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Chapter 12

"Captain you can't be serious?" Elliot questioned as he followed behind as Cragen tried to walk away from him.

Olivia trailed behind the both of them, just listening, waiting to get her word in. 'Why did Elliot always think her plans were just crazy ideas?' she wondered. "Elliot if selling me means we get into the market then I am happy to do it." Olivia said as she stepped into Cragen's office behind the other two men.

Cragen shut the door, went and sat down at his desk and just watched as the two of them argued it out in front of him. It wasn't like he could get his word in anyway; they just wouldn't give him the chance.

"You're not even up to full strength." Elliot said.

"So we're supposed to just sit back and let more women be sold into God knows what situation whilst I just take my time to recover?" Olivia said sarcastically. "Not going to happen Elliot!" she concluded.

Elliot walked over to Cragen's desk and placed his hands on it as he spoke directly to him. "This is a bad plan." he said slowly, emphasizing every last word.

"Why because it wasn't you who came up with it?" Olivia asked him.

"Oh grow up." he said to her, turning so they were now right in each other's faces as they argued.

Cragen couldn't help but think they were close enough to kiss if they wanted to. The chemistry between them was sooo obvious, even to him, so he knew exactly why Elliot was protesting so much against Olivia putting herself in harms way. After all she had done that enough recently.

"You're the one who needs to grow up. You hate the thought of not being the one on the front line, admit it."

"You never minded staying behind me before."

"What? Please Elliot why don't you and your ego take a walk outside to cool off!"

Cragen got up from his desk and walked around them. They were so busy arguing they never saw him. They just heard the door slam. They both looked at their Captain, he now had a smile on his face; he had got their attention.

"May I speak? In fact I'm the boss so I am gonna speak and you two are gonna shut up and listen." he said firmly. "Elliot you and Olivia are going undercover. You're going to be selling her. You bought her a while ago and you're bored of her now." he began.

"Can I really sell her because what you just said is the truth?"

"What are you 12?" Olivia asked annoyed by his childlike behaviour.

"Fin and Casey are going in with you." Cragen shouted over them, "He's gonna be selling her. I want as many of you in there as I can but we can't afford to be spotted. Fit in. Mingle. Find out what you can. We'll only get one chance at this." he told them. "Now get out and come up with an air tight profile." he said to them as he held the door open, not prepared to listen to another second of their arguing.

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"This is the worst plan in the history of all plans." Elliot thought out loud.

"Tell me about it." Fin said over his radio. "You two ready?" he asked.

Elliot turned around and looked at Olivia, she had her hands tied together in front of her and her clothes, a white short sleeved t-shirt and a black pair of pant, were torn and dirty. Her hair was ruffled and she wore hardly any make up, thanks to which showed off every single one of her bruises. A reminder of what had happened to her and one Elliot hated.

"As ready as I'm ever gonna be." he told Fin. "You?" he asked.

Fin looked at Casey. She wore a pale blue shirt and torn grey pants. She looked like she had just come from the office, which she had, but her outfit made her look taller and even more sophisticated. She too had her hands tied in front of her. "Just one last thing," Fin said before walking over to her.

He placed his hand on top of her head and ruffled up all her hair. "Now we're ready." he told Elliot.

"Like you really needed to add that final touch?" Casey said, slightly annoyed. It would take her all night to brush those knots out.

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Inside the market Munch wandered around purposely taking his time to look at every single woman there. He was actually trying to see if he could spot any of the women already missing. What amazed him the most was he did see them, most of them. He could only guess they had been used up by one creep and were now being traded in for a "newer" model. He couldn't help but think every woman here was stunning, even looking like hell they were all still obvious beauties. Olivia and Casey were going to fit right in…and that actually scared him.

He continued looking around and saw his partner dragging Casey behind him. The look of shock and horror on her face was in no way put on. This place was enough to amaze God.

The old subways, where they had been told to come to, were dark, damp and noisy. Every time a train passed through a neighbouring tunnel the place shook and it became almost deafening. It was freezing here too; however the rats swarming the place didn't seem to mind.

The lighting was dull and some of the light came from metal bins that had men stood around them throwing in rubbish and what ever else they could find. The small fires offered no heat however. The place was just too big.

They had gotten into the tunnel via an old "out of use" fire door. Indeed it was out of use but only to those who didn't know any better. There was also always someone standing on the inside of it, ready to stop any unwanted visitors. Like the police.

As Elliot wandered around he held onto the crook of Olivia's arm, maybe a little tighter than he should, he looked too protective of her really but luckily no one paid any attention to him, just her, as was the situation with Fin and Casey.

This place was filled with the biggest creeps around the only thing they paid attention to were the women. They were all just searching around for the best looking one, or the youngest one or what ever type it was they wanted. Short tall, thin, slightly bigger built, blonde, brunette, red head, American, foreign…after all there was ever type here.

Some of the women being dragged around were just kids, some looked barley sixteen. There were women from all different races, women who had come into the country with promises of safe homes and support only to be tricked into being sold as sex slaves.

Suddenly someone grabbed Olivia's arm, almost completely pulling her away from Elliot. He tightened his grip on her arm and stood closer to her, placing his other hand on her hip. He looked up at the guy who had grabbed her; he was tall and very well built. He wore a black suit and had a flip chart in his hand. Elliot guessed he was the guy in charge, or one of them at least.

"She's new." The guy said to Elliot.

"Not to me." Elliot replied. "Had her a while now. I'm bored. I'm looking for something younger, a blonde." he said.

"Screw you." Olivia said, she actually kind of meant it, he was certainly gonna pay for the 'younger model' line.

The guy in the suit suddenly raised his hand and smacked her right across the face, full force. If Elliot hadn't have been holding onto her she would have fallen right on her ass.

