I don't own anything that Dick Wolf owns.

This is a sequel to "Everything and Nothing". If you don't feel like reading it then all you need to know is that Amanda is in homicide now.

Amanda felt satisfied, not only because she was lying next to Nick, who was panting just as hard as she was, but also because she was in a good place.

She has been working in homicide for more than eight months now, and she loved it.

Her squad made her feel welcomed and she felt she could trust them.

And things with Nick were great. Liv said she was suspicious but wasn't sure. Fin acted a bit hurt after they told him that they are together, but he was happy for them. And they did manage to hang out sometimes.

"What are you thinking about?" Nick asked and moved closer to her so he could kiss her neck.

"Nothing" she smiled "I forgot"

"What?" he asked, his lips still touching her neck.

"I was distracted" she answered and he looked at her with that smile that made her knees weak.

"I hope you're saying that I'm a distraction"

"Maybe" she bit her lip a little and he just had to have it between his lips.

It wasn't even 6 am when the phone rang.

"I think it's yours" Nick whispered as Amanda stirred and reached for her phone.

"Rollins" she answered "okay, I'm on my way" she answered after only few moments. She was about to get up when Nick grabbed her arm softly "you've got to go?" his voice was a bit groggy but he got up and kissed her.

She smiled at him "I'll see you later" she kissed him again, letting the kiss deepen, but she had to pull away.

"Rollins, thanks for showing up" she heard her partner, detective Damien Bennett, say. It was a little private joke between the two of them, that was the way the first detective on the scene gritted the other.

"How's it going?" she asked him.

"It's a gruesome one" he said "I mean it" they walked together to the body and Amanda had to agree.

The man was lying in a pool of blood, some of it was congealed. He had a gun shot but also a few cuts on his arm.

The coroner was talking to one of the SCU guys but came over to them when they were done "I think it's safe to say the COD is loss of blood. The bullet hit an artery, he's been dead for 5 or 6 hours"

"The cuts?" Amanda asked.

"Pretty shallow, I'll tell you more once we clean him up, we're moving him soon so I hope SCU can find the bullet"

"Thanks doc" Bennett said and turned to Amanda "they didn't find the ID yet, no wallet on him"

Amanda studied the scene, it was an alley, must have been pretty dark 5 or 6 hours ago. What was he doing there? it wasn't a known place to get drugs, nor was it a place where you could find a working girl.

"Found the wallet" she heard one on the SCU guys say and she went over there.

"Jeffery Campbell" Bennett said when he took the wallet and looked inside "less than 40 bucks, still could be a robbery" he looked at her and gave her the wallet.

"He doesn't live far from here" she said after looking at the ID "Looks like we're going to have to deliver some bad news" she said as she took out a small picture of a woman holding a little baby girl.

Even though the victims couldn't talk, their families could. And it was tough every time.

This was no exception. Jeffery Campbell's wife was devastated. She told them her husband called her last night, said his car was stuck and he was going to get a cub to go home, he asked her to go to sleep and that they'd see each other in the morning.

"When did he call?" Amanda asked.

"I'm not sure, I'll check my phone" she answered, but when she reached for it she started crying again and just handed it to Amanda. There was a picture of them together on the screen. She checked the last incoming call, almost half past eleven pm.

"I'm so sorry Mrs. Campbell" Bennett said "We will do everything we can to catch who did this"

She nodded without looking at him. They heard a cry from another room and she said it was her daughter.

"I'll get a BOLO for the car" Bennett said as they left the house.

They didn't have to wait too long for news about the car. It was parked not far from the alley. It looked clean though.

"So his car breaks down here" Amanda said "he calls his wife at 23:30 and tried to find a cub"

Bennett nodded "maybe he waited here, but he couldn't get one so he started walking, the alley is probably 30 minutes from here"

"So if he waits here for about 30 minutes and 30 minutes till he's close to the alley. 12:30, that's about the time of death"

"Okay, that means the killer didn't spend a lot of time with him. He shoots him, maybe leaves some of the money just to throw us off…"

"But what about the cuts?" Amanda asked "They were pretty fresh"

"You think it's personal?"

"I don't know, we still don't know if they were made post mortem, but why would you cut someone you just shot? If it's a robbery why spend more time with the body?"

"Yeah" he agreed "We should get back, see if Weiss has something"

When Amanda was transferred to homicide she thought she would be partnered with Aaron Weiss. But she ended up working with Bennett while Weiss was working without a partner, or, they way he put it, being the third wheel to them.

And Amanda liked working with Bennett. He was about 10 years older than her, and that's pretty much the time he's been working in homicide. They got along well, he was a good guy. He'd met Nick a few times, and invited her to his house which he shared with his husband, who was a chef so they enjoyed really good leftovers often.

