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

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"What do you guys think?" Trevor asked as the kids ran through the new house..

"Are we gonna live here?" Jamie asked stopping excitedly with a big smile on his face, his nose crinkled just like Olivia's when she was excited.

"That depends." Trevor said.

"On what?" Jamie asked. Drew ran over to Trevor and lay against his leg, he quickly lifted her into his arms, softly rubbing her back and she just as quickly put her head down on his shoulder.

"On if you and your sister like it." Olivia said. She put her hands to her back and stretched.

"You okay Mama?" Jamie asked.

"I'm okay baby." She let out a deep breath.

"What about Noah?" Jamie asked.

"Well, Noah is pretty much happy anywhere as long as we're together. Aren't you Noah?" She said to the toddler who was following Jamie with his turtle stuffed under his arm. He uttered something that Olivia and Trevor didn't understand and burst into laughter.

"I'm thinking that's a yes." Trevor said, causing Olivia to laugh. "So, guys, what do you think?"

The kids agreed that the house was a good buy prompting Trevor and Olivia to go for it. That Saturday morning, they said yes to the realtor and agreed to buy the house, Olivia feeling especially relieved that they'd found somewhere she could finally call home. She'd tried but she never could get past what Faust had done to her in that house, what he'd done to Drew; though she'd tried to forget. But now they'd finally found someplace new where they could start fresh and the weight that that took off her was immense; and hopefully in a new house, Drew would never recall the memories she hadn't yet.

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Later that afternoon, when the kids were down for their nap, Olivia walked to the bedroom, stopping before she went in to look at Semper and Jax.

"Come on guys, you stay out here." They looked at each other, then at her as if they hadn't heard her, intent on following.

"I mean it." They gave each other another look and whimpered sadly.

"Oh stop..." They whimpered louder, even sadder. "Fine." she opened the door to her room and went inside, the dogs on her heels. She went into the closet to pick out an outfit for tonight, the dogs following and she quickly pointed them out. She was searching through her pants when she heard a noise on the other side of the closet and froze, quickly regretting her decision.

"Trevor?" She whispered with a wish, her heart pounding nearly out of her chest. Slowly she grabbed her gun from the lockbox only there was no answer so she called again. "Trevor, are you in here?" She called, inching ever closer to the door; she was relieved when he answered her.

"I'm here hon." She came around to the other side, gun still trained and stopped, dropping the gun to her side when she saw him there, sitting on the floor.

"You scared the bejesus out of me!" She said.

"I'm sorry, are you okay."

"Yeah, I'm fine...I almost shot you!" She exclaimed as he took her gun and removed the clip. "Are you okay? What are you- oh." She said, noticing the box lying beside him, it was the box that Travis' lawyer brought to him a week after... He had been holding on to it for almost two months and never had the nerve to open it, feeling like it would be saying goodbye. He just wasn't ready to do that.

"I still... I can't open it."

She stood there at a loss for words, not sure that anything would comfort him right now but knowing that he needed her, she took his hand and slowly got down on the floor, carefully, and sat beside him holding his hand as she put her head on his shoulder. They sat that way for a long moment before either of them spoke.