CHAPTER 2

"Munch made it." Elliot said when he saw the look on his partner's face.

"Ohhhhhh, now that explains it tastes like puke in a cup." Olivia said, and her sentence made Fin, Elliot and their Captain Cragen burst out laughing.

"Then you make it," Munch said and everybody stopped laughing.

"We love your coffee Munch!" They said in unison.

They rest of the morning went slowly. "El," Olivia tried to get her partner's attention. She got no response. She crumpled a piece of paper and tossed at Elliot and said his name again. The paper hit him directly in the forehead.

"What was that for?!" He playfully shouted and threw the paper back at her.

She started to laugh and then she asked "want to go get something to eat?" Olivia stood up and grabbed her coat and headed for the door. Elliot got up after her and followed her out the door. "You're buying," Olivia smirked and said to him as she pushed the button for the elevator door.

They left the precinct and got into Elliot's car, and as soon as he started the car Olivia's cell phone rang. Olivia grunted as she pushed the answer button on her phone. "Benson," she barked, almost angrily into her phone. "Yes...no...yes...okay...we will be right there." Olivia looked over at Elliot and said "we got a case so I guess our lunch plans are postponed." They headed of to their latest crime scene.

They arrived at the crime scene about 15 minutes later. Elliot and Olivia exited the car and headed to the yellow crime scene tape and ducked under it. They approached the medical examiner Melinda Warner, and the dead body covered in a white sheet. Olivia squated down next to her and asked "what do we got?"

Melinda looked up at Elliot the at Olivia. "35 year old male, beaten, stabbed and mutilated, appears like torture."

"What's his name?" Elliot said as he bended down on the other side of her.

Before Melinda could answer Cragen came up behind them. "Olivia," the two detectives looked up at him at them then he continued "you're off the case."

She shot up so that she was just a little taller than her captain and snaped at him. "Why?" Cragen looked at Melinda and nodded. She pulled the white sheet to reveal the victim's head. Elliot recognized the victim instantly and stood up next to his partner, who was standing there frozen like a statue. She faced the body. "Simon," she whispered.