Your the only person in this world that I fully trust...
Elliot sat in silence as he let her words sink into his brain.
He knew she trusted him, of course he knew that but for her to tell him that he was the only person in the world she fully trusted? That was a shock, an honor but more than anything it was a hell of a lot of pressure because he wanted to be worthy of that trust and for her to never regret giving him that trust.
He wanted that more than anything "oh Liv..." he said after a long minute of silence as he pulled her impossibly closer to him "y-you don't know how much that means to me Liv..."
Just as Olivia went to respond to him Kathleen knocked on the door "guys I really do need to use the bathroom... Please let me in?"
Elliot sighed slightly as Olivia rubbed his back "give us a minute sweetie!" she called as she pulled herself out of his arms and bent down to get her clothes.
"Ungh," she cried out from the sharp pain in her ribs as Elliot stood "here sit down baby I'll get them for you," he said softly.
Olivia nodded gratefully as she sat down, already having the shirt in her hand as she tried to put it on while he got her pants.
"Hey hey don't be using that left arm mrs. independent I can still see you," he said with a knowing smile.
"El..." she said through a sigh "it's been 5 days it's time I use it."
"Baby your supposed to wait 4 weeks," he said softly as he kissed her head then slipped the shirt over her head "is letting me help you really that bad huh?" he asked playfully.
She shook her head slightly "it's not that it's bad El I just miss my independence."
He nodded sympathetically "I know you do baby you'll have it back in no time though, I promise you you will."
She nodded slightly "I hope so El," she said as once her pants were on they left the bathroom so Kathleen could use it "well we know epsom salts are a no go but what else can we try?"
She sighed "I'm really not to sure maybe the heating pad?"
He nodded "that might work I'm worried about it getting to hot for you though."
She nodded slightly "if it does I'll tell you."
Elliot nodded trusting her as once he had it placed on her ribs where it needed to go and had it turned on to the right setting he gently pulled her into his arms and turned the small tv that was in the room on as they watched the 1 AM infomercial about Dyson's shark vacuum cleaner and he hoped that the heating pad would do it's job and ease her pain.
As time went Olivia sighed slightly as the heat was making her nauseous and the pain wasn't really going away as she tried to carefully pull the heating pad off herself since Elliot was almost asleep but he became alert feeling her movement "what is it honey? What do you need?" he asked softly.
She sighed slightly "sorry I woke you I was trying to be careful... The heating pad wasn't helping the heat from it just made me nauseous," she said as she had it off her.
He shook his head slightly "no need to be sorry baby I wasn't asleep and even if I had been my sleep can wait making sure you have every thing you need and that your comfortable is more important."
Olivia kissed his cheek gently, touched by his words as she then sighed slightly "I-I really don't know what else can be done El," she admitted.
He nodded slightly "well I'm not gonna let you suffer alone, I'll stay awake with you until you feel better."
"El you really don't have to," she said softly.
He smiled "I know I don't but I want to," he said as he reached over and grabbed a deck of cards "you wanna play a couple rounds of blackjack?"
Olivia smiled slightly "sure but what are we playing for?"
Elliot smiled "how about whoever wins gets to pick where we eat lunch Tuesday?"
Olivia smiled and nodded "I'm in," she said as he nodded then smiled while shuffling the cards and dealing them out.
"I'm gonna stay," he said after looking at his cards.
Olivia nodded as she glanced at hers having a nine and a two "I'll hit," she said.
Elliot nodded and handed her another card as she looked at it and smiled "I'll stay."
Elliot nodded as they showed their cards, him having a 19 and her having a 21 "good job sweetheart," he said with a smile.
She smiled "thanks," she said as they played several more games, her winning 4 out of 5 of them "your really good at this game Liv," he said with a smile.
Olivia smiled "thanks El but it honestly has nothing to do with me and every thing to do with random luck."
He shook his head "that's not true it has to do with you making the right decisions, maybe me and you should go to Atlantic city, you could play at the blackjack tables, win us some money."
She shook her head "the casinos rig the games there El they have to because if they didn't they wouldn't be able to stay open, if we went there we'd just lose more money."
He nodded slightly "you might be right, when we're in a better financial position though we should go."
She smiled and nodded "I'd really like that El it'd be fun."
He smiled and nodded "it really would be," he said as he kissed her gently and she returned it in kind.
