Everything Changes

Fragile

As much as Olivia wanted to keep Amanda and the others safe and away from Odis Lee, she no longer could, mostly because he had never been under arrest in the first place during his time at the precinct.

On the bright side, though, plans had been made to bring Alex and the others out of hiding and to the station-house. Bedelia was even already at the precinct, hanging out in the kitchen while she waited for them to arrive.

In the meantime, Olivia, Nick, Fin, and Carisi were powwowing in Olivia's office with a trio of consultants in the form of Barba, Casey, and Melinda. It was all hands on deck.

Barba and Melinda had already been working on the case, meaning that nobody was all that surprised when they came, but Casey was an unexpected bonus. She was currently the Homicide Bureau Chief, but was looking to move back to the special victims unit in some kind of attorney capacity because she was ready to return; it was just a matter of the right opportunity at this point. Today she was on loan from the homicide unit because she'd inadvertently become involved at the hospital, and because her boss knew of her history with the SVU.

Olivia was delighted to have help from her friends because she knew how loyal they were to her, and it was with help from her posse them that they were able to decide that the toxicology reports showing just how close Kim had been to an overdose, as well as the MRI films of her body, highlighting the injuries from her father, would be enough to get a search warrant from Judge Donnelly or Petrovsky.

However, now that Kim was recovering from her seizure and getting her stomach pumped, getting a statement from her was going to be easier said than done. Barba was even sure that if Kim cooperated enough, the warrant she had standing against her from her last visit to New York waived away.

This was all a step in the right direction, and they felt accomplished, but now they were trying to figure out how Amanda's father knew Lionel Granger, but were now coming up empty.

Melinda, unfortunately, was called back to her office before a conclusion on that could be reached.

Just as Olivia was about to suggest go asking Bedelia if she knew anything about Granger, her office door opened and one of the desk officers could be seen, wanting to talking to her.

"Sergeant?"

"Yes?"

"Your family, and even Detective Rollins' pet dog are all on their way up here now."

Olivia thanked her and she, Nick, Fin, and Carisi were on their feet immediately, and they left to go join Bedelia. Casey and Barba elected to watch from a distance; neither of them were in any particular hurry to go anywhere, but they didn't want to intrude on the moment.

Bedelia jumped when the others entered the kitchen because she'd been wrapped up in her own thoughts.

She was fretting over how she was going to possibly pay for Kim's hospital bills and what was going to happen to her after she was released from the hospital, but she also had other thoughts pressing her.

Thoughts that she wished she didn't have to have.

She remembered how Kim had told her that she'd had to talk Odis Lee down from looking for her and getting her pregnant with Rollins child number five, and even taking her back to Georgia. He didn't seem all that interested in Leon, but knowing her husband like she did, he probably wanted one last child whose life he could control from the very beginning, especially if it was a boy.

Bedelia loved children, especially her own, so if she ended up with a fifth child, she would love, adore, and raise them, anyway. What bothered her, though, wasn't that she could very well have three small children under a certain age, or even that she could be having a baby before Leon's first birthday.