A/N: Thank you for all the great reviews, they are very much appreciated.. Sorry about taking so long to post, I ended up taking an unscheduled hiatus. Over the next day or so I will be posting the final chapters of this journey. And so begins the final push to the end 4 chapters to go. Enjoy...

Once they hit the diner, Sabrina sat in the booth facing Olivia and Elliott. The place was a little slow since they were there just before lunch rush, so the waitress was at their table with menus before they had their jackets off. Sabrina ordered a TBLTC on Rye; Elliott ordered a cheeseburger and fry; Olivia ordered a julienne salad. Their coffees came first and Sabrina asked,

"How are your ribs, Elliott?"

He looked at Olivia and then sighed. He pondered his answer because he could not lie to Sabrina but he didn't want Olivia to know the truth, before he could answer Olivia said,

"They are hurting him like hell..."

She looked at him, as Sabrina watched their interactions, Olivia continued,

"El, I know you better than you know yourself sometimes, you don't think I see the way you winch when you move and try to hide it? Seriously you are not that great an actor."

Sabrina smiled as he looked at Olivia dumbfounded. He said trying to do Cagney,

"Who are you saying is not a great actor."

Sabrina laughed. He then said just shaking his head,

"Liv is right, I do hurt like hell but I am taking it easy so I don't hurt more."

Sabrina said,

"They will hurt more before they heal. Give them another day or two and they will feel like just an annoyance. Besides you have had broken ribs before, so you know the drill."

He nodded. Sabrina continued looking at Olivia,

"Now Olivia you are probably wondering why I wanted you to be here also."

Olivia nodded and said,

"Yes considering I would think you would want this to be a private debrief with Elliott to make sure he is okay."

Sabrina nodded and said,

"I wanted to talk to both of you together to get a feel for where you both are in terms of each other. I know you have been spending a lot of time together and I want to make sure you are both okay and to answer any questions you might have Olivia."

Elliott said,

"If you two are going to talk about me should I even be here?"

Olivia put her hand on his arm and said,

"I have nothing to hide from you, I've always been able to tell you things that I could never tell anyone else. You were the one who never talked..."

As she looked at Sabrina then back at Elliott she continued,

"Since you went to see Sabrina and got help you are Mr. Honesty, I ask you answer."

Elliott said,

"Is that a problem?"

Olivia shook her head,

"Absolutely not. It is refreshing. This you, is a good combination of the you I knew for 12 years and the you I knew you really were but saw very little of."

Sabrina asked,

"No pent up anger?"

Olivia looked at him and shook her head,

"No. And a couple of times I was expecting it to happen and nothing."

Sabrina looked at Elliott and asked,

"I know it has not been long Elliott, but many times when people are put back into familiar situations they resort back to the feelings they previously had. You do not feel any of that?"

Elliott shook his head,

"No. It's funny, I feel different this time around, I don't have anyone to answer too and I don't feel the same pressure I would if I was getting paid as a detective, like before. I know I have to set a good example for my students but at the same time it just does not feel very hard to do. Is that normal?"

Sabrina nodded,

"Actually, it is and I am happy to hear you say this, because it shows me you really are going to be okay. You will have a few days like the rest of us where things might not go so well, but I am more than thrilled with where you are right now? And as a couple, how are you two?"

Elliott looked at Olivia as she rested her hand on his,

"I like where we are at as a couple. I like..."

He hesitated as he continued to look at Olivia. She saw his searching look and nodded, knowing where he wanted to go.

"I like waking up with her in the morning and falling asleep with her at night."

Sabrina asked,

"I bet the ribs have not helped the going to bed at night much."

They both laughed, Elliott said,

"Where there is a will, there truly is a way."

Sabrina nodded and laughed as their food arrived. She then asked Elliott, as Olivia started to eat and listen,

"On a serious note, how are you handling things with this case? We all know how fast a case can burst open and this one blew at the seams over the weekend."

Elliott dipped a fry into the ketchup he had put on his plate and said as he put it in his mouth and chewed it,

"Honestly, it bugs me that Sarah went for help and was used and manipulated. Now she is in trouble for something she had no control over."

Sabrina asked,

"What about her admittance about what she had planned for you as revenge?"

Elliott shrugged and sighed,

"Honestly that bothers me. Even though I know hand to hand, I could have handled myself, and she would never have been able to over power me..."

Sabrina shook her head and interrupted him saying,

"Never underestimate the power and strength of an angry woman, besides we do not know what triggers were used during hypnosis. Remember she is not working alone."

Elliott looked at Sabrina,

"Do you know Dr. Chang?"

Sabrina shook her head,

"He does not sound familiar to me, and considering the way Sarah was talking timeline wise he is not new to the business. I did ask John to look him up and get us all the information he could find. Hypnosis is not something to be used lightly or fool around with, it is amazing if used properly but devastating if used wrong"

Olivia asked,

"You sound like you speak from experience. Do you?"

