The babies are coming! So this story is coming to an end, there another two chapters left, but stick around cause there's another story coming, more details in further chapters :)
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One hour later Elliot was pacing up and down the hospital hallway. At this moment Casey appeared and came running to him.
"Hey I just got your message! How's everything going?" she said in agony.
"Everything is normal, even though they are coming early it's ok" Elliot said.
"How's Liv?"
"She's doing good, contractions are not so strong now, they are 5 minutes apart"
"You seem a little upset Elliot what's going on?" Casey asked frowning.
"I got a call from Cragen earlier this evening, he needed me at the precinct. I left Liv alone and went but it didn't took long. When I came back I saw her on the floor and Dean Porter above her" Elliot said gritting his teeth.
"Oh my God did he hurt her?" Casey gasped.
"Liv said it was an accident,that she tripped on her own and fell but this doesn't change the fact that he went there and upset her, so I punched him."
"You punched him?" Casey let out a small laugh.
"Yeah, I've been saving it for some time and I was given the chance, I couldn't say no. It felt really good, if I wasn't worried for Liv I would have enjoyed more" Elliot said not able to hold back a laugh himself
"Well if I was there I would have done the same thing. Anyway can I see Liv now?"
"Yeah she is inside with the doctor, go I'm sure she will be happy to see you" Elliot nodded to Olivia's room "I'll go call Cragen and the rest, they will want to come."
"Of course they will" Casey said and with a smile she pushed the door to Olivia's room
"Oh hey Casey" Liv said with a tired smile when she saw her friend
Casey approached the bed. Olivia's doctor was standing beside it, checking the monitors.
"Hey Liv, how are you doing?"
"Until now, everything is good, I mean I have contractions but they're every five minutes and I can bare them just fine, but I know that it's not going to be like this the whole time." Olivia glanced at the doctor who smiled.
"Olivia you have some time ahead of you, you are only 3 centimetres dilated and soon the contractions will be more often, are you sure you don't want an epidural?" she asked but Olivia shook her head in reply.
"No, no epidural"
"Ok, let me know if you change your mind" the doctor said and left
Olivia turned at Casey.
"Casey, I am so scared, now I can handle the pain but what about in a while? And it would take hours till they finally come out." she said with a panicky look.
"Hey Liv it's going to be fine, Elliot and I would be here the entire time ok? Now tell me have you decided on names yet?" She said with a reassuring smile, trying to distract her friend of the pain.
"No, you see we think that when we see them, we'll know" Olivia said smiling bit but frowned after seconds "Oh, here comes another one." she said referring to the contraction.
"Ok breathe Liv, in and out, in and out, yeah very good" Casey took her friend's hand into her own while Olivia was breathing through the pain of the contraction.
"Where's Elliot?" she asked after.
"Oh he's out, calling Cragen and the rest, he'll be here by any minute. Which reminded me that when he comes I'll go and make a call of my own" Casey said with a cheeky smile.
"Who are you going to call?" Olivia said suspiciously.
"Oh, no one I just remembered that I need to make this call" Casey tried to sound like it was no big deal but Olivia didn't fall for the act.
"Casey it cannot be no one it's 3 am in the morning come on!" At that moment, Elliot came into the room.
"Hey, I just called Cragen they'll be here as soon as possible" he said.
"Oh that it so nice of them!" Olivia smiled.
She really appreciated the fact that her co-workers, the closest thing she had to family, will rush in the middle of the night to be by her side through the birth.
"Well Munch said something about babies Benson-Stabler already making life difficult, but oh well, he's just Munch being...Munch" Elliot said and laughed, Olivia laughed too.
"Ok so I'm going to go for a while, leave you guys alone" Casey said.
"No tell me first who are you going to call!" Olivia yelled but Casey had already left.
"Who is going to call at 3 am?" Elliot asked confused.
"You tell me, she isn't saying I tried to find out but ! Fuck!" she yelled suddenly
Elliot reached for her hand.
"What's the matter Liv? Are the contractions more intense now?"
"Yes that one was nothing like the rest of them! Is that how's going to go from now El?" she asked with terror.
"I'm afraid so Liv, but don't worry I'll be here all the time for you to hold my hand" Olivia nodded trying to think as positive as she could.
