Sorry for such a long delay guys. So without further ado here is chapter 10. I hope you like it. A little more drama, something happens to rattle the Benson-Cabot clan.

Enjoy

Chapter 10

August 29th, 2009

Benson-Cabot new residents

Chelsea, NY

1:30am

The constant buzzing brought Olivia out of her light sleeping state, groaning. The detective reach out from under the blanket to her bedside table, banging everything thing in her path, nearly pushing the home phone and a photo of Lauren off the table. Opening one eye, she saw her cell light flashing in the darkness. She wrapped her fingers around the silver vibrating device and pulled it towards her.

"Benson," she answered her voice still thick from sleep. She listened to her partner on the other side of the line. "Okay, meet you out front in 30 minutes." She hung up and slowly got out bed, trying not to disturb the very pregnant blonde next to her. Alex was just coming into her eight month.

Just the other night Olivia woke up at 3 am to find her wife wasn't in bed. The brunette had got out of bed and searched for her wife and found her in the freshly painted nursery, re arranging everything. They found out that this stage of the pregnancy was called nesting. Olivia watched for a moment as Alex pulled out the baby clothes, unfolded them then folded them back up. Olivia put her foot down when Alex went to move the crib. She dragged the protesting pregnant blonde back to bed, threatening to handcuff her to the bed post.

Grabbing some clothes to change into, she quietly entered the bathroom to have a quick shower. Once she was finished, she quietly exited the bathroom and grabbed her badge and gun from the safe that was in cupboard. She scribbled a note to Alex, letting her know that she had been called in. She kissed Alex's temple and moved the light blanket making sure Alex was warm but still cool.

Leaving the bedroom, she entered Lauren's. The little blonde was lying on her stomach, her left leg sticking out from under the blanket. Olivia smiled when she heard Lauren's soft snore. Like mother like daughter, Olivia thought. She placed her hand on the back of Lauren's head and leaned down, placing a kiss on her child's head. She gently pushed the leg back under making Lauren groan, moving in protest but settled down when Olivia shushed her. Olivia kissed her again before leaving.

Navigating her way through the dark brownstone house, Olivia made it to the door. She walked through then locked it behind her. She jumped in Elliot's cruiser.

They had moved into the brownstone after deciding they needed a bigger place for when the baby was born. The neighborhood was quiet which the women wanted. It had four bedrooms, a recent redecorated kitchen and bathrooms. The backyard was big enough for Lauren and play in. It was the perfect house for them. For their growing family. The squad had pitched in and helped the family move in one weekend.

Lauren took it hard with the move. She didn't understand why they had to move away from their apartment, away from Ernie. She loved and adored the elder doorman. Olivia promised her that they would regularly visited Ernie. That seemed to calm the five year old down.

8:12am

Alex was startled awake when the baby kicked hard against her stomach, she reached out and placed her hand on her stomach to where the kick had landed. She then reached out to Olivia's side and found a cold empty spot. Alex opened her eyes. She looked over and noticed a folded piece of paper with her wife scribble handwriting on it on Olivia's pillow. Moving slowly and uncomfortably, she grabbed the paper and brought it close to her. She cursed under her breath when she realized she had left her glasses in the living room. She blinked and narrowed her eyes managing to read Olivia's scribble that the detective call handwriting.

Hey Babe,

Got called in early this morning.

I'll ring you as soon as I can.

Give Lauren a kiss for me.

I love you with all my heart.

Liv

Alex placed the note next to her and stared at the ceiling. She smiled when she felt the baby move constantly then frowned when it kicked. It hurt like hell.

"Hey, what got you all worked up this morning?" she asked her stomach. The baby kicked again but this time it was Alex's kidney. "Ouch. Christ. Hey Junior, ease up in there. I know it's crowded but it's still my insides you're using soccer practice for."

Alex sighed as they baby kept kicking. "Okay, I'm getting up."

She pulled the blankets aside and slowly got out of bed. She groaned at the pain on her lower back and where the baby had kicked and the soles of her feet.

Alex started to sway her hips. She found out this was a way to calm the baby while it was still in the womb. But this time, the baby still wasn't settling down. Taking the next option, she started humming a song.

