*In this story Elliot and Olivia meet when she is still at college and he is in the Marines staying only for the summer due to his Dad's request. They date and she gets pregnant but they lose contact when he has to go back to college. Elliot is 28, with 4 of his 5 children. Olivia is 26. I made them younger in this version.

Okay so through the help of others, I have rewritten parts of the story so it makes more sense.

Elliot awoke sweating even though it was a cold December night. She haunted his dreams every night. It had been 8 years since he had seen her last. He remembered when he met her. She was being a harrassed by the local college dweeb. Elliot being the kind of guy he was, trying to help deter the guy.

"Hey Baby, been looking for you.." He said breathlessly as he finally caught up with her. He had seen her walking on the terrace with another guy seemed to be harrasing her. Elliot hoped she would go along, as he slung an arm around her shoulders. The shorter man backed off.

"Jeez, Liv, you didn't tell me your boyfriend was in tthe Marines."

"Well, Daniel, I didn't really have a chance." Olivia said shaking her head as Daniel walked away. Olivia glanced up at the man who had rescued her from the guy she so tried to avoid but never had any luck.

"So whom should I say thank you to?"

"My name is Elliot, Elliot Stabler."

"Olivia Benson, my close friends call me Liv." She smiled at him. "Let me get you lunch, for saving me from that nut case."

"I'll agree to that." Elliot nodded, if anything invovled food he was always game for that.

It started as just a friendship, but soon they were inseperable. It was amazing how quickly their relationship had progressed, even though they hadn't known each other long. They were perfectly in sync in everything. The summer had blown by quicker than either of them wanted. Olivia knew that Elliot was the one she wanted to be her first. For his last night at Siena, she wanted to give him the gift only one man would ever have, her virginity.

They laid naked in her dorm bed, just touching each other. This was the first time Olivia had ever seen a naked body before, as it was her first.

"You are so beautiful." Elliot whispered to her as his hand slid up and down her smooth stomach over her small but pert breasts, and then back down to her legs. Olivia bit her lip as she touched Elliot, he felt so manly, so muscled. His powerful arms wrapped around her as he leaned to kiss her.

"I'm gonna make you feel so good." Olivia shivered as his words came out. She knew this was right, no one had ever made her feel likes this before. Elliot slowly covered her body with his as he began kissing her and she returned the kiss.

He was right, he was very patient and understanding with her. He touched her in ways no one could, both physically and emotionally.

He had that dream every night and every night he would relive that one particular night. He wanted to stay with her, but duty had called and they split up and he never got a contact number to even see where she was now.

He did see the newspaper article that stated she had graduated as the Valedictorian of her class, but he never could get any farther with her life. He looked at the newspaper clipping he had cut out of her in his drawer.

It became a restless night for Elliot. He loved his kids very much, but he didn't love Kathy as much as he felt he should have. Sure they had 4 children, but it seemed to him that they only married because Kathy became pregnant with Maureen soon after they met. He felt trapped in the marriage and that there was nothing he could really do to leave. While they had agreed to take time away from each other, meaning he lived somewhere else in an apartment big enough to hold four kids, he felt it wasn't enough. He wanted out of a loveless marriage.

Olivia awoke to the sound of a child loudly whispering, "Mommy, MOMMY." She tried to ignore him...she really did but he started yanking on her sleeve.

"Mommy are you up?" Olivia rolled over to see her 6 and half year old son peering into her eyes waiting for a response.

"I am now sweetie, what's wrong, why are you up?" She looked at the clock and saw that it was 3 in the morning, and wondered why he was even up before dawn.

"I couldn't sleep, I'm scared about your new job. What if I never see you? And I start school Monday what if no one likes me?" Olivia had explained to her son that her new job may have more hours than her old job.

"Oh, sweetie, I will MAKE sure there is always time for you! Don't worry, your Mommy's number one man. School will be fine, everyone will like you. Have you met anyone who hasn't?" He giggled as she tickled him and shook his head no.

"Okay, let's get you back into bed. Oh you're getting a little too big for this." Olivia grunted as she picked up her child who was not the small toddler he had once been.

Olivia got back into bed but not before she looked at her bedside table to look at the one picture she had been able to find of Elliot Stabler. It was a picture of him and his father in their Marine uniforms. She found it in a newspaper clipping but other than that she had no picture of Elliot. She missed him and often wondered how he was and where he went after that 3 months of their relationship. She remembered one day when they were just togther laying in the field.

"I have never watched clouds before in my life but it seems with you it's not so bad."

"Don't be silly, watching clouds can be fun and relaxing." Elliot scrunched up his face pondering her last statement. Relaxing? When he thought of clouds, relaxing wasn't the word he thought of first.

"Don't do that with your face, one day it will get stuck."

"Oh really? I guess you'll just have to love me with that face," he said as he began tickling her. The moment passed before she realized he was admitting that he was in love with her.

She remembered that memory fondly, and while she didn't get to tell him that she was in love with him too, that day, she at least got to before she left. She missed him, and everyday seeing her soon only reminded her of that fact.

The next morning, Olivia Benson entered the SVU department with her 6 and hakf year old son looking around and barely paying attention to anything else but to the new things in the department.

"Come on, honey, Mommy can show you the coffee pot later." Why he was so fascinated was beyond her, since they had one at home too. She saw Captain Cragen waiting for her, and she began to half drag, and half march him over to Cragen.

