Chapter 12
An: Ok I have to explain this now, I was re-reading losing and saw that I had made Olivia and Elliot know each other for only 5 years in 2008 but then in a later chapter I said eight years, I also thought I had made her be 43 in that story and so in this one she would be 49 however that seems not to be the case I made her younger so I am now unsure whether to stick with Olivia being nearly 50 in this story or not so to make it easier on us all I am not going to mention her age again and everyone can just decide for themselves how old she is.
Ramble over on with the show.
Manhattan SVU, Manhattan, New York
Monday, November 30th 2015
12.31 pm
Olivia and Ed Tucker were sat in the conference room discussing the case.
"Olivia this is a heck of a situation you're in." He sighed as he looked over the case file.
"I know Ed, I was convinced it was the best friend until Ryan O'Hallaran asked Olivia to run the hair on the hockey stick against the foetus he says out of interest but I think he had a hunch and went with it, turned out his hunch was right." Olivia sighed.
"Yeah but now the police commissioner is a suspect and we can't exactly go 'excuse me sir you're now a suspect in your God-Daughter's murder would you be so kind as to give us a DNA sample?' I mean come on Olivia." He replied the frustration etched into his face.
"Why not? If he's innocent he won't want to impede the investigation and we can clear this mess up." Olivia shrugged.
"Yeah and then want your shield for even suspecting him." Ed replied.
"But if he was guilty then he'd refuse and we'd find a legal way to compel a DNA sample." Olivia snapped.
"Oh come ..." He was interrupted by a knock on the door.
"Yeah." Olivia called and Huang poked his head around the door.
"You're going to want to hear this." He explained and the two of them hurried out and followed him to the interrogation room.
Olivia, Huang and Tucker looked in as Amaro and Elliot comforted a sobbing Madison. Olivia quickly turned up the intercom so they could listen in.
"Explain to us what happened Madison." Elliot said in the voice he reserved for the victims or his kids.
"He came to visit Jasmine, but she was out shopping for a bridal tiara and said it was something she wanted to do alone, so I stayed in to do some work. I told him she wasn't there and he asked if he could come in to wait for her, so I told him that I didn't know how long she was going to be but he said he didn't mind waiting. I let him in and gave him a soda and apologised that I needed to work. He said fine and took Jasmine's desk chair but then he started talking to me and asking me what I was working on..." Her sobs became a little more erratic at this point. "I told him I was writing a paper on criminal law and he said he could help me, I didn't see why not so he moved the chair closer and read over what I had written and did some changes and then as he was helping me he started touching me and stroking my shoulders and then he moved to my thigh..." She hiccupped and sipped at the water. "He did it the whole time I was writing the paper and then when I finished I thanked him and hoped he would move away but he didn't, he started telling me I was beautiful and maybe I could do something to show him how grateful I was ... he-he-he moved closer to me and I told him I didn't understand and he kissed me, it was gentle but I pulled away and said I didn't want to and I didn't think it was right but then he said I owed him and when I stood up to walk away ... he-he-he pushed me on-onto the bed and then he was on top of me and kissing me and then he had his hand touching me then I asked him not to I said I didn't want to and was beg-begging him to stop but-but-but he wouldn't a-and then-then he-he tore off my-my clothes and then he-he raped me." She broke out in wracked sobs and Nick and Elliot comforted her and calmed her down a little.
"Who was it Madison?" Elliot asked.
"Jasmine's God Father, David Powell." She replied.
"When did this happen?" Elliot continued.
"The morning before she was killed, I went to meet Jasmine from Jake's house, and we argued because I told her he was a sick fuck and I was going to the police but she was beginning me not to because she was sure he was her baby's dad and if he was then she was going to go to the police, she just needed the baby to be born so she could have a DNA test done, we bumped into Mr Powell while arguing and he offered us a ride home. I refused and walked off and I heard Jasmine argue with him asking him why he hurt me when he said he loved her and then-then I heard her scream so I ran as fast as I could."
Olivia turned the intercom off to see that Alex and Casey were stood behind her.
