Roses

Disclaimer: I don;t own them, I'm just borrowing them for a while

Summary: Elliot and Olivia begin their new life together and learn to balance their home lives with their work lives, while working a rather stressful case

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Chapter 4

The three detectives rode back to the 1-6 in silence. Olivia was frustrated that Elliot had once again treated her like a damsel in distress, and Elliot was just frustrated with the whole situation. Fin knew that the tension between them was ridiculous, so decided to just keep his mouth shut in the back.

When they returned back to the bull pen Olivia taped the four notes onto the board. They created a poem that read:

"White is for your purity before we've met,

Pink is the blush you'll be when I take you in sunset,

Yellow is the pale you'll be when the deed is done,

Red is the blood you'll bleed after I've had my fun"

"Only prints the lab found on the roses and the notes were from the florist and the delivery guys. We checked them, and they all have alibis for the time of the order." Olivia explained to the captain and Elliot and Fin, from her seat on top of her desk.

"So basically we have nothing." Cragen stated more than asked.

"Yeah." Olivia breathed.

"Okay then. I guess you guys will have to go through Liv's case files and see if any red flags come up. If you don't find anything, than I'm sorry to say that this case is gonna go cold." Cragen told them as he ended the meeting. He took Olivia to the side.

"Look, Olivia, I know that you don't want to hear this, but you may want to consider laying low for a while." He told her

"Okay Cap, but, let's just see where this goes, okay?" She asked.

"Okay" he said before returning to his office.

Fin started sifting through the pile of files on his desk, Olivia went to get some coffee, and Elliot just stared angrily at the poem. "How could this be happening" He thought. "Why can't we just be happy?"

His thoughts were interrupted by Olivia's voice coming from behind him.

"Coffee?" She asked, extending a cup to him.

"How could I say no, Munch isn't here, and that means he couldn't have made it." He said with a smile. "How can you be so calm?" He asked, catching Olivia off guard.

"I'm not calm Elliot. I just don't think that scaring the crap out of everyone we question will solve anything. Besides, I've been stalked before, and it's always turned out okay." Olivia answered as she walked back to her desk to look through her share of files. Elliot followed and soon the three were working hard to try to find any kind of lead.

Later that night

"You three might want to consider going home." Cragen said as he exited his office that night. The three were still sorting through files, and following up on leads. So far they all ended up in dead ends. All the potentialsuspects were either still in jail, dead, or had an alibi for the time of the order.

As they got up to leave Fin stopped them. "Wait a minute." He said "I think I may have something. Liv, do you remember Luke Mather?"

"No." She answered "Why?"

"You arrested him 5 years ago for raping his sister's friends. He was 16 at the time. He was serving 15 years in Rikers, but got out last week for good behavior."

"He only served 5 years of a 15 year sentence." Elliot noted. "That's justice for you."

"Yeah, well, you'll also be happy to know that he threatened me at his sentencing hearing." Olivia added.

"Looks like we found ourselves a suspect." Cragen said. "Well, you'll have to call his parole officer to get an address. I don't that they'll want that phone call at 10 o'clock at night, so for right now, everyone just call it a night, and we'll track Mather down in the morning."

The detectives complied, and everyone left, hardly comforted that they now had a suspect.

TBC... I know that this wasn't very exciting, but I had to get in somwhere!