Can't ask her to stay…
And it's probably because I really don't want her to.
Wait a minute.
What am I saying?
Of course I don't want her to.
I've been waiting this whole damn time for Liv to come back
And now, there's a chance for it to happen.
You need to stay for yourself, I say to Beck,
Not for me.
And so she goes, and it turns out,
Casey's been hiding Liv's return all along,
And so has Cragen.
I'd be pissed if I wasn't relieved that she's back,
And that she's safe.
When she shows up at the usual place,
It's me and Munch and Fin, like it's been
Ever since she left,
And she laughs when she sees it, and asks in that half-joking tone of hers,
If 'her boys' have managed to grow up while she was gone.
None of us answer.
It's probably because we haven't.
It's funny, though, 'cause
She's never said anything like that before, and
All it does is tell me that maybe we are closer than we thought.
The squad, that is. All four of us.
Not just me and Liv.
Though, admittedly, it probably works that way, too.
But neither of us have ever thought about it that way.
Later on, when it's just the two of us,
We wander around Manhattan, 'cause
I don't want to go to my apartment, and
She doesn't want to go to hers, either, so
We talk.
And she's changed, and so have I, and I
Tell her I still haven't signed the papers, and she doesn't ask me why.