Disclaimer: So, I am expecting a package from NBC sometime this week. They are sending me season three, but I sent a note with my order to go ahead and throw ownership of the show in as well…we'll see how that goes…

A/N: Yall must have been good little fangirls/fanboys (yet I know no fanboys), because you are getting another update this week!!! Wow!!! - - This goes out to Rach and Rach…they are awesome!!! But especially Rach b/c of PIRATES!!!!

Trains, Animals, and Gunshots

Elliot awoke to the sound of crying. As he dug himself out of his intense sleep, he realized that one of the twins wanted his attention. He glanced at the nightstand and smiled when he saw that Olivia had moved the baby monitor to his side of the bed when she got up last time. Since the twins had come home, about a month earlier, he and Olivia had come up with a system of taking turns to care for the children at night. They normally put them down for the night after their feeding at ten, Olivia would get up first, feed whoever decided they were hungry first, she then put the monitor on his bedside table and he would get up next. This would go on until their alarm went off at six. He pulled back the covers, threw his legs over the side and gently got up, as to not disturb Olivia. He padded into the nursery, which was across the hall from his and Olivia's bedroom.

When Elliot entered the room he smiled. He looked at the matching cribs that were placed across the room from each other, the rocking chair that had been given to Olivia by Captain Cragen and the adorable paint job that Cragen, Fin, Alex and himself had done. Above each crib was that child's name in decorative letters. Elyse's was in a bright yellow on the navy wall and Gage's was in navy against the yellow wall of his side of the room. The two dressers/changing tables were placed at the end of each crib and were artistically colored. Gage's had little trains and train tracks running up and down the borders of each drawer and the handles were little trains. Elyse's had many different animals crawling, flying and walking up and down the borders of the drawers while the handles were little turtles.

Elliot snapped out of his revere when he remembered why he was in the nursery to begin with. He walked over to his daughter's crib and gently lifted her into his arms. He quietly took Elyse into the living room so she didn't wake her brother.

As Elliot walked with her, she seemed to calm down, "What's wrong baby girl? Did you just want to spend some time with daddy?" he gently cooed to the child. While Elyse had calmed down a little she was still fussy. Elliot walked to the fridge, took out a bottle that Olivia had made when she was up with Gage only half an hour earlier and warmed it on the stove. When he was satisfied that the temperature of the milk was perfect he brought the bottle to his daughter's lips and watched as she immediately latched on. A smile came to Elliot's lips as he watched his only daughter grow stronger from the milk he was giving her. He sat down at the end of the couch and nestled Elyse closer to his naked torso.

"Here's the deal baby girl. You are never allowed to grow up. You have to stay my little angel forever. No growing older, no boys, no kisses, no marriage, you have to stay this little forever." He smiled when he saw her move her eyes to look at him. While Gage had inherited Olivia's dark brown eyes, Elyse looked back at him with bright blue eyes that matched his own.

Elyse finished the bottle and began to close those tired sapphire orbs. Elliot held her to his shoulder and soothingly rubbed her back to burp her. After walking around the apartment for a minute, Elyse was again sleeping peacefully. He walked into the nursery, placed a kiss on her forehead and put her back in her crib.

"I love you baby girl," he whispered. He pulled the blanket over her body and walked out of the room. He gently shut the door, walked into his bedroom, placed the baby monitor on Olivia's bedside table and climbed back in bed to sleep until the next time one of his children needed him.

The next time Elliot was aroused from his sleep was to Olivia shaking his shoulder, "El…wake up, El."

He blinked open his eyes and looked at her slightly frightened face, "What's wrong baby?" he said in a sleepily slurred voice.

Olivia was somewhat embarrassed to wake him over this. She could take care of herself, but when it came to her family, that was a different story. "I think someone is trying to come in the front door. I would go check myself, but Elyse woke up and I have her."

It was then that Elliot realized that Olivia was holding their daughter to her chest. He furrowed his brow, "What do you mean someone is trying to come in the front door?"

"I mean, I was in the kitchen, with Elyse, making a bottle when I heard rattling coming from the front door. It sounded like someone was trying to come in using the doorknob, but when they found out it was locked, they were trying to pick it."

Elliot nodded. He got out of bed, put on a shirt and grabbed his gun out of the locked drawer in his bedside table. "Go in the nursery and shut the door. I'll go see who is out there and what is up. You just go in there and feed her and I'll come in there when everything is okay, okay?"

She nodded and immediately left the room. When Elliot heard the door shut, he quietly walked down the hall and into the living room. He got close to the front door and noticed that it was slightly open. His eyes widened just a bit and he immediately went on high alert mode. At the sound of a scream, Elliot turned back around quickly and headed down the hallway. The door to Luke's room was ajar and the sound had come from there. Elliot made his way to his son's room and turned on the light.

