A/N: hey everybody!

I've been thinking about writing this story for a long, long time, but now I have reached a point where I had to write it down.

It's my take on what happened after Alex had left for WPP and I for sure hope you'll enjoy reading this story as much as I love writing it.

Sadly I don't own these characters, but I'm brave now and borrow them for a little while to see where my thoughts are leading them.

comments, reviews etc. would be highly appreciated since it is my first Law & Order: SVU story and I have to admit that I'm kinda nervous.

much love,

raven

IN THE SILENCE
by Raven

-PROLOG-

Olivia Benson watched the black van disappear into the darkness of the night.

Her thoughts were one big jumble, her mind still trying to process what she had found out just a few minutes ago.

Elliot Stabler, her fellow detective and work partner, watched her intensely, a worried look on his face, but right that moment Olivia Benson didn't give a damn.

Alexandra Cabot was alive.

And while Olivia couldn't be happier about it, she still felt weird 'cause she had tried to deal with the fact that the Assistant District Attorney had been killed about a week ago.

It had happened right in front of her eyes in fact.
Alex had been shot and Olivia herself had knelt by her side, had tried to stop the bleeding, her hands covered with the blood of the smart, blonde woman.

She had blamed and tortured herself for not being able to save Alex,had felt so unbelievably guilty for breaking her word and not succeeding in protecting the A.D.A.
Olivia had stood at the cemetery, mourning the loss of a friend, right next to Alexandra Cabot's devastated mother, and now that she knew that the blonde was still alive, but put into the Witness Protection Program, her whole world was upside down.

After days of having the worst nightmares Olivia and Elliot had been brought to the middle of nowhere by some FBI Agent and there she had been - Alexandra Cabot, waiting for them to say a last good bye.

And Olivia didn't know how to feel about it 'cause Alex being alive, but leaving for the Witness Protection Program, didn't change the fact that she wouldn't be able to see or talk to the smart blonde again.

She would never stop worrying about Alex, but the fact that she had no way in checking on her drove Olivia crazy.

Life was such a bitch at times.
This wasn't fair.
The A.D.A. had done nothing, but being brave and fighting for justice.
She simply didn't deserve such a "punishment".

Olivia herself felt betrayed as well.
She never had been someone to have a lot of friends 'cause it was too hard for her to let down her walls, to let people in, which was the burden of her troubled past.

Elliot and his family were practically everything she had.
Except for Alexandra Cabot.

They hadn't had the easiest start and at times Olivia had wanted to strangle the ambitious blonde woman, but she had come to treasure their arguing 'cause it was challenging and bringing the best out of her. Of both of them.
Somehow she and the A.D.A. had become friends along the way of serving justice, but now the blonde was gone.
And maybe she would never return.

But at least Alexandra Cabot was alive.