Affairs of the Heart
Diclaimer: I don't own them, but my birthday is coming!
Summary: After a split, will Elloit be able to be there for Olivia when she needs him the most?
A/N: This chapter is just to show how the 2 interact with the breakup, it doesn't really have to do with the overall plot!
Back to "Normal"
Olivia was already sitting down at her desk when Elliot got to the precinct. He looked down at her for a moment, and then forced himself to go over to his locker. Munch met him there.
"I'm just going to warn you, or girl, is in a bad mood today. She already snapped and me and Fin." He warned.
Elliot hated how his paranoid co-worker had used the term "our girl". Olivia had been "his girl", and now he meant no more to her than this man standing in front of him.
"Well, what'd you do?" Elliot asked, still feeling the urge to defend Olivia.
"Well… Fin may have mentioned that she looked like she had a long night." Munch began.
"And…" Elliot urged.
"And, I may have implied that she may not have spent it alone." Munch finally said confessing.
"Yeah, I wonder why she snapped." Elliot said mockingly, as he closed his locker and walked back to his desk.
"Looks like he's Mr. Sunshine too this morning." Munch said to his partner, under his breath, as he headed back to his own desk.
Elliot and Olivia didn't even exchange glances as he sat down. Munch and Fin hadn't known about the relationship, but they did know that something was off between their two friends.
"Who's catching?" Cragen called from his office.
"We are.' Elliot answered, looking up from his desk.
"We got an apparent rape/homicide over on Lexington. I want you two to head over there and check it out." Cragen ordered. Olivia and Elliot rose with out saying a word to each other, and headed out to the car.
The two rode to the scene in absolute silence. Olivia was still hurt by what Elliot had said the night before. She wasn't sure how this was going to work now. She refused to ask for a transfer for herself, then he would win. She couldn't ask him to leave the division. As much as she hated Elliot right now, she still loved him. He had sacrificed his family for this job, and she wasn't about to ask him to have made that sacrifice in vain. Asking for a partner re-assignment was out of the question as well, then everyone would find out that they had been dating. The only solution that she could think of was to just put on a brave face, and manage as best she could.
They arrived at the victim's apartment, and headed up. They were greeted by a uniformed officer at the door.
"I'm Detective Benson; this is my partner Detective Stabler. We're with the Special Victim's Unit." Olivia informed him, showing her badge.
"Officer Bradley." The man said, introducing himself. "Neighbor called us when he noticed the pile up of her newspapers. We found her like this, no one touched her." The man informed the detectives, showing them to the bedroom.
There they found Melinda Warner, the Medical Examiner, examining the body of a young woman. She was hanging from her bed post, without any cloths on.
"What'd we got?" Elliot asked.
"Young woman, about 28 I'd say. She's been dead about three days, judging by the papers outside. I'm ruling it a suicide." Warner answered.
"Suicide? You sure?" Olivia questioned.
"I'm positive." The ME answered. She pointed to an indentation on the bed. "See this? It looks like she stood here to tie the knot, and then jumped. I also found a note next to the bed."
"Okay.." Elliot answered. "Then why did you call us?"
"Because, I also found vaginal trauma. I checked after I noticed the tie she used as a noose. I checked the closet; there are no other male cloths in the whole apartment. She was raped shortly before she killed herself. The note also indicates a rape." Warner explained, handing a bagged note to Olivia.
Olivia read it aloud, "I'm sorry for what I'm about to do, and all that I will hurt. I just can't see what the point of living is when the person you would give your life for takes much more than that."
Olivia's heart sank a little. She knew what it felt like to be betrayed by the one person you care about the most.
"Well, it was probably the boyfriend." Olivia concluded.
"Yeah, but why hang herself?" Elliot asked.
"Because, she trusted him with her heart. And he broke it." Olivia answered flatly as she pushed past Elliot to leave the room.
Her words stung him. "Had he broken her heart?" He wondered. "How could he have? She was the one who broke up with him."
Warner interrupted his thoughts by saying, "I'm going to have the tie printed and analyzed to make sure my conclusion of suicide is valid. I'll call when I get the results."
"Thanks." Elliot answered, before leaving himself.
TBC... the next chapter picks up the plot, so read on! And please, review!