Multiple Blessings

(Chapter Two: Beautiful)

A couple weeks later….

"You are not even going to tell me where we are going?" Olivia asked as she adjusted the blindfold with her fingertips.

"No. No peeking!"

"Okay," she laughed. "But I am getting a little claustrophobic under here. How much longer?"

"Not long."

"I assuming this this mystery date includes dinner?"

"It does."

"Good, I am starving! All I know is you called and told me to wear something nice, that we were going out tonight. You won't give me any details….should I be nervous?"

"Why would you be nervous? You trust me, don't you?"

"Of course I do. But I tend to get nervous any time you rush me off into the night without giving me details. Although I will have to say that I enjoy the excitement."

"I knew you would," Elliot whispered against her ear as he kissed her cheek.

Olivia smiled again.

"El, I am not sure how much longer I can do this, babe. I am starting to feel a little car sick."

"Or morning sick," Elliot said with a smile.

"I don't think we are quite to that point yet."

"You are almost eight weeks pregnant. Most women get morning sickness around six weeks. We are exactly at that point."

Olivia laughed.

"I never thought I would be happy about being nauseated."

Elliot slipped his hand into hers and locked their fingers together.

"We're here," he said as he turned shut off the car.

"Can I take it off."

"Just a little longer," he said kissing her hand

Elliot climbed from the car and walked around to her side. He opened the passenger's side and took his wife by the hands. Elliot walked her slowly down a path, then stopped.

"Alright," he said stepping behind her and slipping one arm around her waist.

He reached up and untied the blind fold.

"Open your eyes," he whispered softly kissing the tender spot behind her ear.

Elliot watched as her eyes fluttered open.

"Oh, Elliot."

"Do you like it?"

"It is beautiful. I love it," she said looking around at the romantic lakeside candlelit dinner he had set up for them under the stars.

He had set a small table and two chairs with candles and take out from her favorite Italian restaurant. She turned to look at him and smiled.

"I realized that we have been so busy at work lately that I have not even taken you out to celebrate the fact that you and I are finally going to have a baby."

Olivia smiled as Elliot pulled out a chair for her.

"You got champagne?" she asked.

"It is non-alcoholic sparkling cider," he corrected her as he poured her a glass.

Olivia giggled as she picked up the glass and watched the bubbles rise to the top.

"This stuff is pretty good," she said. "This is so romantic. The night sky with the moon and stars, it is absolutely beautiful. It almost makes you forget we are this close to the city."

"A beautiful night for my beautiful girl," he said raising his glass. "To our beautiful baby and our beautiful new life as parents."

"I'll drink to that," she said taking another sip from her glass.

They sat and talked about future plans and past experiences as they ate their dinner. The white Christmas lights Elliot had draped in the trees around the table lit the area with a soft glow and the sounds of summer began to fill the air. Crickets chirping and lightening bugs flickering in the air.

"I've got something for you," he said pulling a long jewelry box from his jacket pocket and placing it on the table in front of her.

Olivia slid the ribbon off the box and removed the top.

"What do you think?"

"It's so pretty," she gasped.

"Do you like it?"

"I love it!"

She replied looking into the box. Inside was a gold necklace with a diamond heart pendant.

"The sales girl showed me one with a ruby. But diamonds are a girl's best friend."

"Can you fasten it for me?" she asked holding her hair up.

"Absolutely beautiful," Elliot said kissing the tip of her nose as she smiled.

"Thank you. I really do love it! And I love you."

"I love you, too. There is more," he said laying a set of keys in her palm.

"Keys? Keys to what?"

"To the cabin," he replied kissing her hand. "Cragen is letting us borrow it for the weekend."

"Really?"

"Yes, really. I have connections. I packed you a bag and I came out here this morning and got things set up. Just you and I and our cabin in the woods."

"What about the dog?" she asked.

Elliot laughed as he stood from the table and walked over to open the cabin door.

"There's my girl," Olivia cooed as Lucy came running out to greet her.

"I told you I thought of everything," he said as he turned on the radio in the car to provide a little mood music.

"You look beautiful tonight, Mrs. Stabler. Can I have this dance?" he asked offering her his hand.

Olivia smiled as she stood and wrapped her arms tightly around his neck. She kissed him tenderly as they began to slow dance. Olivia closed her eyes and laid her head against his chest as Elliot held her tight in his arms.

"I love it here," she whispered softly.

"So do I. I wonder if Cragen would just let us move in," he joked. "A bit of a commute to work every day, but it would be nice to raise our kids out here in the country, with plenty of room to run and lots of fresh air."

"I meant here," she said placing her hand against his chest as she stared lovingly into his eyes, "in your arms."

Elliot smiled and kissed her passionately. As he did, fireworks began to explode in a rainbow of colors over the lake.

"Fireworks?" she asked with a smile. "You really do have connections, don't you?"

"It is forth of July weekend. I wish I could take credit for that, but I can't."

"You have made this the most romantic surprise ever. I don't know how I'll ever be able to thank you. Well, I do have one idea," she said with a smile as she stood from the table picking up the mostly empty take out containers and walked inside.

"Oh yeah," Elliot said to Lucy as he blew out the candles on the table and turned shut off the car.

Inside, Olivia sat the remainder of her dinner in the kitchen floor for man's best friend to enjoy. She slipped off her heels and made her way through the cabin looking around.

Elliot carried in their bags and laid them on the sofa. He smiled as he looked up to see his wife stretched out seductively across the bed. In the floor were her strappy heels and one strap of the yellow sundress she wore had slid off her left shoulder.