After a minute or so their mouths broke apart and Elliot started to gently massage Olivia's shoulders "you know I've gotta say I'm so glad that Izzabella made a friend around her own age today," Elliot admitted.
Olivia nodded "me too and the fact that it's Zara is even better."
Elliot nodded his head agreeing "I was thinking maybe we could watch her sometimes for him when he goes back to work, it'd give Izzabella another kid to play with plus then we could ask him to watch her for us when we decide to go out again."
Olivia smiled "I like the way you think," she said as she gave him a quick kiss "if their friendship lasts I can see sleepovers happening too."
He nodded "yeah me too," he sighed slightly "we can't do all that here though this place is to damn far away from everything."
She nodded slightly "y-your right it is but where else can we go? El we have nowhere to go, Cragen said me and you could stay there but I doubt he'd let all the kids stay there too h-he doesn't have the room."
Elliot kissed her head gently "we'll figure it out baby I promise you we will, no matter what though we have each other and that's what matters right?"
Olivia nodded slightly "mmhmm," she said as she then sighed to herself "I'm ignoring the easiest solution there is..."
"What's that baby?" he asked.
She sighed "going home, we could just go home."
Elliot held her closer to him and kissed her head gently "your not ready for that baby, not yet and that's okay."
She shook her head slightly "it's not Elliot, it's really not."
"Yes it is baby horrible things happened to you there, as much as I hate to admit that it's true and your brain needs time to process that," he said softly as tears streamed down her cheeks.
Shit shit shit... he thought to himself as he felt terrible for making her cry "shhh, shhh, shhh, I'm sorry love, I shouldn't have said that baby I'm sorry, I'm sorry," he said softly as he rubbed her back and stroked her hair.
Olivia shook her head slightly then buried it into the crook of his neck as she continued to cry "L-L-Lewis c-can't take our home away from us El... H-He c-can't take our lives, our b-bond h-he c-can't take that, h-he can't change us..."
"He won't baby," Elliot said softly "I swear to god he won't."
"H-He was so determined to b-but h-he can't, h-he can't."
Elliot held her as close as humanly possible as he rocked her slightly "I truly believe in my heart that this whole experience is gonna make us stronger Liv, stronger not weaker we got through Gettano, Sealview, Rook, Jenna... and those are just the big things I can think of off the top of my head... Me and you can get through anything together I promise you that."
She nodded slightly as her fingers gripped his shirt "I-I hope so El... I-I really hope so..."
"I've gotcha sweetheart... I've gotcha," he said softly as he continued rubbing her back and stroking her hair "I can't promise you that there won't be some changes at least for a little while but what I can promise you is that this isn't gonna tare us apart not for a second baby, not for a second."
Olivia nodded slightly "I-I trust you El, I-I trust you," she said as after a couple more moments she raised her head slightly and dried her tears.
"I'm glad you do honey I'm really really glad that you do," he said softly as he saw a car pulling into the driveway must be mama coming in from Atlantic city, he thought to himself as he just kept holding her close to him.
As the early morning passed on Liv and El stayed put as they were mainly quiet, watching old movies or falling asleep for a few minutes here and there as when 5 AM came Elliot slightly smiled "you can have more morphine now sweetheart do you want it?"
Olivia nodded slightly "please, maybe I'll be able to fall asleep and stay asleep."
Elliot nodded slightly "yeah maybe so but if you can't that's okay," he said as he handed it to her, she took it and they went back to watching their movie.
Sometime around the 5:30 mark they finally fell into deep sleeps as they woke to noise in the house around 11 as they stirred in sink "morning beautiful," Elliot said softly.
"Morning handsome," Olivia responded back with a smile as she gave him a quick kiss then stretched slightly.
Elliot smiled and returned it in kind "how you feeling baby?"
She smiled some "a little sore and cold but okay you?"
He smiled "I'm feeling pretty good love," he said not wanting to admit that he was tired still from staying up all night.
Olivia smiled slightly believing him "thank you for staying up with me last night El it really helped a lot, and sorry I broke down like that."
He shook his head "you never have to thank me for that Liv and your breakdown was understandable too hell you weren't the only one who had a breakdown last night."
"True," she said with a small smile as she yawned "I think I'm gonna get up and try and make myself some coffee and toast would you like anything?"
He shook his head "no thank you love how about I make you some coffee and toast?"
Olivia sighed slightly then thought for a moment "how about I help you make the coffee and toast?"