"Hey guys." Olivia sighed rubbing her forehead, she felt a bit dizzy from the situation.
"I think we have enough to arrest David Powell." Casey informed her.
"Slight problem." Olivia sighed. "He's the Commissioner."
"What?" Alex gasped.
"Yeah, so can I do the honours?" Olivia asked knowing they had to arrest him.
"Yeah arrest him for the murder of Jasmine Parker and the rape of Madison McKinley." Casey replied.
"We have no proof of the rape though." Olivia sighed.
"We don't know that yet, we haven't investigated it." Tucker replied. "But we have a complaining and a history, so walk into your office arrest him and bring him in here if he doesn't ask for a lawyer Olivia then you and I can interrogate him."
"Ok." Olivia nodded.
She walked ahead of Tucker who walked slightly ahead of Alex and Casey. They marched into the office and David Powell stood up, having been waiting for Olivia for quite some time.
"Did she confess?" He asked.
"No, but she did give us our killer." Olivia replied.
"Then why are you standing here and not out there arresting him?" He bellowed.
"Oh I am here to arrest him, I'm here to arrest you Sir." She replied and his face fell. "David Powell, you're under arrest for the murder of Jasmine Parker and the rape of Madison McKinley, you have the right to remain silent, if you give up that right anything you day can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney, if you give up that right anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law do you understand these rights as I have read them to you?" She slapped handcuffs onto his wrists and led him straight into an interrogation room Tucker and the ADA's hot on their heels.
Once he was seated Olivia and Tucker went back into the bullpen knowing they needed a plan of action.
"We want you to record this interrogation Olivia." Alex told them.
"Sure." Olivia nodded.
"Just so we can prove that it was by the books to any lawyer who tries to get this thrown out of court, everything you do from now on has to be done by the books." Casey informed them. "I'm going to get a judge to compel a DNA swab and you can interrogate him until he either asks for a lawyer or confesses."
Olivia and Tucker grabbed a tape recorder and went back to the interrogation room. They found Huang, Elliot, Munch and Fin looking through the two way.
"Hard to believe isn't it?" Munch sighed.
"What that the man who's supposed to run the NYPD is a rapist and a murderer?" Fin asked.
"Yeah." Munch replied.
"I would just love to know how old Jasmine was when he first abused her." Elliot chipped in.
"Well maybe we'll get a confession out of the slimball and he'll tell us, he's got nothing left to lose now and he knows he'll go down for this." Olivia replied before going into the interrogation room followed by Ed Tucker.
"Sir you have the right to have your attorney and or union rep here with you before being question would you like us to call someone for you." Olivia said as soon as she'd hit record.
"No, I wave my right to counsel." He replied.
Olivia and Tucker sat down opposite the Commissioner. For a moment they were both silent, eyeing him up and trying to figure out the best way to take him. Olivia was confused, this was a man she respected, the man who made sure she did her job right, the man who walked around every day in a uniform that demanded people to listen, demanded people to respect him and yet he still went out and raped to young women.
"You don't need to size me up Captain." He said eventually. "I would like you to get me some pen and paper as I would like to confess to the crimes I have committed."
"You're confessing to murdering Jasmine Parker?" Olivia asked in surprise, she really hadn't expected it to be this easy.
"I am, and I am also confessing to the rape of Madison McKinley." He replied.
"Ok well we'll get you the pen and paper." Tucker said getting to his feet and walking out.
Olivia switched the off button on the recorded and looked at her superior.
"Why did you do it?" She asked.
"I can't answer that." He replied sadly.
"Can't or won't?" Olivia asked.
"Can't, I don't know what I did, I mean I know but I don't understand but please Captain understand that it was just the once with both girls, I didn't hurt Jasmine when she was underage either because I am sure you think I have." He was grabbing at her wrist and as Olivia tried to pull away she felt dizzy again.
"Let go of me." She said firmly and he did allowing her to walk straight out.
Manhattan SVU, Manhattan, New York
Monday, November 30th 2015
4.28 pm
Olivia and Tucker waited for the confession to be written up and then processed it before taking the commissioner to central booking. They cuffed him and Olivia and Tucker shared a look that told each other the exact plan.
