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"OLIVIA BENSON! Who is this boy? Are you trying to get pregnant?!" Serena yelled. She was drunk, but far from passing out. Olivia knew she still had a good 4 hours before that would happen.
"Mom, nothing is going on! You overreact every time. I was just helping him with homework. He was just about to leave." Olivia yelled back. Her mother glared at Elliot. "YOU, shame on you! All you boys are the same. All you want is one thing! Well, my daughter isn't giving into your ways, you juvenille! Leave!" Serena yelled.
Olivia looked at Elliot. On the one hand, she didn't want to see what happened when Elliot left, but she didn't want Elliot getting hurt by her drunk mother. "El, you should probably go." Olivia whispered to him.
"I'm not going without you Liv. You are not staying with her when she's like this." Elliot said. "Like hell she's not." Serena spat grabbing Olivia's arm. Olivia yelped as pain shot up her arm.
"Look at him Olivia! He wants you all to himself already. He's up to no good!" Serena slurred. "Hey, I'm trying to protect her from you! Until you can act like a real mother, Olivia shouldn't have to deal with the way you treat her." Elliot said.
"You don't know anything about our relationship. She is the reason I am this way. You know nothing!" Olivia said. Olivia visiblily cringed at her mother's words. Elliot wanted to take her out of her mother's grip and just hold her.
"Just let go of Olivia. I'll leave if you leave her alone and don't hurt her. I don't want to see a scratch on her." Elliot said. "She's my daughter. I can do what I want when I want. You're not in charge here." Serena seethed into Elliot's face.
Olivia relaxed when she heard Stan, her mother's current boyfriend, called from the living room. "Serena, baby, c'mon. The show starts in a hour. We gotta go."
"Coming, I'll be there in a minute." Serena called. She looked at Olivia. "We WILL talk later. You messed up big time." She seethed into Olivia's ear. Serena stormed out of the room and out of the apartment with Stan.
"Liv, are you okay?" Elliot asked hugging her. "El, I'm fine. Why did you do that?" Olivia asked sniffling. Her arm hurt like crazy. She lifted her arm to see that her mother's nails dug into her skin.
"C'mon, we're getting you bandaged up. We need to tell the police about what happened." Elliot said leading her to the bathroom. Olivia sat on the toilet. "El, no. She was just drunk. We're not going to the police." Olivia insisted.
Elliot pulled up a stool and started wrapping up her arm. "Liv, your shoulder looks like somebody hit you with a metal softball. You can't stay here. I wouldn't feel right leaving you alone with her." He said.
"Why'd you do that?" Olivia asked again. "Liv, you really think I'm going to sit on the side lines and watch your mother treat you like crap? I'd die before I let that happen. What was she even talking about anyway? She said it was your fault, I don't see how." Elliot asked.
"I can't." Olivia said. "What can't you?" Elliot asked stopping his ministrations. "I can't tell you. You'd bolt like everybody else I've told. I don't want you to leave." Olivia said quietly.
"I promise you, Liv. I'm not going to leave. If I do, I give you permission to kick my ass." Elliot said. Olivia chuckled at him. "There's that smile. C'mon, I promise with every fiber in my being that I will not leave until you ask me too. Even then, I probably won't leave 'cause I know that you won't mean it." Elliot said.
"Okay... my mother was attacked. I am the result of it. My mother blames me for it because I'm a reminder of it everyday. You can lock the door on your way out and I'll kick your ass tomorrow." Olivia said her voice breaking at the end.
"Liv, I'm still not going anywhere. So what if you came from that. I think you're pretty special. This is in no way your fault. You still don't deserve the way your mother treats you though. Just please, tell somebody. I don't want to come to school to see a new bruise or cut on you everyday." Elliot said.
"You're seriously not going anywhere?" Olivia asked shocked. "Not going anywhere." Elliot said puncuating each syllable. Olivia smiled as he finished up her arm. "Thanks." She said.
"No problem." Elliot said helping her up. Olivia felt the electric current zip through her body as he held her hand. She felt herself blush. "How about we go down the street? There's a movie theater there." Olivia asked.
"Sure. As long as you talk to someone about this." Elliot said folding his arms. "El, let it go." Olivia said. "No, Liv. If you don't, I will. I'm worried about you. Next time, it could be a broken arm or leg. Liv, you possibly couldn't make it next time. I need you to talk to someone." Elliot pleaded.
"I'll think about it." Olivia said. "No, that's not an answer to this type of question. Yes or no." Elliot said. Olivia hesitated. "Fine, but only if you go with me." Olivia bargained. "Fine, I was going to go with you anyway." Elliot smirked.
ELLIOT'S POV
He walked into his house around eleven o'clock. His parents sat in the living room reading. "Well, look who's finally home." His little sister, Rebecca, said. Elliot rolled his eyes.
Elliot's father stood up to look at him. "Where have you been?" Joseph said. "That's kind of what I wanted to talk to you about. It's important." Elliot said. "Fine, office now." He said before walking into the other room.
Elliot walked passed his mom, his two sisters on the floor, his younger brother, and one of his older brothers. Elliot closed the door behind him and sat in a chair close to his father's.
"So, what's so important?" Joseph asked. "There's this new girl at school. I went to her house after school. I met her mother." Elliot said and sighed. "Her mother has been abusing her. I wanted to keep her out of that apartment as much as possible. I convinced her to talk to someone. I was wondering if her and I could stop by the station tomorrow so she could tell you what happened."
"Uh, yeah. Come there right after school. What's her name?" Joseph asked. "Her name is Olivia Benson." Elliot said. "Benson!?" Joseph almost yelled. "You know her?" Elliot asked shocked.
"Yeah, her name is Serena. Fourteen years ago, a little girl came into a hospital with a broken bleeding arm. Her neighbor brought her in when she heard screaming from the next apartment. The little girl was Olivia Benson. She told police officers that her mother hurt her and left her alone.
The doctor said that if she didn't scream she probably would've bled to death in the apartment. They took her to court. She stayed with us while her mother was remanded until the court date. She stayed with us for three weeks and told us everything her mother had done to her. Serena was found not guilty because of lack of evidence.
Your mother and I went to her 5th and 6th birthday party. You and her did everything together. She used to sit on you when you did something wrong. She whipped you into shape. We have an album around here somewhere of you two." Joseph smiled.
Elliot smirked. "She hasn't changed much. She already said she'd kick my butt if I did something stupid."
"That's Olivia for you. Come by tomorrow. I'd love to see her again." Joseph said before clapping his son's shoulder. "By the way, Kathy called for you I think five times."
"Eight times!" Sara, his other sister, yelled from the other room. "I thought it was ten!" His brother Jordan yelled. Elliot chuckled. "I'll call her." Elliot said.
Elliot walked into the kitchen and dialed Kathy's number. She answered on the first ring. "Elliot! Where have you been? I've been calling you for hours." Kathy said. "I heard. Kathy, you can ask my parents to just tell me you called. You don't need to harass them about talking to me." Elliot sighed.
"Well, if you called back as soon as you got home, then I wouldn't have to." Kathy snapped. "Kathy, I just go home. I needed help with my school work. I went to a friend's." Elliot shrugged.
"Did you go to that little slut's house? That Olivia girl." Kathy seethed. "Hey, Kathy what is your problem? She's not a slut; she's my friend. I've known her a long time." Elliot said thinking of what his dad said.
"You met her today!" Kathy yelled. "Look, Kathy, I'm tired. I'll see you in the morning. Night." Elliot said hanging up before she could get anything in. He didn't want to deal with this right now.
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