Olivia smiled and patted the bed beside her. Elliot scanned his eyes over her perfect body. Long legs, a full bust, pouty lips, golden skin and the most gorgeous big brown eyes he had ever seen. One look from her made his heart melt. He smiled for a moment at the thought of having a daughter with those beautiful brown eyes and her mama's smile. This was the woman God had made for him.

He made his way to her and laid down beside her on the bed. Olivia scooted up and leaned forward to kiss him tenderly.

"I love you," she whispered between kisses.

"I love you, too."

She rolled over and sat up on top of him. She raised up, flipping her long sexy hair back and smiled. She untied his tie and tossed it aside, then reaching forward began to unbutton the buttons on his shirt one by one.

"I do think the Mrs. is about to have her way with me," Elliot joked.

Olivia laughed.

"It just so happens I have a surprise of my own," she replied as she picked up his tie and used it to blindfold him.

She kissed him passionately, then trailed kisses down his neck and chest. She pulled his belt from his slacks and pulled his pants off.

"I really think I am liking the blindfold. This is so sexy."

"No peeking," she replied checking it to make sure he couldn't see.

She moved down traced the sensitive area around his navel with her tongue. Elliot laughed a bit as she tickled him. Olivia smoothed her hands up and down his chest as he began to moan softly.

She moved further down, removing his boxer shorts and discarding them as well. She lowered her mouth over his penis and gave her husband the most amazing blow job he had ever had.

Olivia raised up and smiled as Elliot gasped for breath. She laughed playfully and kissed her way back to his mouth.

"Did you like that?"

"I always do," he growled with a smile.

She kissed him and playfully bit her bottom lip. She sat up on him as Elliot flipped them on the bed so he was on top of her.

Olivia laughed again as her still blindfolded husband began to kiss and nip at the tender flesh of her neck. She groaned in ecstasy as he kissed his way down her chest. She was amazed at how even blindfolded he could navigate her body perfectly. No one knew her like he did. Elliot tickled her for a moment, then slid his hands up to slid off her panties.

Olivia flipped them again as she straddled him. She leaned forward placing a hand on each side of his head as she kissed him. As the kisses heated up, Elliot moved used his hands on her thighs to guide her onto him.

Olivia gasped and moaned as she sat up on him and began to move. She smoothed her hands over his chest and made her soft little moans as they moved together. Elliot's sounds were much deeper, more manly and better resembled grunts.

She slid her fingers between his, pushing off against his hands as they made love. After several minutes, Elliot rolled over again, laying her against the bed. He raised her legs up around his sides and began to move with harder and longer thrusts.

Olivia moaned and panted as he moved against her. He moved around to kiss and nibble at the side of her neck as she closed her eyes. Olivia could hear the booming of the fireworks over the lake as she focused on the way he felt inside of her.

Elliot reached up and pulled the tie from his eyes. He had to see her, to look into her and see everything he was making her feel at this moment. He stared into her dark eyes, begging him to give her more.

Olivia laughed as she reached up and wiped a bit of sweat from his brow.

"I love you so much," she breathed as he kissed her again.

Moments later, both satisfied and exhausted, she fell against him in the bed.

"That was incredible," she whispered.

"It always is," he agreed.

Olivia smiled and raised up to kiss her husband tenderly.

"I know it has been a while," she said softly as she laid her head against his chest to hear the beating of his heart.

"Things have been a little crazy lately. With all of this fertility stuff and work….I have not made enough time for you. I know that. And I want you to know that I'm changing it. Family comes first. That is you and this baby and the kids…."

"And Lucy," she said with a smile.

"And of course Lucy. My point is that I love you more than life and some of the things that we have been through together in the past couple of years, the infertility issues and stuff, it would be enough to split up a lot of couples."

"Not us."

"Never. I know things got pretty tough there for a while. We even argued some and we never fight. I just want you to know that never once, not even for a second, did splitting up cross my mind."

"Mine either," she confessed. "I think that we both blamed ourselves, we put a lot of pressure on ourselves. But I think finally becoming pregnant will take some of the pressure off. Now we can just enjoy being parents together. I know that in a way a lot of the stress has just begun. But I know that together we can make it through anything. Because we truly love each other."

Elliot smiled and kissed the top of her head.

"When was the last time we made love?"

Olivia sat up and smiled at him.

"What are you getting at?"

"I'm just saying, even when we were together, it wasn't really us. Not for the last several months anyway. Not until tonight."

"You're right."

"When was the last time we made love when we weren't on some schedule or fertility shot? When was the last time we made love just to make love and not for the sole purpose of getting pregnant? I think we both wanted this so badly that we didn't realize how routine it had all become. It became more like a business transaction than a romantic encounter between a husband and wife. I'm sorry. I am glad that we are having a baby, Olivia. But I am sorry for the way I let things get out of hand. I want us to make a promise that we will never let things get like that again."

She smiled and kissed him tenderly.

"I promise. I promise to make love to you without a schedule and for no reason at all."

Olivia smiled and Elliot kissed her.

"You know what I mean."

"I do. And you are exactly right. But I promise to do everything I can to keep things from getting that way again."

"So do I," Elliot replied.

Elliot reached into the bed beside them and pulled the blankets up around them.

"Good night, my love."

Olivia smiled. She knew it was a cheesy attempt to make her smile, but it always worked. And she loved that he talked to her that way.

"Good night, El."

She kissed him tenderly and closed her eyes as she drifted off to sleep in the protective arms of her husband.