Alex woke up to the beeping of her alarm clock and soon realized it was coming from the next room. She had forgotten that she had slept in the guest room with Olivia. When Alex sat up and grabbed her glasses she looked around and found that her favorite detective was nowhere to be seen. Alex quickly rushed into her room and shut off her alarm and next to the alarm clock was a note

Alex,

I'm sorry about last night, thanks for letting me crash here.

Liv

Alex got dressed and headed to work, she wanted to talk to Olivia, but she had to be in court for most of the day. She figured she would call her later and make plans to get together. After two arraignments and opening statements for another case Alex found herself with some free time and when she had no luck reaching Olivia on her phone she decided to go to the station and see if she could find her there. Upon her arrival, she noticed that Olivia was nowhere to be seen and before she could turn to leave a familiar voice stopped her.

"Alex, what can I do you for, did someone call you down here for a warrant?

"No Elliot, actually I was looking for Liv, any idea where she is?"

"She and Fin went out on a call about 15 min ago, have you tried her cell?"

Alex nodded, "I call four times and no answer, I think she's avoiding me."

Looking rather confused Elliot asked, "now why would she do a thing like that?"

"Well she, she…I really don't wanna talk about it here, you got time to go grab lunch?"

"If you're paying I'm in." Elliot grabbed his jacket and followed Alex out of the building.

Once they got to the diner, both Alex and Elliot ordered and were finally left alone to discuss Alex's problem. "Ok so why do you think she is avoiding you, you two have a fight or something?"

"That's just it nothing happened like that, she came over for dinner last night and she stayed the night in my guest room and in the middle of the night she started screaming in her sleep. So I went-" She was quickly cut off when Elliot interjected.

"Wait, she started screaming in her sleep, she did the same thing the other day when she was sleeping in the crib…When I woke her up she grabbed for her gun, but I got to it first. Any idea what's causing the nightmares?"

"I was hoping you could tell me that. She kept on pleading with some to not hurt her, to stop, like she was being attacked. I just talked to her until she woke up and then I stayed in the bed with her till she fell back asleep. I just don't know how to help her and she is so damn stubborn that she won't reach out and ask for help. I think that maybe she's avoiding me because she feels ashamed that someone saw her being afraid and in her mind she thinks that I think she's weak because of it."

"Well, you know Liv even if she was afraid she wouldn't show it if she could help it. Did she say anything else to you about the dream?"

"She asked me to stay with her so 'he' wouldn't come back. I have no idea who this 'he' is, but he's got Liv scared out of her mind."

As Alex talked she realized Elliot facial expression change and his eyes got wider until something finally clicked, "oh my God, the basement."

"What are you talking about, what basement?"

"She did an undercover bit at Sealview, trying to nail some CO's that were raping the inmates. When she came back she wouldn't talk about it, not to me, not to anyone, but that's when she started to stay all night at the station and sleep in the crib, that's when the nightmares started. Alex you gotta find out what happened to her in that basement."

"Why me, you're her partner and you know more about this then I do. I still don't know what the hell you're talking about."

"Alex she trusts you, you're her best friend, she won't tell me because she has too many walls up to protect herself, but she let you in, even though she didn't tell you much, she trusted you enough to let down at least one wall. Something happened in that basement that changed her and for her sake you've got to make her talk to you about it before it eats her alive….I gotta go, I'm due in court in 20min."

"Elliot how am I supposed to get her to talk to me about something I know nothing about?"

"Alex, please, just bring up the undercover stuff and let her tell you when she is ready."

After they left the diner Alex had more questions than answers and she still didn't know what was haunting Olivia, but she was willing to try to find out. Her cell phone started to ring and when the name OLIVIA flashed in neon lights she was more than happy to take the call.