Title: Day
Disclaimers: Nothing is mine.
A/N: Stabler-centric, takes place sometime early in the series.
Get up early. Kiss Kathy and the kids goodbye; wake up Maureen so she gets to school on time.
Stop for coffee on the way to work. Drop your change in the tip jar.
Pick up the case where you left off yesterday; no time for 'good morning's or pleasantries like that. Make some phone calls, rifle through old correspondence.
Finally find what looks like a lead. Head out with Olivia to some nondescript apartment. Find out little of interest from whoever lives there - mostly protests and "I don't know anything"s.
Head back to the station. Add a few more pieces to the puzzle.
Repeat. And repeat again.
Dinner's already been served when you get home. Sit down at the table, ask the kids how their day was, wish they wouldn't grow up while you're not looking.
Put them to bed, kiss them goodnight. Kathy falls asleep before you do.