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Chapter Seven

Note: The following features plenty of vulgar language, chair throwing, etc, etc. You've been warned.

Anger Management (Entire chapter)

The day was just like every one for the past week: tiring. Everyone has been working to the bone to find and arrest the person responsible for the death of a missing girl; they had recently spent a day or two trying to find a solid lead and after sleepless nights, they found somebody linked to the murder. Earlier Cragen sent his lead detectives, Elliot and Olivia out to ask this guy some questions/or pick him up. But that was hours ago.

At some point, he got a little concerned so he left his office and asked around, "Hey, has Liv and Elliot returned yet? I suspected them to get here by now."

"Perhaps something came up so they had to take a detour." Munch answered, "These things happen."

But before he went back to his office, he heard screaming, yelling from outside and the first thing he saw was their suspect being escorted into the precinct with handcuffs. He thought it was a verbal fight against him, Elliot and Olivia but it just so happened, they were yelling at each other. But it escalated into them not being at each other, to being angry regardless.

And it all started as Elliot picked up his desk lamp, threw it out of rage, yelling, "Goddamn it! I am sick of this shit and I'm about to fuck everything up!"

"What the hell is wrong with you?" Cragen wondered. But he knowing Elliot, it must have been the perp. Though Olivia didn't help much in calming him down, she was as pissed off as he was.

"Rahhhhhhh!" She yelled out, shaking her desk also out of rage.

"Now hold on. What exactly is bugging you guys?"

"Well, I wanted too blow that guy's head off, but Liv wouldn't let me."

"I guess she's right for stopping you."

"And I'm tired of people riding my ass every hour of the damn day!" She went and complained, "Next person who starts giving me shit, I will burn their house down!"

While they heard all this transcribe, Fin asked Munch, "What the hell is she talking about?"

"I don't know but she is pissed. But let's face it, she has a lot of reason to be angry I mean... damn."

Then for some reason, Olivia turned over and snapped at him, "I am not gonna take any criticism from a fucking jew!"

"Well excuse me. Someone had a extra cup of bitch this morning."

That comment pretty much made her want to stab him with a fork... which she just so happened to grab out of nowhere and charged at him; but was stopped when Cragen immediately intervened before something bad ensued. This would be his last bit with them...

"Alright that's enough. You guys forgot how to be professionals, now control yourselves, get in there and do your job." He barked at them; fully capable of coming down with an iron fist when it came to them, "Munch, clean up this mess."

They steamed down some and walked into the interrogation room, but they were still mad nonetheless. Now they have had some anger issues in the past, more like the past three days. The reason why Olivia was acting like this was because she's premenstrual at the time; and she gets extremely nasty when she gets this was. And for Elliot, he was just straight up pissed off.

The following day, things got incredibly... worse. They had calmed down but what they did yesterday resulted in Internal Affairs paying them a visit. They had no idea what was going on and knowing how this looked, it was certainly not a good thing.

"What are they doing here?" Olivia asked.

"Apparently, IAB is here to take you guys in." Cragen told them with a stern tone in his voice, "I'm sorry. I couldn't convince them otherwise."

"So what? You're just gonna let these rats arrest us?" Elliot objected. But Ed Tucker was in no mood to hear them object to this so he simply told them.

"You have two options: I can take you in with handcuffs, or you guys can cooperate."

Knowing how embarrassing to have two detectives behind their backs, they'd rather accept their fate. "We'll come along with you."

They walked straight out of the precinct as he issued them their Miranda rights, "Detectives Stabler and Benson, you are under arrest. Anything you say will be used against you in the court of law..."

As he told them their rights, Alex just so happened to pass through them and immediately she tried to receive some answers, "What the- what is going on here? Why are you taking them?"

"They are under arrest. Need I say more?" Tucker told her, then proceeded to take them away. But Alex wasn't gonna let that happen.

"Now wait a second. Before you take them in for booking, let me see what they're being charged with."

Much later, they walked into the captain's office and began talking about the situation regarding Elliot and Olivia, while they were outside the office handcuffed to something. While Alex wasn't a defense attorney, she acted on their behalf, in efforts to possibly keep them out of jail.

"So what are they being charged with?"

