A/N: I don't own any of the characters.

Blind Date

Ever since Erin moved to New York, she had one goal and that was to get her two favorite people together. She knew they belonged together even if they didn't think they did. She need to convince them of that. She knew the one thing standing in their way was the distance between New York and Chicago. She needed to get Hank to New York, so she could get him to go out with Olivia without knowing it was Olivia ahead of time. She knew Olivia's squad felt the same way she did and mostly everyone in Chicago felt that way too. She had called Amanda to get their help in setting things up. Erin called Hank to get him to come for a visit.

"Hey, Erin."

"Hey. Are you busy this weekend?"

"No. Why?"

"I was just wondering if you wanted to come visit me for the weekend. We haven't seen a whole lot of each other since I left Chicago and I do miss you."

"I miss you too, kid. Sure. Why not? A change of scenery might be good for me."

"Great. I'll see you in a couple days. I'll even pick you up at the airport and you can stay with me."

"I can't say no to that."

Erin hung up and Hank made his reservations for his flight to New York. Erin headed to SVU to work on Olivia.

"Hey, Lindsay."

"Hey. Is Liv around?"

"She's at a meeting with Chief Dodds."

"Ok. Let me know when she's back. Hank is coming here this weekend, so I need to work on getting her to want to go out on a date with him without knowing it's him."

"I hope this works. She seemed awfully cold, distant and bitchy when she was dating Tucker. Even though I never liked the guy after all the shit he put us though over the year and he arrested both Liv and Rollins, she seemed so sad after they broke up. That entire relationship surprised me because I always thought she felt something for Voight, especially during the Yates thing."

"I know. I don't think they have seen or heard from each other since the last time the two of you came to Chicago over a year ago."

"I don't doubt it."

"Call me when she gets back."

"Yeah, we will."

Erin left and went to buy Hank a suit, since she figured he wouldn't bring one with him. Since she still had her connections in Chicago, she had Al go to Hank's house and get his suit size without him knowing about it. She found one she really liked and then she also bought him a tie, shoes and a dressier coat. He had to wear something other than his leather jacket. Just as she was paying for everything, Amanda called her and said Olivia was back. After she done at the store, she headed back to the Precinct. She got out of her car and went inside. Olivia was in her office with the door shut.

"Hey, Lindsay."

"Hey, guys. It's good to see you."

"It's good to be seen."

Amanda shook her head and rolled her eyes. Olivia's cell phone rang, so she answered it.

"Benson."

"Hey, Stranger."

"Hank! It is so good to hear your voice. It's been a while."

"I know it has. I'm coming to visit Lindsay this weekend and I was wondering if you wanted to have dinner, so we could catch up."

"I'd love too. When will you be here?"

"I have an early Friday afternoon flight."

"Why don't we make it 5:30 or 6 o'clock? You can pick me up at my apartment."

"Erin is picking me up, so I won't have a car."

"Just get to my apartment and I'll drive."

"Ok. So, is this a real date?"

"I think we're actually going backwards, aren't we? We slept together a few times, including the last time I was in Chicago and now we're actually going on a date."

"Well, we both kind of decided to not take it any further and just be friends. You were with Tucker."

"We broke up back in January and I guess my heart wasn't completely in it. I think my feelings for you were stronger than the feelings or whatever they were that I had for Tucker. I want to make it work between us. I see Erin out in the Squad Room."

"Don't tell her we talked or that we're having dinner."

"Ok. I won't. I'll see you Friday."

"Ok."

Olivia hung up the phone and then she went out to the Squad Room.

"Hey, Erin."

"Hey. Can we talk?"

"Yeah, sure."

Olivia and Erin went into her office and then she shut the door again. They both sat down.

"What's going on?"

"I have this friend that I'd like to introduce you to."

"I'm not big on blind dates, Erin. I do have plans Friday night and possibly Saturday, so this weekend isn't good anyway."

"Can you change your plans?"

"I'm having dinner with a friend I haven't seen in a while. He's only in town for a few days and I promised him we'd get together. Sorry."

"That's ok."

Erin got up and left Olivia's office. She shut the door on her way out.

"She said no, didn't she?"

"Yep. She has some friend coming in from out of town that she hasn't seen in a while. She said she promised him they'd get together. Well, now I guess Hank's trip is going to be wasted."

"They'll get together soon enough."

"I doubt it."

Erin left and headed home. Olivia called Hank.

"Voight."

"Hey. Erin just left."

"What did she want?"

"She wanted to introduce me to a friend of hers. I told her I was having dinner with a friend that I haven't seen in a while and I promised him we'd get together."

"You don't think I'm that friend, do you?"

"Do you think she'd try to set us up?"

"Knowing her, anything is possible."

"Do you think we should go along with it? There is obviously some reason she doesn't want to say who she wanted me to meet."

"Call her and tell her that the friend you were expecting called and told you that his plans changed, so you're now getting together on Saturday instead of Friday."

"Are you sure you want to go along with this?"

"We've managed to get away with what we've gotten away with without anyone finding out for this long, so maybe it's time someone knows."

"Ok. I'll call her."

"Good."

Olivia hung up the phone and then she called Erin. She got her voicemail, so she left a message. Once Erin got home and checked her voicemail, she was glad to hear that Olivia had reconsidered. She now had to convince Hank, which may not be so easy.

To be continued…