That husband of hers definitely has a temper, part of me thinks that I should just go ahead and kill him, if I did that I could get Olivia a lot easier and my time with her would be unlimited. It would be easy to do he doesn't know that I'm in here and the gun would catch him by surprise.

No, no that's to easy the reason why I even chose Olivia is because of the challenge. She's my biggest challenge yet and I want to conquer it not go about this the easy way.

But she'd be more pliable if he's dead not alive.

Maybe but I like the fight, the struggle, and even more I like watching the fight leave their eyes if I say the right things, taunt her with the right things about him I'll get to watch that exact thing happen. I'm sticking to my original plan Lewis decided from inside the hall closet as he heard the front door to the house close signaling that Olivia and the other detectives had left.

"Your husbands in a mood today girl," Rollins said as she got into the front seat of the police sedan.

Olivia just sighed and ignored her as she buckled up and started to eat her bagel in the back seat while Amarro drove off as Rollins just sighed and looked at a case file.

"Care to share that bagel Liv? It smells delicious," Amaro asked.

Olivia sighed and glanced up at him "have you guys not eaten breakfast yet?"

He shook his head "no we haven't Liv we've been busy trying to get in touch with you all morning."

She sighed "Nick I'm really sorry I wasn't trying to ignore your phone calls, our daughter was sick and when she got a little better and we all finally got to get some sleep we just passed out.. Surely you can understand you have a 7 year old, you know how it is when they're sick."

He nodded "yeah I get it, Zara's never been as sickly as your little one is but she's had the stomach bug, the flu and strep throat at least once a piece."

Olivia nodded "Izzabella hasn't ever had the flu or strep but that's probably because she's really only

around me or Elliot, mainly Elliot and he never gets sick."

Amaro nodded "the last thing I wanna come across as is judging your parenting but you guys really need to have her around kids her own age more often. If you don't getting her into kindergarten will be hell."

Olivia sighed "Nick I know that and so does Elliot. He's been taking her to the park more and she's been playing with some kids there."

Amaro sighed "it's not the same thing Olivia."

Olivia just sighed and handed him a third of her bagel "well I appreciate your advice Nick but Elliot knows how to be a parent and I trust him, just drive please," she said as she silently handed Rollins a third of the bagel then she ate the last bight of her part, nowhere near full as she sighed when they pulled into the parking lot.

"Beware of Liv guys, she's in a mood," Rollins said warning Munch and Fin once they entered the precinct as Olivia just shot her a glare then looked to Fin "where's Lory? You guys called me in so I could retake her statement?"

"She's in interview room 1 Liv," Fin said as Olivia nodded and wasted no time in heading into the room.

"Good morning Lory, you wanted to speak to me?" Olivia asked as she sat across from her.

Lory nodded slightly "a-are you guys any closer to knowing who did this to me?"

Olivia nodded "well we've ran all of the forensic evidence that we could find, I know there was a fingerprint and a small amount of blood on the rock that you were hit with but I'm not sure if the results have come in yet. We talked to people at the park too, most of them didn't see much but if you remember anything at all it could help us catch him. It could be the smallest detail."

She nodded slightly "I-I might know who did this to me... I-I'm not 100% sure it was him but I-I was threatened a couple weeks back."

She nodded a bit "can you tell me what happened?" she asked, her brown eyes full of compassion.

Lory nodded slightly "I-it was my boyfriend D'angelo , I-I broke up with him when I caught him in bed with my sister. H-he didn't take it well."

Olivia nodded and took notes "can you tell me exactly what he said or did?"

She nodded "h-he just told me that I had better reconsider or he'd make me regret it and that he has the right to sleep with whoever he wants whenever he wants."

Olivia nodded her head "can you tell me his last name and his address if you know it?"

She nodded "i'it's Smith, D'angelo Smith, his address is 3261 Bailer street, please arrest him."

Olivia sighed "we don't have enough to arrest him yet but he'll be interviewed by some of the best detectives here, they'll try and get DNA from him and we'll go from there. I promise you though your attacker will be caught and brought to justice."

She nodded slightly "I-I trust you Olivia, thank you for talking to me again. Can I go home now? I've been here for almost 2 hours."

Olivia nodded "it's no problem sweetie and of course did you drive?"

She nodded her head slightly as Olivia nodded "alright your free to go, I'll be going on vacation soon so other detectives will be working your case from here on out but your in great hands with them. Here's my card though, it has my personal cell number on it and if you need to talk feel free to call me at this number any time."

Lory nodded slightly and put the card in her pocket "thank you Olivia, I hope you enjoy your vacation," she said as she then left the precinct and Olivia headed to her desk to work on the interview report, determined to get it typed in time so she could meet Elliot and go with them to the doctors appointment.

"Did you get anything out of her?" Fin asked.

