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Mercy General Hospital
Manhattan, NY
June 24th

After interviewing with the Agent, Elliot went over to the precinct. It was closer to the hospital and he had spare clothes that he kept there in case he ever needed them, and he could also shower and wash her blood off of himself.

He stood in the shower washing the stains of the day off of him, reflecting back on the day and on everything that had happened in the past few months. He thought about his interview with the agent and on how he had tried to blame him, and how he had agreed with him. Anything to take the blame off of her, because he should have been there. He should have been there to protect her. She was counting on him to protect her, and he just wasn't there. Finally he gave up on trying to scrub her blood from underneath his fingernails and got out of the shower.

After drying off and changing into some clean clothes, a pair of jeans and a plain dark gray T-shirt, he headed back to the hospital. He returned to find Munch, Fin, and Cragen still in the same places he left them.

"She's still in there?" Elliot asked his voice full of despair and disbelief all while pointing at the door. Cragen nodded. This worried him, it was almost 6:30 and she had been in there nearly four hours now. He took a seat and waited with the rest, they were still the only ones in the waiting room. After what seemed like forever a doctor came out and walked over to face them.

"Are you here for an…" he checked his clipboard. "An Olivia Benson?" he finished.

"Yes," Elliot spoke up hurriedly, taking in the sight of him. The font of his scrubs had small specks of blood along with his feet and Elliot couldn't help but hope that it wasn't hers. He stood to his feet and the rest did the same.

"Hi I'm Dr. Adams," he said stretching out his hand to Elliot

"Detective Stabler, Is she okay?" Elliot asked as he shook the doctor's hand.

"Well we had a couple of problems…a few complications if you will."

"Complications? What kind of complications?" asked Elliot.

"Well first off the blade of the knife managed to reach her liver and made a small laceration, so she was bleeding internally as well as externally. Her heart also stopped beating a couple times I'm guessing due to the lack of blood and we had to shock her a few times, but we managed to get her back."

"Is she okay?" Cragen asked.

"Yes, we managed to repair the damaged done to her liver and she should be healed completely after a few weeks. There will be a scar, that was inevitable, but we did try to leave as little scarring as possible, we felt that she shouldn't have to live with a permanent reminder of what happened."

Elliot nodded and let out the breath he hadn't known he had been holding and all of the other guys had let out a sigh of relief. "So can we see her now?" Elliot asked hopefully.

"I'm sorry she's currently in the recovery room and it's a contained area. Seeing her right now can do more damage than good."

"So when can we see her?" Munch asked.

"It's all up to her. Depending on how she's doing will determine on whether or not she's ready for visitors. If she isn't improving as well as we'd like her to then we'll have to put her in the ICU and not many visitors are allowed in there, but if she does well then we can just put her in her own room and you guys will be able to see her as much as you'd like." They all nodded, somewhat in agreement. "I was wondering, do any of you know if she has a husband, fiancé, or boyfriend of some kind. Anybody she's been seeing?"

"Well she's not married," said Cragen

"Yeah, but she's been seeing some guy," piped Fin.

"Yeah, hey Elliot do you know anything?" asked Munch

"No, she never said anything to me," he lied, looking down and shaking his head. Cragen eyed him suspiciously. "Why?" Elliot asked, he was afraid that they wanted to take her off of life support or something.

"I'm not at liberty to say. I'll let you know if anything in her condition changes, and with that he walked over to the clerk's desk.

"Lets go get some coffee or something," said Cragen.

"You guys go ahead, I'll wait here," Elliot said taking his seat back in the waiting room.

"C'mon man. When was the last time you ate something?" asked Fin.

" I don't remember."

"That means it's time to eat," Munch spoke up.

"I'm not hungry."

"C'mon. Why don't you come get something to eat? You know she wouldn't want you sitting here, starving on account of her," Munch continued.

"She also knows that I wouldn't leave her either." He reached into his pocket and pulled out a couple 20's. "Here, get me a plain Hershey bar and some roses and lilies if you can find them. They're her favorite," he said handing them over to Fin.

He was about to protest when he felt Cragen's hand on his shoulder. He looked to him and saw him shaking his head. Cragen knew it was a lost cause. Elliot was just too stubborn and he knew he wouldn't leave her for anything. Fin took the twenties and they walked away. As soon as they were gone Elliot got up and headed over to where the doctor still stood.

