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Sorry it's been a long wait!

When Olivia woke up the three people sitting around her bed was snoozing in their chairs. She smiled, it was nice to wake up in hospital in the first time with family around her, not alone and scared like it had been in the past.

"Ollie?" Olivia turned from admiring Elliot's sleeping form to see a just woken Liz Donnelly with bed hair and no makeup.

"Hey." Olivia smiled. "What time is it?"

Liz looked down at her watch as the two men began rousing from sleep.

"Five." Liz replied.

"It's early." She groaned leaning back in the bed.

"Yeah why don't you get some more sleep?" Liz suggested.

"I've had enough, I just wanna see the girls." Olivia replied honestly, she wasn't going to hide the need for her children.

"Ok, Casey and Alex will bring them by when they're up." Liz smiled taking Olivia's hand in her own and giving it a gentle squeeze.

"Morning." Elliot grumbled from his chair as he slowly woke up.

Don was waking too, quietly watching Liz and Olivia talking.

"Morning." The replied in unison.

"So will I be able to get home today?" Olivia asked hopeful.

"I wouldn't get your hopes up Liv, you almost died yesterday." Elliot pointed out as he sat upright.

"I know, I just want to be home with my kids." Olivia explained and no one was about to dispute that.

"We'll wait and see what the doctor says when they come round ok?" Liz suggested and Olivia nodded before sitting back into her pillows and closing her eyes, taking seconds to fall back asleep, her breath even and soft, the light bouncing from her skin giving her an almost angelic glow.


A couple of hours passed and Olivia was woken by a slight beeping noise that she hadn't heard before. She opened her eyes and found a nurse walking towards her and the chairs beside her bed empty.

"What's that noise?" Olivia asked groggily, she was just waking up and was still fatigued.

"Just your dialysis coming to an end, the drug should be completely out of your system now." Lucy smiled.

"Ok." Olivia nodded. "Where are my parents?"

"They went to get something to eat while you were sleeping and then apparently your daughters should be here by the time they're done." Lucy explained and Olivia smiled at the thought of her children.

"Ok thank you." Olivia replied. "Is there any way I could sit up more?"

"Of course." Lucy grabbed a remote control from the side of the bed. "It's self-explanatory."

Olivia looked at the remote control and found it had simple diagrams on how to adjust the bed and quickly found a comfortable position to sit in.

"Doctor Anna will be starting her morning rounds in a bit, hopefully she'll be able to let you know when you can go home." Lucy told her before turning on her heels and leaving.

As soon as the door closed it opened again to reveal Munch and Fin.

"Hey guys." She smiled broadly.

"Hey Liv you're looking better." Munch smiled.

"Baby Girl you scared us." Fin told her and she nodded understanding some.

"Sorry, never planned it." She joked and the two men laughed as they took seats beside her bed.

"So they tell you how long you're going to be here?" Fin asked.

"Not yet, hopefully get out today I finished the dialysis now so I think I'll be able to get out of here soon." Olivia replied shrugging.

"You really think there's a chance they'll let you out today?" Munch asked and Olivia just shrugged in reply, she had no idea but she could wish.

When the door opened again in walked Doctor Anna.

"Olivia how are you this morning?" She smiled brightly as she walked to the bed.

"Better." Olivia replied.

"Good now if the two gentlemen would mind stepping outside so I can examine you." She said and Fin and Munch quickly mumbled a goodbye before leaving.

"So tell me about your children while I change the dressings." Doctor Anna said and Olivia nodded as the Doctor pulled the blanket down and hitched up her gown to get to work.

"Well I adopted Eden Tennessee nine days ago, her Mom was killed and her grandparents didn't want custody and handed their guardianship over to me with adoption papers. Then my youngest Brooklyn is twenty nine months and I adopted her two weeks ago but she's been in my custody eight weeks." Olivia explained as she watched Doctor Anna clean up a very disgusting looking scar. "They're my entire world."

"I'm sure they are, they're very beautiful girls." Doctor Anna smiled.

"How come the scar is so long?" Olivia asked.

