Back at the precinct, Elliot and Sandra were finishing up massive loads of paperwork that was being neglected because of all the cases they were recently getting.
"Hey El, do you want to grab a drink after work?"
"Nah, I think I'm going to go home and hang out with the twins."
"Is something wrong Elliot? You've been distant, it's her isn't. Olivia, you're still in love with her."
"Can we just drop it and get this paperwork done with, so we can get out at a decent time tonight."
Sandra rolled her eyes at him feeling disappointed and said, "Fine whatever you say."
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Olivia sat in the doctor's waiting room with Lizzie on her lap, Dickie on her right and Ella on her left in her stroller. She sat there and as she tried to soothe Lizzie, she wondered what it would be like to do this full time. If this is what her life would be like if she and Elliot were together, she thought to herself I couldn't find anything better then this. This is exactly what she wanted, to be home with their kids all day, to take care of them when they were sick or hurt or even just upset. This was the life she always dreamed of but she knew this moment was only—. The nurse interrupted her thoughts when she called Lizzie in.
"Elizabeth Stabler, we're ready to see you."
Olivia stood up, took Lizzie's hand, and grasped the handle of the stroller with the other and followed the nurse into the examining room with Dickie close behind her. When they got into the room Olivia lifted Lizzie onto the examining table, when she turned to go sit down she felt the little girl grasp her hand. Olivia looked down at Lizzie sad face; Lizzie didn't have to say anything because her face said it all. So Olivia stood there next the examining table holding the little girl's hand; she looked down, smiled at the little girl and said,
"Its okay sweetie everything will be okay."
Lizzie looked up at Olivia with her big baby blue eyes and a trembling lower lip; even though Lizzie wasn't her own daughter, she was breaking Olivia's heart. Olivia hated to see her like this. The doctor finished examining Lizzie and said she just had a little cold. The doctor handed Olivia a prescription and said,
"If her fever doesn't break you can try giving her a warm bath, make sure you give her lots of fluids, she probably won't be too hungry you can try giving her puddings and yogurts, even ice pops. But really don't worry she is going to be fine."
"Thank you Dr. Jackson, I really appreciate you seeing her on such short notice. I'll see you in three weeks for Ella's monthly check up."
"Bye, see you then."—Dr. Jackson turned to Lizzie and said, "Don't worry sweetie you're going to be just fine, how about we go get you a sticker and a lollipop for being such a good little girl."
Olivia was once again packing the kids into the car, she felt like that's all she did all day was get them into the car and then get them out. She made sure that all three of them were safe and buckled in before she drove off. They weren't even in the car for ten minutes when they made it to Olivia's pharmacy and she had to get all the kids out of the car again.
"Come on guys last stop, I promise I just have to pick up Lizzie's prescription so we don't have to go back out again."
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Sandra watched as Elliot got up and brought his stack of paperwork into Cragen to approve. She hated how distant he was being with her lately; she really thought she had broken the wall he had built around himself. Sandra looked back down at her own paperwork as she saw Elliot turn around and walk out of Cragen's office and over to their desks.
"I'm done for the night; I'll see you tomorrow or probably around the apartment building. Bye, Sandra."
"Bye, El." She really wished he would stop being like this, but she really couldn't deal with it anymore. Sandra didn't think she belonged here; it was time for her to leave. She got up and walked over to Captain Cragen's office and knocked on the door.
"Captain, I need to talk to you."
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It was five o'clock by the time Olivia got home. Once she had the kids settled in, she unpacked the baby's diaper bag, which she stuffed with Lizzie's prescription and all the yogurt, pudding, and ice pops she had bought. She put up a pot of water to boil to make pasta.
"Olivia, Lizzie's all sweaty…I think something is wrong with her."
"Okay baby I'll go check on her."
Olivia walked into the living room and found Lizzie on the couch looking all pale and sweaty. She checked on the baby, who was content in her swing, then walked over and sat next to Lizzie.
"Oh Lizzie, you're really hot. How about we get you in the tub and try to get your temperature to go down? Come on baby."
Olivia brought Lizzie into the bathroom and sat her on the closed toilet, until she had the tub filled up with water. Once the tub was filled, she got Lizzie in and settled then went to go put the pasta in the pot. By the time the pasta was done cooking Lizzie's fever had gone down a lot, so Olivia got her out of the tub and into her pajamas. She then got her settled on the couch before she got a plate of paste for Dickie.
"Hey Dickie, why don't you come here and get yourself something to drink, then sit at the table while I get your pasta."
Olivia gave Dickie his plate of pasta, then got her own, grabbed an ice pop for Lizzie, and the baby's bottle. She placed everything on the coffee table, picked up Ella and then sat next to Lizzie on the couch.
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It was around seven when Elliot walked in the door and the apartment was filled with silence. He check each of the twin's rooms, but Samantha and the twins were nowhere to be found. He checked the fridge and the kitchen table for a note, but it didn't look like they left one. Elliot didn't think much of it, Samantha was always taking the twins out to the park or the library. So he sat down on the couch and decided to lay back and relax until they got back.
He woke up five hours later, to see the clock flashing twelve. It was midnight and they must not be back because Samantha or one of the twins would have woken him. He reached for his phone that was on the coffee table and dialed 9-1-1.
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Olivia was glad she had decided to put each of the twins in separate guest rooms because around twelve she her Lizzie crying. She checked on the baby, who was sleeping in her bassinet at the foot of Olivia's bed, then went to the guest room Lizzie was in.
"Hey sweetie, what's wrong?"
"Liviee, I don-don't feel good." –Lizzie said in a soft whine.
"Okay baby,"—Olivia felt her head, Lizzie was burning up again. "Sweetie, put your shoes on, we are going to go see the doctor again."
Olivia walked out of Lizzie's room and into the room Dickie was in.
"Dickie"—Olivia softly patted Dickie's shoulder, "Dickie, sweetie you have to get up, you don't have to change if you don't want to just put sneakers on and grab a jacket. Then go wait in the living room, we have to take your sister to the doctor she doesn't feel good."
Dickie nodded and slowly got out of the bed. Olivia walked into her room grabbed a pair of shoes put them up, then ran and packed a diaper bag for Ella. She packed a second bad with extra bottles and pudding, snacks, and ice pops for Dickie and Lizzie. She walked into the living room and found Dickie and Lizzie sitting on the couch waiting for her, she placed the diaper bags by the door and grabbed the baby's car seat. She walked back into her room, changed the sleeping baby and placed her in the seat. She walked out into the living carrying the baby in her seat and grabbed the bags.
"Come on guys lets go."
Olivia got the kids into the car as fast as she could and made sure they were all buckled in, and then raced off to the emergency room. She got there in record time and found a close parking spot. Olivia grabbed the bags off the passenger's seat as she jumped out of the car. She grabbed the car seat that held Ella as Lizzie and Dickie got out of the car. She grabbed Lizzie's hand and Dickie held Lizzie's other hand. Then they walked together to the emergency room entrance.
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Elliot was down at the police station filling out paper on the twins. He had never been this scared in his life. No one was able to reach Samantha her cell phone was turned off; he had had her checked out. She didn't have any priors and all her references had said what a great responsible kid she was. He kept rethinking everything and was beating himself up over this. Dickie and Lizzie had to be okay, they just had to. Elliot kept racking his brain trying to figure out where they could be. He should have been out there looking for him instead of sitting at the station but everyone told him to stay her, it would be better. He didn't know why he had listened but he did…he never listened to what people told him not to do this time he had.
