Affairs of the Heart
Disclaimer: I don't own them
Summary: See previous chapters
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What Happened?
While Elliot sat outside of Olivia's door she was enjoying a smoked salmon with rice and chilled champagne across town with Matt. She had decided to pull out all the stops tonight. She wore a red, spaghetti strap dress that hugged her body, and stopped just above her knees. She had gotten a little of character, and chose to wear simple, silver, dangly earrings and a silver necklace with a square pendant. Matt was blown away.
Olivia had expected to have a good time that evening, but found it to be lacking. She couldn't stop comparing Matt to Elliot. Why couldn't she get him off her mind? Had she made a mistake breaking up with him? No, she meant nothing to him. She wouldn't harp on it, Cassidy had done that to her, and she refused to be like him; bitter and unrelenting. She and Elliot were over, now Matt was willing to take his place.
"You wanna dance Liv?" Matt asked, extending his hand to her.
"Sure." She answered, laying her fork and knife on her plate and taking Matt's outstretched hand.
They swayed to the music. Matt pulled Olivia close to him, and wrapped his arms tightly around her waist. He kissed her neck tenderly.
"Matt" Olivia whispered in protest. She put her hands on his chest to stop him.
"What's wrong Liv?" Matt asked. "Can't you see that we still have something here? I still need you."
"I, I just can't; not now Matt. I'm sorry." Olivia said, turning and going back their table with Matt in tow.
"Liv…" He started.
"It was great seeing you again Matt, but why don't you just take me home." Olivia said, cutting him off.
"Okay." Matt sighed. "Lemma just get the check."
Outside of Olivia's apartment:
"Lemme walk you up." Mat offered.
"It's okay Matt, it's late, you should probably be getting back to your hotel anyway. Don't you have to get up early to take pictures of the sunrise or something?" Olivia answered.
"Alright, good night Livia." Matt obliged, kissing her lightly on the cheek. He then walked around the corner, and disappeared.
Olivia walked up her stoop and began to unlock her door when she suddenly felt a sharp pain in the back of her head. She fell backwards, and then blacked out.
7:00 A.m.
Elliot was awoken by the alarm on his watch. It took a moment for him to remember where he was. Then it all came back. He was still outside of Olivia's apartment.
"Had Olivia even come home?" He wondered. He knocked on the door once before giving up. He assumed that she had just spent the night at Matt's hotel. The relationship really was over.
He left the building and headed to work; he had a change of cloths in his car, and would change when he got to the precinct.
The sound of someone throwing their trash away was what finally woke Olivia. Her head was pounding, and her entire body ached. She looked around to try to figure out where she was. She soon realized that she was in the alley next to her building. Had she been mugged? Her purse was gone, but her watch was still on her wrist.
She looked at it, and realized that it was already 7:30, and she as late for work.
She carefully got up, and made her way to her apartment. She was so dizzy and woozy, but she had to get to work. She changed into clean cloths, throwing her torn dress onto the floor. When she went into the bathroom she finally noticed the bruises all over her face and arms. Someone had beaten the hell out of her.
She carefully cleaned her face, making sure to put the pieces of toilet paper she used into plastic bags. She would send them to the lab tonight, and figure out who had attacked her. "Hopefully the mugger has a record." She thought.
She loaded on some makeup to cover the bruises, and quickly did her hair. She hoped everyone at work would be too busy to notice her appearance.
She then made her way to the street. She was way to dizzy to drive, so she hailed a cab. What had happened to her? She wondered. And more importantly, was Matt okay?
Olivia finally stumbled into the 1-6 at around 8.
"So nice of you to finally join us." Cragen scolded when he saw her.
"Sorry, my damn alarm clock died in the middle of the night." Olivia lied, trying to explain her tardiness.
Elliot knew that she was lying, he had been at her apartment all night, and she never came home. He was angry with her, and decided to call her on her lie.
"You sure it has nothing to do with the fact that you had a date with Mr. Green eyes last night?" Elliot asked condescendingly.
Olivia shot a glare at Elliot. She couldn't believe how much of an ass he was being. "No El it..." Olivia began. Before she could continue, she felt a wave of dizziness come over her. Suddenly her knees buckled under her, and she went down.
"Olivia!" Elliot yelled startled. He ran forward, and caught her just before she hit the floor.
"What happened?" Fin asked
"El..." She started, looking up at him. "Something's wrong." She finally managed before blacking out.
"Liv, Liv." Elliot called as he shook her limp body gently. "Call a bus!" He called over his shoulder to Munch, who was already on it. What had happened to her?
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