Back at the hospital Olivia was starting to feel the effects of the treatment. Her stomach was starting to churn and her heart began to beat in her temples. She tried to go to sleep so it wouldn't have to be as bad but nothing was making it go away.

"El," she said in barely a whisper, her eyes still closed, "I need..."

Elliot knew what Olivia needed even though she didn't get to finish her sentence before the vomit came. Elliot had handed her the basin just in time. When the vomiting spell was over Elliot went to get a cold rag and placed it over Liv's forehead, "Not much longer before you're done."

Liv appreciated everything that Elliot was doing for her but sometimes she wondered if he ever resented her for getting cancer. He wanted a happily ever after just as bad as she did but the cancer came back and now neither one of them had gotten what they'd hoped for.

"You did very well Olivia," Anne said as she carefully took the IV out of Liv's arm, "Your next appointment will be tomorrow at 10:15."

Olivia nodded her head and sat up to leave but quickly sat back down as the room begun to spin. She put her hands to her head to try and steady it before she stood back up but it was no use.

"Let me help." Elliot let Olivia use his arm for support as they made their way to the car.

"Are you gonna be okay for the ride home?" Elliot could tell the effects of the chemo had already started to take a toll on Liv. She was resting her head against the headrest with her eyes closed trying not to show Elliot that she was about to throw up.

"I'll be fine El?" It was more a question than an answer.

The next morning had started off on a bad note, Olivia wasn't feeling good and Elliot knew it but she still insisted on going to work. Julie had woken up with a fever so she had to stay home from school and they didn't want her staying home alone.

"Liv," Elliot said. He could feel the blood beginning to boil in his veins as his frustration began to increase, "Please stay home today. You aren't feeling well."

"Elliot I just want to go to work one last day. I'll be fine. Wouldn't you rather me go now instead of when I'm worse?"

"I guess you're right." Elliot knew he wasn't going to win this argument and it did make sense to him that she wanted to go to work before she physically couldn't. "I'll stay at home with Julie."

"Thanks El." Olivia smiled and leaned in closer to Elliot before pulling away leaving Elliot with a confused look on his face.

"I thought you were going to kiss me."

Olivia couldn't help but giggle, "I was, but then I changed my mind."

Elliot raised an eyebrow, "Why? My kisses aren't good enough?"

"Your kisses are amazing," Olivia said as she slipped into her work clothes, "But I want something else."

Elliot knew that Olivia was hinting at him to kiss her first, "Well, I suppose that I could kiss you."

He stood up from the bed and took his shirt off. He walked over toward Olivia and put his hands on her face gently, pulling her forward until their lips met. Olivia could feel the passion in his kiss and they locked tongues. Olivia smiled, "I'm going to be late for work."

"We still have ten minutes together," Elliot said as he was pulling Olivia towards the bed. Before he thought about the pain Olivia was in he pushed her down on the bed and climbed in next to her. He immediately regretted it as he heard her wince. "Oh Liv I'm sorry! I forgot! I'm sorry!"

"It's okay." Olivia did feel a little pain shoot in her spine because the chemo made her bones feel weak but she knew he didn't mean to so she played it off, "Really, you didn't hurt me."

"You're a bad liar." Elliot had his serious face on now because he hated when Olivia didn't show her emotions to him. He could understand it before when they weren't dating but now they were married and he wanted her to share like he always shared with her.

Olivia sat up on the bed and continued to get ready for work, "I have to go. I'll see you later." She gently planted a kiss on Elliot's cheek and left the room.

At the 16th precinct it was fairly calm. Detective Munch was making coffee and talking to Fin about his conspiracy theories. Fin was trying to block him out by listening to his ipod but Munch just wouldn't shut up. Olivia couldn't help but laugh at them. They had all become really good friends since Olivia had first gotten there. They knew about each others personal lives enough to know that nobody had it easy. They also took their job seriously and did a great deal of working together.

"Hey Liv," Fin said pulling the ear phones out of his ears, "Can you tell this old grandpa to shut the hell up?"