"Detectives Benson and Stabler are being charged with multiple counts of assault among many charges after they brutally beaten a suspect during interrogation. The man reported this to the captain while he forwarded back to us."

And all Alex could do was sigh and shake her head, this was too crazy for her to handle and knowing how it was them of all people was no surprise to her.

"What happened after they beat the hell out of him?"

"Well..." Cragen tried to summarize it, but it took him a minute or two to answer, "Well, Elliot and Olivia came into the precinct boiled as ever. Elliot was throwing things everywhere and Olivia was spitting out hateful things at Munch. And the rest well... you had to be there to know what went down."

"I don't get it. They aren't like this all the time. Elliot maybe but Liv is another story. I don't know what I supposed to do about this..."

"I guess I can input." Dr. Huang proclaimed, which so happened to scare them half to death.

"Holy crap. How long have you've been standing there?" Alex inquired.

"Since you three came in here." He told them, "I don't think they need to be arrested or prosecuted because of their behavior. I'm guessing this stems from the stress from their jobs, their unnecessary aggression and inability to control their emotions."

"So what do you suggest?" Tucker asked him. And George had the proper idea...

"Anger management?" Elliot exclaimed, "That's ridiculous. We don't have any anger issues."

"Coming from the guy who just yesterday beat a man over the head with a chair?" Munch remarked, recalling to the incident.

"Fuck you, Munch." Olivia cursed out, then had some nerve to say, "This is crazy. We don't need any help controlling our anger."

Despite their objections to this, Alex plainly reminded them, "Well, it's either this or you two will easily lose your jobs. The deal is they suspend the charges while you two attend private anger management sessions for two and a half weeks, three days a week or such time until you improve. If you fail to attend these sessions or fail to make any progress, you will be apprehended. Think of it as you two staying out of court."

"Well, I guess this is taken care of. I'll be around... just wait..." Tucker said, walking out and going along with his business. I guess he knows that they will handle this well.

Just as he left, Olivia still objected to this, "This is insane. Are you really gonna let this happen?"

"Yes I will." Cragen answered, as simple as he put it, "You two over the years have pushed your luck and we all have given you guys chances. There's no doubt that you injured that man and threw away any possibility of a trial, but don't expect to get off without learning a lesson. Now you two can do this like adults or act like children."

Even though they didn't want to at all, it was better than going to jail. "Alright. We'll go."

"Don't worry. Each session is two hours long and I'll attend every session and you will receive weekly psych evaluations during this period." George explained to them both.

"And in the meantime, you two are on suspension."

Just by hearing the words suspension, they soon surrendered their badges and guns (which they used to pistol whip the guy) and headed home. Tomorrow was gonna be a tough day for the these two and it was hardly the beginning.


-The next day... in a anger management class-

Elliot and Olivia were angrily sitting in separate chairs, just waiting for the son of a bitch that's supposed to coach them for the next few weeks. To make sure everything went smooth, George stood in the corner to observe them during each session. The last thing they ever wanted was for him of all people to be there.

They were still dissatisfied with them being here and like him, Olivia showed her distaste with this whole thing, "I can't believe we have to spend the next few weeks in anger management. I understand Elliot being here but why me?"

"Because you need to keep your anger under control too. Especially when you're on the 'rag'." Elliot explained. But that didn't ride well with Olivia, given the fact that he, among every detective, has the biggest anger problem of all.

Then a man, who was dressed casually walked in as their therapist, to give them their treatment. With a happy look and tone on his face, he greeted, "Why hello there everyone, I'm Doctor Waters and I'll be your- Oh good god, it's you!" He immediately got frightened when he saw Elliot and searched for safety.

"Sup, Doug. Long time no see." Elliot smiled, as he silently laughed at the way he feared him.

"You know him?" Olivia asked him.

"Yeah. Last time I was here, I beat the crap out of him with a chair for what he said about my family."

"All I said was your family is better off with an ape." He cried out, still in fear. Elliot chose to let go the comment, although it wasn't really insulting. Perhaps it was. Anyways, he moved on, "Now what this is, for the next few weeks, I'll be here to help you control your anger and in order to become calm, happy and normal people."

They stood in silence whist glaring at him and even more so, Olivia flipped him off in response. He instantly knew that this was gonna be difficult so he had to play it slow, especially with Elliot.

