The Return

By: Kary G.

Disclaimer: I do not own Law and Order SVU.

A/N: Happy New Year 2009! I was going to upload this story in two weeks but I couldn't wait. I don't have the end of this story but here's the first chapter. Also this an AU, Elliot is divorced and in the story I said he has 4 kids, thank you 22for letting me know that Elliot has 5 kids and not 4. This chapter is going to be only about Olivia and Elliot. You're going to see the appearance of the mysterious man [you know who that mysterious man is] until the second chapter. Enjoy!

Water drops hit the window followed by the roaring sound of a thunder. Detective Olivia Benson sat at her desk doing some paperwork. She was not alone. Her partner Elliot Stabler sat across her desk. Elliot looked at his partner writing.

After Olivia confessed to her partner that she was sexually assaulted, he noticed that her behavior change a little. She was less jumpy. But, every time she needed to question a suspect, she took her distance afraid that that person might harm her. That was not the worst. After both detectives knew that five inmates escaped from jail specially two dangerous rapists, Elliot started to protect his partner more and more to the point where he needed to see her open her apartment door and close it. That was the only way he knew she was ok.

"Hey, Liv. What are you going to do tomorrow night?" he asked hoping she didn't have any plans.

"Not a thing. Why do you ask?" she commented.

Elliot started to see Olivia in another way…for him she was more than his partner and friend. But, was that a good thing? After all he was a father of four kids, but that didn't stop him. He was more than sure that he was falling. Oh, yes he was falling for her and nobody else.

"Because, I am going out and I don't have a companion. So, would you like to go with me?" her big brown eyes focused on her partner. She just couldn't believe what she was hearing.

"Is he inviting me out?" she thought. Her heartbeat began to beat faster. She prayed that she was the only person hearing it. "I'd love to Elliot," she answered with a big smile in her face showing off her white teeth to the male detective.

The water kept falling faster and harder in the windows of the small police department. Fortunately it was time to go home. Olivia stood up from her chair taking her jacket and keys, her heels were the only sound in the building. She looked at her partner one last time. "Bye Elliot," Elliot smiled at her.

"I'll see you tomorrow night at 8 O'clock," he simply said.

She walked downstairs to her car not knowing that a pair of dark and evil eyes was looking at her. The person hid behind a big trash container in the alley that was next to the department. He wanted to go and touch her, to feel his skin against hers, and his lips on hers.

Olivia felt somebody was watching her. She hurried to her car and opened the door locking the doors. She introduced the key in the ignition and turned the key but to her surprise it was not working.

"What's wrong with this car?" she said out loud waiting for an answer but the only answer she received was pure silence. She kept trying and trying for another five minutes until she gave up and decided it was best to walk. Her apartment was not near the department but she knew she wasn't going to ask Elliot. She opened the door of her car and stepped out and to her luck the rain became worse than the beginning. It was like this storm had something against her.

The cold wind blew against her face and the rain started to penetrate her clothes. She shivered and started to walk but stop feeling no more water in her hair or clothes.

"You forgot to take a shower?" Elliot playfully asked her chuckling. She tried to look mad but she just couldn't pretend something she was not to. She just punched his arm.

"Very funny, Elliot. My car doesn't want to take me home so I don't have another choice but walk," Elliot took her arm and did not let her go.

"Are you out of your mind? You are not going to walk with this weather and I don't want you to get sick. You have a date tomorrow night with me remember? I do not want to see my date with a running nose and coughing every five seconds," making emphasis in the word "my".

"Elliot, you don't have to, really?" she tried to convince him.

"Come on Liv, you would've done the same thing for me?" she pretended like she was not that good of a friend and with a playful tune in her voice she said.

"No, I wouldn't," he chuckled hearing her response.

"Yes, you would," he shot back.

"Wouldn't," a smile forming in her lips.

"Would," until both detectives couldn't stop it and they laugh. Once they stopped laughing both partners stay there under the umbrella that Elliot had in his hand staring at each others eyes not saying a word. The street felt that it was shrinking around them that is until Olivia spoke.

"So, are you going to take me home? Or are you going to stay here under the rain?"

"I am going to take you home. Let's go," he walked protecting her from the rain until he open the passenger door and let her in with the umbrella protecting her from the water. He closed the door until he saw she was in a comfortable position. He then ran to open his door and throwing the umbrella to the back seat he put the car in gear and took Olivia to her apartment.

Behind the big trash container stood a mysterious man looking at the car disappear in the distance. "I'm back Olivia and this time, you are going to be mine and nobody else,"

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Once they arrived to Olivia's apartment Elliot noticed that the rain stopped and so he got out of the car and opened his partner's door. She was going too stepped out of the car but stop looking at one of the mirrors. A car passed so fast that the water that was stuck in the pavement made its way against Elliot and in a matter of seconds Elliot was wet from head to toe.

Olivia tried desperately not to laugh looking at her partner all wet. She got out of the car with the help of Stabler. They got into the elevator and waited a few seconds. The door from the elevator open and Olivia took her keys out of her purse. She opened her door but Elliot stayed outside.

"Elliot, come on in. You need to change. You are not going all wet to your apartment," she told Elliot, since he was no longer with Kathy and living with her. He had to move to an apartment.

Elliot stepped in and Olivia excused going for clothes for her partner. Minutes later she returned with a large t-shirt and some sweat pants that she bought for her uncle. Unfortunately, the pants were too tight for her uncle. And so she handed those pants to her partner.

Elliot took the shirt from her hands and took the wet one off revealing her muscular arms and his chest. Olivia tried to concentrate on the floor but it was impossible. He looked…he looked so good without a shirt on. "Come on Olivia, snap out of it," she told herself.

"The bathroom is in the next to my room," She told him knowing that he was going to change his pants. Too bad he couldn't change there in front of her.

Quickly Olivia moved to the kitchen to prepare dinner. She made a quick soup; she set the table and poured the hot soup in two bowls. Once Elliot change and opened the door from the bathroom the smell of soup hit him. He walked to the kitchen and saw Olivia washing a glass.

"Oliva, you shouldn't have…" but Olivia cut him off.

"Of course I should. You gave me a ride home. Now, you better stop talking and eat because if not I swear I'll arrest you," he did not say a thing and ate the soup. After finishing the soup, Olivia took the bowls and was going to wash them but Elliot stop her and told her it was time for him to do something.

Olivia yawned and sat in the sofa. In the meantime Elliot washed the two bowls. "Liv, don't forget that tomorrow you have a date with me," he told his partner but Olivia did not respond.

He moved to see why Olivia was so quiet and he saw her there asleep in the sofa. He picked her up gently from the sofa and took her to her bedroom. He then placed her in the bed and covered her petite body with the sheets. He stayed there staring at her. God she looked so beautiful. Elliot leaned letting his lips brushed her forehead. "Sleep well, Liv" and without making a sound he got out of her apartment and went home.