This series is dedicated to all the EO shippers who want them to have kids!
Disclaimer: I don't own the SVU gang or the Alabama song Daddy's Little Girl. But I do own Hope Stabler. She's mine, Wolf, and I ain't sharin'! So, nananana!!!
Elliot watched as Hope slept blissfully amid the new toys that her extended family had provided for her on her first birthday. Her dark curls had fallen out of her ponytail, and he tenderly brushed them out of her face, kissing her forehead.
A whole year old, he thought. My baby girl is a year old. I can't believe it. And he couldn't. After all, it felt like it was only yesterday that he had confessed to Olivia his feelings for her.
As he watched Hope sleep, he thought about the day's events. The whole SVU squad, including Alex Cabot, had joined Elliot and Olivia in celebrating their daughter's first birthday.
When they had shown up with armfuls of presents, Cragen insisted that, as her grandfather, he had every right to spoil his granddaughter. And Munch and Fin had said, that as her uncles, they too had the right to spoil her rotten. And they had.
After all the presents had been opened, and the cake had been eaten, Olivia, Alex, Melinda and Casey had watched as the men sang Happy Birthday to Hope until she had fallen asleep.
Drift off to dream in your paper doll world
Playing with the presents from the boys and the girls
Your big day is over, the cake is all gone
We sang you to sleep with the birthday song
He smiled when he felt Olivia's arms slip around his waist and her breath on his neck.
"Come on, El. Let's let the birthday girl get some sleep," she whispered, kissing his neck.
Kissing the top of Hope's head again, he smiled and followed Olivia out of the room.
No you'll never be one again
The two's are tumbling on in
Daddy's little girl is growing up in the world
You'll never be one again
As they walked out of the nursery, Elliot smiled at the toys in the hallway. He thought that once the twins were older, he was done with Barney and Kermit the frog.
He was never happier to be wrong.
The toy piano is quiet in the hall
As Kermit the frog watches it all
And soon your legs will grow and make the tricycle go
And take you away from us all
He saw the tricycle in the living room, and he couldn't help but think that one day, it would take her away from him.
But not for many more years, he assured himself.
No you'll never be one again
The two's are tumbling on in
Daddy's little girl is growing up in the world
You'll never be one again
"Good night, little angel," he whispered to himself. Olivia smiled at him and kissed him gently on the lips.
THE END...
A/N: This is the sequel to In My Arms, and the song in this one was Daddy's Little Girl, by Alabama