Elliot chuckled slightly "you sure do know how to negotiate don't you sweetheart?"
Olivia nodded and chuckled "mmhmm," she said as Elliot nodded and smiled "fine you have a deal love but your doing the easy stuff," he said as his phone rang "Stabler," he answered.
"Hi, my name is Bobby Radcliffe I'm calling from your opinion matters dot com, I just have a couple questions if that's alright?"
Elliot sighed "make it quick I don't really have time for this this morning."
"Of course sir it'll just be 3 simple questions, are you happy with our current president?"
"No," Elliot said simply.
"Okay gotcha, what's better? Skittles or mnm's?"
"Mnm's," he said.
Bobby nodded "should it be required for children to say the pledge of allegiance every morning at school?"
"Yes," Elliot said as Liv looked to him "whose that?"
"It's someone giving me a survey baby," he said as Bobby fired off his next question "what would scare you more? A jack-o-lantern or goblin?"
Olivia nodded her head as Elliot sighed "neither one of those would scare me, I thought you only had 3 questions?"
"Ohh I'm sorry sir I just forgot about the questions on the back page it won't take long to finish."
Elliot sighed "okay fine," he said as Bobby nodded "is abortion okay?"
"My view on abortion is none of your business."
"Sir this is your opinion matters dot com, we want your opinions no matter what they are."
Elliot sighed heavily and Olivia rubbed his back sensing his agitation "it depends on the circumstance."
"Okay great, have you ever wished you could fly and touch the sky?"
"No I haven't," Elliot said.
Bobby nodded "what do you think the width of Niagara falls is?"
Elliot sighed "it's pretty long because it stretches from Nu York into Canada I guess but I've never really thought about it I have more important things to worry about right now."
Bobby nodded "just a few more questions sir, we here at your opinion matters dot com are really appreciating your participation. Is infidelity ever okay?"
"No of course not! What kind of a stupid question is that?"
"Hey hey sir some people are fine with it, if you dropped a chocolate bar on an outdoor table how many flies do you think would land on it?"
Elliot shook his head "I'm done answering these stupid questions I have things I need to do this morning," he said as he hung up the phone and looked to Liv "sorry about that baby he said he only had three questions not ten."
Olivia smiled slightly "it's okay El really," she said as she stood from the bed "lets make our breakfast shall we?"
Elliot smiled and nodded "we shall," he said as he got up too and they strolled into the kitchen.
Their morning and mid afternoon passed pretty quickly as breakfast was eaten and the house was pretty quiet since Kathleen and Lizzie had taken Izzabella to the park and Bernadette was in her bedroom sleeping the day away since she had spent all night gambling in Atlantic city as after Elliot, Olivia, Maureen and Carl finished watching their second movie Carl slightly smiled "me and Maureen were wondering if we could get the key to your house and maybe sleep in the guest bedroom while we work to get it ready? With this place being 2 hours away it'd be a lot easier on us."
Elliot and Olivia both nodded their heads "that's fine with us Carl, let me go get you the spare key," Elliot said as he got off the couch and headed to the bedroom they had been using.
He came back with it quickly as he carefully handed it to Carl "you can keep this key we don't want it back," he said.
"Why not?" Carl asked.
"We just don't Carl," Elliot said a tad bit defensively not meaning to "when we go back home we'll probably change the locks but we just don't want this particular key back."
Carl nodded slightly "okay then, Mo it's your turn to pick the movie right?"
Maureen nodded and smiled "yeah it is I'd like to watch the notebook," she said.
Carl nodded "sounds good honey," he said as he glanced at Olivia.
Olivia nodded "I might cry like a baby but it won't trigger me."
Carl nodded "Elliot?"
"If Liv's alright with it it's fine with me!" Elliot called from the kitchen while refilling his and Liv's tea glasses.
Carl nodded satisfied with every one's answer as he started the movie as just when Elliot sat down the doorbell rang "seriously?" he said a tad bit annoyed.
"It's alright mr. Stabler I'll get it," Carl said.
"Thanks," Elliot said with a slight smile as he pulled Olivia's legs into his lap and gently massaged her calves like he had been doing off and on throughout the day as she gave him a grateful smile.
A couple minutes later Carl walked back through "umm Elliot I'm not to sure what to do there are 4 ladies outside, Mary, Judith, Josephine and Betty, apparently your mom invited them over for an early dinner since it's Memorial day?"