"Mommy," Lauren voice said from the door way. Alex stopped humming, looked up and saw the little pajama clad blonde and saw that she had just woken up. This sight made the blonde smile. Lauren's blonde hair was sticking up in different directions; her pajamas were crinkled and blue eyes glassy with sleepiness. In one word for Alex to describe her daughter would be is cute.

"Morning, baby, have a nice sleep?" Alex asked still swaying her hips.

Lauren nodded as she entered her parents' bedroom and climbed on her mothers' bed. Alex smiled when the baby finally settled down. "Thank god," she said rubbing her stomach.

Lauren looked confused as she looked up at her mother.

"Don't worry baby-girl. The baby is a little upset this morning."

Lauren looked at her mother's stomach as she slid off the bed and walked over. Alex watched as Lauren placed her small hands on her mother's budging stomach then leaned forward so her face was close to the bump.

"Don't be upset," she said to stomach, gently patting the pajama covered bulge.

Alex heart melts at her daughter actions. She placed her hand on top of Lauren's head. Blue eyes looked up and smiled. Alex returned a smile then leans down as best she could and kissed Lauren's head.

"You want some breakfast?"

Lauren nodded. "Yes please."

"Okay, let's go." Alex led Lauren out of her room. When they entered the kitchen, Lauren went and sat in her seat.

As Alex went reaching for Lauren's bowl, she heard knocking at the front door. She stopped at mid grab and looked at Lauren then the clock to read the time. She told Lauren to stay where she was while she answered the door.

She had an awful feeling in her chest as she waddled to the door. She looked through the peep hole and her heart dropped. She unlocked the locks and pulled the door open.

"Don, Munch?"

"Alex," Cragen greeted the pregnant woman. He had a sad and worry look in his eyes. "Alex, something has happened."

"What? What's happened? Is Ol…Oh no, Olivia. Is it Olivia? No, please. No," Alex cried as she stumbled backwards into the brownstone.

Cragen and Munch reached out for Alex. They both managed to catch Alex before she fell crumbling to the floor.

2:15 am

"What we got?" Olivia asked as she and her partner slipped under the yellow tape. They were call to an alley in East Village.

"16 year old female, raped and beaten and murdered," a uniformed officer stated. He pointed to a couple who were huddled together on the sidewalk. The woman was clearly upset; her eyes were red and puffy from the crying. "The couple was walking home when they heard a something fall and break, like glass; they looked and saw a dark figure hovering over something. They called out and the figure got spooked and ran off. They were about to shrug off and go home when they saw her lying there and called us. We pronounced and when we saw no panties and bruises, we then called you."

Elliot wrote into his note pad. "Any ID on the body?"

The officer nodded and handed Olivia an evidence bag that held a purse inside. "ID says Jade Wilson, lives in Green Village."

Elliot and Olivia nodded. "Thanks," Olivia said and the officer walked over to the witnesses to ask some questions.

Once they got a description on height and built of the unknown suspect, the detectives walked over to the ME who was hovering over the dead victim.

"TOD?" Elliot asked Melinda.

"She just going into rigor. I would the say around the same time as the witnesses stated," Melinda replied looking down at the lifeless body. "This bastard really did a number on her. He beat her so badly, leaving these immediate bruising. That was before she was shot point blank and raped."

Olivia and Elliot looked at each other. "She was shot?" Olivia asked.

"Yes, in the back of the head, maybe a 9mm. I'll let you know more after the autopsy."

Olivia and Elliot nodded letting the ME take the body back to morgue.

Olivia looked around the alley, at all the crime scene techs collecting evidence hoping that they would find something to lead them closer to the killer.

Olivia looked at the purse again. 'What is she doing out so late?' she asked herself.

"Let's go notify the parents," Elliot said breaking Olivia out of her thoughts.

Olivia nodded and followed her partner back to the car.

The two detectives slowly walked up the steps leading to the brownstone that belonged to the victim's and her parents. It was now going on 4am. Olivia looked around the neighborhood as Elliot knocked on the oak door.

