A/N: Who kidnapped Baby Munch? What surprising thing does Joshie do when Olivia and Elliot get home?
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"What happened?" Elliot yelled, running into the squadroom, Olivia's fingers wrapped tightly in his.
"Have you heard anything?" Olivia asked, panicking as she rubbed her belly with her free hand.
Cragen walked over to them. "It seems, uh, that Munch wasn't the one the perp wanted to hurt."
Elliot sighed. "Alex," he said. "How is she?"
Cragen tilted his head. "Concussion," he said. "But she's fine. She's worried about Ben, we all are. We have reason to believe that it was a lawyer with a grudge, or an ex-client trying to hurt her. The diaper bag was taken, and Alex wasn't hurt badly. Whoever took Ben doesn't want to hurt the baby, just wants Alex to panic."
Elliot nodded, running his right hand down his face, squeezing Olivia's with his other. "Any leads?"
Cragen pointed to the interrogation room. "Fin is in there with Trevor," he said. "They're talking about anyone in the D.A's office that might have wanted to hurt Alex. And Chester Lake, from Brooklyn, he's helping out with this. Elliot, don't give me that look, just be nice to him."
"He's a dumbshit cop who think we owe him something because he knows his way around this city," Elliot complained. "Cap, Liv could walk from here to Jersey with her eyes closed, any good cop knows the shit he does!"
"He's doing us a favor," Cragen snapped. "If this was one of your kids…I don't wanna think about that, but you'd want all hands on deck, wouldn't you?"
Elliot grimaced at the thought of this being one of his kids, but he nodded. "I guess, yeah."
"We'll handle this here, in the meantime, you two have a related case," Cragen said, handing Elliot a pink paper. "Another lawyer, he wasn't as lucky as Alex. His kid wasn't taken, but he saw part of the attack before he hid in the panic room. Maybe he can tell you something important."
"Shouldn't this be kicked up to Homicide?" Elliot asked, confused.
Cragen looked at Elliot. "He was raped," he said. "That makes it ours."
Olivia looked at the paper, bit her lip, and nodded. She tugged on Elliot's hand, pulling him toward the door.
They arrived on the scene and Olivia got right to work. She bent under the tape and walked toward the body, then paused, hearing a young boy crying and screaming. "Hey, hey," she yelled. "Leave the kid alone," she told the uniformed officer who was holding him back. She walked over and knelt down. "Hi, there, buddy. My name's Olivia, and I'm a police officer."
The boy sniffled. He looked up at her and said, "Badge."
"Smart boy," Olivia said with a smile, holding out her badge. "That's my friend, Elliot, and we're trying to help you, okay? Can you tell me your name?"
"Sam," the boy said, rubbing his eyes.
"Okay, Sam," Olivia said, resting a hand on his shoulder. "I'm sorry you had to see your father like that…"
"He's not my father," Sam said, wide-eyed. "That's what I was trying to tell that guy over there. He's the one who tried to take me."
Olivia's eyes widened. "Honey, can you try to tell me what happened?"
Sam nodded. "He broke the window in my room, and I screamed. My mother fran in and then she screamed, too. He chased us into the living room, and my mom fought with him. I heard her scream, then she told me to get into the box."
"The box?" Elliot asked.
"A room with no windows," Sam said, looking up at Elliot.
Olivia looked up at him, too, and said, "The panic room."
"Okay, Sam," Elliot said, giving him a small smile. "Where's your mother now?"
"I don't know," Sam said. "I don't know!" He started to cry, and a neighbor came to get him. Olivia and Elliot nodded their thanks, and walked toward the body.
Elliot looked down and his eyes widened. "Shit," he said. "Are those…did she try to chop him up?"
Melinda Warner, medical examiner, looked up at them. "Meat cleaver," she said. "Found it on the ground near the body." She handed them an evidence bag. "He was, uh, sodomized with a tire iron, too, post-mortem. Whoever did this was…very angry."
"It was the mother," Olivia said, sounding certain.
"You really think a woman did this?" Elliot asked. "Liv, it's so…violent, it would take a lot of strength. You believe the mom could do this?"
Olivia looked up at Elliot. "I could have," she said. "If someone was trying to hurt my kids, I would do this."
Elliot smirked, and gave her a sideways glance. "Okay, now I'm scared of you," he said, seriously.
"If you try to hurt my kids," Olivia said, "You should be."
Elliot looked at her, tilting his head. "Considering your kids are also my kids," he said, smirking. "Liv, I'm never gonna hurt them."
"I know you're not," Olivia said, rising to her feet. "It was a generalization." She looked at Melinda. "Do you have an exact cause of death?"
"One of the cuts from the cleaver sliced through his jugular," Melinda said. "If you find this woman, I would be a little afraid of her."
"Detectives!" a voice called from behind them, "We got another vic over here!"
"Dead?" Elliot asked, yelling back to the officer.
"No," the cop called. "Alive."
Olivia and Elliot ran over to the uniformed officer who was holding up a crying, weak-looking, woman, covered in blood. "Oh, my God!" Olivia yelled, running toward her.
"Olivia," the woman said, "I couldn't let him hurt my son," she cried. "I couldn't let him hurt Sam! I'm sorry, I didn't even realize I was killing him!"
"Okay, honey," Olivia said, "Okay. Kim, calm down, it's gonna be okay."
Elliot watched his wife, her arms around a bruised and sobbing Kim Greylek. He turned around and looked down at the body. "Liv?" he called.
Olivia snapped her head up, looking in his direction. He turned back and met her eyes, and said, "If our kidnapper's dead, how the hell are we gonna find Ben?"
Olivia squeezed her eyes shut and sighed, then led Kim over to her son. She watched them embrace, tearfully, and walked back to Elliot. "Find out who he is, where he lives. He had to have been stashing Ben somewhere while he went to get his next kid."
