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An hour later he came in to find a room full of people. "Well, I'm glad you're all here...I'm sorry to have to tell you but Ms. Benson has..."

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…temporary brain damage---" The doctor said but was interrupted before he could finish.

"Oh my God, will she be alright?" Elliot interrupted.

"Hopefully she will be just fine. I wanna keep her for a few days for observation. The seizures should stop as soon as the swelling goes down. She'll have some serious headaches, so I'm prescribing some heavy medications." The Doctor finished in a rush.

Elliot sighed and slowly nodded. "Well she will stay with me when she is released. I'll need some time off, Capt."

"I thought you would say that so when she is released you will have six weeks paid leave to take care of her." Cragen replied before looking sadly at the woman that he considered a daughter.

"Thanks, Cap." Elliot said as the nurse came in.

"Okay, everyone, I'm sorry to have to tell you but as Ms. Benson is unconscious, she still needs her peace and quiet. I'm gonna have to ask you all to leave." As Elliot began to protest, the nurse stopped him.

"I'm sorry Mr. Stabler, but you can come back in the morning. If anything changes, you will be notified." She said with a sad smile, knowing how much he wanted to stay.

Everyone piled out of the room and Elliot sadly nodded and followed them out until the doctor stopped him. "On second thought you can stay Detective Stabler, she might benefit from it."

Elliot's eyes lit up. "Thank you so much Doctor! I'll see you all in the morning." He called to his colleagues and boss.

He then sat down in the chair beside the bed and held her hand. "Please wake up, Livvie. I need you..." He whispered.

But she didn't wake up. He sat there all night staring at her, not wanting to miss a thing. Occasionally her body would twitch involuntary, but the nurse said that it was just her brain, and nothing to worry about. He watched her chest heave up and down, and had trained his own to match hers perfectly. He knew she would be okay. She just had to be.

He must've drifted off to sleep because when he woke, the sun was up and someone was watching him. He could feel it.

Olivia had been staring at him for a little over an hour now, and he look so exhausted when he finally opened his eyes. She thought to herself, 'What has been goin on? The last thing I remember is that guy getting in my face about his daughter.' But then he woke up.

"El..." She said softly. "What happened?" She asked before he could respond.

"You don't remember?" He asked sadly.

Olivia shook her head and sighed.

"What is the last thing you remember, baby?"

"The guy that I was interrogating was in my face." She answered.

"Oh, baby. He threw you against a wall, and you head was split open. You have been in the hospital for about two days. The doctor says you have some temporary brain damage, and that the seizures and twitching should stop when you brain goes back to normal." He said. He knew it was a lot for her, but she needed to know.

Olivia was in shock. She ran a shaky hair through her soft brown hair, trying to come to terms with this new information. Her lips were quivering.

"What?!" She asked trying to hold back rebellious tears.

"Livvie, settle down. If you get too upset, it might cause another seizure. Do you need some pain medicine for your head?" Elliot was getting worried about his girlfriend.

Olivia shook her head but winced at the rough movement.

"Don't lie to me, baby. You don't need to act like superwoman all the time." He said and pushed the button for the nurse.

She tried to smile, but it was all she could do to keep her eyes open. Her head hurt so badly. She had never felt anything like it before.

Her body started to feel weird, her hands were twitching. She didn't know what was happening and it was freaking her out.

Elliot, who was talking to the nurse, turned around to see her face as she twitched. "Honey, that's normal. It's gonna happen every now and then until the swelling goes down. The key is you MUST try and stay calm."

"CALM?! Are you fucking kidding me?! My body is spazing out and I have no control over it!"

"I know, Liv. I'm so sorry. I wish it were me." Elliot took her by the hand, and pushed her hair out of her face.

Olivia sighed. She hadn't meant to go off at him. It wasn't Elliot's fault and she knew that.

"I'm so sorry, El. I...I just hate feeling out of control." She apologized.

"It's alright, baby. I understand. No harm done. Just try and rest, the doctor should be here by now." He said and pressed the button again.

