Chapter three

**Elliot**

Station

September 23rd 2013

I had just walked into the precinct with Kat and Mo when my phone rang. I looked down and saw that it was Liv,

"Hey Liv I-." I got cut off by they sound of struggling and yelling.

"Lizzie, Dickie run! NOW! Run to the woods, stay back there and don't come out until you hear daddy call for you. NOW!" Olivia ordered and I heard foot falls running away.

There was a bit more and then "Uff," the sound of air being knocked out of your chest, and a gunshot. My heart sank. My kids or Olivia.

"Liv! LIV, OLIVIA!" I yelled into the receiver but there was no answer.

"MAMA WIVIAH!" I heard the twins run back but she didn't answer them.

"Olivia!" I yelled again. Then I heard the phone move around.

"Daddy?" I heard a scared little voice. Lizzie had picked the up the phone.

"Yea, pumpkin it's me. Are you and your brother okay?" I didn't get answer but knew how they talked on the phone.

"Pumpkin, I can't see you, you have to use your words for daddy." I coaxed. "Are you and your brother okay?"

"Yes, Mama not answeren. Hers not talken eaver daddy." She cried. My fears were overwhelming me now.

"Okay pumpkin, you sit right there with Mama. Daddy's on his way right now. You just keep talking to me. Sing me your favorite song."

While she sang the theme song to 'The Wonder Pets' I looked at the girls.

"Stay here with Casey! Fin, Munch, Something's wrong, we need to get the daycare now!" I ordered.

"Daddy, why Mama bleedin?" Lizzie asked.

"I don't know pumpkin, tell me about it, where is she bleeding? Is she bleeding a little bit like when you fall off your bike?" I asked trying to ascertain how bad she was hurt.

"Hers tummy."

"Okay, is it just a little bit?"

"No, it looks wike da rain puddles we's wike to jump in." my heart sank even further. She was going to bleed out before I could get to her. "Her's not talken daddy," she started to cry and I felt the first of my own tears start a trail down my cheek.

"I know pumpkin, but we are almost there. Put the phone down for just a second. Do you hear daddy's sirens?" there was silence for a minute.

"Yes, yous hurry right daddy?" she asked her voice shaking.

"Yes pumpkin, I'm turning the corner right now." We turned into the parking lot and I was out of the car before Fin had the chance to top moving.

"DADDY!" the twins ran to me and they were both covered in what I guessed was Liv's blood. I pulled them close for a minute before they struggle to pull away.

"Mama," they pointed.

I sat down next to Liv and put fingers on her neck. There was nothing. I laid her our flat and started chest compressions.

One, two, three, breathe. One, two, three, breathe. I check again and still nothing so I try again. One, two, three, breathe. One, two, three, breathe. I check again and her pulse is there. It's weak and thready and barely there, but shes alive.

"Fin! I need a bus!"

"Already have the helicopter on its way. ETA two minutes,"

I look down and I can see the blood pouring out of her. I rip her shirt open and ball it up over the wound in her stomach.

"I have to say Liv, this is not how I imagined the first time seeing you with your shirt off," I mumbled to her. Her entire body is covered in blood from her chest down to the tops of her thighs. I look over and the twins are covered head to toe in her blood. Their hands, face, legs, hair, it's all covered in blood.

I hear the telltale fast, 'whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop' of the helicopter landing in the clearing fifty feet away.

"Lizzie, Dickie, come here to Uncle Fin. Your daddy needs to go help Mama." Fin called them over and they went right to him.

The EMT's got her loaded quickly and I turned long enough to yell to Fin, "They have clean clothes in Liv's trunk!" it was Monday. She had them until Thursday morning since I work late.

We get on the helicopter and they start hooking her up to all sorts of machines. They take some blood from her wound and put it on some paper.

"She's AB, the only blood type we don't have Jerry!"

I turn to her, "I'm AB." I knew my blood type from being a Marine, and I also knew that AB was very hard to come by.

She takes my hand and pricks my finger confirming what I just told her.

"Hold on, you will probably get dizzy after this." Jerry put an IV in my arm and the woman patched the hole in Liv's stomach tightly. She took the blood that was collecting in the bag and started pouring it directly into an IV in Liv's arm.

"She's still not stabilizing." She curses under her breath and I do the only thing available to me right now.

"Liv, you have to be alright. You have to make it through this. I need you here Liv, with me. I can't make it without you. I love you Olivia Benson. I can't lose you."

"She's stabilizing," she looked up at me with a smile. "Keep on talking detective, it's working." I nodded and looked back at Liv.

"Come on Liv. You can do this, you're Bad Ass Benson. You kept them safe, you did it Liv. We need you, the twins, Maureen, Kathleen and even me. I love you Olivia." I leaned down and kissed her forehead and moved her bangs out her face.

"She's stable. Nice job detective. She's a fighter."

I nodded, "She has a lot to live for."

"ETA four minutes" the pilot called.

"Tell me about her," the EMT practically ordered.

"What can I say? She a stubborn, strong willed detective who annoys the hell out me some days, but she is the mother my kids don't have, she's caring, protective, and has a maternal instinct to rival a bears. Shes my whole world, without her I have no partner, best friend, or confidant." I take her hand in mine and I realize we are landing.

TBC

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