"Now let's start. You two tell me about the people who make you angry."

They thought about it for a good minute or so, until soon enough Elliot answered, "Munch, without a doubt."

"That guy who licks his lips while watching me work out," Olivia grumbled (almost) under breath, "I told him, 'Unless you're gonna put a baby in me, the stay out of my business, bitch!"

"Well think of it as a dirty road and while you walk on it, you find a nice shiny penny."

"What the hell is he talking about?" Olivia whispered to Elliot.

"Get used to it. He says this crap all the time."

Annoyed as they already were, it got worse as it all came along. Throughout one session, it turned out to actually be more of a success that actually expected. While the therapist calmly and carefully worked on them especially Elliot, George still stood and watched the way they handled themselves so he can play his role.

Much later in his office, he managed to convince them to come along into his office so he could give them an evaluation; needless to say it went wonderful but he still believed that they might get into more trouble if their anger got our of control so he had this idea...

"Here guys. This will help you control yourselves and feel happy. By any chance."

"What is this?" Olivia wondered.

"For Elliot, a couple pills to keep his rage in check and for you Olivia, is pills to help control your moods as well, especially if your premenstrual."

"I am. Sadly."

"Anyways, these might keep you guys from beating the crap out of people, or worse, killing them." He explained, "If these might not work as I expect, then call me. Either way, get out."

Later that evening, things were incredibly strange for both of them. Elliot and Olivia easily took the medication but what they didn't know was George accidentally mixed up the pills, resulting in Elliot receiving female hormone pills, which you may think was for Olivia but it's not and as for her, for some reason, she received Ambien instead of mood elevators.

When he just found out this mix up, he knew on the spot that this was not gonna end well for either of them. He thought that you should alert them but given the fact that they may have already taken it, it was already too late. It would have been fine if he hadn't given them a whole bottle full.

The effects kicked in eventually, the prime example being Olivia; as she sat in her apartment completely messed up. While Ambien is normally a sleeping aid, she started hallucinating; it started with blurred vision but as the hours went along, she completely started tripping. Perhaps it was because of the fact she drank a beer with it. Though it got more stranger as it went along as she sat on the couch, deliberately talking to herself but to her, she was talking to Yogi Bear.

"Why hi, Olivia. Do you want me to juggle on a unicycle?" He 'asked' her.

"Ha ha. Yes!" A totally wigged out Olivia cheered.

Meanwhile after Elliot took the pills, he felt strange. The effects didn't kick in for a while but while he and his family was eating dinner, he felt strange so strange, he started touching his chest and starting doing some strange things.

Eventually, the rest of the family noticed so Kathy spoke up and asked, "Elliot, what the hell are you doing?"

"I don't know. For some reason my nipples are driving me crazy." He told them. There was literally no way she could respond to that, so she and the rest of them just kept eating.


-Weeks later-

Interestingly enough, they were actually calming down to say the least with the help of the pills (which is still messed up). Over the last couple weeks, things have gotten very smooth to say the least: they were cooperative, non-violent and they haven't thrown a chair at anything since they first arrived.

Everything went pretty well, until Olivia finally snapped out of her 'high' and caught something off with Elliot, "Hey, I just noticed something. I think you are growing breasts."

"I don't understand it. I thought it was the stuff I was eating but now I'm just don't know..."

Then Dr. Waters came back to give them their final lessons, "Okay guys. Now we can work on how we react when we are angry."

"Hey, Huang." Olivia called out, "What kind of pills did you give us?"

"Um...well," He tried to explain, so he simply just said it, "After the first evaluation, I was supposed to give you pain killers and mood elevators and something else for Elliot. But as it turned out, because of a mix up, I accidentally gave you Ambien pills and gave Elliot hormone pills."

And then, they suddenly broke. They felt like doing something bad to him, but that aside she said, "What?"

"Oh yeah. I switched the medication so you guys know how it feels to be one another." The stupid ass doctor revealed. And that's when hell broke loose.

"You gave ME hormone pills!" Elliot yelled, as he then pointed to his chest, "I HAVE BOOBS BECAUSE OF YOU!"

"What about me? Thanks to you two, I'm apparently addicted to drugs."

