A/N: Here's the next chapter. All the reviews I'm getting are making me so happy, and it keeps me writing. Thank you all for the ideas, and for letting me know how much you like it. I'm so very, very, very happy that you all like the story. Please keep reading and reviewing. Hope you like this chapter!
Olivia slowly opened her eyes, and was nearly blinded by a bright, white, light. She was aware of someone tightly squeezing her hand, but she couldn't see who just yet. She waited for a minute, and when her vision adjusted to the light, she realized that person holding her hand was Maureen.
"Mo?" she asked.
Maureen's eyes shot open.
"Mom!" she exclaimed. Olivia froze. Then she looked around and saw Richard, Lizzie, and Eli Stabler, along with Kathleen and Elliot.
"Lizzie, Richard, Eli?" she asked.
"Yes mom." they answered together. They all moved closer to her. She took Lizzie and Richard's hands in hers.
"I missed you guys." she said.
"We missed you too mom." Lizzie said. Eli reached for her. She took him, and kissed his head. Kathleen walked over and hugged her tight.
"What happened?" Olivia asked, her mind was swimming with so many thoughts she couldn't think straight.
"After the incident with dad, you got in the car and started driving. Jessie was walking, and you swerved really hard to keep from hitting her and crashed into the side of your building." Maureen explained.
"Oh." Olivia said quietly, reliving the moment when Elliot's hand had come into contact, hard, with her face.
"Liv?" Elliot asked, walking forward a little. She cowered back a bit.
"Nice going dad, now you have her scared of you, because you couldn't live with the fact that she's our mom, not that stupid, blonde, idiot!" Kathleen exclaimed, smacking her dad in the arm.
"Don't talk about your mother that way!" Elliot yelled. He turned back to Olivia, to see silent tears rolling down her face. She was sunk back into the bed as far as she could go, and there was fear and pain in her eyes.
He walked forward a little more, and she whimpered.
"Liv?" he said softly.
"Please don't hit me again, I'm sorry!" she cried. Maureen, Lizzie, and Kathleen rushed to her side and comforted her as she cried. Richard pushed his dad out of her room.
"Why don't you go home and tell Kathy how you slapped the crap out of our mom, watched as she crashed her car, and then yelled at her while she was in the hospital." he said angrily.
"I didn't yell at Olivia, and She's not your mother, Kathy is, and you don't call her Kathy, you call her mom." Elliot said
"Why don't you go ask her what happened during the month you and Liv dated, and we were home with her, then you can come try and tell me who my mother is, and it is and always will be the woman lying in that hospital bed!" he yelled, slamming the door.
Elliot just stood there, dumbfounded, curious, and determined to find out what his wife had done during the month that they had been split up.
