SVU Squad Room – Tuesday, February 22nd – 3 days before due date
9:30am
Elliot and Olivia walked into the squad room bundled up in their jackets. The weather outside had forecasted for partly cloudy skies, but it was windy and it made it a lot cooler.
Elliot walked over toward John, who was sitting at his desk, "Good morning."
"Morning Elliot," replied Munch. "Good morning Olivia."
"Good morning," Olivia said to Munch.
"Hey guys," called out Fin, who was coming through the swinging doors. He turned to Olivia, "I didn't think you would be here this week with your due date coming up soon."
"I plan to continue working until I have the baby," she replied back. "I'm ready for her to be born. I went to Dr. Morris yesterday and she says everything is fine and I'm due to have her sometime this week."
"I would too," joked Munch. The other three detectives glanced at him as if he were crazy.
"You can be the first pregnant man in history," Olivia shot back at him. She sat down at her desk with her nine-month tummy proudly exposed.
Munch shrugged and rubbed his stomach, "I would make a nice pregnant man. If Arnold did it in Junior, then so could I."
Elliot shook his head and Munch's comment and grabbed a few things from his desk. He had talked to Cragen a few days earlier about transferring to the SVU in Queens when Olivia came back from maternity leave since he knew they wouldn't be able to work as partners anymore with them being married. Elliot knew a few cops there and he, Cragen, and Olivia had agreed that it would be a good idea and Cragen decided that Olivia would get a new partner.
"Do you want to go out and check out some leads on that case?" Elliot asked Fin.
Fin nodded, "Yeah, we might as well. The weather isn't going to get any warmer with the wind."
They were about to leave out when Elliot went to the coffee pot where Munch was pouring himself a cup of coffee. Cragen was at a police commissioners meeting and Munch was the only one that could stay and help Olivia do paperwork.
"Keep an eye out on Olivia for me," he told John. He knew that the baby could come any day now and always took precaution when he left out in the field to canvas a scene or work a case.
"Will do, Elliot."
"Thanks, man," Elliot walked over to Olivia's desk, "See you later."
"See ya," she called back. He walked out with Fin, leaving Olivia with the sweetest smile on her face.
About an half-hour later, Olivia and Munch were sitting at their desks doing some paperwork from the Bowers case that Elliot and Fin had investigated last week. Munch looked at some files that were brought in from the file room and he took Olivia the other half of them.
It was around 12:30 and Olivia had just finished eating a sandwich that she had brought from home. She sat at her desk working on some more papers when she needed to go to the bathroom for what had seemed like the millionth time.
She walked out to the hallway and went to the ladies' room. As she came out of the stall to wash her hands at the sink, she felt something slippery on her feet and gripped the counter to keep from falling. When she looked down to see what it was, there was a puddle of water between her legs. Her water broke and she was going into labor right here at work, which was the last place where she wanted this to happen.
The first thing that crossed through her mind was that she needed to call Elliot and let him know she was in labor and needed to get to the hospital. 'Oh gosh,' she thought. Munch was the only other person in the squad room and he would probably think thatshe might be playing. 'He better get serious,' she thought to herself. She walked slowly back into the squad room and stood in front of Munch to get his attention.
John was whistling and looked up from his paperwork, "What's going on?" he asked with a concerned look.
"My water broke," said Olivia. She was beginning to feel the cramps and she hissed when the pain seared through her belly.
"Oh my god!" exclaimed Munch. "You're in labor."
"I've got to call Elliot."
"Don't worry, I'll call him," Munch dropped everything, grabbed his coat, and helped Olivia as she tried breathing when they went outside to the squad car. He called Elliot on his cell phone to let him know that Olivia was in labor and they were on their way to the hospital.
TBC
