Change of situation - SVU
Chapter 1
The sound of children crying echoed through the large townhouse as the phone continued to let out its shrill ring. Footsteps pounding down the stairs and a shout out to answer the ruddy phone.
"Yes?" Jack McAllister asked angrily stood in the hallway wearing nothing but a pair of batman boxer shorts. There was no answer as he stood there listening as the line went dead and his wife called him back upstairs to help settle the children. Walking into the master bedroom Jack found himself angry at the caller for throwing their entire family into disarray, his wife Amy needed to be up in just over 2 hours to go to work and their 2 young children needed their sleep otherwise they'd be problematic the next day. The twins took almost an hour to settle down, Ethan dropping off first in his mother's arms and then Ellen falling back to sleep after being walked around the house 8 times in her father's arms. Crawling back into bed next to his wife Jack yawned and Amy snuggled into his shoulder.
"They're going to be a nightmare today." She said with a sigh, her mother was meant to be having them, but the 2 18 month olds were tricky to deal with when they were tired and her mother wasn't getting any younger, Amy felt guilty that she'd be leaving her mother to look after them.
Jack too sighed before reminding his wife that her mother had raised six children including terror inducing twins Casey and Cody, so she'd be fine with the McAllister munchkins as they were affectionately known to the detectives at the 1-6 and the Novak family. Jack could have sworn he'd only just fallen back to sleep when he felt his wife get up, he went to get out of bed with her but she pushed him back down placing a kiss on his lips, "sleep" she whispered, "I'll see you later." She added and Jack closed his eyes again soon drifting back to sleep while Amy got ready for work, cursing the fact that her job got her up at stupid o'clock in the morning.
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Amy found herself struggling to keep her eyes open later that morning as she filled in the paperwork for the raid she'd been part of that morning at 5am. Due to her previous experience with the vice unit she'd been handpicked to assist them on some dawn raids to close down some prostitution rings. But she was exhausted, it had been the 3rd night in a row they'd been woken by the phone ringing and she was fed up with it as each time it woke the twins, and much like herself they didn't function well on next to no sleep.
"Don't tell me it happened again?" Olivia asked catching sight of how tired Amy looked. Amy nodded sitting back in her chair.
"And again number was barred, I've considered getting a trace done but can't until Higgins gets back from holiday as he owes me a favour." Amy replied referring to the tech that they usually got to do the phone tapping. "The calls are annoying themselves but it's everything else that goes with it," Amy sighed. "It took over an hour to settle Ethan and Ellen last night; Ellen didn't go back to sleep the night before, Ethan only slept with Jack next to him. And the first night was just as bad, poor Jack is exhausted and to be honest we can't go on like it." Amy admitted, it was hard seeing her husband and children in such a state.
"Leave it with me." Olivia offered seeing how tired her friend was, "I'll see if I can call in a favour."
"Thanks, I owe you one." Amy said sounding happier, she was glad of anything that could be done to help get a decent night's sleep.
"Not one, just one of your lasagnes." Olivia replied and Amy nodded her head more than pleased with the deal. One of her ways of getting things out of her fellow detectives was to provide them with a home cooked meal, Olivia especially was grateful for Amy's home cooking.
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