* Okay, so I am going to continue this story for now. I appreciate the reviews, although FanFiction won't let me see them all right now. But here is Chapter 2. *
"Liv, are you good? Do you need to get home to Noah?"
Fin had been watching his commanding officer check her phone repeatedly throughout their meeting as a team with Barba. They hadn't been planning on seeing the district attorney, but with a quick change in their case and what they knew about the victim, the whole squad had trudged downtown to Rafael's office.
"I'll be fine, I just need to call Lucy and let her know I'll be even later." Liv pushed against the handles of her chair, standing herself up, her body sore from sitting in the hard wood chair.
She walked out of the room, dialing Lucy's number as she went. The young girl answered the phone, expecting Liv to tell her exactly what she did, that she would be home later. Olivia apologized repeatedly for not getting home to relieve her, but Lucy assured her that it was fine, Noah was fast asleep anyway and she was just going to get some homework done.
But before the mom could turn back around and head into the office, the whole team came out from the same door she had left through.
"What are you all doing?" Liv questioned.
Her whole team had their coats on, phones in hands. Amanda even handed Olivia her own coat and purse.
"We are calling it a night." Amanda said. "Some of us have kids to get home to and nothing is going to change in the next twelve hours that is stopping us from going home now."
"But…" Olivia tried.
Carisi stopped her. "No buts, just go home Lieu."
"Alright." Liv threw her hands up in protest and accepted her coat and purse from Amanda. "But if anything, and I mean anything comes up, I better be the first phone call you all make."
The team dispersed after leaving the DA's office. Liv made her way to her car, her senses on high alert in the almost pitch black New York night. When she made it to her car and was finally in the driver's seat, she let out a deep breath. Her back had the same ache that it had just days before and after sitting for hours, the pressure and movements of the baby were starting to build painfully as well.
And Lucy could see that Olivia's day had been long when she walked through the door and she could also the discomfort written on her face. "Is everything okay, Liv?"
"Yeah, it's fine." Liv gave her a weak, unconvincing smile. "Just been a long day." "Just making sure. I'll get going though, let you get some sleep. Noah had a busy day so I'm thinking he'll be sound asleep for the rest of the night." Lucy gather her things as she spoke.
"Are you okay to get home? Do you need a ride?"
"No I'm fine." Lucy assured her. "I already have a ride. Thanks though."
Olivia gave her another half-hearted smile and watched as her young babysitter left the apartment. She quickly checked on Noah, who was sound asleep in his toddler bed, his arms wrapped tightly around his favorite stuffed animal. The mom quietly shut her son's bedroom door and made her way into her own room, dropping heavily onto her side of the bed. Her hand rested on stomach, where the baby was still moving tremendously and making her more uncomfortable by the minute.
But what was really painful, was looking at the empty side of the bed next to her. The place where Ed normally would have been already asleep, snoring just slightly.
This time it wasn't a case that was keeping him away, but instead a trip across the country that he had chosen to make all on his own. Less than twenty four hours after he had announced to Olivia that he had gotten a new job offer he had a made a second announcement: that he would by flying out to LA the following morning, this morning, to meet with the LAPD and discuss his possible new job. And Liv made no argument, she said okay, and walked out the door to work for the day. She was fed up, she was angry, and she was quite honestly at a loss for how she thought they should handle this new issue. So now she was hoping that maybe a few days apart would give them both time to think about where they were going next.
"Mama." Olivia's thoughts were disrupted by the sound of her favorite name coming from her little boy's mouth outside of her bedroom door.
"What's the matter sweet boy?" Noah came in, laying his head on his mother's lap.
"Where Ed?"
The question took Liv aback.
"He's… he's on a trip right now." Liv told her son.
"Is he comin' back?"
Olivia picked Noah up and set him on the bed next to her. "Of course he'll be back."
"Can I sleep with you mama?" Noah asked, his other worries about Ed disappearing quickly, as a three year old's attention span wasn't very long.
"Of course you can, baby." The mother and son fell asleep quickly, Noah snuggled up against his mama with his little hand wrapped around her his new little sister or brother. But the peaceful night for the little family was very short lived as by three am, Liv was out of bed, trying not to wake up her son. But it wasn't because she couldn't sleep.
She had noticed the pain right before she fell asleep, but she had waved it off as just something that was caused by her stressful day. However, hours later, it had become increasingly worse and she knew that she couldn't ignore it any longer. It was what Olivia had expected her contractions to feel like, except that they were happening nearly three months before her due date.