She had to blink away the tears that had now filled her eyes. Like the bruise she had on that part of her face wasn't big enough already. The guy grabbed her arm again and tried to pull her away from Elliot but he knew better and kept a firm grip on her. Still every time the guy pulled on her arm her injured shoulder felt like someone was stabbing a knife into it and twisting. How she wished she hadn't been so stubborn and just kept the sling on, or took the pain killers she'd been given.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?" he asked the guy.

"My names Anders, I take her through there, we slap a number on her, then we'll present her on that stage," he said as he pointed to what was no more than a few wooden crates pushed together, "and the guys all make a bid. Tasty piece of meat like this, you should get a fair deal of bids. I may even bid myself." he said as he looked her over before once again pulling on her. He actually managed to rip her out off Elliot's grasp this time.

He began walking away but Elliot quickly caught up to him. "How do I know no one's gonna take a test ride when you take her back there?" Elliot asked, genuinely concerned that it may happen.

"You just go get a front row seat, over there. Don't worry, no one's allowed to taste the merchandise." he said before once again dragging her off.

Elliot looked over to where he had been told to take a seat. Fin was already sat there, a few spaces away from him was Munch. Somewhere else in the crowd there was Huang and a few officers, all blending in. He didn't believe this Anders guy but what other choice did he have, reluctantly he walked over to find a seat.

They had all come here with a plan. At least one of them had to buy Olivia or Casey back, if not Fin or Elliot would refuse the bid, that way they weren't getting sold off to some creep who would do lord knows what to them.

As Elliot sat there he continued looking around, just to check no one was watching them. He was about to speak when Fin spoke first. He had already checked to make sure it was clear to talk.

"Is this your first time here?" Fin asked, trying to keep up his cover.

"First and last." Elliot muttered back to him.

"Did the ogre take Olivia?"

Yup," Elliot said, knowing who Fin was talking about. "Did he take Casey?"

"Sure did. Remind me again why I went along with this stupid plan?" Fin said.

"Because it was either go along with it or start applying for new jobs. At least we can be here to keep an eye on things." Elliot said, trying to look at the whole thing a bit more positively. Not that it helped at all.

They both watched as the "ogre" stepped onto another wooden crate. He had his flip chart ready. Fin and Elliot both guessed it had the ladies numbers or whatever in it. "Let the bidding begin!" he yelled.

All the guys in the crowd began cheering. Elliot and Fin couldn't help but look around. Both of their hearts were pounding. They hated this. They knew the others would feel the same, but there was nothing they could do now.

They stood up and clapped along with the others as a long line of women were forced back into the room and made to stand still. Olivia and Casey where stood next to each other. The guys in the audience where still cheering and clapping, some were even whistling and others panting like dogs. They were like vultures hovering around a kill. All waiting to get a piece of what they could.

'Fair enough every woman up there was beautiful but did these men really think they could just buy and sell them like this?' Elliot thought to himself.

Straight away someone walked over to Olivia and grabbed hold of her. Casey wanted to cling onto her but she knew this is what had to happen. Olivia was pushed onto the blocks of wood and someone then stood behind her, ready to stop her if she tried to move.

"We got us some new meat men!" Ander's shouted.

The cheers got louder until finally someone yelled out a starting price…

As the bids continued Elliot couldn't help but try to work out exactly who was in charge here. Someone had to be. Every now and then Fin or one of their guys would shout out a bid. However someone would always raise the price. Still they kept bidding. After all the money they had loaned would be going straight back.

Someone on the front row reached up and grabbed Olivia's leg. Immediately everyone began cheering. Olivia ripped her leg free from the guy's boney hand and kicked him in the face as hard as she could, she bust his nose right open. The guy behind her jumped right on her, tackling her to the ground.

She could have cried in pain as her already broken ribs were crushed and bashed between the guy on top of her and the wooden block. Elliot stepped forward, he wanted to jump right up and punch the guy but he couldn't risk giving himself away. The safety of every woman in here depended on them.

He could only watch as the guy roughly pulled Olivia up and pushed her over to Anders. He punched her hard in the face. She fell back into the man behind her and Elliot could see that her nose and lip were now bleeding. Everyone in the crowd was cheering…nearly everyone anyway. Elliot had had enough of this. He was about to call for back up when a man ran up to Anders who looked ready to hit Olivia again.

Elliot watched as the man whispered something to him then ran off. A huge smile spread across Anders face. "It seems we have someone brave enough to try and break this bitch. Sold! To a private bidder." he said as Olivia was dragged off.

Elliot didn't like this one bit. Straight away he chased after where they were dragging Olivia to. However he was quickly stopped by two guards, then Anders walked up to him. "Where are they taking her?" Elliot barked.

"She's been sold." he told him.

"I didn't agree to any sale." Elliot reminded him.

"When you hear the price I'm sure you'll be very happy." he said.

"I'll be happy when I together back." he said, flashing his badge.

Fin and the others had already put the call in for back up. Elliot could already hear them shouting at everyone to get down on the floor. He stepped closer to Anders who knew the shit he was in. "Tell me where she is and I may try to make this easy for you." he lied. He wasn't going to make this easy for him at all.

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Olivia fell into a quiet back room. She hadn't meant to fall but she had been shoved so hard she had landed flat on her face and stomach. She was seriously thinking about packing herself in bubble wrap from now on. Her shoulder ached like crazy, her ribs felt like razor blades each time she breathed, all in all she was in a world of pain. She was about to move when she heard someone else step into the room, followed by the creaky metal door shutting.

She listened as they walked over to her and crouched down next to her. She was about to roll over to get a look at whoever it was when a familiar voice said, "hey fish,"...

TBC

Anyone remember who called her 'fish'? Or is that a stupid question? Like we could forget!!

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