The Few, The Proud, The Marines - Chapter 1

this story takes a different view on the two people we love so much! Olivia and Elliot meet through the Marines.

Elliot blew a breath of air out of his mouth, he was nervous. It was his first day as a marine and while he was older than most, he was new and still needed to learn the ropes. He wanted to finish high school first and then see the college scene first before he actually entered the Marines.

He walked into the cafeteria in full uniform and suddenly felt out of place when he saw all the casually dressed Marines sitting at the tables around him.

Great, I look like an idiot on my first day. Elliot thought to himself. He had tried to find the office of Lieutenant General John Cragen, but obviously he had failed. Thankfully a guy around his age introduced himself.

"Hi, my name is Nick Miller, you look kind of lost." The boy gave a friendly smiled as he had his hand out. Elliot gratefully shook it.

"Elliot Stabler, thanks, I was actually looking for the office of Lt. General John Cragen?"

"Oh, so you are new, his office is down that hall, and then you take a right, and it's the second door on your left. Hey, I'll wait for you, you seem really lost, so I'll be your self assigned guide." Nick said jokingly.

"Yeah, thanks man." Elliot clapped his new found friend on the shoulder before he met his new commanding officer.

"Alright, Stabler, you're new here, but the rules are pretty simple, follow your Lt. and it will be easy. You'll be bunking with Nick Miller, here is your room number, #324. Your bags are already there. We have no locks on our doors, here in the Marines we trust each other not to enter a door that is closed unless there is probably cause. Understood?"

"Yes, thank you sir." Elliot shook his hand and started towards his room wondering what he gotten himself into. He had joined the Marines to get away from his abusive father and sick mother. He felt he was too young to deal with all of the t

"Hey man, didn't know when I'd see you again, but it looks like we're bunk mates." Elliot gave a smile as he begin to take his uniform.

"So, I was thinking I'd bring you to the cafeteria and then show you around. People say this is the best or worst four years of training." Elliot nodded as he wore the casuals that he had been given, switching into a t-shirt and sweats.

He had found that in his particular unit there were only 15 women to the 30 men. He met a couple of different men through Nick, Dean Masters, he had entered the day out of high school, Danny Ocean who had been there for 2 year too, and Luke Smith who had only been there for 8 months. Nick was pointing out some of the women until the most gorgeous women crossed Elliot's sight. She had shoulder length brown hair and beautiful chocolate brown eyes. She was actually quite tall standing about 5'9" maybe? He wanted to go up to her before Nick stopped him.

"That is Benson, and trust me, I'd stay away from her. She's very feisty. She is one of the most sought out girls...but she doesn't want anyone."

"Really?"

"Yeah, she's in my group, but seriously, she may look good, but she doesn't open easily, but hey if you want to try be my guest. In fact, care to make a wager?"

"Of?"

"I bet in 1 year you won't be able to get to her at all."

"A year that's quite a long time."

"She's been here since she was 16, she emancipated herself from her mother, skipped out of high school and entered the Marines, and according to Dean who has been here for 3 years, she's very closed."

"And what am I giving up?"

"If you can't get her, you'll have to do my dirty laundry for the next 3 years. "

"Okay deal." Elliot and Nick sealed the deal with a handshake. Elliot almost went up to her, but luckily he didn't, Olivia was already in a bad mood.

"Hey Livvy Baby." Olivia felt her skin crawl as Malone slung his arm around her shoulders. She had told Malone more than once to leave her alone but he never listened. One time he had sexually harassed her by pushing her against the wall grinding his pelvis into hers saying he was the best she would ever had. She had enough, turning she grabbed his package and squeezed painfully whispering into his ear, "Still thinking with your head I see, be careful...next time I won't be so nice."

"Okay, I get it Liv, I'll stop." Malone was able to gasp out.

"Oh and it's Benson to you."

"Right, Benson," Malone put his hands up showing that he meant business and would stop bothering her.

"And you're not going to bother me anymore right?" Olivia looked directly in his eyes this time squeezing harder.

"N-o!" Malone's hand immediately went to his crotch as Olivia released his pressure.

"I thought so." Malone took a deep breath as he staggered away from her.

Elliot chuckled as he saw what played out in front of him, he knew that although he may not have known her yet, but the task of getting to know her is what he knew he would enjoy.

"Okay, today's a new day and we have a new member in our little group." Lt. Dan spoke to his group of now 6 people. Normally a captain would take over a group, but the former Captain Johnson had left his command to Lt. Dan.

"Elliot Stabler? Be nice people. Okay, Stabler, it's easy in this group, we have each other's backs. I think you've met Miller, Masters, Ocean, and Smith? Yes. Okay, I'll assign you a partner, hey Benson come over here." Elliot looked over at the sour face of Olivia, she obviously did not want to be his partner.

"Hi." Before Elliot could even continue his sentence, Olivia cut him off with a brief, "I know who you are."

"Alright, today you will definitely need your partner for this. Today you will go on a scavenger hunt. You will need your partners' skill, and intuition. It uses brains and brawn, who ever finishes first wins. Good luck!"

Both Elliot and Olivia surged forward to begin their challenge. It was not an easy challenge, the first one dealt with climbing over a wall with very few levers to climb over. Elliot took a running leap and ended up half way onto the wall. Olivia started at the bottom, but using the impressive amount of upper body strength to hoist herself up ignoring the hand that Elliot offered.

"You don't have to help me," Olivia stated plainly as they managed to jump over the first hurdle. They were able to make it through the scavenger hunt beating the two other teams by quite a bit.

"Alright you two, the showers!" Lt. Dan stated as he smelled the stench coming off the pair.

"So I was thinking perhaps we could get dinner?" Elliot asked Olivia before she headed off in a different direction. Olivia surprised him with her next move. Moving very close she placed her hands on his chest and leaned slightly on her tiptoes, even at 5.9" Elliot's 6'1" stature still was too tall for her, and whispered, "Don't even try Private, I know you and Miller have a bet going on. I do have friends here, and one of them overheard your little deal, so I'm not going to play any part of it at all."

She was whispering in his ear to scare him like she had with Malone, except this time she wasn't gripping his balls painfully.

"How about dinner and it's not for a deal. I enjoy spending time with you." Olivia snorted as she began walking away ignoring his calls to come back. All men were the same wanting one thing...to break her down and get her on a date.

A note: I do realize that Olivia was never in the Marines and went to Siena College, in this story she does. I've intertwined many of the characters from the actual series into this story. I am not trying to make her mean either, more confident.

I also know that one needs to be 17 to enter the Marines, but for the sake of the story it's 16.

Should I keep going or just stop?