Winging it again :D.
Chapter 3
Emergency
explanations
(Olivia's POV)
I moved in my bed. But this wasn't my bed. And there was another body in this small, hard, crapped bed. Scared I opened my eyes. Surprised to see Elliot just inches away from my face.
I just laid there starring at his face. It seemed less tense then it usually did. I tried to move my hand but realized it was intertwined with his. Was my dream last night a dream after all. I shook the thought from my head and moved my free hand from under the hospital pillow. I traced the worry lines on his forehead for a couple minutes. Lines I saw increases over the years. I took my left hand, the one without his left in, and pulled the sleeve down. I remember that his right had his watch on it. I sighed and pulled the sleeve back up. I gently let our hands fall back down between us.
"Liv?" Elliot mumbled.
"Yes?" I mumbled back. But my mumbles was more awake and clearer then his.
He smiled. He let go of my hand and wrapped it around my waist. Quickly he pulled me into his chest. I gasped in surprise. He smiled and shh'ed me sweetly. I could feel his fingers playing and twisting my hair strands around his finger. I smiled into his chest and laid my hand down on it.
"What time is it?" I asked after about a minute.
He sighed and let go of my hair .I closed my eyes still imagining his fingers running threw my hair. I heard him shuffle, then sigh again.
"8:42."
I sat up. "We should probably get going."
Before he could think about his reply the doctor came in. "I am sorry am I interrupting?"
"Oh no, we were just about to go find you." I replied. Elliot sat up and got off the bed.
"Okay, we just need you to sign some papers and you can go home. Do you have someone to help you at home?" I nodded. "Good... you might need a little help for the next couple days. I wrote you a
prescription for Darvocet... you can take 1 every 4 to 6 hours for your pain. I would like you to have a follow up with your family doctor in two weeks, you will also get your staples out then too. You can't keep you head in water for long periods of time especially standing water. I recommend to wash your hair take a shower but to bath otherwise and keep your head above your bath water." Elliot perked up at what I guess the thought of me in a tub. I smirked slightly, but snapped out of it to pay attention. "It you feel extensive pain or extreme dizziness come back here. Do you have any questions?"
"Um no. Thank you though."
"Okay,." He opened my hospital file and pulled out a light blue quarter size piece of paper and handed it to me. It was my prescription form. "Just go to the front desk and sign out." He smiled and walked out.
I leaned over to my cloths. I gathered that only my pants where on the counter next to the bed. I picked them up. "Where is my shirt?"
"You, uh, weren't wearing one when we came in."
"Oh," I paused for a second and looked down. "Why didn't you get me one last night?"
"Sorry, I guess I didn't think about it." He sighed and looked around. His gaze stopped at the chair he was suppose to have slept on last night. "Um, use my jacket." He picked up and set his tux like jacket on the bed.
"Why didn't you sleep on the chair last night?"
He smiled. "Because you asked me to sleep in the bed with you."I smiled weakly, not remembering asking him to sleep on the bed. But still glad I did. "You where half asleep when you asked." He paused a moment. "I'll go wait outside." Without another word he walked out of the room. I struggled my way over to the window and shut the blinds. To dizzy to walked back I leaned on the wall for a moment. I finally regained some strength and walked back.
I slid on my black slacks I really wished I would have worn jeans. I sighed heavily. The hospital gown came off with no trouble. I looked down at Elliot's pin stripped jacket laying against the white spotless hospital sheets. I unsteadily picked it up. It fell down onto my arms as I lifted them upward. I pulled my caught hair out from behind the collar and winced when I pulled some of my hair around my wound. I leaned my head down deciding wither or not to button it or just wrap it around me and hold it. Before I could make up my mind I got a big wiff of Elliot. I smiled and lifted the jackets front collar to my nose. A soft knock on the door ripped me from my thoughts.
"Yes?" I asked, almost whispering.
"You done?" Elliot responded.
I just wrapped the over sized jacket around me to the opposite side of me and held it in place. "Yea," I sat down on the bed. "You can come in." He did. Instantly he smiled at the sight of me in his jacket. I blushed back.
"Help me out of bed."
He smiled. "No problem." He walked over to he bed, wrapped one arm underneath both mine, and lifted me up with ease.
"Thanks."
We signed out and walked outside. Elliot's car wasn't far from the doors. He slid me into the passengers seat.
It was silent for about 10 minutes. "Liv, why did you hit your head?
"El, please lets not talk about this..."
"We have to..I just need to know why."
