Title: The Task At Hand

Author: Ashley

Fandom: Law and Order SVU

Rating: T

Ships: Eventual E/O

Summary: Elliot couldn't believe what he was seeing, or what she was saying now. How could he? This wasn't supposed to happen.

Elliot's POV

One morning she just didn't show up for work; no call, no farewell, no reason, nothing. She'd been acting strange for about a week, but I didn't really think anything of it. I definately didn't think that it was because of what happened between us, that was just a drunken one night stand... To Olivia anyways, and she hadn't been acting funny until about four weeks after that.

We looked for her for a few weeks, we even posted an officer outside her apartment. She just dissapeared, and she didn't even take anything noticable with her. All her stuff was still at her apartment. When her landlord started calling around because she wasn't paying rent, I put all her stuff in storage.

That was almost three years ago. I missed Olivia terribly, everytime I walked into the precinct I hoped she would be there, sitting at the empty desk that was still hers. It took me years to realize it but I loved Liv, but I never told her.

"El?" I looked up at Fin, snapping out of my memories and set the picture of Olivia down on my desk.

"It'll be three years next week. October ninth..." Fin placed a gentle hand on my shoulder.

"I know. It's been hard on all of us. You would think she would at least call..." I had heard this from the rest of the team unit so many times...

"I hope she's happy." Fin nodded and I stood and grabbed my jacket. Fin and I had a job we had to do, my memories of Olivia would have to wait.