"Well I'm very sorry-"

"FUCK YOU!" Elliot cursed out, whist he tried to apologize to them. But things were very screwed up already so nothing could really stop them. The anger that cause them to knock a man into a coma, resurfaced and that was something that neither could handle.

However, George took a shot at this in attempt to restore order. So he pleaded, "Elliot, Olivia, calm down. You don't want to lose your jobs, don't you?"

"Yes do what he says," Dr Waters stuttered in fear, "He knows what to do, so listen to him."

But that didn't happen to work when Elliot took a chair, broke off one of the legs and yelled out, "I will fuck him up with this wood!"

For some odd reason, he felt a little happy for some reason. He didn't know if he should be afraid or be happy; even though that was a little odd. Either way, this whole thing escalated into another tantrum started by the angry duo. Yet to be honest, Elliot might have a reason to be angry.

Now back at the precinct after what went down, George told Cragen and the others about the sudden meltdown they had in anger management. It was a combined mix of laughing, confusion and straight up disappointment. Earlier they had literally trashed the room almost in entirety.

"Okay, let me get this straight..." Cragen tried to summarize the whole case, "They went on a rampage, trashed the room all because you gave them the wrong pills?"

"Yes. That's correct."

"Why are you giving ANYONE pills at all?" Munch wondered; that question was so interesting that not even him could give much of an answer.

"So anyways, what does this mean? Do they pass anger management?"

"Sadly, yes. I couldn't really deduct their overall performance because of that one incident." He calmly explained to Cragen, "Besides, they threatened to kill us both if they didn't pass."

"Well regardless if they passed or not, it's still up to IAB if they want to drop the charges." Cragen pointed out to him, but strangely enough he got a phone call from Alex, "Hello?"

"Hey, I just remembered to tell you. IAB is set to drop the assault charges and Elliot and Olivia are cleared to return to work." She told him, then hung up. However, she was at Internal Affairs with Casey as she had pinned Tucker against the wall with a gun pointed to his head. As she hung up the phone, she said, "Alright, you can let him go now."

"As you wish..." Casey replied, letting go of Tucker and removing the clip fro her gun; which is most likely not hers. They went along with their own business and walked straight out of the room, but not before he told them:

"You two will not get away with this..."

But she didn't really take that as a threat, in fact she would respond with, "I know. But if you ever tell anybody, then I'll make your life so horrible and painful, you will end up doing the strange and unnatural, none of which has happened since the day you crawled out of that dark cavern you call a mother. So if you so choose, then you will feel my devastating wrath."


-…. Meanwhile-

"So what do we do about Elliot and Olivia? Should I let them back?"

"Perhaps." George replied but then made a interesting observation, "I guess the reason they are angry all the time is because Elliot has to deal with things like this and Olivia, who is basically normal, usually doesn't get this way unless she is on her period. But yet, I guess their anger is something that benefits because as long as they are supervised, we don't have to deal with them trying to kill a man during interrogation."

As similar as that was, he was making plenty of sense. But before Cragen could even say anything else, Elliot and Olivia walked in the precinct all happy and very calm. Maybe the calmest they've been (without drugs) since before this even happened.

"Sup, guys." Munch greeted, "Did anger management treat you well?"

"It did." Olivia answered, "When me and El fucked up things yesterday, we thought of a way to express our anger without hurting someone. By purchasing stuffed rabbits."

"Stuffed rabbits?"

"Yes, Munch. Stuffed rabbits." Elliot replied, "You see, all that stupid crap is useless. So it's unnatural to ball up your anger, so we got these so we don't have to fuck someone up."

"I guess that's... kinda acceptable." Cragen thought about.

"Of course. Now if any of you every send us to anger management, then we'll make sure we show you how angry we'll get. Bye." To add a little insult to injury, both of them kissed their hands, smacked their asses and walked away signaling the middle finger their way.

"Well I guess we all learned a valuable lesson after this ordeal." Munch cheerfully said to everybody, but Fin didn't know what exactly that was supposed to mean.

"Learned what?"

Munch stood silent for a while, thinking of that kind of lesson that they learned. But he couldn't think of anything that they could've possible learned from this; in fact, it was likely that Elliot nor Olivia learned anything from this. But aside from the fact that George should never be in possession of pills, nobody learned anything from this. Oh well.


End of Chapter Seven