Elliot was expecting Ella's mother to answer the door but she didn't, a man did.

"Hi Ella, we missed you baby. Hi I'm Brian. I thought Sandra took Ella to the park?"

"Oh, she did. I'm Elliot; Sandra came to the park with me and my kids. I figured it would be easier for her to stay downstairs with my kids and for me to bring Ella and all her stuff up."

"Ah, I see. Well thank you for bringing her home safe and sound."

Elliot handed the baby over to Brian along with her diaper bag, and left the stroller leaning against the wall. He stood there smiling at Brian, but couldn't help but feel disappointed that the little girl's mother didn't answer the door. He wanted to see if it was through her that he felt a connection or bond with Ella. Brian stood in the doorway looking at Elliot, with deep confusion.

"Is there something you need, Elliot?"

"Ah, no. Sorry, see you later."

Elliot turned and headed for the steps, he really needed to clear his mind and focus, especially if he was going to try and get full custody of the twins. Sandra must have seen him walking out the door because she hopped out of his car and into her own, to follow him back to his place.

"So what happened?" Casey and Olivia said in sync. They turned towards each other as if to say "the jinx thing" but they were too old for that game, so they just smiled.

"He looked disappointed that you didn't answer the door, kind of like he thought you were going to."

Brian handed the squirming baby to Olivia and asked,

"So what's going on between you two?"

"Elliot is my old partner from work, we were partners for twelve years…he's also Ella's dad but he doesn't know."

"Why not?"

"Personal reasons, I better go get her changed and make her a bottle."

"Okay, have a good weekend. See you Monday."

Casey walked Brian to the door and said goodbye, then went to help Olivia in Ella's room.

"Liv, do you think he found out?"

"I don't know how could he, who else knows?"

Back at Elliot's place, the twins were in their room playing while Sandra helped Elliot make dinner.

"I need to find a lawyer; I'm going to sue Kathy for full custody of the twins. They seem so unhappy with her."

Sandra walked out of the kitchen and grabbed a card from her purse. Walking back into the kitchen, she handed the card to Elliot. Elliot look down at the card, in his hand. He read it out loud,

"Peter Tyles, Family Attorney at Law. Whose this?"

"My brother-in-law, I can call him for you and explain your situation. I'm sure he would take your case on for nothing."

"Thanks, Sandra. I guess I should start looking for a bigger place."

"There's an apartment for rent on the third floor of my building."

"Aren't those only three bedrooms? I'd need at least four bedrooms"

"Well mine is a three bedroom but my neighbor has six bedrooms."

"I guess I'll check it out."

The twins ran into the kitchen asking about dinner and Sandra went into the living room to call her brother-in-law. When she walked back in, she found the twins gone.

"You have an 11:30 appointment with Peter; you can drop the twins off at my place and then look at the apartment later."

"Thank you. Dickie! Lizzie! Dinner is ready."

It was around on in the morning, when Casey up on Olivia's couch and realized she fell asleep during the movie. She laid her head back down and fell back to sleep till eight. She heard Liv's voice very softly talking to the baby probably so she wouldn't wake her. Casey got up and followed Liv's voice into the kitchen.

"Hey, thanks for letting me spend the night. I was planning to go buy some new work clothes today; you would two like to join me?"

Casey and Olivia glanced at Ella and she smiled. Well the best a baby her age could anyway.

"Case, I think you can take that smile as a yes."

Saturday night turned into Sunday morning which turned into Sunday afternoon that turned into Sunday night, then into Monday morning. Elliot had no idea where his weekend had gone. Actually he did but he still couldn't believe he spend half of Sunday with a lawyer and the other half looking at an apartment. That just happened to be his new apartment, if he had thought it would be too small he was wrong because it was a six bedroom apartment. It was plenty big enough. By this time tomorrow he would be in the courtroom, trying to get custody of the twins.

He was so grateful that there had been an opening and his lawyer had snatched it up. His lawyer had faxed Kathy and her lawyer the custody papers but she said she would see him in court. So that is exactly what was going to happen. He just hoped that he would get full custody of them and they would be happy again. They already loved their new rooms at the new apartment. He had immediately signed the lease, and then they went out and picked out paint for each of the twin's rooms. He really just wanted them to be happy again.

Olivia was giving Ella a bath when the phone rang for the second time. This was the second call in five minutes. She didn't answer the first call because she had just gotten Ella into her bath and didn't want to get her out again. She figured she should answer this time because if they were calling again it might be important. So she grab a towel, picked up the soaking wet baby and ran for the phone.

"Hello."

"Hello, is this Miss Olivia Benson?"

"Yes, who is this?"

"Hi, Ms. Benson, this is Jack Launder. I'm a lawyer from Mercy General Hospital, you have birth to a baby girl on March 12th at Mercy General Hospital, right?"

"Yes, why?"

"The hospital is being sued for not caring correctly for a newborn by an unsatisfied mother. Your recommendation reviews you left for us about how great our services were were just amazing. Would you be able to come to court to testify on our behalf?"

"Yeah, absolutely; I trust Mercy General Hospital with my life as well as my daughter's."

"Okay, the trial is tomorrow at ten in the second courtroom."