Olivia got up from her desk and pulled on her jacket. "You guys up for drinks?"

"Your treat?" John asked as he leaned back in his chair.

"Sure" Olivia nodded.

"More like Tommy's treat" Elliot chimed in as he got up from his chair.

Fin got up and grabbed his blazer. "As long as it's free for us I'm in"

Olivia rolled her eyes and went out being followed by her friends.

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They came into their regular bar and all took seats at the bar.

Olivia looked at the bartender that was serving drinks "Hey Mike where's Tom?"

"Downstairs." Mike answered.

Olivia nodded a little at the detectives before going through the door marked 'Employees only'. She went down the stairs to the room she knew very well. She spotted her boyfriend looking through boxes. "Hey Thomas"

He jumped and then spotted her. "Hey." He had on blue jeans with a white tank top tucked in.

She walked over to him and gave him a kiss "What are you doing?"

"Looking for Sam Adams. We're out upstairs" He wrapped his arm around her shoulders. "What are you doing here?"

"I came to fondle you," She teased with a wink. "The guys are upstairs. We came for some drinks."

He looked at her suspiciously. "My treat?"

"Well it could be mine but the money I give you goes directly to you because you own the bar and you are just going to waste that money me so technically you are better off just paying our drinks" She stated with a nod.

Thomas smiled a little at her playful chocolate eyes. "You thought of this plan before coming in here didn't you?"

"Yes I did" She nodded and opened a box on the floor. "This it?"

Thomas kneeled down and saw the beer he was looking for. "You are a true lucky charm" he picked the box up in one hand. "You need anything else or just drinks?"

She stuck her hand in his back pocket and gripped his butt. "Maybe something after drinks."

"My wallet is on the other side," He whispered. "If you want to steal my money you should try being more sneaky"

Olivia slapped his butt and went up the stairs. "Keep offending me baby boy"

Thomas smiled and followed checking her butt out. "I love the view sweetie"

"Screw you" She called back with a smile. She went to the bar and sat down by the guys. All of them kept looking at her. "What?"

They all smiled a little and said nothing. They could notice her small smirk after she was with Thomas.

Thomas went behind the bar and nodded a little at all the detectives. "Hey guys. Beers?" He handed the box to one of his bartenders.

All nodded. Thomas pulled out three beers and opened all. He put them in front of the guys. "Liv same?"

She nodded. Thomas handed her a beer, which he always found sexy that she liked to drink from the bottle.

He took orders from the others customers as the detectives talked about their recent case.

A man leaned in by Olivia. "Hi there"

She turned around at the man "Yes?"

Thomas glanced up from the beer he was filling. He trusted Olivia enough to turn the guy down herself.

"I was watching you from across the room and I was wondering if I could buy you a drink?"

She smiled and shook her head "Thanks but I'm fine."

"One drink?" The man asked.

"She said she was fine" Elliot spoke up. "She already has a drink."

"Stay out of this buddy" The man warned.

Thomas came over knowing Elliot had anger issues since Olivia talked to him about it. "Problem?"

Olivia looked over at him knowing Thomas could fight since he stopped a lot of bar fights when he got into them. "It's fine."

Thomas leaned down on the bar and kept his eyes on the man. "Want to walk away or should I make you walk away."

"I bought drinks, I'm allowed-"

Thomas grabbed his head and slammed it down on the bar. "I don't care what you paid for. Walk out or I'll throw you out myself." He whispered and pushed him off the bar.

The man got up. "You fucking Irish bastards. All you know how to do is fight and drink."

Thomas smiled "You know that stereotype makes me want to get wasted and just kick your ass." He grabbed the baseball bat from behind and jumped over the bar.

The man quickly moved back seeing the baseball bat.

"Last warning." Thomas put the baseball bat over his shoulder. "Get out."

The man nodded and went out the bar.

Thomas tossed the bat to his bartender and went over the bar. "Drinks are on the house," He told the whole room.

"Sorry" Olivia whispered over to him.

"Don't worry about it," He told her with a nod. "Not your fault you're hot" He winked at her and cleaned the beer he spilled when he slammed the man's head down.

Olivia smirked a little and took a sip of her beer.

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Olivia sat at a table after the whole bar cleaned out. She was sitting backwards on the chair.

Thomas came out of his office and spotted her there. "What are you still doing here?"

"Waiting for you to close up" She answered. "You almost done? I have been sitting like this for twenty minutes" She motioned to her sitting backwards on the chair. "I feel like I'm grilling someone in the interrogation room."

