It's Time for a Change

A/N: I OWN NONE OF THE RECGONIZABLE REBA OR SVU CHARACTERS!!

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PREVIOUSLY:

Olivia looks down at the body cradled on her left side, she's stopped shivering, but she's still coughing periodically. "Honey, I want to take you to the hospital, just to make sure you're okay."

Cheyenne looks up at the woman and tears stream down the girl's eyes, "Mommy's friend Reba is a nurse there. She'll tell mommy I ran away and I'm gonna get hurt."

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RIVERSIDE PLAYGROUND
QUEENS, NEW YORK
1:30pm.

Olivia looks at Elliot who sighs and says, "I know who she's talking about. She was the ER nurse when Dickie broke his arm last spring."

Cheyenne hears this and hides her head inside the blanket. Olivia looks down at the blue bundle snuggled beside her.

The female detective gives her partner an angry look and says, "Let's get going. I'll take her in my car, she should be okay."

Elliot walks away to find his own children and get them to Mrs. Jones' house so he can begin working this new case.

Olivia looks at Cheyenne, "Hey honey, it's okay. I'm going to take you to the hospital now to get you checked out, and then we're going to the police station to talk."

Cheyenne takes her head out from the blanket and looks at Olivia, "I'm scared."

Olivia gets up and kneels down to Cheyenne's level and puts her arms on her shoulders, "Honey look at me, I'm going to do everything I can to make sure no one hurts you. There's nothing to be afraid of, not when you're with me."

Cheyenne looks at the detective and nods her head. Olivia stands up and says, "Are you ready to go? I don't think it's a good idea to stay out in the cold much longer."

Cheyenne nods and Olivia stands up.

"Will you carry me?" the small blond asks.

"Okay." Olivia agrees and picks up the little girl, whom she still doesn't know a whole lot about, but from what she does know, something's not right. Cheyenne wraps her arms around the detective's neck and Elliot looks over to see this and starts walking in their direction.

He approaches the detective who is holding the tiny girl with a blanket partially wrapped around her. He grabs hold of the blanket to cover Cheyenne back up but her body tenses when he does, and Olivia feels it.

"Elliot…"

He gently rests the blanket on the little girl's stomach and she cringes when she feels his touch. Olivia notices her reaction and stares at her partner.

They walk to her car and he opens the back driver side door and Olivia sits the tiny body in the seat.

Just as Elliot closes the door, he sees a beat up Chevy pick-up truck speed into the parking lot. A big man with dark brown hair and brown eyes gets out and quickly scans the playground, and then becomes furious.

"Shit." he mutters to himself.

Elliot walks over to the man and silently tells Olivia to stay by the car, "Sir, can I help you with something?" he asks.

"What good can you do me?" the man asks.

"I'm a police officer." Elliot calmly answers.

"My daughter ran off last night and never came back." he tells the detective.

"What's your name" Elliot asks.

"Josh, Josh Brown." the man politely answers.

Elliot then realizes that this could be Cheyenne's father and becomes suspicious, "When did you realize your daughter was missing?"

"About an hour ago." Josh replies.

Elliot's suspicion rises at this statement, "And you said she ran off last night? Why didn't you go looking for her then?" he asks.

"I.. I don't know."

Elliot turns his head towards Olivia, who is looking in the window, smiling at Cheyenne, trying to block her view of this man.

"What's your daughter's name?" Elliot questions.

"Cheyenne. Cheyenne Brown." the angry father answers.

Olivia hears this and her fear for Cheyenne rises because the little girl is sitting in her car.

"Sir, my daughter and some friends found her on the fire truck jungle gym and she wouldn't talk. I had to call my partner, who's a woman, to come here and get her to talk about why she was here. My partner and I assumed from the lack of warm clothing and the time of day that she was here and the length of time, that was more than her running away." Elliot says, trying to keep his cool.

"Where's the bitch?" the man asks.

"Sir, I don't think it's a good idea for you to…" Elliot intervenes, but the man makes his way over to the car where Olivia is standing and looks in the window at the little blond girl wrapped up in a big blanket.

Olivia thinks fast and moves to where her back is covering the window and says, "She was afraid to talk, even to me, and by what she did tell me, we have every right to be concerned for her safety."

"What did the little thing tell you?" he asks angrily.