"Hey doc?"

The doctor turned around to face him. "Yes Detective."

"You said something about Olivia having a boyfriend?"

"Yes, do you know who he is?"

"It's me. We've been keeping our relationship a secret. Why do you need to speak to me?"

The doctor took a deep breath and began. "While she was with us in the E.R several tests were performed and one of them came up positive?"

"What?" Elliot asked. His voice full of fear.

"She was pregnant. We tried, but it was too late to save the baby. It was one of the reasons we worked so hard not to leave a scar and if she would like we can organize a surgery to remove the scar." Elliot let out a deep breath and walked over to the chairs. This was just too much for one day.

"Sir are you okay?" he asked walking over and sitting beside him.

Elliot rubbed his hands over his face. "Yeah it's just-it's just a lot to take in for one day you know?"

"Yes. I know, and I'm sorry for your loss, Sir. Would you like me to tell her for you?"

"No, I will," he replied shaking his head. "Do you know if she'll be able to have anymore children?" He knew it would kill her if she couldn't.

"Yes, we managed to save her uterus in surgery. It will be a while before she can even try and conceive again, Probably not until she's fully healed, but she will be able to conceive."

Elliot let out a sigh of relief. "How far along was she?"

"It's hard to tell, but I'm guessing from the looks of things she was about 2-3 weeks."

Elliot nodded. "Can I see her?" the doctor began to speak, but Elliot interrupted him. "I know it's sort of against the rules, but please? I need to see her. I really need to see her. Please," he begged.

The doctor took one look at the grief written on his face and felt sorry for him. He reluctantly nodded. "Fine, but you have to be quite, other patients are there too and you can't stay very long. Five minutes tops."

"That's fine with me." He was glad to get any amount of time he possibly could. As he followed behind the swinging doors and down one of the halls he couldn't help but think about Olivia and the baby they had lost. He couldn't believe that she was pregnant with his child. "What if she knew?" he asked himself. "Was that the reason she had been avoiding me this whole time? Did she know?" He quietly approached the recovery room, and his eyes immediately fell upon her. Two rows of 6 beds and his eyes immediately caught her sleeping form.

"She's the one on the left. Two beds from the end."

"I know," he replied heading for her.

He came up to where she lay and stood at the foot of her bed and was immediately overwhelmed with the sight of her. She was pale and had IV's sticking out of her arm, a small clip on the tip of her index finger, he had seen it before on some of the victims they had come to see there. It was monitoring her heart rate. He saw the tubes sticking out of her mouth breathing for her. He was heart broken. He walked to the right of her bead and just ignored all the machines working to keep her alive and just saw her. She was beautiful and so peaceful. He bent down and brushed a tender kiss over her forehead.

"Coming," he replied. He bent down and whispered in her ear. " I love you." He gave her one last kiss on her forehead and headed over to the doctor. "Thanks," he said.

"Your welcome Sir."

"No, not just for letting me see her, but for also saving her life too. Thank You."

"Just doing my job Sir, but your welcome."

Elliot walked back out into the waiting room, and was met with Munch, Fin, and Cragen.

"So how does she look?" Cragen asked. He knew that he would find some way to get in to see her. He was good at that kind of thing, coaxing people into getting his own way, except for when it came to Olivia.

"Peaceful," he answered truthfully.

"Well that's good. Look we're gonna go, it's been a long day and unfortunately crime waits for no one. We still have things to work out with the case and we have to go secure the bastard who did this to her. Unfortunately the piece of shit didn't die. I want you to stay here so that she won't be alone when she wakes up." said Cragen.

"Where's he at?" Elliot asked.

"Bellevue."

"'K." Fin stepped up and handing him the items he had asked for plus a cup of coffee.

"You had some change left over," said Fin.

"Thanks man."

"No problem. I'll call you guys if I find out anything new, and Cap?"

"Yes?"

"Thanks." He was glad that he understood his need to be with her at this point.

"No problem, just take care of her." And with that they all left. Elliot sat back and just contemplated the events of the day, all while sipping his coffee. So much had happen and there was still so much that was going to happen. He was mad that the bastard had survived. Mad at himself for not succeeding in killing the guy, but over all she was still alive, and at that point. That was all that mattered to him.

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