Author: Muppet
Chapter title: I love you too
Rating: R (and I'm sure of that)
Disclaimer: None of the SVU people are mine. I lost them in a poker game to that damn Dick. That crafty, crafty SOB. I'll get them back, Dick. Mark my words.
A/n: This is the end. Well, of the first part a least. Enjoy.
"You're late." Robert said turning to them showing his face that clearly showed the bruises Olivia left after kicking his ass.
"It took us a while to find you." Cragen answered trying not to smile.
"Where's Detective Stabler?" Robert asked looking around.
"He had other business to attend to." Fin answered.
"Too bad; I looked forward to seeing him. Do you have what I came for?" He asked looking at the bag in Cragen's grips.
"Yes." Cragen said, trying to stall.
"Well, hand it here." Robert said, extending his arm, exposing his dirty, discolored fingernails in the light.
"Robert, just a quick question: Where is Olivia?"
"She had other business to attend to." He said smiling, his disgusting teeth showing.
"Do you expect us to give you the money if she's not here?" He asked.
Robert took his other hand out of his pocket, grinning bigger he showed them a small grey detonator with a little red button on top which he placed his thumb over.
"So how is this going to work, Robert? You gonna just leave here without telling us where she is?" Fin asked.
"She's close, and when I leave. You can find her." He answered
"That's not good enough, Robert." Cragen said.
"Oh isn't it?" He said holding up his hand with the detonator again.
"How do we know there even is a bomb?" Fin asked.
"You don't" He answered. The conversation went on like that and they stalled him as long as they could.
Meanwhile Elliot was on the other side of the white brick building looking through windows when Greg Ogowa came up behind him.
"What are you doing?" Elliot whispered.
"If there is a bomb I'm going to try and defuse it, what are you doing?" he asked back rhetorically.
"Looking for my partner." Elliot answered back. The windows were too dirty to really see inside, but he thought he saw a light inside. He tried the door handle and found that it was open.
"Stay here." He said to Greg as he peeked inside. The light he saw was coming from a door cracked open. He heard voices coming from the other side. He couldn't make out what they were saying.
He silently approached the door, walking around a chair and a desk, happy that the floor was tile instead of wood. He peered through the door and found not one but several men inside. They were drinking beer and one was telling the rest a story. Olivia was unconscious. There was no bomb.
"He didn't know that the drugs were mine, from when I borrowed his coat like, the day before. He went to jail and then he kidnapped a cop and he thinks he's going to get away with it." The man said laughing.
"So tell me how I'm fun' get my ten G's. I don' see how there's any money in this" asked another.
"The ransom money. When we get on the boat were gonna shoot his ass, and take the money."
"Damn. So you set him up six years ago and now you're gonna take his money and kill him. That's cold blooded as motha' fucka'" Said a third man laughing.
"That's not cold blooded. That son of a bitch got my brother killed. He was shot out his god damn window. His ass is gonna pay." Elliot knew now that he was the brother of David Kline, Robert Kline's second cousin: Aaron Kline. He was somewhat relieved to find that Olivia hadn't set Robert up, not that he thought she did.
"So what are we going to do with that bitch?" Asked the fourth and final guy.
"Leave her here. Not much we can do with her." Aaron said.
"We can take her with us." Said the third man.
"And have the cops all over us? I don't think so, plus she's got aids. Don't you watch TV?" Aaron said. Elliot was definitely relieved to find that Olivia would be okay. Now he had to leave her for a minute and find Cragen and Fin and Robert. He quietly turned back and crept out of the building.
"What happened?" Asked Greg as Elliot closed the double doors behind himself.
"She's in there. No bomb. There are guys there as well. Four of them. She'll be okay." Greg was a little confused.
"So... I don't need to be here." He said.
"You can leave. But don't you want to see how this turns out?" Greg thought for a minute.
"So where are we going now?" He asked apparently deciding to stay.
"We're going to find Captain Cragen and Detective Tutuola and tell them there is no bomb and they're free to shoot that son of a bitch." He answered as they turned the corner.
They looked down to the far end of the building where Robert was before and saw all three of them standing there talking.
They began to approach them. Elliot glanced backwards and saw the SWAT team approaching.
"Tell them where to find Olivia. Also tell them there are four armed men inside." He said to Greg, and Greg nodded and ran towards them.
Elliot kept heading towards Fin and Cragen and Robert.
"Just give me the bag!" Robert yelled.
"Why should they Robert?" Elliot said. "There is no bomb." Robert started at Elliot. And then decided the best solution would be to run. He ran as fast as he could.
"Stop!" Fin yelled firing a warning shot. Elliot was afraid the other men would have heard this. But Robert didn't stop so he fired one as well, this time trying to hit him. But he missed as Robert disappeared around a corner. They followed suit.
Elliot heard more gunshots being fired inside of the building where Olivia was. He got worried, and turned and ran towards the building.
"You keep looking. I'll be back." He called back to them.
Cragen and Fin were searching for Robert but he was nowhere to be found.
He couldn't have gone far.
