A/N: I hope you all are enjoyng this, I know I am, keep the reviews and stuff coming! Sorry to all the Stabler fans, I am a massive Elliot/Christopher fan, won't say any more, check it out for yourselves...

BANG!

Upstairs-

Olivia jumped up from her position on the bed.

"That was a gunshot, ELLIOT!" Olivia screamed in terror, she ran down the stairs as quickly as she could.

Downstairs -

"Hmmmmmmnnnnn!", the young girl attempted to scream for help, but her mouth was still covered with duct tape.

Elliot lay on the floor, he was bleeding, the young girl saw him get shot. Elliot had tried to jump out of the way of the bullet but he was too late to move into the ajar bathroom door, he went to put a foot forward and felt a searing pain in his chest and fell heavily to the ground. All he could see was darkness.

Moments later, Olivia arrived to find Elliot spread on the floor and covered in his own blood, the girl was wriggling and scratching at the rope she was tied up with when she saw her enter the room, she once again tried to scream and Olivia stared at her.

"Just wait right there, okay, don't move you might hurt yourself! I'm a cop! Listen to me okay, this is my partner I need to check him out first, I've called my co-workers and an ambulance, okay?" Olivia spoke gently, which was the total opposite of what she was feeling. She was on her knees beside Elliot clutching his chest and putting pressure on the wound to stop him from bleeding out, she was trying so hard not to cry, she couldn't stop herself, one small tear made it's way out. She blamed herself. Hold on, where'd the perp go? She got so caught up in Elliot she'd forgot about the guy that shot him!

"Where's the guy that shot him? Where did he go?" Olivia questioned the woman. The woman nodded her head in the direction of the open window and the curtains flapping violently from the wind.

10 minutes later...

The ambulance arrived on scene about two minutes before the cops and Cragen.

"He's unstable, losing a lot of blood, we need to move him now! Call the Mercy, tell them we got a cop vic, nicked lower artery, gunshot wound to the chest, shrapnel hit shoudler and missed left lung,go,go,go!" the paramedics quickly loaded Stabler onto a roller and wheeled him quickly from the scene.

"Wait, I'm going with him!" Olivia shouted at the medics, her hands wer covered in blood, she had no shoes on and all her and Elliot's stuff were up in the room, which she just realised she'd left wide open.

"Liv, look at me, the meds need the space in the bus to keep Elliot going right now! We'll get you cleaned up now and take you over and as soon as Elliot wakes up we'll get statements, okay?" Cragen stopped her in front of him she was shivering with fear and sadness, she needed to sit down and get cleaned up.

The second set of paramedics had put the young girl, whose name was Lindsay, onto a roller and had finished taking the ropes and tape off her for evidence, they were going to take her in for a rape kit and testing.

"Thank You, I'm sorry about your partner,", Lindsay thanked Olivia for coming to her rescue.

"It's okay,", Olivia said quietly, not in the mood for talking, she wanted Elliot, she wanted to be with him right now, it was her fault he was in this mess! If she hadn't made him come down here, he'd be fine and they'd be together up in that beautiful hotel room, not dying in hospital, she needed to go to him, now!

"Liv, go,", Cragen nudged her, she was shocked it was almost as if he'd read her mind.

"Come on, I'll give you a lift,", Fin offered, she was in a CSU suit now, they'd taken her dress off and cleaned her hands, she nodded at him in thanks.

"I'll be there as soon as I can, I'm not leaving this crime scene we've got every last inch inspected to convict ths bastard!" Cragen blasted.

"Okay, I'll ride with yous, is that okay?" Munch asked Fin and Liv, they both nodded. The three of them headed out of the crime scene and ran to the elevator. They reached the police registered car at the front of the antique building and Olivia was almost in tears again.

Fin put on the lights to get to the hospital faster, Munch and Fin both looked at eachother, they were both thinking the same thing , what was Elliot and Olivia doing here, together and all dressed up? They knew they weren't undercover, so that pretty much left one conclusion; they were on a date. Olivia had all sorts of thoughts running through her head, but the main one was; what if he doesn't survive this?

"He'll be okay, right?" Olivia asked the two men in the car for reassurance.

"Of course he will Liv! It's Stabler, he's got shot before, thrown off buildings, beat up, he can get through this no bother!" Fin made her feel better, he knew she needed to know that he was going to be okay but none of them were sure, she needed to know that it was not her fault, he'd been through this stuff himself and if someone had just told him it wasn't your fault, it would've changed his whole attitude.

"Yeah, the man's a living, breathing miracle! I know people who didn't survive a small car accident never mind being thrown off a damn building!" Munch joked.

They reached the hospital in about 5 minutes, Liv was the first one to run inside and straight to the Nurse's Station, closely followed by Fin and Munch, they'd all just ditched the car out front, no time for parking.

"Elliot Stabler? Cop victim wheeled in from a shooting, about 20 minutes ago?" Olivia hurried the woman.

"Calm down, calm down. He's in surgery to stop the bleeding and repair the internal wounds, he's very unstable and could crash, but we've got the best surgeon to offer in there, are you family?" the nurse made Olivia worry even more but her question about family made her unsure of a reply, she wasn't his sister or anything but, was she his girlfriend, if she was going to reply with that answer what would Fin and Munch say?

"Um, no, I'm his partner, cop partner, police partner, thing...", Olivia veered off, she realised she sounded very suspicious and Fin and Munch gave her a strange look.

"Okay, take seat, he won't be out for hours yet, this is a very delicate operation,", the nurse demanded. Olivia sat down on the awkward hospital chair, about six chairs were facing eachother outside the entrance to the surgery room.

Fin and Munch also took a seat on the opposite chairs from Olivia, they all sat in silence, Olivia stared at the floor holding her head in her hands, Fin sat up straight in his chair staring at the wall and Munch was laying back in his chair with his arms folded staring at the ceiling. Cragen walked in, it was one in the morning and Stabler still wasn't out yet, Olivia was worried.

"Any news?" Cragen asked.

"Nope, they said he won't be out for hours and he lost a lot of blood,", Munch replied.

"Right, well we gathered all the evidence we could from the hotel room, we got DNA and prints from the window, he was scratched by the vic so more DNA and a description from both Elliot and Lindsay will put this scumbag behind bars,", Cragen gladly told them.

Surgery Room...

"Stitches, scalpel, stats?", the lead surgeon asked for Elliots blood pressure and oxygen levels.

" 180,", the attending replied.

*Beep Beep Beep*

" Stats dropping, 120, 100, 60, he's crashing, get the cart!" another attending shouted.

*Beep*

Waiting Room...

The lead surgeon walked out of the surgery and into the waiting room, he was surrounded by cops, they all stood when he entered.

" Well?" Olivia asked nervously.

"I'm..."