Elliot sighed heavily "this is the first I'm hearing about it."
Carl nodded slightly "I figured so, you want me to have them leave?"
Elliot shook his head "no I'm sure they're telling you the truth and she just forgot about it, I'll go wake her up it's 4 PM she should be awake anyways."
Olivia frowned slightly but Elliot nodded firmly "if she doesn't wake up now she won't sleep tonight."
Olivia nodded slightly "good point," she said as Carl nodded his head as well "where do you want me to tell these ladies to sit and wait?"
"Just have them go into the kitchen and fix themselves some pbj sandwiches mama has plenty of bread."
Carl nodded "will do," he said as he stepped away and Elliot sighed slowly stopping the massage "sorry honey," he said softly.
Olivia shook her head "it's alright El really," she said reassuringly.
He nodded slightly "I'll be right back to finish it I'm not entertaining these people just waking mom up so she can."
Olivia nodded slightly "you know they're gonna be disappointed with pbj sandwiches right? They're probably expecting a formal dinner."
Elliot sighed "that's not my problem Liv they're not our guests."
Olivia nodded "true," she said seeing his point as she turned back to face the movie when he stepped away.
"Mom, mama," Elliot said softly as he gently shook her shoulder.
Bernadette stirred slightly "W-what is it? W-What time is it?"
Elliot sighed "it's 15 after four in the evening and your dinner guests are here."
"My dinner guests? What dinner guests I don't remember inviting anybody over for dinner today..."
He sighed slightly "Mary, Judith, Josephine and Betty? You invited them all over for a Memorial day dinner?"
"Oh yes that's right... I didn't realize today was Memorial day, thank you for waking me dear what did you fix for them?"
Elliot shook his head "I didn't fix anything I told Carl to tell them to make themselves sandwiches."
Bernadette frowned slightly "Elliot those ladies are really high class when they eat here they want the very best food that I have."
Elliot nodded slightly "they don't have to eat sandwiches they can wait until I fix supper for every one or you can fix them something yourself now, I really don't care."
Bernadette nodded her head slightly "tell them to make themselves comfortable where ever they like and that I'll be down in a couple moments, I'm just gonna wash my face."
Elliot nodded slightly "will do, how was Atlantic city?"
Bernadette sighed "I lost 3 grand, had a blast though."
Elliot sighed slightly but managed to give her a small smile "I'm glad you had fun mama, see you in a bit," he said as he passed her message along to her friends then had a seat back beside Liv and the four of them finished watching the movie.
As the notebook ended they heard Bernadette and her friends playing cards in the dining room "I guess they decided to wait to eat," Elliot said.
Liv nodded "seems like it, did you decide what we're having?"
He sighed "I'm debating between fixing Phili cheese steaks or breakfast for dinner."
Olivia nodded "your Phili cheese steaks are amazing El I always love eating them plus with so many people being here that'll be quicker than you making sausage gravy from scratch, biscuits and whatever else you would make."
He nodded "you have a point, what do you want me to make for dessert?"
"I'm good with something simple," she said with a smile.
Elliot nodded, smiled then kissed her head as Kathleen, Lizzie and Izzabella walked into the house and found places to sit "did you guys have fun?" Olivia asked.
Kathleen smiled "we did Izzabella shouldn't have any trouble sleeping tonight either I could barely keep up with her," she said through a chuckle.
Olivia smiled some "I'm glad she was able to get some of that energy out, was she good though?"
Kathleen nodded "she was great, she didn't throw any fits at all she was just hyper."
Olivia nodded "I see, El just went into the kitchen to start dinner it'll be ready before to awful long."
Kathleen nodded with a smile "what's he fixing?"
Olivia smiled "Phili cheese steaks and a surprise for dessert."
Kathleen shook her head "come on spill Liv I know that you know what he's fixing."
Olivia chuckled and shook her head "I actually don't I just know that it'll be something simple, you'll love it I promise just have some patients."
Kathleen chuckled slightly and nodded her head as Lizzie walked through "who are the ladies in the dining room?"
"They're Bernie's guests they got here about an hour and a half ago I guess they planned to have dinner with her today for Memorial day," Olivia said.
"Ahh that's cool," Lizzie said with a smile.
Olivia nodded "your dad probably would have appreciated a little heads up but yeah I'm glad she has some friends."
