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

30.Making strides

Chapter 30, won't keep you waiting so let's find out what our citizens are up to in this chapter that didn't want to be written. Per usual, the Wolf man owns, I just borrow.

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1 month later...

"I think you're ready!" Murphy said much to Amanda's delight. It had been five long weeks of training and preparation, of getting her background straight and working on her character, Jasmine Tremaine, a 26 year old wide eyed girl from Louisiana who came to the city to catch a big fish but got caught in the limelight.

"Wait...you mean I'm done, no more training?" to say she was thrilled would have been correct; learning another person, their mannerisms and everything, that had taken a lot of hard work and to hear Murphy say she was finally finished...

"It's a wrap, you're done, you are Jasmine Tremaine!" Amanda couldn't control the sense of accomplishment and joy she felt and jumped into his arms to hug him, quickly realizing what she was doing and immediately went to standing back at attention.

"I didn't mean..."

"It's okay detective" he smiled. "How do you feel?"

"Woo...uh happy, nervous, excited, relieved...ready!" She answered.

"Good, cuz you go under the day after tomorrow...no turning back. I suggest you take this time to say goodbyes, get your medical cleared." He said. And please for the love of god, cut down on your eating, you've gained a little." He stated harshly.

"I eat when I'm stressed...but I'll get it under control."

"Good, you have a role to play and that role requires a tiny you!"

"I got it"

"You got a new life starting!"

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A month brought a lot of changes for Olivia, mainly positive. Slowly she was coming back to herself, determined that Faust wouldn't win and Trevor was right beside her helping through every step of the way. She had opened up in therapy a little, at last admitting her rape to the therapist; a big step that she was able to take by finally listening to Trevor's encouragement. Dr. Shields was extremely proud of Olivia for trusting her with that step, until Olivia had told her, Trevor had been the only person who knew besides Fin, Nick and Amanda and she never really discussed it with them, instead choosing to act like it never happened and instructing them to do the same and never talk about it. They did as she asked but it was hard for them to see her drowning.

Now that she had told her therapist, she could start to heal and that's exactly what she was doing. In the last two weeks she had learned to use the front stairs; it had been hard at first and she had cried every time she made an attempt and couldn't go through with it. She'd stand in the hall near the exit to the stairs and she'd cry and eventually go back the other way but then one day she just did it; with Trevor at the bottom landing, she gathered up the nerve and she went down the stairs. She swallowed her ghosts and trepidation and went for it; she was fully in tears when she reached the bottom but they were tears of joy mixed in with her hurt and sadness and as she went in to Trevor's arms she let out a huge sigh of relief.

"I did it...I really did it!"

It hadn't been an everyday thing at first but she had made it a part of her routine and now for the last three days she only used the kitchen stairs when it was absolutely necessary and though she still wouldn't enter the living room, Trevor and Dr. Shields understood that she was taking baby steps and would get there eventually.

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Today they were putting the finishing touches on the new nursery. They'd had a room designer come in and create a truly beautiful space like he'd done for all of their children, but there was something about this space, knowing that she would be their last child...it kind of reminded them of when Chloe was coming. She was the beginning and now this little girl would be the end. Trevor stood watching as Olivia stopped folding clothes and instead went to rubbing her belly and looking down with a beautiful smile where she sat in the huge rocker. He took out his phone and snapped a picture before he went back to watching her; he couldn't remember the last time she looked so happy and wished the moment could last forever.