"El, I feel really sick all of a sudden." She spoke weakly before closing her eyes.

"Baby? Olivia?" She wasn't responding. She was going into another seizure and the damn doctor was taking her time. He turned her to her side, something he watched them do before, and it was a good thing too. As soon as he got her turned she began vomiting uncontrollably. The doctors rushed in and sent Elliot out. When he looked over his shoulder, he could swear he say blood coming out of her mouth.

"Oh God! Not again...Not again." He thought to himself as he sat in a chair outside her room with his head in his hands. He couldn't look in the room, he couldn't bare too. It was hurting too much. "What did she do to deserve all this?" He thought to himself. "Why? Why?"

Somewhere in the room he heard, "She's flat-lining, we gotta resuscitate!" Elliot screamed "NO!" as more nurses came in with the defib machine. He had collapsed on the spot and was as scared as he had ever been in his life.

Elliot began to bang on the window. "Please pull through this, baby! I need you, Liv! Please!" He begged and as if she could hear him, the heart monitor started beeping again.

"We got her back." The doctor declared.

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Back at the 1-6, Fin had hung up his phone for the fifth time. "I got no answer from Elliot, or Olivia's room. You think everything is okay, Cap?"

"I dunno; we'll take a trip up there after we get this perp to confess." Don replied.

"Well, I'm going up there now, Liv's my friend, and if something is wrong, I wanna know." Casey called out as she picked up her coat and walked out the squad room door.

Casey got in to her car and drove back to the hospital. She walked in to Olivia's hospital room to find Elliot holding Olivia's hand and crying.

Olivia looked much worse then earlier. Her normally olive toned skin was nearly just as pale as the white hospital issue bed linen and she had an oxygen mask on her nose and mouth.

"Elliot! What the hell happened?!" Casey said walking to Elliot's side and putting her hand on his shoulder.

"She woke up, and then she had a seizure and then she started throwing up blood, and--" He had burst into tears.

"El, what happened?"

"She flat-lined Case. She died on us. I was so scared that she wouldn't come back. I love her so much. She hasn't woke up yet...the doctor's are worried."

"Oh my God!" Casey cried and went to Olivia's other side and held her other hand. "Liv, you need to pull through this. We all need you. The future SVU victims need you. Please fight this." She whispered in the detective's ear.

"Every time she wakes up something bad happens." Elliot murmured with silent tears. "What did she do to deserve this, Casey? What?" He was asking her but she didn't know how to respond.

Not knowing what to say she just rubbed his back soothingly and said, "Liv will get through this Elliot. She's strong and you know she's too damned hard-headed to give up."

Elliot sadly smiled and nodded but then he looked down at Olivia. "Did you just squeeze my hand, Livvie? If you can hear me squeeze my hand." He spoke softly.

She squeezed his hand but refused to open her eyes.

"Oh my God, Liv. Open your eyes honey. Please." He said as he rubbed the top of her hand with his thumb.

"Open your eyes, Liv." Casey said when Olivia didn't open them.

"El? Case? I can hear you but my eyes won't open. What's going on?" Olivia said softly. Her eyelids were fluttering but not even opening a smidge. Elliot and Casey exchanged a look of horror as Elliot reached, yet again for the nurse's button.

"Oh gosh. Liv keep trying to open your eyes." Casey said as Elliot kept pressing the nurse button.

"I am trying, Case. I really am." She said and Casey and Elliot noticed a couple stray tears stream down her cheeks from her still closed eyes.

"What's wrong with me?" She asked in a scared child tone.

The nurse walked in, in a rush to see what was going on now.

"What seems to be the problem, Ms. Benson?" She said noticing Olivia was talking.

"My eyes--I can't get them open." Olivia replied in that same scared tone.

"Oh god. Olivia. I need you to stop trying right now. I'm going to call the neurologist."

"Wait, what's goin on?!" Casey cried.

"I better not say anymore. But do NOT under any circumstances let her try and open her eyes."