Weep little lion man, you're not as brave as you were at the start.
Later that day I swing by the station to pick up paperwork and avoid Donnelly, when I enter the bullpen I see Olivia looking nostalgically at a picture of herself from when she graduated from the Academy.
"Hey." I sat placing my hand on her shoulder.
"You know, back then I thought I would be able to do it all. I thought nothing on the job could ever get to me." She admits
"Well, when I first got here I thought I'd be governor one day."
We both laugh, knowing since I first joined SVU I used every favor I've had in my life and then some.
After a moment of silence she asks "Why can't I go back to that?"
"I wish I knew."