What he saw scared him to death. There was a man in a ski mask holding Luke by the throat keeping a gun to the boy's head.

"Put him down," Elliot growled at the unknown intruder, while aiming his own gun at the man.

"Now, Stabler, why would I do something like that? He is the ticket to everything that I want. If I were you, I would put the gun down," the man said in a dark and menacing tone.

"I can't do that. Just put him down and leave and I wont arrest you or even tell anyone about this."

"Daddy…Daddy help me!" Luke pleaded in a scared whisper.

The man hit Luke with the gun, "Shut up kid!"

Meanwhile, both Jake and Olivia had heard Luke's scream and opened their respective doors to see if he was okay. When Olivia saw Elliot go into Luke's room and heard him start to talk to someone, she looked at Jake and mouthed, 'Call your Grandpa Don,' as she motioned to him to go back into his room. Jake nodded and did just that.

Jake quietly shut the door to his room so whoever was in the apartment didn't know he was up. He took his cell phone off its charger and immediately dialed Cragen's number. After three rings the man picked up.

"Cragen"

"Grandpa Don, its Jake."

Cragen's eyes widen with worry, "What's wrong Jake? Why are you calling me at 2 in the morning?"

"There is someone in the house. He is in Luke's room and Dad is trying to get him to let Luke go, but Mom told me to call you. She is in the nursery with El and Gage."

"Okay…um…what I want you to do is to try to get to the nursery without whoever is there noticing and help your mother with the twins. I am going to call Munch and Fin and we are coming there. Put your cell phone on vibrate and keep it on you. When we are in the building we will call. Understand?"

"Yes sir." Jake hung up with Don and crept back to his door. He opened the door, peeked out into the hallway toward Luke's room and saw that he had a clear shot to the nursery. He quickly walked to the nursery, slid in and locked the door.

"Jake, what are you doing in here?" Olivia asked her oldest son.

"Grandpa Don said to come in here and help you with El and Gage, so they are quiet. He is calling Uncle Munch and Uncle Fin and is going to call when they get here. I have my phone and he is going to call that. So, basically we need to stay here."

Olivia nodded and looked down at the child in her arms. She had been scared when she was told about Elliot's shooting, she was scared back in college when she was taken, but none of that compared to the fear she had right now. One of her children was in his room with a psycho and her other children were in danger. She didn't know what she would do if anything ever happened to any of them, and didn't think she could live if something else happened to Elliot.

"I said, Put the Gun DOWN, Detective. I will shoot him," he said motioning to the child in his arms, "I have no problem with that."

Elliot gently placed his gun on the table beside him and raised his hands over his head, "Okay, okay, I put it down. Now, let my son go."

"Not until we chat Stabler."

"How do you know me? What do you want with my son?"

"Now, now, now…we are just full of questions aren't we. Let's start with an easy one. I know all about you Detective. I know that your wife is a detective, your oldest son just turned 17 and I guess I should congratulate you on the birth of your newest children. Born on your birthday, how sweet…wait, that was wrong, one was born on your birthday and I believe the other was born the next day. Do you want more? I can go on…How about we go with names now…this little guy," he motioned to Luke again, "is Lucas. That teenager you got…that's Elliot Jr. is it not? And the babies…Elyse and Gage. Now where did Ga-"

"STOP!" Elliot commanded. "I get it, you know about us. Who are you and what do you want?"

"Let's just say I am someone from your past that wants a little revenge. I intended to walk out of this apartment tonight with what I want and do not expect to be detained by your cop buddies."

"That's not gonna happen and you know it. I will not allow you to leave this house without being in handcuffs and I will not let you have whatever you want or let you harm any of my family."

"You don't have that choice, my dear Elliot. I will either get what I want and walk out of here, or your son might not live to see 11."

Jake felt his phone vibrate in his pocket. He moved Gage to his other arm and fished the device out of the pocket of his gym shorts.

"Yeah?"

"Jake? Its Don, we are coming up the stairs of the building now. Do you know if the front door is open?"

"No sir, I don't know. But, my guess is that it is."

"Okay. Stay in the nursery with your mother until we come and get you. Don't leave that room unless either myself or your father tell you to, okay?"

"Yes sir."

Both phones were disconnected. Cragen, Munch and Fin made their way to the door of the Stabler apartment. They noticed that it was slightly open and pulled out their weapons. They crept into the apartment and down the hall to Luke's room.

Jake and Olivia tried to keep the babies calm as they worried about what was going on in Luke's room. All of a sudden they heard two gun shots. The babies started crying hysterically at the loud noise and the panic in the room grew. Neither Jake nor Olivia knew what happened and they just hoped that no one, except maybe the guy who broke in, was hurt.

A/N: I know…I know, yall are mad, but I just had to stop. Who is the intruder? Who was shot? What happened? Toasters, Toaster Strudel, and happy dreams to anyone who can guess who it is…