Olivia laughed, "I would but it wouldn't be any good."

"I take offense to that!" Munch said finally ending his conversation about conspiracies.

"It got you to stop talking about it," Olivia fired back.
They all laughed and this was unusual for the SVU team. Their job was a depressing job that caused most of them to be affected. Olivia was the one who bonded with the victims and got them to open up. Fin was the one who didn't stop until he got the case done. Munch was the one who knew everything about everything and Elliot was the one who could beat a confession out of anyone. They all had their special qualities that made them good detectives.

Just as the laughter was coming to a halt Captain Cragen walked in, "I Julie you guys weren't too busy."

"We got a case?" Fin asked as he turned around in his chair to face the captain.

"24 year old female was raped and badly beaten early this morning in Central Park. Some teenagers were walking through the park on their way home and found her and called the police. The woman's name is Jenna Hansen."

"Fin, Munch you guys go to the hospital and get Jenna's statement. Benson I need you to go meet Warner at the crime scene."

They all nodded to show they understand their assignments and they would begin them effected immediately.

"What do we got?" Olivia asked arriving at the scene.

"We have a dead body."

Olivia looked confused, "I thought Jenna was at the hospital?"

"She is," Warner replied, "This isn't Jenna." Melinda Warner pulled back the tarp over the dead body to give Olivia a peak. Olivia cringed at the sight. She could never wrap her head around why people did these things.

"I'll get her to my office and I'll let you know when I find out more."

Olivia nodded and then got in her car to make her way to Mercy Hospital.

Back at home Elliot was tending to Julie since she wasn't feeling very well. He made her breakfast and brought it to her room.

"I'm not sick Dad," Julie said sitting up.

"What do you mean?"

"I was never sick. I didn't want to go to school because I didn't want to leave mom, but she went to work."

"Oh Julie," Elliot sighed as he sat down on the edge of Julie's purple polka dotted bed.

"I'm sorry! I just wanted to spend time with her ya know?"

Elliot could tell that Julie was distraught and he was at a loss for words.

"I know." Elliot didn't know what else to say, "Mom's gonna be okay. She's a big girl."

"I know that," Julie said as her eyes filled with tears. She didn't dare let one drop. "I do. I just wanted to spend time with her before things got really bad. I did some research on cancer and I don't want her to have to go through that! I don't want her to die!"

Julie had failed at keeping the tears in and Elliot's heart was cracking for his youngest daughter. He knew that things would be difficult for Julie to process that her mom was sick just like it was hard for them to process the first time. He knew but he hadn't prepared himself as to what Julie would say.

"Julie, I can't promise you that she won't die." Hearing those words come out of his mouth made him want to throw up, "I CAN promise you that I will try my damn hardest to make sure she fights until there isn't any fight left in her."

"I know that she'll fight," Julie said, "She will fight even when there is no fight left but, that doesn't stop my worrying."

"It doesn't stop mine either." Elliot had given Julie one last hug before she got of the couch to go into her room. Elliot stood up and shook his head. Things were getting harder already and Olivia was barely sick. He knew it was going to be a long and hard fight for everyone.

Elliot plopped back down on the couch before taking out his cell phone and dialing Liv's number.

"Hello?"

"Liv, we need to talk."

"Can it wait?" Olivia was angry that Elliot had called her at work when he knows how busy they get.

"No. It can't wait because Julie isn't sick. She skipped school today because she wanted to stay home and spend time with you. She is so worried that you won't be okay."

Elliot could hear that Olivia was upset by the sigh he heard her make, "I'll ask Cragen if I can come home early then."

"Olivia Benson," Elliot said finally bringing back the smile on his face, "I love you."

"I love you too," she said back. Her perfectly white teeth were shining as she hung up the phone.

Olivia couldn't believe that Julie would skip school just to stay at home with her. She knew that Julie loved her but she also knew that Julie cared a great deal about school and couldn't stand when she missed a day. She quickly told Cragen everything that was going on and he understood and granted her time off. He knew how much Julie meant to her.

