A/N: Shout out to Cinderella1268. Thanks for your review! :) Elliot is going to have a little more mind losing going on. ;)


Chapter 28

He wanted to rush by her side but he couldn't let go of the downed court officer just yet. Elliot quickly took stock of the situation as he watched the court officers holstered their weapons and quickly dropped to check the group of people on the floor.

"Someone get over here!" Elliot shouted as he saw the courtroom doors open. Fin poked his head out and when he heard Elliot screaming, he came running with Carisi and Rollins in hot pursuit.

"Baby girl!" Fin stopped short and dropped to the floor quickly checking on the Sergeant before ordering Carisi to help Elliot. Rollins practically knocked the court officer out of the way to get to Nick.

Once Carisi had the situation under control, Elliot leapt up and ran to Fin who was checking Olivia over. She seemed to be talking and that was a good sign. His hope was short lived when he heard Rollins scream into her radio,

"Ten-Thirteen! Ten-Thirteen! Officers Down at the courthouse!" Elliot dropped down next to Fin and the two shared a look. They could hear the footsteps of other court officers as they came running down the hall.

"Don't move Baby girl. You may have broken some ribs. That marble floor is hard," Fin tried to get her to stay still while Fin pulled off his jacket.

"It feels like I did. How's Nick?" She huffed but reached out for Elliot when she saw him. He tried not to say anything as he noticed the blood from the wound in her side was beginning to pool on the floor.

"I'll take a look in a sec. Hold on now. This is going to hurt," Fin said as he took his jacket and pressed it into her wound. Olivia bit down on her bottom lip and squeezed Elliot's hand.

"Hold this cowboy while I check the rest of her out," Fin said. Elliot used his other hand and pressed down where the jacket was. He mouthed the words "I'm sorry" to her as she squeezed his hand again.

"These guys are bad shots," Elliot could hear Fin mutter as he inspected the wound in Olivia's leg. Elliot was glad they had been but he could understand Fin's concerns. Officers should have been a better shot.

"I need some help! Nick! Stay with me!" Rollins was losing it next to them and Fin quickly went to her aid, letting Olivia's not too serious leg wound go for the moment.

"Where are those damned buses?" Rollins cursed. Nick had been hit in the thigh and he was bleeding profusely. The pool of the life sustaining liquid was getting bigger and Fin noticed that the younger detective had already lost consciousness.

"I need something for a tourniquet!" Fin barked and one of the court officers handed him their own belt. Between the two of them, Fin and Rollins got the makeshift strap into place and tightened it. That's when Nick woke up and let out a scream.

"Glad to see you're still with us," Fin smirked, trying to lighten the mood.

"Gregg is dead as is Mr. Lindley," one of the guards who had come running announced to the group.

"Take the officers' weapons into custody and preserve what you can of the crime scene. When those medics come through we're going to lose evidence," the older detective ordered.

"Yes sir!" The guard nodded and he quickly set about getting things done with the help of the other officers at the scene.

"Paramedics coming through!" One of the officers yelled and everyone cleared a path.

"What have we got?" The head paramedic asked.

"He's got a nasty leg wound. You better take him first," Fin said.

"I'm going with him," Rollins said.

"Good," Fin nodded before continuing with the head paramedic, "We've got a head wound over there and the Sergeant has wounds in her side and leg."

"All right. Let's get a move on people," the head paramedic ordered as Nick was scooped up onto the first stretcher and carried out. The downed court officer was next, followed by Olivia. Elliot scrambled into the ambulance with her while Fin and Carisi were left to handle the situation at the courthouse.

Elliot was forced into the waiting area as they took Olivia away and prepped her for surgery. He hated that because he wasn't family and he was no longer her partner that he would be relegated to waiting and not getting any information. Fin sent him a text saying that he'd contacted Nick's ex-wife and mother and that he was Olivia's emergency medical contact and he hoped to be at the hospital soon. It stung a little bit that Olivia had changed her emergency contact but he supposed that after what happened with Jenna and his early retirement, she didn't have much of a choice.

"Elliot?" A very familiar voice snapped him back to reality and he looked up at the person standing in the doorway to the waiting room.

"Kathy?" Unsure why he was surprised that she was here. She works at this hospital, you idiot, he scolded himself.

"Are you all right?" It was then that he looked down at his hands to find blood all over them. There was even some on his shirt. He knew right then that it had to be Olivia's blood and that made him go pale. There seemed to be a lot of it.

"I… No, I'm not," he admitted. Kathy quickly went over to him and checked him over.

"Whose blood is that?" She asked, quickly realizing it wasn't his.

"It's Liv's," the words were barely above a whisper as a horrible thought crossed his mind and Kathy could see his face twist and she knew it wasn't good. While she and Olivia had had their differences, Kathy hated to see anything bad happen to her. It was quite obvious that he had cleaned himself up and her guess was that Olivia must have been helping him pull himself out of the pit that was his troubles.

"There may have been some transfer of blood! I was helping someone else before I was helping Liv!" Elliot was almost beside himself.

"Whoa, whoa. Slow down. What happened?" She asked. He quickly explained what had happened at the courthouse and Kathy now understood what he had been getting at.

"Ok, I'll let the doctors know," Kathy promised, not bothering to ask why a man who no longer had a badge was at the scene of such a horrific incident. She then hauled him out of his seat and down to an examination room. Any open cuts in his hands would allow the transfer of the first victim's blood into him as well. Once he was in the examination room, she quickly contacted the operating theaters and alerted them to the possibility of an issue. I hope that this is just an over precaution, Kathy said to herself. While she might have not been in love with Elliot anymore, she still wanted to be sure that he was all right. Pushing the thoughts that bubbled to the surface of just what kind of relationship her ex-husband and his former partner had, she got to work.

To Be Continued…