Oh I just watched another preview for the new episode, haunting.

Okay, moving on. Anyone who had doubts about Charlie you were right too, anyone who didn't don't feel bad I like plot twists.

Disclaimer: Nope not mine.

Chapter 12

After the interview Elliot had brought Olivia right back to her place. She had fallen asleep in the car on the way over, so rather than waking her he had carried her up and put her to bed. He had stayed around to cook her some food, he knew she wasn't up to cooking and also he knew she wouldn't cook for herself.

He was in the middle of stirring it when there was a knock on the door. He walked over to it and looked through the peephole, not overly impressed with who he saw on the other side, Charlie. He swung the door open for him anyway.

"Detective Stable..?" Charlie said sounding confused.

"Stabler…" He corrected him.

"Whatever. Is Olivia here, she hasn't been answering my calls?" Charlie asked, leaning against the door frame.

"She's sick." Elliot told him.

"Well can I at least see her?" He asked standing up straight again.

"She's sleeping." Elliot informed him.

"That fucking slut..." Charlie said.

Elliot's jaw dropped and he just stared at Charlie, frozen to the spot.

"She's tired herself out screwing you hasn't she? I knew there was something going on between you two." Charlie said. "Guess I'm not going to be having a piece of her fine ass after all." He said sounding disappointed.

Elliot stepped forward so he was right in Charlie's face and continued moving forward as Charlie took a few steps back away from the apartment. "What the hell did you just say?" He asked.

"Don't get me wrong, she's nice, totally hot, but working sex crimes, that has to fuck you up right." He said. "I just wanted to fuck her...What guy wouldn't? You know what I mean?" He said laughing smugly, expecting Elliot to agree with him.

"No I don't." Elliot said.

Then before he could stop himself he slammed his fist into Charlie's face, knocking him to the floor, only to grab him, pull him back up and hit him again. Charlie hit the floor hard, coughing and spluttering. Elliot grabbed him again and pulled him up, he readied his arm for strike three, but Charlie quickly put his arms up to cover his face.

Elliot just took a deep breath and pulled back. Charlie slowly lowered his arms. Elliot was able to see his bust nose and lip. "You're not worth it." Elliot spat at him through gritted teeth. "If you so much as ever get yourself off thinking about her…I'll kill you." Elliot promised him.

Charlie just nodded. Elliot pushed him backwards into the lift then pushed the button sending Charlie and the lift away from Olivia's apartment. As he turned around though his heart sank seeing Olivia standing in the doorway, having obviously heard and witnessed everything. The look of hurt on her bruised face was painful to him.

"Guess that's what I get for dating a lawyer." She said laughing at her own stupidity that seemed be running at high levels recently.

"Liv…" He began.

"Your foods burning..." She said, purposely interrupting him.

"Damn-it…" He cursed as he ran past her and into the kitchen, quickly turning of the gas and removing the pans from the stove.

Olivia walked back in, kicking the door shut behind her. "I'm going back to bed." She told him.

"No Liv you have to eat, I just cooked this for you." He said.

"Which is exactly why, I'm going back to bed. You and I just cooked should not be allowed in the same sentence El." She said as she walked away from the kitchen.

"I'm a good cook and you know it." He said.

She turned around to face him. "Please, for me?" He said pouting and putting on his best puppy dog eyes.

"Fine…" She said walking over to the stool by her worktop and slowly and painfully climbing up into it. Once seated, she just watched as Elliot put out a meal for her and himself, before quickly joining her, climbing into the other stool.

He passed her a fork and she dug straight in. She actually couldn't remember the last time she had ate anything. "I'm impressed El." She said.

"When you have five kids you have to know how to cook." He said with a mouth full of spaghetti Bolognese. She laughed a little then went back to eating. He turned and just looked at her, he hated having to look at the bruise on her face, but he loved looking at her face.

"I think you broke Charlie's nose." She said.

"That creep deserved it." He said.

"You break a guy's nose for wanting to sleep with me, what would you do to one who actually did sleep with me?" She asked him.

"I'd chop his member off." He said.

She burst out laughing and he totally hadn't been expecting it, so he laughed too. "Ouch…" She said at the thought of someone having their member chopped off. "So what are you going to do when we catch him…?" She asked referring to the rapist.

"I'm gonna bury him alive in my back yard." He said.

"You don't have a back yard." She said laughing.

"Then I'll bury him in someone else's yard." He said.

She just laughed again. It made him smile, part of him had thought maybe he would never see her smile or hear her laugh again, but here he was witnessing both. "I like that you're laughing." He said.

"I don't know why I am. I feel guilty for myself for laughing…How fucked up is that?" She said as she now began playing with the spaghetti on her plate.

"Liv you're allowed to move on with your life. You can laugh and smile or cry if you really want to." He said.

"Crying is out…I'm sick of crying." She said to him.

He was about to speak when his phone rang. He fished about in his pocket till he finally found it. "Stabler." He said answering it.

Olivia watched as the expression on his face changed and he suddenly paled. "Yea, okay. I'll be right there." He said before he hung up.

"Who was it?" She asked him.

"Melinda. They just…found another body…" He said hesitating.

"El..?" She said, knowing he was holding back.

"She was wearing your handcuffs and she had been shot." He said.

She just faced forward, and put her hand over her mouth as she suddenly felt sick. "Do we know who she is?" She asked him.

"Yea, it's Dr Maddox." He told her.

She heaved and practically fell out of the chair, she moved as quickly as her body could into the bathroom. Elliot listened as he heard the door slam shut followed by her emptying the contents of her stomach into the toilet, he just sighed. He had thought she was maybe making a little progress, now he wasn't sure how she'd be.

TBC

I know that one was quite short, but I'm working on the next chapter already so it should be up soonish.

Thanks for reading, please review and let me know what ya think.

I almost forgot to post this, I was about to post chapter 13 and was like 'hold the phone, where's chapter 12' So sorry this should have been up sooner. At least the next one will be up pretty quick.