"Then why are you sitting like that?" He smiled at her as he started to put the chairs upside down on tables.

"Because I thought it would look sexy when you came out and saw me like this" She explained. "Want some help?"

"No I got it," He answered. "Are you serious about that sex stuff tonight? Hearing your conversation tonight you sounded like you had a long day."

"Are you eavesdropping on my conversation now?" She teased with a smirk.

"Just a little." He finished putting the chairs up but only left the one by her. He sat down the same way as her "How you doing?"

"I'm fine," She answered as she rested her chin on her hand. "You?"

"I'm good," he whispered. "Want me to walk you home?"

"No. I think it would be weird walking home with a guy and his baseball bat Mr. Thomas O'Bryan" She teased with a smile.

He just shrugged. "I'll bring my baseball bat if I have to protect you" He winked at her before getting off the chair. "C'mon get up I have to put the chair up."

Olivia got off the chair. "So bossy." She picked the chair up and put it upside down on the table. "Are you sure you don't want help cleaning up?"

"I'm sure. You had a long day." He gave her a kiss and led her to the door with his arm around her. "Want me to walk you to your car?"

"I'll be fine. I got my gun" She assured him as she gave him a hug. "Call me tomorrow?"

"Sure" He nodded and gave her a kiss. "Be careful at work."

"I will" She wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him gently. She finally broke the kiss. "Now I have to go after that break"

"I think I'm drunk after that." He playfully slapped her butt. "If I get a DUI on the way home you are paying for it."

"I promise" She smiled up at him.

He gave her another kiss and opened the door. "Call me when you get home"

"I will. How long you going to take?"

Thomas stepped out and took her hand. He walked her to her car even if she insisted it was ok. "I have to clean and check my inventory. Hour and a half tops" He answered.

"I can stay and keep you company if you want. I'm used to not sleeping a lot," She stated.

"It's ok. You need some sleep. It might take longer with you here cause I will keep fooling around with you here." He smiled and leaned on her car as she took her car keys out.

"That is true. Plus you can't visit me in the middle of the night at the squad room anymore. That night you visited when I had to do paperwork and I ended up on desk duty finishing the work." She unlocked her door and opened it.

"It wasn't my fault. I came over to bring food and you started to touch me inappropriately." He kneeled down by her when she went into the car.

"I kissed you once and you couldn't get enough. You are the one who kept pinching my butt." She playfully slapped his chest.

"Again not my fault you have a nice butt" He gave her a kiss. "Drive safe."

"I will." She returned the kiss. "Clean safe"

"Oh I will" He winked and got up. He closed the door and waved as she drove off. He went back to his bar.

Flashback

The detectives walked into the bar they normally went to after a case.

They sat down at the bar and ordered their usual beer.

Olivia knew the owner had a crush on her which she found funny cause he would always give her free drinks. Her friends were completely fine with it because they got free drinks because of Olivia.

Olivia looked up as someone placed a beer in front of her. "This one on the house again Thomas?"

Thomas smiled a little and shrugged. "Depends"

"Oh really?" She teased. "Are you growing back bone?"

Thomas shook his head "Nope." He leaned on the bar. "You know what I figured out last night?"

"What's that?" She leaned on the bar as well since Thomas was extremely fit and cute.

"All those drinks I bought you equal up to one very expensive dinner" He told her. "So technically every time you accepted a drink from me you were on a date with me" He nodded.

Olivia blushed feeling all her co-workers watching her. "You bought the guys drinks also. Does that mean you were on a date with Elliot also?"

Thomas started to blush this time. "No. I bought you four beers and you decided to split them with the detectives."

"Cute" Olivia smirked.

"Thank you" He grinned.

"I meant your theory"

"Thank you again" He nodded with a smile.

She took a sip of her drink. "So what if I pay for this drink? Does that mean I didn't call you in the morning after our date?"

"I'm not letting you pay for your drink." He smirked. "You are just going to have to call me in the morning."

Olivia leaned over "Do you realize your crush on me is going to make you go bankrupt?" She whispered.

He leaned closer also. "If that's what it takes for you to go out with me then I'm willing to lose my bar" he whispered back.

Olivia smiled a little and turned toward her co-workers "How was work for you guys?"

Thomas took a deep breath since she always turned him down when he tried to ask her out. He said nothing and walked away.

Elliot just shook his head at his partner "Damn that was cold"

Olivia just shrugged. "He doesn't give up anyway." She got off her stool "I'm going to the bathroom. Be right back" She walked away from them and went to the back where the bathroom was.

She came out a couple of minutes later and spotted Thomas leaning on the wall by the door. "What are you doing?"

