Olivia, Nick and Amanda were sitting at their desks working on paper work. Cragen was
just walking back through the doors from a meeting. It had been a dull day. The
only case they caught came and went. Fin was in interrogation finishing up
getting the confession from the perp, Barba had made a deal since the crime
wasn't very high profile and the guy had some information to help out a big narcotics
case.

"Benson" Cragen said in a calm manor standing in the doorway of his office, making
eye contact with his longest running detective before turning around and
walking to his desk.

Olivia got up giving Nick and Amanda a quick look of confusion before making
her way to her Captains office.

"Shut the door, please, Liv" Cragen stood up and walked to the front of his desk,
slightly leaning on it.

"What's going on Cap?" Olivia said while turning around after shutting the door

"My meeting today was with Kathy Stabler." He said firmly.

Olivia's big brown eyes widened.

"He's okay." Don said, he could see Olivia running ideas through her head and
he didn't want her thinking anything crazy. "She asked me to give you this. She
said she couldn't bring herself to give it to you or tell you personally"

"Okay…" Olivia asked completely thrown off, confused, and tangled in her own
thoughts.

Cragen handed her a white envelope with Olivia's name neatly written in cursive
in the middle of it. She immediately opened it.

Olivia,
it's always been you. It always will be.
Please don't be angry with him.

Best of luck

-Kathy

"Olivia" Cragen said her name for the 4th time before she acknowledged
him. "Everything okay?" He continued.

Meanwhile, outside the squad room, a tall man, well built, walk in. Nick stood
to attend to him.

"I'm detective Amaro; Can I help you with something?"

"Looking for Liv… I mean detective Benson, she around?"

Just as he said that every officer in the squad room turned as his voice, Fin
was walking out of integration into the squad room, he stopped dead in his tracks,
with a dropped jaw, in front, of Cragen's office door that had also just opened
with a tall, wide eyed, Olivia Benson standing in the doorway, frozen in the
moment.

The tall, well-built man was staring at Olivia, as she was him. Nick and Amanda
shared a looking of confusion. It seemed as they were the only people there
that didn't know what was going on. Fin was the first one to speak.

"Anyone got a knife so we can cut through this tension," He said walking over
to greet his former co-worker, Elliot Stabler.

"Good to see you man." They shared a short man-hug, but Elliot's eyes never
left Olivia's.

Fin stepped aside, next to Nick and Amanda. Elliot began to walk closer to
Olivia. She didn't know what to do. He had so many things he wanted to say and
do but all the could come up with was:

"Hey…"


You like? Yay or nay? This was just going
to be a short little one-shot on Elliot's return into Olivia's life but then I felt
more like making it a short chapter story. Give me some reviews if you agree
and like it and I'll throw up another! Thanks guys!