Immediate Danger

(Chapter Twenty Five: Threatened)

They were laying on the sofa in Elliot's apartment one evening watching an old black and white movie together when Olivia's cell phone rang on the kitchen table. She stood up and walked in to answer it. When she opened the phone and placed it to her ear she knew who it was. With out looking, without even hearing his voice Liv had a feeling it was Nick on the other end of the line. She was right.

"Olivia?" He asked in a stern voice.

Elliot had been watching her to see who it was when he noticed the troubled expression come across her face.

"Why are you calling me?" She asked instinctively placing one hand over her belly to feel her baby kicking.

"I miss you, Olivia. I just want to talk. Please just talk to me." Nick begged.

Elliot walked over to her and breathed the words "hang up." But Olivia just stood there listening, unsure of what to do.

"Nick, you are not supposed to call me. That is in your restraining order. You are not supposed to have any contact at all with me." She was sick of having this same fight with him, how could he not get this through his head? It was crystal clear and written on two pages in black and white!

"Olivia, just open the door and let me in. We can work this out."

With that Olivia looked up at Elliot with a frightened look on her face. She held the phone away from her face and whispered to Elliot, "he's at my apartment. He doesn't realize that I am not there."

Elliot moved quickly for his cell phone and called Fin.

"Nick, you are not supposed to be within one hundred yards of my residence or work place. It says that in the papers. You need to leave."

"Olivia, just open the door!" Nick shouted into the phone.

Liv could hear the buzzer to her apartment going off over the phone and heard Nick kick the locked door.

"Nick, you need to leave. Leave now. I don't want to see or hear from you anymore!"

Fin and Munch were on their way to Olivia's apartment to pick Nick up for violating the conditions of the restraining order.

"Olivia, this is my baby too."

Liv felt a big knot in her throat and she began to cry. Now he wanted the baby, too?

"I don't want you anywhere near this baby," she said to him. "Stay away from me!"

She could hear the sirens of the police cars over the phone. Munch and Fin were close.

"Stay away? We are having a baby, how can I stay away?"

"No Nick, I am having a baby! Alone! And I don't want anything to do with you ever again! Just leave me alone!" She shouted at him through tears. Elliot tried to take the phone from her to keep Nick from threatening her, but it was too late.

"I will be in my kids life! Now we can do this the easy way and you come back to me, let me make this right and raise our child together. Or we can do it the hard way! Trust me Olivia, you don't want to do it the hard way! Because no judge in their right mind is going to give a baby to a single cop mother on your salary! I'm a doctor, I have the money and the means to provide for this child everything it needs! Don't fight me! I won't lose! And if you run, I will find you!"

Olivia was horrified. She dropped the phone on the counter and looked up at Elliot now standing in front of her not sure of what had been said.

"You called the cops Bitch?" Olivia looked back at the phone on the counter and could hear Nick yelling. Elliot reached up and closed the phone disconnecting the phone.

Olivia broke down. She dropped to the floor and cried, she didn't know what else to do. She was so afraid that Nick was right. Elliot sat down in the floor beside her and held her hand. He waited a few minutes to let her calm down before trying to pull the details of the conversation from her.

"What did he say?" Elliot asked.

She looked at him with a lost look in her eyes. "He said he wants me to come back. He wants us to raise the baby together. If I don't, he's going to try to take the baby from me. Elliot, he wants my baby," she sobbed.

Elliot stood up and picked up the phone from the counter. "He doesn't want the baby," he said, "he wants you." He walked across the room and called Fin again to see how the arrest had gone.

"We got him," Fin said. "Someone in the building must have called in a complaint about the noise, when we got here there were already two uniforms trying to calm him down. Your lucky she wasn't here. It got pretty heated. He tagged one of the officers and they roughed him up a bit before he got cuffed. I'm just glad Liv didn't have to see any of this. How's she doing?"

"He threatened her. He said he'd take the baby." Elliot replied.

"Well, we're going to do what ever we can to make sure that don't happen. We're already trying to find some dirt on the guy. Collar him for assaulting that officer, that will muddy up his file a bit. We'll see if we can find any past girlfriends he was violent with. Tell Liv to hang in there."

"Yeah," Elliot said hanging up the phone. He looked at her. She was sitting in the floor with her knees drawn up to her chest or as close as she could get them. She looked so warn out, this was all so hard on her. She turned her attention to him as if asking him what he found out, but she didn't say a word.

"They got him," Elliot said extending his hand to help her to her feet. He held her hand and walked her over to the couch where they curled up together. When Elliot wrapped his arms around her he could still feel her shaking.

"He'll be out by tomorrow," she said and Elliot knew that it was probably true.

He held her tight and kissed her lips. "Munch and Fin are trying to find everything they can on him. Someone in your building called in a noise complaint. The uniforms were trying to calm him when Munch and Fin arrived. He punched one of the other cops. Liv, that's assault against a cop. It will tie him up for a little while."

"What am I going to do?" She asked softly. "Elliot, if he gets custody…."

"Then we will run," Elliot said. Olivia turned to look at him. "We will pack up whatever we need and I will move you somewhere safe." She couldn't believe she had just heard him say it.

"Just like that, walk away from our lives? Elliot, what about your kids?"

"I can come back to visit them. Look Liv, I don't know what to do. Maybe with your charges and these from this cop, he could get two to five years. Maybe, by then he will just give up."

"He scares me El," She said and he tightened his arms around her.

"He scares me too," he replied. "I'll call Casey later and see what kind of case we can get. Honey, we are going to do everything we can." Elliot kissed her tenderly. "When this is all over, I think we should go away together. Just you and me. Somewhere secluded, somewhere we can just relax and unwind. I don't like you being under all of this stress." He exhaled and looked deep into her eyes, "I love you more than life itself."

"I love you too," she whispered as she laced her fingers between his. "I'm sorry I got you caught up in this."

"Baby, I'm sorry. I'm the one who brought this monster into your life. I gave him your phone number. I pushed you in to dating him. This is all my fault." Elliot looked at her with regret in his eyes.

"Elliot, as much as I want to be rid of him, I don't regret being with him. If you hadn't pushed me to date him, I wouldn't be having this baby." She ran Elliot's hand over her belly and smiled at him.

"It's getting late," he replied kissing her again. "You should try to get some rest." She smiled at him and kissed his lips.

"You take such good care of me."

"Come on," he said turning off the television and leading her by the hand toward the bedroom.

Laying in bed with her in his arms Elliot looked into Olivia's tired eyes. "Goodnight my darling," he whispered against her ear. "I love you and I will see you in the morning."

"Ummmm," Olivia moaned softly. "Goodnight." Then she drifted off to sleep in the arms of the only man she ever truly loved.