"Chaos" Chapter 7
Elliot is standing outside of Olivia's hospital room, the door is cracked and he hears her talking. She is on the telephone. Olivia sounds very tired, but after all she has been thru that is to be expected. He hears his name as she speaks to the person on the phone, so he sticks his head in a little closer to listen.
Olivia: "He is really supportive. I guess I will just have to see where all this leads us, I am not sure myself what he is going to do."
She pauses to listen to the other person on the line.
Olivia: "Yes Captain, I am tired. I will see you later this evening."
She hangs up the phone. Elliot waits a couple minutes before knocking and entering.
He comes in and Elliot smiles at him.
Olivia: "Hey El. I was just talking to Cragen about you."
Elliot: "Oh is that good?"
Olivia: "Of Course."
Elliot: "So, How is our little one?"
Olivia: "The doctor said that his vital signs were great."
Elliot: "How are you feeling?"
Olivia: "I feel a lot better. Listen, Kathy is the one that was on the phone. During all the mishap, I forgot to tell you the whole story."
Elliot: "The whole story?"
Olivia: "Yes, while you and Kathleen were outside, Kathy came into the bedroom."
Elliot: "She did?"
Olivia: "What she said was almost as if she were like a manic perp."
Elliot: "What do you mean? What did she say to you?"
Olivia: "Well, when she entered I was sitting on the bed. She came to the far side and faced me where I was sitting. She just stared at e for a minute, then, she began that stupid laugh and sat in the chair. (pausing to take a deep breath) She told me that id this baby I was talking about was yours; she would see to it personally that I never carried it to term."
Elliot: "She was threatening you."
Olivia: "She told me that nothing would stand in the way of her marriage with you, you two were meant to be together. Also, that if I heard her at any point in time around at all, then her plan has already been executed. Elliot, she sounded like a perp."
A nurse knocked on the door and entered the room with a new IV bag. Olivia's bag had just been changed and was almost completely full. Elliot recognized this nurse, Kathy had known her for years, she had dinner at their house for years.
Elliot: "Why are you here?"
Nurse: "I'm here to change her fluids."
Olivia: "The nurse from the prior shift just did that."
Nurse: "I am sorry, it was not documented. Things like this happen. I am glad that you weren't sleeping, I could have changed it for no reason. If I had set the drip rate and gave you too much, it could have hurt you. I apologize."
The nurse turns to leave the room. The smile on her face was unsettling. The nurse exited the room with bag in hand. Elliot called the Olivia's doctor. Something just wasn't right here. He felt Kathy was to blame.
The doctor told Elliot that he signed the chart after the nurse changed the fluids. With the situation know Captain Cragen request anything done to Olivia must be signed off on by her original doctor. The doctor explained to Elliot that it is heavily documented that I must sign the chart before and after each procedure, even as much as a Fetal heart monitoring notation. Elliot was pissed.
Elliot explained to Olivia that the doctor would be there as soon as possible. He called Cragen to explain. The suit at the door went to get coffee. Elliot then left the hospital to head to Kathy's house. He had to hurry. The suit on the door for Olivia's protection took a small walk around the corridor at 11:00. That gave him at least 35 minutes to mess with Kathy and get back and sneak in unnoticed.
Elliot sent Kathleen a text to let him know he was on his way, earlier than expected. Kathleen was standing at the window when she saw shadows in the driveway. About ten minutes after she saw the shadows, she heard the wild cat sound her dad tried to make. It sounded more like a drunken cat instead of a wild one. Kathleen opened the window, waved at her dad after she made sure it was him. Elliot returned the wave.
Kathy was in the kitchen pouring a glass of tea. She rattling at the back door, she looked, the knob was rattling as if someone was trying to enter. The glass pitcher filled halfway with tea hit the floor and crashed into a million pieces. Kathy stood there unable to even run. Within a few seconds, the doorbell rang. Kathy went to answer it. When she pulled the door open, no one was there. Confused and scared, Kathy went into the bathroom and locked the door.
Meanwhile in the master bedroom)
Elliot, with gloved hands, of course, pulled himself thru the window. He took the picture of him and Kathy out of its frame neatly and cut himself out of it with the scissors from the bedside table. He, then, went over to the small desk in the corner and took her planner. Easily, Elliot removed the house key from her key ring and placed it on the window seal as her carefully left back out the way he had came in.
Elliot went and rattled the fence next to the house. Opened and shut the faulty windows that he knew of in the house. Kathleen sent him a text as he came around the side of the house.
Test said: Mom called cops. Go dad!
Elliot took off ran toward the hospital. He had left his vehicle in the lot there to show that he was there. The hospital staff didn't even see Elliot leave. He had came into the hospital with his suit and tie on, but he left with his baseball cap and casual clothes. He knew what to do so he would not get caught. Now, hopefully, he wasn't just another cocky cop.
Olivia woke up form her nap, Elliot was sitting there still. She reached to straighten his tie. Cragen walked in the doctor right behind him. They had not shown up either, no one knew he was even gone. The duffle bag that he brought with Olivia's change of clothes was in the floor. That is how he smuggled his casuals in . He also hid his suit away in it while he was gone, then returned and changed again. His tie was a mess.
Cragen: "I thought you had something to take care of?"
Elliot: "Nah, I did not want to leave her alone."
Doctor: (flipping thru the chart) "It doesn't show here that anyone has been in here since I left. You said there was a nurse in here earlier? No one should have entered the room without proper orders and me being here.
Elliot: "She was here."
The doctor left the room to find out what happened. Cragen told Elliot to go home and get some rest and he would see him in the morning. Two officers were standing outside the door when Elliot went out.
Officer 1: "Detective Stabler, we need to ask you a few questions. Come with us please."
Elliot: "In regard to what?"
Officer 2: "There was some strange happenings at your wife's home and we need to know your where about at the time."
Elliot: "I have been here for hours, ask anyone."
Cragen overheard the officer's line of questioning and exited the room. The suit at the door advised the officers that Elliot had never left. He had been here the whole time. Cragen did as well. Elliot was in the clear. Elliot entered the room again, he told Cragen and Olivia he would bring her some fresh clothes in the morning.
Elliot took the duffle bag and left the hospital. He called Kathleen to check in with her.
Kathleen: "Hey dad."
Elliot: "Hey, everything alright there?"
Kathleen: "Mom is on edge now, but thing is about 20 minutes ago, the nurse I saw her talking to showed up, they have been in the den ever since. The doors are closed and she told me to go back to bed. I could hear anything."
Elliot: "How is that? She was on duty, the new shift came on at 7 o'clock?"
Kathleen: "I don't know dad. All I know is she is here now."
