It had already been almost three full days since Lizzie had been admitted into the ER. Maureen and Kathleen had come back to visit; they told Elliot that they called Kathy to let her know what was going on but she could seem to careless. He was kind of upset after all Lizzie was still her daughter, as much as he didn't want her to be, Kathy was Lizzie's biological mother. The last two nights Elliot had stayed at Liv's place and took care of Ella and Dickie, so Casey could have a break. Plus Lizzie wouldn't let Olivia leave her.

The night that Elliot had showed up at Olivia's place Casey had really let him have it. Telling him how he shouldn't walk all over Liv, that she deserved better then that especially since Sandra was having his baby. He explained to her that Sandra was lying, that she was just trying to get rid of Liv and that there had been nothing going on between him and Sandra. Then he told her his plan to ask Liv to marry him. Casey was so excited, she couldn't stop smiling. That was two days ago.

Olivia was getting her and Lizzie's stuff together because the nurse said that she would be released in about an hour. The nurse was bringing Lizzie back into the room as Olivia put the rest of their stuff into her duffle.

"Liviee! The nice nurse said we get to go home!"

"That's great news baby. I just finished getting everything together; you sit here while I talk to the nurse."

"Hi, the doctor was telling her father the other day what she should and shouldn't eat and drink. Can you give me a list, I'm not sure if he is going to remember what the doctor said; you know how guys can be."

The nurse went and got a list for Liv, along with Lizzie's release forms. Olivia then signed all the appropriate forms and before she knew, they were one their way home. Olivia parked the car and got Lizzie up to apartment. She opened the door to the smell of Elliot's homemade sauce, he was cooking for them.

"Baby, why don't you go get the extra pair of pajamas that's in the room you were staying in and then you can take a bath."

"Hey El, you know you really didn't have to go through all the trouble of cooking."

"It's no problem, plus I figured you were getting tired of hospital food and I had to do something you've been with Lizzie all weekend."

"El, if I didn't want to be there I could have left but I wanted to be there for her. I'm going to go get her into the tub; did Ella have her bath yet?"

"No, sorry."

"No, it's fine; I can get two done at once. By the way, that smells amazing. I'll be in the bathroom with the girls if you need me."

"Thank you Liv."

"No problem."

Twenty minutes later, Olivia was soaked head to toe but both girls were squeaky clean and in their pajamas.

"El! Quick come here please."

"Liv, what's wrong?"

He started to laugh as he turned into the bathroom.

"It's not funny here take Ella, so I can go get changed. Stop laughing it's not funny. You are so going to pay for that."

"Come here little girl, come on Lizzie, let Liv get dressed."

Elliot sat down on the couch with Ella and Lizzie. Not even five minutes later Liv was sitting right next to them looking very happy to be dry. She leaned back into the sofa and Lizzie made her way into Liv's lap. Liv pulled the little girl into a big hug.

"Where's Dickie?"

"In one of the spare bedrooms playing his video game."

"Of course, he is such a guy. El, why do you keep checking your watch? Are you waiting for a call from Sandra or something?"

"Sandra is gone and I am nothing but reliev—"

"El how could you say that, she's having your baby."

"No she isn't Liv, she lied; she was just trying to get rid of you. She thought by making you think that she was pregnant with my baby that you would run and that I wouldn't try and find you guys."

"Wow, I don't even know what to say. I'm sorry I freaked out on you."

"It's okay but I am waiting for a call for Cragen. I'm trying to see if I can get off tomorrow because I don't want to send her to camp while she's like this. Oh and there's the timer for the pasta."

"Here I'll take Ella. Lizzie slide over, I'll put some cartoons on, I need to go talk to daddy."

Lizzie was so wrapped up in the show, so she slide right over and said,

"Okay mommy."

It killed Liv to hear her say that, she longed for it to be true. She walked away like it didn't even bother her and went to talk to El. It felt so good to be back at her place with Ella in her arms, she had missed her so much.

"Hey El, why don't you just leave Lizzie home with me tomorrow and if Dickie doesn't want to go to camp either that's fine. I mean you have to get back to work and I'm rarely ever called into my new job, so it should be fine."

"Are you sure Liv? You spent all weekend with Lizzie; do you really possibly want them all week during the day?"

"Yeah, we'll be fine plus it gives me practice for when this one gets older. By the way, Ella meet your daddy. I don't think the two of you have been formally introduced."

Ella gave off one of her cute little half smiles, it was the best smile a baby her age could make; it was as if she had understood what Liv was saying to her.

"She really is amazing Liv."

"Thanks, it was really hard. Everyday looking at her, I saw so much of you. It killed me; when she gets made her forehead gets all crinkled like yours does. Her eyes are just like yours too."

"She has your smile Liv no doubt and your hair. She really is our little girl."

"She's my little miracle. I didn't know it was possibly to love someone so much until I had her."

The moment felt right, they both leaned toward each other and their lips met. First briefly, then they deepened the kiss; for them it felt so right like this is how it was supposed to be.

"Liviee, I'm thirsty."

Olivia and Elliot pulled away from each other fast; both were relieved to see that Lizzie hadn't made it to the kitchen yet.

"Hey baby, let's go check the list to see what you can drink."

She grabbed Lizzie's hand and brought her into the living room. Olivia read the list to herself, pretty much the only thing she had on her that Lizzie could drink was water. After a while that would get very boring.

"Okay baby, either me or daddy is going to have to go out and stock up with the stuff that's on this list. Let's go see if there's anything your brother wants from the store."

Olivia walked back into the kitchen from the guestroom that Dickie was in, with a list full of stuff they were going to need from the store. Both kids were trailing behind her, whining that they were hungry.

"El one of us is going to have to go get a bunch of stuff for the kids, there's certain stuff the doctor said would be better for Lizzie to eat and drink. Plus lunch stuff and snacks for Dickie, if he decides he wants to go to camp this week."

"I'll go after dinner."

They all sat down and ate; the table was full of conversation. Olivia thought that she could definitely get used to this. After dinner, Olivia went and got Ella changed and then put her to bed. Elliot was done with the dishes by the time Olivia came out of her bedroom from putting the baby to sleep.

"I'm going to go get the stuff from the store before it gets really late. Guys, don't give Liv a hard time and you should be in bed in about a half an hour."

Elliot got back to Olivia's place to find the three of them asleep on the couch. Dickie was at one end and at the other Lizzie was lying in Olivia's arms. He put the groceries away in the fridge and the appropriate cabinets then went and picked up Dickie and brought him to bed. He then lifted up Lizzie and brought her to bed as well. He tried to get Olivia to wake up, but the best he could do was help her walk half asleep to her room. He got her into the room and as he went to help her sit on the bed Olivia wrapped her arms around Elliot's neck. She pulled him in close and kissed him soft and slow. Elliot broke the kiss but their nose and lips were still touching. Elliot said into her lips,

"I love you Liv, more than anything in the world."

"Mhm, I love you too El."

So what do you think? I got more but not enough for chapter 12, i'll work on it more tomorrow. Should I keep it going?