1. Fall Out

"Elliot, stop pissing me off! How can you be so fucking stubborn?"

"Oh, come on, Liv! You know I'm damn right."

"No, you're not. You saw that girl, she suffered. She can't fake the whole thing!"

"How many times the so called victims claim that they've been raped? You've heard the doctors. There was no rape!"

"I saw her eyes. She was shaken. Damn it, Elliot, I know myself how does it feel to be assaulted."

"Just because you were a victim, don't make everyone look pitiful and vulnerable. If you can't cope with special victims anymore..."

"Stabler, you son of a bitch!"

A moment passed before a voice was heard from behind them.
"Liv, Elliot!"

"Captain! We have any leads about Jennie Craw?", Olivia asked.

"Forget about Craw, she admitted she lied to us."

Elliot looked at Olivia with satisfaction.

"Then what's wrong,cap?" ,he asked.

"Verona James, 18 months old, kidnapped by her mother's boyfriend, Frank Valleri. Ex-con, drug dealer, abusive guy."

"The kiddo is in danger, let's go grab him and save this little girl before it's too late!"

He took his coat and stepped to the door before he felt a steady grab on his arm.

"Slow down, Elliot! We found where he is, but it is really dangerous for both Verona and any of you. It's a ramshackle building that is about to be demolished. Unless security measures are taken no one gets alive out of there."

The door opens and both Fin and Munch carry a young woman who bemoanes and screams.
"That bastard! That sick animal has my little angel!"

Olivia brings her a glass of water and steps beside her and tries to reassure her.

"Everything's gonna be all right! Verona will be into your hug very soon, I promise Ellen."

"Verona is everything to me! I felt like I was reborn with her. You know, I used to take drugs, but when I got pregnant I stayed clean and I swear I'm a good mother..."

"You call yourself a good mother, huh? You let a drug dealer to be with your baby daughter! Jesus, you think that you're a good mother after all?", Elliot laughed and punched his desk.

"Elliot, shut up!", Olivia shouted at him.

"Ok, I give up! I'll bring myself a coffee."

Olivia ran to catch up him.

"Are you out of your mind, Stabler?"

"That is crap! I want to save this poor little girl. Not only by this freak who holds her, but by that stupid bitch,too! It's ridiculous!"

"You know what? You're ridiculous! Don't treat her like that, she's panicked! She lost her child..."

"She put her child in danger! She doesn't deserve to be a mother, neither her nor anyone else who thinks the same. Are you on her side? You agree that it's a suitable environment for a child to be raised with a mother like her and a drug dealer?"

"She's a mother!No matter what you say, she laments because her little girl is in danger. Despite the circumstances she raises her in, she loves her!"

"Just because she gave birth to her, it doesn't mean that she has maternal instict. I didn't really expect you to know that or at least understand!"

She stabbed him with her eyes.

"Olivia, I'm so sorry..."

"Save it!"

"Hey, you two go to the building. We have a girl to save, remember?", Fin interupted them

"I'll stay here with Ellen. Fin why don't you go there? I'll owe you."

"Ok, sweetie. Come, on let's go, Elliot!"