She was honest about her gambling addiction. She told the captain before she accepted the offer, and she told Weiss and Bennett shortly after they started working with her.

Weiss did have something to share with them when they got back. He asked ballistics to rush the results on the bullet they ended up finding and they got a match.

"Remember the body we found a week ago?"

"The homeless guy?" Bennett asked, looking at the ballistics report.

"The bullets came from the same gun"

"Let me get the file" Amanda said. The body of the homeless man was found a week ago, but there were no evidence, no witnesses, no ID, no one claimed the body. They had nothing.

She opened the file and read the coroners report "look at this" she said and showed them the photos in the file "cuts, less then on Campbell's body, but they look similar"

"They are cuts" Bennett sounded doubtful "and I'm sure this guy could have gotten them so many other ways"

"If you consider him being shot by the same gun, it could have been the same knife" Weiss pointed out.

"So I guess the robbery theory is off the table" Bennett said "you think they are connected?" He looked at Amanda.

"I'll talk to the wife again" She answered "maybe she knows something"

But Campbell's wife didn't know anything that could connect her husband to the homeless man. He worked a lot, and that's where he was coming from that night, and spent most of his free time with his family.

They were stuck, they couldn't find anything out of the ordinary about Campbell's life. And they couldn't find anything at all about the homeless man.

The coroners report didn't help much. Nothing conclusive about the cuts. Looked like this case was going cold too.

Amanda unlocked the door to her apartment. She was tired and she couldn't wait to take a shower and spend the rest of the evening with Nick. He gritted her with a smile when he saw her. "Hey" he said but she didn't have time to answer because her phone rang.

"Rollins" she answered "what? Damn it, a third one? I'll be right there" she hang up and gave Nick an apologetic smile.

She arrived at the scene at the exact time as Bennett. Weiss and the captain were already there. The media was there too.

"Well Rollins" Bennett looked at her "welcome to your first serial killer case in homicide"

They had no doubt it was the same perpetrator even before they got the ballistics report. There was one gun shot and cuts on the body, just like with the other victims. But again, no witnesses. They processed the scene but there was almost nothing that helped them.

Back at the precinct they tried to go over everything they had.

"So he's escalating" Bennett said "a week after the first victim and one day after the second one"

"I'm looking at anything with the similar MO" Amanda was going through their database.

Weiss's phone rang, it was the ballistics lab, with this case having priority they got the results fast. It was the same gun.

They were in for a long night, but nothing seemed to stand out. The victims had nothing in common.

They figured it wasn't about the victims, they were just there at the wrong time. So they had to try and understand the killer. But what can you say about a person who killed 3 people with one gun shot and left a few shallow cuts on them? Why was he doing it?

They stayed up almost all night trying to make sense of it. Due to the fact he was escalating they knew there wasn't much time. And they were right.

It was early when they got the call and they rushed to the scene. A woman had been shot, but she got lucky and the ambulance got to her just in time. By the time they got to the scene she wasn't there but Amanda and Bennett made sure not to miss a square inch of the scene.

And then they heard a scream.

They looked at each other for a second and ran towards the sound with their guns pulled.

"You okay?" Bennett asked the woman who was lying on the ground, she looked shaken but they couldn't see any blood.

She shook her head but said she was fine.

"What happened?" Amanda asked as Bennett helped her get up slowly.

"This guy, he had a gun, I think he wanted to shoot me, but I screamed and he ran away"

"Where did he go?" the woman pointed somewhere 'what was he wearing?"

"A black T-shirt, with long sleeves, and blue pants, not jeans, I'm not sure, I'm sorry" she was tearing up.

"It's alright, wait here" Amanda told the woman, we'll call one of the officers to escort you to get checked up" the woman nodded and Amanda looked at Bennett "lets go".

"And a baseball cap, I remember he had one" the woman shouted as they ran.

Amanda hoped they could catch him, they were running and looking for him when suddenly Amanda spotted someone who fit the description.

"Bennett" she said and pointed with her gun. He nodded and they approached quietly. The man was standing on the street with his back to them, he was the only one there and when they got closer Bennett shouted "NYPD, do not move!"

He didn't even turn around before he started running.

"Crap" Bennett muttered as they took off after him. He tried to shout again but it didn't work. He kept on running. Before he could shoot, the man ran into a different street, there were more people there and they couldn't risk it but kept going after him.

He was fast, but they kept going after him. When he turned again to a smaller street Bennett took the shot, but he missed, the man got behind a car and shot once, they couldn't even see him, so they took cover and shot at his direction.

