She hadn't been surprised that he'd become emotionally involved in this case…all of them had been in some way. But the story he just told her made his involvement in particular that much clearer. She hears the door leading back into the precinct close behind him as he leaves her standing there, but she ignores it.
The streetlights glare at the city below them. She peers down at the people below her, watching them as they walk. Laughter drifts up to meet her ears, and a faint, almost bitter smile crosses her face. They don't know. None of them know.
At this point, Olivia decides to take this moment of solitude to contemplate the story Munch told her before he walked away. The phrase 'threw her through a plate-glass window' echoes in her mind. Disgusted, she closes her eyes, trying to make the sound go away, but it won't.
Some people don't deserve to be parents, she muses. Some people really don't. She wonders at this point what the point is to bringing a child into the world if all said child is going to know is misery. No answer comes….not that she really expected one.
Parents are supposed to protect their children, she thinks. They're not supposed to throw them out of windows or beat them until they're in a coma. They're supposed to hang report cards up with magnets on the refrigerator or put a band-aid on a cut and wipe away someone's tears.
They're supposed to make their kids feel better…not make them feel awful about themselves. She opens her eyes and stares back down at the city, her eyes almost immediately locking onto a set of three: two people with a small child in between them. All of them are smiling; the child is laughing.
Now that, she thinks to herself, that's how it's supposed to be. That's how parents are supposed to treat their children. They're supposed to love them.
A few minutes pass before she decides that she's cold and that she wants to go back into the precinct. So she heads towards the same door that Munch walked through, mumbling a quiet prayer for all the children in New York City…a prayer that their parents will love them, no matter what they do.
A/N: Meh. So I haven't seen Legacy in ages even though I have the DVD's, but this came out because I was getting bored, so there you have it. And SVU's not mine.