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The next morning Olivia went to the precinct on her crutches and Bayard went to work having to send out subpoenas to help Olivia out in court the next day. Fin and Munch couldn't help but laugh as she hobbled on one leg to her desk using the crutch to pull out the chair.

"You could offer to help instead of laugh you know." Olivia hissed, she was in some pain and frustrated at being immobile so she was snapping at everyone.

"Good to see you back with us Benson." Munch smirked as he tried not to laugh but the look Olivia gave him quickly silenced him, she looked like she wouldn't mind shooting off her gun and he didn't want to be the man at the other end.

"So what happened to our perp?" Olivia asked thinking of the man who had tried to kill her and Elliot the previous day.

"He's dead." Fin replied. "Idiot blew up both ends of the building forgetting he needed a way out, unless it was suicide. "

"The only person who could tell us anything is dead? Great!" Olivia sighed, this was the last thing that she needed.

"We'll find him Liv." Elliot told her.

"It's been four days Elliot and the only person who could give us answers went boom, so sorry if I doubt your Detective skills but I am starting to get fed of having rookie uni's tailing my ass." Olivia snapped.

Elliot said nothing back and gave a warning look to Munch and Fin not to either, she had every right to be angry and frustrated right now.

"Benson a word?" Cragen called from the door to his office.

"Ok seriously is it important enough that you're going to make me hobble all the way over there?" Olivia snapped once again, she was in a considerable amount of pain and moving made it worse.

"Get in here Benson and that's an order." He replied before vanishing into the office.

"Want a lift?" Elliot asked coming over to her.

"No I can manage." She replied pulling herself up with the crutches.

Elliot knew she would say no but she was his partner and had been for eight years and he could see that she was in a lot of pain but she was too proud to accept help.

Olivia took nearly five minutes to hobble awkwardly on the crutches, it was even harder to get into the office having to stop open the door with her arm still in the support and then push the door open with the crutch, now she was in an even fouler mood.

"Ok seriously how important is this that you couldn't tell me at my desk?" Olivia snapped before finally walking into the office.

A man sat in front of Don's desk chair turned around and Olivia's mouth fell wide open in shock.

"Hi baby doll." He said with a smile on his face.

"Dad." She whispered her face still showing the surprise.

Oliver Benson stood up and faced her and Olivia saw for the first time exactly where she got her looks from, or her deep brown eyes, Olive toned skin and pronounced cheek bones.

"It's really me." He said understanding that she didn't believe what she was seeing.

"What is he doing here?" Olivia hissed through gritted teeth turning to her superior.

"He wanted to finally meet you now that you know the truth." Don replied.

"Did you even consider the fact that I didn't want to meet him?" Olivia asked angrily.

"Olivia…"

"Don't you Olivia me, you're a stranger to me and that's what you're always going to be I don't have any interest in getting to know you or being a part of your life!" Olivia yelled.

Outside in the squad room the men had caught on to Olivia's yells and were now listening intently.

"Hear him out Olivia…"

"Hear him out?" Olivia yelled at her superior officer. "I don't even know why I'm still talking to you Don, you knew! You knew the whole time I was working here and you didn't tell me and you …" She turned to her father. "You came out of Witsec but kept your false identity letting me believe that you were a rapist, you killed my Mom!" She yelled furious as she let everything she'd been thinking about out in the open. "She wouldn't have drank herself to death had you come back!"

"That's unfair Olivia!" Don yelled but Olivia's face told him it was the wrong thing to say.

"Unfair?" Olivia asked angrily. "Unfair is finding out that your whole life has been a lie! Unfair is finding out that the person you trusted most in the world is a liar! So don't you dare talk to me about unfair Don!" She screamed before turning on her crutches and hobbling as quick as she could out of the office.

She barely made it to Elliot's desk before there was a hand grabbing her shoulder, as she spun around to hit the person she forgot all about the damaged leg and stumbled, luckily Elliot was beside her to catch her as she fell.

"Ok?" Elliot asked as he held her.