An hour later, Cragen Fin Munch and Casey were gathered at the hallway outside Olivia's room waiting.
"How long do you think it will take until this babies decide to come out?" Munch asked
Casey shrugged.
"It's different in every labour. It might take up to eight hours or more" she said
"Do you think she'll bare that long?" Fin said through another yell coming from Olivia because of the contractions.
"She will, that's the least she can do, she'll have to bare anyway at least eighteen years of parenting this kids, I'm telling you man it's not going to be a picnic, here we are talking about Benson's and Stabler's genes mixed, no good can come from that" Munch said in a serious tone but everyone, including Cragen laughed.
Casey checked her phone and exhaled heavily.
"You have checked your phone over ten times this past hour Casey, from who you're expecting a phone call at 4 am?"
"You'll see..." She said with a mysterious smile and the rest glanced at each other, not having a clue about what she's talking.
Two more hours passed and Olivia was desperate by now.
"El" she managed to say between two contractions "Why it's taking so long? I don't..ooooooohhhhhhh how much more..ooooooohhhhh.. I can take" she finally said when the pain was over.
"Be patient baby please.." He said caressing the sweaty bangs on her forehead.
"I try but...oooooooohhhhhh! fuck! Fuck! It doesn't seem to work" Olivia said panting.
Right then the doctor came in, to check on how dilated she was.
"Well you are 5 centimetres dilated, you still have some time to go Olivia" she said and Olivia looked at her desperate.
"What? Only 5? Why? I want to end with this now! Oooooohhhhh! Fuck!" she yelled as yet another contraction hit her.
"I know, I know, but you have to be patient" the doctor said with a calm smile and left.
"Why does everyone keep saying that?" Olivia said and threw back her head on the pillow.
"Because you just have to be..." Elliot started saying but Olivia gave him the evil eye and so he stopped immediately. He knew better than to argue with her while she was in labour.
Another hour passed and everyone was sitting in chairs outside Olivia's room except from Casey who was pacing up and down.
"Really Casey, where do you find the energy?" Fin said shipping the third cup of coffee.
Casey didn't respond but looked at her phone again.
"Should be here by now." she mumbled to herself.
"Who?" Munch asked but when she didn't respond he didn't bother to ask again, he was too tired to persist and the last hours they weren't able to make her say who was this person she waited so much to hear from. After five minutes her phone buzzed and by looking at the screen, Casey almost yelled from joy.
"At last!" she said happily and rushed away without bother to tell anyone where she was going.
Meanwhile, inside the room, another contraction had just finished, leaving Olivia panting hard.
"I am...never...ever..doing..this again.." She said rubbing her sweaty bangs while Elliot was stroking her arms.
At this moment, there was a knock on the door, followed by Casey entering the room with a broad smile.
"How it going?" she asked.
"It sucks, I am still only 7 centimetres dilated, I can't believe this" Olivia said gritting her teeth
"Well I have something, or better, someone who might cheer you a bit" Casey said still smiling broadly.
"If you succeed this Casey I will owe you." Olivia started saying but stopped immediately when she saw who entered the room.
"Oh my God! Alex!" a wide smiled appeared on Olivia's crummy face on the sight of her friend to disappear seconds later when another contraction came "Oooooooohhh oooooohhhh! Shit!" she yelled.
Alex Cabot rushed on her friend's side.
"Oh God Liv! It's so good to see you! When Casey called and said that you were having the babies now I jumped to my car and came straight here!"
"Oh Alex...I've missed you so much! I can't believe that you are here!" Olivia said and raised her hands to hug her friend who came down to her and buried her into her arms.
"So Alex was the mysterious phone call?" Elliot said grinning to Casey who nodded happily.
" I knew that Alex had plans of coming here when the babies were about to be born, but you see they decided to speed up things a little and I was sure that Alex would kill me if she'd missed it so I called her" she explained.
"I can't believe it that you are here..oh God, oh God, another one's coming!" Olivia said and squeezed her eyes.
This time Alex reached for Olivia's hand and hold it tight through the contraction.
"Yeah, the babies decided to speed things by coming a month earlier and now they are taking their time! How's that fair?" Olivia said breathing fast and everyone laughed.
