Stabler Residence – Thursday – 7:30am – 8 Months

January 2005

Olivia was in the bedroom putting on her makeup while Elliot was getting everything together for work. He grabbed his gun, holster, clipped on his badge on the front of his belt, and put his wallet in the back pocket of his pants. The kids had just left for their first day back to school after Christmas break. Lizzie and Dickie didn't want to go back, but Elliot told them to go out and get a good education, even though he was going to miss them being a big help to Olivia around the house by helping her cook and clean.

Meanwhile, Elliot grabbed his jacket and announced that he was headed out to work to check out on a case with Munch and Fin.

"I'll see you at work," said Elliot.

"Okay. Bye baby," She pressed a kiss to his lips. "Love you."

"Love you too." He walked downstairs towards the door and left for work.

SVU Squad Room – 10:30am

This Thursday had started out like any other ordinary day at the precinct. Cases were being worked on by the detectives and Olivia sat at her desk working on mounds of paperwork. Her eyes were beginning to get tired so she decided to walk around in the hallway.

She went to the break room where several of the detectives were in there chatting with each other and eating some brownies and sugar cookies that were left over from one of the women's New Year's celebrations.

Olivia grabbed a brownie and took a bite when Mandy, one of the rookie detectives, came over to get a brownie for herself.

"Hey Olivia," said Mandy. "How's it going?"

"Fine," replied Olivia, smiling. "I swear that my butt is getting bigger every day." She was referring to the sweets and the pregnancy.

"It's the pregnancy thing," replied Elena Martinez, who came over to chat. "This always happens when you're having a girl."

Olivia laughed and took another bite of her brownie, "My baby is going to come out weighing over ten pounds if I don't stop eating like this."

About an hour later, Olivia was at her desk picking off the lint on her dark green turtleneck sweater and going back to her paperwork. Elliot was still out with Munch and Fin on their case and Olivia had thought that they would be back so Elliot could take her out for lunch. She looked towards Cragen's office where she could see him looking at some paperwork.

Suddenly, a man walked into the squad room that caught her attention. She thought that he looked familiar and then remembered that he was Michael Perry. His wife, Cassandra, was raped last year and she and Elliot had worked her case, which had been unsolved until a few months ago when Elliot and Fin arrested the suspect. Olivia had been aware of the arrest by Elliot so she assumed that Michael Perry was coming in to find out any new information on the case—most likely, information that she probably wouldn't be able to give out if it involved the person that was in custody.

"Can I help you, sir?" Olivia asked.

Michael turned around and looked at Olivia. He seemed to be very calm despite everything that had happened to his wife in the past year. "I need to talk to a detective who may have worked my wife's case last year. Her name is Cassandra Perry."

"I'm Detective Benson," replied Olivia. "I was one of the detectives who investigated her case."

"Do you know if they caught the man who did this?" asked Michael. "I heard that there's someone in custody."

Olivia gave him a concerned look, "Why don't we go over here and talk?" She gestured to her desk and Michael pulled up a chair and sat down in front of the edge of her desk.

"Mr. Perry," Olivia began, "there is a man who is currently in custody right now who was involved in your wife's rape."

"Could you tell me who he is?"

Olivia felt bad for this man and couldn't imagine what he had been through with his wife being raped. Personally, she would tell him, but she was a cop with the New York City Police Department and would be held liable if she gave out confidential information.

"I'm not allowed to give out the suspect's name at this time and the other three detectives who worked on the case aren't in right now, but you can leave your phone number and I can give it to them so they can call you." She turned around to hand Michael a pen and paper.

As she turned back around, she was going to put her arms on the desk, but couldn't since her left wrist had felt like it was stuck on something. She looked down to see what was going and was shocked to see that her left wrist was handcuffed to the desk drawer.

Olivia looked up at Michael, "What the –."

"I want to know who raped my wife and I have to know before six hours!" he exclaimed. He pointed to a bomb that was attached to the handcuffs on Olivia. It had a timer set for six hours.

Olivia looked at the bomb and saw that it was definitely set for six hours. She prayed and hoped that Cragen would come in and help would be coming soon in talking Michael Perry out of getting revenge.

TBC...