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Chapter 11

Merritt walked into the bedroom and looked around confused when Olivia was nowhere to be seen. Suddenly she jumped out from behind the door and dove onto Merritt, knocking him onto the floor. She stayed on top of him and hooked her arms over his head and around his neck and held them together as tight as she could. She could here him choking.

"You son-of-a-bitch he's dead! You said you would help him." she cried.

She fought back tears as she heard Rook gasp for breaths, she wanted to squeeze harder until she heard his neck snap but she just couldn't kill him, she wanted to, God she wanted to, but she wasn't a monster. She unhooked her arms and fell away from him. She brought her legs up to her chest and lowered her head onto them as she cried for Elliot.

Merritt rubbed his bruised neck as he looked at her. He crawled over to her and began to rub her shoulder.

"Don't you fucking touch me!" she screamed at him.

She wanted to get up and leave, but the truth was if there was no Elliot to go back to then there was no real reason to go back, so being here was probably her best option. She just continued to cry.

"Don't cry." Merritt said as he began to stroke her soft brunette hair.

She was too exhausted to even hit him away from her so she just let him as she carried on crying. She cried Elliot's name softly, her heart ached as she thought about having lost him and she was sure she had. Everyone she loved left her eventually.

Merritt heard her sobbing Elliot's name and it made him think about his wife. He sat down next to Olivia. "When I lost my wife and my child I thought my world had ended. It did end but I was still forced to walk alone without them. I had them in my heart but with the guilt I felt over their deaths I began to make myself forget about them." Merritt told her

Olivia continued to let her tears roll down her cheeks but she looked up at him as he spoke. She was beginning to see the innocent and broken man again. "I don't want to hurt other people but people need to know the consequences of never challenging authority" he said.

Olivia looked at him. She had challenged his authority when she had refused to hurt the girl like he had wanted her to do. She wanted to say something and try to comfort him over his family's death, no one should have to go through that and they should never have to carry a guilt that didn't lie on their shoulders. "It wasn't your fault what happened." she said quietly.

"I knew something was wrong but I didn't tell the Dr he needed to do something more."

"That was his fault not yours. You just wanted what was best for you wife and child." she said to him.

"I let them die." Merritt said as he looked at her, his eyes were filled with tears and he looked so helpless. He let his head fall onto her knees as he lay down next to her. She wasn't sure what to do.

After a moment of him whimpering she asked, "Are you going to let that girl go?"

He suddenly snapped out of his moment of weakness and pushed himself up to his feet. Before she could protest he ragged her up by her hair again. She now wished she had snapped his stupid neck. He threw her down on the floor in the kitchen then walked over to the closet. He kicked the chair away, opened it up then reached in and pulled out the terrified girl.

He threw her down and quickly grabbed a knife he put it right next to her throat. Another second and Olivia knew he would be drawing it across the girls throat. Doing all she could think of to do; she grabbed another knife that was lying about and brought it up to her neck. "Touch her and I'll cut my own throat!" Olivia yelled, threatening him.

"Merritt turned to look at her but kept the knife at the girl's throat. "You wouldn't do it." he said calling her bluff.

"Wouldn't I?"

She gritted her teeth together as she cut her neck slightly, purposely not cutting deep enough to do any real damage but it still began to bleed. She could feel the warm liquid dripping down her neck.

Her plan worked though and Merritt stepped away from the girl, holding up the knife. "Put the knife down Olivia." he said calmly. "Like this…see" he said as he lowered his.

"Untie her. Let her go." Olivia ordered.

"I need to use the knife to cut the rope." he said.

She had to laugh to say she trusted him at this moment but only why she had the knife at her throat. She watched carefully as Merritt cut the ropes. The girl yelped in pain as her muscles where finally moved from out of the same painful stiffening position they had been in for hours. "Take off her gag." Olivia barked at him. Quickly Merritt did. "Move away from her and let her run away." she ordered.

Merritt took a big stride back. The girl looked at Olivia as if to say "what about you" Olivia smiled at her and mouthed "go" to her. As quick as the girls aching body would allow her she ran. The moment she was on back on the dock she began looking around for anyone who could help. Up ahead she saw a crowd of people running towards her so she began running towards them.

Merritt stalked closer to Olivia and she slowly moved back, wanting to keep as much distance as she could between them. If she had to she would walk backwards, with the knife pressing against her throat, all the way to the SVU.

"I'm gonna put this one away." Merritt said as he pulled open a drawer and dropped the knife in.

Olivia thought she heard something and in the second it took her to look away Merritt pulled out a small handgun from the drawer and pointed it right at her. "Drop the knife Olivia."

"You drop the gun." she replied, her voice slightly shaky from having a gun pointed at her.

"DROP THE KNIFE!" he roared at her.

"You drop the fucking gun!" she yelled back at him.

She continued to back step away from him she hit the door that led to a small outside area of the boat. Miraculously it was unlocked so as she leant against it it swung open. She stepped out of it all the time keeping the knife against her neck and all the time Merritt moved closer towards her.

The back of her knees suddenly hit the small railing on the boat. If she took one more step back she's have toppled over and been in the icy cold water so she had to stop.

"Put the knife down Olivia." Merritt asked nicely.

"No." she answered simply.

He was right by her now. If he reached out he would easily be able to touch her.

"Rook freeze!" they both heard.

They looked to see Fin, Munch, Cragen, Lake and a group of armed officers running along the dock towards them. In front of them all ran Elliot. He was weak and tired but he was saving his girl.

"Elliot…" Olivia said in disbelief.

She wanted to run towards him but Merritt smacked her hard making her drop the knife which fell into the water. He wrapped his arms around her and held the gun pressed on her stomach as he looked into her eyes. He tightened his hold on her. So hard she was struggling for breath slightly. "Don't come any closer Elliot." Merritt said.

Elliot and the others were stood on the deck, one more step and they'd be on the boat. Ignoring him Elliot took the step so he was on the boat.

"I said don't come any closer Elliot." Merritt said as he jabbed the gun more into Olivia's stomach.

"Let her go Rook. You didn't hurt her last time so please don't hurt her this time…please." Elliot begged.

"You got one hell of a woman here Elliot. She's just like my wife was; beautiful, funny, smart, brave and she didn't give in to what people told her. She had her own beliefs and she had her own opinions just like our Olivia."

"I'm not telling you what to do now Merritt…I'm just asking you to let Olivia go." Elliot said as calmly as he could although really he just wanted to punch Merritt's lights out.

"I can't do that Elliot."

"LET HER GO GOD-DAMNIT!" he yelled at Rook, hating seeing how scared Olivia looked, that look was killing him.

"I'm sorry Elliot but I'm going to have to challenge your authority." Merritt said before a loud shot rang out.

TBC

A cruel cliffhanger I know but I'll be updating really soon.

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