When she opens her eyes, she is surprised by the number of machines surrounding her. She wasn't sure exactly what day it was, but she wasn't surprised to find Tucker sleeping in a chair beside her. She smiled when she heard him snore lightly, which meant he probably hadn't slept in a few days. He only snored when he was really tired and had been working several days in a row. She hadn't seen him much in the last few weeks because of work, but she was glad he was here. She tried to talk to him, but found it hard to say anything. Her mouth was dry, and she didn't have much of a voice. She didn't want to wake him anyway.

He hadn't noticed she was awake, which gave her a moment to look at the man sitting in front of her. They had been only dating a few short months, but he made her happier than she had been in a long time. She knew he would do anything to protect her or Noah. She remembered the first time he stayed over, and how he spent the night making her feel like the only woman in the world. He was a rough tough cop, but he was a completely different man in the bedroom.

She remembers how much she didn't like him in the past, mostly the times he had gone after her old partner. Elliot had been more of a target for him more than she'd ever been, and she never had the courage to ask why. She didn't think about her old partner as much as she used to. She had finally grieved and moved on, but that didn't mean she didn't miss him. Honestly she was just upset on how he left without even so much as a goodbye. She tried to just not think about him, and it surprised her how easy it had become after a while. After spending over a decade beside each other, she thought she would never get pasted it. But she did, and she was actually thriving since he left.

Wait, Elliot… she remembers him sitting at her bedside. No? There was no way that it could be true. That couldn't have happened. Ed definitely wouldn't have called him and probably wouldn't let him anywhere near her. But what Cragen or Fin had called? Or what if he seen it on the news?

Maybe it was just a dream…. Yeah. That had to be it. Nothing more than that.

"Hey Liv, you're awake." Tucker smiled, getting up to kiss her forehead.

"Noah?" She tried to ask, not being able to get many words out.

"He's with Lucy. He's doing fine. I can call in a bit and ask her to bring him by if you want?"

She smiled and nodded, wanting nothing more than to see her son.

"What happened?" She asked, curious as to how long she'd been out. She knew it couldn't have been too long, but she knew it was more than a few hours.

"Do you want me to get the doctor to explain-?" Ed asked, unsure if he should tell her everything.

"No, just tell me Ed."

He huffed and walked over with a glass of water, holding it for her as she got a drink. He sat the cup back down and sat down on the edge of the bed, taking her hand into his. He kissed the back of her hand and made her smile, which made him smile. He had missed that smile and missed talking to her while they were waiting for her to wake up.

"When you were shot Liv, they brought you in and you had to have surgery because you had taken two shots. One of them was in your chest and it was only muscle that it hit, but the other one was in your abdomen and it hit your kidney. They had to remove it because it was so badly damaged. After you were awake for about a day, your heart stopped and they had to take you bad to surgery because you were bleeding internally. They stabilized you and you've been fine since, but they were worried because you haven't woken up for about two weeks."

"Am I going to be okay then?" Olivia asked, trying not to be scared. She could tell there was something Ed wasn't telling her, which scared her even more. She had to be okay. She had Noah now to take care of.

"They are worried because your other kidney isn't working very well. They have been talking about dialysis maybe or putting you on the transplant list. But we don't know yet so there is no reason to worry, okay?"

She nodded, trying not to get upset. They didn't know anything yet, so she had no reason to worry.

"I'm going to go call Lucy and have her bring up Noah because I know he would love to see his mom. He asks about you every day when I get home. I've only brought him up a couple times cause I didn't want him thinking you wouldn't be okay, ya know? He should believe that everything is going to be okay."

"You've been staying with him?"

"Of course Liv. I love that boy and I didn't even think twice about it when Lucy asked me who would keep him. She's really stepped up and helped me out a lot. You got really lucky with her."

"Yeah I think I got pretty luck with you too."

Ed smiled and kissed Olivia before walking out into the hallway to call Lucy, knowing it wouldn't be a problem for her to bring Noah by. When he hung up the phone, the nurse at the station had come up to him and asked him to sign some consent forms for visitors allowed since Noah and Lucy would be coming up. With the man who shot her still on the loose, very few visitors outside of the squad where allowed to visit. Ed and Fin had made that decision together since he was temporarily running the unit while Liv was gone.

"So if you would just add the names of any visitors that are allowed in that you know of. I know you said her son and nanny would be by today, so you can just write her name down on the visitors list." The nurse explained, handing him the sheet.

He skimmed over the sheet, knowing she had several of her squad members visit her along with Cragen and Alex Cabot. It made him happy that so many people had cared enough to come visit her. However one name stood out to him as soon as he read it.

He didn't know Elliot Stabler had been here, or better yet, who told him she was here?

10 days. It had been 10 days since he left the hospital.

He didn't know if she was alive or dead. He had been watching the new every chance he could while he was at work, but hadn't heard a thing since. The only thing the news had reported was that the bastard that shot Liv was still out on the loose. He considered asking the FBI to get involve, but figured that they would see it as a conflict of interest. He assured himself that if something had happened that someone would call him. Surely Cragen wouldn't keep him out of the loop? He debated just going back by the hospital, but he assumed that would just cause more trouble.

Staring at the case file in front of him, he was dreading going to Quantico this week for his week-long training conference. He was helping lead one of the classes and he was a little nervous. The FBI had approached him and asked them to help with some of the training for new sex crimes detectives and he was hesitant at first. He had never done anything like that, but since he would be there anyway for training of his own, he thought he might as well help out.

He was pulled from his thoughts when his secretary knocked on his door. She smiled and told him her had a visitor, which wasn't uncommon for him to have. He typically had people in and out of his office when he was working on a case. He told her to let them in and continued looking at his file.

He however wasn't expecting his former IAB officer to be standing in his doorway.

When the man cleared his voice, Elliot looked up at the man and was almost taken back by who it was. Out of all the people from his past, never did he expect Tucker to be standing in his office.

"Ed Tucker, is there something I can help you with? Isn't FBI out of your jurisdiction?" Elliot huffed, having no reason to even want to talk to the man standing in front of him.

"Elliot, I'm here on a personal matter. Can we talk?"