"El I need you to do me a favor." Olivia said opening the door to her apartment and dropping her suitcase by the door. She had forgotten how lonely her apartment was since she had moved in with Alex. Better yet she was amazed that she still had power to her apartment.
"I'll talk to Alex." He said assuming that was what she wanted.
"WHAT NO" Olivia said spinning on her feet.
"OK" Elliot said "What is it? Anything you want you have it."
"I need a full detailed background ran on each guard that is assigned to Alex and to the house. I want to know where their great great great grandmother threw her pot of piss out at."
"What?"
"You heard me" Olivia said opening her fridge then closing it depressed at what was molding in there "I also want Morales over to the apartment first thing in the morning."
"Why?"
"I need him to sweep for bugs, hidden cameras, the works."
"You're thinking there's a leak." Elliot said finally understanding her train of thought.
"It's the only thing that makes sense." Olivia stated stretching out on her couch. She could really tell the difference between her furniture and Alex's furniture "The only ones who knew that we were at Scarpetta's much less going out on a date was you guys and the guards, particularly Ramirez. I know without a doubt if you guys were going to smoke her out on our date that place would have been so covered by cops the pope couldn't have gotten a table."
"You're right" Elliot said agreeing with her.
"Also Ramirez had a red haired woman with him this evening. I have never seen her before so find out everything you can about her and perform the same background check as you are going to do on the guards."
"Done." Elliot said raising an eyebrow at his partner "And everything I just saw was what?"
"An Oscar winning performance if there are bugs or camera's in her apartment." Olivia said with a grin on her face.
"Every bit of that was planned and you couldn't let me in on it." Elliot said mad that he wasn't let in on the play that just happened.
"Sorry El I truly am but you have to understand. If Ramirez is the mole he was with us the whole time. If the apartment was bugged she could have heard the one sided conversation. Let's not forget the worst case scenario and that is somehow she can monitor both sides of the conversations."
"I have to say that is one scenario we didn't think on or plan for." Elliot finally admitted to her and silently loving the fact that his partner was returning to her old self.
"Me either since I started reading the file you guys have on Jess. After her showing up at the restaurant it's the only one that fits. We'll play this hand and if the hand is wrong we'll move on to the next one."
"Deal" Elliot said as he turned to head toward the door.
"Oh one more thing El." Olivia said stopping him as he headed toward the door.
"Go have the come to Jesus meeting you wanted to have with Alex before you discovered the truth. If Jess is truly watching and has been watching she would expect that. If you don't she may suspect something's up and throw the trail completely."
"Are you sure?"
"Positive. Now get out of here. I'm exhausted." Olivia yawned as she laid back on her couch and closed her eyes "Oh and send someone to get me in the mornign to meet you and Morales at her apartment."
Elliot just grunted in agreement as he left Olivia in her apartment and started to replay the last few days in his mind. Olivia had told him in the car after a treatment that she had finally asked Alex out and she had agreed. She had discussed not having Ramirez follow them when she was at Alex's apartment. The guys had brain stormed and came up with the idea of using the town car in the bull pen but Fin had discussed it with her in person at Alex's apartment. The car was signed out using a current case number that Fin and Munch was working on for an undercover detail relating to the case. No matter which way he thought of it they had made a rookie mistake and didn't sweep the apartment for bugs. Alex's attack fell on them.
"Alex Alex" Elliot called out entering her apartment and motioning for Ramirez to have a seat.
"What do you want Stabler?" Alex asked as she walked to the top of her stairs.
"What the hell was that" Elliot growled taking the stairs two at a time "Have you lost your damn mind?"
"Elliot that was none of your business" Alex stated as she spun on her feet and stormed back to her room.
"That is my partner and that makes it my business" Elliot almost screamed as he kicked Alex's bedroom door in "You had no right to do that. NONE. Do you know what it took for her to ask you out? Do you?"
"Elliot" Alex said backing up into the wall.
"Don't Elliot me. She finally worked up the nerve to ask you out. You two have a great date. Then Jess shows up and you throw her out."
"She threatened her."
"By you throwing her out you let Jess win. Do you realize that?" Elliot took a deep breath to calm himself "Listen Alex Olivia will stand by you through anything. She will take it as slow as you want or need to go. She will help you through every flashback and threat you will ever receive. I have never seen her as happy as I have with you. To tell her to go to Stacia, to be with her and forget you that was low Alex. I think the only way you could get any lower is to cheat on her. Is that it? Was she a game to you?"
"NO" Alex screamed as she smacked him hard against the face "She was never and will never be a game. As long as she's with me she's in danger. Breaking it off with her and throwing her out is the best thing for her, for me."
"I never thought I would say this but at this moment you have to be the stupidest woman I have ever met. For everyone's sake involved I pray to god you know what the hell you are doing." Elliot spat out as he spun on his heels and stormed out of Alex's apartment.
Alex fell to the floor crying when she heard her door slam behind Elliot. As she crawled in the bed she realized that tonight would be the first time since Olivia had moved in she wouldn't get any sleep. As she hugged the pillow tight against her trying to feel some security she silently prayed that Olivia knew what the hell she was doing because knowing she wasn't down the hall tonight was tearing her apart.
A/N: Had you guys going for a minute there didn't I? Have to keep the twists coming to keep you guys on your toes. Remember rule #1 in investigations nothing is ever what it seems. On another note thank you so much for the reviews and sticking with me when it seems I tear our tow favorite leading ladies apart.
