Thanks for the reviews. I know you're all desperate for Elliot to find out Mia is his, so it will be coming up soon, but not this chapter and maybe not the next but probably chapter 8.

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Chapter 6

Elliot had carried a sleeping Mia up to the cribs and tucked her into one of the cots. Olivia had just watched him with her. She wished the baby growing in her belly could be his as well, but either way it was hers and she would love it.

Elliot and Olivia were now sat back at their old desks that were actually vacant, which Cragen had explained to them was because in four years they must have had over a hundred detectives take their positions but none had stayed longer than a few weeks.

"You just weren't finding the right people." Olivia said. "You have to have an on/off switch for this job." She said smiling, until she looked at Cragen and she knew he was looking at her injuries and probably not listening to her at all. "It's not as bad as it looks." She said her voice a little raspy after almost having her throat crushed by Jim.

"Yea right..." He said as he got up from off of Fin's desk and walked over to her. He gently turned her face from side to side with his thumb. Her face was almost black now from all the bruising and her neck had perfect hand shaped bruises on it. "That son-of-a-bitch tries to put his hands on you again he's gonna have to go through me." Cragen said.

Tears immediately began to fill in her eyes. "Thank you." She said as she held his hand next to her face, she felt like she had her father back. So many times she had wanted to call Cragen and tell him about her new life, but something had always stopped her.

"He has to go through me too." Elliot said. She turned to face him and smiled.

"Us too..." She heard an all too familiar voice say.

She turned around to see Fin, Munch Casey and Lake. She stood up and faced them all. "Hi." She said, unable to get the smile off her face.

Casey practically ran over to her and threw her arms round her. Olivia quickly hugged her back. She had missed her more than she had ever thought she would. One by one the others all hugged her too.

"I'm gonna beat the life out of the person who did that to you, you know that right?" Fin said referring to her battered face. She just smiled and hugged him. He gave her a big, but gentle, bear hug back.

"It's great to have you back, I missed you." Munch said as he hugged her. "And Fin's right, we get to play bodyguard."

Olivia just smiled. "Believe me you can do whatever the hell you like to the jerk." She said.

After she had filled Cragen in on the situation, he had rang the others and explained briefly to them what had gone on. "I can't believe you're all here." She said, knowing they had made their way to the SVU the second they had stopped talking to Cragen.

"Well we couldn't all leave now could we? I mean let's face it, me in an apron doing the housework is not as pretty a picture as you in an apron doing the housework." Munch said to Olivia.

"So, how can we catch this guy?" Lake asked.

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A little while later Elliot was telling the guys exactly what had happened between Olivia and Jim and the stuff he seemed to be involved with. He had told them about the phone call Olivia had heard and how he had tried to kill Olivia after her finding out about him.

Lake and Munch were already on the computers trying to find out what they could about Jim, but he was good at covering his tracks and so far they had nothing on him, not even a parking ticket.

Up in the cribs, Olivia was talking to Casey, they were both just watching over Mia whilst she slept.

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"She's adorable Olivia." Casey said.

"Yea she is, and she's so funny and smart." Olivia said. "When she was born I just knew that she was gonna be the best thing in my life." She said.

"So was Jim there with you when you had her?" Casey asked.

Olivia just laughed then turned to face Casey. "Jim delivered her, in the back of my SUV. She was 3 weeks late and the DR's wanted to do a caesarian but I wouldn't let them so Jim and I were trying everything so I would just go naturally. I was doing loads of walking, we were having big hot bubble baths, eating loads of spicy food, as well as you' know having lots of sex." She said. They had tried all the options people had suggested to them to trigger her labor.

"Then one night we had decided to give the sex another shot and just as it was getting great my waters broke…Jim was like 'we have time to finish', and I was like 'no baby we don't, my stomach feels like it's about to burst open, plus I'm lying in amniotic fluid, so get me to the hospital'…" She said, beginning to cry at the good memories, the times when she had been happier than ever.

"No way…" Casey said. "So you had her without painkillers and all that?"

"Oh yea…" Olivia said. "We were about half an hour away from the hospital when the car broke down and Jim told me to get in the back, reluctantly I did and 20 minutes later I had her." She told Casey.

"What was Jim like?" Casey asked, knowing he must have been good at some point or else Olivia wouldn't have gone for him.

"He was amazing. When we would go out to dinner parties and things he would lead me into a room by placing his hand on the small of my back. He was always telling me I was beautiful and that he loved me, and he was always showing me off, but not in a possessive annoying way, I just felt like he was proud of me you' know…" She said, missing that already.

"I have never been as scared as I was when I was having Mia. I kept thinking everything was going to go wrong and we were in the middle of nowhere…but Jim just kissed me and told me it would be okay and he passed her straight to me when I had had her. Then he just kissed me and thanked me for having her, for making us into a family. The way he held me made me feel so safe…" She said laughing at the irony of it all now "…he was so caring and gentle and loving. He wanted us to have six kids." She said.

"You're braver than me. I told Chester two…at the most." She said.

"How long have you two been together?" Olivia asked her.

"Little over two years, we live together and I love him." She said smiling at her own confession.

"I'm happy for you." Olivia said, wiping away her tears.

"You know what I miss most of all about Jim?" Olivia said.

"What?" Casey asked her curiously.

"His kisses…Even back at the motel his kiss was soft, caring, loving even." She said, finding that ironic too.

"I think he does still love you…" Casey said.

"He has a real good way of showing it too. He was so close to snapping my neck and he knew…he knew that I was pregnant?" She said angrily.

"At least you're away from him now." Casey said.

"Yea, until he finds me again. He won't stop Casey. As far as he's concerned I belong to him, me Mia and the baby. We're his and he'll stop at nothing to get us back." She said knowingly.

Casey just looked at her, wishing there was more she could do to help. She shuffled closer to her and wrapped her arm around her shoulder and pulled her into her, they both rested their heads together. Olivia wiped at the tears that were falling down her cheeks.

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Elliot had watched Casey leave. She had told him Liv was ready to go to sleep. The idea of sleep quite appealed to him too, so he made his way up to the cribs. When he got there Olivia was already half asleep on one of the cots. Mia was also sound asleep, with Jess curled up next to her.

He sat down on the cot next to Olivia and brushed her hair back off her face. She kept her eyes closed, she was too tired to open them, but she nuzzled her face against his hand. "G'night Liv..." He said, running his knuckles lightly across her soft cheek.

He went to stand up but she grabbed his shirt and pulled him back down, still not opening her eyes. "What is it?" He asked her.

She patted the empty space behind her with her free hand. "Sleep here." She said.

He just smiled, he knew she was half asleep but he also knew she wasn't going to let go of his shirt until he did as he was told. "Okay." He said.

She let go of him and he got up and walked around the bunk. He grabbed the blanket off the cot next to them and after climbing in next to her, he put it over both off them. He laid his hand on her hip but she quickly tangled her fingers up with his and pulled his hand round to rest on her stomach.

He smiled, liking that she wanted him close to her. He kissed the back off her head, then snuggled up right next to her and was quickly joining her in sleep.

TBC

Sorry it was short.

Thanks for reading.

So has everyone calmed down after all the drama in lasts nights' episode? You lucky people…I still haven't seen it, but thanks to some very kind people I have a pretty good idea of what went down.

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