A/N: I was bored and decided to write a 2 parter story. I hope you like it. Please read and review.
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January 24th 2008 7:16am
16th Precinct
Manhattan Special Victims Unit squad room
Detective Elliot Stabler strolled in to the squad room fourteen minutes early and was pleasantly surprised not to find that his partner still hadn't arrived for work this morning so he put his coat on the coat rack near the lockers.
"So, Stabler, what you got planned for Benson's birthday?" Munch asked as he got his morning coffee.
"Yeah man, what you got planned for our girl?" Fin was sitting at his desk already and watching Elliot nervously look around to make sure that Olivia still hadn't turned up for work.
Elliot walked over to where Fin and now Munch were sitting.
"Well I thought we could surprise her tonight by turning up at her apartment. We could get drunk and play games like 'Spin the Bottle', 'Truth or Dare' and maybe even 'Twister.'" He laughed.
Fin and Munch were about to reply but they saw the beautiful, petite, brunette detective walk in.
Olivia walked in to the room, dressed in black slacks, a red and black silk stripped blouse with her favourite pair of black boots. She was hoping that her work colleagues had forgotten that it was her birthday because she never liked to acknowledge it but she had a horrible but familiar twinge run own her spine like she did every year. Her friends never in the all the years that she'd been in Special Victims ever forgotten about her birthday so she wandered what they had up their sleeves this year.
"Morning guys." She smiled her famous 'Benson' smile which Elliot loved.
Elliot walked over to his desk while she put her purse in to her locker. He watched her put her long black coat on the coat rack beside his coat and waited til she sat down in her comfortable black leather chair before greeting her.
"Morning Liv." He said with his famous 'shit-eating' grin.
Olivia raised an eye brow. 'What's he hiding?'
"Good morning so far, eh?" She replied trying to keep her voice normal so he didn't suspect that she was pretty sure that he was planning something for her birthday.
Elliot was always the ring leader on the birthday surprises.
"Oh yeah if you call getting woken by your ex-wife calling you to have a bitch at ya." He glared at her harshly.
"Oh. I'm sorry, El." She looked in to his ocean blue eyes and could still see the pain that Kathy caused when she told him that Eli was not his son.
Elliot looked at his best friend. She was crestfallen. She already hated her birthday after what her mother did to her one year. It was her sweet sixteenth birthday. Now Elliot had just made the day worse for her.
Flashback
Sixteen year old Olivia walked in to the quiet apartment which she shared with her drunken mother. It was her birthday so Serena was down at the local bar, just like every other year. Olivia hadn't received a birthday present or a christmas present from her mother since the innocent age of eight.
Olivia was holding her boyfriend's hand, who happened to be twenty-one and in her mother's class at Columbia College.
"Livvie, are you sure your mother won't come back?" Thomas asked.
Olivia nodded as she gently nibbled on his neck, leaving love bites.
She pulled him down on top of her, on her bed and they got underway of stripping each other's clothing off.
The two young lovers were too busy making out to hear Serena stumble in to the apartment. She was drunk but not overly so she knew exactly what was happening.
The bedroom door swung open followed by an angry half slurred shout from Serena Benson.
"Olivia Marie Benson!"
Olivia and Thomas aburptly stopped and looked up at Serena. She was looking at her sixteen year old daughter in disgrace. It was only her sixteenth birthday and she was about to lose her virginity even after she was told by her mother that men were scum and she wasn't to lose her virginity till she was twenty-one and in college. What made it worse was she was with Thomas Jefferies. The class clown with rich parents.
Serena threw Thomas his clothes. "Get dressed and get out of here. Stay away from my daughter. I'll be seeing you in class tomorrow."
Thomas got up and put his clothes on. "Yes, Ms. Benson." He replied and rushed out.
"As for you, young lady, get dressed and meet me in the living room."
Olivia could see the anger in her mother's eyes and nodded.
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Olivia emerged five minutes later to see her mother with a half empty bottle of Whiskey, standing against the wall.
"How many times do I have to tell you?!" Serena yelled.
"It's my life, Mom." Olivia decided to stand her ground.
Serena threw the bottle on the floor and picked up the shattered, pointy top before threatening Olivia with it. Olivia was scared and her self-defensive mechanism kicked in. She kicked her mother in the ribs but Serena didn't budge so Olivia kicked her mother again and Serena fell back with a loud thud.
"Oh shit." Olivia panicked and ran out of the apartment.
'What a shitty birthday.'
End Flashback.
Elliot was about to apologize but Cragen emerged from his office.
"Happy birthday, Liv." Cragen smiled and passed her a little purple wrapped up box.
Olivia accepted it with a fake smile plastered on her face.
"Thanks." She unwrapped it to find a little velvet jewellery box and opened up the box to find a silver ring with a flashy sapphire gem on the top.
It was gorgeous and Olivia loved it. She smiled a genuine smile.
"Thank you so much, Don." She got up and gave him a light kiss on the cheek before putting the ring on her right index finger.
"You're very welcome, Liv." He replied before looking at all four detectives. "New case. Who is catching?"
Munch looked up from te computer. "We are." He replied indicating himself and Fin.
Cragen walked over to the two detectives and gave them in the information needed.
Elliot looked up at his partner. The smile that had been on her beautiful olive toned face just seconds before had vanished now. Her face was emotionless as she finished up a DD5.
"Liv..." Elliot spoke up hoping that he'd get an answer as he twirled his black inked pen around in his fingers.
"Yeah." Her soft voice travelled over but her deep mocha orbs never left the computer screen.
"Happy birthday." He said happily.
Olivia looked over at her handsome partner, he was wearing a shirt that he knew was Olivia's favourite on him. Her shoulders fell as she released the breath that she didn't even realize that she was holding.
"Ah...Thanks, El." She placed some stray hair that was annoying her back behind her ear before turning back to her computer.
"Got any birthday plans tonight?" He asked cautiously, hoping that she would say no.
She looked at him. "No, unless you count me sitting on the couch, watching some boring movie and drinking wine." She laughed a bit to try lighten the mood.
Elliot smiled. "Be dressed nicely by eight pm and I'll meet you at your apartment."
Olivia raised an eye brow and laughed. "Why? What have you got planned?"
Elliot gave her the famous 'Stabler' grin and winked. "You'll see."
'I knew it. He does this every year.'