Don't Leave Me

A/n: Thanks to the person who pointed out the age goof in chapter 4... I've fixed it!

Olivia sat in the front seat of Elliot's car, somewhat uncomfortable. She felt horrible, not telling him everything the doctor had told her, but she wasn't even sure she believed it yet. "You really shouldn't stay alone, Liv," Elliot said. She looked over at him.

"I'll be fine, El. Don't worry about me," she said. He pulled into a parking spot in front of her building and went around to help her out of the car. She accepted and let him walk up to the door with her. He unlocked the front door for her, and then kissed her cheek. "Come on up, El. We need to talk," she said. He nodded and then went inside with her. Once they were inside her apartment, Elliot tried to pull her close to him. "We need to talk," she repeated, sitting down on her couch. She sat at the far end, away from him.

"Liv, what's wrong?" he asked. He wasn't sure what to think of her strange behavior.

"El, just promise me that you won't hate me," she said. Elliot looked at her and smiled.

"I couldn't hate you, Livia. Nothing you could say would make me hate you."

Olivia pulled her knees up to her chest, and Elliot could see that whatever she had to tell him upset her. "Livia, just tell me. Whatever it is, I'm still going to love you," he said, sitting down on the couch and starting to move closer to her.

"El, I'm pregnant." Elliot just stared at her, shocked. "Say something."

"I can't believe it," he said. He watched as tears started to form in Olivia's eyes. "Liv, don't cry. You've just made me the happiest man in the world," he told her, reaching out and pulling her body closer to him.

"I can't do this, El. Not again," she said. Elliot leaned in and gently kissed her.

"I love you, Olivia. And if I ever hurt you the way Nico did, I give you full permission to castrate me," he said. Olivia couldn't help but laugh. "There's that smile I love."

"Thank you, El," she whispered. She turned and leaned back against him, lacing her fingers through his.

"Liv, whatever you decide, I'll support you. But I love you, and I love this baby, no matter what. Just remember that, okay?" he asked.

"Okay."

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Elliot leaned against his car, waiting for Kaitlyn to come out of the school. He watched as she came out, talking animatedly with Lizzie. Lizzie immediately spotted him, knowing it was his day to pick her and Dickie up. "Hey Dad!" she called, waving. Elliot smiled and waved back. The girls walked up and Lizzie opened the door to the backseat to let Kaitlyn in. "How's Liv?"

"They let her go home this morning. Where's your brother?" he asked.

"Coming. He had to get some video game from Jackson," Lizzie replied, following Kaitlyn into the backseat. Elliot rolled his eyes and turned back to watch for his son. Dickie followed a moment later, running to make sure he didn't get left.

"Sorry Dad. Had to get it from Jack," he said, holding up his copy of Halo.

"Get in the car," Elliot told him, smiling and rolling his eyes as he turned to get into the driver's seat. "Anything exciting happen today?"

"We watched this crazy documentary about these people who think they're cats in music," Dickie said. Lizzie and Kaitlyn began laughing loudly.

"That was the musical, CATS, dimwit," Lizzie said.

"It was? They didn't actually think they were cats?" he asked.

"No. It's a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the poems of T.S. Eliot," Kaitlyn informed him.

"So it wasn't a documentary?"

"NO!" Lizzie and Kaitlyn said in unison, before dissolving into another fit of giggles.

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Elliot got out of the front seat and walked Kaitlyn up to the door of her building. "Hey, wait a second," he said, stopping her before she went in the door. She turned to look at him. "Listen, if anything happens, I want you to call me, okay? And don't let her try to do too much. Your mom is the most stubborn person I've ever met, and if I know her she'll try to come into work tomorrow morning," he told her.

"Don't worry, El. I'll take good care of her," Kaitlyn said, walking into the building. She hurried up the stairs and into her apartment, putting her backpack on the floor next to the door, along with her shoes. "Mom, I'm home," she called. She walked into her mother's bedroom and saw her, sitting on the floor next to a well worn box. Olivia looked up at her and smiled, tears in her eyes.

"Come sit over here," she said, patting the spot on the floor next to her. Kaitlyn sat down, looking into the box.

"What is all this?" she asked.

"It's everything I wanted to save for you," Olivia told her. Kaitlyn leaned over and pulled out a little dress. "You wore that home from the hospital."

"Mom, what's going on?"

"Kaitlyn, I'm going to tell you the truth. I'm not proud of myself, Kaity," she said. Kaitlyn looked at her, confused. "I was 20 when I got pregnant with you. I had every intention of terminating the pregnancy. I wanted to save you; I couldn't stand the thought of bringing a child into that house, not as long as your father was there. But when I went to the appointment, I couldn't go through with it. I knew that I couldn't live with myself if I did that, so I decided to keep you. Your father never even knew; he would have killed me if I'd told him.

"After you were born, I tried to protect you from him. But I was afraid, Kaity. I stayed with him, even though he'd turned into my mother. He would get drunk, break things. I was planning on leaving the day he took you." Olivia paused and took a deep breath. "I looked for years. About the time you turned four, I gave up hope of ever seeing you again."

"Mom, I never blamed you. I don't blame you for anything that happened to me," Kaitlyn told her. She gave her mother a hug.

"Kaitlyn, we need to talk," Olivia said, putting the small pair of shoes she was holding back in the box. "Kaitlyn, I want you to be completely honest with me, okay?"

"Mom, what is it?"

"I'm pregnant, and I'm not sure what to do," Olivia confessed.

"Is it Elliot's?" Olivia nodded. "He loves you, Mom. He'd do anything for you."

"I'm not sure I can do this all again," Olivia said.

"It won't be like that. This is Elliot we're talking about. The guy who refuses to give up on you," Kaitlyn reminded her. "If it helps you decide, I think you should keep it. Because you might not get a chance like this again."