Chapter 6

"I best go and get changed," said Elliot looking around the kitchen. "I thought Liv would have been home by now," he said looking at his watch.

"Maybe her meeting with Cragen went on a bit longer," she said shrugging.

"Yeah, maybe. Listen some of the guys will be arriving shortly, you okay to let them in whilst I go for a quick shower. I need it after moving all that drink."

"Yeah, sure."

"Just tell them you're a friend of ours and do catering and you offered to help out with food for the night. If the guys think I got a catering firm in they are gonna think something is up."

"Sure," she smiled watching Elliot as he disappeared out the room.

He walked up the stairs pulling his top of as he walked into the bedroom.

"What the hell!" yelled Olivia as Elliot pulled his top over his and stopped walking staring at her. She was stood in the middle of the room in only a pair of black panties and bra. He stared at her open mouthed as she glared back at him, wishing she hadn't thrown her top across the room.

"I erm….. I didn't …. I didn't know you were home," he stammered as his eyes roamed over her body not even try to hide it, he knew he shouldn't be but he couldn't help it, she was beautiful and person alive could see that.

Olivia felt her skin burning as she watched him watching her, his eyes blatantly falling on her breasts as he licked his lips. She stormed across to him and grabbed his top off him and held it across her chest hiding herself. Elliot couldn't help the smirk on his lips.

"You didn't try and hide yourself the last time we were in a bedroom together."

"What the hell you talking about?" she asked him.

"The Bushido case, you were quite willing to strip off then and drape yourself all over me, didn't see you trying to cover yourself then."

"That was different, maybe if you had been a better husband I wouldn't have had to come to you to save your your marriage and your ass."

Elliot started laughing to himself.

"What the hell is so funny?"

"Liv, I got shot that night. Mind you if I had died I would have died a happy man after that show you gave them. And what do you mean you were trying to save my marriage?"

"God you are such a prick do you know that, it wasn't my fault they figured you out. Maybe if you hadn't acted like a good little catholic boy, who had never seen a woman in bra and panties when I came out the bathroom we could have gotten away with it. And as for your marriage, Kathy had her bags packed and was leaving with Eli when I got to your house. I had to do something to stop her leaving."

"You should have just let her go, what is it with you always trying to sort my life out for me."

Olivia stared at him as she thought about Cragen's words and how he didn't want her to fix things.

"What are you doing just barging in here anyway?" she asked him trying to change the subject.

"I didn't know your were back so I came up to shower and change before everyone arrived. If you hadn't just sneaked in I wouldn't have just entered the room."

He watched Olivia as her own eyes moved over his body. His sweat pants were hung low on his hips. He had lost a bit of weight since he had left and toned up a lot spending most nights in the gym, rather than go home to an empty apartment, he saw Olivia bite down on her bottom lip as her eyes stopped and she stared towards the waist band of his sweats.

"See something you like Benson?" he asked her, knowing it would piss her off that he caught her looking. He also knew she was staring at the black ink from the new tattoo he had gotten as she tried to figure out what it was.

Her head snapped up. "I'm not surprised you didn't hear me," she said. "You were too busy laughing and flirting with Rollins….. Maybe they should have got her to play your wife. After all we know how much you prefer your blondes."

"What the hell is that supposed to mean, we were only talking, not flirting. It was nice to have a civilised conversation instead of being screamed at all the time."

"Yeah, sure whatever you say."

"Jesus, what the hell happened to you? I leave for a few months and you turn into a complete bitch."

"Yeah well maybe if you had showed me a little respect and gave me a heads up as to why you were leaving….."

"What you mean like you did?" he asked her raising his own voice. "When you asked Cragen for a new Partner first and then just when I think we are okay you left to go undercover with FEDs, you really gave me the heads up then, clearing your desk over night."

"I was coming back!" she shouted.

"But I didn't fucking know that. Christ we had one of worse cases ever, I tell you I need you, that you and my kids were the only things I had left, and then you go straight to Cragen andasked for a new Partner. Talk about a kick in the nuts. I walk into work the next day to be told you had transferred out, no warning, nothing," he yelled back at her.

"You blamed me for Ryan's death. You may not have said those exact words but I knew it was how you felt. And then, you tried to get me to shoot you, you told me over and over to pull the trigger. How could you even ask me to do that?" she said tears forming in her eyes as she thought back to the warehouse.

"I was out of ideas, he had the gun to my head and he would have killed me if he had the chance. At least you taking the shot and killing him we would have had the chance to find the kid."

"You didn't know that. You were being a selfish prick, just like you always are."

"So is that why you left me again, just taking off over night. No word, no call, nothing. What exactly had I done that time, Benson? I thought everything was back to normal, that we were okay. I came into work to find your desk cleared, and your phone disconnected. I didn't know if you were alive or dead. What was that for to punish me, teach me a lesson? At least when I left I put my papers in, and asked Cragen to tell you. Me I got nothing. I didn't know what the hell I had done wrong. Did you not think for one minute I was worried about you?"

"Well it didn't look like it when you had your tongue shoved down Dani Becks throat."

Elliot stared at her open mouthed as the room fell into silence. He had no idea that she knew he had kissed Dani.

"Like I said, you always did prefer blondes," she said walking past him towards the bathroom. Elliot grabbed hold of her arm.

"What do you know about Dani?" he asked her.

"Enough," she said pulling her arm out of his grip. "Now get the hell off me," she said storming off into the bathroom and slamming the door behind her.

"Fuck," he sighed rubbing his hand over his face and staring at the closed bathroom door, before grabbing some clothes and storming out the bedroom slamming the door behind him.

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Munch, Fin and Cragen all looked at each other as they watched Elliot leave the room.

"Well I guess your little talk with Benson done a lot of good," laughed Munch.

"Did you know about Stabler and Beck?" asked Fin. "I didn't even think they liked each other."

"Never mind that, I want to know why we didn't know about Olivia stripping off to save Stabler's life. Damn I always miss the good stuff."

"You are seriously one dirty old man," said Fin shaking his head.

"And you wouldn't have me any other way," he laughed looking over at Cragen.

"So did you know about all of that stuff?"

"No," he sighed rubbing his hand over his head. "And I'm more concerned about what they are talking about with the gun to his head incident, they never wrote that up. I swear to god those two are going to put me in an early grave. I thought that little talk with her earlier may have helped, but there is so much anger between them."

"Cap, until they finally give in to each other and just do the deed, nothing is going to help those two," laughed Munch turning back to the screen. He had a feeling the party tonight was going to be very eventful.