It's Time for a Change

A/N: I OWN NONE OF THE RECGONIZABLE REBA OR SVU CHARACTERS!! This is a Crossover AU story!

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PREVIOUSLY:

"I know that. That's why I'm going to bring Cheyenne's mother up here and when I leave, I'll take you with me." he replies.

"That's great. Is the father still in lockup?" she asks.

"Yep. The mother filed a restraining order for both her and her daughter. But we can't charge him yet because she hasn't told us anything. But I've got him on assault of a police officer." he replies.

"Okay. Cheyenne was worried about that. I'm going to go back in and see if she's up to talking. Text me when you get close. We're in room 127." Olivia tells him.

"Kay. I will. I'm going to get Ashley and let her know what's up." he replies.

"Bye El."

"Bye Liv." he hangs up the phone, and walks upstairs to find Ashley.

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16th PRECINCT
MANHATTAN, NEW YORK
ONE POLICE PLAZA
4:00pm.

Elliot Stabler walks up the stairs to find Ashley Brown leaning over the railing looking down on the squad room.

"Ashley?" he asks and notices the woman jump at the sound of his voice.

"Oh, Detective, you scared me." she replies.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to." he apologizes. "Do you want me to take you to Queens so you can see your daughter?"

"Can you?" the woman asks.

"Yes. My partner's up there at the hospital with her but she doesn't have a ride back here. So I was thinking that I could bring you back so you could be with your daughter and bring my partner back here." Elliot replies.

"I guess so. My husband won't find out will he?" she timidly asks.

"No. You filed a restraining order, remember? He's going to be here overnight." Elliot reassures the woman.

"Then in that case, let's get outta here." the blond says, grabbing her purse off the coffee table.

The two walk down the stairs and Cragen sees them leaving, "Where do you think you're going?"

"Queens. I'm taking her to St. Mary's to see her daughter. She took a cab here and Liv needs a ride back so I just figured I'd drive." Elliot answers the man.

"Be careful." Cragen tells the man.

"Aren't I always?" Elliot retorts as he leaves the room with Ashley.

The two detectives ride in almost complete silence, minus the radio, horns and sirens from the traffic. Elliot changed his normal talk station to country, because Ashley said it calmed her down, and she wanted to be calm before she went to see her daughter, and he catches a single tear fall from the woman's eye as they pull into the hospital parking lot as the song on the radio was ending, "for I'll be there… in my daughter's eyes…." he just sighs and kills the engine of his police issue Ford.

The woman unbuckles her seatbelt and waits for Elliot to do something. He pulls out his phone, "I need to let my partner know we're here."

"Okay." she breathes and rests her head on the headrest.

Elliot texts Olivia and she replies telling him that they are still in room 127 and they can come on in, because Cheyenne wants to see her mother.

He looks at Ashley and asks, "Are you ready?"

"Let's just get this over with." the woman mutters and opens the car door.

He gets out and waits for her to close the passenger door before he locks it. They meet at the front of the car on the sidewalk and she takes a deep breath before they head to the door.

"It's gonna be fine." he reassures the blond.

"How do you know?" she questions.

"I just do. My partner told me she wanted to see you." he replies.

They have now reached the door to the room and he can see the hesitance in the woman's eyes. "Be calm. It'll help." he reassures Ashley as she opens the door and sees the little blond with tear stained eyes.

"MOMMY!!!" Cheyenne screams and starts to cry. Ashley runs to her daughter, drops her purse on the end of the bed and hugs her. "I'm so sorry sweetie."

Olivia walks up to Elliot, "Hey."

"Hey. How's she been?" he asks.

"Okay, considering." Olivia replies.

"True. She's got a restraining order, so let's see how that goes." he sighs.

"Yeah. I don't have a good feeling about him from what I got at the park." she says.

"Neither do I. Especially after the gun incident." he adds and turns his attention back to the mother and daughter.

"Is she okay?" Ashley asks Olivia.

Olivia looks at Reba and she nods, "She has a fever of 100.1, two of her ribs are cracked and one is broken. She has no internal injuries, but we want to keep her overnight for observation." the redhead states.

Ashley sighs and turns back to the detectives, "Did.. He… do anything else to her?"

Olivia sighs and says, "There were no signs of sexual abuse."

The blond woman sighs in relief and smiles back at her daughter.

"I don't wanna be here anymore." Cheyenne cries.

Ashley looks at her daughter and explains, "Honey, the doctors just want to make sure you're okay. They want to keep you overnight and we can probably leave in the morning."

Reba sighs and says to the little girl, "Do you see that TV up there? I can get my friend Gina to bring you some movies to watch."

Cheyenne smiles and looks at her mother who nods in agreement. She then asks, "Do you have Finding Nemo?"

"I'll have to look. I'm pretty sure we do." Reba answers.

"If not, I do." Elliot offers.

Cheyenne looks at him and he adds, "I have kids. That's like their favorite movie, I've seen it so many times, I know all the words."

Cheyenne laughs and Olivia smiles. "hey kiddo, Olivia has to get back to work. But I'll be here tomorrow so we can talk more okay."

The female detective notices the tears pooling in the little girl's eyes, "it's going to be okay. Reba's going to make sure they take good care of you. I'm giving your mom my card with my number on it. Call me if you need me okay"

Cheyenne nods and Olivia hands the woman her business card. "Don't be afraid to call me."

Ashley nods and smiles at Olivia as she turns to leave with Elliot to go back to Manhattan. "Detective?"

They both turn around and look at her as she slowly says, "Thank you."

"No problem. We'll let you know if anything else happens." Elliot replies and opens the door to leave.

The two detectives walk out of the room and to the front door of the building. Olivia lets out a big sigh and Elliot notices her anxiety. "Liv she's going to be fine."

"How do we know that the restraining order is going to even work? It's just a piece of paper with a bunch of signatures on it." She vents.

" Liv, sometimes they do. We just have to wait and see. He's in lockup anyways, unless John and Fin did something stupid while we were gone, which I doubt." he reassures his partner.

"Let's just hope they didn't." she breathes and gets in the passenger side of his car.

He gets in the car and turns it on, with the country radio still playing from his ride with Ashley. "You listen to country?" Olivia questions.

"No. Ashley does, she said it calmed her down and I was nice enough to change the station." he answers.

"Well let's just say it calms me down too." Olivia adds, hinting at him to leave the station where it is.

"Fine. This is the last time I'm listening to this stuff." he retorts.

"Geeze El, give it a chance. You may find that you like it, it's got some pretty good love songs…" she admits.

He puts the car in reverse and makes his way into the now rush hour traffic. They ride in silence the entire hour drive back to Manhattan, because every time he tried to talk to her, she'd shut him up, because her song was on the radio. He thought to himself the whole way back, "I'm gonna have to stop letting stressed women ride with me, because I hate this country crap." they pulled into the station and he noticed Olivia had fallen asleep. He just sat there, contemplating his options of how to get her back into the station house.

A/N: I'm sorry for the long wait, I've been busy. But now it's spring break and I have more time to write, I just didn't have any really good ideas. I'll update faster next time, I promise… ooh, and see that green button down there, I wonder what it does…. oh yeah, and the song I used was Martina McBride's "In My Daughter's Eyes." Don't own..