Wow! Thank you for embracing this story already! I didn't think so many of you would respond so quickly. This story just came into my head, so I decided to put it out for you to enjoy! Thank you again for the wonderful reviews!

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Author's note: Nothing new to add at this time, other than a certain detective comes to Olivia's rescue, but something terrible happens to her!

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Special Victims Unit squad room

16th precinct

Manhattan, New York

January 3, 2007

9:30am

Her screams got louder within each passing second.

With anger, worry and obviously fear boiling in his veins, Elliot took off running. Whoever was hurting Olivia and making her scream was gonna get his ass handed to him big time. As he got closer and closer to the cribs, one thought ran through his mind: why didn't he admit his feelings towards her in the first place?

Elliot opened and closed every door that came his way, making sure Olivia didn't get stashed in one of the empty rooms. Her screams for help got even louder once he reached the end of the hallway. He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the door to the cribs. Fearing the worst, however, he took a peek through the window...and saw the unthinkable!

Olivia was screaming for a reason. Marcus was beating the shit out of her...with a baseball bat! Elliot could hear her screaming, pleading, yelling for him to stop. And, to make matters worse, he was right under their nose all this time! Worry, pain and guilt were quickly replaced with anger, fury and thoughts of murder. From the look on Elliot's red face, he was getting ready to kill somebody!

Pulling out his gun, he burst through the door and pointed the object right at Marcus's head, who was still beating the crap out of Olivia with the blood soaked bat.

"Put the fucking bat down and step away from her, you asswipe! I'm not gonna tell you again! Get away from her!" Elliot screamed. He was still holding the gun.

"Get out of here, asshole! This has nothing to do with you! Mind your own fucking business! She's mine!" Marcus yelled back, still holding the bat over Olivia's head.

"Elliot, no, please! Don't shoot him! Don't hurt him. It was just a simple misunderstanding, that's all," Olivia pleaded. She was crying.

"'Simple misunderstanding' my ass! I saw everything! You've been hurting her and I saw the whole fucking thing! I'm gonna book your ass for assault!" Elliot sneered before he managed to tackle Marcus on the ground. Punches were being thrown, blood was being splattered and obscenities were being yelled. A moment later, several officers came in to break the fight up. Olivia was being helped by Don, Brian and Munch, who overheard everything that's been going on in the cribs.

"What the hell's going on here?!" Don barked at everyone.

"This son-of-a-bitch's been hurting Olivia! I saw him beating her with the baseball bat!" Elliot screamed.

"Liar!" Marcus retorted, glaring at the blue-eyed hunk.

"I'm not lying! Look at the bruises on Liv's body! He really did a number on her. I came in here because she left her sunglasses on her desk when I saw this bastard beating the shit out of her with the bat. To make matters worse, I heard him yelling at her on the phone!" Elliot screamed.

"Liv, is this true? Is Marcus hurting you? Has he been doing you wrong?" Don asked softly.

With tears falling from her eyes, she didn't say a word. She couldn't say a word. She just nodded her head slowly.

"Now you believe me, Cap?!" Elliot ranted.

"I do, now. Arrest him," Don said before he left.

"You bitch! I'm gonna kill you! I told you not to say anything! You're gonna end up just like Alex! Why did you do this to me?!" Marcus screamed as two police officers tried to handcuff him. But, he managed to elude them by kicking them both in their balls. He pulled the gun out of one of the officer's holster and pointed it right at Olivia, who was still crying.

Olivia's gonna end up like Alex? Alex? Alex as in detective Alexandra Eames of the Major Case Squad? She had a relationship with him as well? What happened to her? What did he do to her? What the hell's going on here? Elliot thought as he held his gun steady. But, he didn't have time to react because several gunshots started blasting through the room. He looked over and saw several officers, including Munch and Brian, tackling Marcus down on the floor and trying to wrestle the gun away from him.