"No please don't do this." The Commissioner said as Olivia and Tucker held his biceps and led him towards the stairs.
"Is that what Jasmine said when you raped her?" Olivia spat angrily, the more she'd been thinking about this case the angrier she'd been getting towards her superior.
"Don't I deserve a little dignity?" He asked as they walked down the stairs.
"No, you didn't give Jasmine or Madison any." Tucker hissed as they headed towards the door.
As soon as it was open camera lights flashed towards them and both Olivia and Tucker looked at each other smugly.
"You're enjoying this aren't you?" Powell hissed at Olivia who suddenly clutched her head in her hand a stronger dizzy spell coming over her.
"Olivia?" Tucker asked and she shook her head and looked at him. "You ok?"
"Yeah I'm good." She nodded.
"No when we've dropped this scum off I'm taking you to Mercy to get checked out."
"Ed..."
"Don't argue with me Cragen or I'll just tell Elliot you've been having dizzy spells all day and he'll drag you in." Tucker replied and Olivia knew better to argue.
"Why don't you smile for the cameras?" Olivia asked the commissioner as they walked away and put him into the squad car.
"He deserves every headline they print tomorrow." Tucker laughed while he took the driver's seat and Olivia took the passenger side.
Mercy General Hospital, Manhattan, New York
Monday, November 30th 2015
5.45 pm
"Ugh so much for getting home to my kids early." Olivia sighed as she slumped back in the waiting room chair.
"Well better safe than sorry, you wouldn't want anything happening to baby Cragen-Stabler would you." Tucker replied.
"I know, thank you for insisting I came to get checked out but you don't have to wait Ed." Olivia replied, her superiority really did bring some more respect and Ed Tucker was one who had become a very strong allay.
"How are your kids? You've got six right?"
Olivia thought it was adorable that he was trying to pass the time by getting to know her a bit.
"They're ok, dealing with the death of their Granny at the moment of course but they're ok, and I had seven kids and four step children but we rarely see them these days." Olivia explained.
"Of course Elliot has four from his first marriage so his what? Twelfth kid on the way?" He looked at her in shock.
"In some ways, it's confusing if I'm honest, my eighth, no more though I've warned him that he's getting the snip after this one, I'm too old." Olivia laughed.
"I can't imagine any woman being pregnant seven times, I felt for my wife carrying three times." Tucker laughed softly.
"I didn't have Eight pregnancies." Olivia smirked reaching into her purse for her wallet.
"I'm confused." Tucker replied and Olivia chuckled and removed a few pictures from her purse.
"Melissa my eldest daughter she's thirteen and this ..." Olivia changed the photo. "Is her twin brother Michael, he died seven years ago." She explained.
"I'm sorry Olivia, I didn't know." He whispered in shock as he looked at the last photo Olivia had taken of her eldest son.
"Biologically neither one are mine, myself and my ex fiancé Cole adopted them when they were five." Olivia explained. "They were a case we ended up working together and Cole couldn't handle having to hand the kids over to ACS and asked if we could take them, when the family refused to take them Cole asked if we could keep them. We were still fostering them when Michael got sick." Olivia explained.
"What happened?" Tucker asked gently as Olivia gazed at the picture.
"He got beaten up, his first day at his new school and he got beat up, he passed out in the car and I knew something was wrong, they took him to surgery for internal bleeding then a doctor told me he had a heart condition that he'd been born with, twelve hours he was in surgery and they were the longest twelve hours of my life up to that point." Olivia took a deep breath, it never got easier to talk about. "He was in a coma and then he got an infection ended up on life support, we switched it off on the seventeenth of June two thousand and eight, just five days after the adoption was finalized." Olivia explained.
"Must have been tough. I don't know what I'd do if anything happened to one of mine." Tucker replied gently.
"It killed me." Olivia replied honestly. "I've never felt that much pain in all my life but I had Cole and Melissa to keep going for you know, a little girl lost her brother not long after losing her parents, it was tough but we got through it as a family."
