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

28.Adlib

Chapter 28. Things will start looking up for Liv next chapter but not yet. Dick Wolf owns, I just borrow.

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The following day at Trevor and Olivia's, the kids were sitting around the table having breakfast with Trevor when Adrienne stopped to ask him a question.

"Daddy?"

"Yeah baby?"

"When is mama getting up?"

"Um...you know what sweetie, mommy had a not-so-good night last night and I thought we'd let her sleep in this morning." He said as he wiped Noah's mouth.

"Is she mad at us?" Drew asked.

"No baby, mama could never be angry at you guys. Okay? Don't worry." He said and kissed her head.

"Is she mad at you?" Jamie asked. Trevor laughed.

"No. She's not mad at me either, Jamie. She's just tired." He grinned. Okay, you guys done with breakfast?"

"I'm done!" Jamie said

"Me too!" Drew added.

"I fin" Noah quipped. Trevor kissed him and lifted him from his chair.

"Okay, let's go get into our coats and get to school, grab your lunch boxes."

"Can we give mama a kiss?" Jamie asked.

"I think she'd like that" Trevor smiled.

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By the time Trevor got back to the house, he put Noah down in his playpen then put the dishes in the dishwasher, then went to the bedroom to see about Olivia only he got about 5 feet from the door when he heard her.

"Stop...please. Please no...please..."

Trevor ran inside to see that she was crying in her sleep and he immediately started to shake her out of it.

"Liv...come on baby, wake up!" He said as he sat beside her.

"Please don't..."

"Liv!" he shook her harder than he'd meant to but he needed to pull her out of the dream and she suddenly snapped awake, disoriented for a moment and flew into his arms sobbing.

"It's alright"

"He was..." She could barely speak through her tears. "and he held me down...and I couldn't stop him...I couldn't..." He held her and she collapsed against his body, holding on, her sobs seemingly unstoppable. Trevor was unsure exactly what to do and he couldn't stop the feelings of anger that took over at what Faust had done to his wife. He was holding a broken woman. As much as she tried to keep it together, and she tried so hard but she was just broken and he couldn't do anything. Faust was dead and he couldn't hurt him, he couldn't make him pay for what he'd done; never cause him the pain he'd caused his wife.

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After a while she had exhausted herself from crying and her tears finally stopped and she just lay there in his arms, quietly against him, finding comfort in being held by the man she loved so deeply. He rubbed her belly to calm the baby and his touch, his scent, his warmth; all of them made the bad seem that much further away and she wished that she could just get lost in it and hide from the world until he made her better.

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"So I'm thinkin maybe I should go..." Amanda admitted. She'd thought about it all last night and the more she did, it just seemed like a good idea.

"Just like that?" Dean asked.

"Well not "just like that" I mean; as far as guys go, we got a nice little...thing goin on here." She playfully ran her fingers through his mass of thick hair as he leaned back against her.