This review had me cracking up.
Ah! Update fast fast! Cliffhangers that involve Olivia screaming need quick
resolve, LOL.
Thanks hun, here ya go.
"Liv!" He cried, running back into the house and to Olivia. She was shaking against the door frame clutching a small piece of paper in her hand. "Liv, baby, what is it?"
Olivia tried to catch her breath and handed the paper to Elliot. It was crumpled and covered in a nervous sweat. It only took him a second to read it.
No hard feelings.
"God, he's a monster." She cried. "Why the hell does he have to toy with me!" Her breathing was ragged and Elliot could tell she was on her way to another anxiety attack. Since her assault in the alley they had been no stranger, though less frequent as time went on.
It seemed that every time there was a little light in her life something like this happened and shattered her once again. "Its okay, Liv." He said as he wrapped her in his arms. Its what he always said; what else was there? The phrase had been uttered so many times in the past months even he could taste the hollowness of his words. "I'll call CSU."
"What for." She scoffed. "We all know who its from."
Elliot sighed. CSU had to come down there and they both knew it. As much as he didn't want them poking around his, their, apartment he knew White had been less careful and probably left her more than one surprise. "Liv, what if there is something else?"
"There wont be." She said. "This is it."
"How do you know?" He asked. "How did you even find this?"
Olivia tensed, her immediate discomfort obvious. "When you ran outside", she began, "I got this feeling like I wasn't alone, like someone was watching me. I've had that feeling for a while now, Elliot."
Elliot furrowed his brow. "Why didn't you tell me?" He asked.
"I don't know, Elliot, I thought I was just being paranoid but when you left I just felt like someone else was still in the room. I checked through the peep hole in the door and it was black. Something was covering it. It was, that was it." She said, pointing to the note.
Elliot shook his head. "I got that feeling too." He said. "That's why I ran outside; I wanted to go check. Liv, don't you think we should get CSU down here and see what else he could have left? For all we know, he's been watching you for weeks. Don't you think he would have left something behind?"
"I don't care." She said. "I just want to go to bed and forget about this, okay?"
"Liv." He called out as he chased her up the stares. "Why are you being like this?" He grabbed her arms and spun her around to face him. "Don't you want to catch this guy?"
"Of course I want to catch him!" She cried. "That's all I fucking want but I can't do this anymore!"
Elliot was confused, in the entire time he has known Olivia, even in the time they had been together, he had never seen her like this. He couldn't understand why she would withhold a detail like that; something so crucial to finding the bastard.
He had seen it many times before, with other women, other victims but he never thought Olivia would be one to interfere. Normally, when a detail was held back it was because the victim was too embarrasses or too ashamed.
That's when it hit him. The reason behind her insanity; she was ashamed. "Olivia you have nothing to be embarrassed or ashamed of." He began. "None of this is your fault. You know that."
She thought she just might start crying again. He knew her too well. "Elliot every time this happens, every thing he sends, it all gets passed around. CSU sees it, Cragen, Munch, Fin, Hardwicke, the DA, I just can't do it anymore. They all know." She paused and drew in a shaky breath. "Everything Harris did, everything White planned, every sick detail of what they have done to me, they all know."
Now he understood. Her irrational behavior was her way of protecting herself. She wasn't trying to hinder the investigation; she was trying to spare herself more pain.
She had done well. He thought. After everything she had been through, Harris raping her in the alley, White stalking her then, White stalking her now, sending her threats, killing in her name, he couldn't imagine the emotional turmoil she was suffering.
He wanted to end it. He knew she did too and, as unfortunate as it was, that meant reporting this. CSU would come down, search the premises, invade her privacy, then she would go to the station and once again give her statement.
"Can we just check first?" She asked. "If there is something else, I would at least like to see it before everyone else does."
"Are you sure that's a good idea, Liv?"
She nodded as she began climbing back down the stairs. "If I have to be humiliated again I would at least like to prepare myself."
Elliot shook off her last comment. Sarcasm was her weapon, its how she coped. It was how she dealt with being a victim.
Oh, God. Victim.
Elliot opened the back door and they continued to look for small traces of White; soda cans, napkins, things that shown he had been there for periods of time.
"I don't see anything. Do you?" Asked Elliot.
Olivia drew in a sharp breath. "Call CSU." She said.
"Have a change of heart?"
Olivia nodded slowly.
"What is it?" He asked, looking in her direction.
"Just call."
It was then that his eyes landed on what she had seen. There, on the floor, next to the back door looking into the living room, in plain view of the couch, was semen.
"That fucking bastard." He ground out through his teeth, anger pulsing throught him at what White had seen. "That fucking bastard! He watched. The whole damn time, he fucking watched and-"
"Elliot." She cried softly. She wrapped her arms around herself as she felt her stomach heave.
"I'm sorry." He softened. He went to hold her but stopped when she flinched away.
"Don't." She began. "He may be watching."
Is he? How long has he been watching? What's his plan? The threats are back but when will he carry them out? Who do you think has these answers?
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