"Hmm." She moaned as she nodded.

"Leg?" He asked guessing the moan was in pain.

"Mhm." Olivia nodded again as Elliot helped her up to sit on his desk chair as it was closer than hers. "Go away!" She whispered angrily towards her father as she was close to tears.

"Olivia…"

"I have nothing to say to you, so please leave!" Olivia snapped.

Luckily for Olivia Bayard showed up just then and when he saw everyone gathered around Olivia he rushed over.

"Olivia everything ok?" He asked kneeling down in front of him.

"Yeah, I just want him to get out of my sight!" She spat still angry.

"I think she's made it clear she doesn't want to speak with you Sir." Bayard said standing up and looking at the man Olivia's eyes had flickered towards.

"I just want to speak with her." He replied.

"She obviously doesn't want to speak with you and if you continue to harass my client I will put in a complaint and have you arrested." Bayard snapped, he may not have been the one carry a badge and a gun but he knew the law and he knew Elliot, Munch and Fin would handcuff him if Bayard gave the ok.

"Mr Ellis I just want to talk to my daughter." Oliver asked.

Munch and Fin's jaws fell open while Elliot bit back a gasp. Bayard stared in surprise while Olivia groaned, it wasn't his place to tell her co-workers.

"Mr Benson now is not the time now Olivia has made it quite clear that she does not wish to talk with you and just because you're related I will not think twice about getting you done for harassing my client…"

"Your girlfriend you mean." Oliver interrupted running his hand through his greying hair.

"Oliver just come back to the office." Don sighed as Munch and Fin continued to stare in shock while Elliot regained himself a little.

"I want to talk with my daughter…"

"But I don't want to talk to! Get the message Dad, if I wanted to talk to you I would have the second I found out the truth but guess what I didn't, now walk out of my life again and don't come back because you're not welcome!" Olivia yelled getting onto her crutches and Elliot and Bayard stepped out of the way in time to see her almost sprint off on them, the anger making managing a bum leg much easier.

Of course Olivia wasn't clever, rather than going to the elevators she decided to try the stairs and after managing two steps the third one was a little wet and the crutch slipped, all anyone in the bullpen heard was her yell and a thump.

Everyone sprinted in the direction Olivia had gone and from the top of the stairs they could see her crumpled up at the bottom.

"Olivia!" Bayard panicked rushing down to her with Oliver as Cragen pulled out his radio.

"This is Captain Don Cragen Manhattan SVU, rush a bus to SVU Precinct we have an officer down."

"Copy that bus on route ETA three minutes." Came the reply.

Olivia groaned but her eyes didn't open.

"This is your fault!" Bayard snapped at Oliver as he stroked the hair out of Olivia's face.

"I know." Oliver whispered as he took Olivia's hand in his own.

At the hospital Olivia was rushed off while everyone else was left in the waiting room having taken squad cars and followed the ambulance.

Elliot was fuming, he pushed Oliver against the wall holding the man's chest and jaw.

"I swear anything happens to her and I will kill you." Elliot hissed.

"I know Stabler now get off me." Oliver hissed back.

Elliot dropped him out of shock, the man knew who he was.

"I may not have been a part of my Daughter's life Detective it doesn't mean I didn't keep an eye on her, like I said she is my Daughter." Oliver snapped.

"She doesn't want you in her life she made that pretty clear!" Elliot hissed.

"Here is not the time or place for this!" Cragen said stepping in between them.

"Family of Olivia Benson?" A doctor asked coming towards them.

"Yes is she ok?" Cragen asked, he being the superior he was used to taking the lead when his Detectives were injured.

"She's fine, she busted a few of her stitches and has a concussion and some bruised ribs but other than that she absolutely fine." The Doctor smiled.

"So can we see her?" Bayard asked.

"She's out at the moment she panicked a little when we went to fix her stitches and so we had to sedate her so I can only let relatives in." The Doctor explained.

"I'm her father Oliver Benson can I see my daughter?" He asked desperately, he was blaming himself for her fall.