Olivia nodded as she pounded on the keys of her keyboard furiously "she thinks it might be her ex boyfriend she caught him cheating and broke it off, he threatened her. His name is D'angelo Smith."

Fin nodded "alright I'll look him up, see if he has a record. What's going on with you today Liv?"

She sighed "our daughter was up sick all night last night, we finally got to sleep at a little bit after 4 then we woke up to Nick and Amanda pounding on our door like we're perps and to top it all off El's nightmares are back," Olivia said since they were alone in the squad room.

Fin nodded "I'm sorry Liv that's got to be tough."

She nodded "yeah it is but that's not why I'm pissed, I'm pissed at Rollins right now, barba too but that's besides the point, I'm not pissed at all at El or Izzabella because they can't help it, you wanna know what pisses me off more than anything though?"

"What's that?" Fin asked recognizing her obvious need to vent and letting her get it off of her chest.

she sighed "being taken for granted in this precinct. You guys are used to the old Olivia, the Olivia Benson who didn't have a life , who was available every minute to help every victim. I'm sorry but I'm not that person anymore, I'm Olivia Stabler now, I'm Olivia Stabler who has a husband and daughter who need me. I promised I'd make it to that doctors appointment today and when I make a promise I keep it."

"Easy Liv easy, I know as well as you do that Elliot understands the job, he's not gonna blame you, it's not like you planned for Lory to change her statement."

She sighed "that's true, hell he already told me it was okay twice this morning but that's not the point, the point is it shouldn't be this way, he shouldn't have to understand because Cragen knew about the appointment, I made a point to tell him about it yesterday yet he called me in anyway instead of allowing me to take 1 of my fifty odd sick days that I've accumulated or allowing me to go ahead and start my furlough. I understood why it would take a few days to get my furlough approved but a sick day should have been really easy to pull off. Whatever though I should be there, I'm gonna be there," she said as she finished the report, having been typing the entire time as she quickly printed it out then knocked on Cragens office door before Fin could even get another word in edge wise as he just sighed in his chair and got back to work himself.

"Come in," Cragen said as Olivia nodded and stepped into the office "I interviewed Lory Taylor, her ex boyfriend D'angelo Smith is now a suspect, his address is in this report and Fin's looking him up now to see if he has a record."

Cragen nodded "that's great Liv, head down to the lab, see if they got anything back on the fingerprint found on the rock."

Olivia sighed "all do respect captain I was only supposed to be called in for emergencies, this morning was no emergency and I have a doctors appointment to get to."

Cragen frowned "that's not how someone who I'm setting up to be my replacement when I retire should react to an assignment detective."

Olivia shook her head "a promotion is the last thing on my mind right now, I really need to go."

Cragen sighed "I can't and wont hold you here against your will detective but if you leave it'll go in your jacket, we need you here Olivia, if for nothing else your gonna have to stay today to get Fin up to speed on your cases that are still open and since your already here today you may as well do it now."

She sighed "fine! Fine but..." she went to say something but then shook her head "never-mind it's not like you'll care anyway, you've made that clear, I need some air," she said as she tossed the report onto his desk then went up to the roof to calm down.

Stabler home, 10:30 AM.

Elliot and Izzabella had just finished eating breakfast as he made sure that Izzabella's was extremely light after her long night as he heard his phone beep as he saw he had a text and he read it.

Liv: El I'm so, so sorry, tried every thing I could but can't make it to the appointment. Cragen's making me stay here and get Fin up to speed on my open case files, threatened me with a reprimand if I leave. Tell Izzabella that I'm so , so sorry or better yet bring her in when you bring my lunch and I'll tell her myself. Trust me when I say that I'm probably more pissed about this than you are. I love you and I'll see you later, xxxx.

"Damn Cragen," Elliot mumbled to himself as he sighed and texted her back: honey, honey it's alright no need to apologize to me. We can handle this it's no biggy although Cragen shouldn't have done that. It's not like you ask off work often at all... She's feeling some better this morning, just tired so I'll bring her in, we'll leave a little early so we can hang out a while. What would you like for lunch? I'll bring whatever you want.

Liv: I'd really love a pizza sub, 12 inch please had to split my breakfast into thirds, it was amazing by the way, the few bites I got to eat of it anyway.

El: Aww your to sweet... If only they returned the favor, I'll bring you a sub and the squad a pizza to share.

Liv: sounds amazing, I've gotta head to the lab, will see you later.

El: sounds good, I love you sweetheart. He sent as he then looked to Izzabella "baby I'm afraid it's only gonna be us at the doctors office today."

She frowned "w-why?" she asked fighting tears.

Elliot gently scooped her up "baby mommy has to work and it's work she can't get out of, she'll get in trouble with her boss if she goes with us."

Izzabella frowned "b-but isn't grandpa Don her boss? M-maybe I could ask him to let her come with us."

