Could you do a caregiver Elliot Stabler one. I have never seen anyone write any agere stories with him.
No problem! Sorry this took so long! I got really busy 😅 Hope you don’t mind that these are headcannons for now, but if you’d like a full story, just ask and I’ll write one up! - Prince
Sorry this kind of morphed into Elliot and Liv as caregivers for a hot moment!
Caregiver! Elliot Stabler Headcanons
Warnings: Panic Attack, Mentions of SVU Season 13, Episode 1 and SVU Season 22 Episode 9
- Elliot honestly wasn’t expecting to end up with another kiddo, even if they technically weren’t his kid. Funny how things work out, huh?
- He’s been around the block before in parenting/caregiving, so he would be one of the more stern types!
- Because of that, Elliot is more immune to puppy eyes than most.
- “Daddy? Can I pleaseeee stay up?” You beg, giving him puppy eyes
- “Kiddo, it’s bed time.” Elliot softly insists.
- His hugs are strong and tight, and also very warm. One of the best types of a hug that a caregiver can have :)
- No. 1 Daddy
- He enjoys calling you names such as “Little One, Kiddo, Buddy, Champ, and Sport.”
- He’s a lot gentler with you then he is with most people.
- Structure and Communication becomes very important to him when it comes to taking care of you.
- He’s very over protective of his little one, especially if they’re one of his co-workers in SVU or OC!
- Elliot, when he finds out, accepts it right off the bat. Out of all of the things he’s seen in his years of SVU, this isn’t the weirdest coping method he’s seen.
- With your permission, he eventually ends up telling Olivia.
- If you end up with him as your caregiver before he disappears for ten years, you struggle when he leaves without a word.
- Thankfully, Olivia knew, and stepped in sometimes. The two of you bond over your shared grief over Elliot.
- The two of you were called into Cragen’s office, not long after the shooting occurred. You or Olivia hadn’t heard from Elliot since the shooting, and the two of you were getting worried. Then both of your worlds change with 5 words.
“Elliot put his papers in.”
- The two of you throw yourselves into work at first, trying to cope with the grief and the loss. He had been such a huge part of both of your lives for the last decade, and now he wasn’t there.
- The first time you regress without Elliot there is after a long shift. You’d been wrapped up so tightly in this case, that all you wanted to do was go home and nap.
-Things never come easy for you, do they? Apparently not.
- As you’re walking out, you hear some music playing. Some painfully familiar music, that just so happens to be one of the triggers for your PTSD. Cue panic attack, and regression.
- You immediately make a 180, beelining towards the nearest bathroom, panicking. You end up running into Olivia, who knows because Elliot talked to her about it sometimes after he found out about your regression.
- She can tell something’s off, by the look on your face and just the general aura of panic.
“Kiddo?”
- Olivia tries out nervously, not sure if it would be appropriate to call you by your actual name at the moment. She gently approaches your shaking form, concerned for you. You respond to that name, bright big panicked green eyes looking up to meet hers.
- “Hey, hey, easy now. It’s going to be okay Honey. Can you take some deep breaths for me?” She asks, demonstrating.
- You shakily follow her demonstration.
- Olivia is quick to praise, “Good job, Kiddo. Can you tell me how old you are right now?’
- You hold up 3, changing it to 4, and then back to 3 quickly.
- “Do you mind if I come stay at yours, tonight Kiddo? I don’t feel comfortable leaving you like this.” Olivia asked. You agreed.
- The two of you got back to your apartment, and at some point during the night, you’re on her lap bawling about how much you missed your daddy. Olivia chokes back tears as she tries to reassure you, but she can’t help but feel a little bit of anger against Elliot. Why would he do this? Leave both you and her like this? Especially you?
- For the next ten years, you’re mostly a solo regressor as you try to take care of yourself in you regression for the most part. It just doesn’t feel right to add another burden to Olivia, asking her to fill Elliot’s shoes.
- She does become the cool Auntie Liv, though! Not like she wasn’t already, but she just became even cooler.
- There are some moments where you just need someone, though, and that’s when Auntie Liv swoops in to help you out.
- Of course, that all gets messed up, when Elliot comes back.
- You’re waken up after a long shift, by Liv calling you to get to the hospital, a cop’s wife was the victim of a car bomb.
- You just weren’t expecting the wife to be freaking Kathy Stabler.
- The first face you see when you turn the corner makes your jaw drop. It’s Elliot.
- He grins, simply stating, “Hey you.”
- Olivia appears not long after, her guilty yet displeased face meeting yours.
- You feel anger. A lot of anger. You stride up to him and slap him, growling,
“You jerk. How dare you. You abandon me and Olivia for 10 years, without a word, and you just come waltzing back in my life with just a ‘Hey you?’. Well, Mr. Stabler, That is not how this is going to work. You don’t realize how much you hurt me and Olivia. You don’t realize how much you missed.
- Elliot looks shell shocked. Olivia looks proud that you were willing to say the words she couldn’t.
