Lost Then Found.
She didn't know what to do, she could feel her heart beating hard against her chest, she could hear it in her loud in her ears. She just stood there with the phone against her ear listening to the breathing at the other end of the phone. Millions of questions flew through her mind…
'Was it Maureen she could hear breathing on the other end?… If it was, was she okay?… Was she hurt?… Where was she?… Was she still in the city?… Did she even know where she was.?'.
She could feel her legs go like jelly. She sat down at her desk and just kept the phone to her ear. "Mo honey… is that you? Are you there?" she asked softly.
When she didn't get an answer she could feel her heart begin to pound harder, she was trying to get control of her breathing but she couldn't. Elliot moved to kneel in front of her.
"Put it on speaker baby." he whispered. So she did.
"Mo, baby if that's you say something." she said desperately wanting to hear her voice. But there was nothing but silence. Then they heard it.
"Momma?" came Maureen's voice. She sounded so, quiet, so exhausted. So scared.
Olivia let out a breathy sob. "Yeah Baby it's Momma." she cried.
"Momma.. I..I..I love you, please help me." she whimpered.
"We will baby, we will I promise. Where are you baby, do you know?"
"no." she cried. "my head hurts. Mom."
She was fighting sleep, Olivia could hear it in her voice. She knew she had to keep her talking. She could see Don and Ed both on the phone. Ed to Howard while Don was calling someone to come trace the call. She had to keep her talking.
"baby how did you get your cell?" she asked
" when I woke up in the trunk of the car I felt it vibrate in my bag, I knew I need to turn it off, and hide it so they didn't find it." she whispered. "Mom its Porter and Troy.. I mean David." She sobbed.
"we know baby we've been trying to find out where they went after they took you." she sobbed back. " do you know where you are?"
"no, all I know is we drove for what seemed like forever."
"we're gunna find you. Just keep talking to me baby, someone's on the way to trace the call, just keep talking. Okay."
Then they heard it. The sound of Maureen's phone dying.
"Momma my cells dying, please help me, find me please.." she sobbed.
"we are baby just hold on Baby… hold on." she sobbed back, feeling the fear of not knowing what would happen if the phone died.
"I love you Momma. I love you so mu…" she didn't get to finish, her cell died. Olivia just looked at her phone with tears falling down her face fast and hard. She looked into Elliot's eyes.
"No. no where is she Elliot, where's my baby?" she screamed holding on to his work shirt like it was her live line.
"We'll find her baby, I promise she called so we know she's still alive, and Don call a guy from computer crimes to come up and see if he can find out where she is." he cooed. " and you know them guys if anyone can do it they can, its what there trained to do." he said still trying to comfort her.
"I know they will but we don't know what they have done to her, what if they've hurt her, what if she needs medical attention there not gunna take her to get it, they'll leave her to die first.!" she cried out.
"Hey, hey we'll find her before anything like that happens, please don't stress too much Liv you got to think about the baby, rookie needs you to keep calm," he soothed running small calming circles on her back.
"I know, its just hard, but knowing she's out there will help me relax a bit more. But I'm not gunna rest properly until she's back where she belongs." she whispered.
"I know, baby, I know." he said kissing her forehead. "hey Cap where's the guys from computer crimes?"
"on there way up," he said walking over to the two of them, and put his a hand on both their shoulders. " they can find her Guys she was on the phone long enough, they just have t go through it break it down and find out where the call was made from. We're half way there guys I know we are." he said softly.
"We know Cap." Elliot smile. "hey can you just stay with Liv while I go up and talk to Kathleen. I really think this should be explained to her cos she's cracking to." he asked.
"of course. You go ill make us something to drink then we'll be in my office." he smiled. Moving his arm so Olivia could walk at the side of him.
"thanks Don."
"don't mention it."… "come on Sweetie lets go to my office so you can relax, calm down and tell me what the doctor said about this little one." he said placing his hand on her growing bump. She was now noticeable pregnant, and she loved it.
