DISCLAIMER: I don't own this song. It is called "When the Right One Comes Along" off the show Nashville by Clare Bowen and Sam Palladio. They also sang the songs from the first 2 chapters. I don't own Law and Order SVU Dick Wolf does. I think that about covers it…

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It was three in the morning when Olivia had finally finished up packing. The movers still hadn't come to pick up her stuff but it was all put away in boxes. Not a single picture was left on the walls or the shelves. As she was walking through her bare apartment all the emotions of leaving started to hit her. She was really leaving.

She had lived in New York all her life. Olivia knew when she got on the plane in less than 12 hours that she would be leaving behind friends and countless memories. The memories began to hit her also. The stain on the dining room floor was from her 30 birthday party when she had a little too much to drink and spilt her wine and Elliot attempted to help her clean it up.

Olivia left the kitchen quickly at the thought of Elliot and walked into the living room where another round of memories hit her. There was the chipped coffee table that she hated but refused to get rid of because it was one of the things that was still here from when Elliot first helped her move in.

She had to take the coffee table with her to California but decided to buy a new couch and chair for her new place in California. The couch. Her couch looked like it had been through a war zone the way the cushions sagged in the middle and the color was beginning to fade. She had so many memories with that couch; watching movies, laughing at pathetic lifetime movies, and eating Chinese food with Elliot.

Elliot. All of her memories have something to do with Elliot. Soon tears began to gather in her eyes. At first she refused to let them fall but as she began to realize how much she was giving up by going to California she didn't hold back any longer.

There's no music, no confetti

But you'll know it, I can guarantee

When the right one comes along

It all hit her again. Cragen's face when she told him that she was leaving. Alex and Casey's soft cries begging her not to go. And of course Elliot's eyes barely holding back tears when he put his head in his hands. Olivia sat down on her old faded couch and cried, not sobbing just crying a steady line of tears down her face.

She had to leave it is what's best for Elliot. She had to help save his marriage and his kids, oh his kids they need their father she couldn't become between them. No matter how much she wished it could end differently she knew that she had to leave to save his marriage, his kids, and him. She needed to save Elliot.

Olivia stopped crying and picked up her cell phone. When the other person on the phone picked up she made her voice sound strong and you could barely tell that she had been crying moments before.

The airline said they had only one seat left on for an earlier flight to California she paused a moment then arranged to take the earlier flight. She hung up and decided to get an hour of sleep before she had to get ready for her flight laid down on the couch for the last time and quickly fell asleep.

"I'm sorry Kathy." He said sitting on the couch next to his wife neither one looking at each other.

"How long," she whispered.

"How long what?" he asked still not looking at her.

"How long have you been in love with her?" she whispered not able to fully comprehend what was happening.

Elliot didn't know how to respond to this. He didn't want to upset Kathy but he also didn't want to lie. "A long time," he said.

She sighed, "I knew this was coming El I really did we just weren't happy anymore. What are we going to tell the kids?"

"We will tell them the truth Kath we just weren't in love anymore. I know you aren't in love with me just as much as I know I'm not in love with you."

You no longer have to guess

All those questions are finally put to rest

When the right one comes along

Kathy got up and walked to the desk they had in the office room and pulled out the divorced papers they had already created 6 months ago when they separated once again. Kathy's name was still on the papers from 6 months ago and this time Elliot wasn't hesitant to put his name down next to hers.

After he signed them he got up from the couch and said, "I will be back in the afternoon so we can tell the kids." Kathy just nodded and wrapped her arms tighter around her waist and walked him to the door. Just as he was about to walk out the door she said, "You know I don't regret it."

Elliot turned around and said, "Neither do I," then turned and walked down the porch steps and out to his car that was parked in the driveway and instantly knew that he had made the right choice.

He started the car and drove away without a second glance. With the divorce papers still in hand he still had one thing left to do before he could be happy again and he was willing to do anything to follow through with it.

Elliot had been trying to call Liv's cell phone the entire time he was driving over to her place but she must have had her cell phone off because it went straight to voicemail. When Elliot pulled up in front of Olivia's building he noticed there were no moving trucks and took that as a good sign.

He grabbed the divorce papers out of the passenger seat, turned off the car and sprinted up the steps to her apartment. He pulled the key he had to her apartment she had given to him a month after they had been partners.

Six years later and over a hundred uses but this key seemed to have an extended meaning to it that Elliot had never noticed before. This is when she first started trusting me, he thought, the day she gave me this key she knew we would be together for a long time. That's when I started falling in love with her. The day she gave me this key, it began everything and gave me so much more.

Every single broken heart will lead you to the truth

You think you know what you're looking for

Till what you're looking for finds you

With that in his head Elliot took a big breath and put the key in the lock and opened the door.

