This is a OE pairing. Hope you enjoy and thanks to my beta reader.
"Go home folks, there's nothing more to be done, yet." Cragen dismissed the four detectives that stood around him. There current case was a tough one. No evidence whatsoever. It was putting them all on edge. Six women raped and left for dead. Only three had survived.
"Hey Liv, you want a ride home?" Elliot asked . He didn't mind spending the extra time with her. "It's too late for you to be walking anyway." Elliot hoped she'd accept his offer. Since he moved into the city taking her home had become kind of a routine.
"No Elliot, I want to walk this one off." Olivia wanted time to herself for more reasons than that. She and Elliot had shared their first kiss only three nights ago. She promised that she would try for more. That had all been put on hold when this case started.
"Well how about no music, no talking, just a nice SAFE ride home. Besides I have been wanting to talk to you anyway."
"I thought that you said that you there wouldn't be any talking?" Olivia quipped. Elliot quickly recovered.
"Well what I meant to say was that when we got you home we could talk as I walked you up to your apartment." Olivia knew he was concerned and accepted his offer to be nice. She wanted to talk to him too, but right now all she wanted to do was find this killer before it got to late.
Munch and Fin where still at there desks wrapping things up, when Olivia headed over to the locker to obtain her purse and coat. She cell rang and she went to pick it up.
"Benson." The end was silent for the longest moment. "Hello,"
"I heard you detective. How are you doing?" The voice was distorted which immediately put her on alert.
"It depends on who this is." Olivia waved Elliot over. Munch and Fin looked up to see what was going on.
"This is the person that you are failing so miserably at catching. Just to let you know they won't be the last. One will die for each of the 36 godforsaken years that you've been alive. One for each year until I reach you. Don't bother tracing the call. It won't help." The line went dead, and Olivia's face went pale. She hung up the phone and looked up at Elliot.
"I guess that we have something to go off of now." She walked over to her desk and sat down. She did it absent mindedly which put Elliot into overdrive.
"Who was that on the phone?"
"The person that we're failing so miserably at catching." Elliot looked down at her with concern. There was more to that story that she hadn't said yet.
"Captain, get out here you might want to hear this." Fin decided to step in at that moment. The group waited for Cragen to join them before they continued to interrogate her.
"Olivia, word for word, what was said?" Olivia looked up at her captain and swallowed the lump in her throat.
"Well he said that we were failing at catching him. He said that they wouldn't be the last. He said that one woman would die for each year…" Olivia swallowed the lump in her throat before she tried to continue. "For each year that I was alive." She paused again. "Until he reached me." She let out a sigh as she through her phone on the desk.
"Is that all?" Cragen was trying to act really professional about the matter.
"No he said that there was no need to trace the call because it wouldn't do any good."
"It's settled then. Protective detail until I feel that it is no longer needed. I don't want any arguments. He's killed six women in two and a half days. He's not scared of you or any of the rest of us. Wait for them to take you home." Cragen picked up the phone to call for the detail. Olivia began to fidget in her chair. She wasn't at all happy about the situation.
"Captain, I'll take her home. We'll wait there for the detail." Elliot picked up his coat and stood behind Olivia and waited for her to collect her things.
"Fine, call me when they arrive. The rest of you go home and get some sleep. We'll have a fresh start in the morning. And Olivia be careful.
TBC………………… Please review and tell me what you think.!!!