After he had walked Olivia to his office he went to make a Coffee for himself and a peppermint tea for Olivia hoping it would calm her a little. On his way back he bumped into Cody the computer crimes guy and Scott,
"hey Cody Olivia's cell is on her desk she said to take it and do what you have to, just find out where that call came from.
" okay no problem Captain, ill call when I know something." he nodded and with that he got the cell and left.
" Erm I was looking for Olivia or Elliot." Scott spoke clearly nerves.
Don looked at the young man who he knew after talking to Olivia and Elliot had caught Maureen's heart. He smiled at him and Scott returned it. " come with me Elliot's up in the cribs talking to Kathleen, and Olivia's in my office taking a breather.
" Is everything okay?" he asked starting to worry.
"you should really talk to Olivia. Its something that you should hear from her son." he said softly.
"is something wrong? Mo… have you found her?" he asked following Don to his office. When he opened the door Olivia and Scott's eyes met and locked together.
She got up and moved over to meet him with a hug, that he gladly returned.
"Olivia what's going on?" he asked looking her in the eyes.
" well, she called." she told him softly.
"Mo?" she just nodded. " but how, her phones been off for the last 3 weeks. Since she went missing how did she get it back? Is she hurt? Do you know where she is?" he rambled.
"Wow, wow, wow, Calm down Scott, she turned her cell off when she came too in the trunk of the car, she hid it, I don't know where…" "Down her bra." Scott said with a smirk on his face.
"Excuse me!?" came Elliot's voice from the door.
" I'm just say she always puts it down her Bra so she doesn't lose it."
"Ohh right." he said. Olivia couldn't help but give a small chuckle at his face. " anyway. We don't know where she is her cell died before she could tell me, she didn't sound hurt she just said her head really hurt. But other than that she sounded perfectly fine, exhausted but other than that she didn't sound like she was in pain." she said hoping to sooth Scott's worries, but knowing it probably wouldn't.
"but she's good at hiding when she's in pain." he said on the verge of tears.
"Hey man, she needs you to be strong and have faith. She'll be fine. But when we get here she's gunna need you to give her the love and strength." Elliot said putting a comforting hand on his shoulder.
"I know, and I will." he smiled. " I just want you to know… well both of you actually, I love Maureen with all my heart. I know I'm 4 years older than her and you probably think she's too young to know what true love is, but I love her so much. I would do anything to keep her happy and safe." he signed, then looked at them both with tears building in his eyes. " I just cant believe I left her, I should have stayed out with her at lest then I'd know she was safe, and here with me, us now." the tears he tried to hide now ran down his cheeks. He didn't even attempted to wipe them away.
"Look I know what she means to you. I do wish you had told us when this first started but I know why you didn't. but you love her and treat her right that's all that really matters to me. And its not your fault, you had no Idea what was about to happen." Elliot said to him. Really seeing the love this man had in his eyes for his daughter. He looked over at Olivia who was giving him a look. He nodded his head at her letting him know he agreed with what she wanted.
"Scott you don't look like you've slept much over the last month." she said softly to him. Coming to stand beside her fiancée and the man madly in love with her daughter.
"I haven't every time I do all I see is her." he whispered.
"well me and Elliot would like you to come stay with us till we find her and fetch her home. That why you'll get updates at the same time as us." she smiled. "And I'm sure she gunna want you to stay with her for awhile till she get herself back together, she'll need your help as well as everyone else's support in the healing process."
"and ill be there, I promise. I love her. But are you sure your okay with this you are 5 months pregnant, I don't want to make things harder at the house."
"you wont. Trust me I know Mo isn't going to want you out oof her sight for awhile when she gets back." Elliot smiled at him.
"Okay. Thank you."
"your welcome. Why don't you go join Katie in the cribs, I'm sure you to could talk and help each other through this." Elliot smiled. " plus you look like you could do with some sleep. We'll come and get you both when we've heading home." he finished.
Scott just smiled and nodded his head before leaving the room.
After they watched him walk up the stairs Olivia turned back to Elliot and Don, wrapped her arms around Elliot's waist while he put his round her shoulders and held her as close as her growing bump would let him.
