A/N- Okay, I'm pretty sure you can all guess, I'm not Dick Wolf, nor do I have anything to do with NBC except as a viewer. I don't own the show blah blah blah. R&R please. Enjoy!
Friday Evening
"She's getting married."
Elliot Stabler stopped chopping the green pepper in front of him and turned to stare at his daughter. "She's what?" When he had asked how his ex wife was doing he had expected a simple 'she's fine'.
"She's getting married." Kathleen repeated. "Not for a while, but she's got the ring."
"Who is she marrying?" Elliot asked. He wasn't aware his ex was even dating anyone seriously, let alone engaged.
"Some nerd named Todd." Dickie said looking up from his gameboy. Elliott looked at his son and shook his head. Great he was being replaced by a nerd. "He's nice I guess. But he wears a bow tie and doesn't know anything about baseball."
"How come you don't date anyone Dad?" Kathleen asked. "I mean you've been divorced for a year, and haven't mentioned anyone."
"I think you should date Olivia." Lizzie said walking into the kitchen and joining in on the conversation.
"Yeah, she's hot." Dickie mumbled concentrating on his game. He put the gameboy down when he realized his family was staring at him, he hadn't meant to say that out loud. "I mean she's cool."
"Olivia and I are just friends." Elliot said placing dinner on the table, not really wanting to discuss his love life, or lack of one with his children.
"But that's why you should date her." Kathleen said ignoring the glare from her father telling her to drop the subject. "You guys already know everything about each other and you get along great. Plus, all you do is work, where else are you going to meet someone. It's not like you're going to ask a victim out for dinner."
"I think it's a good idea." Lizzie smiled.
"Because you're the one who brought it up." Dickie pointed out.
"There it's decided Dad." Kathleen said patting her father on the back. "You need to ask out Olivia."
Monday Morning
"I'm just saying it makes perfect sense. If only more people would see this, they would all know the truth."
"Man." Fin groaned. "It's too early for this shit. I haven't even had any coffee."
"What's with them?" Elliot asked sitting down at his desk.
Olivia looked over at her partner and smiled. "Munch watched some documentary over the weekend. He thinks he knows the real reasonJFK was killed."
"Do I want to know?"
"No!" Fin answered quickly. "It's too late for me, but save yourself."
"But just look at the facts." Munch said following his partner to get coffee.
Olivia shook her head and laughed. "How was your weekend with the kids?"
"It seems Dickie thinks you're hot." Elliot sighed.
"Um...oh"
"And Kathy is getting married."
"Married? Wow."
"Yeah, it took me by surprise. The kids say he's nice, a bit of a nerd though. But, hey as long as she's happy..."
"Yeah."
"How 'bout you, how was your weekend?"
Olivia shrugged. "Pretty good."
Elliot watched her tell a story of going to a movie and drinks with a few girlfriends. She was laughing and using her hands to illustrate a point. He thought back to the conversation he had with the kids about asking her out. Kathleen had been right in saying they were already great friends who knew everything about one another. They were great friends, would dating ruin things?
"... but in the end we just laughed it off." Olivia said finishing her story. "What?"
"Huh?"
"You were looking at me funny."
"We should go out for dinner sometime, you know get away from all this."
"That's a great idea." Munch said sitting on the edge of Olivia's desk. "We haven't gone out in a while. We deserve a break."
"I went to this new place on the weekend." Fin added. "We should all go sometime this week."
"Sounds like fun." Olivia agreed.
"Yeah." Elliot sighed. "We should all go."