Part 7.
The sound of gunfire ricocheted through the building as the bullet sliced through the rope hanging Olivia up. She collapsed in a heap on the hard, cold floor gasping for breath.
The woman looked down at her, "See, I'm not an animal" and winked at her as she walked towards one of the windows which had a small space cleaned of dirt so she could see through it.
Struggling to sit upright, Olivia watched what she was doing. "So, why the sudden change of heart and you never did tell me what all this was about?"
Looking back at Olivia for a brief moment before returning her gaze out of the window, she answered. " Change of heart? I told you I'm not an animal, besides I got bored with you just hanging there. And for what this is about…well I think we'll wait until your partner gets here, after all he's just across the street".
Olivia's heart skipped a beat. She tried to stand but her ribs hurt too much. "What do you mean Elliot's here? Where?" Tears started to form in her eyes, 'could this be finally over?' She thought.
"Before we left your place I left him a little note to go to the warehouse across the street from where we are. He thinks he's going to find you, but I left a little more of a surprise". She turned to Olivia and smirked, "He'll figure it soon enough".
'Okay, so know we know what this is about!' Olivia thought. " So this is about revenge. What exactly did he do to you?"
" Not to me detective, my brother. He sent him to Attica for 25 years, for a rape he didn't commit. The stupid schoolgirl wanted it and she told him she was eighteen, how was he to know she was actually fifteen? Only he didn't last that long. He committed suicide after 4 months. He wasn't even thirty, my baby brother. Your partner killed him!" She started to lose it again.
Olivia began to shift nervously. 'Was she about to get another beating?' Quickly she decided to try and calm her down, talk to her. "Even if your brother didn't know her real age. Rape is rape. He had to be punished. Elliot was just doing his job. What was your brothers name?"
"Danny Morez, I'm his big sister Amy Morez." She continued to look through the window.
'At last, a name and a reason for all of this! If you could call being psycho a reason!' Liv thought, as the woman seemed to calm down.
"And here comes all of your detective friends; coming out of the warehouse. Looking a little off colour there", Amy laughed out loud, "They got my surprise. Now let's see how long it takes your beloved partner to figure this out and realize that you're right under his nose!"
"He'll figure it out, don't you worry about that. And when he does…" Olivia was cut off in mid-sentence again. Everything went black, as she lay there unconscious.
All of the detectives took deep breaths. "God for a minute there I thought it was Liv." Elliot said, relief washing over him.
"Do you know who she is?" Cragen asked.
"No. Well from what was left of her face anyway. It worries me though. If whoever's doing this can do that to someone, what about Liv?" Elliot was slowly beginning to lose it as a detective; instead thinking like a friend, panic would overtake him.
Once they had regained some composure, Cragen began. "Okay, first we need to find out who the dead woman was and as much of her background as possible. Fin, Munch I want you to stay here and have CSU go over this place inch by inch, then I want you to round up some uniforms and begin searching the rest of the site. Elliot I want you back at the stationhouse with me".
Munch and Fin got work straight away. Although Olivia Benson was Stablers partner and Cragen looked after her like a daughter. They too cared an awful lot for her that sometimes got forgotten.
"Captain I want to stay here."
"What good would that do? I want you step back a minute and get yourself back together. I need you at your best here Elliot, and so does Olivia."
Cragen stared Elliot down as they both headed back to the car. Before they reached it however, Fin shouted after them.
The pair turned back.
"We found a photo. It's for you again Elliot". Fin passed him the picture.
"Oh my god!" Was all Elliot could say.
In unison Cragen and Fin both said, "What?"
" It's Danny Morez. I sent him to Attica for raping a fourteen-year-old girl. Realization suddenly hit him. "Captain, I think I know who's doing this. Amy Morez his sister, she told me in court that I would pay for doing this, but we get that kinda talk from relatives all the time. This was never about Liv having a stalker; it was about Amy exacting revenge on me. She took Olivia to get back at me".
Cragen looked at a broken Stabler "Okay we know who's doing this. So now we can go get her. Elliot this isn't your fault. Don't believe that for a second."
Liv started to wake when Amy began rubbing her shoulder. "Wake up! I want you to talk to your partner."
'Elliot's here?' Olivia's eyes shot open. "No… He's not here…on the phone?" Amy passed her a cell phone. "Call him. Tell him to come to the warehouses right across the street and wait outside the one with the blue doors".
Olivia picked up the cell phone. 'Just to hear his warm voice would do me the world of good,' she thought. She dialled his cell number and it began to ring.
Elliot answered his phone "Stabler."
"Hey partner, remember me?" Olivia's voice was shaky and hoarse.
Elliot looked shocked. "Liv? Where are you? Are you okay?" Everyone stared at him when he mentioned her name.
"Just listen El." Olivia told him the information as instructed by Amy. "El? Be careful, I…" The line went dead.
"Liv! Olivia?" He looked at the others who were waiting anxiously. "The warehouses across the street. She's there!"
To Be Continued…