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A/N: There are many things I own by Law & Order: SVU is not one of them.
For some reason I trust him, it's more than the fact that I have had a crush on him and it's more than the fact I know he likes Olivia but I trust him. We walk over to a park bench and sit down. He put his arm around me and faced me. God, I must be going insane. My heart squeals.
"Now tell me."
"Tell you what?"
"Tell me why you don't want to talk about yourself?" he said, his eyes pleading. I started crying. Why am I crying?
"Well," I sniff "I have lived on the streets for three years. I had to fight my way to do anything remotely good and nobody likes me"
"That's not true, everyone at the office likes you. We are worried about you." he moves his hand to my cheek and brushes the tears off. I sniff again, Elliot just laughs.
"What about your family?" Elliot asks. You did not just ask about my family?
"Can we not talk about it, please?"
"Well, I would like to know."
"Just drop it" I yell, my tears dry up and are replaced with anger.
"You can't keep it to yourself forever, Steph, people need to know"
"People don't need to know if it doesn't involve them."
"It does involve me Steph. Now tell me!" He yells, now standing up.
"Yeah right, your not even real!" I stand up. Oh god, what did you just say Steph?
"What?" Elliot says baffled. You have done it now! I put my hands over my face and sit back down.
"Just drop it" I say in part mumble. Elliot sits back down next to me. I look at him, his eyes confused and partly sad. I should not have said that. Bugger! I get up slowly.
"I got to go, Elliot, just please, lets not mention this again. Okay?" I say and walk back to Olivia's apartment.
OPOV:
I woke up on the couch, I looked at the clock on the wall, I had only been asleep fifteen minutes. I got up and started getting for bed. The door opened and Steph walked in, she was crying and was wearing gym stuff, she forgot to shut the door so I walked over and closed it. Steph just went to her room. I heard someone knock at the door so I went back to the door, I looked through the hole, it was Elliot. What was he doing here? He had a bleeding lip and was wearing his running clothes.
"Elliot, you okay?" I said, I walked him inside and got a towel for his lip.
"Liv we need to talk" he said with his officer tone of voice. This could not be good. He walked me over to the couch and we sat down.
"It's about Steph"
"Yes, why did she just walk in crying?"
"Don't change the topic." he glowered "You remember how Huang said that Steph has been cutting herself from some long suffering emotional pain?"
"Yes, I tried to talk to her about it, I got nothing"
"I think it has something to do with her parents"
"How do you guess that?"
"I was out on a run and I saw her, she ran off and I grabbed her," I gave Elliot a angry glare "She punched me," So that's were he got the cut lip "but she came around and talked to me. She told me she had been living on the streets for three years, so I am guessing she was 15 when the thing happened."
"She won't tell me anything"
"She also told me that I am not real"
"What?" I was surprised.
"She told me I was not real and ran off."
"But you are real."
"She knows something about us and she isn't saying."
"You don't have to tell me twice" I said rolling my eyes. I looked down the hallway, Steph was leaning out of her room listening in. I scowled and she jumped back into her room. Stephanie was like the child I didn't have.
"You better go" I say "She's listening in, we can talk again tomorrow"
"Can we?" Elliot looks at me.
"Yeah, of course we can." I say. He leans in and we kiss, it was magical. I can't believe we are kissing!
"I love you Liv" he looks at once we break off.
"I love you too"
SPOV:
The office isn't really the way you would imagine in the show. You sit, eat, work. That's the basic pattern of events. I walk up to my desk and sit down, Munch and Fin are looking at me. Elliot and Olivia walk in a few minutes later, both hand in hand, I throw up a little. The office looks at the two of them, Munch with a look of surprise and Fin with a look of romance.
"What happened to those two?" asks Fin.
"They kissed." I say in a sarcastic voice.
"Finally" says munch throwing a folder my way.
"What's this?"
"Your new case." says Cragen standing over my shoulder. My face goes red.
'How long was he standing there' I mouth to fin.
'The whole time' Fin mouths back.
"Don't worry Steph you didn't say anything that their body language didn't say." Cragen laughs and soon Fin and Munch laugh as well. I look over at Elliot and Olivia, they are happy.
Don't you hurt them!
Why no?. You have wanted Elliot as well.
Because that's not the way the story goes.
Stuff the story, fall in love; you will never get this again.
You do this and you will never forgive yourself.
I look back to the folder and look for an address. I find one, collect my stuff and go out.
"Wait, aren't you two coming?" I ask Munch and Fin.
"Captain says this case is only for you" says Fin. I shrug and leave the office.
I had been sent to a case of a girlfriend being beaten by her boyfriend, a basic open and shut case but why was I sent alone, it was not normal. The girls name was Amy she was 21, my age. The boyfriend name is Greg. Why do boys have to do this? I shook my head and continued on.
WHILE BACK AT THE OFFICE
EPOV:
"Is she gone?" asked Olivia.
"Yep" said Fin from the other side of the room. I stood up and went over the the white board, I flipped to the other side.
"What news have we got?" I asked everyone.
"Steph hasn't said anything to us" Munch said. Well that helps. Huang walks into the room and sits on Steph's desk.
"It seems that Steph has had a psychotic episode a couple of years ago but never got treatment for it, that's why she cuts herself. She doesn't make heaps of cuts which tells me that the original cut has a meaning that haunts her."
"Who has her bag now?" I ask around the room. Fin hands over the black bag, inside are a box cutter, her wallet and a bloody tissue. "What the?" I put the tissue up in the air. I hand it to Huang, he looks at it carefully.
"It's her blood, everytime she cuts she cleans herself up because she realises what she has done. What do we know about her family and childhood?"
"She was a middle child, out of three kids. She was fifteen, I guess, when she went onto the streets and then at eighteen joined the force."
"Something happened to her at fifteen that changed her." George looks around the room, puzzled faces everywhere. Cragen walks in and sits down.
"Fin and Munch, you call up the Australian Consulate and see if they can send or tell you about Steph. Liv, you and I will go talk to her" I look at Liv, she is already up and collecting her stuff.
"How do you know she will talk to you?" says Cragen
"Oh she will" I say with a wink. I grab up my stuff and we walk to the door, as we get close Steph walks in covered in Bruises and cuts.
"What happened?" Says Olivia. Steph shrugs and faints.
"Well, that was not nothing." says Huang over the top of Steph's body frantically looking for a pulse.
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