A/N: Here is chapter 2...I have decided to write a 3rd only because it seemed to need another one and if I get enough reviews I will even add a 4th for an epilogue. Please read and review.

Disclaimer: Own nothing except the doctors, baby and nurse.

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Saint Marks Hospital

Elliot Stabler's room

23rd November 2009 8:05am

Thirty-one weeks drifted by painfully slowly for Olivia. Her baby boy was six days overdue and she was refusing to stay at home and rest, to prepare for the birth. The baby's furniture was set up and ready in Olivia's room since it was a one bedroom apartment so Olivia was sitting on the chair beside the bed with Casey sitting protectively in the chair beside her.

Elliot had shown signs of improvement and the doctors said that he had a higher possibility of waking up. The news cheered Olivia up and she was determined to be there when he woke up.

Olivia was beginning to feel pains in her back so she squirmed around a bit in her chair and rub the small of her back. Casey saw this and was concerned.

"Liv?"

Olivia looked at the ADA and smiled. "I'm fine, Case."

Casey just nodded, not really believing the heavily pregnant detective.

Five minutes went by in silence until Olivia felt a painful contraction and screamed out in pain. It was time.

Casey got up out of her seat and looking down at Olivia. "Give me your hand."

Olivia gave it to her with a raised eye brow. "What?"

Casey gently pulled the heavily pregnant woman up out of the seat and started to guide her out of the hospital room.

"I don't want to leave him, Casey."

"Liv, you're in labor. We have to go," the ADA replied and continued to guide the detective out.

"I've only had one contraction," Olivia whined.

"I've watched you for just over an hour, Olivia. You're in labor. You were having contractions in your back, honey."

Olivia just nodded and leaned in to Casey. Her back was really hurting badly but didn't want to admit it.

"You alright, Liv?"

"My back hurts so bad," she whispered in pain. Olivia couldn't hide it anymore.

"Ok, honey. Let's get you up to the Maternity floor," Casey said and helped her friend in to the elevator.

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Delivery Room 1

24th November 2009 6:45am

"The head is crowning, Olivia," Olivia's OB/GYN, Dr. Reba Cook informed her.

"About time! Ahhh!" Olivia cried out in pain and exhaustion before leaning against Casey and pushing again.

"Whoa!" The older woman cried out in surprise.

Olivia stopped pushing and looked down at the doctor. "What? What's wrong with my baby?" She asked in a breathless panic.

"Nothing but he is already facing upwards that's why your back was hurting so badly."

Olivia nodded and groaned.

"Push, Olivia," Dr. Cook ordered kindly and firmly as she rubbed Olivia's thigh a little to encourage her.

Olivia pushed and quietly moaned, putting as much energy as she could in to it. She'd been pushing for close to an hour and she was exhausted. Olivia just wanted it over and done with.

"That's it, Olivia. Take a break. His head is out, honey."

Olivia leaned back in to Casey and rolled her head to the side in exhaustion. "I'm so tired, Case."

Casey wiped the sweat off Olivia's forehead with a damp white cloth. "I know, honey. But he is almost here."

"I want Elliot," Olivia said before her breathing heavier and faster. Another contraction was coming.

"I know, Liv but just worry about bring this baby in to the world right now, ok?"

Olivia nodded and bore down again.

"Ahh!" She screamed as she gave one last big push.

She felt her son slide out of her body and in to the world. Olivia didn't stop pushing until she heard her son's first cries.

"Say hello to your son, Olivia," Dr. Cook as she placed the squirming, wailing boy on her abdomen before cutting the cord.

"He's a big boy, Liv," Casey said with a smile.

Olivia had a big smile on her face. "Yes he is but he's my little man. Hello Joey."

Olivia was so happy. She was finally a Mommy. She just wished that Elliot was there with her to enjoy the moment but she had Casey and she was thankful.

"When can I take Joey to see his father?" Olivia asked, tiredly.

Dr. Cook knew the situation and sighed as a nurse took baby Joey to have tests done, be weighed and bathed.

"How about we clean you up first and you get some sleep before we take you and Joey downstairs to Elliot but it will only be for a little while, Olivia. You need to rest, you just gave birth, to a big baby I might add, after twenty-four hours of labor. That's right, Olivia, Casey took me about the contractions you had in your back before you came up here."

Olivia sighed and then yawned. "I didn't want to leave Elliot. What if he woke up?"

Once Dr. Cook was finished cleaning Olivia up, she got up and took off her used gloves. "Honey, you couldn't deliver by his bedside. He would have understood why you weren't there if someone explained it to him."

Casey gently got from behind Olivia, replacing the pillow that was there before and the exhausted new mother fell asleep almost instantly, upon her head hitting the pillow.

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A draining week went by and Olivia was once again sitting by Elliot's bed but with Cragen by her side this time as she held a sleeping Joey in her arms.

Olivia sighed and turned to her Captain. "What am I going to say when he wakes up and sees Joey in my arms? He's been in a coma so long and he didn't even know I was pregnant before the incident happened so unless he can hear us...he doesn't know Joey exists," Olivia spoke sadly in a whisper so she didn't wake her eight day old son.

Joey had his father's eyes, bone stracture, ears and toes but his mother's soft brown hair, lips, nose and fingers.