The lights inside appeared on and a figure stumbled towards the front door, struggling to get a robe on. The door slowly opened, stopping halfway. A man in his mid forty's poked his head through the crack.

"Don't you know what time it is? It's three in the morning. Who the hell are you and what do you want?" he demanded.

Elliot grabbed his badge and showed the man. "I'm Detective Stabler, this is my partner Detective Benson. Are you Jade Wilson's father?" Elliot asked.

The man now opened the door fully. "No, I'm her step father. What's has she done now?"

"I'm sorry to tell you this, but Jade was murdered earlier tonight," Olivia said, hating this part of her job.

The man's face turned sheet white as he held the door for support. "Oh Christ," he stuttered.

"Roger?" a woman voice called from the stair case. "Who is it, darling?"

"It's the police," Roger replied, his voice thick with emotion.

A woman appeared by her husband, dressed in a pink satin robe. "The police? What's happened?" she asked looking at Elliot, Olivia then her husband.

Roger looked at his wife. "Jade's dead, Annie."

"What? No, she's not. She's in her room, asleep. Why would you say a thing like that?"

"I'm sorry ma'am. She was found in an alley in the East Village. She's dead," Elliot said.

"No, I just checked on her," the woman replied clearly getting upset. "Jade!" she called out. "Jade, wake up and come here please," she called again. When she didn't get a response, she rushed up the stairs. "Jade!"

The Detectives and Roger followed her into what was Jade's room. The walls were a cream color, and picture's of Jade and her friends in school uniform hang nicely. Annie had turned on the lights and rushed over to the lumpy bed calling Jade's name. She grabbed the blankets and pulled them back and gasped. All that was there was bunched up pieces of clothing, pillows and blankets making the shape of a body.

"No, no, no NOO!" Mrs. Wilson cried, crumbling to the ground. Peter rushed to his wife side, wrapping his arms around her slender form. "My baby!" she screamed.

"Can you think of anybody who would want to hurt Jade?" Olivia asked Annie as they sat on the couch in the living room. The woman had calmed down but had now gone numb.

Annie shook her head as she stared at a photo frame that she held with a photo of Jade.

"No, she was such a sweet girl. Everyone loves her."

"Would you know why Jade snuck out of the house last night?" Olivia asked.

"She has a new boyfriend that we don't approve of. Jeffery Johnson. Or goes by JJ. She probably snuck out to meet him," Roger answered as he watched his wife stroke the photo. He slowly reached out and carefully placed his hand on hers.

"Do you know where this Jeffery lives?"

"Somewhere in Hell's Kitchen," Annie replied finding her voice again. "Do you think he did this? Do you think he killed my baby?"

"Annie," Roger said wrapped his arm around his wife's shoulder. "They will find who did this to her and he will be put in prison. Right detectives?"

"We'll do everything we can to catch this suspect," Olivia answered. "Would you have a photo of this JJ?"

"I think Jade has one in her room. I'll go get it," Roger said as he got off the couch and headed back upstairs. When he returned, he held a photo in his hand. He passed it to Olivia, who looked at it. Jade had her head resting on a young handsome boy, who had been no older than 19, shoulder. They were both smiling at the camera. JJ had his arm around Jade's waist. Olivia looked up at Elliot who stood near the Wilson's fireplace. He had a straight face, trying not to show his emotion. But deep down, Olivia knew he was hurting. Maureen, his eldest was the same age as Jade.

Olivia thoughts turned to Lauren. She now wasn't going to let Lauren date. Period.

Olivia yawned as they droved to JJ's address in Hell's Kitchen. The sun slowly started to rise making the city get its morning glow.

Olivia looked out the window, watching the shops roller doors open for the first time of the day.

"You okay?" Elliot asked, getting glances of Olivia blank look.

Olivia looked at her partner. "I'm fine. Waking up at 2 am and only getting 3 hours sleep is getting to me. I'm not as young as I used to be and being able to just sleep for 40minutes and getting 2 days out of it," she said.

"I hear you; just wait until the baby born, its just going to go down hill from there. You remember what it was like with Lauren as a new born. I know Eli was difficult to get to sleep," Elliot replied as he pulled into an empty space.

