1:43 AM, Back of Ambulance (continued)
The paramedics arrived and gave Olivia some oxygen and fluids. She had woken up on the stretcher inside of the ambulance and saw Amanda at her side.
"Sargent Benson you collapsed. I don't believe you hit your head when you fell but we still want to make sure everything is alright and take you in to the hospital, You're detective here also told us that you are pregnant."
She nodded her head then pulled the oxygen mask from her face trying to sit up as she tried to remember what happened.
"Yea I'm about 11 weeks... And before I collapsed I noticed I had some ummm spotting. I'm worried that...that I..."
"It's ok, deep breaths for me...Are you experiencing any cramping?"
"Before I was,but it was very little...am I...am I losing my baby?" She asked teary eyed
"We don't know that for sure but we will get you checked out as soon as possible Sargent Benson, don't you worry you are in good hands."
Amanda watched and heard the exchange of words between her Sergeant and the Paramedic but decided not to comment on it.
"Hey Liv, so Fin called Cassidy, he is on his way to meet you at the hospital and I also convinced Amaro to not be here badgering you with questions when you came to, so he is gonna be with Fin riding behind us."Amanda said.
"You called Bryan?" She said with some worry in her voice.
"You are pregnant and you passed out."Amanda says in a warning tone.
"You didn't tell Nick and Fin right?"she says hoping Amanda didn't.
"I promised I wouldn't Liv...but you got to slow down, I'll cover for you, you know that."
"Amanda?"
"Yea,Liv?"
"Thanks."
2:09 AM, Later in the hospital room
"Liv, I'm so glad you're ok. Is the baby ok?" Bryan says rushing in to her hospital room.
"I just got a little dizzy and everyone overreacted. I was also spotting a little bit but it wasn't as bad as before when I uh you know, had the miscarriage. So umm ah ...anyways since the bleeding pretty much stopped I'm just waiting for an ultrasound."
"What could have caused that? Was it me? I mean we did go pretty hard at it before you left. Oh my God,this is my fault." He says rubbing his hand over his face.
"Bry relax. Sit down please." Then he takes a seat next to her and she stretches out her hand for him to hold. "Listen I don't need you freaking me out on me more than I already am. It's probably from being dehydrated and being over stressed. Everything is going to be fine." She said trying to convince herself more than him.
"Nothing is fine Liv, you got to tell your squad about the baby, they will understand... You got to start taking better care of yourself."
"Amanda already knows...and today was just an off day, that's all. I want to tell them when I'm out of the first trimester, when I'm ready to tell them...not now."
"Wait, Rollins knows?"
"Yeah she found out a while ago...she actually knew before you."
"That's fine, at least she has your back, you know."
"No, I don't know!" She said pulling her hand away from him. "What exactly are trying to say Bryan?"
"Nothing Liv! I'm just glad someone there knows and that they could watch out for you...since you seem to be fixed on working yourself crazy."he said mumbling the last part.
"Whatever...can you please just see what is taking them so long?"
Bryan let out a sigh then gets up to walk over to the door, " Liv?" He said pausing before he exited the room.
"What!?"
"No need for the tough act around me. It's alright if you're scared."
Olivia faintly smiles as tears begin forming in her eyes "I think that is about the nicest way anyone has ever told me to stop being a bitch."she laughed.
"Oh, please. I know better not to say that." He joked back.
"It is just hard for me to be excited. It's like once I tell them, everything just becomes so real...I mean that is if I'm not losing the baby already...I can't go through that again."
"It's already real Liv. And you said it yourself that the cramping didn't feel like this the last time. I want this to be a happy experience for you, for us. I don't want you feeling scared throughout your whole pregnancy or feel that you need to hide it." He walks back over to her and kisses her forehead wiping away her tears.
"I love you ok, I'll be right back." She nods her head then rubs away the rest of tears that threatened to run down her face.
As Cassidy leaves the room to go to the nurses desk Fin, Amaro and Rollins walk in.
"Liv, how you feeling?" Fin asks
"Alright I guess,b ut I'll feel even better once I'm at home and in my own bed."
"They just want to make sure everything is good." Amaro replies trying to calm her.
