A parallel universe

Chapter Twenty Five

Elliot moved through the hospital hallways until he finally found the room that the nurse told him Olivia was in. He froze in the doorway, smiling at her as the others waited behind him.
"You going to stare at my beauty all day or are you going to come in?" She teased with a gentle smile. Elliot crossed the room and wrapped his arms around her the best he could and kissed her fiercely.
"Don't crush her" Fin teased lightly as Elliot pulled away and joined her on the bed, cuddling her against his chest.
"He won't. Ask me" She ordered gently, tapping on Elliot's leg.
"What happened out there? Did he-"
"No, El. I fought him and I won"
"Liv-"
"That's all. I swear" She assured him. He took her hand and placed it over his heart.
"You feel that? It's all yours Liv, that means it will wait as long as you need to heal"
"I don't need time. All I need is you" She smiled up at him.
"Do you two love birds need a minute?" Fin teased.
"If I wasn't bruised I might have said yes" She teased back. 
"Why did he come after you?" El asked, cutting through their smiles. 
"I got him arrested after a girl reported a rape. He wanted to make me pay for putting him away so he took my toughest case and used it to get to me. He thought that if it was Lewis coming after me, that it would break me completly, but he was wrong. I'm tougher than I look" She smiled up at him "Although I wish that you all didn't see those videos" She grimaced as Elliot smirked. 
"Somethings are meant to be private" El agreed. 
"It's not exactly private when you tell Amanda over the phone and I'm lying right beside her" Carisi grimaced. 
"No wonder you couldn't look us in our eyes" Liv tried to bite back her smile but failed. 
"You've been sharing stories with Amanda?" El smirked down at her. 
"Oh yeah. Why do you think we babysat last week? I gave her an idea or two" 
"Seriously? That's where she-"
"Oh yeah" Liv smirked at Carisi. 
"Olivia Benson, the sexual deviant" El laughed, earning a playful hit across his chest. 
"It's good to hear you laugh" Dr Lindstrom smiled at the pair from the doorway. 
"What are you doing here?" Liv asked bluntly. 
"Elliot called me" She looked up at him, meeting his bright blue eyes. 
"Why? I told you I'm fine, really" 
"Because you can't keep screwing your feelings away" 
"You weren't complaining the last time I screwed my feelings away" She retorted quickly, earning a little glare from him. 
"That's not the point Liv. You need help and I will gladly provide you with sexual help as long as you talk to someone about what is going through your head" She let out a little sigh and nodded. 
"You have a choice, they can stay or we can do this by ourselves" Lindstrom told her and she nodded gently. 
"Your first question is going to be, how am I. And the truth is that I'm fine, really. That man wasn't Lewis, he didn't even come close. Your next question is going to be what he did to me, and the truth is that he grabbed at me, no more than the others have. And when he did, we fought, and I won. He didn't rape me, others came closer" She admitted, earning a nod from Lindstrom. 
"You might want to leave for the rest of our discussion" Lindstrom told the others, earning nods. Elliot squeezed Liv's hand lightly before he kissed her deeply. 
"I'll be right outside" El assured her before he followed the others out of the room. 
"Ask the question that's been on your tongue since you got the call" Liv ordered gently. 
"Did it bring up any memories?" 
"No. When he touched me I wanted to push him away but, I didn't see Lewis or Harris. I could hear El. I could hear him telling me how beautiful I was, how no one else would hurt me as long as he lived. When he touched me, all I felt was his strength mixed with mine. I felt his love for me over everything else" Lindstrom let a wide smile spread across his lips before he moved to the door and opened it, telling the others to come in. 
"What's going on?" El asked as he slipped back onto the bed beside her. 
"I have no clue and that smile is starting to freak me out" She admitted, making him chuckle lightly.
"Congratulations Olivia, you've graduated therapy" He smiled. 
"And all it took was getting laid" She joked, earning laughs from around the group "It's probably a good thing that I've healed because I only get called Olivia when I am very naked" She admitted, earning more laughs.
"You only get called Olivia when the situation requires it" El reminded her. 
"And for most of those situations I'm naked" She added with a cheeky smirk. 
"I'm proud of you Oliv- Liv. We all should be. But, that doesn't mean that your trauma won't flare up again. If it gets to be too much-"
"I'll talk to someone" She assured him "That someone might already be beside me in my bed, but I promise to talk instead of bottling it all up" She assured him. 
"And sex isn't therapy" Lindstrom reminded her. 
"We'll have to agree to disagree on that one" She smiled, making Lindstrom chuckle lightly. 
"Take care of her Elliot, she's a lot tougher than you'll ever know but even she needs holding up sometimes" Lindstrom reminded him. 
"I will" El got up from the bed and moved to his side, holding out his hand for him to shake "Thank you, for taking care of her when I couldn't" Lindstrom nodded and shook El's hand before he casted one last smile at Liv before he left. And when El's eyes returned to hers, she smiled. 
"Is there anything that I can't do?" She teased, making his smile widen. 
"God, I'm so in love with you"