Olivia got out and waited on the side walk. Elliot got out and joined his partner. They walked towards the apartment building where JJ lived. "Are you okay?" Olivia asked.

"What do you mean?"

"El, I know Jade is reminding you of Maureen. She's the same age, same build, hell even the same looks."

They stopped in front of JJ's building. "I know. It's scaring me knowing that," Elliot replied. "Let's just get over with."

Walking up the stairs to the door, they heard two loud gun shots coming from the alley next to the building. Their first instincts were to grab their weapons.

Olivia grabbed her radio as they dashed back down the stairs and ran over to the entrance of the alley. "This is SVU Detective Olivia Benson. Badge Number 4105. Shots fired, need assistance," Olivia stated then told central the address.

"10-4, backup is on route."

"Police, freeze," Elliot yelled out when he saw a male standing over JJ with the weapon in hand. From where they were standing, JJ wasn't moving.

Startled at Elliot's voice, the unknown gunman aimed his weapon and fired four times at the detectives. Olivia jumped into some cardboard boxes to her right while Elliot took cover next to a dumpster to his left then fired two rounds back, hitting suspect chest. The man flopped like a sack of potatoes, crashing to the ground with a thud. Elliot rushed over to the body and kicked the gun out of the way then checked his pulse, nothing. "Shit," Elliot cursed. He then checked JJ who had steady pulse but unconscious. Elliot checks for signs of blood and found a cut on his head. In the distant, he heard sirens blaring. JJ started to moan when he started coming round.

"Liv, you okay?" he yelled out and had received no answer from his partner. Elliot looked up and at the boxes he saw Olivia jump into and saw Olivia's feet sticking out, not moving. "Oh no! Olivia," he called rushing over. He threw the boxes aside and carefully rolled Olivia over. "Christ," he gasped noticing the blood seeping through her blue shirt at her stomach on her right side.

"Liv, Olivia. Can you hear me?" Elliot called out as he applied pressure on the wound. He grabbed his radio. "This is SVU Detective Stabler, Officer down at last location. Need a bus immediately. Gunshot wound on right hand side" he yelled into it. "Liv," he yelled, pushing a little harder on her stomach.

Olivia moaned. "Ell..iot," she gasped, opening her eyes.

"You're okay Liv. The bus is nearly here. Hang in there, partner. Just hang on," Elliot said loudly as he press hard on the wound.

"Tell Alex," Olivia started, took a shallow breath, "and Lauren I love them so much." Took another shallow breath. "Look out for them and the baby. Please tell the baby about me."

"No, Olivia, you're going to fight this and tell them yourself. Then you're waiting for this baby to come, so you can love it like you do with both Alex and Lauren. Now shut up with this shit and stay with me."

"It hurts," Olivia mumbled as her eyes started to droop.

"Olivia, damn it, stay awake," Elliot called shaking her.

Elliot turned when he heard cars pull up and noticed people still dressed in pajamas stood at the entrance, watching them with horrified looks. Uniformed police officers controlled the crowd as two set of medics came into the alley. One set to Olivia, the other to JJ and the unknown male.

Medics started to work on Olivia. "I'm losing a pulse here. She's losing too much blood, we have to go now," one said to the other. The lifted her on to a gurney and took her to the bus.

"I'm riding," Elliot said jumping in the back. "Tape off the scene," he yelled at the officers who arrived on scene.

"Go," the medic riding back yelled to the driver. The ambulance peeled out and raced towards the hospital.

Once there, Olivia was wheeled straight to surgery and Elliot was told to stay put. Elliot started to pace the halls, trying to stay in control and not lose his cool.

"Elliot," he heard a voice call out. He looked up and noticed the captain dashing towards him with Fin and Munch in tow.

"They've taken her to surgery," Elliot said before Cragen asked what was going on.

"What happened?" the captain asked.

"We went to interrogate the victim's boyfriend when we heard shots in the alley, Liv called backup. We got into the alley and identity ourselves. The bastard took a shot at us. I ducked next to the dumpster and Olivia jumped too, but she must have been hit as she was going down. I fired back and got him two in the chest. I went to check the guys pulse and I called out to Liv, she didn't answer. I turned around and she was lying there not moving."

