One Thing Led to Another

Chapter 22: End Of Them

Elliot had sat on the couch, he knew he should go into the room and comfort Liv. But how could he comfort her with something he caused. He sighed and stood up, he would make it up later, right now he had to bring Eli to school.

"Bud! Time for school!" He called out. The little blonde hair boy ran out his room his curls bouncing. "I ready daddy! Where mommy?" He looked around. "She's not feeling well today, it's only me today bud." Eli grinned "Okay daddy!" He held his hand.

Liv sat in the room, she had been sitting there ever since Eli and Elliot had left 20 minutes ago. She sat staring into the distance. The same question repeating in her head, was this the end of them? She felt the tears well up when she thought of it. Thought of not being with him, physically made her sick. She caught herself throwing up, mainly because of the morning sickness, the second because of the thought.

She finished up and heard the front door open. She froze, she went into cop mode. She quietly crept out of the bathroom getting her gun from the safe. She held her gun up slowly making her way down the hall, she could hear noises from the kitchen. She made her way towards the kitchen, she peered into the kitchen. She sighed a sigh of relief

"Elliot, why are you home?" "I took the day off." "Oh." Liv went back to the room, she safely put the gun back into the safe and laid back down. She heard the Elliot's footsteps coming towards the room. She closed her eyes and pretended to sleep. She heard Elliot enter the room and lay next to her.

She heard him sniffle "Baby I'm sorry, please forgive me." He whispered and kissed her shoulder. She rolled over and faced him, her eyes still close. He pulled her close and she nuzzled her head in the crook of his neck. He kissed her head savoring the moment. "I forgive you." She whispered against his neck. He kissed her forehead.

"I love you baby, and I would never ever cheat on you." "I'm sorry...I just thought that this was too good to be true that something was bound to happen." She whispered tearfully. He rubbed her cheek "Nothing could ever make me break up with you baby. I. Love. You." He kissed her forehead. She smiled "I love you too." She snuggled herself closer to him. He rubbed her back soothingly and whispered sweet things in her ear while sleep claimed her.

They both had woken up to someone banging on the door. Liv looked at the clock 12:50. She sighed "El, baby go see who it is." He got up "Shut the hell up i'm coming!" He yelled and opened the door. There standing was Nick.

"Come with me quietly and there will be no problems." He pointed a gun towards him. "If you don't come with me then I'll hurt Liv and Eli." Elliot nodded. "Fine. I'll go with you just don't hurt them." He went with Nick.

Liv walked out of the bedroom after looking for Elliot "Baby?" She yelled through the apartment. She looked around and found him nowhere to be. She started to panic. "Elliot! This isn't funny! Where are you?!" She ran around the house, she found no sign of him. She cried and looked around more. She saw his ring on the table, "Did he leave?" She whispered to herself.

All these thoughts went through her mind. Where was he? He wouldn't just up and leave. They were perfectly fine just a few minutes ago. She picked up the phone calling the whole squad. "Captain Donald Cragen, Special Victims Unit. How can I help you?" "El-" she cried "Liv, sweetie what's wrong? What happened?" "He's gone." She whispered. "I'll be over." Liv cried harder.

"Breathe Liv, you need to stop crying. You can hurt the baby. I'll bring everyone over." "Okay." She whispered weakly. She hung up and cried.

Elliot was blindfolded and thrown into the back of Nick's trunk. He prayed silently hoping that he would come out alive, hoping he would be able to see Liv, hoping that he could see their baby be born. He didn't even notice the tears streaming down his face but it didn't matter. He just hoped that he could be home soon with Liv.

He had felt the car stop and heard Nick running to open the trunk. Nick laughed "Not so tough now Stabler. We are in for some fun." He pulled Elliot up and led him into a warehouse, chaining him to a chair. He undid the blindfold, Elliot looked around.

"Nick please don't do anything. Just let me go and I won't tell anyone." Nick laughed "No Stabler." he pulled out tools. "Let's see how much pain you can take." Elliot closed his eyes. This was it. He was dead.

Liv was sitting on the couch after everyone had left, they all had sat down ruling Elliot's disappearance as him leaving on his own. Liv heard the front door open "Mommy? Daddy?" little Eli said. She wiped her tears "Baby i'm on the couch." She heard his little feet running towards her.

She picked him up "Hi baby." She plastered a fake smile on. "Hi mama." He nuzzled their noses and kissed her cheek. "Where's daddy?" her heart broke. How was she going to tell him? Oh your dad left and your mom gave you to your dad. Pure fear ran through her.

How was she gonna raise two kids? A newborn and a child? She was new to motherhood, how was she gonna do this? "Mama" he rubbed her cheek. She looked at him "Baby daddy left for a while. It's just you and me now." she saw the little blue eyes fill with tears "Daddy left?" "Yeah baby I'm sorry." She cried and rocked him. He cried into her chest. She sighed lightly, what was she gonna do?

A/N ~ I am so so sorry for how long it has taken me to write this chapter. But goths good news is that i'm making a sequel! So this is sadly the end of this book and look out for the sequel! Happy Holidays ~ Victoria