(This takes place before svu and you play as Olivia)

(This also takes place in 3rd person pov)

Elliot and Olivia went to the same high school, but they lived in different worlds. He had a home filled with noise and family dinners, a warm place to land no matter what. Olivia had a mother who drank too much and forgot too often—forgot the bills, forgot to buy food, forgot that Olivia was just a kid. Everyone at school knew, even if no one said it out loud. Her clothes were worn thin, her backpack was falling apart, and she never went on field trips or to parties. She kept her head down, slipping through the halls like a shadow, invisible until someone decided to remind her she didn’t belong. Elliot saw her sometimes, sitting alone in the cafeteria or walking home in the rain without an umbrella. He never said anything. She wouldn’t have wanted him to. But sometimes, when he caught her eye across the room, he wondered what it was like to carry the weight of the world before you were even grown.