Lizzie nodded "yeah so am I dad could use a little more spontaneity in the way he thinks."
Olivia sighed "it's always better to know what's going on that way you can prepare for it, we weren't prepared for them to show up so I'm happy for her but I also agree with your dad."
Lizzie nodded "you guys are meant for each other you know that?"
Olivia nodded her head with a small smile "dammit!" she heard from the kitchen as she jumped up and went to investigate "is every thing okay El?" she asked walking over to him.
"This is not my day, not my week," he grumbled to himself having not heard her as he ran cool water over his hand.
"El what happened?" Olivia asked a little louder as Elliot turned to face her "I'm fine baby just burned my hand on the griddle."
She nodded slightly "you need me to look at it?"
"It's not bad love," he said as he showed it to her and it was a minor burn.
Olivia glanced at it as she nodded in relief "can I help with anything?"
He nodded "if your up to it you can make the salad for me if you'd like."
She nodded "I think I can do that," she said as they worked in sync making the dinner together as while they both had marshmallow covered hands Elliot's phone rang as he sighed when he saw it was Cragen as he quickly washed his hands then grabbed his phone "Stabler," he managed to answer before it went to voicemail.
"Hey Elliot it's Don, you sound busy did I catch you at a bad time? I can call back a little later."
"No no it's fine captain me and Olivia were just making rice crispy treats, how's Layla doing?"
Cragen sighed "not well at the moment Elliot the doctors found swelling on her brain and they put her into a medically induced coma."
"Damn..." Elliot said sadly, regretfully even as his shoulders slumped "w-will she wake up?"
"They aren't sure they're gonna check the swelling again tomorrow and if it's gone down enough they'll try and wake her up but they said it isn't a guaranteethat she will, I'm so sorry Elliot."
He sighed "I should have done something sooner, I should have pulled her from that woman's arms right away not tried to reason with her."
Cragen shook his head "you can't blame yourself Elliot you did what you could to help her and you soothed her until she went unconscious that was above and beyond what you had to do as a civilian."
He sighed "I know that Don but it doesn't make it any easier."
Cragen nodded "I know," he said grimly as he then sighed "did you speak to Liv about the press conference?"
Elliot sighed "I did, we don't want to do it but we decided we'd rather do it on our own terms rather than be ambushed again so you can set it up."
Cragen nodded "you guys made the right choice, I'll set it up for 2 PM tomorrow, hey when you guys come to the station make sure you have a little room in the back of your truck, I have a few birthday presents here that the squad bought for Izzabella."
"You guys didn't have to do that..." Elliot said touched.
Cragen smiled "I know but we wanted to, even detective Rollins got her something the only one who didn't was detective Carisi because he didn't know."
Elliot nodded "I'll be sure to tell them all thank you tomorrow," he said as Betty then walked into the kitchen "would you please get off the phone and finish cooking? We've been waiting in the dining room to eat for almost 2 and a half hours."
Olivia gave Betty a small frown as Elliot sighed "I've gotta go cap but thank you for updating me on Layla's condition and we'll see you tomorrow, probably around one or so."
Cragen nodded "it's no problem Elliot really, see you then and sorry I interrupted dinner prep," he said in a small chuckle.
Elliot shook his head and chuckled slightly "it's not a problem cap the dinner was kind of spur the moment anyway, have a good night," he said as he put his phone down and began mixing the ingredients for the rice crispy treats again.
"The food will be worth the wait ladies I promise you," Bernadette could be heard placating from the dining room.
"It better be Bernadette I'm gonna miss the season finale of my show this evening there's no way I can get home by 8 o'clock to watch it," Betty said.
"Don't you have DVR? You were kind of rude to him the call sounded important," Judith said.
She shook her head "I don't Judith not anymore the way prices have went up this last year I was forced to cancel it."
Judith nodded with a sigh "you know I'm content just reading the paper tv's to lovey dovey these days," Josephine said.
"Ain't that the truth?" Mary said agreeing as Bernadette thought for a second "Betty you can watch the show here if you like."
She nodded "thanks Bernadette I think it's only about an hour until it airs."
She nodded "that isn't an issue," she said as with that conflict resolved the ladies went back to playing cards.
"Dinner's ready!" Elliot called around 7:30 as every one quickly headed into the kitchen to fix their plates.
"What do we have here? It smells delicious!" Judith commented with a smile.
"Phili cheese steaks, salad and rice crispy treats ma'am," Elliot said with a smile.