When he opened the door he instantly noticed how bare the apartment was not a picture or any sign that Olivia had ever lived here. There weren't even boxes in the bare apartment. Everything was gone. Only the big furniture was left everything else was gone.

Elliot was in a daze. He was too late he didn't make it in time, she was really gone. Still not thinking straight he went and sat down on the couch and dropped his recently signed divorce papers on the coffee table.

How could he be late? This wasn't how it was supposed to happen. He was supposed to come over and she would be here waiting for him. He would show her the divorce papers and they would be happy. They would finally be happy, together for once.

Elliot's vision became blurry with tears and he suddenly had no reason to hold them back. He sat back on the couch that he had spent so many nights on when he and his now ex wife were fighting and cried, he didn't sob he cried.

Olivia had just come back with the final truck to pick up a few remaining items like her coffee table when she saw her apartment door opened. Her cop instincts instantly kicked in and she pulled out her gun. As she slowly made her way towards her half opened door she took a deep breath and barged into the room only to find Elliot on her sofa crying.

She quickly holstered her weapon and walked into the living room. Elliot was oblivious to her being there. He was so caught up in the emotions of her leaving that he didn't hear her whisper his name.

Olivia was shocked to find Elliot on her couch. She thought with her out of the picture he would be with his wife and kids at this time in the morning. She took a moment to look at him. He obviously hadn't slept in days with the bags under his eyes. His eyes were blood shot from crying and his clothes where wrinkled telling her that he had been sitting there for a while.

"El," she said this time a little more loudly. This was loud enough to get his attention because his head whipped around so fast Olivia thought he could get whip lash.

"W-What are you doing here?" he asked his voice still shaky from crying. She didn't get a chance to reply because before she could his arms were wrapped around her in a massive hug. Olivia instantly melted into his touch, his arms, his body, him.

Elliot refused to let go thinking that if he let go then it wouldn't be real and she would be gone. They stood there like that for a couple of minutes before Olivia began to pull away. Her flight was going to leave in an hour and she had to be leaving.

"El I… I have to go my plane is leaving soon," she said as she began to back away from him. But before she could pull away completely Elliot grabbed her arm and pulled her back away from the door and back to the living room.

"Liv, you can't leave. I can't handle you leaving me twice," he said unable to contain a sob from the back of his throat. His eyes were filled with tears he wouldn't let fall.

As Olivia stared back into those crystal blue eyes she knew she shouldn't have. His eyes hypnotized her and her own eyes began to fill with tears, she eventually ripped her eyes away from his and looked at her hands.

"We can't do this El. You're married and you have a family to worry about and I won't be the one to destr-."

She was cut off by his lips on hers. This was different from when they had kissed before this kiss was soft but still filled with passion and heat. The previous kisses at the bar were fierce, rough, and passionate not at all like this one.

This kiss simultaneously took her breath away and brought breath back into her. This kiss made her heart stop and at the same time made it beat ten times faster. This kiss was something that Olivia had never truly experienced before. It was pure love.

When they both pulled away Olivia still had her eyes closed and leaned her forehead against Elliot's and whispered, "Wow."

Elliot chuckled and grinned then said, "I agree… wow." Olivia pulled away and opened her eyes only to see Elliot's eyes shining back at her with a huge grin spread across his face. Still looking at Olivia he reached over onto the coffee table and picked up the divorce papers and showed them to Olivia.

He must have seen the brief panic and guilt that flashed over Olivia's eyes because before she could say anything he gave her a quick kiss on the lips.

"Before you say anything you didn't cause this. We had already drawn up the divorce papers and it was a mutual decision. We are going to tell the kids later on today and they won't be surprised this has been coming for a long time." He said looking into her eyes.

Olivia was so shocked that she was barely able to blink let alone form words. Taking her silence as a sign to continue he said, "She knew Liv. She knew I was in love with you and when I held your key in my hand I truly realized how much I am in love with you and you can't tell me you don't have those same feelings towards me because I felt them just like you did in that kiss. I am in love with you Olivia Benson."

Olivia's shock began to wear off as she looked at him she could tell he was nervous by the way he was biting his lip. This time it was Olivia that kissed Elliot. When they broke apart she whispered, "I love you to El."

He was so happy that the first grin on his face was a distant memory because this smiled outshined them all. He leaned over and kissed her passionately for a long time until air became necessary. Olivia chuckled and said with a smirk, "I guess I better cancel my flight and get my old job back…"

He chuckled. "Damn right," he said huskily as began kissing her again and this time neither one of them were drunk and they had all the time in the world.

When the right one comes along…

The End! Loved it….? Hated it….? Please Review! I think this is it for this story but writing this story has given me new ideas for another story so stay tuned….. :)