"The boat is back the other way; he's probably trying to sneak back around on the other side of the buildings considering he has nowhere else to go." Captain Cragen said out of breath.
The boat was back towards the direction Elliot ran so they turned around. No one was anywhere to be found.
"Where is everyone?" Cragen asked, still out of breath. Fin pointed towards Greg Ogowa standing outside the white building.
"Where is everyone?" They asked.
"Inside." He answered pointing towards the door. More shots were fired from inside the building. They entered the double doors and saw a few SWAT members outside a second door looking in. They worked there way into the crowded room and saw Olivia barley lucid in Elliot's arms, and a man on the floor bleeding to death.
The rest of the SWAT men were climbing out of the window where apparently more men had exited and escaped.
"Elliot..." Olivia said looking up at him.
"Liv." he answered back. Then they heard the sound of a boat motor starting. Fin and Cragen snapped out of their trance-like state.
"We'll be back." Fin said, climbing out the window. SWAT men were standing at the edge of the water firing at the escaping group of men.
Cragen and Fin pulled out their weapons as well and fired. Men from the boat fired there weapons at the officers as well. Cragen felt a sharp pain in his chest and realized he'd been shot. Though he had a bullet proof vest on, being shot still hurt like hell.
"You okay?" Fin said, crouching next to his boss.
"Yeah...hurts like hell, though" Cragen said gripping his chest.
One man from the boat fell into the water after a bullet hit him in the head head.
The boat's engine caught on fire and the then the men aboard jumped into the water.
They had nowhere to go but back the way they came.
When they got to shore they were arrested, but Robert wasn't there. He wasn't on the boat to begin with. He was gone.
In the building Olivia was limp in Elliot's arms. Elliot held her close. They stood and looked out the window at the burning boat and drenched men arriving at the dock and being arrested by other officers. And Cragen gripping his chest on the ground.
"You alright?" Elliot said.
"Yeah." She answered, her voice showing the wear of being kidnapped and beaten. "I'm tired." She said. Elliot laughed at that.
"Me too." He agreed brushing a strand of hair from her face.
"Where's Mr. Kline?" asked one Police officer. Elliot and Olivia's hearts skipped a beat. For a moment they thought they heard that wrong. But then they noticed Robert was not there.
"Right here." Aaron answered.
"You're not Robert Kline." Everyone looked around.
"Shit." Cragen said realizing Robert had escaped.
"Most of the buildings around here are locked." said one SWAT man. "He couldn't be far." Then Olivia and Elliot heard a noise from behind them. They turned around and found Robert in the door way. He stood for a moment like dear in caught in the headlights. His lips parted as if he was about to speak but he then quickly turned and ran.
Elliot and Olivia ran after him. Olivia's legs felt weak but she wasn't going to stop now. They chased him to the far end of the marina. Fin saw them off in the distance and ran as well, followed by the rest of the officers including a stumbling Cragen who mostly walked quickly.
Robert climbed a mettle wire fence and Elliot followed suit. He looked back to make sure Olivia made it okay.
"Go!" she shouted with all she could muster up out of her tired body. He kept going, gaining more speed with the thought of what he did to Olivia. There was no way Elliot was letting him get out of this.
Elliot remembered when he punched Olivia in the face, when he kicked her in the stomach, when he hit her over the head with her gun. With each thought he seemed to go faster. Robert looked back and saw the savage look on Elliot's face; the narrowed eyes, the half smile that seemed to say 'you are so dead.' Robert was running for dear life.
But Elliot caught up to him, grabbed him by his shirt and threw him up against the wall of a nearby building.
He climbed on top of him and hit him in the face on his already broken nose.
He hit him again and again and again. He got up and took a breath, wiping his mouth he pulled out his gun and pointed at Roberts head.
"You gonna shoot me, detective?" Robert said, his words slurred. Elliot narrowed his eyes again and nodded.
"Do it, then." He said. "Shoot me. Shoot me dead. Shoot me right in the head." Elliot remembered the last man he killed: a dirty cop. He was scum, just like Robert. He deserved it. But that was justified. He pointed a weapon at him.
Then Elliot remembered what Olivia had said outside of his house when his family wasn't home a year ago. With each case it's like you sell a little piece of yourself. Elliot didn't want to loose anymore than he already had.
"I've already lost enough over this." Elliot said dropping his gun to his side.
He then noticed Olivia several other officers running up behind him. Olivia walked next to him as others rushed past to take Robert into custody. She laid her head on his shoulder, and He rapped his arm around her waist. Everyone turned to walk back to the cars, and Fin was reading Robert his rights.
"You did the right thing, Elliot." Olivia said looking up at him with her big brown eyes. Elliot smiled and nodded. There was a long pause.
"Maybe he was innocent six years ago." She said. Elliot decided he would tell her the truth about what really happened later.
"Maybe." They walked in silence for a few minutes.
"Hey, El?" Olivia said breaking the silence.
"Yeah, Liv?"
"I love you too."
A/n: Like I said this is the end but don't worry it won't take me forever to start the second part, maybe I'll post tomorrow. I have a lot of ideas. So until next time: This is Muppet, signing off.