Hey guys, thanks for your patience, I know it has been a while since my last update, but life has been crazy. I am aware that many of you don't like my short chapters, but come on, I can't write a novel for every chapter.

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I think this is quite possibly the sweetest chapter I will ever write, so I hope you all like it.

Enjoy

-SVU Chicky-

Once outside the club, the two women could hardly keep their hand off each other. All of those minutes and hours and days and weeks and months of no contact had taken their toll. Although feeling a sense of urgency, neither woman was rushed. Each took their time re-exploring the other's body. Well, as much exploring that can be done in public.

Every kiss was filled with what could not be expressed through words. Every touch filled with a wanting and every caress left them wanting more. After a few minutes, Alex just broke down. She couldn't take it anymore.

"Oh my God Olivia, I am so sorry about all of this. About Mackenzie, about me leaving, about all the lying." As she cried, Olivia wrapped her arms around the slender blonde and held her. She didn't dare interrupt what she was saying. She knew this was something that Alex needed to do and she didn't want to face the wrath of Alex Cabot. True, she hadn't been Alex for over a year, but she was still in there. "That night…the night at the hospital when they…when they told you that I was…dead, I heard you…out in the waiting room."

The doctor came out of the operating room and took off her tie-on mask and gloves. Her surgical gown and scrubs were completely covered in blood. The only thing that had not been engulfed by the crimson fluid was her surgeons cap. Olivia was the first on her feet and over to the doctor. Before she could even get a word in, the doctor was shaking her head.

"I'm sorry. We did all we could."

And just like that Olivia's whole world ended. The protective walls she had built up around her heart caved in and crushed her. Only one person held the key, and that person was never going to be able to use it again. So she did the only thing she knew how. She started screaming and yelling and hitting. And when she had finally spend every last drop of emotion she had in her, she went home and drank herself into oblivion. Despite just having restocked her liquor collection a few nights ago, there was not a drop of alcohol left in the whole of her apartment.

But that did get her what she wanted. She couldn't feel a thing. Which had earned her a week in a coma and a hospital room for the next thirty days where she had to undergo alcohol rehabilitation. Since that night, nothing had been the same.

"Olivia, it took every ounce of everything I had in me not to through those doors and into your arms…I…I…I" She took a moment to compose herself. "I wanted to so bad…but they were giving me all sorts of drugs to numb the pain in my shoulder and the agents were saying that everyone was better off, that I was better off…And…I just….I had…"

Olivia stopped her and held the fragile women closer. "Shh…sweetie its okay. I know that none of this was up to you. I know that you didn't want to. I know that you did the only thing you could do to save your life." She wiped an escaped tear away. "I guess in a way…I'm glad they took you away." Alex looked at her like she was crazy. "Because if they hadn't, there's no telling what would have happened to you. I mean damn it Alex, they tried to kill you…The only way I got through you being away was the fact that I knew that, wherever you were, you were safe."

Alex turned in her arms and looked looked into the chocolate eyes that she had been craving for months. "You were safe. And I because I knew that you were free from harm, I survived."

Alex nestled into the crook of Olivia's neck. "I did too."

-Twenty Minutes Later-

The two had been so caught up with catching up that they haven't even noticed the time fly bye. "…So there I was, just standing there dumbfounded and looking for an escape." The former ADA paused a moment as both she and Olivia could no longer contain their laughter. "And…and he was like-" She must have jumped about ten feet at the sound of the door creaking open. Olivia was on her feet in front of Alex and had her gun out in a matter of milliseconds.

"Whoa, easy detective. Didn't mean to startle you." Serena said above the noise from the music coming from within the club. "They're announcing the winners, and I just thought…" She trailed off as she heard Misty announce the winners.

"And in first place, for their fantastic job bring back The Corrs, we have Serena, Alex and Mackenzie." A bunch of cheering was heard inside. "That's us." Serena grabbed Alex by the wrist and pulled her inside, a slightly confused detective following closely behind.

They entered the club to find Mackenzie already on the stage waving them over. Serena let go of Alex and jogged over to her 'niece.' Alex on the other hand, just stood there. Like a deer caught in the headlights, she was rooted to the spot, unable to collect her thoughts enough to put one foot in front of the other. She couldn't hear the quiet murmurs of the people talking amongst themselves of the quiet hum or music in the background. She couldn't smell the many different kinds of greasy foods in the room nor could she sense Olivia's presence behind her. It was different when she was on the stage, Mackenzie was out of her line of sight. But now, she had her first good look at the daughter that was taken from her all those years ago.

It was like she was in a tunnel. All that she could focus on was Mackenzie. Her first and only born, her daughter, her little baby girl-well, her sixteen-year old baby girl, but still her baby girl. She couldn't take her eyes off of her.

There was nothing even remotely similar about their hair or eye color, save for a few natural blonde highlights. But there was no denying the fact that the girl standing on the stage was Alex Cabot's daughter. They had the same body shape and structure and they even stood the same way and had the same sway in their hips when they walked. There was also no refuting that both had the same overly confident Cabot attitude.

The next thing Alex knew, she felt Olivia's hands on her back pushing her forward. She wasn't sure how it happened, but in a few short seconds, she was at the base of the stage stairs, her daughter calling her up. Seven steps later and she was on the stage. Just a mere two feet from Mackenzie. It was closer than they had been in over fourteen years.

So many different thoughts were running through the blonde's head. 'What if she doesn't want to get to know me? What if she hates me for not being there for her when she was younger? What if she blames me for her being kidnapped? How do I explain to her what happened that day?..What do I say if she asks about her father?' But as soon as she looked up into Mackenzie's now watery hazel eyes, all of her doubts melted away. There would be a time and a place for all her doubts and all Mackenzie's questions, but that was neither here nor now.

Any and all lingering doubts were washed away the second Mackenzie ran into her mother's arms, which had been empty since 1991. Even through everything that mother and daughter had been through, they knew that instant that they were both right where they belonged.