Cragen patted Elliot back in comfort. "It's going to be okay, she's a hell of a fighter. Have you rung Alex?"

Elliot's eyes widen. "Christ, I haven't. God. I have to tell her." He went to grab his cell but Cragen stopped him.

"No. I will go and tell her and bring her here. All she needs right now is to freak out over the phone and go into labor," he said. Elliot nodded.

"I'll come too, captain," Munch said.

Cragen nodded. "Fin, you stay here with Elliot," he said.

"Sure thing, cap," Fin replied.

Cragen and Munch left the hospital and headed to Chelsea.

Elliot closed his eyes and sent a prayer. "Please God, don't let her die."

Back to the Present

Meanwhile back at Chelsea, Cragen told Alex to calm down before risking on going into labor.

"She's in surgery right now, Alex. We need to take you to the hospital," he told her as he held the blonde's arms. Alex slowly nodded.

The two men helped her back on her feet. They both held an arm each to steady the unstable pregnant bureau chief.

"Mommy?" Lauren's called out from the kitchen doorway.

All three looked at the little girl, and saw she looked confused and started to get upset.

Alex started to sob again. Munch looked at his captain who'd nodded; Munch wrapped his arm around Alex waist, holding her close. Cragen let go of Alex and walked over to Lauren. Munch took the older blonde to her room to help her get dressed.

"Hey princess," he said kneeling in front of his granddaughter. He remembered the day, a few days after Lauren was born, Olivia came into his office, took a seat down in front of him and asked if he would be Lauren's grandfather. He knew Olivia looked at him as a fatherly figure, so to be asked to be a grandfather to her newborn daughter just blew him away. He agreed of course without a second thought.

"What's wrong with Mommy, Poppy?" Lauren asked as she looked at him with sad blue eyes.

How was he going to tell this little girl her mama was shot and might not make it?

"She's just a little upset," he answered combing her hair back behind her ear. He still wondered why he and Marge didn't have children of their own.

"Cause of the baby?"

Cragen shook his head. "No princess. Now, we're going to go for a ride, so we need to get you dress. You want to help me?"

"Okay," Lauren replied. Cragen nodded, kissed the girls forehead and stood. Lauren grabbed her Poppy's hand and took him to her room where they got her dressed.

Meanwhile, Alex was numb as she slowly got dressed with the help from Munch. If this was normal, she'd be embarrassed but right now she didn't care, she was so lost in her thoughts.

"She's going to be okay, Alex. She's a fighter," Munch said as he helped her sit on the unmade bed.

Alex just stared off into space, tears flowing freely down her cheeks. She closed her eyes and prayed for Olivia. Prayed that she would survive and fight for her life. She wanted them to grow old together, be there at their children's weddings, to see their grandchildren grow up. She didn't want to do it alone.

Alex's eyes snapped open when she felt a hand on her shoulder. She looked up and saw Munch looking at her. She looked down at herself and notices she was fully dressed right down to the comfortable flat shoes.

"She can't die, Munch," says Alex in a whisper. "She can't. She has to see her baby being born and hold him or her for the first time. I can't do it alone, Munch."

"Hey," Munch started as he kneeled in front of her, even though his old knees were screaming pain at him. "You know Liv better than any of us. You know she's a fighter and stubborn. She isn't going to give up, neither should you. You got to be strong. For you and Olivia and Lauren and this baby. Especially this baby."

Alex nodded. Munch leaned up and kissed Alex's forehead. "Come on. We got to get to the hospital."

"Okay," Alex replied wiping her tears. Munch smiled and slowly made his way to his feet. He hissed in pain. "You okay?"

Munch nodded. "I will be. I'm not as young as I used to be," he replied standing. He rubbed it sore knees then held out his hand for Alex. Alex slipped her hand in his and stood. "Come on," he said quietly, leading her out of the bedroom.

Cragen stood by the front door with a clothed Lauren by his side, holding his hand.

Without saying a word they left the brownstone and headed to the hospital.