A Protector's Love [Benson and Carisi]

{Forty-Six}

"Lola is bleeding, Mother. So while you are yelling at me, your baby is in there probably losing her baby. So back the fuck off of me, " Olivia snapped inches from her mother's face.

"Olivia..." Dominick whispered before he was cut off.

"Olivia Margaret Benson, " Robert's voice boomed using his daughter's maiden name.

Olivia put her shoulders back and turned on her heel passing by her husband and brother without a word. Dominick went to move after her, but Robbie stopped him.

"I'll take this one, " he spoke before chasing after his little sister.

Robbie followed her down four flights of stairs before his sister stopped running. Olivia slumped down against a wall and took a shaky breath. Before she could see who chased after her the tears blurred her eyes. Her brother knew the kind of pressure Olivia had been under all her life and even now as an adult a lot was expected of her. He watched both of his sister's struggle to be perfect, and now everything had crashed and burned.

"Mom will come around, Livvie Belle, everyone's under a lot of stress right now and..."

"It's not--an excuse, Robbie, " Olivia whimpered, trying to stop the tears.

"I know that, but you must understand it at least a little bit. Mom and Dad raised us, kids, in a loving home, with two parents, a steady income, with pretty much everything we wanted and now they're being repaid this way? It's not your fault, nor mine, but we take the heat for Lola, always have and always will. That's what big siblings do, " Robbie sighed, rubbing his sisters back.

"No."

"No?" Robbie questioned his sister's answer to a question he didn't ask.

"I'm done. I can't do this anymore. Lola has officially taken advantage of me, " Olivia spoke in short sentences with pants of air in between, "I'm done taking the heat. I'm done advocating for her. Telling mom and dad the stuff she's done. It's time she grows the fuck up!"

"Olivia, " Robbie spoke pulling his sister and closest friend to his chest, "she's just a baby."

"No, she's not just a baby anymore. She's old enough to make her own decisions and has been for a long time which means she's old enough to live with her consequences."

"I guess she is."

"Yeah, she is, whether you agree or not Robbie. If she plans on keeping this baby, which I don't think she does right now, she's going to have to raise him or her, she's going to have to clean up her act, and she needs to get some help, " Olivia was calmer at this point but was still in her brother's tight hug, "after all of her rebelling it's time for her to be responsible for herself and that little life."

"You're right, a hundred percent, and I can't deny that. She needs help and needs to take initiative for her actions, but she's going to need her family, all of us. Between mom and dad, myself and Alison, you and Dominick, we can keep her on her feet and heading in the right direction. She needs us, Livvie Belle."

"I know, " Olivia sighed, taking a deep breath, "I don't plan on abandoning her, but I need her to see and know I'm done taking the heat for her actions. Dominick and I have built a life together and we have Sawyer now, and we'll be adding to the mix sooner or later, and I can't be having the stress of her actions on my plate too."

"Are you?" Robbie spoke, finally looking down at his little sister.

"No. Dominick and I had started trying, just before we moved into the house, but when Lola started rebelling my stress levels were through the roof so we stopped."