Brian flew through the hospital entrance. Miles, who was in the car seat that hung from his hand, swung with his dad's fast pace.
When he had received the call from Amanda that they had found Olivia and that he needed to meet them at the hospital right away, Brian had been worried out of his mind. Everything awful that could possibly have happened ran through his head. He knew what Lewis was capable of.
Brian had left the precinct where he had gone after the first call from Amanda earlier that afternoon. As he drove to the day care to pick up his son and then driving to the hospital, he could barely hold it together. What if Olivia had been seriously injured again? What if she had been shot? What if, with everything that may have happened in those few hours, Olivia had lost the baby? All the thoughts racing through his mind were almost too much for him to handle.
He had barely pulled it together when he went running into that hospital. And he was even closer to falling apart when he made his way into to the maternity ward waiting room to find Nick, Fin, and Amanda sitting together, all looking distressed and upset.
He immediately went up to Amanda. "Where is she?! What happened?!"
"Hey. I know you're freaked out, but you need to calm down. Okay?" Amanda placed a hand on his shoulder and started him in the eyes. "Alright?"
"Yeah, yeah." Brian nodded his head and took a deep breath. "Have you heard anything?"
This time Fin answered him. "The nurse came out about 20 minutes ago and said that we should know something soon."
"What happened to her?" Brian pleaded for an answer. He didn't want to think about the horrible things that must have happened to his girlfriend, but he had to know.
"He had her in that warehouse. He was holding a gun to her head when we went in." Nick joined in. He wasn't looking at anyone in particular as he spoke, it was too hard to make eye contact when discussing the awful things he had seen. "He was threatening to kill her and we just kept telling him that it didn't have to end this way, there was no need to kill her. So instead he threw on the ground. I can still hear the sound of her head hitting the floor. I've never heard something that made me cringe like that."
Brian just stood between all three members of the squad. He didn't know what to say or how to react.
There was a silence for a while, until Miles became irritated by being stuck in his car seat. Amanda was the first to react to his cries.
"I'll take him for you." Amanda reached out and took the car seat from Brian's hand. She quickly sat the seat down and unbuckled Miles. She was quick to start bouncing him up and down, trying to calm him.
Meanwhile, Brian sat down in one of the seats between Nick and Fin, who had also taken their seats back.
Nick let out a deep breath. "You know, when we were in their, Liv said 'don't do this to us.' Do you… know what she meant?"
Brian looked up at him. He knew exactly what she meant. But he also knew that Olivia was just not ready for the team to know about their second child. Yet he sat there, looking at all of their distraught faces. He knew they cared about her and he knew that felt they were being left out.
He ran his hands through his hair before answering. "I know Liv wanted to tell you herself when she was ready, but umm… She's pregnant. So I'm sure the 'us' she was referring to was her and the baby. "
His statement was met with silence. None of them were expecting that to be the answer.
After a moment of silence passed through, Fin finally spoke. "Hey congratulations man." Fin was always the one to say something first, especially when it came to Olivia. He had been with her for fourteen years and he was always there for her.
There were congratulations from both Amanda and Nick as well.
Everything soon became silent again. Amanda had given Miles back to Brian, who held the baby in his arms, not wanting to let go of him. He was the only comforting thing right then.
All four of them sat in the waiting room for anther forty five minutes before Olivia's doctor finally came out to get Brian. The doctor wasn't Olivia's obstetrician; instead he introduced himself as Dr. Shepard, a neurologist.
Brian followed him down the hallway, away from the waiting room where he had left a now sleeping Miles with Amanda.
When they reached, what Brian assumed was Olivia's room, the doctor stopped outside. "I just want to fill you in, before I let you in there."
Those words made Brian nervous. "Okay."
"As of right now she's completely stable and her vitals look good. She's got a major concussion, as well as some swelling in her brain. For now, we don't feel it's necessary to put her through surgery, so we'll just be keeping a very close eye on the swelling to make sure it doesn't get any worse. Her memory seems to be fully intact, but you can be a better judge of that when you go in to talk to her."
