Please don't be mad I'm starting another story... I just like to write. Plus, I'm having writer's block on a few others. I assure you though this is the last story I will upload until all other ones are finished!
Have you ever had that feeling in the pit of your stomach that just wouldn't go away? When you finally think you have control you're told wrong and you feel as if you might throw up. The fear that follows behind you as you walk down the sidewalk. Waiting. Watching. You don't know why you're so scared. You have no reason to be. The things you have seen in your life, tell you otherwise. They tell you to be careful and always be aware of your surroundings. Always be watching.
"Damn it."
"You alright?" Elliot looked up from his desk where he had been shooting paper wads into the trashcan all the way across the room. The night was busy and Elliot wondered what Olivia was up to.
"Yeah," Olivia said raising her eyes up from the computer for the first time in almost two hours, "Why do you ask?"
Elliot cocked an eyebrow, "What are you working on over there?"
Olivia scrammed to click out of the window that had been pulled up on her computer and she rushed to pull up another screen that had been her cover up. "Nothing."
Elliot just nodded his head. Of course he didn't believe her. Olivia had always been secretive and he didn't ever think that would change.
"What do you say we get out of here and grab a bite to eat?"
Olivia seemed to think about it for a moment and then she realized she was pretty hungry, "Sure."
Elliot and Olivia stood up to grab their jackets from the back of their chairs and were almost to the elevator when Captain Cragen yelled their names. They stopped in their tracks and turned around slowly, heading back into the squad room.
Cragen looked down to the ground, "Olivia, I need to speak to you, Privately. Elliot, you're next."
Just what Olivia needed, to get in trouble. She thought about the last few days and tried to remember if she did anything in particular that would have the captain mad at her. She couldn't think of anything so she just sat down in the chair in front of his desk and waited for him to talk.
Cragen sighed and Olivia noticed that he had yet to look her in the eye, "Captain, what's going on?"
Cragen shook his head, "I keep certain files locked away. I keep them in a special place where I know that nobody will get to them. The key is in a place nobody would think to look. I keep them locked because nobody else needs to see what's inside. It's need to know information."
Olivia was confused on where this conversation was going and it was clear by the puzzled look on her face, "I don't understand."
"Your personal files… are missing. Elliot's too. As well as Munch and Fin's."
"What do you mean missing?"
"As in gone, not found. Disappeared. I check the cabinet every morning just to be safe," Cragen continued to say, "This morning they weren't there."
"Where do you keep them?" Olivia asked.
"My house," Cragen said quietly, "I'm not sure what this means yet but, I know that somebody is going to try and bring things up. Stuff is going to start happening and the sooner we know who took those files, the sooner we can end it."
Olivia nodded her head, "Never a quiet day in SVU…" She walked back out into the quad room where Elliot was waiting patiently leaned up against his desk. "Your turn."
Elliot walked casually into the captain's office as if nothing was wrong. He thought he was just getting a raise or something.
Maybe it isn't so wrong to be worried. Maybe it's okay to just stand back and watch. Maybe standing back and watching will give you a new perspective. An easier way. I just don't know anymore…
"Well," Elliot said sitting back down in the chair at his desk, "We could just order in."
Olivia looked up at him and made a face. They always ordered in and They always ate the same thing. Sometimes a girl just wanted a nice dinner in a real restaurant.
"Sure," Olivia sighed.
Elliot got on the phone with the Chinese place and ordered the same old food we usually got. He even ordered for Cragen, knowing what he always had to eat from there. That's how close we were at SVU. We were all like a giant family. A little dysfunctional but… it was still family. Even if I had them as a family, my stomach always went to that place. That place that felt like at any moment, everything would change.
"This is wack," Fin said as he walked into the squad room and plopped down into his chair at his desk, "I was almost asleep."
"Yeah," Munch said walking in behind him, "Like any of us sleep."
"So I guess Cragen made you guys stay here too, huh?" Olivia asked swiveling her chair so she was facing the both of them.
Munch nodded, "Don't get offended. I love spending time with you all. It's just sometimes I like to blink and you guys not be there."
"Can it Munch," Fin said rolling his eyes, "Nobody's in the mood."
All the chatter stopped when they all heard Cragen's door to his office open and shut. Everyone in the room looked up at him.
"Uh… the take-out is here."
What a relief. They thought they were going to have to go out on the field. "Don't worry," Olivia said standing up with the help of her desk, "I'll get it."
"I call sleeping with Olivia," Elliot said casually as he tossed another wad of paper into the trashcan.
Fin and Munch both turned their heads toward Elliot. Half surprised, half not. Elliot looked up at them when he realized what he had said and began to blush, "I-uh.. I didn't-"
"Save it," Munch said with a wide grin appearing on his face, "We knew it was bound to happen sooner or later."
"What?" Elliot asked innocently as if he didn't already know.
Fin shot him a look, "How long before you two get hitched?"
Elliot laughed, "Funny."
"What's funny?" Olivia asked strutting back into the room with the bag of food.
Elliot shot Munch and Fin a glare telling them to be quiet. "Nothing," he said calmly.
Olivia just nodded her head as if she believed him and carried the food into the table in one of the rooms.
It was pushing midnight now and no matter how hard Olivia tried she just couldn't get to sleep. She tossed and turned and tried with the covers on and the covers off. Elliot was awake on the top bunk as well, just listening to her rustling the sheets.
"Stop moving," he mumbled pretending to have been woken up, "I need my beauty sleep."
Olivia stifled a laugh, "Fine. I'll go into the squad room." Normally Elliot would have gone after her but, he knew that Munch an Fin were in there still awake and he knew the Captain was in his office. He had nothing to worry about. Olivia gave a curt smile to Fin and Munch and went straight to her computer where she pulled up the file she had been working on earlier.
I couldn't sleep tonight. I'm not sure why. My body is pretty tired but I just get the feeling that sleep won't do me any good. Do you ever feel that way? So tired that you don't think any amount asleep will help? I guess I'm just babbling now but, it's midnight and I have nothing to do.
"What was that?" Fin asked as he stopped the clicking of the pen in his hand. Olivia looked away from the computer screen and looked toward Cragen's office.
"Cragen?" Olivia asked saving her file and exiting out of it. She got up to walk closer to the office and she tapped lightly on the door, "Captain, are you awake?" When she got no answer she reached for the doorknob and turned it just enough to crack the door open. When she found that the cot was empty she started to worry. She pushed the door open further and screamed at what she saw.
"Liv!" Elliot jumped off the top bunk and headed straight into the squad room where he heard Olivia scream. He stood behind Munch and Fin and just stared at the scene in front of him.
Olivia was trying her hardest to catch her breath. She felt tears burning in her eyes and her throat started to feel like it was on fire. She started hyperventilating and that was when Elliot knew he had to do something.
"Liv," he said keeping his voice calm, "Come on." he reached for her arm to pull her away and he was shocked at the response he got. Olivia collapsed into his chest and buried her hands with her face. Fin and Much stood and listened as they heard her sob.
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