"Someone's been shot! Someone's been shot!" Elliot screamed. He frantically searched for anyone who's been hurt. He nearly had a heart attack when he saw the person lying on the floor, bleeding from the gunshot wounds on the right side of her face, her right shoulder and her stomach.

It was Olivia.

"This is Detective Elliot Stabler of the Special Victims Unit. I have an officer down! I need a bus down here at the 16th precinct right away. I have an officer down!" he screamed into his walkie talkie. Once he heard that the bus was on its way, he kneeled down besides Olivia and began talking to her, trying to get her to wake up.

"Come on, sweetheart. Stay with me, okay? Everything's gonna be okay, baby. Help's on the way. You're gonna be just fine. Stay with me, all right? Stay with me," Elliot encouraged her. He was crying and you could tell he was, because he kept holding her hand and kissing her forehead. Tears kept falling from his blue eyes because he was losing her. And he couldn't bare the thought of not having Olivia Benson in his life.

He loved her. Plain and simple.

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Major Case Squad room

22nd precinct

Manhattan, New York

January 3, 2007

10:45am

"Shots ring out at Manhattan's Special Victims Unit. Just an hour and a half ago, Detective Olivia Benson was brutally shot by her now ex- boyfriend, former construction worker Marcus Jones, who's now being held at the 16th precinct. Witnesses say, Marcus showed up with a baseball bat and waited for the detective to show up at the cribs; where he started beating the crap out of her with the object. That's when Detective Elliot Stabler, Benson's longtime partner and best friend, heard her screams and came to her rescue. A fight broke out between those two men, which resulted in several police officers barging in and breaking it up. And that's when Marcus grabbed the gun and shot Olivia in her face, her right shoulder and her stomach.

This is not the first time Mr. Jones had done these heinous acts. A similar incident happened two years ago to Detective Alexandra Eames of the Major Case Squad, who's still recovering from the same injuries she sustained at the hands of the suspect. According to her partner and now boyfriend, Detective Robert Goren, Alex has been romantically involved with this man for three years when his abusive and jealous acts started coming into play.

The cycle of abuse among women, especially among female police officers must come to an end. We need to put an end to these heinous acts because more and more people, particularly women are ending up dead. We'll have more on this story as it develops. I'm Carmen Chung for Channel 3 news..."

"SON OF A BITCH!" Detective Mike Logan yelled when he saw the news. "Another female detective almost ends up dead by that bastard. I can't believe this shit!"

Detective Carolyn Barek placed her hands on his shoulders. "I know, honey, I know. First Alex, now Olivia. When will this all end?"

"What I wanna know is, how did Olivia end up with that asshole in the first place?" Bobby asked, shaking his head in disbelief. Just seeing and hearing what happened to Olivia made him think about what Alex had gone through.

"I think that's the question you should be asking her...and me," another female voice said.

Mike, Carolyn and Bobby turned around in their seats and saw Alex standing behind them, watching the news in anger and disbelief. Hot tears starting falling from her eyes when she saw the footage of Olivia being put inside the ambulance.

"Honey, you don't have to look at this," Bobby said as he got up and went over to her. Then he took her in his arms and kissed her forehead gently.

"It doesn't matter, Bobby. I told you he keeps haunting me. He's sending me a message." she started sobbing.

"What message?" he whispered in her ear.

"That I'm next. I don't think he's really done with me. He's not done with Olivia, either." more tears started falling from her eyes.

"Cut it off! She can't see this anymore!" Bobby hissed. He didn't mean to get all pissed on his friends, but he didn't like seeing Alex so scared and hurt.

Mike took the hint and shut the television off. He knew Alex was upset about what happened to Olivia, one of her best friends.

"Mike, honey, why don't we go and get some coffee?" Carolyn suggested, which Mike got the hint. He got up from his chair, grabbed his jacket and they left, leaving Bobby and Alex alone for a while.

I feel so bad for Alex and Olivia. Marcus won't rest until both of them ends up dead, Mike thought, shaking his head.

Little did they know, it was about to happen. And they won't like it one bit.

