Title: Olivia's Birthday

Disclaimer: I do not own Law and Order SVU or any of its characters.

A/N: Alright thanks for your posts it makes me feel good to know people are still reading my stuff lol.

From last chapter

Elliot sat up against the headboard and flipped through the channels until he decided on an infomercial. He felt Olivia stir beside him and he quickly turned down the volume. Soon he too had drifted into a restless sleep.

In what seemed like minutes a bright ray of sunlight woke Elliot from his restless sleep. Then he was surprisingly startled by a loud, almost angry and frantic banging on the hotel door.

Elliot quickly jumped out of bed and pulled his gun as he approached the hotel door. The banging continued, he heard Olivia awake behind him.

"What's going on?' Elliot turned his head to face her he put his hand up to his mouth to tell her to be quiet.

"Stay there." He mouthed as he leaned forward to look through the peep hole. He was relieved to see Fin on the other side. He breathed a sigh of relief as he opened the heavy door. "What the hell are you doing banging on the door like a crazy man?" Elliot ushered Fin in and looked once again at Olivia and saw the look of relief on her face as well.

"Hey, sorry man I was just coming to check on Liv and make sure someone was with her." Fin looked Elliot in the eye and told him they needed to talk privately. "We got something else from the guy, it came to the station. It was outside the building, surveillance didn't see anything we have nothing." Elliot rubbed his forehead with his thumb and his two middle fingers, before he asked he obvious question. ''What was it?"

Fin held up the bag with the small Polaroid, Elliot cursed when he saw what the picture was. It was a picture of Olivia entering the same hotel they were in right now. How did he get this, was he still in the building, is he going to come after her again? All these questions and more kept racing through Elliot's head.

"How can we get her out of here now without making her concerned?" Asked Elliot more to himself than to Fin. Elliot began to pace the bathroom when he heard Olivia open the door. "What is going on?"

Fin took a deep breath and put his hand on Olivia's shoulder. "We have to take you somewhere else, somewhere safer." Olivia began to protest then Fin handed her the photo and her hands began to tremble. She rushed out of the bathroom and began carelessly throwing her belongings into her suitcase.

"Where are we going to take her, Fin, obviously this guy isn't afraid of us. We can't keep her at the station he walked right up to the front doors. He knows she's here, the only place I will know she is safe is if she is with me." Elliot's concern was obvious in his voice. He has never seen Olivia so frantic, he knows she's scared, and it kills him that he can't do anything about it.

"What if we take her to your house? Kathy is away right? Munch and I can stay with you too, and we'll take shifts staying up to make sure no one is creeping around." Fin's idea seemed promising, now if only Olivia will agree to it. "Well, I gotta get to the precinct I'll tell captain your taking care of her. Call me when you decide something. I'll talk to Munch but I know it won't be a problem…its not like he has a social life." Fin turned to exit the bathroom leaving Elliot with his first smile in several days.

Elliot walked over to Olivia and he heard her crying as she was still packing. He put his arm around her and pulled her close to his chest into a tight hug. "It's gonna be OK Liv, I promise.." He placed his hand behind her head like he did the night before as he kept softly talking. "I promise."

Once her crying subsided Elliot sat her down on the bed and took her hand. "Fin and I came up with a plan of where to take you. We want to take you to my house, Kathy and the kids are away. Fin and Munch are gonna stay there too, we will take shifts to make sure nothing suspicious is going on. You know nothing will ever happen to you as long as I'm there…and Munch and Fin of course." Elliot began to stumble on the last couple of words. He still hasn't told anyone about his situation with Kathy, he knows there is nothing he can do so why talk about it right?

"OK" Elliot was slightly shocked at her quick reaction.

"What? You're really agreeing to this? Alright I'll go ahead and call Fin while you finish packing your stuff." Elliot walked a few steps away and pulled out his phone, after a short conversation he hung up. Olivia was done packing and had her bags by the door.

"I'm ready, lets get the hell out of here." Olivia picked up one of her bags and strained slightly. Elliot quickly realized this and grabbed the bag from her and picked up the remaining luggage. "How are those ribs coming?" He asked as Olivia shuffled to the door.

"Oh they are just fine, I can hardly feel them." She said in a sarcastic tone as she opened the door and stepped into the hallway. Elliot let out another small smile before following her into the hall.

Elliot pulled up to his house and popped the trunk. He helped Olivia out of the car, and quickly rushed her inside the house where Fin and Munch were already waiting. He returned to the car taking a quick but observant look around before grabbing the bags and heading back inside.