And then when she found herself in the kitchen, doubled over in pain, trying not to make a sound so she wouldn't wake up Noah, Olivia knew that she needed to do something. The pain was only getting worse by the minutes.
Eventually, Liv was able to fish her phone out of the bottom of her purse where she had left it earlier. It rang a few times before there was a voice on the other end.
"Liv?" Amanda sounded confused.
"I'm… I'm really sorry…" Olivia started.
"Liv, what's up?" Amanda could tell from the sound of her lieutenant's voice that something was off.
Liv let out a deep breath, trying to handle the pain. "Something is… I don't know… something is wrong."
"With the baby?"
"Yeah." Olivia was on the verge of tears. "And Ed is… he's not here."
Amanda let out a sympathetic sigh. "Okay, Liv. I'm going to call Carisi so that he can come with me and stay with the kids at your place. We will be there as soon as we possibly can."
The half an hour that Liv had to wait for Rollins and Carisi, felt like hours. She was sure that the pain was only worsening and it didn't take a doctor telling her for her to know whatever was going on was far from normal.
When the knock on her door finally sounded through her quiet apartment, Olivia was sure that she had never been so relieved.
Carisi carried Jessie in for Amanda, who followed behind him, her daughter's diaper bag in hand. The both stopped short when they were far enough into the apartment to see their CO leaned over the kitchen island, her breaths shallow and her face contorted in pain. "Okay, Liv, we really need to get you out of here." Amanda said. "Do you want to get changed before we leave?"
Olivia nodded in response and Amanda followed her into her bedroom to help her.
Sonny stood in the living room of his lieutenant's apartment, not sure where to go. Jessie had fallen back asleep in his arms and he didn't want to wake her up, but he also didn't want to be in the way or to make Liv feel any more uncomfortable than she already was. He knew that admitting that she needed help wasn't easy for her and he was probably the last person she wanted in her home, watching her suffer.
The two women returned from the bedroom, Olivia changed but still seemingly in pain. "You can put her in the bedroom with Noah. Just make sure she can't roll of the bed, okay? And all of her stuff is in her bag for when she wakes up. Noah shouldn't be too difficult, you'll probably have to feed him some breakfast, but I'm going to leave a message with Lucy so she knows what's going on and she'll be here sometime tomorrow morning." Amanda gave her partner the quickest run down that she could.
"We'll be fine. You guys go. I'll call if I need anything." Carisi insisted.
Amanda helped Liv out the door and to the elevator. Nothing was said by either of them as they walked to Olivia's parked car in the garage underneath the building. Even without an exchange of words, there was an unspoken motherly bond between the two and Amanda felt that there was a certain amount of trust Olivia was allowing her because they were both mothers.
Olivia was admitted to the maternity floor immediately after Amanda explained the situation to the nurse in the ER when they arrived. Within minutes of them walking through the doors of the hospital, Liv was in a room, in a gown, being hooked up to the fetal monitors, waiting for her doctor to come.
"Can I get you anything?" Amanda asked. The two women were now alone. All the nurses had left for at least a few moments.
Olivia shook her head. "I'm fine." She basically lied.
The pain was still as strong as it had been and she was sick to her stomach thinking about what this meant for her and her child. Then there was the whole thing with Ed. He was somewhere in LA, probably asleep, unaware of what was happening on the other coast he had just left.
"Have you…" Liv was trying to breathe through the pain. "Could you call Ed?"
Amanda eyes widened. How had she not even thought to let the father of Olivia's child know what was happening? Everything had gone so quickly once her lieutenant had called her that the only things on her mind was her daughter, Liv's son, and getting her to the hospital as quick as she possibly could.
"I will go call him right now." Amanda hurried out of the room.
As Amanda left the room, Olivia's doctor came through the door. The look on her face wasn't hiding what she thought of the situation her patient was in.
"How are you feeling Olivia? Still a lot of pain?" Dr. Anderson asked.
Olivia nodded her head.
"Okay. We are going to do everything that we can to stop these contractions. Your water didn't break and your pain isn't measuring as strong as contractions normally do, so I am hopeful that we can do this. But if we can't, I need you to be prepared for what is to come if we have to deliver this baby early. I would let whoever you need to know that they might need to be here with you."
The problem was, that the person Olivia needed to let know was across the country and she didn't know that he was coming back to be there for her or his child.
* Alright, tell what you are thinking. This is story isn't going to be only Olivia and the baby, but I wanted to create another complication. From here I really want to focus more on the Tuckson. But your reviews are still appreciated! *