"NYPD" Amanda shouted "get out with your hands up"

But he didn't, he shot them again and they fired back. But then it was quiet. Amanda and Bennett looked at each other and she nodded as she got up slowly. She couldn't see anything so she got closer.

She approached the car slowly, her gun was raised. Bennett was right behind her.

"Well shit" she said and rolled her eyes.

The man was gone.

The scene was swarming with officers after only a few minutes. They figured he crawled behind the parked cars.

"This is just great" the captain said "the media is going to have a field day with this"

"Come on captain" Amanda said.

"Rollins, I know you are all trying your best, we don't know who we're dealing with, but the media is going to ask a lot of questions and I am the one who's going to answer them" he looked at her and than at Bennett "so this is what we're going to do. You are going to the hospital straight away, you'll talk to the victim if she is awake, but before that you have to have a blood test, I don't want someone to have any reason to judge any of this, so we are going to make sure none of you is drunk" they gave him a look and he added "it's just for the record, you know how these things can get"

Nick and Fin were at the hospital. They just finished interviewing a victim when Fin spotted Bennett "isn't that Amanda's partner?" he asked.

"Yeah" Nick answered, wondering what he was doing there, he didn't see Amanda but hoped she was there. She called him last night to say she wasn't coming home soon and he missed her.

Being a detective himself he knew how it works. The long hours, not a lot of free time, so he understood. And she did too. It was nice not to argue about work, it left time for other things, better things. There was no bitterness, no one felt left out, they could just be together and it felt good.

Still he missed her so he went to talk to Bennett to see if she was there with him.

"Damien" he said "everything okay?"

"Nick" Bennett smiled at him "and Fin, right?"

"Yeah man, how's it going?" Fin asked.

"Tough case" he answered "I bet you know how it is"

"We sure do" Nick smiled.

"Our captain asked us to have a blood test, just to make sure we're not drunk" he chuckled a bit "Amanda should be out soon" he told Nick as he could see that's what he wanted to know.

"Speak of the devil" Fin smiled when he saw Amanda walking out of a room.

"Fin!" she smiled and hugged him, and then gave even a bigger smile to Nick, which didn't go unnoticed by the other men "you guys here for a case?" she asked.

"We were on our way out when we saw your new guy here" Fin joked "it's not the same with out you Amanda"

"I miss you too Fin" she smiled and squeezed his arm a bit "we've got to go interview a witness" she said.

Fin and Bennett moved a bit to give them a moment alone. Amanda smiled at him and slightly touched his arm "will I see you tonight?" he asked quietly.

"I really hope so" she let go and he smiled at her "I should go" she said.

"Ms. Stamp, how are you doing" Amanda asked the woman in the bed. She was going to be fine, the EMTs stopped the bleeding in time.

"I've been better" she smiled.

"What can you tell us about what happened?"

"I was walking and I have this short cut through the alley, and he was there, he had a knife and a gun and, I, I didn't know what to do, he got closer to me and I thought maybe he wanted money. He didn't say anything at first, just got closer and closer and I had to move to the wall" she had tears in her eyes as she was talking "and he took the knife and cut me" she showed them the cut "I barely felt it, and then he said something and then he shot me" she said the last part with the tears rolling down her cheeks.

"Do you remember what he said?" Bennett asked.

"It was his name, he said his name was Optimus"

They asked her to talk to a sketch artist and she agreed. They had to go and take the blood results as the hospital said they will be rushed.

"Optimus?" Bennett asked "like from the TV show and the movie? Optimus Prime" he laughed "maybe he's some kind of a robot?"

"Maybe that's how he got away behind the cars and we didn't notice" she smiled.

The nurse came out with the results of Bennett's blood test. No alcohol.

"Detective Rollins" she said "the doctor would like to talk to you about your test, he'll call you in a moment"

Bennett gave her a puzzled look "maybe you shouldn't have drunk all that vodka this morning" he smiled.

"I knew you spiked my drink" she grinned.

The doctor called her and asked her to sit "detective everything is fine" he said as he could see she looked a bit worried "no alcohol in your blood. But there is something else" he looked at her.

"I'm sorry, what?" She asked the doctor. She was pretty sure she heard wrong but he repeated the same thing.

"You're pregnant detective" she wanted to ask again but didn't want the doctor to think she had a hearing problem. She realized he was still talking, but she didn't pay attention and only heard something about setting up an appointment.

"Detective?" he asked when she didn't answer.

"Yes? Yes of course" she smiled. What was he talking about, pregnant?

"Are you alright detective?" he could see she was a little pale and poured her a glass of water "from the look on your face I'm not sure if I should congratulate you, but whatever it is I'm sure you'll be okay" he smiled and she got up slowly.

Pregnant.