Semper Fi

Oops...he did it again

"Oh."

Lucy stayed quiet and just tended to Noah feeling the thick tension in the air. Elliot threw on some clothes, kissed Noah goodbye and left without saying anything to Olivia.

She finally emerged from the bathroom ten minutes later.

"Hey Elliot, have you seen my...oh hey Lucy I didn't hear you come in," she said surprised.

"Yeah Elliot left a few minutes ago."

"He did?"

Olivia was completely stunned that he would leave without saying goodbye to her and the look on Lucy's face told her that he left in a bad mood.

"Yeah."

"Oh ok, I was just looking for my black tank top but Ill find it," she said trying to recover.

She ran to her cell phone to call him but he didn't answer. She thought it was a fluke so she called again and he didn't answer so she left a voicemail.

"Hey," she said pausing not really knowing what to say. "I just...I love you. I guess that's all I wanted to say. Call me back please." By the time she got to the last words she had broken down and was in tears. This was the thing about herself that she hated. This is why her relationships always fell apart. She was fine until it was time to get to the next step and she couldn't handle it. The thought of marrying Elliot and having that marriage fall apart devastated her. She couldn't reconcile the thought that they would end up just like him and Kathy. She had gotten pregnant by accident and automatically he and his kids felt like they should get married. Everything he said to her the night before was true but she felt if it wasn't for their child there was no way he would've proposed so fast and that's what scared her more than anything. She didn't want him to repeat the same mistakes.

Once she dragged herself to work she kept checking her phone to see if she had a missed call or text message from him and there was nothing except a missed call from Trevor Langan. She was out of it during her morning meeting with the team but managed to play it off well enough that no one questioned her about it.

"Hey boss, Melinda just called and she has something for us on the Meyers rape. I'm going to head down there," Nick said.

"Actually Nick, I'll go down there and get briefed. You head out in the field with Carisi and question the teacher and janitor."

"You sure?"

"Yeah, it gives me a chance to get out of the office and it's the closest to getting out in the field that I will get for quite a while," she smiled sarcastically.

"Ok. See you later."

At the ME's office, Olivia tried to keep everything strictly business with Melinda initially but she was dying for someone to talk to. Melinda could sense that something was wrong but like the professionals they were they took care of business first before diving into the real issue.

"Ok what's going on?" Melinda asked pulling off her gloves and pulling up one of her stools.

"Umm can we actually go to another room without a body in it?" Olivia pointed out.

"Of course."

Once they were settled in Melinda's office Olivia told her everything about the day before and about the proposal.

"Olivia honestly how are you shocked by this? Hell even we told you at lunch before you found out you were pregnant that the man was already thinking marriage."

"Yeah but the fact that he waited to do it now after the kids brought it up in reference to the baby coming it just makes me feel like oops..he did it again. He got a woman pregnant and is doing the responsible thing and making an honest woman out of her like he did with Kathy," she tried to reason.