"How long will she have to be here?" Brian asked, knowing Olivia would want to be there for as short a time as possible.
"That all depends on the swelling. If it begins to go down in its own, we can send her home and she'll have to be on strict bed rest for a few weeks. If the swelling doesn't go down within the next few days or it gets worse, we'll have to consider surgery to remove a piece of her skull to relieve the pressure on her brain and then it's hard to say how long she'll need to stay."
"And the baby. What about the baby?" Brian was worried about their child after hearing all the awful things Olivia was going through.
"We had the head OB come down earlier and she was able to find a steady heartbeat. So from what we can tell, the baby was unharmed." Dr. Shepard reassured Brian. "Now, you are welcome to go in there. But just take it slow, she's still a little groggy and she has a migraine that medication can only help so much."
With his last words, the doctor walked away, leaving Brian to enter Olivia's room.
When he walked in, he found Olivia drifting off in her bed. She sat in the middle of the very white room. She was hooked up to a couple monitors and an IV stuck out from her left hand.
At the sound of Brian's footsteps, she slowly opened her eyes. Just from the way she opened her eyes, Brian could tell she was feeling week and her head was hurting her quite badly.
"Hey, how are you feeling?" Brian walked up to the side her bed.
"My head is killing me." Olivia replied quietly.
"I would imagine it is." Brian grabbed her hand, giving it a squeeze, almost as if to assure Olivia he was there.
They were still not completely back together. Brian spent most of his time at the apartment and he had basically moved back in, but he and Olivia had never officially come to the conclusion that they were back together. But now with everything that was happening, Brian just hoped Olivia would let him be there for her to help her.
"Can I get you anything?" Brian asked Liv.
"Where's Miles?" It didn't surprise him that her son was her main concern, even if she was confined to a bed.
"He's out in the waiting room with Amanda, Fin, and Nick." Brian answered her.
Olivia groaned slightly. "Everyone is here?"
Brian chuckled. "You really thought they were going to leave you here without knowing you were okay?"
"I guess not." Olivia said. "Why don't you go tell them I'm fine and get Miles so I can see him."
"Are you sure you're up for seeing him?" Brian didn't want to overwhelm Olivia.
"Of course I am." Olivia told him.
"Okay, I'll be right back." Brian let go of her hand, but gave her a quick peck on the forehead before walking out of the room, leaving Olivia to close her eyes again, the lights in the room only making her headache worse.
About ten minutes later, Brian came back in, this time carrying Miles, who was now, somewhat, awake again.
Olivia opened her eyes back up to see the little boy lying against his dad's shoulder, his eyes only half open, still sleepy.
"Hey buddy." Olivia cooed at the baby.
Brian carefully pulled the chair that sat in the corner, up to the side of the bed and sat down, Miles still lying against him.
Olivia reached her hand out to stroke his hair. The baby let out a big yawn, as his mom comforted him.
"Let me see him." Olivia said reaching out her hands.
"Are you sure?" Brian asked her.
"Yes I'm sure. I just want to hold him." Olivia pleaded.
Brian got up from the chair and handed the baby to Liv, who laid him on her chest and torso. The baby just lay quietly, drifting off to sleep as Olivia rubbed his back.
Her head was still killing her, but she was so thankful to have the opportunity to hold her son against her. Just a few hours earlier she had thought she may never get to see Miles or Brian again and she wanted to savor the moments with her son.
Brian sat back down in the chair and watched as Olivia stared at her baby, watching him breath as he fell asleep. Soon enough, Brian watched Olivia shut her eyes, falling asleep as well.
The dad and boyfriend just took in the scene that lay out in front of him on the hospital bed. This is what he didn't want to miss; these were the moments he would always remember. And just by being there, with Olivia and Miles, he felt like they were back to being their small family that would soon being growing just a little bit bigger.