"How long after did Cole die?" Tucker asked knowing that story well, he had been the one to defend Olivia when she'd gotten into trouble for not wearing her dress blues at the funeral.
"He died on July the first." Olivia replied.
"Tough few weeks." Tucker replied.
"I wouldn't have gotten through it had it not been for Elliot." Olivia replied.
"I bet, so Melissa isn't biologically yours that's still six pregnancies." Tucker commented and Olivia went back to the family photo.
"Nicole was my second child, she's biologically Cole's." Olivia explained as she was the only one with dark olive skin like her.
"She looks like you." He commented.
"She looks a heck of a lot like Cole too." Olivia smiled, she loved hearing how her kids looked like her.
"After Nicole who's six there's Alexandra and Liliana, they're both five and my first biological babies with Elliot." Olivia explained. "They were born on the 30th of December while Nicole was born a year earlier on 1st of January, perfect start and perfect end to two thousand and nine." Olivia smiled, it was the best year of her life, the year she married Elliot too.
"I'm sure so I'm guessing they're twins." Tucker smiled.
"Identical." Olivia smiled. "Even I mistake them for each other sometimes and apparently it's the mother who always knows the difference, but looking at one quickly I've called Lexi Lili and vice versa." Olivia laughed.
"Ok and so that leaves two." Tucker smiled.
"Alyah and Elysah my three year olds." Olivia smiled. "Nightmare pregnancy but it was all worth it."
"Another set of twins?" He asked in shock.
"Yeah and again identical except that Ali has dark brown eyes like me and Eli has blue eyes like Elliot." Olivia smiled, Eli was the only one with Elliot's eyes.
"That's adorable, but six girls? I would hate to be Elliot and Don living in that house!" Tucker laughed.
"Well you should have heard the celebration they had finding out this little rookie was going to be a boy." Olivia laughed too.
"Oh that's wonderful that you're having a boy next." Tucker smiled. "So do you have nicknames for all your kids? I noticed you had for the twins."
"Yeah Melissa's known as Melly by me but Elliot calls her Chipmunk because she asked Munch what a Chipmunk was when she was five and it kind of stuck. Then Nicole Anne, I named her after her father and grandmother, I call her Nikki but her Granny used to call her Colley. Then there's Alexandra who I named after Alex Cabot because she helped deliver them..."
"Alex Cabot delivered your twins?" He asked in shock.
"Yeah didn't you hear where they were born?" Olivia asked in surprise, the delivery of her baby girls had been all around the force.
"No." He replied.
"Alexandra and Liliana were born in my dad's office on the floor. Alex was the only one there because they were out on a job, she had delivered Alexandra by the time EMT's arrived." Olivia laughed.
"Oh right." He smiled.
"Yeah so Alexandra is nicknamed Lexi and Liliana is nicknamed Lili, then there's Alyah and Elysah who are Ali and Eli." Olivia smiled. "So there's Melly, Nikki, Lexi, Lili, Ali and Eli." Olivia smiled.
"You didn't ..."
"I did choose their names so I could cut them down, it just seemed right after Melly choosing Nikki to nickname Nicole, I purposely did it with the rest of the kids." Olivia laughed.
"So you chosen any names for your son?" Tucker asked.
"Elliot and I have been discussing it, he's dead set against Elliot junior so we're going to name him after my Mom, Dad and Elliot." Olivia smiled.
"That's not an answer." He smiled.
"Andreas Donald Elliot Cragen-Stabler." Olivia smiled. "Andreas because my Mom's called Anne, then Donald after Don Cragen."
"That's a long name." Tucker smiled. "But it's a nice name."
"Thank you, I think so too."
"Olivia Cragen-Stabler!" A nurse called.
"At last!" Olivia said as she got to her feet but suddenly she stumbled and went dizzy luckily Tucker had stood too and grabbed her before she fell.
"Ok?" He asked as she steadied herself.
"Yeah just got up to fast." She mumbled before following the nurse. "You can come you know Ed." She called and he didn't hesitate in following her, Elliot Stabler would kill him if anything happened to his wife and unborn son.