"We couldn't get to the bullet." Doctor Anna replied straight away. "Don't worry though only the deepest section is stitched and this bit here is glued so the scar won't be half as bad."

"I've never been a woman who cares about scars, I've been stabbed and shot enough times not to give a damn." Olivia replied.

"So you like your job?" Doctor Anna continued as she recovered the wound.

"Yeah, it's what I live for, before my girls it was all I had in life." Olivia explained and Doctor Anna nodded.

"Ok well hopefully we'll get you on your feet today." She said and Olivia nodded.

"When can I go home?" Olivia asked.

"If your kidneys are fine today." Doctor Anna smiled and Olivia beamed, she couldn't wait.

"How will you know if my kidneys are ok?" Olivia questioned.

"I'm going to check your catheter bag now and I'll be able to tell by the colour and quantity of the urine." Doctor Anna explained and then chuckled at Olivia's grossed out expression. "Yeah not something most people like talking about." She added as she changed her gloves. "So how's the pain?"

"About a five." Olivia shrugged, she could handle pain.

"Ok well I'm going to give you some pain relief before we try you on crutches I don't think you'll be able to put any weight on your leg today but you can try if you want." Doctor Anna said as she went to the foot of the bed were the urine bag was.

"Ok." Olivia nodded feeling quite uncomfortable knowing that the doctor was judging the colour of her urine as she was talking.

"Well everything here looks good your urine is light and not cloudy so that's great and your kidneys are working fine so I'll have the nurse come and take out the catheter and then be back with some crutches in about fifteen minutes."

Thirty minutes later Olivia was hopping up and down the corridor like an expert on the crutches as she was being watched by Don, Liz and the kids. She was getting ready to be discharged as soon as her urine test came back.

"Olivia I'll go and get you some stuff from your house and bring them to our place, we made up your room last night, you're going to have the ground floor guest room ok?" Liz smiled as Olivia began to tire and her hands began to hurt from the plastic of the handles.

"Yeah thanks Mom." Olivia smiled as the nurse guided her back to her room.

Don and the kids joined her and Olivia listened to her eldest talk about how she and Liz had made the bedroom all ready for her mother with a genuine smile on her face.

When Liz returned everyone besides her left Olivia's bedside so that she could have some peace to change. At first Olivia felt quite embarrassed to have Liz Donnelly help her change but she knew there was no other way she could do it.

"Ok?" Liz asked as Olivia slowly moved her way onto the edge of the bed.

"Yeah." Olivia nodded, she didn't want Liz to know how uncomfortable she felt.

"How do you want to do this?" Liz asked as Olivia pulled out the clean underwear from the bag.

"Uh…" Olivia felt really awkward.

"How about I put them on your bad leg first and we should be able to get your good leg in then without a problem." Liz suggested and Olivia nodded.

Liz worked quickly sensing her daughter's frustration at not being able to dress herself. Once the underwear was on both legs Olivia lowered herself off the bed onto her good leg and awkwardly hitched them all the way up beneath the gown.

"We'll do the same with the trousers." Liz said picking up the NYPD Sweats.

These were a bit more of a struggle and when Olivia hopped off the bed again she had to let Liz pick the trousers up to her hips.

When it came to removing her gown she didn't care, even Munch had seen her in her bra when he'd walked in on her in the locker room and even in school she'd never been uncomfortable changing her top in the gym locker room.

Once done Liz put Olivia's sock on her feet knowing it was difficult to bend because of where the bullet had been lodged and she then slipped Olivia's sneakers on. Once done the nurse came in with the discharge papers and all of the prescriptions Olivia needed to take with her.

When an orderly came in with a wheelchair Olivia groaned, she knew it was policy but she didn't care she hated being pushed out of hospital.

"Come on Ollie sooner you comply the sooner we get home." Liz told her and Olivia soon stopped arguing and jumped into the wheel chair.

"Let's go!" She yelled happily and Liz chuckled before taking the wheelchair from the orderly and pushing her daughter out to meet the waiting family.