"Liv once you will hold them, I am sure that you'll forget everything" Alex said happy that she was able to be by her friend's side at this unique moment of her life.
Three hours later and Olivia's contractions were at the most one minute apart. The doctor had come to check her again.
"Olivia you are fully dilated, we have to move you to the delivery room now!" she said happily.
"Ok" she managed to say in her attempt to try and take control of the pain.
Elliot squeezed her hand.
"It's happening Liv" he said with an anxious smile as they took her outside the room.
Once in the delivery room they placed a monitor so they could watch both babies during the labour
"Olivia when the next contraction comes I want you to push ok?"
Olivia nodded at the doctor and looked at Elliot who gave her a reassuring smile. She felt the pain of the contraction hitting her and she starting pushing hard.
"Oooooohhhhh God!" she screamed.
"That was very good Olivia, take a deep breath until the next one ok?" the doctor said.
The next contraction came and Olivia cried out in pain while pushing as Elliot was supporting her back.
"You're doing great Liv, come on baby" he encouraged her stroking her hair while she fell back to the bed panting.
"I can see the head Olivia, when the next contraction comes push as hard as you can" the doctor said.
Elliot held her hand and back tight as Olivia pushed again yelling, strokes of sweat running down her face.
"One more, push with all your might" she heard the doctor saying.
She pulled herself together and pushed as far as she could. One second she felt the baby coming out and the next she heard a loud cry across the room.
"Here she is baby girl number one!"
Olivia and Elliot looked at where the cry came from and saw the doctor holding up a small red baby, their baby.
"Oh my, she is so tiny! Is she alright?" Olivia said feeling a burst of joy, seeing her daughter for the first time.
"Everything seems fine, we are going to clean her while I check the second baby" the doctor said smiling and checking the monitor.
Olivia tried to calm down and get ready for delivering her second baby, while trying to take glances of the baby that was being cleaned.
"Olivia, the second baby is in breech position, which means that is coming with the legs, there's no need to worry it's something that's happening a lot with twins" the doctor said as she saw the panicky look in Olivia's and Elliot's eyes.
"I just want you to push as strong as you can when the contractions come again ok?" she added.
"Fine, is alright right?" Olivia asked with stress.
"Yes, yes we are monitoring the baby's heart, it is strong and so it's safe to deliver the baby like this ok?"
"Ok" Olivia turned to Elliot still panic in her eyes, but he smiled.
"Liv you are doing great, don't worry just focus on pushing yeah sweetie?" he kissed her on the check.
Olivia managed to smile back in time to feel a strong pain coming. She held Elliot's hand tightly.
"Ok now Olivia push!" the doctor yelled.
Olivia pushed with all her might, trying not to let the pain and the fear take over her. She let out a loud scream.
"Damn you Elliot for having twins run your family!" she shouted on top of the screaming.
"Olivia one more push, I want the best that you've got now!"
Olivia pulled herself together and focused more than ever on pushing. The pain she felt was overwhelming, she screamed louder than ever but she kept pushing, determined to deliver her baby safe. Suddenly she heard a cry and Elliot shouting from joy.
"You did it Liv! You did it!"
She opened her eyes that she didn't realize they were close, to see the doctor holding in front of her, her second daughter.
"Is she ok?" she asked in agony.
"Yes, both babies are perfect, congratulations Olivia and Elliot for your two healthy daughters" The doctor said with a big smile as she handed the second baby girl to the nurse to clean her up
After some minutes, Olivia was cleaned and stitched and the nurse returned with their two baby girls, wrapped in tiny pink blankets. She gave them both carefully to Olivia who took them, crying with tears of joy as Elliot was stroking Olivia's hair looking at his two baby girls, tears of joy running down his cheeks too.
"They are so beautiful." Olivia whispered.
"They are perfect Liv" Elliot whispered in her ear, kissing her head softly.
"I am so happy, El. everything I could ever ask for is here, in this room, right now" Olivia said turning to him, her voice full of emotion.
"I couldn't agree more, I couldn't" he mumbled in an overwhelmed voice.
Coming up, what the names of the babies would be? :) Don't forget to review!