"She was afraid to go home, and she didn't want to. She also said that her parents were fighting, and that she had to get away." Olivia answers.

Elliot then notices the man's inability to walk normally and becomes even more suspicious that he may be drunk, "Sir have you been drinking."

"What the hell?" he violently answers.

Olivia's fear increases as she hits the lock button on her keychain.

Cheyenne trembles inside the car, unaware of the situation outside and desperately wants Olivia to take her away.

Elliot can smell the alcohol on the man's breath and says, "Sir, I can smell it. You've been drinking, and driving."

The man is infuriated with Elliot now and slaps him across the face and Olivia instantly jumps in, "Mr. Brown, you're under arrest for assaulting a police officer…" she continues to read him his rights and sits him down beside Elliot's car, "Stay." she hisses.

She walks back over to her partner who's rubbing his face, "You okay El?" "I think it's time we call for back-up."

"I'm fine Liv. I'll call Cragen." he answers.

Olivia quickly makes her way back to her car and looks in the back seat to find Cheyenne laying down, fully covered with the blanket shaking.

She sighs and unlocks her back door, "Honey?" she calmly says.

"DON'T CALL HER HONEY, SHE'S MY HONEY!!" Josh yells from Elliot's car.

Elliot walks over to the man, "Keep it down. I can always get you busted for DUI."

Olivia gets in the back seat of her car and squats down on the floor facing a crying Cheyenne, "Shhh, shhh. We called more police officers to come take him away, then I'm gonna take you someplace safe."

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20 MINUTES LATER
RIVERSIDE PLAYGROUND PARKINGLOT
1:55pm.

Olivia hears the sirens coming up the road and sighs in relief.

Elliot had already called Mrs. Jones to come pick up his kids and her own. She had done so and left.

The other SVU detectives and uniforms arrived at the scene along with an ambulance.

Captain Don Cragen gets out of his car and sees the handcuffed man sitting on the ground by Elliot's car and asks, "Is he the father?"

Elliot tenderly touches his face, that's starting to bruise up, and says, "Yeah, that SOB slapped me so Liv arrested him for assault of a police officer."

The man nods and looks over at Olivia's car, the back driver side door is open and he sees the woman squatting down on the floor of the car facing the seat, trying to comfort the little girl.

Fin and Munch approach the arrested man and force him to stand up and walk with them to their car, Munch opens the back door and has to force him in the seat because he's trying to fight back. He then shuts the door, locks it, and returns to the other detectives.

Cragen makes his way over to Olivia's car while the paramedics look at Elliot's face. They decide he's fine and won't need to go to the hospital.

As Cragen approaches the car, Cheyenne's crying becomes more relevant to Olivia and she looks behind her and sees the man, "Shhh, he's a police officer too. He wants to help." she says to the terrified little girl.

The detective manages to get herself out of the car, with assistance from Don.

"How the hell did this all start?" he asks the woman.

"Elliot was here with his kids and Lizzie found her. She wouldn't talk to Lizzie or Elliot so he called me. Thankfully I was shopping up this way and was able to get here in ten minutes. Once I got here and started talking to her, I realized that something wasn't right and we needed to do something more." She answers.

"You know they may turn this case over to Queens SVU." The man informs her.

"God Cragen, that won't work. There's no women there, not even their ADA, she won't even look at Elliot, or Dickie." "I'll transfer." Olivia answers.

"We'll talk about that later. Just get the girl inside, she doesn't need to be in the cold anymore. The ambulance is here, Elliot told me to call St. Mary's Children's Hospital and let them know she's coming." The man tells her.

Olivia turns back around to face her car and notices that Cheyenne has sat up, "Hey honey, there's an ambulance here that's ready to take you to the hospital."

"No. He'll hurt me if anyone finds out." she quietly says.

"Sweetie, my friends took him back to the police station with them. He won't be able to hurt you, or see you while he's there." the woman answers.

The little blond looks up at her with tear filled eyes and mumbles, "I guess." and starts to get out of the car.

"Carry me." she begs the detective.

Olivia smiles and picks up the little girl, wraps the blanket around her shoulders and makes her way over to the ambulance.

A/N: I love leaving cliffhangers!!! Next up, Olivia and Cheyenne go to the hospital and we finally meet Reba! Remember, this is a cross over AU story. Review time!!!