The following morning Liv had woken up early taken Lizzie & Dickie to school and Noah & Eli to Kindergarten. She was due at the precinct for 9am after Fin had called her to come in earlier than she was originally.
"Hey sorry I'm a little late Noah wouldn't let go of me at Kindergarten. What have we got."
"A paedophile ring operating in Queens have just raped two more girls. Both aged nine and both blonde haired", Fin stated.
"Wow both nine and blonde haired now theirs a conspiracy"
"And good morning to you Munch", Liv replied with a slight hint of sarcasm laced with a small laugh".
Liv walked over to the coffee station to make herself a cup of coffee with about 4 sugars.
"Wow Liv. That much sugar isn't like you?"
"Yeah well I had a long night".
Fin and Munch just looked at each other and sniggered.
"Not like that guys. But if I'm honest I was hoping it would go that way".
"That bad huh?".
Liv nodded as her husband walked into the precinct.
"How was court this morning El?" Fin asked.
"Not too bad the perp got life so pretty good result",
Fin & Munch could feel the tension between Liv & Elliot this morning
"So me & Liv are off to find the perps raping these girls".
And with that Liv & Fin left the precinct.
"What was that with you and Liv", Munch asked.
"What do you mean were fine Munch", El said clearly lying.
"Sorry to interrupt, El I need a word", Captain Cragen said peering round the frame of the door.
"Sure Cap I'm on my way", El said walking towards Captain's office.
"I need you and Liv to go undercover later to try and get to the bottom of a case".
"Well you could ask her but I don't think she's gonna be happy about going undercover with me".
"What you done now Elliot?"
"Spoke before thinking", Elliot said embarrased
"Been there son trust me"
"How can I fix this", Elliot asked desperate.
"Only you know how to do that Elliot", Captain replied a little concerned for Olivia who he treated like a daughter.
The working day had finished and after chasing two perps around Manhattan all day Liv just wanted to pick the kids up and just sleep.
"LIZZIE PUT YOUR SHOES IN THE PORCH. DICKIE GET ON WITH THAT MATH HOMEWORK. ELI STOP THROWING THINGS AT NOAH", Liv practically shouted a lot of things like this for about 4 hours.
"ELAINE!", Liv shouted to get her mother in law's attention over all the noise
"Liv sweetie what is it?"
"Have you heard from Elliot?"
"Working late again Fin left you a message before".
"Look I can't. Look I'm going out can you tell Elliot if he even cares. Are you okay to have the kids?".
"Yeah sweetie you go you look like you could do with a night out".
Liv went upstairs and got herself dressed in a nice black dress, heels, her hair done perfectly and a Prada bag to match. She mouthed a thank you to Elaine before leaving to go to the local bar close to the precinct.
Liv arrived at the bar and ordered herself a scotch. She texted Alex & Casey to see if they wanted to hang out but they were clearly busy. She continued to try and forget her troubles and drank some of her scotch when she was nudged ever so slightly.
"I'm do apologise miss I clearly wasn't looking where I was, Liv?"
"David? Oh my god I haven't seen you in forever".
David joined Olivia. They ordered drinks and went and sat in a booth together.
"So what do you do now?, Liv asked.
"I'm in the Corporate Law business now. What about you?".
"Detective in the Special Victims Unit of NYPD", Liv said.
"You always wanted to do that when we were in Law school didn't you".
"Yeah its the only thing I've ever been good at you know".
"Yeah. It was always your passion".
"So how's Chris?"
"Yeah he's fine he went into accounting. Actually its our anniversary on Thursday".
"Oh wow that's amazing"
"Yeah. So you with anyone?"
"Yeah my husbands called Elliot, he's also an NYPD detective and we have a son together Noah", Liv answers showing him a picture of Noah on her phone. "Also I have step kids Lizzie, Dickie & Eli".
"Wow sounds like paradise Liv".
"Yeah well there's trouble in paradise at the moment, Liv stated her eyes beginning to fill with tears.
"Oh honey you wanna tell me about it", he asked not wanting to accidentally upset her more.
"Okay", Liv replied.
Liv began to explain everything to her old friend as he listened intently.
