Chapter 7
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I was still stuck in the hospital bed, they'd woken me up every hour last night , but since I was still waking up and coherent, Amelia had said I was out of the woods. Amelia was Derek's little sister, I'd met her once before when she was a teenage and was spiraling out of control, but now she had grown up to be an amazing adult. I'd gotten to meet Derek's new wife, I liked her, not nearly as much as I liked Addison, but she'd come in to tell me that i was some kind of miracle worker because Callie and Arizona were back together, personally i don't believe that was my doing. Addison hadn't left the room, I'd told her about James, about my life in Wisconsin and here, we'd fallen so easily back into the friendly banter we'd always had. She's told me about her life in LA and the brief year she's spent here in Seattle. She'd agreed to take me back to LA for a few weeks while I finished healing then, I would move back no New York. There was a tap on the door.
"Come in," Addison yelled. The door slid open to reveal Derek.
"I brought you a guest," he said, stepping aside to reveal Olivia. I wanted to jump up and hug her but leaving the hospital bed wasn't going to happen for at least two more days, so I settled for smiling up at her and opening my arms in a come here gesture. She came to the side of the bed an bent down pulling me up into her arms. It hurt but, I wouldn't have traded that hug for anything.
"Liv, you came," was all I could think to say to her.
"Of course I came," she said, "now are you going to tell me how you landed in the hospital?" I looked down at the question. Back I. Alex's head I knew how stupid I had been with James, they say hindsight is twenty twenty well looking back I cans see all the warnig signs, every bit of controlling behavior everything that should have made me run in the other direction the day I met him. That made me think of something.
"Addison did he try to come back?" I asked.
"Not yet," she answered.
Telling Liv had been the hardest of all the people I'd had to tell, she was so understanding but, no matter how gentle her words I felt like i was just another victim now. I'd gone to LA for three months, Liv had taken some long earned time off and come with us to LA. We'd stayed with Addison all the way threw the trial, and my recovery. The trial for James had been quick their ADA was good and we got a conviction. I'd left for New York the next day. Apparently Olive had saved all my things including paying rent on the outrageously expensive apartment I lived in. I was back to being the ice queen of the courtroom. Branch had given me back my job with SVU, Addison comes up twice a year to visit, and I go to LA when I could, we live our separate lives, but everything is back where it should be.
A/N: Done!