I sighed. "All I remember was crying. I could handle you and your outbreaks. But not when you have them because of me. I can handle heartache, just when your not the one causing it. When you threw that 'I'm married card' at me and then just left me... you broke me ... you broke every part of me. I don't know why I hit my head on that locker.... it is not me to want to hurt myself. I don't think that is why I did it. I think I did it for letting myself be so stupid as to letting you get that close to me, to letting you break me that bad." I paused and looked over at him.
"You know I didn't mean to hurt you."
"I know, you where just looking out for your family. And I respect that. But it didn't make it hurt any less." There was a long pause. "I know you will never do it again tho." I smiled and reached out for his hand.
"Nope, me and Kathy are defiantly over. I talked to her last night."
"Does she know about....?"
"Yes, and the weird thing is... she is happy for me. She is happy for you!" He chuckled. "I think she has gone crazy!" I laughed now to. He pulled into the parking lot for my building.
Before I was even fully out of the car Elliot was at my side helping me out. He picked me up in the pose you use after your married and walking down the step.
"Elliot! Put me down I can walk!" I manged to get out threw my laughter.
"Better safe then sorry."
"If this is how you are going to your going to act for two weeks, I will take care of myself!"
"Oh your suck a cry baby...so use to doing things for yourself.. let me give you a hand." We got to the door and pulled out my keys from his pocket. "I got them from your purse last night." He walked us up to my floor and apartment. He laid me down on the couch. "You need anything."
"Food. Something to drink." He nodded and headed off to the kitchen. In less then a minute he was back. "You dont have anything in there."
"When am I ever here to need something in there?" We laughed. "Order take out."
"At 9:23 am?"
"Have you never had take out for breakfast?"
He smiled. "Okay."
-----------------(around noon)
It had started raining again... the rain hit my window with loud bangs. Elliot had gotten my meds but they weren't kicking in yet.
"Ugh!" I moaned.
"What, are you okay?" Elliot asked.
"Yea. I just have a killer headache."
"Oh.. do you want to go to your room to sleep?" I mumbled in response, feeling my medicine take over my now tired body. I let my eyes slide shut. I felt Elliot's arms wrap under my knees and my back. I just let my head hang down into his chest. To soon I felt my bed under me. He helped me slip off his tux. I could hear him walk away as I was barely being able to pull off my slacks... I didn't even care at the moment weither or not I was just in my underwear.
"No, Elliot. Sleep with me..." I paused thinking of how that sounded. "What I met was... I need you..." I paused again.. "Ugh! Just come lay down." I heard him chuckle.
"Okay I will lay with you until you fall asleep. But then I have to get started on that mountain of paper work."
I smiled. "That is all I ask." I heard him taking off his shirt and felt him climb on the bed. Then I could feel his warmth as he laid down beside me. "Hold me El." And he did. I felt his lips kiss the top of my head. He pulled the cover up over us as I drifted away happily in his embrace.
----------(Elliot's POV)
I guess I had fallen asleep too because when I woke up it was around one thirty. Olivia had her hands wrapped around my back as if she where hugging me. I smiled as I felt the smooth skin from her stomach on my abs. Then I remember that she was only in her underwear. I froze for a second before deciding to get up before I became more excited.. I slipped out from her grip, she was way to tired to even notice. I went to the living room and pulled some cloths out of my suitcase and got in the shower. When I got out it was 2. I check in on Liv, who was still sound asleep. I sat down at her couch with 4 files when my phone went off.
"Stabler."
"Elliot, it is Cragen. I am just calling to check up on Olivia. How is she?"
"The pain medicine she is on knocked her out... god knows how long she'll be asleep for. She is pretty dizzy and it is hard for her to walk right now."
"Okay, when is she suppose to see her doctor to get the staples out."
"Uh to weeks I think. We made an appointment today for the Thursday after next."
"Good."
"Yea, I am starting the papers now... I just woke up myself so..."
"Okay, just call me if anything happens. Or if you need something."
"Will do. Bye."
"Bye." I hung up my phone.
By the time Olivia woke up I have finished all 5 files out of the 45 we had to do. To bad I had gone with the easiest ones first.
Um yea idk what was up with this chapter... I guess it is just kinda an explanation chapter... and kinda foreshadow-y-ish I guess... so we know Livs is home and Elliot is there... we know Liv's meds make her tired (but it stops doing that after a couple times after taking them) and we know Kathy is fine with all this... and we know El and Liv are kinda sorta together (they dont really know where there relationship is at the moment) yea I dont really know where I am going with all this lol.
