Okay I have Dickie's Character portrayed a lot younger than he actually is, I think. I really don't know anything about Elliot's kids ages. Somebody, please enlighten me! But for now, Dickie is about 4. In this fanfic....Also, sorry that's it's taken me so long to update. I really am sorry but things got really bad for me a while ago, but I'm back and better and all other kinds of Optimistic stuff. Lol ~Brandi

Breaks

Fin picked up the ringing on his desk, "Yeah?" He heard a indistinct murmuring on the other side of the line, "You're gonna have to speak up. I can't hear you."

"I saw him" The voice was louder now. More clear. It was the voice of a young girl. Fin motioned to Munch, told him silently to pick up the house.

"Saw who? What's your name?" Fin questioned. He heard the hesitation before the girl answered, "Tiana. You saw my mom a while ago about Livia's..." She stopped, not sure how to finish.

"Okay Tiana. Who did you see?" Fin was getting impatient, this could be the lead that they had been looking for. A scared child.

"She's gonna hurt me."

Fin raised his eyebrows at Munch at this statement, "Who's gonna hurt you, Tiana? Where are you at?" Hesitation floated over the line, "Tell me where you are, Tiana. I promise that I won't let anything or anyone hurt you."

"5th and Broadway. I'm on a payphone." He reassured her again that nobody would hurt her and to stay where she was then he hung up the phone. He ran to Cragen's office and poked his head in the door. "Payphone on 5th and Broadway. A young girl who has some information on Olivia's case. Me and Munch are on it."

"Call Benson. She's a detective and has a right to know what's going on in her case."

"She's been calling asking about it, hasn't she?" Munch said, peering in over Fin's shoulder.

"Every hour on the hour. She's worried about it."

"Understandable." Munch said. Cragen gave them the okay and the two detectives drove off to pick up their first lead on the case since it happened.

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Olivia checked her bag for about the millionth time, anxiously waiting for Elliot. The doctor had been in earlier that morning, giving her release paper to sign and last minute instructions on her still healing wounds. She knew even as she was listening to him that she was going to have to call back later for the instructions again. The thought being out in the real world was too enticing for her to pay attention to the doctors droning voice. She ran a hand through her ultra shaggy hair and realized that one of the first things to do would be to get a haircut.

"Just then Elliot walked in with what appeared to be a monkey hanging around his neck. The monkey turned slightly and through the little face hole Olivia recognized Elliot's one and only son, "Hey Dickie!"

She shot a questioning look at Elliot and he shrugged, "He said he wanted to wear his Halloween costume from last year."

"Very nice. You let him?"

"It seems perfectly reasonable. He hasn't been feeling good and the thought cheered him up."

Olivia nodded then jumped slightly when the bedside table started ringing, "Hello?"

Munch's voice rang in, "Just thought you'd like to know that we might finally have a lead."

Olivia's heart rose into her throat, "Really?"

"Yeah, a little girl who apparently lives down the hall from you."

At this prodding another spurt of memory blossomed in her brain, "Tiana."

"How'd you know?"

"I'd see her sitting outside her apartment sometimes when I got home form work. Sometimes we talked."

"Okay, I'll talk to you later."

"Okay, but call Elliot's cell phone. They are releasing me know."

"Ahhh. Congrats."

"Thanks, Munch." She hung up and looked out the window, suddenly feeling claustrophobic. Elliot must've sensed it because he grabbed her hand and squeezed it slightly, "Let's get out of here." She nodded, anxious to be out of the building.

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Fin looked at the child that sat across from him in the interrogation room. She was a beautiful 7 or 8 year old girl whose face showed that those years had been close to hell for her. Scars abounded on it, and Fin could only imagine what other parts of her slight body looked like. But now wasn't the time to pursue that. Getting information from this child would be a bit like a novice dentist pulling teeth. Every time the door to the room opened or Fin made a move, she jumped a mile.

"Is she ok?" Tiana asked, looking steadily at the table between them.

"Olivia?" Tiana nodded yes at his question. "Yes, she's okay. You like her don't you?"

Tiana nodded, "She always talks to me when she sees me. She's nice. I can't believe that-"

"You can help her by telling me what you saw, Tiana."

She continued looking at the table, "I was outside in the hallway. A guy ran out of her apartment, he had blood all over him. I didn't know what to do. I- I- I couldn't go into my apartment -"

"Why, Tiana?"

"I just couldn't. I looked out the hallway window and saw a red truck drive away. Then I wet to the elevator and saw this on the floor." She took a card out of her pocket and handed it over to Fin. He looked at it and saw a business card for a place called, Slappy Joe's, most likely a Strip club. This was the first solid lead that they had in over a month of investigation.

"Thank you, Tiana. You've helped us a lot today. Is there anybody that you want us to call to pick you up. We can..." The fear in the little girl's eyes caused him to stop, "What's the matter?"

"Please don't call Mommy! She'll be so mad. Call me a pig. Then Tommy will..." She broke off, scared that she had already said too much.

"Ok, so we won't tell her. But we need someplace to take you for a while, and we need to get a statement from you." The girl continued staring at her twitching fingers. "Alright, can you tell me who Tommy is?" At this Tiana burst out crying. Fin looked at the one-way mirror, looking for some kind of help. The door opened and in stepped Olivia Benson herself. She crossed to the young girl and started comforting her. She glanced at Fin over the girl's head and her got the message. He stormed out of the room and into the main room before he saw Elliot standing at his desk, watching Dickie play on it. As soon as he saw Elliot he laid into him, "What the hell is she doing here?! Does Captain know that she's here?!"

Hearing his name, Cragen stuck his head out of the office door and looked at Fin, as the rest of the room was doing, and asked, "Do I know what?"

Fin pulled Elliot towards the office, "He brought Benson here!" He started as soon as he had closed the door, "She just got out of the damn hospital and she's here..." Cragen held up his hand to stop Fin's onslaught of words. He then motioned for Elliot to explain himself.

"She said she wouldn't be able to relax knowing about all of the work that she had to do when she got back. All that she really knows how to do is work, and how am I supposed to tell her not to do that? Some people are better off working after something like that."

Cragen took a second to think then spoke, "Fin, this is a special case. Normally we wouldn't want a victim hanging around here, but Benson is a detective and you have to trust that she knows what's best for herself. If she feels better at work than at home then let her go. But Elliot, I don't want her anywhere near her own case. She is not to help investigation at all. As far as her being here, however, I trust her to make her own judgements if she feels up to being her, let her go. But I don't, DO NOT, want her working her own case, understand?" The two men nodded in silence and started to leave. Cragen called Elliot back and waited until fin had closed the door behind him to start, "Elliot, I know that there is something between you and your partner. Something more than just a relationship. I'm not going to say forget it because I think she needs someone right now, and that you two would probably just ignore it anyway. But before it starts, I'm going to cut it off now. Whatever your relationship is with her, keep it out of my precinct."

Elliot nodded, then got up again to leave. Cragen called his name again, "Take care of her, Elliot. Make sure she doesn't bury herself or what happened. She's gonna have to deal with it, make sure that she knows that. And that we're here, all of us."

Elliot nodded again, touched at the humanity that his usually tough boss was showing towards Olivia. He went outside and waited for his partner to come out of the interrogation room with Tiana, and steadily thought of a way to show her that he cared.