Life of Surprises

Chapter 10

Location: Mercy Hospital, NY

Date: July 4th 2014

Time: 7:00 PM

Olivia woke up in an unpleasantly bright room. She had a pounding headache and had no idea what happened. She opened her eyes all the way to see where she was.

'The hospital?' She thought to herself. 'Why am I here?'

Just then the door opened and she saw Nick walk in.

"Hey. You're awake." He said quietly.

"What the hell happened?" Olivia asked, her voice raspy.

"You don't remember anything?" Nick asked as he sat down in the chair beside the bed.

"No. The last thing I remember is- shit!! Where the hell is Calvin?!" Olivia asked trying to sit up, her body protesting.

"Liv calm down." Nick said putting a hand on her shoulder to carefully hold her down. "Calvin is fine. Amanda is at the precinct with him."

"No. I need him down here! He is not leaving my sight." She said trying to sit up again.

"Liv!" Nick said firmly.

"What?!" Olivia snapped.

"You need to calm down!" He said.

"I will calm down when Calvin is brought down here!!" Olivia said angrily.

"Ok ok! I will go call Amanda and tell her to bring him down!" Nick gave in.

"Good!" Olivia said as she settled back into the bed. Nick sighed and walked out of the room to call Amanda. 5 minutes later there was a timid knock at the door.

"Come in!" Olivia called. The door slowly opened to reveal Elliot with a scared expression on his face.

"El?" Olivia asked.

"Liv! Thank God you're ok!! I was so worried about you!" Elliot said as he fully entered the room. He walked over to her bed, cupped her face with his hands and kissed her with all the passion he had.

"How did you find out?" Olivia asked when they separated.

"I'm still your emergency contact, Liv." Elliot said with a small smirk.

"Oh." Was Olivia's reply.

"What happened Liv?" Elliot asked.

Olivia told him about the case leaving out the part about the note and custodial papers for the moment.

"Is Calvin ok?" Elliot asked when she finished.

"Yah. Amanda is bringing him down." Olivia told him.

"You never told me why you passed out." Elliot said. He grabbed her hand and intertwined their fingers, encouraging her to talk.

"In Vivian's jeans pocket there were some papers. One was a note and the others were...um..."

"What were they Liv" Elliot asked with pleading eyes.

"PapersgivingmecustodyofCalvin." She mumble incoherently.

"Liv. You need to say it so I can hear you, sweetie." Elliot said as he tucked a stray piece of hair behind her ear.

"They were custodial papers for Calvin." She said just above a whisper.

"Well who has custody?" Elliot asked.

"Me." She said looking down at her hands. Elliot didn't say anything. 'Not again' he though.

"I don't know what to do." Olivia said.

"Well we have to take care of him." Elliot said.

"What about Noah? Shit! Where's Noah!?" She asked frantically.

"I called the sitter. She can watch him for as long as we need." Elliot said. "I think little Noah would like having a big brother." He said with a smile. Olivia didn't smile back. Tears began to fall down her cheeks.

"Liv? What is it honey?" Elliot asked as he wiped away her tears with the pad of his thumbs. Olivia told him about the note.

"Oh shit Liv...I didn't know." Elliot said.

"It's ok." Olivia said as she drifted back off to sleep because of the pain meds they gave her.

"Don't worry Liv. I will protect you. All 3 of you." Elliot said.