The next morning Ava rushes off to school without even saying goodbye. Olivia and Elliot get to work by eight. It ends up being a pretty slow day so they get to leave work by five, and get home around five thirty. They find the nanny feeding the baby when they get home.

"Hi Sarah," Olivia says to the nanny.

"Hi,"

"You can go home now Sarah," Olivia tells her.

"Are you sure?" she asks as Olivia approaches her.

"Yeah," she says as she motions for the baby.

Sarah hands Sophia to Olivia. She then grabs her things and heads out. Olivia collapses on the couch with the baby.

"Hey Ava can you come down here please?" Elliot calls up the stairs.

"Yeah," she agrees as she bounces down the stairs.

"Here," he says as he hands her a paper bag, "Thought you might like to take a break from homework to have bite to eat."

"Ok," she smiles as she looks inside the McDonald's bag. "I just finished my homework actually."

"Ok,"

"Hey Ava," Olivia says as she burps the baby.

"Yeah?"

"Come over here please,"

"K, What?" she asks as she sits down next to her mother.

"We want to tell you something," Elliot tells her.

"Oh what's that?" she questions.

"I went to the doctor yesterday," Olivia informs her.

"Yeah so?"

"Well the baby is a girl," Elliot starts out.

"Cool," she replies sounding less than interested.

"There's something else," Olivia says.

"Yeah what?"

"We're having twins!" Olivia exclaims.

"Oh," Ava sighs.

"You don't sound very excited," Elliot notices.

"This is it right? I mean there aren't going to be any more kids in this family after this right? I mean..."

"No," Olivia says quickly.

"Good," she answers.

"Why do you think that's good?" Olivia asks.

"Because there are enough of us as it is. I mean you're basically starting over. Right?"

Elliot and Olivia don't say anything.

The baby starts to fuss. Ava with fries in one hand scoops up Sophia and goes upstairs. In the process she manages to grab her bag of food and her drink. She makes it upstairs without spilling anything, most importantly the baby.

"I made her an appointment with a therapist this Friday," Olivia says.

"Ok. Ava has therapy, Dickie has track and Elizabeth has soccer," he realizes that their life is going to become nothing but chaotic. With a 95 chance of crying involved, and chances were it would be them crying due to feeling overwhelmed, frustrated and pretty much insane.

"Liv..." he says quietly.

"What?" she says on the verge of insanity.

"Maybe you should just take some time off,"

"I can't really do that," she says.

"Why not?"

"Because I have to take time off when I have the babies,"

"Liv you have like a million hours you can use. And you'll have a million more by then, just take one day to spend with her,"

"And do what? I'm her least favorite person in the world right now,"

"Doubt it,"

"Oh really who is?"

"Her. Liv if she's a teenager she's blaming herself when none of it is her fault. She needs you to be there for her,"

"I know that, but your kids need you too,"

"Ok so we'll spend a day with each kid by themselves, they need that sometimes,"

"Yeah. And then you could do something with the girls because they all adore you,"

"Yeah right. Maybe one of the four of them. Elizabeth is the only one of them that doesn't hate me right now,"

"None of them hate you they just hate that you aren't there for them. I think from here on out we put our kids first, no matter what. Even if that includes doing something differently as far as work goes. I mean we work too many hours to have any time for them. As rewarding as it is to get a perp off the street it's more important to fix this. I've got to get her through this, I've never been there for her when it counts,"

"I agree, I need to do the same,"

"And as soon as Cragen finds out about me being pregnant he's going to put me on desk duty, so that will help some. Elliot I just don't know if I can't take this job much longer. I'm just afraid it's going to break me,"

"We've been on the edge of disaster before,"

"Yeah but then it was before everything. When we were still in denial. When we were just partners,"

"We're still just partners, just in more than one sense. Liv it's still the same as before I'd do anything for you..."

"Yeah and as your wife it scares the hell out of me. I don't want to lose you after all of this,"

"You'd do the same for me,"

"But El we have so much to lose, and a girl who can't afford to lose either of us,"

"What did you want to be when you were a kid?"

"Not a cop, that wasn't until later,"

"What did you want to be?"

"A teacher," she admits.

"Ok. Here's what we're going to do,"

"What?"

"Well a quarter at Hudson is only six weeks right?"

"Yeah so?"

"When you're on maternity leave start classes,"

"Why?"

"We've got to change things. So maybe a job change would be good,"

"But how am I going to go to school and work? I can't quit until I have another job. We can't afford it. There is absolutely no way on earth,"

"You could be a teacher at the academy you don't need anything else for that. I mean you wouldn't be teaching kids exactly, but you would be teaching and you'd have more time. Then you'd have more time and you'd still be able to be a cop,"

"I guess. I could but who knows if there will be an opening and she needs me now,"

"Take a day with her, and then tell the captain, you'll be on desk duty,"

"El I love my job but..."

"You love her more so you know what you have to do,"

"I do, I just feel like I need some advice from someone else,"

"Give Casey a call,"

"But she'd cross examine me, and I'd have to tell her the whole situation,"

"Maybe you need to tell someone other than me,"

"I don't want to completely abandon the job though,"

"Well why don't you just go to the academy for a year. Then you can focus on Ava first and foremost, and the twins too. Bye then things would probably have calmed down some,"

"Ok. I like that idea I still want to talk to Casey though,"

"Ok, I agree,"

"I'm going to go give her a call,"

"Ok," he smiles as he gives her kiss and then tells her he loves her before letting her leave the room.

She goes into the kitchen grabs the cordless and sits down at the island. After a few rings she gets an answer.

"Novak," the voice on the other end answers.

"Hey Casey this is Liv,"

"Hi,"

"Hey I was wondering if you were done with work yet,"

"Yeah I just left my office,"

"Have you eaten dinner yet?"

"Liv what's going on?"

"I need your advice,"

"Ok go ahead,"

"It's something I'd rather talk to you about in person,"

"Ok, well I'll be there in a little while I guess,"

"I moved,"

"Ok where are you now?"

"Got a pen?"

"Yup,"

"Ok 1-8-3-4-6 Cedar Wood Drive Brooklyn. It's just over the bridge. As soon as you get off the bridge you take a left. After two lights you turn right. Then you take that road for a mile until you see the Cedar Creek subdivision and you turn onto Cedar Wood Drive. The house is the third one on the left, it's grey with blue shutters,"

"Ok. When did you move into a subdivision?"

"Long story I'll fill you in when you get her,"

"Ok I'll be there in about fifteen or twenty minutes,"

"Ok bye Casey," she says as she hangs up.