"We need to find her El, and soon. Everything and everyone is starting to crack." she whispered.
"we will Baby. Once computer crimes finishes with you cell we'll hopefully know just where she is." he said kissing her forehead.
Elliot, Olivia and Don sat in his office for awhile talking about Olivia's appointment. She told them how they were going to have to wait to find out the sex because little rookie was been camera shy today. There pleasant talk was cut short when Fin, Munch, Amanda and Nick came busting through the door.
"What the hell guys, ever heard of knocking!" Don exclaimed, with one hand over his heavily beating heart. " you almost gave me a fucking heart attack. What's wrong with you all?" he asked.
"Sorry Cap but Cody got the results." Fin said.
"that was fast." Olivia said.
"yeah he's young but damn good at his job." Munch laughed
"you can say that again." Elliot replied watching Nick hand the paper to Don.
He looked them over and everyone saw the anger flash in his eyes, along with what they could only describe as Excitement.
"Well pack some things we're leaving."
"What? Where we going? Olivia asked.
"To your daughter and my grandchild back!" he said picking up his phone to Call Tucker.
"where is she dad?" Nashville, Tennessee." he replied before he started talking on the phone to Tucker.
Olivia and Elliot ran out the room and up the stairs to the cribs to tell Kathleen and Scott.
"Hey guys." Olivia whispered giving Kathleen's shoulder a light shake while Elliot did the same to Scott.
"whatttt!" both voices rang out, clearly not happy about been woken up so soon.
"You need to wake up we need to tell you something important." Elliot smiled.
"m…kay." Kathleen groaned, neither of them attempted to open their eyes. So Elliot tried another tactic.
"we know where Mo is." '5...4...3...2...1' he counted in his head. Then gave a hearty laugh when both sleepy bodies shot up.
"WHAT!" they both yelled at the same time.
"yep we found her, Cody worked his magic really fast." Olivia smiled. A big bright Smile at them " we're going to fetch her now. It could take a few days though cos we don't know what will be standing in out way when we get there, but we're real close to fetching her home."
"Good." Kathleen cried as Elliot wrapped his arms around her and just let her cry .
"can I come with you?" Scott asked.
"no, we don't know what we will face when we get there we cant let you come with us Scott I'm sorry." she said softly to him.
"its okay. Just fetch her home." he said back to her.
Olivia wrapped her arms around him in a friendly hug and he returned it promptly. " We will Scott I promise."
"Okay, and you take care while you're their you got this baby to keep safe to, Mo wont be happy if anything happens to him… or her." he told her placing a hand on her bump. She smiled at him and placed her hand on top of his that laid on her belly. " I will Scott don't worry about me, Elliot will be there to have my back." she smiled.
"of course he will but ill still worry, about you all until your all back here." Scott smiled.
"Well we should be back in a week, two tops." Elliot said.
"I love you daddy." Kathleen whispered.
"I love you too." he whispered back kissing her on the head.
"Do you need a lift back to the house cos me and El have to leave now to pack something's." Olivia asked.
" No I can drive me and Katie back if she wants to come with me, I can pick some food up for us and twins. They'll be home soon right?"
"yeah we can let them know what's going on before we leave."
"Okay."
Just then the door opened in Cragen walked in.
"Guys we got a flight for 7pm so we got about 2 and a half hours before we have to be at the airport. When we land we're booked into a motel. We'll go there, and meet with the local sheriff on Friday morning."
"okay we're going now."
With that everyone left to get what they needed. Olivia and Elliot went home to pack and tell the twins what was going on. At 5pm they all met at the airport and by 7pm they were boarding the plane ready for the 2 and a half flight to Nashville.
Once they landed in Nashville they got their thinks and made their way to the motel for the night, knowing they had a tough few days or weeks ahead of them.
To Be Continued…
So they know where Maureen is and they're gone to get her. But what Is going to be standing in their way? How long will it take to find her? And how much closer are they too finding the truth out about Libby? Keep reading to find out. If you want to know that is. Peace. xox