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Mercy General Hospital

Manhattan, New York

January 3, 2007

12:00pm

"How is she, doc?" Elliot asked almost immediately.

"Right now, it's a touch and go concerning Olivia's condition. There's a 50-50 chance she'll survive," Doctor Hampton said honestly.

"50-50 chance? How is that possible?" he asked in disbelief.

She sighed deeply. "Right now, all we can tell you that her face suffered the most damage. Her jaw was shattered so we had to wire it back together. Plus, she's missing a couple of teeth and, when we brought her in, she was bleeding from the mouth really heavily. Her shoulder wasn't as serious as we thought, so we were able to repair that. Furthermore, her stomach was damaged but her intestine was the only organ that was damaged, so we didn't have to worry about repairing that. It can heal on its own."

"But, her face..." Elliot sobbed.

"At this point, if it doesn't show any kind of improvement, she's gonna end up looking like Mary Jo Buttafuoco. We did the best we could on her face, but the injury was just too severe. If she does show some improvement, she's gonna have a scar on her face indefinitely. I'm so sorry," Hampton said before she had to attend to another patient.

"Will you keep me updated?" he yelled.

"I'll make sure you'll be the first to know!" she yelled before she left.

Elliot nodded his head and slumped down on the chair, holding his face in his hands. He was sobbing. He was hurting. He was in pain. He felt sick to his stomach. He was losing the woman he loved and he couldn't do a damn thing about it. He wanted to kill Marcus for putting Olivia (and Alex) through hell.

"Elliot?" a female voice called out to him.

He wiped the tears away from his face with his hands and looked. He was shocked to see the person standing in front of him.

"Alex?" he said, his voice just barely above a whisper.

"I'm here to see how Olivia's doing. I saw what happened on the news. I feel so bad for her. It's all my fault she's in there. I'm so sorry."

"Please sit down," he encouraged her, for which she did, taking a seat next to him. "Why are you blaming yourself, Alex?"

"Because I was in a relationship with Marcus. If I would've just stayed away from him, I wouldn't have this scar on my face," Alex revealed, showing the scar.

"Wait, wait, wait a minute. You mean to tell me what happened to Olivia, happened to you?" Elliot asked, getting upset.

"It's a long story..."

"Why don't you tell me this one, Alex?! We're both gonna be here all day. I have nothing else to do. Tell me what happened! How did you end up with Marcus?!" he forcing all his anger out on her, but he wasn't really upset with Alexandra Eames. It wasn't her fault Marcus put a bullet in her face. Hell, it wasn't her fault he put a bullet in Olivia's.

"I'm sorry, Elliot. I didn't know she was gonna end up with him. Hell, I'm still scared of him! He haunts me in my sleep, I look over my shoulder all the time, I cry, I yell and scream at my friends, I push my boyfriend away, and he has done nothing but being the most wonderful, caring, loving, sensitive man I had ever known. Please, I know what I've been through. And, now, Olivia's going through the same thing. It's so heartbreaking. Marcus will not stop until Olivia and I are both dead," Alex cried again. More tears fell from her eyes.

Elliot felt bad. Really bad. He had no right to yell at her for something she didn't do. Alex's been hurt. Now Olivia, the love of his life, is hurting. Without warning, he reached over and wrapped an arm around her shoulders. She cried into his chest, wetting his shirt.

"I'm sorry," she said when she lifted her head and saw the wetness on his shirt.

A small smile appeared on his face. "It's all right. It'll dry up."

"I tried to get away from him. So many times. But, he always forces me to go back to him every time. Once, I even left the state to get away from him, but he hired a private investigator to find me. And when he does, he'd beat the crap out of me and I end up in the hospital," she explained, her voice cracking.

"How did you end up with him in the first place, Alex?" Elliot asked curiously.

"Shortly after my husband's death, I had been in some pretty bad relationships. Every man I had been with done me wrong. But, when I met Marcus, everything changed for me. Finally, I found someone I could love..."

More drama in the next chapter! Stay tuned!

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