This is part one of my first attempt at an SVU kill :) Enjoy!
Olivia Benson had just got home from an extremely late night at work. They had been working on the rape case of a 15 year old girl, and it was tough on everyone. As she climbed into bed, she looked at the clock – 2.30am. Just as she floated into a light sleep, the high tone of her cell phone woke her.
"Damn," she muttered, trying to find the producer of the noise. Looking at caller I.D. she saw it was Elliot. "Damn, damn, damn!" she said, knowing that a call from him probably meant going back into work. "Benson," she answered.
There was silence from the other line. "El, you there?" she enquired. "Elliot?" As she was about to hang up, she heard a small sound. "Elliot, are you okay? What's going on?"
"Liv,"
"El, what's going on? Where are you?"
"I need help. Quick Liv!"
"Ok, Elliot, where are you?" she tried to sound reasonable for his sake, but she was shaking from fear of what was happening on the other end of the line.
"I'm at home. Quick!"
Olivia jumped quickly out of bed; the conversation with her partner had certainly made her wide awake. Throwing on an NYPD hoodie on, she picked up her car keys and ran to her car. Driving quickly through the city, she dodged in and out of traffic.
She arrived at Elliot's house to find him sitting on his porch, shaking. Running up to him she crouched down and put an arm around him. "What's going on El?" he didn't answer her. "Elliot, what's happened?"
Slowly he stood up and started walking into the house, Olivia closely following him.
"ELLIOT! What's happening?" she yelled. As soon as they turned the corner into the kitchen though, she knew. She stopped, and looked at her partner. Who was standing there, like a statue.
"Who did this El? What happened?" she asked softly.
"I don't know," he whispered.
Olivia looked down, not knowing what to do. Then, she walked up to the lifeless form of Kathy Stabler, who was surrounded in blood.
She turned back to look at Elliot, her partner, and her best friend, who had just lost his wife. Standing back up she put both hands on Elliot's arms and lead him to the lounge, where she sat him down and then sat next to him, and hand on his back the whole time. Pulling her phone out she dialled Cragen's number. He didn't sound happy to be woken up.
"Cragen," he barked.
"Cap, it's me," Olivia spoke. "You need to get to Elliot's house, ASAP. Kathy has been killed,"
"What? Kathy?" he said, confused.
"As in Elliot's wife, Kathy,"
"Ok, I'll be there as soon as I can, stay with Elliot, make sure he doesn't do anything stupid," Cragen said, knowing what Elliot was capable of when angry.
When Cragen arrived, he pulled up behind Olivia's car, which was parked diagonally in the driveway. It seemed she had sped in straight from the street, judging from the tire marks in the dirt. He walked into the house, only to find his two detectives holding onto each other for what seemed like dear life. Olivia looked up and saw him, and nodded across the hall to the kitchen. Fin and Munch arrived, while Munch headed to the kitchen, Fin walked over to Olivia, and pulled her aside into another room. Elliot stayed perfectly still.
In the other room, Fin spoke. "What happened?"
Upon hearing his kind voice, Olivia let out a sob, she didn't have to be strong for Elliot anymore. Fin put an arm around her and pulled her closer to him. She rested her head on her chest as she started to speak.
"I don't know, Fin. I just... don't. He called me and I was in bed and I came straight here and he was just sitting there and she was covered in blood and I don't know what happened and he was so upset. I've never seen him like that," she started crying and Fin pulled her into a hug.
Cragen walked into the room to see Olivia crying on Fins shoulder and walked back out again. It was obvious she was upset for her partner, who was obviously still in shock. He wasn't worried about her, Fin obviously had things handled.
Once the homicide squad got there, Fin offered to drive Olivia home.
"No thanks Fin, it's alright. I need to stay for Elliot,"
"Liv, he can't stay here, it's a crime scene."
"Oh, well he can come and stay at mine, I'll drive him home."
Cragen walked into the conversation. "Are you sure you're right to drive Olivia?"
"I'll be fine Cap, it's Elliot I'm worried about,"
Once Olivia had finally got Elliot into the car, they drove home slowly. He didn't say a word all the way. Once they pulled up at Olivia's apartment, Elliot just sat there. Olivia reached over and undid his seatbelt. She stood up and walked around his side of the car, and opened the door, before grabbing his hand, and pulling him up. As they walked up the stairs, Elliot finally spoke.
"Thank you Olivia," he said gruffly.
"Anything for you El, you're my best friend,"
"You're mine too Liv, that's why I called you tonight," suddenly a look of horror passed on his face. "My kids, I left them there! They can't see that! We have to go back!"
"It's ok El, calm down, Cragen took them with him, and they're fine!"
Elliot looked more than a little relieved to hear this.
"Come on, I'll sleep on the couch, you can have my bed." Olivia said kindly. She thought Elliot would object to this, as he normally would have, but he seemed too tired and in shock to care.
He needed to get sleep tonight, because it was going to be a huge day for him tomorrow.
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