They were put in a side room and they quickly took blood and told her they were going to get an ultrasound machine.
"Did you know I hate hospitals?" Olivia asked as she sat on the bed.
"No but it's obvious." He smiled at her from the chair beside.
"Why?" Olivia asked in shock.
"Because the only time you weren't agitated was when I talked to you about the kids, that seemed to relax you." He smirked.
"Wow, you're good you should have been a cop." She replied sarcastically making them both laugh.
They sat there for thirty minutes before they returned with the sonogram machine.
"Just want to see how baby is doing ok?" She smiled.
"Sure." Olivia nodded and rolled up her top so it sat below her breasts and braced herself for the cold of the gel.
"Now let's see Baby Cragen-Stabler." She smiled rolling the pad over the ever growing bump. "Here we are."
Olivia smiled as she looked at her unborn son, it never ceased to amaze her when she saw her baby on the black and white screen, that was her kid and it was growing inside of her.
"Everything looks fine and that is a strong and healthy heartbeat." She grinned. "I bet you're both very excited parents." She smiled looking from Olivia to Ed Tucker.
"Oh no... uh no he isn't ..."
"Oh I'm sorry I just thought..."
"It's ok, he's just a colleague and saw that I was having the dizzy spells and knowing my husband would commit murder if anything happened dragged me here." Olivia laughed and so did Tucker because that was his exact thinking.
"Ok well I'll just go and get your blood results and see what we have ok." She smiled before leaving Olivia to wipe her stomach and roll down her top.
"I should call Elliot." Olivia sighed guessing if something was wrong they'd keep her here.
"Do you want me to go do it?" Tucker asked gently sensing her discomfort.
"Would you ..." She looked down in embarrassment. "Would you wait until they come back with the result of the blood work, I don't want Elliot to worry if it's nothing."
"Sure I'll wait." He smiled just as the nurse came in with a doctor.
"Mrs Stabler when was the last time you ate anything?" She asked and Olivia bit her bottom lip in thought, she couldn't actually remember.
"Uh..."
"Ok when was the last time you drank anything?" She asked.
Again Olivia thought, she remembered buying everyone coffee but she didn't drink hers and then when they were in the conference room she had a drink in front of her but she couldn't actually remember drinking it.
"Ok from your medical records I found that you had a very complicated pregnancy three years ago?"
"Yeah with my twins, I fell off a ladder though." Olivia commented.
"Yeah and ended up on mandatory bed rest, Mrs Stabler have you been explained the risk to you and your foetus with this pregnancy?"
"Of course I have." Olivia snapped and Tucker could see her getting worked up and stood up to defend her.
"Could you just tell us the result of the blood work?" He asked before anyone could say anything else.
"Yes, she's dehydrated and her blood sugar level is too low, nothing a bit of fluid and a meal won't cure." The doctor snapped.
"Then can we sort that out so we can leave?" Olivia snapped back.
"Mrs Stabler, I am very close to having you admitted as a risk to your foetus so I suggest you don't ..."
"I'd like to see you try Doctor ..."
"Millfield." She replied.
"Doctor Millfield as Captain Cragen here and her husband Sergeant Stabler would have you in court for a civil suit in a heartbeat.
"I'd have her in court for endangering the welfare of a child." Doctor Millfield replied hurriedly.
"We'd like to see you get that past a judge with two of the best ADA's in the country defending her and have you thought of asking Mrs Stabler why she failed to eat or drink today?" Tucker was visibly furious and Olivia quite liked seeing him defend her even though she was angry too.
"Mrs Stabler?" Doctor Millfield asked.
"Uh not that it's ANY of your business, I lost my mother a week ago and it was my first day back at work and we had a case involving the God Daughter of the Police Commissioner, I've barely had a moment to go for a bathroom break." Olivia explained.
"You should be on maternity leave by now."
"You should go through sensitivity training." Olivia snapped back. "I would also like you to either treat me and get me another doctor or get me the discharge papers."
"Mrs Stabler my concern is the welfare of your unborn child..."
