The next part of the story is based on a true crime story that happened here in Oregon. I am changing the names of the victims and convicted to protect their names. Hope you enjoy.

Elliot elated with the news of Olivia being pregnant, picks her up and spins her around.

"I am so excited," Elliot tells her.

"You mean, your not mad?" Olivia asks him.

"Why would I be mad?" Elliot questions her. "I love having a big family."

"Well, then we are going to have to find a bigger place," Olivia tells him. Elliot laughs, and picks up the paper.

"Let's get to searching," Elliot tells her. As they are looking for places to live, the phone rings. Olivia answers it.

"Uncle Don, what's up?" She asks him.

"I need you and Elliot to go over to St. Vincent Hospital. There has been a shooting. I don't know any more,
expect there are three children involved," Don tells her. Olivia sighs over the phone.

"Ok, we will be down there right away," she tells her uncle. She looks over at Elliot. Elliot seeing the look on her face, tells him, that they have a case.

"Don wants us to check out a shooting at St. Vincents," Olivia tells him. Elliot and Olivia grab their gear, and head to St. Vincents.
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When Elliiot and Olivia arrive at St. Vincent's they find the nurse at the front desk.

"We are detectives Stabler and Benson," Elliot tells her. "We understand there was a shooting."

"Yes detectives, please follow me," the nurse tells them. They follow the nurse to the back. As Olivia passes one of the rooms, she looks in and sees the doctors and nurses frantically working on one of victims in the shooting.

"Is that one of the shooting victims?" Olivia asks the nurse. The nurse turns her head to look in the direction of Olivia.

"The doctor will talk with you in a moment," the nurse tells them. As they are waiting for the doctor to come, and talk with them. They hear the team working on the little girl.

"Push more epi, we're losing her. Damn, she has lost so much blood. She is flatline, starting compressions now"
the doctors and nurses are yelling back and forth at each other. A few minutes later the doctor comes out of another room.

"You must be the detectives. We have a real humdinger here. At 8:00pm a car comes screeching into the er entrance, a woman of about 25 jumps out of the car, screaming that some stranger had shot her children. When my staff went out to see what was going on, there was three kids in the car, all them having gun shot wounds.
We quickly got the children into the er, the mother is in another room as well, it looks like she was shot as well," the doctor tells the detectives.

"How are the children doing?" Olivia asks the doctor.

"Stephanie, the little girl in room one, just passed away," the doctor tells them. "She lost to much blood, and there was extensive damage to her liver, spleen, and abodmen. The bullet just tore right through her.

"What about the two children?" Elliot asks him.

"Madison, is going into surgery now. The bullet hit her in the chest area. It hit the left lung. The little boy, David is only three years old, and the bullet hit him in the back. Looks like it might have severed his spinal cord, we won't know anything else for awhile. The mother, Christie was only shot in the arm. I find it kind of funny, that her three children were seriously shot, one of them fatally, but she was only shot in the arm," the doctor tells them.

"Can we talk with the mother?" Elliot questions the doctor.

"Sure, it's going to be awhile before the other two children are out of surgery. She is right in here," the doctor says, as he opens the door to the room.

"Excuse me, Christie. These are decetives from the Special Victims Unit. They have some questions about the shooting," the doctor tells her.

"How are my children doing? When can I see them?" Christie questions the doctor.

"They are still in surgery," the doctor tells her. Not having the heart to tell her that her oldest daughter,
Stephanie had just passed away.

"Christie, I'm decetive Olivia Benson, and this is my partner, Elliot Stabler. Can you tell us what happened"
Olivia asks her.

"Oh god where do I start. My children and I went out in the country to go and see a horse, that my friend had bought. The kids have always liked horses. After we were done, we started to head home. It was dark, I pulled over to balance the checkbook, the kids were fast asleep in the car. Stephanie was on the left side, David buckled into his booster seat, was in the middle, and Madison, was on the right side of the back seat. As I was balancing the checkbook, I happened to look up, and saw a guy. He was about 6'3", he had a full length beard. I got out of the car, and walked up to him. He demanded my keys, I told him not to hurt my children.
He walked over to the car, and started shooting into the car, all I could do was stand there in complete horror.
I pretended like I was throwing the keys into the bushes, when he came upon me, and shot me in the arm. After he went searching for the keys, I got back into the car, and sped my way to the hospital," she tells Elliot and Olivia.

Elliot and Olivia thank her, and walk out of the room, and look at each other.

"I don't know, something seems strange about her story," Olivia tells Elliot. "What mother stops her car out in the middle of nowhere, to balance her checkbook." Elliot looks at Olivia.

"Let's get the evidence and get it processed. Elliot and Olivia collect the clothes that the children were wearing, along with a bloody rag that Christie had used to wrap around her arm. The decetives then went out into the car, and started collecting evidence from there. They picked up at least a dozen bullets from the back seat of the car.

"Who would go through this much trouble to shoot three children, and their mother, just so he can have the car"
Elliot tells Olivia. Olivia shakes her head, as they continue to collect evidence. When they finish collecting the evidence Olivia looks at Elliot.

"I wonder if the children are out of surgery yet," she comments to Elliot.

"Let's go find out," Elliot tells her. They find the doctor walking down the hallway.

"Glad I found you decetives, David is out of surgery, he is in critical condition in the picu, and Madison has not come out of surgery yet. She did suffer a stroke while in surgery. Right now her condition remains grave and guarded," the doctor tells them.

Elliot walks down the hallway to the picu. He looks in the window, and sees the nurses hooking the ventilator up to little David. He stands there thinking to himself. "He is only three years old, what kind of monster could do this to three small children. "Don't worry little man, I am going to find out who shot you, your sisters, and your mother," Elliot says, as he walks off to find Liv.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Meanwhile back at the 1-6 Cragen, Fin and Munch are sitting around talking, when Jack comes walking in with Alexandra Cabbot.

"What brings you two here this evening?" Cragen asks Jack.

"Alex here has been going over Olivia and Melinda's case. The judge wants a closure on this case soon.
Thought about next week, finishing up the case, so everybody's life gets back to normal, or close to." Jack tells Cragen.

As Jack and Cragen are talking. Trevor walks into the 1-6. He is carrying his briefcase with him.

"Jack, can I speak with you Ms. Cabbot please?" Trevor asks them.

"Sure, what about, and don't try and tell us, that your client wants to have the charges dropped against him"
Jack tells him.

"No, actually my client wants to plead guilty to all charges. He says he is getting tired of seeing his daughters going the pain and hell of the trial. He wants it to quit as soon as possible," Trevor tells them.

"Well that's best thing, Dean has ever done," Cragen tells Trevor.

"Does your client realize that he might spend close to 25 to 30 years in prison?" Alex asks him.

"Yes he does," Trevor tells her.

"Well then tomorrow morning, we will go before judge Donnelly, and let him plead guilty. Cragen goes to the phone and calls Elliot and Olivia.

"Hey, how are things going at the hospital?" Cragen asks them.

"Not to good, we'll let you know more, when we get the information," Elliot tells him.

"I have some good news for Olivia," Don tells him. "Dean has decided to plead guilty on all charges."