Elliot nodded and managed to suppress a glare "yeah baby he's her boss but I doubt talking to him will do any good, we'll be okay though we've done this ourselves before right kiddo?" he tried to ask in a cheery voice hoping that would cheer her up a little.

She just slightly nodded "y-yeah b-but last time they stuck the needle in my arm she was there and she sang to me a-and that helped it not hurt so much."

Elliot nodded "maybe they wont have to do that this time but if they do I'll give that a try okay?"

She slightly nodded as she dried her eyes "o-okay daddy," she said as she raised from his shoulder as he slightly smiled I need to call Katie for a few minutes then we're gonna get dressed and go, the work that mommy is doing today is in her office so i figured you could spend a little time with her before the appointment."

She smiled some and nodded her head as she got down on the floor and started playing with some of her toys as Elliot smiled and found Kathleen's number and dialed.

"Hello?" Kathleen answered on the second ring.

"Hey baby how are you doing it's been a couple weeks since we spoke."

"Oh dad, you've gotta stop calling me that I'm 25 now!" Kathleen protested.

"Hey hey! no matter how old you get you'll always be my baby, that's just how it works," Elliot said as Kathleen sighed "yeah yeah, how are you guys doing?"

He smiled "we're doing alright Izzabella's still struggling with this stomach issue but we have another appointment today, this time with a specialist so I'm hoping we'll get to the bottom of it today."

Kathleen nodded "I hope you guys do I can't imagine having gone through that when I was that age, how miserable I would have been."

He nodded "yeah I can't either how are things going with your work?"

She smiled they're going great "I got a job at the rape crises hotline, I'm fitting in pretty well of course I still wanna be a trauma therapist but this is a step in the right direction right?"

Elliot smiled and nodded "it definitely is honey, I'll tell Olivia about this when I see her in a bit, she'll be really proud."

Kathleen smiled and nodded "I really hope so."

"She will be, hey honey we're gonna be coming down to Florida in a few days to see all you kids and we were wondering if it'd be alright if we stayed at your condo? If not we can get a motel but Liv thought of the idea and I told her we'd ask."

"Oh dad nonsense of course it's alright I've always told you that you guys are welcome to stay here anytime."

Elliot smiled "thank you honey that means a lot to us and it'll save us a lot of money, is the 27th alright? That's the day Liv will no longer be on call for a month."

Kathleen smiled "yeah that's perfectly fine dad," she said as just then Izzabella started to climb up the bookshelf as she was trying to reach a book that was on the very top, "no baby! no no no don't climb on that," Elliot said quickly grabbing her and getting her down before she could get hurt.

"But daddy I was trying to get a book," Izzabella wined as she squirmed around in his arms.

He sighed "I know baby but it's really dangerous to climb on shelves or any furniture you could have fallen and gotten hurt."

Izzabella frowned "I'm sorry daddy."

He smiled "it's okay kiddo you didn't know until you tried it and that's how we learn just don't do it again okay, what book did you want and I'll grab it for you."

She nodded "I wont daddy I promise," she said as she pointed at the book that she wanted.

Elliot smiled and shook her hand, accepting the promise as he grabbed the book with 1 hand and held the phone to his ear with the other 1 "I've gotta go Katie but it was good talking to you and we'll see you in a few days."

"Sounds good dad, love you."

"Love you too baby," Elliot said as he hung up and handed Izzabella the book as he then went to his room to get ready as while they had both been distracted Lewis took that chance to sneak out of the closet and out of the house with Elliot's car keys and the spare key to the house.

Once he had safely gotten out of the house undetected he smirked proudly as he unlocked Elliot's 2008 Ford f150 , got inside and started tampering with the computer board that was underneath the dash. It'll be go time soon, just a few more hours and all this waiting, planning and working will pay off, he thought to himself as he finished his work on the computer board, got out, locked the truck back up then hid behind some bushes until it was safe to reenter the house.

"Hey sweetheart, come on we need to pick out your outfit so we can go," Elliot said to Izzabella as he walked down the stairs fully dressed.

Izzabella nodded her head and put the book down "I don't wanna go to the doctor daddy. I always get owwies there."

He sighed "I know baby but I've gotta take you so we can find out why your sick so much. Me and mommy hate it when your sick and we really really want you to get better, just think too we're not going to the doctor right yet anyway, we still have a while before we have to go there right now we're going to see mommy."

She smiled brightly as that worked and she ran up the stairs and to her room "can I ware this?" she asked picking out a pair of princess pajamas."

Elliot chuckled and smiled "sorry kiddo you can't ware pajamas out and about," he said as he picked out 1 of her nicer outfits for her and helped her put it on, making sure his back was turned and only helping her with what she needed help with "alright you ready to head out kiddo?" he asked once the outfit was on.

She smiled and nodded "yeah," she said as Elliot smiled and nodded his head as they headed downstairs, he grabbed his keys off of the counter and they headed out.