"That's it!" Olivia snapped. "Come on Ed, I can feed and water myself now this case is closed."
She almost jumped from the gurney and walked out followed quickly by Ed Tucker.
"Olivia..."
"I don't want to hear it Ed, but I am hungry and there's a pizzeria around the corner that Elliot and I used to go to, why don't we stop there and celebrate the fact that we did a good job today?" She smiled as they walked towards the car.
"Fine Pizza it is." He replied.
Cragen-Stabler Residency, Manhattan, New York
Monday, November 30th 2015
10.36 pm
After letting Elliot know where she was and going for food with Ed Tucker, Olivia had gone back to the precinct to finish up some paper work. Tomorrow would be the day where the squad would undergo their yearly psychological evaluation and she'd completely forgotten about the paper work she had to finish before her own evaluation.
Now she was home and even though it was late she had nothing better to do than crawl into bed beside her husband and sleep, yet she wasn't tired. The house was in darkness and complete silence so she went to put her gun in the lock drawer but a noise in the kitchen distracted her.
The panic that swept her body was nothing compared to the need to make sure no one else in her family got hurt, they'd all been hurt far too much and the death of her mother just added to that.
She'd only been dead a week. Everyone of them was dealing with it and Olivia felt a need to protect her family, to be strong while they hurt, she hadn't even really let the news sink in but she was sure as hell going to make sure nothing else could hurt her family.
Slowly she made her way into the kitchen with her trusted Glock at arm's length. Her hand pushed against the door and quickly returned to the weapon as she slowly entered switching the light on in the process.
"Put the gun down Princess." A soft friendly and calming voice slurred towards her.
"Dad?" She asked as she lowered the weapon and walked into the room.
"Yeah." He nodded and that's when Olivia spotted it.
She closed the kitchen door while her mind processed the images of the objects she'd just seen on the table.
Put the gun down Princess.
No. No, no, no, there was no way. She slowly turned back to her father and her breath hitched in her throat, she'd guessed that this might be happening but to see it with her own eyes was like someone stabbing her in the chest.
"Dad." She whimpered and he looked up at her, his eyes portraying all the hurt he felt.
"Couldn't sleep Princess?" he asked and she naturally shook her head in reply, had he not known she was out until now.
"Why dad?" She asked nodding her head towards the objects in front of him.
"Why not." He shrugged and it was a statement not a question.
Olivia could feel the tears burning in her eyes but they weren't about to fall, not now, not while she needed him to tell her what on earth was going through his mind.
He saw it. All the emotion she was trying so desperately hard to hide and that just made him reach forward.
"Don't." Her voice pleaded as he clutched the glace of brown liquid his eyes avoiding hers.
"Why?" He asked his eyes fixed firmly on the glass. "I have nothing left to lose."
That statement was like a punch in the gut to Olivia. Everything she felt for the man she called Dad came rushing to the forefront of her mind as reasons she could give him not to drink the liquid and just as she had expected him to, he pressed the glass to his lips and knocked it back.
"Me." She whispered and his eyes finally met with hers.
"You what?" He asked drunkenly and Olivia knew that the half empty bottle had all been drunk by him, no one in the house but her mother was a whiskey drinker and that bottle was brand new.
"You still have me left to lose." She whispered closing her eyes so she wouldn't have to see his reaction.
"No." He shook his head. "I've already lost you."
"No you haven't Dad I'm right here!" She cried wanting him to realise it for himself.
"I lost you the second I put the first glass to my lips." He explained. "I'm sorry Princess."
"Dad you've not lost me, not yet." She replied as she placed her gun on the counter and walked towards him.
She quickly grabbed the whiskey bottle and ran to the sink and quickly watched the brown liquid vanish knowing that it wouldn't really make much of a difference but it somehow made her feel like she had some power over the situation. Once the bottle was empty she placed it on the counter and leant on the sink. The images sweeping her mind was of the years of abuse she'd sustained at the hands of her drunken mother, she had been a victim then, she'd fought hard to not be a victim since.
