WARNING: this chapter includes mention of a rape, but I didn't put any descriptive details

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Chapter 4 – Amazing

Friday 3pm

Olivia and Elliot were leaving the hospital after talking to their victim about the terrible events of the previous days. The poor girl was 14 and she went through hell. She appeared in the precinct early this morning and passed out while confessing to Munch that she had been abducted 3 days ago and raped repeatedly ever since. She was quickly taken to the hospital and a few hours later, Olivia and Elliot were allowed to talk to her while Munch and Fin were looking for her parents. Olivia asked nearly every question whereas Elliot stood back, quiet. He still had that sad look on his face he already had this morning when he appeared in the squad room. Olivia figured out he was concerned about the divorce. Last night should have been a long night for him and he probably didn't sleep. Olivia didn't sleep well too. She had too many things in mind. First thing is that she was worried about her partner. She wanted to make sure he was alright but doubted it though. Twice in the night she picked her phone, began texting him and finally deleted, thinking that Kathy would probably be irritated. She knew Elliot's wife didn't like her very much and she didn't want to make things worse for him. So she just spent the night turning around on her bed, wondering if Elliot was ok. Second thing, she felt very confused about the events of the night. Somehow their friendship reached another level tonight. She felt it and she could say that Elliot felt it too. They didn't cross any line at least physically but she was aware that they both said and thought things they shouldn't. She hoped that it was just because of the circumstances – tough case, lack of sleep, divorce – but still, this made her too tense to sleep properly…

Now the two of them were walking back to the car. They open their door and sit in a perfect sync and Olivia stares at Elliot who drives silently. She decides it's probably the better moment for them to discuss privately.

She asks quietly "Wanna talk about it?" knowing that he well knows what she is talking about.

Elliot opens his mouth, shuts it, then opens it again just to manage to say "No."

Olivia doesn't want to push him and answers "ok" but decides that she will bring him to her place tonight and make him talk. She doesn't want to see him suffer one more second than necessary. Well she doesn't want to see him suffer at all.

Elliot feels Olivia staring at him and tries a joke to change the subject. "See something you like?" he asks. He even manages a smile.

Olivia turns her head to the road. She shakes her head surprising herself by thinking 'yes' and decides better not to answer him.

Back to the precinct

The whole team stands in front of the evidence board, waiting for Cragen, except for Elliot who just sits at his desk.

Cragen makes his way to his detectives and asks "Did you find out something interesting?"

Olivia sits on Fin's desk and crosses her arms. "The victim doesn't know her abuser. Said he always wore a mask when he uh, visited her. She can't give us any description except that he's taller than her father".

Cragen writes on the board the information Olivia gave him and asks Fin "What about the parents?"

"They're nowhere to be found. Munch called them a hundred times and I went to their place but no one answered".

Olivia adds "Yeah we asked her about her parents but she said they were out of town for a week. They'll come back tomorrow."

"They left their teenage girl alone for a week?" Cragen asks as shocks as angry. "Are they totally unconscious?"

Olivia shrugs. "She said she was supposed to go to school and come back home straight after. The fridge was full so that she didn't have to go out. But 3 days ago she wanted a pizza and went to the shop. The last thing she remembers before the kidnaping is that she was on her way home with her pizza."

Cragen turns to Elliot who was slumped in his chair, staring at the wall in front of him. "Ok. Elliot, something to add?"

"Uh, no Cap" Elliot mumbles.

"Ok. You two go to the shop where she bought this pizza. Maybe someone witnessed something. Check the cameras too. Fin, you try to locate any family member who could take care of the vic until the parents reappear. John, keep calling the parents until they answer their damn phone."

Cragen walks back to his office and everybody keeps working on the case. Olivia stands up, grabs her coat and the key car and waits for Elliot who didn't move an inch since he sat down.

"You coming?" she asks softly.

"Hm? Yeah, yeah." He grabs his coat and follows her.

Back to the car, Olivia sits at the driver seat and tells Elliot "You know if you have something to do you can go. I'll cover for you".

"I don't know. I just wanna go home and sleep but I can't. Kathy is packing" Elliot explains sadly.

"So she's leaving?" Olivia asks in shock. She knew Kathy didn't dwell well with Elliot's job but she also knew she loved her husband. Olivia never thought that Kathy could really leave him. "What about the kids?" she adds.

"Yeah she's moving to her mother's. And she takes the kids with her. Said that I don't see them anyway so that wouldn't change anything. Then she just put the divorce paper on the table and went to bed as if the dissolution of our marriage was nothing."

"Don't say that".

"She doesn't love me anymore" Elliot states turning his head to his window.

"Well she must be crazy to let a great man like you go. You're amazing El. And if she's too blind to see it, if she can't see how lucky she is, then she doesn't deserve being your wife" Olivia says irritated.

The words were out of her mouth before she had time to think about it and she immediately regrets it. Elliot loves Kathy and would probably be mad at Olivia for criticizing his wife the way she did. She bites her lips waiting anxiously for Elliot's reaction but it never comes so she starts driving.

Elliot still watching through the window, thinks about Olivia's speech. What did that mean? She considers Kathy a lucky woman for being his wife? Was Olivia jealous of Kathy? What a joke that would be. If his marriage is over today, it's mainly because of Kathy's jealousy toward Olivia. 'You're amazing El' she said… No she was his best friend. She only wanted to cheer him up, make him feel better.

"Thanks Liv" he says after a long silence, still not watching at her.