* This took a lot longer than I had expected, but here's a new chapter. *

"You know you're looking at fifteen years or more and last time I checked child predators aren't treated very well in prison."

Nick and Fin had spent nearly four hours trying to locate the husband after taking the woman into custody. Amanda had accompanied Noah and the baby girl to the hospital. Meanwhile, Fin and Nick had spent their time in an interrogation room with the big, bearded man that had been the accomplice of the woman, who in the end had been caught trying to cross a toll bridge.

"I didn't do anything it was all that bitch you have." The bearded man sat back in his seat, calm and cool, like he hadn't done anything.

Fin scoffed. "Oh yeah, because I'm sure our sergeant won't be able to tell us that you were the man who broke her ribs, gave her a concussion, or left her in the hospital for the last three days."

He didn't say anything back and a look of defeat crossed his face. In that moment the detectives realized that the man had thought she was dead, he hadn't expected that after all the injuries he had inflicted, Olivia would have survived.

"You're telling me that she's still alive?" He asked.

Nick just chuckled. "Wow... Well I'm glad you didn't do anything to her then."

Nick shoved the man up from his seat, read him his rights, and walked to the holding cell where he would be picked up later and arraigned. It always the dumbest ones that thought they could get away with so much.

"Hey can you hold it down here for a while?" Nick looked at Carisis and Fin who were sitting at their desks, laptops open, as he returned from shutting the doors on their latest arrests.

Fin looked up at him. "We're good. Go see Liv, tell her we caught them and that she needs to get better quick so we're not stuck with a sub captain forever."

"Yeah I'll make sure she knows that she needs to get better for our sakes." Nick joked with the other detective. "But thanks, I'll let you know how she and Noah are."

But when Nick arrived at the hospital nearly half an hour later, having stopped for coffee for himself and Barba, there wasn't much time to talk to Olivia. The morning had just rolled around and she was being taken from her room to get another MRI and a head CT and a few other tests to check on her healing progress and to determine when she would finally be allowed to go home. But the mom was much more worried about getting to visit her son. She knew only what Barba had told her the night before after talking to Nick and that was that Noah had been found, he had been brought to Mercy, the same hospital as Liv, and neither Rafael nor Olivia knew any more than those two not very comforting facts.

"She's not going to last very long going through all of this without seeing Noah." Nick spoke to Rafael outside of Olivia's room, as more procedures were being done. "Have you seen Noah?"

Barba only wished he had seen Noah since he had been brought to the hospital. He wasn't always fond of children, but Noah had a something special about him that grasped at the attorney and to have known more about her son, would have been rather nice for Liv. "They wouldn't let me see him last night when I went down to pediatric ICU. The nurses said they thought he was doing fine, but that there were precautions and things they were trying to take with him. So that's all I know, nothing more than you do."

"Maybe I should see if I can find anything new out." Nick made the suggestion, but had a feeling that as only a colleague of Olivia, he wouldn't have any more pull than Barba when it came to getting information.

But neither of the guys moved from where they stood. As much as both of them cared about Noah, they also knew that he was in much better shape than his mother when he had been brought in and he was probably in good hands in the pediatric unit.

As another hour dwindled down, Rafael and Nick still were waiting outside of Olivia's room and as the hour neared its close, they were finally given permission to join Liv in her room.

"Nick." Olivia was, actually, happy to see another familiar face and she also assumed that since Nick was finally able to spend time at the hospital that it meant the team had possibly closed their investigation.

"How are you feeling, Liv?" The male detective stood closer to the bed.

"I'm okay." She answered, but both Barba and Nick could hear the pain that she would never admit she was feeling in her voice. It was quiet and strained. "Have either of you seen Noah?"

The inevitable question they both should have been expecting. But neither had the answer she was hoping for.

"Not yet, Liv. Did they say anything to you about getting to go see him?" Barba asked.

Liv nodded. "I can, but the doctors were waiting to hear about him and whether or not they would let us in to see him."

