Fin left the captain's office and subtly eased over to where Brian Cassidy was working. He quietly filled him in on the plan to watch Munch's back. Brian readily agreed to go along.

"Hey, old man we better make tracks if we're gonna pick up your ex at the hospital," Fin said to get Munch's attention.

"Yeah, just let me grab my coat and the six pack and I'm ready," John replied.

"Hey, mind if I tag along?" Cassidy asked.

John looked at Brian over his glasses, then at Fin.

"Damn, wait here," he ordered his partner and former partner.

"You putting Fin and, and Skippy on me as a protection detail?" John demanded to know as he stormed into his commanding officer's office.

"As a matter of fact, yeah. You have a problem with that, detective?" Cragen's voice was calm and even, but the way he stressed John's title let him know Cragen was not going to back down easily on the matter of a protection detail.

"As a matter of fact yeah I do. I don't need them," –

"John, right now I'm convinced you don't know what you need."

"The hell I,"- Cragen held his hands up to stop John's tirade.

"John, in the last dozen hours or so you've been through an emotional minefield. You're running on adrenaline, caffeine, and your gut feelings. Stop and think about the situation, if Elliot or Fin were in a similar situation, what would you expect me to do?

Munch blew out a breath, stuck his hands in his pockets, bent his left leg up so that his foot was up against the wall behind him, and stood with his head down for a few moments thinking, or at least pretending too. Finally he pushed of the wall a bit and leaned his head to the side.

"You'd do what you're doing now," he reluctantly admitted.

"Right, so hurry up and get over to the hospital and get Gwen to look at that six pack and then take her to her apartment," Cragen said.

As Munch started to leave, Cragen called out, "And John, don't you dare ditch Fin and Brian. Hopefully they won't cramp your style too much," he added.

John shook his head, then turned back around to get the last word in, "If they do, I'll have to see if I can remember all the tricks I used to use on my little brother Bernie."

"Get out of here!" Cragen mock yelled at John.

"Alright, come on Pothos, D'Artagnan, milady awaits," John yelled at Fin and Brian as he headed for the stairs leading out of the squad.

"You heard him D'Artagnan, let's go," Fin said giving Brian a playful shove.

"D'Artagnan, how come I've got to be D'Artagnan?" Brian asked as they left.

"If you got to ask I can't explain," Fin answered.

"Hey I'll go get a wheelchair, you know they won't let her out without one," Fin offered.

"Yeah OK, meet you in Gwen's room," Munch said as he headed off with Cassidy at his heels.

"Hey, beautiful," John said as he opened the door.

"Hi Johnny," Gwen replied. She was dressed in the slacks and sweater Olivia had brought for her and was sitting on the edge of her bed.

"You look ready to go," he commented as he let the door go almost closing on Brian.

"More than ready. Who's this with you?"

"Gwen meet Brian Cassidy, Brian this is my first wife, Gwen," John said. He wondered if either Brian or Gwen had notice the slight hesitation before he'd said first wife. He'd been tempted to just introduce her as his wife, and he refused to call her his ex-wife anymore. The one thing this whole ordeal had made clear to him was that he had to have Gwen back in his life.

"Pleased to finally meet you," Brian said as he reached out a hand to shake hands with Gwen.

"Finally meet me?" Gwen repeated puzzled.

"Brian was my partner my first year in SVU, then he wised up and transferred out. I may have mentioned you a few times to him."

"A few dozen times," Brian corrected.

"I hate to think of some of the things he said about me," Gwen said with a laugh.

"Actually he spoke more fondly of you than any of his other exes," Brian said, he looked at John and could tell he was embarrassing his friend, but in a good way.

"Fin's rounding up a wheelchair, you know what sticklers hospitals are for their rules," John nervously flipped the six-pack of pictures on his pant leg.

"Yeah I do. What's that you've got?" she asked.

"Oh, yeah this is what we call a six-pack. We have this grouping of pictures, and we want to see if any of these guys looks familiar to you."

John held the frame of six pictures so she could see the faces.

"That's him! That's the man that attacked me!" she said, pointing to the man in the middle of the top row; sure enough it was Gordon Pratt's cousin Percy Howell. Gwen was visibly shaken and Munch started to hold her, but hesitated as he gave Cassidy a look.

"I'll call Cragen and let him know we've got the right guy, so he can get the ADA to get an arrest warrant out for this guy," Brian volunteered. He pulled his cell phone out of his pocket as he exited the room.

"Whoa, don't go in there just yet," Brian said to Fin, as he walked out of Gwen's room and nearly collided with Fin who was pushing a wheelchair.

"What's up?" Fin asked, puzzled.

"Gwen IDed Howell from the six-pack, but it really upset her, so John's in there comforting her. I think we ought to give them a little time and space. I left the room to call the captain, tell him we can get the arrest warrant," Cassidy explained.

"OK, well let's do that. Here, give me a push," Fin said as he sat down in the wheelchair and pulled out his cell phone to make the call Brian had been about to make.

"Sh, it's all right. I've got you. No one's going to hurt you as long as I'm here," Munch crooned to Gwen as he held her and gently rocked back and forth with her.

"It's almost over now, isn't it?" Gwen asked John.

"Sure, baby, almost over," he lied to her. He kissed her temple and rocked her some more. He couldn't bear to tell her that even if finding and arresting the guy proved easy, there was still the possibility of a long and ugly trial and worse still, he wasn't letting himself face how hard it would be for her to recover from the rape.