Disclaimer: I don't own 'em, they belong to Dick Wolf, but I'm considering taking them away from him, because he doesn't know how to treat them nicely.

"Miss Benson, Mr. Stabler needs major surgery. The hole in his chest missed everything vital, and we can repair that fairly simply. The shots to his abdomen though, aren't going to be as easy." At this Olivia gasped, trying not to break down again.

"One bullet went straight through his kidney, rendering it useless. The other bullet is still lodged in his abdomen, but the shrapnel from the shot got his other kidney, it's no good either. We need to get him a donor. I noticed on his chart that he has children. Do you think you could contact them, and we can see if they are a match? His blood type is A…"

"Positive. I know, I have the same blood type, just take my kidney." She thought about that conversation long ago.

It was their first case together after she returned from Oregon. Things had been tense between them, but when they wrapped up the case and were leaving the hospital, they had a breakthrough moment to start piecing their relationship back together.

"You know, we've been partners all these years and I don't even know your blood type." Olivia had stated, honestly curious, just in case she needed to know it for some reason. They had been waiting for the elevator to come so they could leave the hospital.

"A-positive." Elliot responded, nonchalantly.

"How about that, me too." At this Elliot looked over at her, for a moment deep in thought. Like he was trying to figure out how he wanted to word what he was going to say next.

They stepped onto the elevator. "I'd give you a kidney." He said like he was telling her he would buy the coffee.

"Not if I gave you mine first." With that they elevator doors closed, and the subject was never brought up again.

"Are you sure you want to do this?" The doctor questioned, and Cragen who had been standing with her the entire time had a similar look on his face.

"I'm absolutely sure. Give him my kidney. Give me all the necessary paperwork so we can get this going." Olivia responded to the doctor. She turned toward Cragen.

"I'm obviously going to need time off. I know I have plenty of vacation. I need for you to take my phone and call Elliot's kids and Kathy, let them know what's going on. I would do it myself, but obviously we need to get this process going."

With that Olivia handed him her phone so he could call people. She started on all the paperwork so they could take her back to prep for surgery.

"Take all the time you need Olivia. I'll go start calling people. I'll wait for you to get out of surgery."

Then Olivia was gone.

Four hours later, Cragen was still sitting in the waiting room. He had called Kathy, Elliot's kids, and the squad to let them know what was going on.

Kathy had told Cragen to let her know when they were both out of surgery. The kids said they would be there as soon as they could be. The squad wanted to be there now, but they had cases to solve and Cragen told them that he would keep them updated as soon as he heard anything.

Just when Cragen was getting frustrated, a surgeon came out of the OR. It was a different surgeon than the one that he and Olivia had talked to when they arrived.

"Family of Olivia Benson?" the surgeon said.

"That's me, I'm her captain. How is she?" Cragen questioned.

He had been extremely worried. The two people he was closest to that had been on his squad were both in surgery, one was on the brink of death and the other was trying to save him.

"The surgery went smoothly, we got her kidney out without any complications. She is now in the ICU, recovering. She will probably be in there for an hour and half just to make sure everything is ok, and then we will get her into a room." Cragen breathed, and then figured he should ask, in case the surgeon knew anything.

"And do you know how Elliot Stabler is?"

"As soon as the kidney was out, they were rushing it to Mr. Stabler. That's all I know, you will have to wait for his surgeon. I know that he is still in surgery. I will say, he is very lucky that he has survived this far, he has lost a lot of blood, but hopefully all will go well."

The surgeon left, and Cragen called Kathy to let her know that Olivia was out of surgery. He then called the squad and updated them on the situation.

Kathy showed up with Eli, about an hour after Cragen called her. They hugged and Kathy set next to the older man. Eli sat on the other side of Kathy.

"So, have you heard anything on either of them yet?" Kathy asked.

"Nothing yet, but I'm guessing that Elliot should be out of surgery anytime, and Olivia should be getting placed into a room here soon."

Suddenly four, very frantic, young adults barged into the waiting room. They were looking around for people. One of them spotted Cragen and they speed walked over to him.

All four of them were asking questions, and it was getting to be a loud mess. Cragen wasn't getting a word in, so he lifted his hand telling them to stop.

"One question at a time please." He was getting overwhelmed.

"How are they?" Lizzie asked, saying what was on everyone else's mind.

"Olivia should be getting out of recovery any time now, your father as far as I know is still in surgery." Cragen answered.

"Do you know what happened?" Dickie inquired.

"All I know is that Olivia got a phone call saying that you father was brought into the ER, and that he needed surgery. When we got here, there was a surgeon waiting for us, saying that he was shot three times. Once in the chest, but it missed everything important, and twice in the abdomen. Those shot caused both of his kidneys to be non-functioning. The surgeon told Olivia to call one of you kids and see if you were a match in blood type, but Olivia insisted that she give him a kidney since they had the same blood type and she was already here." Cragen went on to explain the rest of the situation. He answered any other questions that he could answer and it all became a waiting game.

They had just gotten settled down when the surgeon that Cragen had met when he first showed up to the hospital came out of the OR.

"Are all of you here for Elliot Stabler?"

"Yes, we are. How is he? Will he be ok?" Maureen questioned.

"We were able to fix his chest with no issues, kidney removal and transplant was the long process. We got the bullet out that was lodged in his chest, and the kidney into the place it should be and functioning. He is going to be in here for a few weeks, but after that he should be good to go. He is extremely lucky, if the bullets had hit anywhere else or we wouldn't have gotten that kidney when we did, he wouldn't have made it. They are just finishing up now, and he should be moved into recovery within the next fifteen or so minutes." The surgeon explained.

"And Olivia Benson, how is she recovering?" This time it was Kathy that had asked.

"I checked on her on my way out here, and they were just getting ready to move her to a room. She should be able to have visitors as soon as she wakes up. Now she probably won't wake up until morning. We have her on pretty heavy pain medication. If you would like to wait and see how Mr. Stabler does in recovery, then go right ahead." With that the surgeon left.

"Well I'm going to go call the squad and let them know what's going on." Don stated getting ready to go make the call.

"Don, why don't you go to the precinct and let them know. You have been here for hours, and you look exhausted. I don't think any of us are going to be leaving anytime soon. Go let them know what's going on in person and get some shut eye." Kathy suggested.

"I think I will take you up on that offer. Thank you."

Don gave each of the kids a hug and left. Now it was just a waiting game.