Chapter 10

Carisi and Dodds arrived just in time. Rollins was being wheeled out of her room and down to the operating room as they approached the group of detectives who were standing out of the way of the doctors. Carisi flashed a smile at the nervous blonde and she sort of smiled back.

"What happened?" Dodds asked after Rollins was wheeled away.

"The baby is putting pressure on her spine and the doctor is afraid that the little one is the reason that Rollins is having so many blood pressure spikes," Olivia explained.

"They're going to be ok, right?" Carisi wanted to know.

"The baby seems to be and should be ok once Rollins has given birth but the doctor won't know more on Amanda's condition until after the birth," the Lieutenant told them.

"How long did they think she was going to be in surgery?" Fin gave Olivia a look. He was concerned that the younger detective was going to be in serious trouble.

"An hour tops since the baby isn't actually ready to be born yet," she said. An hour; it seemed like it would be an eternity. Olivia motioned for them to move into Rollins' empty room so they could discuss the case in private.

"While we're waiting, I need to be brought up to speed on everything. Do we think there is some psycho running around or is this attack specific to our victim?" She wanted to know.

"More and more its looking like a Mob hit," Carisi said.

"A little odd for them, don't you think El?" Olivia turned to her husband.

"Yes but I wouldn't rule it out just yet. I think if our guy was a repeat offender, we would have found something in the databases on a similar MO. Say Andrea was his first though. He hasn't stuck since her death hit the news. A guy that violent would seem to indicate he couldn't wait to lash out again, media attention or not. Yet there was enough of a meticulousness about it that seems like it was a hit," Elliot frowned something wasn't adding up.

"We got a number that we need to run against Andrea's phone records. Seems like a good lead," Dodds spoke up.

"Ok, you and Briscoe head back to the precinct and get working on running that number. If it is the Mob, this person could be in big trouble and we need to find them first. Fin and Elliot, go bug TARU and forensics again. There is no way our killer is that good that he was able to keep the scene that clean," the Lieutenant ordered.

"Unless he had help…" the thought was out there now thanks to Elliot.

"It's not something I want to think about but I suppose that we can't rule it out either," Olivia sighed. The detectives began to file out of the room and Elliot gave a quick kiss to the Lieutenant's temple. She smiled at him and squeezed his arm before he was out the door.

"What am I supposed to do?" Carisi wanted to know.

"You're with me Carisi. We're going to be here when Rollins gets out of surgery," Olivia told him.

"Yes ma'am," he nodded before holding the door open for her. They moved out into the waiting room and picked a place to sit. Only forty-five more minutes to go… Olivia heaved a sigh after looking at her watch.

"She called this guy a lot," Briscoe said as he looked at the number that Dodds had given him and Andrea's phone records. They had buckled down as soon as they had gotten back to the precinct, hoping that they could find their mystery man named Joe.

"How much is a lot? I mean this guy would be almost twice her age so I highly doubt they were socially calling one another," Dodds gave him a look.

"If she weren't gay I would say she'd have been schtooping him," the younger man told him.

"That a technical term detective?" Dodds raised an eyebrow as Briscoe handed over the phone records list showing how many times they spoke in yellow highlighter.

"Good grief. Where is the list of text messages?" The Sergeant wanted to know. Briscoe grabbed it off of Fin's desk and started combing through it.

"Ok she was definitely schtooping him. She sent him pictures…" he trailed off, the blush returning to his face. Dodds looked over his shoulder and noted that a good number of pictures had gone to both Joe and Suzy.

"You think Suzy is dumb enough to lie to the cops twice?" Dodds wondered.

"Maybe she didn't know that her girlfriend was bisexual," Ken shrugged.

"Maybe that's why the phone was smashed instead of stolen like the laptop," Mike said.

"We gotta find this Joe guy," Briscoe told him.

To Be Continued…