"I know she's upset, Liv, but you gotta get Kim to talk," Elliot told her. "Ride with her to Mercy, I'll meet you there." He knew he shouldn't, but he kissed her. He needed her to know that he loved her.
Olivia and Elliot walked into the squadroom, an hour later. "Our guy was John Foldger," Elliot called. "Bronx A. D. A. He was targeting the kids of the female attorneys who didn't want to have kids with him," he explained. "Greylek told us everything he told her, and she said that he told her he only had an hour, that he needed to get home to Benny."
"Where's home?" Cragen asked in a yell.
Elliot grabbed a take-away cup of coffee and said, "Liv and I are on our way. Guy had a bachelor pad on Fifty-Second!"
"I'm coming with you!" Chester Lake yelled, grabbing his jacket.
"No, you stay here, Lake," Elliot yelled. "We got this!"
Lake kept following them. "I'm coming, Stabler, whether you and your little woman like it or not."
"Little woman?" Olivia and Elliot spat together.
Lake chuckled and breezed by them, grabbing the keys out of Elliot's hand. "I'm driving," he said. "You two can have the backseat."
Elliot gritted his teeth. "I hate that guy, Liv, I hate him," he seethed.
"Okay, baby," Olivia said, patting his shoulder. "Let's go get our Godson, and you can hate Lake when we get back."
They drove at high speeds, weaving in and out of traffic, with Elliot yelling at Lake the whole time. "My partner is pregnant, asshole! Try not kill us! Could you, maybe, use your damn blinker?"
Lake simply laughed and rolled his eyes, pulling to a screeching stop in front of the building. Olivia and Elliot bolted from the car, drew their guns, and ran up to the front door of the townhouse. "It's unlocked," Olivia yelled, turning the knob and pushing it open.
Elliot was right behind her, watching her back as he always did. "Liv," he whispered, "Do you hear that?"
Olivia listened closely, and heard the unmistakable cry of a baby. "Ben," she said. She followed the cries, with Elliot at her back, up the stairs and through an open door. She gasped. The nursery was fully furnished and decorated. She looked around and then walked over to the crib. "Hey, Benny," she said, scooping up the baby. "It's okay, sweetheart, Aunt Liv is right here."
"Hey," Elliot said, dropping a finger down to his cheek. "So's Uncle Elliot," he said with a chuckle.
Lake, smiling behind them. Picked up his radio and pushed the button. "SVU Portable to central, we found Benjamin Munch, and he's just fine." He sighed as he watched Olivia and Elliot, wrapped around each other, holding the baby. He thought about how they must look at their own kids, with more love in their eyes than they had right now, and he thought, for one brief moment, that that's the life he wanted. He thought, then, that he would use his time at SVU to get it.
They dropped Ben off at the hospital, spent some time with Alex and Munch, and then headed home. They walked through the door at noon. They yawned the moment the alarm was set, and plopped down on the couch. "I'm exhausted," Olivia mumbled.
"That makes two of us," Elliot said, brushing his hands through Olivia's hair. He cupped her chin and held her steady while he kissed her softly. "I'm not tired enough to go to bed without making love to you tonight, though," he said with a smirk against her lips.
Olivia chuckled. "Guy," she said.
"Guy in love with his wife," Elliot returned. "So, uh, did today help you make your final decision? You gonna quit on me, baby?"
Olivia sighed. "El, today proved that I'm doing exactly what I need to be doing," she said. "I'm right where I need to be, and I need to be there with you."
"Damn right," Elliot said, chuckling as he kissed her again. "Why don't we, uh, head upstairs, and you can be there with me, too."
Olivia chuckled. "Lame line, El," she teased, licking and biting at his bottom lip.
"Or we could stay right here," Elliot said, running his hands down to Olivia's waistline.
"Mom," Kathleen said, walking down the stairs holding Josh. "Dad, I think you guys need to hear this."
Olivia and Elliot rolled their eyes. "Mom and Dad were about to hear something a lot more interesting," he groaned. "What is it sweetpea?"
Kathleen brought the tot over to the couch and said, "Joshie, who's that?" She pointed to Elliot.
Josh reached a hand out and grabbed at Elliot's sleeve and said, "Dada."
Elliot gasped, feeling the tears well up in his eyes. "He wasn't just making noises, Liv,"
Olivia was tearing up, too, and she looked at Elliot. "Guess not," she whispered.
"And who's that?" Kathleen asked, pointing to Olivia.
Josh crawled over Elliot and sat himself in Olivia's lap, touching her face gently. "Mama!" he said with a laugh.
"He's been saying it all morning," Kathleen said. "He would look at your pictures, saying 'mama' and 'dada' and then he's crawl around the house looking for you.
Olivia held her son, looking at him just the way Chester had imagined she would, and leaned closer to Elliot. "El, baby," she whispered, "We have all night to spend together in the bedroom, can we just spend a few hours with our kids?"
Elliot kissed her forehead and nodded. "I love that idea," he said. "Katie, go get your brother and sisters, make some popcorn, and pick out a movie."
Kathleen laughed and said, "Awesome," as she ran up the stairs.
Elliot wrapped his arms and a blanket around Olivia, cuddling close with her. He kissed her slowly and deeply, then dropped a kiss to his son's head. "I think family movie time is gonna end up as family nap time," he said, resting his head on Olivia's, who had hers on his shoulder. She mumbled in agreement, and by the time the other kids had come down stairs, they were both asleep, with baby Josh asleep in their arms.
A/N: What does Lake do? How long is he going to stay at SVU? What happens when Fin makes good on his promise to get Casey to quit? And what is so special about Baby Leyla? Click to review, or leave me a Tweet TMG212 on Twitter for more!