Olivia was exhausted from lack of sleep but she loved her son so much so the lack of sleep was worth it but she just wanted to sleep.

Joey decided to make his presence known as he squirmed and wailed in his mother's arms.

"Go feed Joey, Liv. I'll stay here, ok?"

"Thanks Don," Olivia replied and got up.

Over the last thirty-two weeks the doctors and nurses had gotten to know Olivia and had given her special permission to use the doctors' lounge to nurse her son.

Olivia walked in to the doctors' lounge, rubbing Joey's back, trying to settle him down just a bit.

She found two doctors on their breaks. Dr. Jocelyn Thompson and Dr. Neil Turnbull.

"Hi Joce. Hi Neil," Olivia greeted them as she sat down on one of the comfy seats.

"Hi Olivia," Neil replied with a smile.

"Hey Liv. How is Elliot doing?"

Olivia moved her t-shirt and bra just enough for Joey to latch on but not enough to expose herself too much.

She smiled and rubbed her son's chubby arm before looking back up at Jocelyn. "He's doing better. I hope he wakes up soon so he can meet Joey."

"It must've been hard to go through your pregnancy and the birth without him."

Olivia sighed. "Yeah it was. I had friends with me and I am thankful for that but...it's just I wanted Elliot."

"I'll see you later, Olivia," Neil said and left because his break was over.

"Bye Neil," Olivia replied.

Neil walked out, leaving the two women alone.

"I can understand that, Liv. I was glad to have my husband with me during my two pregnancies and especially when I had Miranda and Nikita."

After continuing their conversation for another five or so minutes, Olivia nodded and looked down at Joey to see that he'd finished feeding. She moved him to her shoulder and covered herself back up before she began to pat the baby boy's back.

Joey let out a tiny burp and Olivia smiled. "Good job, buddy," she whispered and got up. "I better head back. I'll see you later, Joce."

"See ya, Liv."

Olivia walked back in to the hospital room with Joey and sighed to see that Elliot still hadn't woken up.

"Why hasn't he woken up yet?" Olivia asked with a sigh as she sat down, tiredly.

"I don't know, Liv. I'm going to go call Fin. I'll be right back," Cragen informed her as he stood up.

Olivia nodded and placed Joey in his stroller beside her chair. "Ok."

Cragen walked out and quickly called Fin to see what was happening at the precinct.

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When Don returned, he found Olivia fast asleep and Joey wide awake in his stroller, sucking on his pacifier and kicking his chubby little legs. "Hey buddy," Don whispered as he picked up his 'grandson'.

He tip-toed over to the window with him. "You've exhausted your mother, little man," he whispered before turning back to Olivia..

She had her legs behind her on the seat and her head resting on the top, to the side, lightly snoring. She was exhausted. Joey had been waking up every two- two and a half hours during the night and being home alone with him, she barely got any sleep all week.

"We need your mother to stop being so stubborn, Joey," Cragen whispered as he rubbed the boy's tiny back.

Joey made a baby noise in response before his tiny crystal blue eyes drifted close.

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An hour and a half later, Cragen decided to wake Olivia up and take her home. Joey was getting restless.

He gently shook her awake. "Liv, wake up."

"Mmm," Olivia groaned and opened her beautiful brown eyes.

"Come on, I'm taking you home."

"I don't want to leave Elliot just in case he wakes up."

"Olivia, you're exhausted and Joey is getting restless. I'm taking you both home and you're going to sleep while I look after the little man."

"I'm fine," Olivia insisted. She was being her stubborn self.

"Olivia, please."

Being too exhausted to argue, Olivia just nodded. "Thanks, Don," she said and got up.

Don pushed the stroller, containing a restless Joey while Olivia walked tiredly beside him.

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That night, Olivia was sitting on her queen sized bed, looking out the bedroom window at the shiny stars in the night sky as she nursed her son.

She felt refreshed after six solid hours of sleep. Olivia was glad she had used the breast pump before leaving to go to the hospital, that morning so Cragen could feed him.

Olivia was humming a lullaby as Joey nursed hungrily when she she heard the home phone ring.

Cragen was still there since he had insisted on cooking her dinner, so Olivia let him answer the call.

Joey started falling asleep so Olivia gently got Joey to release his tiny jaw from her nipple before fixing her bra and top and moving Joey to her shoulder.

"Give Mommy a burp, buddy and then you can sleep," she whispered as she delicately patted his back.

There was a knock at the door all of a sudden.

"Yes?"

Cragen opened the door to Olivia's bedroom and walked in.

"Hey Liv," he spoke softly as she walked over to the bed.

Joey let out a burp and Olivia smiled. "Good boy," she whispered and laid him back down in her arms before looking up at Cragen. "Who was on the phone, Don?" She asked as she rocked Joey to sleep.

Cragen sat at the end of the bed, with a smile on his face. "It was Elliot's doctor. They

think Elliot should be awake in a few days. His EEG showed nearly normal activity and he's breathing on his own."

Olivia smiled. She wanted to jump up and down with joy but couldn't with Joey in her arms.

"Thank goodness. I knew he would pull through," she whispered and looked back down at her precious son. "You're going to meet your Daddy right soon, little man," she said with a grin.

Olivia was so happy.