Sabrina finished the mouthful of food she had just taken and then said,

"You know all those stories you hear about me. Well you do not know the story about why there are stories."

Olivia looked at Elliott, who looked surprised, and then back at Sabrina. Olivia asked,

"What do you mean?"

Elliott nodded,

"Please explain."

Sabrina had taken a bite of her sandwich and once she swallowed she said as they ate,

"Before the bureau I had gone to University and got my PH.d and Masters and a Bachelors degree in Teaching, my parents thought I was going to be come a professional student but I always knew I wanted to be with the FBI. My parents tried to discourage me because they did not want their daughter working in a man's world, they figured life was going to be hard enough in my chosen profession they did not want me making it harder than it had to be. In their journey to push me down a different path they tricked me into seeing a Psychiatrist friend of theirs who suggested hypnosis, I did not believe I could be put under so I humoured them and went along with it. I had read up enough on it to know what they would consider being in a trance and I did it, through meditation but I was fully aware of everything around me. He tried a reprogramming technique that is used to help people with addictions, he used the trigger touch of squeezing my elbow lightly and told my parents it would work for them. The point of it was that anytime I talked about joining the FBI they could squeeze my elbow and I was suppose to talk about going into private practise. When he counted to three and snapped his fingers I was suppose to come out of the trance, when he questioned me about what I remembered I told him I remembered a office I was going to be looking at for my private practise. He was thrilled he thought he was successful and my parents were thrilled, as I left them I turned to my parents and said, 'I want to thank you both for helping me realize that the bureau is really where I need to be.' My father grabbed my arm and squeezed my elbow and I laughed, 'You have to be kidding right? I was never under I only told you want you wanted to hear.' So all their stunt did was give me the determination I needed to make it in the FBI, I took gun lessons and range training, I learnt self defence and hand-to-hand combat, I even became a black belt in karate. I mastered all the skills needed to keep myself safe and to become as good as any man at the job, not unlike you Elliott, and that is how the stories began."

Olivia asked,

"What do you mean, not unlike Elliott?"

Elliott said,

"I got this one. What she means is I worked my tail off to be better at the job than my father. He was a good cop but not the best, he took to the bottle and nurses to get through his day he basically gave up. I didn't, as you know I took every FBI course I was offered, I did everything in my power to open doors that were closed to a cop like my dad. Yeah he played it safe and I didn't, maybe I let my anger openly show instead of suppressing it with boozes and chasing skirts did it get me in trouble, we both know it did but it only cost me a reprimand instead of losing my job and family. Do I regret some of my choices? Maybe. If I could go back would I change anything? Again maybe. But going forward I do know that what has happened to me in the past and my experience from the past year I will not be regretting or changing anything going forward. I won't be doing anything that I regret or that will need to be changed. As for this case and Sarah, you are right Sabrina, with someone helping her I could be overpowered, I mean I remember Dale Starkey, he was not a big man but he had a blunt object and syringe on his side and he over powered me. So if suddenly I woke up tied to a bed nude with the threat of being infected against my will with HIV..."

He couldn't finish his sentence, Olivia pulled him close as he got somewhat emotional. Sabrina watched as the two connected she smiled to herself as Olivia noticed and asked,

"What?"

She shook her head,

"It just makes me happy when I see my biggest success story continue to evolve."

They finished their lunch and Elliott asked once the waitress took their dishes and refilled their cups,

"Sabrina, do you think you can figure out what the triggers are?"

She said,

"Well if TARU can not do a voice match I was thinking I would talk to Dr. Skoda and have him listen to the tape and see if he figure out if the on trigger is the same as the off trigger. I mean the last thing I want to do is have Sarah listen to the tape line by line to see which one triggers the trance not knowing what it will take to reverse it. I mean we do not know if the third person meets her and does a touch trigger to reverse it or phones her to reverse it. We are in unfamiliar territory."

She then looked at Olivia and said,

"Olivia when Sarah was telling her story I noticed the look on your face when she said the Doctor you and Nick had been talking with at Bellevue became her Doctor, who were you talking to?"

Olivia said,

"There is no way it could be him, he knows us and I think we know him. He is incapable of doing this, although he does have the means and knowledge. I don't want to say until we get a positive voice match from TARU. I would feel so guilty if I was wrong and caused a man to lose his career."

Elliott looked at her and said,

"Liv, we are not just talking about one career or life here, we are talking about 4 lives which include you and me."

Olivia looked at him with pleading eyes,

"Please just trust me. I need to be sure."

Elliott looked into her eyes and saw the confusion,

"You have always trusted me and now I will trust you."

Sabrina paid the bill and said,

"Let us go and find our third person."