A/N: Hi everyone, I know it's been a while since I updated Amaro's Secret, so here is a chapter to keep you going. Just to let you know, I have posted a new one shot called Double Jeopardy Pendant, it's something different to what I usually write, so if you read it and enjoy it please let me know in the reviews.
I hope you like this chapter – enjoy.
Olivia looked at the clock, it was six A.M, for days there had been no sign of Elliot. He was gone. Again.
Feeling let down and stupid for letting Elliot back in, Olivia closed her eyes. She rolled over in bed and screamed into her pillow, she had let Elliot back into her life, and he'd left her again. He had broken the trust all over again. Tears threatened Olivia's eyes, she like her heart had shattered again, and it had only been pieced back together recently.
Sighing heavily, Olivia hauled herself out of her bed and forced herself in the shower; as the water fell down on her, she just stood there.
It was half past seven when Olivia finally got out of the shower. It was her first day off in weeks and she planned to do absolutely nothing with it. She got out of the shower and dried her hair, after putting on her sweat pants and baggy police shirt, Olivia picked up her book and sat down on the couch. She wasn't more than three pages in when her phone started ringing; she looked at the screen and saw Elliot's name; she was about to answer it when she realised all she would do is shout at him and cause an argument if she answered, so she declined the call.
An hour later, a hard knocking on the front door rattled Olivia from her reading. She threw the blanket off her and put her book down upside down saving the page she was on. She opened the door to Elliot's face staring back at her.
"Let me explain." Elliot said before greeting her.
Olivia left the front door open and slumped on the couch again pulling the blanket up over her knees. "You have five minutes Elliot."
Elliot came in and closed the door, he sat on the end of the couch and looked at her. His eyes were sad, but he knew he'd pissed off the woman he loved. "Liv, I've been trying to find her. She's gone. No one knows where she is, I know I should have called, but you have to understand, she's still my family."
"I know who she is Elliot. She's a murderer."
"I know. That's why I'm here. Liv, I'm going to tell Cragen today. If he asks about anything, I'll take the fall."
"I know you will, I'm nothing to do with this mess." Olivia said angrily.
"I know I've pissed you off Liv, but I'm doing the right thing. Or at least I'm trying to."
"Elliot." Olivia found herself lost for words, "You told me you wouldn't disappear again, you were meant to be making things better. You've undone all the good."
Elliot sighed, he knew he had hurt her again; "Liv, I'm giving her up."
"You should have given her up when you saw her on the tape. Elliot, I can't talk to you right now. Please, just go." Olivia didn't make eye contact with him any more. She picked up her book and stared at the words too angry to actually concentrate.
Elliot got up, he walked to the door giving Olivia one last look before leaving.
Nick Amaro walked into the one – six feeling anxious, his mind was running circles. Without knocking, he walked into Cragen's office.
"Nick!" Cragen looked rather shocked at being disrupted abruptly. "Can I help you?"
"My twin's a murderer." Amaro said blankly.
Cragen leant back in his chair, "You have a twin?"
"Yeah. My twin brother Nathan Amaro. We're identical twins, he's a sex addict. I think Olivia is investigating a case, and I think he's her suspect." Nick looked at Cragen, he stood completely still, his face blank.
"What makes you think it's him?" Cragen asked.
"He's in town. That's all I need to suspect him; he's got away with it for so long, he needs to be caught."
Cragen looked at Nick not knowing what else to say to him. "I'll talk to Olivia. Haven't you got work to do?"
Nick nodded and walked back to his desk, he didn't look up once, he typed away and kept his eyes on the computer screen.
Cragen dialled Olivia's cell phone number, it rang twice before she picked up. "Hello." she answered angrily.
"Olivia, are you okay?" Cragen asked hearing the anger in her voice.
"I'm fine!" she snapped.
"Right, I need you in. I've got a very sensitive case I need you to work on, call Elliot." Cragen responded.
"Elliot's got some personal problems he's sorting out, I can work alone."
