One Thing Led to Another

Chapter 8: Mornings

• Liv is 3 months pregnant•

Liv was sleeping peacefully when she felt something on her lips, she knew it was Elliot trying to wake her up. She pretended to be asleep, she moved away from him, she heard him sigh. She couldn't help but laugh quietly, "Babe, go back to sleep." she whispered.

She opened her eyes and looked at the clock "Why are you awake at 3? We have work." "I just woke up, and I felt like kissing my amazing girlfriend." she couldn't help but smile. "Okay if I kiss you do you think you'll go to sleep?" he laughed "Yeah babe." she leaned close and puckered her lips. He smiled and kissed her, she smiled "Okay go to sleep now.", he kissed her again and closed his eyes.

Liv smiled, she still couldn't believe he was with her now, they were having a baby, and living together. She looked at her stomach, it was growing everyday, she had to go shopping the other day because she couldn't fit into her pants anymore.

That day she had been getting ready and she pulled her pants on and they wouldn't zip up, she was laying on the bed trying to zip it, but it wouldn't budge. She was too concentrated and didn't hear Elliot laughing.

She smiled huge from the little memory, she knew soon enough she wouldn't fit into her shirts, or soon enough her stomach would be huge, and she would waddle around. She rubbed her stomach "Just a few more months." She whispered.

She looked at Elliot and he was sleeping, she kissed him lightly and went back to sleep.

Elliot was having a lovely dream until it was interrupted by the beeping of the alarm clock indicating it was time to get ready. He sighed and turned it off. He looked at a peaceful sleeping Liv, he didn't want to wake her up yet, he decided to let her sleep. He got up and went to take a shower. He came back out 10 minutes later only wearing a towel around his waist.

He knelt down next to the bed, "Baby, time to wake up." He whispered. She stirred a little, he kissed her head "Wake up, we have to be at work in 30 minutes." He heard her mumble "Baby please 5 minutes." she pulled the blanket over her. He laughed "Baby, I already gave you extra ten minutes."

She peeked out from under the blanket "You did?" "Yeah, I took a shower first and let you sleep in." she sat up and kissed him "Your so good to me." He smiled. "Now go get ready, i'm going to make breakfast." he saw her face lift up at the mention of breakfast "Can you please mak-" "6 pancakes, 4 pieces of bacon, and scrambled eggs. I know baby." He smiled.

She smiled "Make sure to drench it in syrup!" He laughed "You got it babe, does my babies want anything else?" Liv rubbed her stomach "What do you think baby?" She pretended to have a conversation with the baby "Yeah, me too." She looked at Elliot.

"We would like some orange juice too, of and can you put strawberries on the pancakes please." He smiled "Yes I can. Now get ready." he got up and disappeared into the closet.

Liv has gotten showered and was now standing in her closet trying on every shirt, but nothing fit. She sighed frustrated, today was not her day. She quickly picked one of Elliot's shirts and put a jacket over it. They still didn't tell anyone about them, or the baby.

They knew they had to soon, Liv's stomach was growing more each day, and the bigger she got the less she could do. She slipped the shirt on and looked in the mirror, you could definitely tell it was a man's shirt. She sighed, she was going to be teased by Munch and Fin for this.

She didn't care anymore, she put on pants and walked into the kitchen, there was a sweet aroma lingering around. Liv leaned against the wall and watched Elliot make his way through the kitchen cooking. She smiled, she never would think that one day Elliot Stabler would be in her kitchen making them breakfast.

Elliot was making eggs when he felt her presence. He smiled, he loved that between them, they could always tell when each other were near each other. He turned the stove off and grabbed the plates and sat them on the counter.

He walked to Liv and put his hands on her growling belly "Is my babies hungry." he whispered to her stomach. She smiled "Duh!" she laughed. He laughed "Well breakfast is served with your 6 pancakes with strawberries on it, 4 crispy pieces of bacon, scrambled eggs, and orange juice." She smiled and kissed him "I love having a boyfriend that can cook." She laughed.

He smiled "I like you wearing my shirts, it looks sexy." she blushed "I didn't fit any of my shirts, which means shopping time, and I think we should tell people about us, and the baby. I can't hide it forever." Elliot smiled "I think that's a great idea babe, how about we have a little party here on Saturday, and we'll let them figure out everything. You'll wear something that shows off your little bump, and i'll put more of my stuff out here. But we need to tell Cragen first or he will flip on us at the party."

"That's a great idea! I'll tell everyone about it today at work." she smiled and walked to the counter grabbing her food and eating it.

They sat in the car, both of them not wanting to go in, they made it a routine to have one person walk in first and the other person walk in 5 minutes later. When they walked into the building they were Benson & Stabler. Not El & Liv.

Elliot of course hated this little routine, because to him it felt like they weren't together, and just felt like the years before they finally started dating. He wasn't able to kiss or hug her. He wasn't able to say "I love you" at random times. He had to wait from 6:00 AM to 6:00 PM to do all that stuff.

Liv had opened the door to get out but he grabbed her wrist and pulled her back into the car. He kissed her long and passionately "I love you baby, and I love our baby." He smiled. Liv smiled "We love you too, how about we walk in together. We'll just say you picked me up. I mean that sounds reasonable." Elliot smiled "Okay, let's go in together." They kissed once more and walked inside, they had a decent amount of space between them when they walked in.

Once they got into the elevator Elliot looked around for any cameras, he saw none. He held Liv's hand. She looked at him "Babe, cam-" he cut her off "There's no cameras. I already looked." She smiled and kissed him. They pulled apart just in time for the elevator doors to open.

They stepped out of the elevator and went into the bullpen, nothing prepared them for this. The whole place was filled with papers, on the papers were pictures of Elliot and Liv, a few of them were them kissing, or some of their intimate times.

Elliot quickly started picking them up, Liv helped. Both of them furious but scared, did anyone see this? Who did this? Who put cameras in their house and took all these pictures? There was only one name that came to her mind Nick.

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