"Well you guys both know that we all haven't been getting enough sleep because of that Norwood case. I was overworked and... tired, it happens."
"Yeah but... not all of us passed out because of it Liv. It's alright if you need to take a couple of days off." Amanda pleads
"Yea, I'll hold things down till you come back." Fin says trying to reason with her.
"I was gonna take the next two days off anyways, no need to gang up on me."
Fin and Amaro then turn their heads to each other sharing a knowing look.
"Alright Liv, get some rest." Fin hesitantly says then the three of them walk out the room and start walking down the hospital corridor.
"Don't even start Nick." Fin says in warning tone.
"I didn't say anything." He says holding his arms up in a mock surrender.
"Oh please, sometimes you are worse than Munch with your damn theories." Amanda joked
Soon after the squad left the room the doctor came in and checked on Olivia.
Fin had went his separate way home while Amanda had caught a ride home with Nick.
The ultrasound showed a healthy baby and good steady heartbeat which put both her and Bryan's mind at ease but Olivia was told that she needed to be more aware of her sleeping and eating habits or else she would either lose the baby or find herself on bed rest. The doctor also told them that bleeding might have been caused by the sex but that it was perfectly normal after sexual intercourse while pregnant, especially if the sex was rougher than usual. Although the spotting was very light, if it was to persist they should call their OBGYN and get checked out as soon as possible but that it may be in their best interest to not have engage in any sexual intercourse until she was out of the first trimester. Olivia was then shortly discharged after so then Bryan took her home so she could rest.
Meanwhile, Rollins and Amaro's Car Ride Home
"Amanda I know you told me not to press this thing with Liv but now more than ever I'm positive something is up."
"Nick..." She says in a warning tone.
"What? Don't try and tell me that it's nothing."
"I didn't say that."
"Well what are you trying to say?"
"Relax... Look Nick, I know your worried about her but she just has a lot on her plate, cut her some slack."
"She's the one that needs to cut herself some slack...I don't know Amanda, ever since Cassidy is back in the picture she's been acting different."
"Don't start with that. Cassidy is a good guy... Didn't he help you out a while back with getting that drug dealer out of Cynthia and Gil's life?"
"Yeah. After he was accused of raping someone and got his lawyer to sandbag me on the stand!"
"Oh my God, you're still on that!"
"I have every right to be. What does she even see in him?"
"Listen, I didn't really want to bring this up or get into this again, but when Lewis took her, that man was there for her, before and after. I don't know about you but I don't know a lot of men that actually do that, he didn't just cut and run when it got rough."
"I commend him for that, but like I said, with the trial he was barely there and when that sadistic bastard got to her again he was MIA."
"We don't know what goes on between them at home... And by that time they had already split up anyways."
"Exactly my point. What's different now ? He is still the same idiot."
"People change. Circumstances change. I don't get why you hate him so much. They look happy, stop judging him."
Just then Amaro pulls up and parks his car on Amanda's block.
"Fine, maybe I'll give him the benefit of the doubt."
"That's all I'm asking." She says unbuckling her seatbelt.
"But I feel like you know more than you're letting on..."
"Goodnight Nick." She said but right before she exited the car she leaned in kissing him way longer than she should.
"What are you doing? I thought you wanted to law low for a while." He said as their lips parted.
"We had a long night." She said as she kissed him again.
"Yea...we did." He smirked
Next thing you know Nick ended up following Amanda up to her apartment, and as usual things got pretty handsy from there.
Amanda knew that she had told Olivia that her and Nick would back off from each other but she just hoped he would stop obsessing over whatever he thought Olivia's situation may be and she just wanted to be able to stop worrying about her Sergeant...or at least for the time being.
Amaro on the other hand was just pretty grateful that Amanda was a delightful distraction from his everyday soap opera of a life.
But as they say...We are only as blind as we want to be.
A/N: For all the medical stuff I'm no expert but I'm trying to be as accurate as I can be. Also new chapters are already in the works but its just hard to get it posted when I keep thinking of something new to add or decide I want to change something but anyways... I want to hear thoughts and ideas so REVIEW, REVIW, REVIEW! Until next time, xoxo