"Yes you can, just this way sir but the rest of you will have to wait for Ms Benson to come around." The Doctor said apologetically.

"She wouldn't want him around when she wakes!" Elliot snapped, Bayard was still in a little bit of shock to say anything.

"Elliot!" Cragen snapped as Oliver ignored him and made his way to the room where his daughter was.

The doctor showed him in and gave him the usual message of asking him to let them know when she was awake but he could stay as long as he wanted to as he was family.

Oliver went over to the chair beside the bed and slipped his hand into Olivia's he felt guilty at seeing her looking so lifeless in the bed, her skin pale and her hair matted along the pillow.

"I'm so sorry Olivia, so sorry." He whispered as he rubbed his thumb against her slender fingers. "I should have come back, I wanted to come back but I really didn't know how, I wanted to tell you years ago but I didn't want you to hate me and then when your Mom died it was too late because you wouldn't have believed the truth if I told you it, you had to find it out on your own to believe that it was the truth." He explained to the open air, he was sure Olivia couldn't hear him but saying it once was practice to having to say it to her face. "I love you very much Olivia, and I want the chance to be a real Dad even though I understand if you don't give it to me, I mean I don't deserve it, don't deserve to be a Dad to such a great woman. Tomorrow it hits the headlines that I've been alive all these years but now a part of me wishes I would have stayed dead, I can't deal with you hating me…" he sniffed hard he was crying a little.

"I don't hate you." Olivia's voice carried to his ears.

At first he thought he'd dreamt it, Olivia's eyes were still closed and if her mouth did move it had returned to the same position.

"I said I don't hate you." She said again.

"You're awake?" He asked getting to his feet and leaning over the bed.

"Have been since you touched my hand, I was going to just pretend to be asleep till I could get a doctor to make you go away but then you opened your mouth, I don't hate you but I don't know you and … I can't tell you I want you to be in my life because I don't know, that's the truth if the matter I don't know if I want you in my life and I don't know if I want you to be my Dad but it doesn't mean that I won't give it a go, try and somehow let you in." She explained her eyes still closed.

He couldn't stop grinning, this was progress, much better than he thought it would go.

"Why did you stay away Dad?" She asked turning her head to him and opening her eyes, calling him Dad came naturally, hearing her say it shocked both of them but calling him Oliver or even Joseph didn't seem to flow from her mouth in the way Dad did.

"I was scared Olivia, so so scared of what you'd think of me, I mean you thought I was a rapist." He chuckled a little when he said rapist, he still couldn't believe what the FBI had made Serena tell their daughter.

"Why did you come and see me in the park?" She asked him with tears in her eyes.

"Don and your Mom made sure I knew everything there was about you, I know when you were five you hated chocolate but loved Candy Corn, I know when you were four you fell into the fountain in central park when you were pretending to be a balancing act walking a tightrope but I didn't believe it was real because I'd never seen you in the flesh, never touched you so Don and Serena hatched the plan that you'd be in Central Park when I was there with your brother and that somehow we'd meet and I could spend some time with you, luckily for me your Mom wasn't so big on don't talk to strangers that you were ok with me pushing you on the swing."

"You bought me and ice pop." She smiled.

"Cherry flavoured your favourite." He replied grinning.

They then went silent, Olivia realised that though he hadn't been in her life he'd always cared, he knew everything there was to know about her, everything a father should know about a daughter and now she couldn't imagine pushing him away, she couldn't imagine not having him be a part of her life. She gripped his hand a little tighter as her eyes flooded with tears.

"What is it?" he asked.

"Don't leave me again." She whispered turning to look at him.

"I'm not going anywhere." He replied with a smile, she wanted him in her life there was no way he was going to walk away again. "ever, I promise."

So you can probably guess this is going to be longer than the ten chapters I originally planned it to be, Tori, I know you're desperate for little Olivia and Bayard's to be running around but I haven't decided how far into the story I'm going to go but who knows I may make a sequel! x