Author's Note: I'm so excited, I was in a writing mood a few minutes ago and finished chapter seven! Yay! So here it is! I'm working on eight now :)
Disclaimer: I wish I owned L&O:SVU...but I don't.
CHAPTER SEVEN:
"Mommy, what dat building?" Lucy asked her mother as the two stood in front of the 1-6.
"That, baby," Olivia said as she picked up her daughter, "Is where mommy used to work before you were born."
"Oh. Is dat where Uncwa Fwin works?" She asked as the two walked into the lobby.
"Yes, this is where Uncle Fin works." Olivia replied as she walked through the lobby and into the elevator quickly hitting the correct button.
As the elevator started moving, Olivia started to recall her last moments in here while her daughter started rambling on about what Dora had done that morning.
Olivia looked around the bull pen for a moment, noting each spot and the memories they held. She then looked down at the empty box sitting on her desk and began filling it with the personal items from her desk, and then the few from her locker before confronting her captain.
She took as long as she could to fish everything out of her desk drawers and then searched her locker three times before finally gaining enough courage to do what she needed to do.
As she walked toward Cragen's office door she felt like she was holding the weight of the world on her shoulders. Olivia knocked on the heavy door and waited for the reply.
"Come in." She heard from the other side of the door. She gripped the cold metal of the door handle and turned it slowly trying to find every ounce of courage she had in her body.
"Captain, can I talk to you?" Olivia as she walked into his office early one morning.
"What's up Olivia?" He said as he looked up from the papers he had been working on.
"I think I need to leave the job for a while." She replied with a shaky voice.
"What's wrong?" Cragen had gotten up from his chair and walked around his desk to talk to Olivia more directly.
"I…I think it's the victims captain, I think they are just starting to affect me much more than I'd like, and I don't think I can handle it anymore. I don't think I would be doing anybody, the squad or a victim, any good if I were to keep working on cases while I feel this way." Olivia said the speech she had so carefully rehearsed the night before.
"Are you sure about this Olivia?" Don looked at the detective he had considered his daughter for years now.
She thought about what had happened the day before in the hospital. "Yes, I am." She quietly responded.
Don was at a loss for words as he looked at one of his best detectives. "Call me if you ever need anything then." She nodded. "And Olivia, know that you are always welcome back here okay?"
The sound of the elevator doors opening pulled Olivia out of her memories. She hesitantly walked out and froze in the familiar hallway.
Olivia set Lucy down and looked at her, "Lucy, will you do mommy a favor?"
Lucy nodded as she stood in front of her mother.
"Will you go into that big room over there," Olivia pointed to where she wanted her daughter to go, "and see if your Uncle Fin would like to go to lunch with us?"
"But mommy, you said I wasn't allowed to go that far in front of you." Lucy replied, quoting what her mother had said yesterday when they arrived at Fin's.
"I know I said that, but you can do it just this once, okay? Uncle Fin is in there, and I am right here." Lucy looked at her mother with a questioning stare but nodded.
Olivia watched her daughter walk down the hall and into the bull pen before sitting on a bench next to the elevator.
"Munch! I've had enough with the conspiracies today!" Elliot yelled across the room towards John.
"Hey man I'm just saying-" Munch tried to explain himself but was stopped when he had to dodge a stapler being thrown at his head. "Are you trying to kill me?"
"I would only be so lucky." Elliot said as he went back to looking at the file he was working on.
"UNCWA FWIN!" A little brown haired girl screamed as she came into the bull pen causing Elliot and Munch to stop what they were doing. Munch and Elliot both held dumbfounded expressions on their faces when they saw who had come through the door.
"Stabler, does she look like-" Munch tried to say.
"Yea…she kinda does." Elliot got out of his chair and went and knelt by the little girl. "Hi there, my name is Elliot, I am a police officer."
Lucy started at the man who had started talking to her. "Where Uncwa Fwin?" She said politely.
"I don't know who 'Uncwa Fwin' is, can you tell me?" Elliot asked the little girl.
Just then Fin walked into the bullpen from the interrogation rooms, "Lucy?" He hustled over to her picked her up for a hug. "What are you doing here? Where's your mom at?"
"She out in the hall, I is supposed to ask you…supposed to ask you…" Lucy paused trying to remember what her mother had told her to ask Fin. "I don't remember Uncwa Fwin."
Elliot looked at Fin and laughed. "You're 'Uncwa Fwin'?" His laugh along with Munch's could be heard from the hallway where Olivia was trying to ignore them.
"Shut up Stabler." Fin said as he punched his friend in the shoulder.
"Uncwa Fwin! Hitting not nice!" Lucy yelled.
"Your right baby doll, I'm sorry." He said as he kissed the little girl's forehead. "Let's go see what you were supposed to ask me, kay?" Lucy nodded as she and Fin walked into the hallway.
Stabler turned toward Munch again, "You don't think…?"
"I'm not sure, could she honestly be…?" Munch replied.
"Let's go see." Elliot said before he and Munch made it their way into the halls.
So Stabler and Munch have made their come backs! Yay! Chapter eight should be up tomorrow, but no later than Saturday. Hope y'all like this chapter. Reviews are appreciated and welcome :)
