Olivia p.o.v.
We're standing in front of Elliot's house. He unlocks the door.
"Don't worry, Kathy is not home yet." He walks me to a bedroom. "You can sleep here." He drops my bags on the bed. I nod.
"Thank you."
He smiles at me. "Shall I help you unpack your clothes?"
"I don't know if this is such a good idea El."
"Stop worrying Liv, I want to help you, and Kathy has nothing to say about it." I smile as he starts unpacking my clothes. I help him. When we've finished unpacking we decide to go out and lunch somewhere. We decide to go to a place nearby the precinct. As we walk to the place I notice which street we're turning in.
"Elliot can't we take another route?"
"Why, this is the shortest one." I immediately stop walking as we're about to walk past the alley. "What are you doing?" Elliot asks me.
"I... Can we please take another route?" He walks over to me and places his hand on my cheek.
"Why do you want to walk another route Liv?" I sighed deeply.
"I just can't walk past that alley." And then he finally seemed to know what I meant. He looks at me with a sense of pity in his eyes.
"It's okay, we'll take another route." He puts his arm around me and we take another route. While we're lunching we don't talk a lot. Then Elliot placed his hand on mine.
"You know you can tell me everything, right?"
"I know, but I just don't want to talk about it right now."
"I know, just so you know I'll always be there for you."
"Thank you so much El, for everything."
After lunch we walk back to Elliot's place. Kathy's car is in the driveway. Elliot squeezes my hand as he opens the door.
"Kathy, I'm home."
"Hey, I'm in the kitchen."
I follow Elliot as he walks to the kitchen.
"Kathy we need to talk." He says. Kathy turns around to look at him when she sees me standing behind him.
"What is she doing here?" I can see the fire in her eyes but the fire disappears as soon as she notices the bruises.
"What happened?"
"Olivia will be staying for a while." She can see in Elliot's eyes that it's serious.
"Okay, I'll go and make us all a cup of tea." A few moments later we sit in silence at the kitchen table.
"So... What happened?" Kathy asks. Elliot looks at me with a reassuring look.
"I...eehm...I was raped." The tears immediately start flowing again.
"Oh god." Kathy gets up from her seat and sits down next to me as she gives me a hug.
"I'm so sorry Olivia."
I wipe my tears. "It's okay, you can't help it."
Then she looks at Elliot. "Elliot and I have something to tell you too."
I look at Elliot.
"We are getting a divorce."
I'm shocked. "What? Why?"
"We both fell in love with someone else." Kathy says to me.
"We haven't been happy together for a long time so we decided to get a divorce." Elliot tells me.
"What about the kids, do they know already?"
"Yeah we told them yesterday, they said they had already seen it coming."
Then Kathy interrupts him. "Talking about the kids, can you pick them up."
"Yes. Would you like to come with me." He asks me.
"Yes, I would love to, I haven't seen them in such a long time."
"Then I'll get dinner ready." So Kathy starts cooking and me and Elliot are going to pick up the kids.
"So who are you in love with?" I ask as we're driving to the kids their school.
"Ah, just someone, you don't know her."
"Okay."
I was hoping he was in love with me, but of course he's not. Who would be in love with someone like me. Then we arrive at the school. The kids are already waiting. As we get out of the car Eli immediately comes running to me.
"Livvi!" I kneel down so he can hug me.
"Hey, haven't seen you in a long time."
"I missed you Livvi."
"I missed you to." Then he looks at my bruises.
"Why do you have al these bruises Livvi?"
"I...I fell down the stairs."
"Did it hurt?"
"No, it's alright."
Then after I greeted the other kids we drive off. In the mirror I can see the other kids checking out my bruises.
"How did you get these bruises Olivia?" Kathleen asks me.
"I fell down the stairs, nothing serious."
Luckily they don't ask anymore questions about it.
"Why are you picking us up by the way?" Maureen asks.
"Olivia will be staying for a while." Elliot tells them before I can say anything. Then they're silent.
When we arrive at Elliot's place I help Eli get out of the car. When we walk in I can smell the smell of spaghetti. I love spaghetti. The kids all greet Kathy and then go their separate ways. The girls are going upstairs and Dickie and Eli are watching TV. Then Elliot taps me on the shoulder.
"Can I talk to you for a sec?"
"Yes sure." I walk with him to a little bench in their garden. "What do you want to talk about?"
"Are you going to press charges? Because I think you should, that bastard who did this to you belongs in jail."
"Yes, I'll press charges but I'm just not ready yet."
"Alright." He smiles at me. "You scared the hell out of me this morning."
I immediately feel guilty. "I'm sorry."
"I don't know what I would have done Liv, if you had pulled the trigger." I see tears in his eyes.
"I'm so sorry." I say as I hug him.
