I don't own Law & Order: SVU or Grey's Anatomy. I got the idea for this from the Grey's Anatomy episode, "Physical Attraction, Chemical Reaction," in which Stephanie March played the mother of a boy who was in the hospital because he swallowed magnets in order to get his constantly fighting parents to get a divorce. Since Stephanie March also played Alex Cabot on SVU, who went into witness protection...
Jane- or Alex, because despite everything, she still thought of herself as Alex- sat in the hospital waiting room across from her husband, Don, trying not to pick a fight with him, or even worse, start crying. Or maybe the fight would be worse, because although by now she was so used to fighting with him over everything, she had not realized what it was doing to their son. He was in surgery now, because he had swallowed magnets in order to convince them to get a divorce. Se was making her son so miserable that he almost killed himself to get his attention. She hated herself for not realizing. She wasn't the kind of person who was this oblivious to her child. This wasn't her. She laughed bitterly to herself. No, it wasn't her. But she wasn't Alex anymore either.
And that was the problem, she knew. Her constant fighting with Don was her fault. When she first met Don, they had immediate chemistry. They had similar interests, similar backgrounds… Don and Jane seemed made for each other. But that was the problem. She wasn't Jane, no matter how hard she tried to be. It was the pressure of trying to be someone she wasn't and keep her real self hidden so far inside that no one- not the Columbians, and not her husband or even her son- could really know her, that was what had made her start fighting with him so much. She realized that now. Maybe if she could tell Don the truth, that she was really Alex Cabot, Special Victims Prosecutor from New York, that her life had been about fighting for justice, that she missed that life, missed everyone who had been part of that life… She didn't like being Jane any more than she'd liked being Emily. The only good thing about this life was her son. And now he was in danger for his life because she had put herself first, not thought of the effect their constant fighting would have on him.
Maybe she should get a divorce. She'd first thought of that almost a year earlier, and she'd almost been at the point of serving Don with divorce papers. But then the agents from the witness protection program had told her that if she exposed herself by getting a divorce, she would have to change her identity again, and she just couldn't leave her son.
Tears began to run down Alex's face. If she divorced Don, she would never see her son again. But by staying in the marriage she had made him so miserable that he was killing himself.
Tears flowing down her face, she looked up at her husband. Don was a good person, really, and he loved their son. Alex knew he was as worried as she was.
And suddenly, she knew what she had to do. What she'd wanted to do when he proposed, and on their wedding, and when their son was born, and so many other times over the years. She looked up at her husband and said, "My name is Alex Cabot…
I'm not sure whether to have this be a one shot or continue it. I might continue it sometime, or not. Does anyone remember the name of their son?
I'd just like to add that I decided I will continue this, at some point. It might be a while, or not, but I have some ideas.
Anyway, please review.