Author: Spoilers for the newest episode. I just had to write this, even if it's not the best... I love Olivia so much, and Elliot does too, lol.
Absolution
Sonya had struck a cord within Olivia. When she had found her drunk in the court room, memories of her mother came flying to the front of her mind. She felt disgusted. Angry. Why would someone throw away their career and their life for a few drinks? She just didn't understand it.
The anger had persisted, even when they were all talking about Sonya at the precinct. She mentioned how she found her to be a lot like her dead mother, only to find out that maybe... maybe she was on the wrong side of the wall she had built so high around herself. Sonya was sorry... and upset. Olivia seen the pain. The anger at herself... she seen it all, and felt something in herself break and give way.
Later, when she was at her mother's grave... she felt that perhaps she understood her a little more, even if she didn't like how she had handled herself. It was just a bad situation that had no real resolution in sight. Olivia would always be angry at her mother, but perhaps she didn't have to hate her so much for her choices.
She laid the roses down, standing up... tears welling in her eyes. After all, she had never truly mourned her drunk of a mother who fell down the stairs and died. At first it was just one tear that fell... then two, and then three. The floodgate was open, but she was not alone. Elliot was standing just out of view, watching her. Giving her a moment, but when he saw her crying, his heart clenched and he made his way around the other headstones to reach her.
Absolution won't always break the chains that bind you.
