"Laying Down the Law"
Exhausted after a long day in court, Elliot and Olivia sit across their desks from one another, as usual. They have a lot of work to do in the next few hours if the charges on Peter Lowery are going to stick this time. They have to find new evidence and will probably be up all night again tonight trying to figure this thing out.
Lowery was arrested and charged with 2nd degree murder and rape after one of his victims escaped from his clutches. The only witness or evidence they have on him is the little girls ID from yesterday. No fingerprints, no fluids to test for DNA, the perp was very careful. The little girl that escaped was 7 years old. She had been missing for 6 days. She ran away after the perp took her to the store for an ice cream cone.
Olivia finally looks up from the manila folder filled with horrible pictures and details of the case, rubs her eyes, and catches Elliot starring at her with a smirk on his face.
"What?" Olivia says, with a chuckle and bit of a tired grin on her face.
Elliot replies, "Nothing, just thought you looked sweet rubbing your eyes like that."
"You think I look 'cute', and I look like hell. Typical of a man, I guess." She snickers as she gets up and stretches her arms up over her head and arches her back just a little until her body sort of shivers. Then she says, "El, I am going to have to go splash some water on my face if I am going to keep working. I'll be back in a minute."
Olivia heads for the bathroom. Elliot gets up and stretches too. He gathers the files they were both trying to study. She comes out of the bathroom looking only slightly refreshed, "Where are you going?" Elliot responds, "Let's go over to my apartment so we can get out of the station for a while and maybe we can concentrate a little better. It is late and I do not want to be here another 24 hours on top of what we have already been."
Olivia had been gone on assignment and this case was really nerve racking for the both of them. Lowery was due in court in the morning at 9:00 AM and hopefully, the little girls ID would stick him until they could get some real solid evidence on him.
"Sounds like a plan to me. Why don't we stop and get a bottle of wine to calm our nerves since we are not expected in court until 9:00 am," Olivia said as they left the precinct.
Elliot looked at her with a raised eyebrow. They had not had a drink together since she came back from the undercover assignment with the FBI. Olivia was a seemingly different person since she had returned. She was more outspoken than usual, and definitely bolder. He likes the new her, but wanders how she will be now after a few drinks. He looked her up and down. He missed her and had thought about her and how sexy she was from time to time while she was gone.
They got to the store between his apartment and the station. Hardly any words were spoken, just some short glances and small talk about the case. The two of them had not even talked about things that happened while she was away. She got what she wanted, but she had changed her mind and went with a six-pack of Smirnoff Ice. Elliot's eyes widened when he saw what she had gotten. He had never really known her to drink such as that. He knew her as the wine cooler type of girl. Seems things have definitely changed more than he had previously thought. Elliot grabbed a 6 pack of Budweiser. He paid for both of their selections and off they went toward his apartment.
