Tangled Webs II: Normal For The Spider - An SVU fic

17.Concealing

A million apologies but this chapter fought the holy hell out of me- it wanted to go one ay and I wanted something else and I finally got a compromise so here we are. If anybody is still with me, I hope that there will never be another wait this long. You guys are awesome, I mean that! here we are, chapter seventeen at last. Dick Wolf owns the SVU characters and I... yeah. Enjoy!

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He doesn't sleep, just roams the house all night consumed by his thoughts. He has no idea how everything fell apart so quickly, how everything could be turned completely upside down. he couldn't stand being in this house, felt that it was tainted - his wife and daughter had been attacked here, viciously attacked but even in the wake of it Olivia insisted that they couldn't shake up the children's lives, that they needed as much normalcy as she and Trevor could give them.

Life has a funny way of changing the rules and leaving us asking ourselves 'what if?' For instance: What if Liv hadn't found that flash drive? And What if she'd never watched what was on it? What if she hadn't discovered the truth about what happened to Chloe and what if she hadn't made Trevor leave?

Then, what if, just hours after he did, there had been no maniac who forced his way into their home and while their children were upstairs sleeping, raped and brutalized Olivia then badly injured their baby girl and sent an already fragile Travis completely over the edge, leaving them all devastated?

Faust had already taken so much from their family but now, with this final act he may have destroyed it!

One month.

One month of grieving the loss of his brother while his daughter lay in a coma for three weeks of that month and his wife was in and out of consciousness for two days of that month oblivious to the chaos going on around them but for a total of five days Trevor had to watch his wife suffer through the worst pain she's ever gone through, pain that though she tried to downplay its severity for his sake, gripped her to the point of cold sweats and trembling and on the days where it was at its absolute worse, she could do nothing more than lie there sobbing in agony, sometimes screaming while holding on to him for dear life.

"I'm sorry... I'm sorry!" she apologized after letting out a pain-filled cry that made known every ounce of the suffering she was experiencing. She was fully awake and fully alert and the pain had quickly become too much for her to tolerate.

"Honey please, let them give you something" he begged again for the umpteenth time. It killed him to see her this way but she refused to be swayed. As long as she could feel her baby moving inside her, healthy, she drew strength from it and knew that she was doing what was best for him or her. She suffered selflessly for the sake of their child. Trevor hadn't yet told her that she was carrying another girl.

"No! It'll hurt the baby...I'll be okay, please just... I'll be fine. As long as he or she is okay..." she insisted as she swallowed her tears.

"She" he said with tears in his eyes as he palmed her belly.

"What?"

"The doctor slipped and told me the night you came in; we're having a girl."

Though it hurt tremendously, Olivia couldn't stop the huge smile that spread across her face as more tears trailed her cheeks but these were happy tears.

"A baby girl...Drew wants a sister!"

"Yeah...she does." He smiled, finding joy in seeing Olivia happy.

"Casey... I want her name to be Casey" she said through her tears as she placed her hand on top of his where it rested on her belly. It wasn't something she needed to think about.