"Olivia, I want you partnered up on this case!" Cragen ordered.
Olivia sighed, "I'll call him. What's the case?"
"Nick thinks his brother is responsible for a string of rape murders we've been working on. I want you to look into them for me. I know it's your day off, but I need you in Liv."
"I'll be in, give me thirty minutes."
"Make it twenty." Cragen barked.
Olivia made her way into the one – six, she had finally calmed down when she saw Nick, she looked at him; he gave her a small smile, but he made her feel uncomfortable. Olivia walked into Cragen's office, "Sir, what's going on?"
"Amaro said he has a brother, twin brother. The case you're working on seems to have the same MO Nathan Amaro has."
"It could explain why Nick's card was at the scene. Has anyone taken a statement from Nick?" Olivia asked.
"No, no one's formerly spoken to Nick. Take his statement, get every last detail, but Olivia; be sensitive, and tread lightly, he knows about the card, and has had time to think about why it was there if it was anything but a coincidence."
"Sir, do you trust him?"
"I trust you, and I trust my gut. Something seems off about him, I don't know what, but I want you to keep a very close eye on him."
Olivia nodded, "Okay, have you checked on this Nathan guy?"
"There's nothing in the system on him, but I don't see why Nick would lie about him, not when we can check up on him so easily."
"I guess we won't know his motives, if he has any that is." Olivia said crisply. With that, Olivia left the office. She scanned the one – six for Nick, spotting him she walked over to him and stood by his desk. "Nick, I need to take your statement."
"Statement?" he asked. "I haven't seen anything, it's just a gut feeling."
"I need to know everything about your brother, I need to know why you have this feeling; lets go into the interview room, it shouldn't take long." Olivia lead the way, she took her dictation machine with her so she could record everything Nick said. She sat down, as did Nick.
"Olivia, I'm not sure how much help I can be."
"Start from the beginning, at what point did you suspect you brother of committing the crime, and in what case do you think he could be our suspect?"
As Nick began to speak, Olivia listened and wrote down everything he said; her dictation machine recording everything from inside her pocket. "When I saw the woman outside Walkers nightclub, my brother Nathan used to rape and murder his victims. It sounds stupid because there are a lot of murdering rapists in the would, in New York alone, but it all felt different. She was his type."
"What do you mean his type?" Olivia asked softly.
"His diary. I'm going back a few years now, but I found a diary, it was all about his fantasies. Y'know, what he would do to women if he had the guts. I didn't think it could be true, but when you said my card was at the scene, I knew it was him. He always wrote about women being a play thing, just for sex and nothing else. He wrote about murder a few times, and how he'd do. He wrote about snapping the woman's neck after he raped her. How he felt the life slipping out of her body, her body crippling under his hands, his strength, he is the most powerful being." Olivia looked at Nick who seemed to fall into his own world. "The panic of his first kill. It was all exciting, but it wasn't meant to happen. Then it escalates, and he can't stop himself, and he keeps going until he finally snaps. Then he goes after a woman so far out of his reach just to prove he can do it." Nick realised he'd gone too far into detail and looked at Olivia. "Sorry, I guess I read far too much into him and his diary."
"Nick, when was the last time you saw your brother." Olivia asked concealing her shock.
"I haven't seen him in weeks." Nick confessed.
Olivia's mind sparked racing thoughts, she thought back to the crime scene at the Walkers nightclub, Nick had said he'd only had the card made the day before the murder. Olivia stood up and forced a smile, "Thanks Nick, try and get in contact with your brother. If you do, set up a meet and we'll bring him in."
"Sure thing Liv."
Olivia shuddered as Nick called her Liv, Elliot flooded back into her head. "It's Olivia." she corrected. The detective walked out of the interview room and made her way back to Cragen. "Captain, he says he hasn't seen his brother in weeks, yet somehow Nick's card ended up at the scene. I think he's hiding a lot more than he's telling us. I'm not sure, but I think he could be our perp."