"I'm sorry Captain Cragen, I couldn't leave him at home, he had to come with me, my baby sitter got sick at the last minute."

"That's fine, it's Benson right?"

"Yes, Olivia Benson."

"So Olivia, can I call you Olivia?"

"Of course."

"How about we get someone to watch your son, this should only take 15 minutres or so. Hey Munch, can you watch him?" Detective Munch came over and he seen the kid's earlier fascination with the coffee pots and so thus began the description of what did what.

"Alright Olivia, we do have an opening, but I have to say this is not an easy job and with a kid, I'm not too sure about hiring you, but you have a good resume and you've had experience before. Let's give it a try and see what happens." Cragen was a very understanding man and knew that another one of his detectives had kids, but he had a wife, so it was easier for him to deal with work.

"Thank you, captain, it means a lot to me." Olivia was relieved, she got the job she had been looking for and she would make more money so that she and her son could finally move into a better apartment. Meanwhile as they were in his office, Elliot Stabler walked into the building.

He had been working for SVU for the better part of 2 years now. He loved his job and the people. Although his partners were a different thing. So far in the 2 years he had worked there he had about 10 different partners, either they didn't like him or he didn't like them. He did notice something different about today though, there was a kid by the coffee machine and he was fascinated by it. Either this kid had never see a coffee machine or Munch was interesting. Elliot took a guess on the coffe machine.

"Hey Munch, who is your buddy,"

"Ah, Elliot this is Eli, he's the son of the new person Cragen is interviewing. I forget her name."

"Hey there little man, I'm Elliot."

"I'm not little, you're just tall." Eli replied looking upward at Elliot.

Meanwhile back in Cragen's office, things were wrapping up. "Okay then, let's introduce you to your new partner. Olivia and Cragen exited his office to go to the vacant desk across from the brooding man. He looked up and electric blue eyes met with chocolate brown eyes and it was then they realized who they were.

"Liv?"

"El?"

"Have you met before?" Cragen said confused on why they referred to each other through a nickname when he hadn't even introduce the two.

"Yes, years ago." Elliot said amazed that she was finally standing in front of him.

"Well...I'll let you get to know each other... well catch each other up." Cragen said scratching his head and leaving the two of them alone.

"I can't believe it…I thought I would never see you again!" Olivia hugged Elliot and smiled through her tears.

"Neither did I, neither did I. So this little guy is your son? I met him over by the coffee machine, Eli right?" When Eli heard his mother exit the office, he immediately ran over to hug her legs.

"Elliot meet my son Elliot Alexander Stabler." Olivia didn't look him in the eye as she spoke her son's full name.

"You named him after me? Not his father?" Elliot was not putting two and two together.

"You are his father Elliot." Elliot looked at Olivia and then back at Eli. Yes Eli looked a lot like him, brunette hair, electric blue eyes, and he had his nose, but everything else reminded him of Olivia. Not wanting to get into the nitty gritty with Elliot with her son standing right there, she moved her son over to her new desk and pulled a couple of coloring books and blank pages and asked him to draw something nice for Mommy.

"Is this from our night?"

"Yeah. I didn't think it would happen, I thought we were more careful."

"Wow...this is definitely unexpected." Elliot said as he scratched his non existant beard.

"Look El, I don't expect you to be there for him, I didn't have a way to contact you, and I understand if you other people in your life."

Elliot thought of his deterioating marriage to Kathy. She wasn't ready for the children that had followed their one night stand. He had four kids, Maureen age 5, Kathleen age 4 and the twins age 2. He had met Kathy a year after he met Olivia and he only wanted to fill the empty void. Kathy never did but after she became pregnant he decided to stay with her for the sake of the kid. They had sworn off sex since one child was enough at their young age, but each time they had done it, a baby came 9 months later, he guessed he was just too fertile for his own good. But Kathy was becoming tired of raising the kids by herself and had filed for divorce. She wanted Elliot to step up to the plate and take care of his own kids. She was only 28, and she wanted her life back. She missed her partying years back in college.

"No I want to be here for Eli. I want to be in your life too. If you'll be in mine.

"I'd like that."

"It's only fair, but I do have 4 other kids, I think they'll get along perfectly with each other." Elliot said quickly before anything was settle on before thinking.

"Well, Eli and I have been living in an apartment kind of far out, it's definitely not near work." Olivia noted as she thought about the hour drive she took to work.

"Well, how about you stay with me for tonight, I have an apartment out in Queens, so you can kind of relax after your first day of work. I'd like to get to know Eli too."

"Are you sure? I don't want to rush into anything, and I don't want to make a mess of anything." Olivia sad quickly, her glance falling onto the ring on his finger.

"Trust me, you won't. I think Eli should have his father in his life. Besides, my marriage is over. Kathy is filing for divorce."

Night time found Elliot and Olivia grunting and panting. Although it was from rearranging his apartment to fit in a bed. Granted they hadn't exactly decided on Olivia staying at his place permenantly, she wanted Eli to at least be able to comfortable.

"We'll need to think about this more carefully if you do decide to stay here full time, since there is obviously not as much room as I thought." Elliot said sitting on the couch.

"We'll see, it'd be a lot easier living here than where I do now, but I don't even know if our kids will even get along." Elliot glanced at the scence in front of him. Eli, Kathy and Maureen were playing hide and seek throughout the apartment giggling when the other person found each other. The twins, Dickie and Lizzie were oblvious playing with their own toys.

"I think it will work out just fine." Elliot said slinging his arm around Olivia.