Rain

A/N: I am SO SO SO sorry for not updating. A thousand and plus some apologies for not updating. You probably all hate me right now. I've been really REALLY busy lately, with crew, reading books for school, and riding, plus visiting family, and just couldn't find time to update. Plus, the computer I had been using died. Anyway I hope you all can find it in your hearts to forgive me, and continue reading my stories. ;)

Disclaimer: Well, another season come and gone, and still not mine. Oh well. We still have cookies.

Chapter 9

The next morning, when Elliot came in, Fin was gone and Munch was sitting at his desk, doing paperwork.

"Hey, where's Fin?"

"Getting coffee, since I was too lazy to make any."

"Yeah, well, no one drinks that crap you call coffee anyway. Here." Fin walked in, carrying coffee. He handed John and Elliot their coffees, then sat down and got to work. Just then, Cragen came in.

" So, how's everyone feeling today? Other than the fact that Liv's still missing, I mean." Cragen said, a little sarcastically. John and Fin were about to reply when Elliot pulled his phone out and stared at it for almost 5 minutes.

" Elliot, man, what are you doing? Are you having detachment issues with your phone or something?" Fin asked, looking at Elliot as if he were crazy. Elliot just grinned.

"Liv's not missing."

"What are you talking about? Do you see her anywhere in here?" John asked sarcastically.

Elliot held up his phone. "She's in a warehouse, near the harbor."

"What?"

"She sent me a text message." In a matter of seconds, everyone had crowded around Elliot, trying to read it.

"What does it say?" Cragen asked quickly.

"It says 'Warehouse-harbor-Beck-Cassidy.'" Elliot replied.

"What does she mean by Beck-Cassidy?" John asked. Elliot thought for a moment.

"We decided it was someone who knew us, right? I worked with Dani when Liv was in Oregon, and she slept with Cassidy once. So she must mean that they have her in a warehouse near the harbor!"

"But why?" Cragen asked.

" Jealousy." Elliot, John and Fin all said simultaneously.

"Dani was always jealous of the relationship you and Liv had. And so was Brian for that matter." John noted.

"He was always pissed that the only reason Liv ever slept with him was because she was drunk that night. Otherwise, she never would've done it. I know it." Elliot replied.

"Ok, so we know she's ok so far and we know who has her and where they've got her. We have today and all of tomorrow, or else she's dead. Let's move!" Cragen said, determined.

"Cap, how are we going to find her if we don't even know which warehouse she's in? Do you know how many warehouses are down there? We'd never find her in time." Fin said.

"So why don't we search their apartments? Maybe we'll find something there." Elliot suggested.

"Good thinking, but we'd need warrants. They aren't there to give consent, and even if we did have probable cause, I'd rather be safe than sorry." Cragen shook his head.

"Which is why I did you guys the favor of thinking ahead and calling Judge Petrovsky." Casey strolled in, with two blue warrants in her hand. She had known what was going on for a while, and had been helping the squad out.

"See? See how smart she is? This is one of the many reasons I love her." John said, wrapping his arms around Casey's waist, and kissing her lightly on the cheek. Don, Fin, and Elliot all looked at each as if to say, When did this happen? But they quickly shrugged it off.

"Casey, you rock, you know that?" Elliot said, grinning.

"I know."

"Ok guys, enough chit chat. John, Fin, you two take Dani's place. Elliot and I will take Brian's." Cragen replied.

"Captain, how are we supposed to search their apartments if we don't even know where they live?" John asked.

"Easy. I happen to have both of their addresses from when they worked in SVU." He handed the card that had Dani's address on it to John, and pocketed the other one.

"Now let's move! I don't want to waste anymore time!"

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"How come we have to search Dani's apartment? I'd much rather be tearing apart Brian's place." John complained as they scoured Dani Beck's apartment.

"Because we all know that Elliot would completely desecrate this place, and then some." Fin said.

"Hey, what do you think Dani's password is?" John asked, as he opened up her computer.

"I don't know, try her birthday. Although I don't think she'd be that stupid." Fin grumbled as he went through a pile of papers on the table.

"Think again. She is that stupid." John said laughing.

"No way, really? Open her email, see what you can find." Fin suggested, opening his now ringing cell phone.

"Tutuola."

"Hey, it's Elliot. Find anything?"

"Not yet. How about you guys?"

"Nope. Nothing here. He's hidden everything, even his computer, so we can't even dig anything out of there."

"John's searching through Dani's email as we speak, although I doubt we'll find any-" John cut him off.

"Got something!" He called from the next room."

"I gotta go, Munch has something. See you back at the house." Fin said quickly.

"Look at this. She was the one who came up with the place." John said, pointing to the email.

"Stupid bitch. I never liked her anyway. Come on, print it out and let's go." Fin muttered.

Like it? Once again, so sorry for the lack of updates. I promise, chapter 10 will be up ASAP. Maybe even tonight if I get around to it! Please review. You can hate me for not updating, but don't disrespect the story!

Nell