"Liv, you can stay in the twin's room there is a twin bed in there and it's the closest to my room. Fin is gonna stay in Kathleen's room, and Munch moved a bed into Eli's room so we'll all be close. Don't hesitate to come to my room f you need anything, I probably won't sleep much anyway. Make yourself at home there is food in the cupboards and the fridge." Elliot dropped the bags off in the colorful room of his two wonderful twins.

"Thank you El, this is really sweet of you."

As night came Fin decided to take the first shift. Munch made himself comfortable in the bed they pulled in from the guest room downstairs. Elliot tried to settle into the bed that he knew would be his own from now on. The moonlight shone in brightly through the windows in Olivia's new room, and she couldn't help but notice all the shadows. She keeps turning over trying not to think about the darkness and the silence. She turned back over and realized that there was a nightlight so she turned it on and took a deep breath. 'You are a grown woman, a cop non-the-less, suck it up you have three other police officers nearby there is nothing to worry about'. She kept trying to tell herself these things when all of a sudden she heard a loud bang from downstairs that made her jump out of her covers.

Elliot must have been awake also because she heard him run past her door down the stairs. Olivia could hardly make out a muffled conversation between the two detectives, then she heard the unmistakable laugh of Elliot. She then heard his footsteps coming back upstairs and stop outside her door.

Elliot peeked his head in the room and saw Olivia sitting against the headboard with the blankets pulled up to her chest like a small child.

"Did Fin scare you? He didn't want to turn on the lights and he managed to walk into the chair and knock the end table over. Everything is fine, Liv." Elliot's words were reassuring, but the thing that made her feel more comfortable was the calm and nonchalant expression on his face. He began to close the door, and then he heard her.

"Hey, could you um…maybe stay with me for a while? Just till I fall asleep, I just can't help seeing and hearing everything ya know?" The request was hard for her to ask, and Elliot knew it so he tried to make it as comfortable as possible.

"Why don't you come sleep in my room there is a TV in there to help you take your mind off things." Olivia just looked at him with a blank stare. "Not like that Liv, there is a chair in there, I'll just hang out till you fall asleep and I'll come in here. Trust me, it's not a problem." After some though Olivia agreed and grabbed some stuff from the room. She walked down the hall and made herself comfortable on the bed while Elliot took his place in the recliner.

"What's Kathy going to think if she comes home and I'm asleep in your guy's bed?" Olivia asked slightly joking. "Well Liv, I didn't want to tell you this yet. I didn't want you to have to worry about anything else, but your really the only person I feel like I can tell." Olivia knew something was wrong so she sat up in the bed and gestured for him to come sit next to her. "What's going on El?"

Elliot took a deep breath. "Kathy wants a divorce." Olivia's shock was evident when she inhaled instantly.

"What happened? Has she been talking about this for awhile, or was it sudden?"

"I think it's been coming for awhile, actually. I guess I just didn't want to believe it. Things just haven't been the same, we hardly speak, we don't eat dinner together anymore, and she's been going to see her mother a lot more often then she ever has before." Elliot's eyes began to well up with tears, but he didn't want Olivia to see him cry, especially at a time like this. It was Olivia's turn to comfort her heartbroken partner. She put her hand on his shoulder and began to rub his back, and she dried his tears with her thumbs. "Elliot…" She didn't know what to say, what do you say to make someone feel better in a time like this? "Elliot….I'm sorry."

Elliot nodded and continued to cry, Olivia hugged him and he hugged her back.

"Hey, how about you don't go in the twin's room. It seems that neither of us need to be alone tonight. You can sleep on top of the covers, I don't want you to have to be in there thinking about this by yourself. I know for a fact that I don't want to stay by myself tonight. So just stay here with me, I think it will make us both feel better."

Elliot looked up until he met her intense and serious stare. "You're serious?" Olivia knodded and Elliot agreed, as Olivia snuggled under the covers Elliot grabbed a blanket from the closet. He pulled it over his body as he watched Olivia flip through channels. She settled on a National Geographic special, 'amazing he thought to himself, 'I'll be asleep in no time'.

He looked over and was satisfied the Olivia was asleep so he changed the channel to A&E. Not ten minutes later he too was dreaming.

Fin's shift was finally over and he went upstairs to wake up Elliot. He walked down the hallway quietly so not to wake Olivia. He cracked the door to Elliot's bedroom and saw Olivia nestled closely to Elliot's body, and he has his toned arms wrapped around her whole body. They hadn't even heard him come in, he couldn't wake them. So he quietly closed the door and returned downstairs.

TBC