Judith nodded "I can't wait to try some," she said as her and the rest of Bernie's friends fixed their plates and every one else followed behind "El this is amazing," Liv said with a smile as every one dug in.
Elliot smiled "thanks honey your a part of that too though."
She smiled "I just helped a little you did most of the work," she said as Josephine looked to Bernadette "who are all of these people? They've never been here before when we were here."
Bernadette smiled "the gentlemen who fixed our meal is my son Elliot, that's his wife Olivia and those are his kids," she said pointing out the various people.
Josephine nodded "I see," she said with a slight smile as Kathleen looked to Elliot "I heard you on the radio earlier dad."
"Do huh? I never called a radio station today," he said confused.
Kathleen nodded "yeah I know you didn't dad they called you."
He shook his head "no they didn't."
Kathleen nodded "yes they did dad. Your opinion matters dot com?"
"Y-Yes I spoke to a man from that website today... He kept asking me stupid questions your kidding right? That wasn't on the radio?"
Kathleen just smiled "you've really never wished you could fly and touch the sky? Everybody wishes they could fly at least once in their life."
"No I haven't..." Elliot said as he sighed heavily "why did that man misrepresent himself to me? I thought I was answering questions for a lagitiment website."
Kathleen smiled some "it was a radio prank dad, they pick a random phone number every Monday and ask the person who answers the phone as many questions as they can before they hang up, it's supposed to be funny."
Elliot sighed "it wasn't all that funny it was annoying actually."
Kathleen nodded "yeah well your annoyance made people laugh, the point of them doing it is for the listeners to laugh at your annoyance."
Elliot nodded "I see," he said as Bernadette smiled "that's quite cool," she said.
"If you guys say so," Elliot said as Lizzie, Kathleen and Bernadette all 3 nodded eagerly.
"I actually agree with him," Josephine said joining in to the conversation "the whole idea of it just seems dumb."
Olivia nodded "I can see a bit of everybody's point radio shows do need good ratings though El just like tv shows and they'll do whatever it takes to get those ratings."
Elliot nodded slightly at Liv then looked to Kathleen "what station was that on anyway? I listen to the radio sometimes when I'm in the car and I've never heard of this before."
She smiled 96.1 kiss FM," she said.
Elliot nodded "now I get why I never heard of it before," he said as every one chattered some more about different things "I need to get up under the television now it's 5 minutes till 8," Betty finally said.
Bernadette nodded "go ahead dear," she said as every one finished their dinner and Kathleen and Lizzie began cleaning up.
"Izzabella it's time for your bath sweetheart," Elliot said with a smile.
Izzabella nodded as she ran over to him and climbed into his lap "you want me to carry you huh?" He asked softly as he kissed her head.
She nodded with a smile "alright then," he said as he placed her on his shoulders and let her ride on them into the bathroom as he put her down on the counter while he drew her bath as she was quiet and deep in thought.
"Hey what's on your mind sweetie?" Elliot asked softly after turning around and seeing her expression.
Izzabella frowned slightly "why aren't we spending time together anymore?"
Elliot sighed slightly as he had been dreading this question for several days "it's not you baby I promise it's just me and mommy have a lot going on right now, adult stuff and mommy still isn't 100% better yet."
Izzabella frowned some "did you take her to the doctor?"
He nodded "I did yes but mommy is a more complicated kind of sick."
Izzabella frowned slightly as she tried to understand what he was trying to say "baby your to young to understand all this all you need to know is that me spending less time with you has absolutely nothing to do with you or anything you've done okay?"
Izzabella nodded slightly as she undressed herself and got into the tub "can we go back home soon daddy? I miss my bedroom and toys."
He sighed slightly "we can't stay there for a while longer no but maybe tomorrow Mo and Carl can take you there and let you pick some things out."
She frowned slightly "but I want you and mommy to take me."
"I'm sorry baby but that can't happen," he said as he began washing her hair.
She frowned slightly "why not?"
He sighed I hate lying to my baby, he thought to himself as he continued massaging the shampoo in "our air conditioner upstairs went out and mommy can't be inside the house with it hot since she's sick."
Izzabella just nodded her head slightly to that "can we play I spy daddy?"
Elliot nodded "of course sweetheart," he said with a smile as they played several rounds of it while he finished her hair as when her bath was finished Olivia read her a story and she was asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow.