The Unwanted Daughter [An SVU and Bensler Fan Fic]

-Twenty-Eight-

Bay wished that everyone would just tell her what was happening in their lives. She was finding out about what was happening, but way after the fact. She didn't want to stand in front of everyone her parents were invited to their wedding when she still had to use a cane to walk around. 

"So, do you like it?" Olivia asked, as the curtain was pulled and she was finally in the eyes of the girls.

"Woah, Liv! You look amazing!" Maureen exclaimed as she smiled largely. All of the other girls said the same thing, then it came to Bay. She was staring at the floor when Olivia said her name.

"Bay? What do you think honey?" Olivia breathed.

"Uh, it looks good. I need to go take my medicine. Excuse me." Bay frowned. She stood up and walked out of the room. She headed up the stairs, and when she got to the landing and tripped a bit and ended up ramming her arm against the railing.

"Fuck." She swore.

"Do you not like the dress? I thought you'd like it." Olivia frowned, as she stood at the bottom of the stairs and watched as her daughter regained her balance.

"No, Mom. I like the dress. You look great in it. I need to go take my medicine." Bay sighed.

"Something else is wrong." Olivia sighed.

"Right now this day is about you. So let's keep it that way. No more thinking about me. Be selfish for once and just enjoy yourself."

[=]

Bay ended up calling Wes as she waited outside in the minivan. She sat in the far back, even if it was easier for her to get out when sitting in the front seat.

"Bay? What's up?" Wes asked.

"Well, I'm sitting in the back of my mother's minivan waiting for her dress fitting to be over with."

"I didn't know your parents were getting married. I thought that they were just gonna be engaged until you were healed all the way." Wes spoke.

"Oh, yeah I thought so too. But then I woke up this morning and everyone was waiting to leave. My brothers and father had suit fittings and I don't know if my sisters are also trying on their dresses or what, because I'm not going back in there."

"Bay, just go in there again girl." Wes laughed.

"No, because it's down a huge flight of stairs. It hurts to walk down them." Bay whined.

"Want me to come over and get you? We could hang out or make out in my car."

"You are driving again?"

"Yeah. I got my license and my parents got me a car where the pedals are easier to use."

"Oh, that's cool. Uh, yeah. I'll send you the address."

"We will have a pre-date date!" He exclaimed.

"You are such a nerd."

[=]

"Uh, Liv?" Maureen spoke, as she looked up from her phone.

"Yeah?" Olivia sighed. She was getting the hem of her dress pinned because it was too long.

"Bay is getting picked up from Wes. She's not gonna be able to get her dress fixed." Maureen frowned.

"Tell her she can't leave. I want her down here now." Olivia huffed.

"Liv, do you really want her down here? Lizzie is Bay's size. Just have her try on the dress and let Bay hang out with Wes."

"We hide stuff from her to not stress her out, but she's just-"

"She's not Bay, Liv. She'll never be Bay again. She's different now and we've kept too much from her and I think it's made her feel left out and unwanted. Just like before." Maureen frowned.

[=]

Bay and Wes stayed out late together. They had lunch together and then went back to Wes' house and made out in the living room. After Bay ate dinner with Wes' parents and brothers, Wes drove her home.

"My parents are going to be pissed off," Bay said as she pulled out her phone and saw several missed calls and text messages.

"Didn't they know that you and I were going to hang out?" Wes asked, and Bay shrugged.

"I told Maureen. I kinda assumed she told my parents."

"Well, probably no date on Saturday. You are in big trouble, girl."

"So? It doesn't matter." Bay huffed. They both went silent.

Bay felt like she did when she first moved in with Elliot. She felt like since she wasn't herself anymore, that she wasn't the Bay that they had accepted. She knew she was different. Her emotions were different and that her personality seemed drier. She wanted to be back to where she had been before, but still with Wes. She really really wanted to be with Wes.

She didn't know if her parents were really all there for her because they had hidden so much from here.

"Want me to apologize to them for keeping you out all day?" Wes asked as he pulled into the driveway.

"No. They love you. I don't want that to change." Bay sighed. She looked over at him and let him kiss her before she climbed out of the truck and headed up the path.

[=]

"Mom? Dad?" Bay asked as she walked into the house. After a few moments, her parents came down the stairs. They looked extremely pissed off.

"You are grounded, Bay. You ignored our calls and texts. You left in the middle of my dress fitting, knowing that you had to get your dress fitted too."

"I didn't know that, because you didn't tell me!" Bay yelled.

"Don't you dare yell at your mother." Elliot spat.

"So you all can keep me out of the loop, and you can expect me to just let it happen. But I can't show my emotions?" 

"You yelled at her, Bay! That is unacceptable! Come on, where did the old Bay go?!" Elliot yelled. Bay stared at her father, before shaking her head.

"The old Bay, the one you loved, died when I got my head slammed against a brick wall. He took so much from me, and now you all are too. I can't even go through a metal detector without it beeping because there is a metal plate in my head! I didn't know that you were getting married so soon. That I was going to be your maid of honor. That anything was really happening. I won't be dancing at your wedding. I probably won't be walking down the aisle to stand up with you. I'm an embarrassment again, but I can't yell. I can't try to express the emotions that I've bottled up, because I'm expected to hide while you guys just hide to try and make yourselves feel better because I'm no longer me."

Bay stormed up the stairs as quickly as she could, while her parents just stood in utter silence.

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