Lost Then Found.
Olivia and Elliot welcomed their beautiful baby girl, Veronica Lola Stabler into the world on the 13th August at 1:06pm after 16 hours of labour. Elliot couldn't stop telling Olivia how proud he was of her and how much he loved her and their little girl.
They got into a good routine rather fast and now here they were 4 months on. Ronnie was growing really well. She's a happy, healthy little girl who loves her Mommy very much and has her daddy wrapped around her little finger.
Olivia had loved her time off work, with Christmas only 3 weeks away she was able to get some of the Christmas shopping done so it wasn't all going to be done at the last minute like it had been every year before then, but she was now ready to get back in to the swing of things and bring justice to those who need it. She was however nervous about leaving her baby girl at the Precincts day-care. Elliot and Cragen had spent the last two weeks reassuring her that she was going to be safe and looked after. Olivia knew they were right but it still didn't stop her from feeling nervous.
"Baby you got to get some sleep. Its almost midnight and tomorrow's your first day back on the job, you don't want to be felling exhausted before you even start do you?" Elliot whispered from behind her.
" I know I'm just nervous." she confessed.
"About what Liv?" He asked turning her so he could see her eyes in the pale moonlight that shone through the crack in the curtains.
"Leaving Ronnie." she whispered. " I know she'll be fine but it's the first time I've left her in 4 months for longer than an hour you know. So it knda making me nervous." she finished.
"I know it is baby, but remember she will be right on the ground floor. So your still going to be in the same building as her, just not the same room is all. She'll be fine and so will you after a couple of days. I promise we can go see her when you want." he smiled then gave her a gentle loving kiss on her lips.
"thank you." she smiled then gave him another kiss. " I love you." she whispered to him.
"I love you too baby." he said. " think you can sleep now?" he asked.
Instead of replying with words Olivia just snuggled closer into Elliot's side. He wrapped his arms around her and gave her a kiss on the head. " rest baby." he whispered. He continued to run his fingers through her long brown hair until he knew she was sleeping peacefully before falling back in to a peaceful sleep himself.
6:30am came round and Olivia was awoken by Ronnie's cries coming through the baby monitor that sat beside the alarm clock. Just as she sat up and stretched the alarm sounded and Olivia quickly turned it off.
"Good morning baby." she smiled bending down to give Elliot a kiss on the lips to wake him up from his sleep. "time to get up our daughter is awake and ready for her first day at cop day-care." she Chuckled.
A smile crept on to his face before he opened his eyes. " you sound more confident about leaving her there than you did 6 hours ago." he stated.
"Well your right she is still going to be in the same building so I know where she is. We know the people who work there and so does Ronnie and she seems to like them. I mean we have been taking her to spent a couple of hours with them for the last 10 weeks so it's not like we're just handing her to people we don't know." she explained.
"So in other words. All the things me and Cap have been telling you for the last two weeks." he smiled smugly at her.
"yeah, yeah Stabler get up. And get the twins up for collage while I sort Ronnie out. It will give you time to deflate that head of your." she giggled.
"okay." he laughed following Olivia actions and getting out of bed. " you know I'm glad the twins told us they were gunna carry on living at home instead of campus before we paid for their rooms." he laughed.
"yeah me too. It's nice having them at home with us." she smiled back at him.
"okay kids up, collage, day-care work. Lets roll." he chuckled walking to get his twins up. Olivia went across the hall from the room she shared with Elliot to get there daughter ready for the big day they were going to have.
"hey Lil girl, you ready for your big day at day-care?" she cooed as she carried her to the rocking chair in the corner where she sat and nursed Ronnie before getting her dressed. Once she had the baby ready she handed her over to Elliot to take down stairs with him while she took a quick shower and got dressed.
As she walked down the stairs she could hear laughter coming from the kitchen. She was surprised to walk in and see Kathleen and Maureen sat at the table with them.
"Hey Momma." Maureen and Kathleen said at the same time.
"Hi girls. I didn't know you two were stopping by this morning." she smiled kissing them both on the head before taking the empty seat next to Maureen.
"Yeah well Mo spent the night at Scott's and I crashed at gabby's so we thought we'd stop by give the twins a lift to school and… we wanted to see bubbles over here." Kathleen chuckled handing a set of plastic keys to the young baby who was currently sat happily in Maureen's arms.
Olivia couldn't help laugh at Kathleen's pet name for her youngest daughter. She had called her bubbles ever since Ronnie work out how to blow spit bubbles.
"Well it's good to see you too." she smiled. "how's collage going?" she asked the young woman.
"It's okay it's getting more interesting and hard but I like it. There's a lot to learn about the law god only knows how I'm going to remember it all." she laughed.
"You'll be fine you're a smart young lady." she smiled back at her.
"Yeah I know it will be good when I finish. Only a year to go then I can look for a law firm to join." she smiled.
"That great Katie. You'll do fine." Olivia smiled back.
"What about you Mo? How's collage?" she smiled. She could see that something's still made her eldest child jumpy, but with time, love from her family and Scott of course and the session's with George Huang she was healing well.
"yeah it's okay. Just bummed that I got to retake the year because I missed some of it, but other than that it's good." she told them.
"that's good, how are things in general?" she asked her.
"there good, the nightmares aren't to bad and I don't have them every night anymore so that's good. Things with me and Scott are good if not better." she smiled. " he's been so good and caring. And the therapy sessions are helping a lot. But…" she trailed off.
"but what Sweetie?" Elliot asked from opposite her.
"I still have panic attacks. A lot of them. George said in time they will get better but… I don't know they just don't seem to be getting anything." she confessed softly.
"hey Honey they will. Your still under a lot of pressure and a lot of it now is coming from wanting to find Libby. I'm back to work today and that at the top of our list we'll find her. don't worry so much." Olivia smiled wrapping her arm around her and kissing her head.
"yeah I know." she said.
7:45am everyone was out the door and on the road to where they needed to be. Olivia couldn't wait to get back to work more because she could start looking for Libby again.
To Be Continued…
I'm not sure I like this chapter but hey there you have it. So the baby's finally here. I put a bit of a time jump. Wont be long now until Libby is reunited with her family… maybe. Next chapter is mainly from Libby's POV. But Olivia and the gang will be in it to. Thanks for reading. Peace. xox