Olivia woke up feeling like crap. She hadn't slept well again. For the last week, Olivia had been unable to sleep and she hadn't eaten anything. IAB had suspended her from work until her hearing on Monday morning with the board of commissioners. The hearing was making Olivia feel depressed and she was angry. Her friends had tried all week to make her feel better, but nothng had worked. She knew that she didn't have to worry since she hadn't actually done anything wrong, but the fact that no-one was listening to her was making it harder. The charges had been filed last week. She was getting charged with beating a suspect until he was barely concious, but it had actually been the suspect that had injured her. The case had happened almost a month previously, giving the suspect a fake timeline of events.
Olivia had been taken to hospital after the suspect had beaten her, and she had spent the night there. Everyone in the squad knew what the truth was, but the suspect's lawyer didn't care.
Olivia had spent the last few days searching for a lawyer that would take her case without asking for money. She had finally found Trevor Langan when she had been working with them to get one of his innocent clients out of jail. Langan had agreed to help Olivia for free.
Langan had called several people to be character witnesses for Olivia as well as witnesses for what had really happened. He was asking the SVU squad to help, and he had called in Alex Cabot for her help. He had even managed to get in contact with almost all of the former ADAs for SVU, and some of the former detectives. He hadn't told Olivia yet, but he was also getting her doctor to help out. Olivia had given Langan permission to get her medical file to use in the hearing.
A loud knock on the door made Olivia jump. She hadn't been expecting visitors and Langan always called before coming. Olivia opened the door to find Elliot standing there.
"Come in El," said Olivia.
Elliot had been coming by every day since Langan had told him about the hearing. On the first visit two days ago, Olivia had told him what was going on and she had broken down into tears. Elliot had comforted her, realising that he truly missed his old partner. Since then, Elliot had been a source of comfort for Olivia and he had been trying to take care of her.
"How are you Liv?" asked Elliot.
"Tired. Do you want anything?"
"No. I want to make sure you're happy."
"You've been through this before El. You know that's not possible."
"Liv, I've done so many of these hearings that they don't bother me anymore. I just used the suspensions as time to spend with my family. Don't worry, you won't get into trouble Liv. You didn't do anything wrong. Once they see the medical reports for you and him, they'll realise the truth."
Olivia knew that Elliot was just trying to make her feel better but it wasn't working. She was so upset that nothing mattered to anymore.
