Olivia was just finishing up cleaning the dishes from dinner when the phone rang.
"Hello."
"Hey Olivia, It's Brian, we're going to need you to come in tonight. How soon can you get here?"
Olivia signed then looked down Ella, who was very content in her bouncy seat.
"Give me like ten to fifteen minutes; I need to find a sitter for Ella."
"Okay, see you then."
Olivia replaced the phone on the hook and thought about who to call. Glancing down once more at Ella, she picked up the phone and dialed Casey's number. After three rings she got the answering machine.
"Hey Case, it's just me. I just wanted to see if you could watch Ella but you're not in so don't worry about it. I'll talk to you soon, bye."
She hung up and decided to try her next door neighbor. She really hated to bother Sandra but she had offered all the time and Liv was getting desperate. So she picked up the phone and called Sandra.
"Hello?"
"Hey Sandra, it's Olivia. I have a huge favor to ask."
"Sure Olivia, what's going on?"
"I just called into work and I can't find anyone to stay with Ella."
"Say no more, I'll be right there to get her."
"Thanks Sandra."
Elliot wondered what that phone call was about.
"Hey what's going on?"
"I just have to run next door and get my neighbor's little girl. She has to go to work and can't find anyone to stay with her. I'll be right back."
Within a matter or minutes, Sandra was at Olivia's door. She knocked and then heard Olivia yell,
"It's open."
Sandra opened the door to find two diaper bags stuffed with the baby's things.
"I'm in the baby's room."
When Sandra reached Ella's room she saw Olivia changing Ella and placing the baby into her car seat. Olivia smiled at Sandra then said,
"All the stuff you will need is in the two diaper bags near the door. The bottles are already made up and I also threw in some extra bottles and formula, ya know just in case. Thank you so much, I should only be five hours top. Bye my little girl, Mommy loves you."
"Okay, we will be next door. Say bye Mommy."
Olivia kissed Ella bye and then ran to her room to get ready, while Sandra left to go to her apartment with Ella and all her stuff. When Sandra reached her apartment she found Elliot right where she left him.
Olivia got dressed as fast as she could, she was used to it now because when you're a mommy, you have to do everything fast. She was out the door and into her car so fast that she didn't even notice Elliot's car parked next to hers.
Before she knew it, she had reached her new precinct. She got out of her car and walked into the new job, wishing she was home with her baby girl. Little did she know that her baby's father would soon come face to face with his newest little girl and not even know it. She really hoped she might grow to love this new precinct and job as much as she loved her old one; although she highly doubted that.
"Isn't she just the most precious thing you have ever seen? I mean look at those eye's they are gorgeous. Actually, they kind of remind me of yours, El."
"She is breath taking. Look how tiny and cute she is, she reminds me of when my girls were little they looked pretty much identical to her. Let's just leave her in there she's sleeping it's best not to disturb her."
They sat on the couch and just talked for a couple of hours. Just a little of this and a little of that. They talked about how he came to the decision to join the force, how she came to the decision to join the force and how they both ended up in Manhattan. Sandra glanced over at the baby and noticed she was waking up.
"Oh she getting fussy want to pick her up and I'll warm a bottle."
Elliot reached for the baby and once he had her in his arms, he looked down at her, smiled and let go a friendly laugh.
"Sandra, you can heat the bottle if you want to but I think she just needs to be changed. Don't you little girl? What did you say her name is?"
"Gabriella, but everyone calls her Ella."
"Well, hello Ella. What do you say we go get you changed? I bet you would like that, huh."
Something inside of Elliot pulled at the little girl; he couldn't help but feel a connection to her. He ignored the feeling figuring it was just from the loss of Eli and the fact that he missed having babies around the house. He grabbed a diaper and baby wipes from the diaper bag; then went to find a soft place to change her. Once, she was changed he handed her over to Sandra so he could go throw away the empty diaper.
"So how did you just know by picking her up that she needed to be changed?"
"Oh you can just tell by the way the diaper feels when you are holding them. I guess I just have a lot of practice from my four children, lots of late night diaper changes with them. Well it's getting kind of late I should be leaving now. It was a very interesting night. I'll see you tomorrow at the precinct."
Elliot closed Sandra's apartment door behind him and walked down the two flights of steps. As he got into his car and pulled away, he couldn't help but feel a connection to the little girl on the second floor.
Okay, so this is the next section of the story let me know what you guys think. Should I keep it going? I've never really written before so I'm just looking for some opinions and criticism whether it be good or bad. =]
