Waiting to know when the jury would come back with a verdict was hard enough. In Olivia's case, she was overly anixous to know. It didn't help that she hardly slept, which didn't help her the next morning. Everyone in her squad completely understood, but knew that Olivia barely could focus on the current case.

In fact, she was very much on edge; which explained why Olivia was home so early that day. It didn't surprised Elliot in the least, "Captain send you home?"

" Yeah, thinks I need to relax. Says I'm way too edgy to be there," as she noticed the look on his face," What you agree with him?"

Elliot sighed," You didn't sleep last night, I'm not surprised if the jury takes a few days before deciding. We both know that these things do happen. For now, you can't just not sleep."

" How the hell are you so calm El?"

He knew how Olivia could get, but didn't want to start an argument, " Right now there's nothing that either of us can do. He's off the street and unable to harm another woman. Who knows what he might do if he was."

" Retirement really got to you didn't it?", noticing that Elliot didn't respond as she followed him into the bedroom, "Where are you going?"

"Emily and I have a playdate, I joined some stay at home Daddy group."

Olivia made a face," That's a first," as he gently lifted Emily out of the crib, before Olivia kissed her cheek. Somehow being with her daughter calmed her, as she held her for a few minutes. Once Emily was in her stroller, Elliot turned to Olivia," At first I wasn't to keen on joining that sort of group, now it's actually alright. Making some new friends."

" You're the oldest?" she teased.

Elliot sighed," Nope, there's two other guys my age. They have other kids, one's actually a retired cop from the Bronx."

It amused her that he even would join something like that. On the other hand, it did keep him busy," Have fun, just call me if you do anything else."

Once he and Emily had left, Olivia went into the bedroom and stripped off her clothes before slipping into a pair of exercise pants and a top. However, she didn't dare to lie down knowing that the jury could come back with a verdict any moment now.

Instead, Olivia glanced around noticing that the apartment was messy. Her frustrations only inceased while cleaning. She scowled over the fact that Elliot was a bit of a slob, but more importantly he hadn't done the laundry; which he promised to do.

By the time he came back, Olivia was down right pissed. Without a word, he went into the bedroom; and placed Emily in her crib; since she was sound asleep. Elliot made a point to close the bedroom door, so that she wouldn't be disturbed.

Olivia shot him a look, in which Elliot knew could lead into a fight," You are not going to keep this business of not sleeping until the verdict comes back. We've all been through hell, you're tired. I love you Liv."

She saw the look in his eyes," I can't fall asleep, my mind just can't shut down."

" Would a massage help?"

Olivia didn't decline his offer as she went into the bed and climbed into bed. Just the feeling of his hands massaging both her back and neck , seemed to calm her. Especially once he used warm lotion, as she tried to focus on a place she always wanted to go.

Before long, Olivia was fast asleep. Elliot gently pulled up the covers closer to her before heading out of the room. By night time, after Emily was asleep for the night; he sat down on the couch thinking about what the verdict might be. He hoped that none of the jurors believed Jason.

By the next morning,Olivia headed back to work still a bit on edge. Luckily the current case that the squad was working on seemed to keep her focused. Still she wondered why the jury was taking this long to decided on a verdict.

Was it the fact that one person or more believed Jason? Nevertheless, Olivia knew that they should just make up their minds already. She just wanted this whole thing to be over, but still wondered what else happened at the place where Elliot was physically abused.

For now, he too was trying to move on. Perhaps simply, there wasn't any more to the story. Or the the fact that Jason just continued to emotionally abuse him. That could be possible, but Olivia wasn't going to press Elliot to tell her.

He too had also gone through hell, perhaps it wasn't worth bringing it up. An hour later, Fin informed her that was found dead in his cell. He had hung himself, but she knew why. He too was equally guility for not stopping Jason from killing Victoria's boyfriend and daughter.

Among other things, he was also found to be neglectful to his other patients who had no connection to Jason. Olivia wasn't surprised, but wished he had alerted authorities to her location. That was the past, there was nothing she could to do change that.

Throughout the rest of the day, Olivia hoped to hear something but didn't. In a way, it was good since the jury was taking into account all the evidence and testimony, and going through everything. They just wanted to make sure, but she feared that he would walk.

Around 6pm, she got the call to be at the courthouse around 7am. Olivia's heart was pounding loudly inside her chest, even she arrived home. Elliot too worried about everything that could go wrong, but kept an open mind that there was a possiblity that it wouldn't.

Nevertheless the two remained awake the whole night. Neither of them could sleep, knowing that tomorrow could be one for them to celebrate or one that could be another nightmare.