Aftermath (An SVU Fanfiction) *EDITING*

Upset Tummies

It's noon and Olivia is starving! She's been at the precinct all morning and it's been incredibly slow, but Cragen won't send anyone home. All Olivia wants to do is go home and sleep. Her clothes are starting to get tighter than normal and she's getting moodier with every passing day. On top of that, nobody knows she's pregnant. Olivia wants to wait as long as possible to tell anyone because she knows Cragen won't let her go out in the field if her knew.

"Liv, did you hear me?"

"Sorry, John. What'd you say, a vic at Mercy?"

"No. I was asking if you wanted some coffee?" She's been pretty out of it and he, and everyone else, can tell. It's far too noticeable.

"Oh, I can't..thanks, though."

"Benson can't have my amazing coffee? What's wrong?" he asks, sitting on the edge of her desk. "You okay?"

"I just can't have too much coffee, okay? Doctor's orders.."

"Right. So, how's the baby?"

Her breathing hitched a bit. How did he know? "You mean Dylan? She's three, i'd hardly call that infancy, but she's good."

"You know what baby i'm talking about." he tells her, lowering his voice. 

"How did you know?"

"You're moody, you eat just about everything you see," Olivia glares at him. "and I know you."

"Not even Cragen knows, so can you not say anything?" Cragen came out, calling Olivia into his office.

"My lips are sealed."

Olivia gave him a look that could have multiple meanings as she stood up. When she got to Cragen's office, she shut the door behind her, upon his request, and took a seat in one of the two chairs in front of his desk.

"How ya' doing?"

"Fine, why?"

"Well, you just seem a little off. Is there anything I should be aware of?"

Olivia was losing her patience. Why can't everyone just leave her alone? What's with all the questions? "No, i'm fine like I said!"

"Liv, you don't seem fine. You're still going to therapy?"

"That's none of your business and i'm not emotionally unstable, okay? Just because i'm-" she stops herself mid-sentence. "I'm sorry. Look, I have some DD5's I need to catch up on." Without giving him the opportunity to respond, she got up and walked out. She saw Elliot at his desk and was so happy. She needs a hug, she needs some sort of comfort only he can give her.God, you're so needy!

"Hey, Liv. You okay?" He let her walk into his open arms. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing, just..i'm tired. I'm just really tired."

"We can talk about it tonight, okay?" She nods her head and he kissed her forehead.

"Stabler! You wanna take Benson to check on our vic?" Munch tells him in the form of a question.

Elliot silently agreed as the two of them grabbed their coats and headed to a crime scene. It was inside the vic's home, which is probably the worst pace to get victimized, seeing as how you will not only be a living, breathing crime scene, but you're also surrounded in it.

"Mary?"

"Y-yes?" This woman is hardly a woman, early twenties at the most.

"Hi, i'm detective Benson, this is my partner, Detective Stabler. You can call me 'Olivia' if you'd like to." The girl nods. "Can you tell me what happened?"