She'd always thought of home as being somewhere one could go to escape the outside world…to escape reality. And that reason is why she'd chosen to come here, to her mother's, rather than somewhere else.
What she hadn't counted on were the comments and the criticism. As if it were her fault, and hers alone, that her marriage was falling apart. After a while it started to grate on her nerves. But she didn't have anywhere else to go, and so she stayed.
There was a saying that she'd heard many times before, one that says that 'home is where the heart is'. And it wasn't until a few months after she left that she realized that her heart wasn't there…with her.
It was on the other side of the borough…with the one she left behind.
A/N: Ok...I have really got to stop with the one shots and get going on my chapter fics...meh. Anyways, SVU's not mine, and now that I can consider you lot duly informed, I shall go.