each other and Casey and Elliot sat on the opposite side. They all had their plates of fettuccine with garlic bread and a glass of sweet tea.

"This is good," Elliot said swallowing his first bite, "How did you manage to teach Olivia how to cook?"

"Hey!" Olivia butted in, "I can cook if I want too."

Every one was laughing and getting along well when Elliot received a phone call.

"Excuse me," he answered pushing his chair away from the table and walking into the living room.

"Hello?"

"Elliot are you at Olivia's right now?" It was Fin.

"Yeah," he said, "Why?"

"We have evidence that says David Hayden is the rapist of Hailey MacDonald."

Elliot was stunned, "Isn't he an attorney? Are you sure it's his DNA because He proposed to Olivia and she is happy. If I go in there and say something she won't believe me."

"Detective Amaro and Detective Rollins are on their way over there now but I knew you were going over there for dinner so I figured I'd give you the heads up."

"Thanks Fin, I'll talk to you later."

Elliot slammed his phone shut while the blood inside of him boiled. Olivia was going to be so upset that David was a rapist. He didn't know how she would handle it. On the plus side, he figured that this would give him an advantage to win her back. He took a deep breath, and walked back in to the dinning room.

"You son of a bitch!" Elliot couldn't take it any longer.

"Elliot!" Olivia gasped, shocked at his words.

Before Elliot could say anything else there was another knock at the door, "Liv! It's Amaro and Rollins!"

Olivia ran to answer the door and they walked in, "I'm sorry we have to do this Liv."

Amaro and Rollins walked over to David and told him to stand up. They demanded that he put his hands behind his back and they slapped the cold silver cuffs on his wrists.

"David Hayden, you're under arrest for the rape of Hailey MacDonald. You have the right to remain silent..."

Olivia couldn't hear anything past why he was under arrest. She stood there with her back against the wall while everything was happening in front of her. Tears started to form in her eyes and before she knew it David was carried out of the front door.

"Liv..." Casey whispered getting up from her seat, "Are you okay?"

Olivia slid her back down the white wall until she reached the floor and started sobbing.

"Oh Olivia," Casey said trying to comfort her, "This could all just be a misunderstanding."

Olivia said nothing. Elliot was standing there watching his old partner break down in front of him. He had never seen her so vulnerable before. He had never heard her cries so loud.

"Olivia... I'm going to go but if you need anything you can call me."

Olivia didn't acknowledge that Elliot had said anything but just continued crying. Why could nothing go right in her life? Why couldn't she just be happy this one time? Just this once. She remembered what her mom had told her when she was only 7 years old, "You will never amount to anything! Nothing will ever go right for you! I guarantee it!"

"Liv," Casey said rubbing her back, "I'm going to call Cragen and see if I can get any information okay?"

"Casey," Olivia whispered through her tears, "My mom was right."

"What are you talking about?"

"On my 7th birthday party," Olivia began, "I asked her if she had gotten me a birthday present. She was drunk and I knew not to talk to her but I really wanted a new pair of jeans. She told me that I would never get anything in life that I wanted. She said, 'You will never amount to anything! Nothing will ever go right for you! I guarantee it!'"

"That's not true and you know that Olivia," Casey said.

"No I don't know that," Olivia said shaking her head as some of the tears subsided, "Nothing has ever gone right for me. You and Elliot went right for me and then Elliot left. Then David was right for me and he's just been taken out of my house in cuffs accused of a rape charge. My mom was right."