-1This one came to me much like my others, just in a flash after thinking about a song I had heard. Thanks to Mary (MaryWhite) I think I will be continuing 'Another Night' even though it was intended as a one-shot. This is a little something until I get my brain re-focused on that.

This is for Chantelle (Olivia-Jordan) and Laura (mrslee) for supporting me while trying to find my muse to write another story and because you both rock!!!

Disclaimer : As always, Dick doesn't want me to have them, so I guess I don't.

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Finally after what seemed like forever, but in reality was only 72 hours, the case had been closed. One of Manhattan SVU's toughest to date. Three sisters, all in their teens or early twenties, had been found raped, beaten, and murdered in Central Park. Three blonde haired blue eyed sisters to be exact. Each one bearing an eerie similarity to each of the Stabler Girls.

Detective Elliot Stabler had been ordered by his captain to be taken off the case around hour number two. Everyone knew his judgment would be clouded by the similarities to his daughters. However, by hour number nine with still no leads he was put back on the case.

Tensions ran high for the last 50 hours. With seemingly no answers being found to the detectives questions everyone was getting irritated. In particular Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson were highly on edge. Arguably SVU's best detectives, they were beginning to crack.

It was during hour number 56 when they decided to re-canvas the crime scene for a third time. Olivia had been noticeably fidgety the entire ride from the precinct to the park.

"Liv? What's wrong?" Her partner asked while they waited at a red light.

"Huh? What? Oh nothing." She replied.

"If you're not going to be with me on this you should just ask Cragen to take you off!" He snapped.

"What the hell Elliot?!"

"You know what? Forget it!" He yelled, storming out of the car at this point.

Olivia followed suit stomping her way out of the sedan and into the park. They silently went over to the taped off area where the two uniformed officers were standing guard.

Walking through the scene together posed problems for the two detectives who kept snapping at each other and huffing whenever one came near the other. They were arguing over who got to look at what, who got to stand where, everything. After looking over the scene again for another 45 minutes Elliot finally gave up.

"Let's go! This is useless."

"Now who's giving up?" Olivia asked.

"Look, you know as well as I do there's nothing here. You're stupid to keep looking!"

"Excuse me?!?" She couldn't believe he had just called her stupid.

"What?" He asked, not catching his slip up earlier.

"You just called me stupid. So glad to see you appreciate me, Stabler!" She yelled, sulking away from him.

They began to both make their way to the car, all the while still arguing.

"What's with the 'Stabler' crap?"

"That is your name, isn't it?"

"Yeah. I guess so. You know I appreciate you though so I don't know why you're starting that. "

"I'm not doing this anymore. You don't want me around, then FINE!" She sighed, finally giving up the fighting.

Elliot couldn't take it anymore. Between the case and Olivia's sudden attitude problems he just wanted to scream. Maybe even punch something, he thought.

By the time they returned to the precinct both had decided that the silent treatment was the best option. Neither could stand to hear what the other had to say about them. It was becoming all too personal at this point with Elliot having called Olivia 'stupid' and her calling him a 'narcissistic asshole' when he had apparently looked in the rear view mirror for too long. As they stomped into the 1-6 all the other occupants could tell that things had finally begun to shift between the two detectives. It wasn't looking like a good shift either. It was looking like everyone's worst nightmare was starting to come true.

Donald Cragen make a hushed plea to the ADA, Casey Novak, to do whatever she could to calm Olivia down. He was not going to lose either of his best detectives again. The unit would never survive that again.

Olivia, however, had other plans. Oh no, she wasn't going to leave, not this time. She had truly had enough.

"Fine, Elliot. If this is how you want to play it, we'll play. By my rules!" She muttered.

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There you have it, now please be nice and R&R!!! I apologize for this being short, but I'm hoping if I keep things shorter I can update more often!!