"Good evening Ramirez" Alex said as she entered her apartment "Where is Detective Benson at?"
"In the kitchen ma'am"
"Thank you." Alex said as she walked into the kitchen. She leaned against the door way and watched the detective. It had been a little over two weeks since Olivia had started her rehabilitation. She spent the first week in the hospital performing the hyperbaric oxygen therapy daily for one hour each time. She also met with a behavioral therapist and the physical therapist twice a week.
After that first week she was released but had to return daily for treatments. Alex, Cragen, or Elliot made sure she made it to her appointments as needed. Admittedly it was mostly Elliot that Olivia wanted taking her. Alex was hurt at first until she discovered why she wanted Elliot taking her and then she was pissed.
Olivia, who was always one to push herself past the point of no return, had Elliot taking her to a firing range daily. Once she chewed Elliot a new one for allowing Olivia to do that, not that anyone could stop her. Of course once Olivia had discovered what she had done they had gone a few rounds in her kitchen as well. By the time they were done she was short a drinking glass and had a hole in the wall.
Once she calmed herself down and kept the flashback at bay she found Olivia packing, once again citing that she was too dangerous to be around and needed to leave. Alex, who had come to the conclusion she had a death wish, yanked Olivia's bag out of her hand and flung it across the room and went toe to toe with her again. Finally they both calmed down and had a civil conversation, where they reached an agreement.
Since Olivia was determined to push herself Alex had gone and bought her a BB gun and large hunting targets to practice her shooting with. That seemed to help her immensely. She smiled as she reached the door and leaned against it to watch Olivia. She had the BB gun she had bought her eye level in her hand repeating front sight front sight. She slowly pulled the trigger as she repeated squeeze, squeeze, squeeze and bang. Alex cringed as she watched the small hole appear to the upper right of the large target.
"Damn it" Olivia growled as she slung the glass next to her across the room.
"You know if you keep that up detective I will have to replace my glasses by next week." Alex said smiling.
"Maybe if you would have been smart and let me leave you wouldn't have to." Olivia growled as she spun around to face the attorney.
"I've done told you I'm by your side every step of the way and I don't care about the glasses."
"You know for a smart woman you can be pretty dumb" Olivia growled as she got in Alex's face.
"If you're going to do something then do it" Alex growled back as she pushed off the wall.
"Damn it" Olivia said spinning around and firing three quick shots all hitting bulls eye "You don't know what you're asking for."
Alex raised her eyebrow as she maintained eye contact with her. She took a deep breath when Olivia holstered the weapon and pulled her fist back. Before Alex could blink she slammed her hand into the wall next to Alex's head.
"Let me go Alex" Olivia whispered into her ear "I can't be saved."
Alex held it together till she heard Olivia slam her bedroom door. Only then did she stop fighting the flash back and sunk to the floor. She came too with Office Ramirez standing over her and coaxing her out of it. She accepted his help to her feet and thanked him.
"ma'am" Ramirez said stopping Alex from heading to Olivia's room "Detective Stabler arrived a few minutes ago and is in the room with her."
"Thank you Ramirez" She said as she went up the stairs. She stopped outside the door when she heard the two shouting at each other.
"Damn it Olivia you need to pull yourself together" Elliot shouted at Olivia. He was tired of playing with kid gloves with her "You have an ADA downstairs that is trapped in her own hell because of you. Do you realize every time you scream and punch a new hole in the wall you're a reminder of Jess to her?"
"You think I don't know that." Olivia growled as she pushed him away from her.
"Then straighten your ass up before you become Jess."
"Stabler that is enough" Alex ordered as she entered Olivia's room.
"Alex stop protecting her it's only a matter of time before she strikes you."
"You bastard" Olivia growled pulling Elliot around by his color and delivering a well placed punch "It will be a cold day in hell before I lay a hand on her."
The surprise attack caused Elliot to stumble backwards and into Alex. Alex not meaning too screamed when she fell back into the door. Hearing Alex scream and seeing Elliot fall back into her seemed to have been the final straw for her. She snatched Elliot up and slung him out the door.
"Alex Alex" She whispered dropping to her feet "Talk to me. Are you ok?"
"I'm fine Liv." Alex answered as she sat back up.
Olivia reached out and gently caressed the spot on the side of her face where she hit the door as she fell. "You're going to have a bruise."
"It's not my first one." Alex stated as she pushed Olivia's hand away "I know how to cover them so they can't be seen."
"Alex are you ok?" Elliot asked as he stood back up and headed back in.
"Don't go near her." Olivia ordered as she propelled herself toward him causing both of them to tumble out into the hallway with her on top.
"I swear to god if you go near her again I will kill you." Olivia growled as she delivered punch after punch to Elliot's upper body.
"Then do something" Elliot screamed as he flipped her over his head with him landing on top "Because I will be here and near her till you can do it yourself."
"Not if you're going to hurt her, you're not." Olivia answered as she delivered a well placed knee to his groin.
"I didn't hit her." Elliot groaned as he rolled off Olivia "You punched me which knocked me off balance. I didn't know she was behind me when I stumbled. You knocked me into her."
"What did you say?" Olivia asked
"I said you knocked me into her."
Olivia stood and looked from Elliot to Alex and back. Then slowly everything replayed in her head and she felt sick to her stomach. She started to run past Alex when she grabbed her and stopped her.
"Don't run out that door.' Alex whispered.
"I hurt you." Olivia said looking away unable to meet her blue eyes "I swore to myself I would never do that and I have."
"I stepped into a fight between two hard headed detectives. I'm lucky all I got was pushed into the door."
Olivia continued to stare at the floor before she finally raised her head and looked Alex in the eyes.
"I need to increase my appointments with the behavioral therapist." Olivia said so low that Alex almost didn't hear her.
"Then we will call her in the morning and increase your visits." Alex said pulling Olivia to her and waving Elliot back "Anything else you need?"
"A gun" Olivia said with her eyes glued to the red spot forming on Alex's cheek.
"No this is truly an accident." Alex said turning Olivia's face so she could look into her eyes "You did not do this on purpose. This occurred during your fight with Elliot. It is truly an accident and not something I'm covering for."
"I don't like feeling like this" Olivia said breaking down in Alex's arms "I'm so terrified that I won't fully recover or that I will lose it and hurt you."
"To heal you must relax Olivia "Alex said as she motioned Elliot to sneak by. She knew that Olivia would hate it if he saw her crying "Come on let's get you back in bed."
Olivia allowed Alex to guide her back into her room and into the bed.
"What if I don't fully recover?" Olivia asked "What then?"
"We will face that when and if it happens" Alex said as she slid into the bed next to Olivia and opened her arms for her to come to her. "Olivia you have only been having therapy for two weeks now. This is a major injury not something you can heal from overnight ok. It takes time. Please allow yourself the time needed. That is all I ask ok."
"Mkay" Olivia mumbled as she began to drift off.
A/N: Please don't be mad that I have Olivia completely out of character in this chapter. Please remember that she is suffering from a TBI and it can alter her behavior. To my reviewer about the hyperbaric treatement any extra information you can give I would love and thank yo so much for assisting on this treatment form. To everyone else thank you thank you thank you for reading, following, favoriting, and reviewing this story.