Hello again

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Elliot ran a hand over his face in exasperation. He had a hard time believing what he just was told. His daughter, Elizabeth, was pregnant. He knew that she'd end up pregnant like her mother if she wasn't careful. He and Kathy had tried to talk some sense into Elizabeth the day after Elliot found Dickie in his apartment alone with a girl. Elizabeth didn't care what was said. She actually left the park and got in her car that her boyfriend had bought for her, driving away. 

Liv was bouncing EJ on her knee as she watched Elliot struggle with the news. He was pacing their apartment in a daze. Kathy, who was forced to come here, fiddled with her keys. She looked as if she wanted to be anywhere else but here. Eli was playing on the floor near her feet. Elizabeth was beside Liv, looking very worried. 

"I told you that this would happen!" Elliot said harshly, pointing a finger at Kathy. 

"Don't go blaming me! You're the one that's playing house with another woman!" Kathy shot back. 

Liv was torn between letting them fight it out, and stepping in. EJ was starting to watch them fight instead of playing with his toy. Eli was sticking his bottom lip out, nearly crying. Elizabeth looked guilty, as if everything was her fault. Liv decided to step in. "Hey," she said, getting the divorced parents attention, "if you're gonna fight, do it somewhere else. There's three kids here that are feeling bad about things already."

Elliot looked at Elizabeth, who was near tears. "Liz," he sighed, going over to her. "I'm sorry, I just didn't want you to get pregnant. I wanted you kids to have a better life than I did." 

Elizabeth nodded, sniffing. "I know, dad. I'm sorry for not listening."

"When are you due?" he asked, going to sit beside her. He'd completely ignored Kathy's grunts of protest at sitting beside his daughter. 

She pulled out a sonogram picture. "Around Christmas," she said, handing him the picture. He studied it. It finally hit him that he was going to be a grandfather. He looked at Liv, who smiled warmly at him. He wasn't even done having kids yet. He still wanted more kids with Liv. An actual kid with his hair and her beautiful eyes. 

"What about the father?" Elliot asked, handing the picture back to her. 

She sighed deeply. "He's scared."

"What's his name? You never told me." 

Elizabeth stared at her father for a long moment. "Alvin Penny."

They visited for another hour, to Kathy's dismay, before Kathy forced all three to leave. Elizabeth and Eli both complained as they left, but Kathy was the one that drove here. Since it wasn't Elliot's days for the kids, they legally didn't have a choice. He kissed Elizabeth's forehead and Eli's cheek goodbye. 

As soon as the door was closed, Elliot had his phone out and called Fin who he knew would still be at the squad finishing up a couple dd5s. "Hey, do a background on an Alvin Penny. Should be a teenager. Might live around Queens."

It took around thirty minutes for Fin to call back. "Hey, Alvin Theodore Penny lives in Queens, goes to the same school Elizabeth and Dickie goes to. He's 17. Why?" 

Elliot sighed to keep himself calm. "He got my daughter pregnant."

"Which one? Elizabeth?" Fin asked. When Elliot didn't respond, Fin took that as a yes. "I'll go pick him up."

The next day, Cragen brought Elliot and Liv into the office. "Fin brought an Alvin Penny in last night for statutory rape of Elizabeth. What's going on?"

Elliot shook his head, still reeling from the news. "Elizabeth's pregnant. Alvin Penny is the father, she said. I had Fin do a background and found out he's 17. Fin picked him up last night. I was going to listen to the interview today with Munch."

Cragen studied Elliot for a moment. "Just stay out of the investigation." Elliot knew he had to stay out of it, but he didn't like it. "And Liv has to stay in line on this." He knew this too, but she would have an even harder time staying in line. 

Liv grunted angrily but said nothing as Cragen lead them to the window where a tall, dark haired boy with a pony tail sat hunched over the table, scratching something into the metal with his nail. He had a small bulbous nose that Elliot had to admit was slightly cute. He wanted his grandchild to have that nose. His ears were fairly large, though. A trait he hoped the child wouldn't get. 

"Not bad looking," Liv commented as Munch entered the room with Fin. Fin's eyes were bloodshot, but angry looking. He must have just woken up from a 20 break in the cribs. Elliot cleared his throat and looked at Liv who smirked innocently and shrugged. "What? I'm just saying." 

Cragen turned the knob so they could hear Munch start the interview. "We heard you're gonna be a father, Alvin. Congrats." 

The boy watched Munch as he sat down. Fin stayed behind Alvin, silent for now. "I guess," he shrugged, looking down at the table. "I'm scared to be a dad though."

"Why's that?" Munch asked curiously. 

"What if I mess the kid up?" Alvin asked with worried eyes. 

Munch didn't respond. "What do you plan on doing?"

Alvin shrugged. "I don't want the baby. Liz wants to keep it, we had a fight and I broke up with her." 

Fin crossed his arms, angrier than before. "So you plan on abandoning your child ?" He asked, frowning. 

"What else am I to do?" Alvin asked as if the answer wasn't right in front of him. 