Rafael and Nick stayed with Olivia for a couple more hours as they waited to hear about Noah. Liv slept for a little while; there was another coffee trip, and a few visits from nurses checking on their patient. When they had been waiting for almost three hours, the doctor from the pediatric unit finally came to see Olivia and discuss Noah's condition with her.

"He's been pretty stable in the last few hours. When they brought him in last night he was having a pretty severe asthma attack and we had to place him on oxygen to get him breathing normally again. But we were able to take him off the oxygen this morning and he seems to be doing much better. As far as any other physical injuries, he has a few bruises and scratches, it's all superficial." The doctor explained to the mom and the men in her room.

"When will he get to go home?" Liv knew that he would get to leave before she would and that worried her, what was she going to do with her son while she stayed in the hospital?

"I would say in a couple of days. With his asthma, as you probably already know, there's a good chance he may suffer another attack and usually they happen within twenty four to forty eight hours, so just to be on the safe side we'll keep him over that period."

Olivia knew that it was good for her little boy to spend as little time as possible in the hospital, but she also didn't want him to get to go home and spend all of his time with Lucy, the babysitter, or anyone else who would be willing to watch him while she laid in her own hospital room.

"Can I see him?" All the worries needed to wait, Liv just wanted to see Noah.

"Of course. I'll let one of the nurses know and they can help you get down to pediatric floor." With her information given and a new task at hand, the doctor left the room.

In the next half an hour, Olivia was being pushed in her wheelchair, still not strong enough or allowed to walk, into the pediatric unit. There were tiny humans filling the room, each in their own small bed, many of them seemed much worse off than Noah had been described. The nurse pushed her towards the far side of the room, where Noah and a familiar blonde detective were waiting.

Liv ignored most of what was going on around her as soon as her eyes met Noah's. He was the only child in the unit sitting up in his bed, rather than lying down, which didn't surprise the mother; he wouldn't stay still or lay down for her, so he certainly wouldn't do it now for someone else. But she also found comfort in his defiance because he was obviously feeling better. And when he reached out towards her and happily spoke her name, or mama, his name for her, Olivia knew that he was going to be just fine.

"Hi Noah, hi baby." Olivia grabbed his hand and he giggles at her.

"Mama!" Noah squealed with excitement. Three days was a long time for a child to be without their mother and being stuck with a random couple, it was traumatizing for everyone involved.

There was a little bit of silence for a while as Noah and Liv finally got to spend time together. The other detectives and Barba watched, all relieved that the mom and son were back together without another outcome that could have been much worse.

As Noah wore himself out, Olivia turned to look at everyone else. "Amanda, were you here all night? You really didn't need to do that."

Amanda looked at Nick and Rafael, now understanding that there had been a few things they hadn't informed Liv of.

"I was..." The hesitation was obvious in her voice. She turned to look at Nick and whispered, "You never told her?"

Olivia watched the rather odd behavior of Amanda and Nick. "Okay, so obviously there's something I'm missing."

"Umm... Yeah. With everything that had happened, I just hadn't gotten to bring it up earlier." Nick explained.

"What wasn't brought up earlier then?" Olivia questioned.

Amanda looked at both men and then took into her own hands to fill Liv in. "When we found Noah last night, Noah wasn't the only child they had. They also had a little girl. She's only four weeks old."

"Is she alright?" Liv couldn't imagine having an infant stolen by some insane couple.

"The pediatrician said that she seemed a little malnourished, but other than that she seems to be healthy. They just wanted to keep her to observe her because she's so little other things may arise." Amanda told her sergeant.

"So I'm a little bit confused." Everyone knew that they weren't going to get away with hiding anything from Olivia. "Why didn't any of you say something before now about finding another baby with Noah?"

"It's not that we didn't want to say anything." Nick started. "It's just that when Fin and I were in the interrogation room with the woman, we asked her where she got the baby."

Liv just looked at him. "Well I assume you would ask her. That was the point of questioning her wasn't it?"

Nick continued. "And when she finally explained how she got the baby and who the man was that they got her from…" There was a long silence before the male detective finished his sentence. "Fin and I are almost sure that they got the baby from Johnny D."

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