When Olivia walked in the doorway of her house Julie was sitting on the couch watching TV. "What are you doing home?"

"I figured that we could spend some time together since you didn't go to school today. If you're feeling up to it that is," Olivia smiled.

"I'd love too."

"I was thinking we could go to the Museum," Olivia suggested, "You're dad took me there when we first started dating. We had a good time."

"I don't know," Julie said as she flipped off the TV.

"Aw, come on. It'll be fun."

Julie smiled at her mom's effort to have fun with her. She liked when they hung out together. All of her friends at school always talked about how they didn't like their moms because they were boring and they never got what they wanted. Julie loved her mom though and she didn't dare talk about her behind her back. She thought she was the coolest mom ever and she would rather hang out with her than her friends; especially now that she could die.

"That's cool," Julie said pointing to a blue and red painting that was hanging on one of the walls.

"Look at that one," Olivia said, "Looks like something a kindergartener made."

Julie smiled, "Yeah because every kindergartener can draw perfect circles. Can I ask you something?"

"Now?" Olivia asked as she thought about what could be on her daughter's mind.

"No, I'll ask later, but don't let me forget! It's important."

"I won't let you forget." Olivia couldn't help but smile at serious Julie had sounded. She sounded just like her when she was trying to get a confession out of someone in interrogation.

At first, Julie was a little hesitant about doing the hands on experiments at the museum. There were a lot of people out there and she didn't want someone to make fun of her work. Olivia grabbed the first piece of canvas paper and then handed one to Julie.

"Ahh!" Julie screamed, "This is difficult."

"Do you want to go?" Olivia asked.

"No," Julie said, "I'm having fun."

Before long, Julie had gotten the hang of things and they were both painting away trying their best so they could win the cash prize. They were having such a blast that they got caught up in time and realized that they were suppose to meet Elliot for dinner almost 20 minutes ago.

"We better go," Olivia said placing her paint brush down, "Your dad is going to kick my butt."

Julie chuckled, "Nah. He loves you too much."

"You're probably right," Olivia laughed, "Let's not keep him waiting any longer though."

XXX

"Where have you two been?" Elliot asked relieved that they had finally showed up to dinner.

"Sorry Dad," Julie said, "We were at the museum."

That was all Julie needed to say and Elliot understood, "How did that go?"

"It was great," Olivia smiled, "It really was."

"I already ordered everybody's favorite pizza," Elliot said, "It should be ready any minute."

Olivia sat down in the booth next to Elliot and grabbed a hold of his hand before giving him a kiss on the cheek and Julie slid into the booth across from them.

"I need to talk to you guys about something," Julie said as the waiter brought over their pizzas.

"What is it sweetie?" Elliot asked taking a bite.

"I uh- it can wait until later."

"Are you sure?" Olivia asked, "If you need to talk about something you can talk to us about anything."

"I'll just tell you later," Julie said taking her first bite.

"Okay," Elliot said.

After dinner, when they all went home for the night, Olivia was feeling tired from being out all day. She just wanted to crawl in her bed and go to sleep. She walked in and went straight to her bedroom with Elliot following behind her. Julie locked up the door and put her purse in the room and then knocked on their bedroom door lightly, "Mom? Dad?"

"What is it sweetie?" she heard her mom call through the door.

"Can I come in?"

"Yeah go ahead," Olivia answered again.

"I've been putting this off all day but, I need to talk to you about something."

"Come here," Olivia said motioning for Julie to sit on the bed. "What is it?"

"I don't want you to die," Julie blurted out.

"Julie..." Olivia whispered, "I'm not going anywhere."

"You don't know that!" Julie cried, "Something could happen and I can't lose you! I can't lose my mom!"

"Julie stop it," Elliot interrupted.

"El, let her talk," Olivia said.

"I love you," Julie said letting the tears stream down her face.

"I love you too," Olivia whispered as Julie laid her head on her mom's shoulder.