Munch shook his head. He got out some copies of messages that they retrieved from the phone dump on his and Elizabeth. "Hey baby come over I'll be home alone all night. Hey Liz I'll be 18 soon and can move into an apartment with my older brother. We can be alone there all the time.  You're 17, right?"

Alvin nodded, confused. "Yeah, what's that got to do with anything?"

"How old is Elizabeth Stabler?" Munch asked even though he knew. They mentioned her age in the text chat a few times. 

"15, but it was consensual sex," he pointed out, finally looking back to Fin as if he'd help. "I didn't rape her. She wanted it."

Elliot tightened his fists, wanting to put that boy's head through a wall. Liv's hand found Elliot's tight fist and held it until he loosened his hand and allowed her to properly hold his hand. "15 year olds can't consent to sex," Fin piped up, going to lean over the table and staring at him. 

Alvin stuttered, looking from Munch to Fin. "But, she wanted it. She seduced me. It's all her fault. Because her father's a cop, she thinks she's above everything. Her dad thinks she's so innocent. She's not!" There was a craze to the kids green eyes. 

"What do you mean?" Fin asked. 

"First time we did it, was in her parents bed. When she found out that they were getting a divorce and her father was sleeping with another woman, she started drinking. Got drunk every night almost." Alvin looked at Fin who nodded. 

"Who's supplying the alcohol?" Munch asked. 

Alvin shook his head. "I want a deal." He sat back and crossed his arms, looking mischievous at the two detectives. 

Luckily enough, Casey had just walked in the office to listen to the last part of the interview. She looked at Elliot to see what he wanted. "I want to find out who's supplying my daughter with drugs and alcohol." Casey nodded and entered the interview room. 

"I'm ADA Novak. This is a one time deal that is gone as soon as I walk out that door. No jail time, two years probation and you won't be on the sexual registry." She folded her arms across her chest and smirked at him. It was a good deal. 

Alvin thought about it for a moment. "One year probation?"

Casey narrowed her eyes at the boy. "One year probation, no jail or on the registry, but the you stay clean until your 21 or you go in a cell for statutory rape until you're 21 plus five years. You join AA and prove every month that you are still clean until you turn 21."

"Fine," he said with a grunt. He obviously didn't like the staying clean bit, but he wasn't going to object to only one year of probation. 

"Now, I want a name. Who is providing alcohol to Elizabeth Stabler?" Casey asked, leaning on the table, nearly in his face. 

Alvin leaned back and chuckled. "Bet daddy didn't know that mommy started drinking as soon as she found out he moved on," he laughed heartily. 

"Kathy Stabler is buying alcohol for her daughter?" Fin asked, shocked. 

Alvin nodded, eyes sparkling with happiness. "Yeah, providing her with it, and drinking it herself. Liz's brother had become the surrogate father to their little brother at nights. She drinks herself 'till blackout and passes out wherever the last place she was. One time Liz said her mother passed out on the stairs." 

Elliot was out the door before Cragen or Liv could stop him. He called his lawyer to meet him at his ex wife's house for an emergency with CPS. Liv barely made it into the car before Elliot drove off. They didn't talk the entire ride over, but Elliot could feel Liv's worried eyes on him the entire time. 

The lawyer and CPS agent was already there when Elliot pulled up. They waved confusingly to Elliot as he walked towards the house. Liv quickly explained what was going on as Elliot banged on the door. "Kathy open up!"

No one answered. Elliot looked in the window as the CPS agent knocked on the door a little gentler. "CPS." 

Elliot asked the agent to move and he tired his old key. Surprisingly, it worked. He glanced at his lawyer who nodded. Elliot looked at the living room. It was a total mess. Beer bottles everywhere, vodka bottles that were half full. The agent made a few notes as Elliot heard shuffling upstairs. Elliot ran up the stairs, two at a time, closely followed by Liv. 

Kathy was in Eli's room, staggering around with a vodka bottle in hand. She was half dressed, hair everywhere, and drunk. Eli was sniffling quietly in his crib. When he saw Elliot, he held his hands up and started to cry. Kathy, who hadn't noticed Elliot and Liv yet turned to Eli. "SHUT UP!"

She raised her vodka bottle to strike Eli, but Liv rushed forward to pin her against the wall, bottle falling to the floor. "GET OUT OF MY HOUSE YOU WHORE!"

"Kathy Stabler, you are under arrest for endangering the welfare of a child," she said, cuffing Kathy while Elliot rushed to grab Eli. 

Outside, Kathy was still shouting from the back of squad car, thrashing around. The lawyer and CPS agent were talking nearby. Elliot got off the phone from calling the twins school. They were to be let know to go to Elliot's house in the city instead of queens. "I'm ordering the remaining children be removed from the custody of Kathy Stabler and placed in the sole custody of Elliot Stabler."

"I'll call Kathy's lawyer and fight to have the house changed over to your name Elliot. You need that house now that you have all three remaining kids." His lawyer said. Elliot nodded as they said their good byes and drove away. A squad car was dispatched to his house where Kathy was transferred to the back and driven to jail.