"Why did you do it?" She asked without turning to look at him.
"I don't know." He replied. "I wanted to not feel again."
"Not feel? Not feel anything? Dad what about love? I know you're hurting because of Mom..." She turned to face him and found he'd walked to lean on the counter opposite the sink. "I know you miss her and feel like you're dying inside without her but we all are, I am, I lost my Mom ... and now ... now I'm losing you to." She surpressed the tears from falling but the cries was audible in her voice.
"I'm sorry Princess." He whispered reaching a hand towards her face but as soon as he stepped closer the smell of the alcohol hit her nostrils.
"It's too late to be sorry Dad... I can't believe you did this." She explained. "You need ... you ... why?"
"I'm sorry."
"Stop apologising!" She snapped as quietly as she could. "You drank Dad! Does thirty years of sobriety mean nothing? Mom would be so mad right now!"
"I know, I let you all down." He whispered sadly.
"You let yourself down Dad." She sighed. "I can't have you here drunk, my kids ... I don't want you around my kids if you're drinking."
She couldn't believe what she was saying but she knew it was necessary, she had to be firm with him and let him know that what he was doing was hurting her and would hurt her family.
"Princess?" He asked.
"I'm sorry Daddy, but I can't have you around the babies when you're drunk, tomorrow you pack your bags and go to your house or rehab or somewhere because you can't stay here until you're sober again." She told him. "Now go to bed."
She watched him walk out the door and headed for the stairs. Taking a deep breath she started raiding all the cupboards and found every bottle of alcohol in the house before tipping it down the sink, at least he wouldn't be able to drink anymore tonight. Once that was done she went into the living room and called a friend, asking him to meet her at the one six.
Manhattan SVU, Manhattan, New York
Monday, November 30th 2015
11.23 pm
Olivia sat in her office chair looking out at Fin who was had stayed late to finish his paperwork on the Parker case, he had been surprised to see her back at this time of night but had accepted that she was there and let her go without questions.
George Huang arrived five minutes later and slipped into the office without a word to the Detective. He saw Olivia with tear tracks down her cheeks and though she hadn't explained what had happened he had a bad feeling he knew.
"I caught him." Olivia sighed as she wiped her cheeks.
"Your Dad?" He asked.
"Yeah, drinking whiskey at the kitchen table when I got in." Olivia sighed.
"Did you talk?" Huang asked.
"Yeah, he said he didn't want to feel and said ... he said he had nothing left to lose." She explained and Huang could see the hurt etched on her face.
"What did you say?" He asked half intrigued half unsure if he wanted to know as this was his friend.
"I said me but then he replied that he'd lost me when he put the first glass to his lips." Olivia explained.
"I told him he had to leave, that I couldn't have him drunk around the kids, told him to go back to his old place or to rehab or anywhere but he couldn't be at home with his grandkids, was I wrong?"
"No." Huang replied firmly. "Your father told me some of the stupid things he did when he was drunk Olivia, you're in every right to make sure your children don't see any of that." Huang told her straight. "Did you think of your Mom when you saw him?"
"Serena or Anne?" Olivia asked.
"Either." He replied.
"Both." She nodded and he wasn't surprised by that answer.
"In what sense?"
"I told him Mom would be mad at him, which she would, she always bragged to her friends how well he had done in not having a drink for thirty years, she was proud of him and then I thought of Serena, and the abuse and I thought my babies couldn't go through any of that, not that I think Don would ever raise a hand to them, but they shouldn't have to witness their grandfather drunk."
"That's understandable Olivia, how did he take you asking him to leave?" He asked.
"I don't know, I could barely look at him George, he's my Dad and he's lived with me for the past seven years and ... I'm scared it will make him worse." She explained.
"It's a risk you have to take though Olivia, I care for you and your kids and I care for Don too but you're completely right in saying that your children shouldn't be subjected to seeing your father drunk. I'll go talk to him tomorrow and see if he'll go to a clinic but either way, I'll help him pack up and hopefully he'll see the mistake he's made and see sense." Huang reassured.
"Thank you." Was all Olivia could reply.
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