Wars Will Rage (SVU Fanfic)

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"Paigey, open the door!" Nicole pleaded, shaking the doorknob rapidly.

"No!"

Ugh both my parents are cops and I can't break a door down, she thought. They do this all the time.

"Dickie!" she called. He ran upstairs.

"What?"

"Paige locked the door cuz I yelled at her, I need to get it open. How do you break down a door?!" she asked, panicking.

"Why are you freaking out? The key is on top of the door."

"Because remember what happened last time someone locked a door around here?!" she yelled at him, then followed suit with the key.

She got the door open and found Paige lying in bed. Dickie was taken back by Nicole's words, and stood there.

"Oh my god Paige please never ever ever lock the door ever again. You scared sissy so bad."

"Sissy don't love me. Mommy don't love me. Daddy don't love me," Paige told her.

"We all love you so so so so so so so so so so much Paigey. I'm sorry I was mean to you. I had to take care of all of you alone today. I was stressed out. Arron needs more attention. I had to feed him, but now I can feed you. What do you want?"

"Cereal," she said.

She took her sister downstairs and poured her her favorite cereal. Paige ate happily, not even remembering the last ten minutes. Nicole promised herself she'd spend more time with her little sister. So once Lizzie, Dickie, and Zach were gone, she took Paige to the basement and played with her. She made sure to take her parent's baby monitor with her, just in case baby Arron woke up.

Nicole put on Snow White - Paige's new favorite obsession. They played Sorry, Chutes and Ladders, and the Pretty Princess game. Arron respected Nicole's wishes for him to keep quiet while she played with her sister.

It was a perfect day, really. Nicole got to relive a bit of her childhood and hangout with Paige all day. She didn't have homework - finally - since she caught up on all her absent work. She didn't have therapy or group. The house was quiet.

Everything seemed perfect.

When 12:30 hit, Paige was hungry, but also falling asleep. She had started being able to go a day without a nap every once and a while but today, with all the excitement, she was ready for a slumber. Nicole made her sister a hot dog and then laid her down.

She checked on Arron when she heard noises through the monitor. When she entered the room and saw Arron, sucking his fingers and giggling.

"Well, hello, Mr.Arron Carter," Nicole cooed as she leaned over the crib. "Aren't we so happy today?"

She picked up the baby and brought him to the lower level of the home. She put him on his stomach and watched him pick up his head. He'd been able to do this for awhile, but nobody had seen him crawl yet.

Nonetheless, Nicole still took her phone out to videotape him.

"Hi, Arron, look at me," Nicole cooed. "Say hi for mommy."

Arron picked up his head and looked at Nicole more, not the camera. Nicole moved her phone so it appeared the opposite.

Arron babbled in his foreign baby language. And then, all of a sudden, he hoisted himself up on his arms and legs. He was mobile.

"Oh my god!" Nicole said out loud, keeping her camera pointed at him. Arron was crawling!

When he plopped down on his stomach, Nicole ended the video and sent it to every person in her family. She didn't expect any of them to respond, but Lizzie did. "Oh my god!!!" she replied.

Meanwhile at SVU, things weren't as perfect. The squad - mainly Elliot - had been in interrogation with the same perp for hours, trying to crack him. He wouldn't budge. Until they had solid DNA evidence against him - which they didn't have - he would most likely be released.

And it also didn't help that the rape involved girls from at the school the teenagers went to.

Elliot walked out of the interrogation room containing the smug little perp, but not after pushing the chair so hard in that it hit the table and moved it.

"This prick is never gonna crack! Do we have his DNA yet?!" Elliot said loudly. But he knew there was no DNA. The perp used a condom and spermicide. There was no use.

Elliot sat at his desk and made lots of noise doing so. The squad was used to this, but Olivia jumped. She wasn't used to her fiancé's outbursts. Not yet, anyways.

"El, calm down," Olivia tried to reason. She put her hands on his shoulders and tried to rub away the tension.

Olivia had magic fingers, knowing exactly where to dig. Elliot closed his eyes momentarily at her touch, but was still so angry.

"Liv, just-"

"Go get some sleep," she interrupted him. She leaned down and put her head on his shoulder. "You've been at it for hours. Me and Nick can take over."

Her voice was sweet and almost pleading. That was when both of their cell phone bleeped. Elliot was annoyed and Olivia was alarmed. It had to be Nicole, and since she texted both of them?

Olivia pulled out her phone, still leaning on Elliot. It was a video. Nicole now had sent a few of these to her parents. It wasn't to bother them, Elliot and Olivia knew that. It was for when they had a minute, they should see their baby's face.

Again, it was of Arron looking at the camera, babbling. "Hi, Arron, look at me. Say hi for Mommy," Nicole said behind the camera. Arron continued to babble. But then, he started crawling and Olivia freaked out. "Oh my god!" Nicole said for Olivia.

"What?" Elliot asked, not paying any attention.

"Benson," Cragen called. "We need you in interrogation with Amaro."

Olivia handed over her phone. "Watch this, go up to the cribs. Get some rest," she ordered, kissing Elliot's cheek. Then she went to interrogate the scum of the earth.

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Thought I'd end on a happier note this chapter. What do you all think so far? I know it's not great but I do have some big plans for later on in the story! Hope you're all ready for feels!