"Waiting on you," He answered as he got off the wall. "Why wont you go out with me?"

Olivia smirked and tried to walk away but he stopped her.

"I figured maybe it was because I asked you in front of the other detectives so I'm asking you over her. By a bathroom. Not so romantic but I'm giving it a shot. Will you go out with me? Please?"

Olivia smiled a little at his brown eyes that had green specs. "Why do you want to go out with me?"

"I'm not sure." He answered honestly. "You are completely different from any girl I ever dated. I think that's what I like about you."

Olivia kept looking at him. "Thomas you are a good friend. I have known you for a long time. Most of my dates end with a phone call that takes me away from dinner. Either that or you will get scared away from what I see everyday at work."

"I know what you see everyday at work. I hear all your conversations anyway. I'm not scared of them. Even if our dinner ends in the middle because of your work it doesn't matter. We will call that one date and the next time our dates get ruined because of your job it will be another date. It's not a big deal"

"That's sweet. It really is but I don't want to ruin my friendship with you. Every guy says he can handle all of that but in the end he gets sick of it and gets sick of me."

"C'mon give me a chance. I see you almost all nights after work and I'm not sick of you even if you embarrass me in front of my employees." He pleaded. "All I'm asking for is one date. If we get bored by each other then no hard feelings."

Olivia bit her lip. "Fine. One date."

He grinned and nodded "One date. You got it."

She took her card out and wrote her cell phone number on the back "Call me tomorrow." She handed it to him.

Thomas nodded and looked at the card "I will. I promise"

Olivia smirked "Can I go before my friends think the toilet sucked me in?"

He quickly moved out of her way. "Yea. I'll see you later. Bye."

"Bye" She patted him on the shoulder and walked past him.

End Flashback

Thomas closed the bar and headed to his car. It was already one in the morning. He got in his car and was about to put the key in the engine when he felt someone tighten his seatbelt around his neck.

He gripped on the hands but the person was wearing gloves, since he was starting to choke now from the lack of air. He reached under the seat to get his gun he kept there. It wasn't there anymore.

The door next to him opened and a man came in. "Looking for this?" He held up the gun. He was dressed in jeans and a leather jacket. His hair was combed back and looked like it had a lot of gel in it. "It's registered to Thomas O'Bryan"

Thomas tried to open the door but it was locked.

"You are not Thomas O'Bryan," The man told him with the shake of the head.

Thomas just looked at him completely confused. The belt around his neck loosened. "I don't know what you are talking about" He finally coughed out.

"You don't?" The man pointed the gun at him.

Thomas slowly put his hands up not sure what was going on.

"That's ok Mr. Mitchell" The man nodded. "It will come back to you."

"You got the wrong guy. My name is O'Bryan not Mitchell" He shook his head.

"You are Riley Mitchell." The man stated. "We didn't know where you were until your little girlfriend led us to you"

Thomas clenched his teeth at the simple mention of Olivia. For some reason he was more protective of her then any other girlfriend he ever had. He figured it was because she had a rough childhood. "What are you talking about?"

The man pulled out a couple of pictures from the inside of his leather jacket. "Detective Olivia Benson. You know her" He showed him some pictures of Olivia and him. They didn't even know they were followed or photographed. "You need to end this Riley. A cop as a girlfriend doesn't look good."

"My name is not Riley!" Thomas yelled at him. "I don't even know you!" Suddenly the belt tightened on his neck again. Thomas breathed harder being very scared since he was completely confused.

The man rested the gun on his forehead "Clear this mess up or we will kill her and then you. Any information you told her we want to know about it."

The belt loosened to let him talk. Thomas gulped at his own gun on him. "I have no idea what mess you are talking about. I don't know what information you are talking about."

The man placed the gun on the back of Thomas's neck where he had a scar. "Do you know how you got this scar?"

Thomas actually didn't know. There were a lot of things about himself he didn't know. Even the simplest things he didn't remember about himself. This always led to fights with him and Olivia because she thought he wouldn't tell her things about himself when the truth was he didn't remember. "No"

The man took a piece of paper out and tossed it to him. "Look familiar?"

Thomas looked at names on the paper. He didn't recognize any. "No"

"It will come back to you. Have a good night." The man whispered and tossed him the gun. "Let's go," He told the man behind Thomas. The belt fell off his neck and both men left his car.

Thomas just sat there in shock. He didn't know what was going on. He wanted to tell Olivia and figure this out with her but somehow her life being in danger wasn't something he was very proud of. Especially since she could die because of him.