- You and Olivia get filled in by Fin. Only here for a trip, and decided that they were going to show up at Olivia’s award ceremony. That feeling inside of you that was anger? Sadness mixed with anger, creating a foul mood for you.
- That night, Olivia ends up calling Lucy to stay at hers overnight and crashing at yours, correctly predicting that you were going to regress, and young too.
- You’re sobbing into her shoulder, when she silently decides that she’s going to give Elliot a piece of her mind about this whole situation. Olivia is concerned for you, and also for herself.
- If Elliot ever thought he was going to get away with not talking about this, he thought wrong.
- Things are awkward between the three of you for a while.
- It’s not until Kathleen, Liv, and you are eating out at lunch one day and she asks the two of you help to intervene with Elliot about his PTSD.
- You’re in the apartment with Elliot’s children and Liv when Elliot comes home.
- His eyes sweep the room, and he asks,
“What is this?”
- “This is an intervention.” Kathleen simply states.
- “Well okay, what are we intervening about?” Elliot asks.
- “Your PTSD.” Maureen simply chimes in.
- “You scream in your sleep.” Eli points out.
- “We love you Elliot, but you’re worrying us right now with this.” Olivia steps in quickly.
- “Please go get some therapy, El.” You summed up.
- “I love you all.” is his simple response.
- It isn’t much longer after that that you, Liv, and Elliot end up sitting down to talk about your regression.
- It’s a warm summer day, and you’re at your desk. You’ve been working insanely hard after Elliot came back, trying to avoid him except for a few awkward encounters. You know Olivia and Elliot have been giving you worried looks for a while, but you don’t really care.
- It’s just you and Olivia working right in the precinct right now, all the others have not yet arrived. Elliot walks in, and you barely give him a nod in greeting before returning to your work as he heads to Olivia’s office.
- After a few minutes, Olivia calls you into her office. You get up, grumbling under your breath. You walk into the office, leaning against the wall with your arms crossed. Elliot and Olivia are in the office as Olivia closes the door and Elliot shuts the blinds. They both turn to face you, and then Elliot speaks, in parallel to his daughter.
“This is an intervention.”
- You raise your eyebrow, tilting your head curiously. You ask, “What are we intervening on?”
- Olivia jumps in, “Why you haven’t regressed since the night Elliot came back. And why you’re overworking yourself.”
- You challenge, knowing that she’s right, “How do you know that I haven’t regressed since I came back?” You’re not even bothering to even go near the overworking conversation that you, Olivia, and even Elliot have had multiple times since you joined SVU.
- “You’re more irritable when you haven’t regressed in a while and need to. Also your reactions to triggers get more extreme.” Elliot added.
- You take a double take, and mumble disrespectfully, “Congratulations to the Caregiver who abandoned me without a word for 10 years for still remembering the signs of when I need to regress.”
- Elliot leans in, having heard this. He asks firmly, “What did I just hear from you, Little One?”
- You snap, “You don’t get the privilege to call me that anymore! You just up and left for 10 years without a word and you think you can walk back in and take your place as my daddy again within a second?”
- Olivia rests a hand on his shoulder, almost as if she’s expecting him to go off. Elliot sags, almost as if he’s admitting defeat.
- “I don’t think I can, but if you’d let me I’d like to try.”
- He searches through his pockets, eventually turning up an small plush that you’d left at his house not long before the shooting. It had been on of your favorites. He hands it to you, explaining, “I never forgot.”
- You gasp, looking up into his solid blue eyes and then back down to your plush, hugging it slightly.
- Elliot admits, “I know I messed up, but I’d like to fix it.”
- Olivia adds in naturally, explaining “That’s why all three of us have the day off, if you don’t mind? Give you the day to regress, and that way all three of us can work on this together?
- You look up, seeing the look in Olivia’s eyes and the hopeful gleam in Elliot’s.
- You agree, asking “Where to?”
- Olivia answers, “Yours, if you don’t mind?”
- You answer, “No, I don’t.”
- The three of you head to your apartment.
- When all three of you walk in the door, it’s like a switch flips. You turn to Olivia and Elliot, shyly announcing, “I’m hungry.”
- Elliot grins, playing along. “Want some Mac and Cheese kiddo?”
- You nod, answering “Yes, please.”
- Elliot picks up your smaller frame, smiling brightly. He turns to Olivia asking, “Do you mind if you make it? I’m going to go get this bugger changed into something that isn’t work clothes. Those aren’t comfortable, are they?” He asks rhetorically to you, before tickling you.
- You let out a giggle, looking the most relaxed either of the two of them has seen you in months.
- The three of you spent the day playing away, and at the end of it, when you’re giving large yawns, Elliot steps over, lifting you with ease into your bed.
- He smiles, as he says “Good night, kiddo.”
- You respond with a sleepy “Good night, Daddy.”
- Elliot feels significantly better about the entire situation now. He heads back to the couch, where Liv is sitting with a glass of wine.
- She smiles, softly telling him “I’m happy you managed to be able to take care of them again.”
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