Thanks to all who have encouraged me to go on with my story, I have decided that I will go on with it. Although now, it will probably be set in an alternate universe. Also, there will be a few short chapters coming next becasue I am currently writing what happened to Mackenzie and it will take a while to write.
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Almost a week later and Mackenzie was deemed ready to talk, although she was currently in surgery. Dr. Huang had been in and out of her room every day since she regained consciousness and was now finally convinced that it would be okay for her to talk. Although he wasn't the only one who had been having daily chats with her. Olivia practically lived there and Casey was no stranger either.
Even though Mackenzie had not been officially questioned yet, Olivia had asked her a bit about her current family. Mackenzie Paige Johnson was the middle daughter of Victoria Johnson. She has an older, eighteen year-old sister named Courtney and a younger, three month old sister named Emma. Neither she, nor her older sister know who their father is.
So far the detectives had been unsuccessful in locating any member of the family. They weren't at their house and they weren't responding to their phones, cell phones or e-mails.
Even Mackenzie's school, which conveniently happened to be a year round Canadian boarding school, had also been unsuccessful in contacting anyone. So it seemed to the detectives that they were on the run or hiding. Either way, they were sure that Ms. Johnson knew that Mackenzie was kidnapped, if wasn't the kidnapper herself.
"Olivia I'm just wondering if you're to personally involved in the case." Cragen asked as he led Olivia away from the other detectives.
"Look Captain-"
"Let me finish." He interrupted. "I know about you and Alex."
Olivia couldn't speak. "Umm…I…I…Umm" She cleared her throat, "I don't know what you're talking about. We are-I mean we were best friends. It wasn't a secret."
Cragen gave Olivia a good, hard look. The kind of look that a father gives his daughter after he caught her in the middle of a lie. "Olivia, I've been your boss for over six years now. Up until Alex joined SVU, I'd seen you go through a fair share of guys and every morning you'd come in with regret written all over your face."
"Wait, I-" Olivia tried unsuccessfully to interrupt.
"But a few months after Alex joined the squad, you came in smiling."
Olivia turned a bright shade of red and Cragen lowered his voice.
"You were happy and it showed in your work. You started going home at a normal hour and you weren't the first one in every morning. Now I didn't ask because it wasn't any of my business, but when I saw the same thing going on with Alex and you two always going to lunch and 'working on cases', I figured it out."
Olivia was once again left speechless, which was unusual for the usually word-savvy detective. She looked around the room for a minute before she spoke. "So this is why you told me to take some time off.
"Yeah." Cragen nodded.
Olivia nodded and took a few steps away. "Yeah." She turned to face Cragen, there was no point in denying it. "I know that I'm already involved in this case, but that will just motivate me even more to find the people who did this to her…And she won't talk to anyone else, so…I guess you're stuck with me."