Title: Shadows In the Dark

Author: Ebony-Jayne

Notes: Sorry about the cliffhanger last chapter. I just had an urge to leave you hanging for a while. This chapter: Will someone get to Ella in time or will she die in the Hudson?

Disclaimer: I do not own the characters or the show or the storylines on the show. I do, however, own the characters that I make up so please don't steal them. Any resemblance to anyone or anyplace is a coincidence.

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Chapter Seven: Fate

She fought harder and harder until finally she had no fight left in her and the world slowly faded to black…

"Oh my god! Scott is that a person?" Lilly James asked her boyfriend. She looked out into the water and realized that what she'd seen was in fact a person. "Oh my god it is!" she yelled.

"Wait here and call 911!" Scott ordered. He stripped off his shirt and dived into the icy water. Lilly called 911 and then watched in horror as the person slipped under the water again and again. Then, just before Scott got to them the person slipped under the water and didn't come back up. It seemed like hours before he got to them but in reality it was only a few seconds. He quickly swam back to the bank.

"Call the cops Lilly she's tied up and beat to hell," Scott panted. He laid the woman down on the ground. As Lilly called the cops he began doing CPR as the woman wasn't breathing.

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"There's absolutely nothing there to suggest where he took her," the CSU Tech told Olivia.

"Arrgh this is going nowhere," Olivia said angrily. Her phone rang. "Benson. What? When? Is she ok?...Oh my god," Olivia hung up the phone. "Guys that was Rebecca Hendrix. They just admitted a young woman who was found floating in the Hudson. She's says that she matches the description they were given of a missing Detective."

"Let's get Casey and go," Elliot said as he grabbed his coat.

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"Oh my god," Casey turned into Olivia and buried her face in the detectives shoulder.

"Yeah that's our girl," Olivia told Dr. Hendrix.

"She was pulled out of the river by a couple of 19-year-olds on a date. They're over there," Hendrix pointed to the couple who were sitting in the waiting room.

"Thanks," Olivia awkwardly pulled Casey into the room with Ella while Elliot followed them andMunch and Fin headed over to talk to the young couple. There was another doctor in Ella's room so Olivia asked her how Ella was doing.

"Well it's hard to say right now. No-one knows how long she was in that icy water for and she stopped breathing for some time too. We just have to wait and see. She was hypothermic when she was brought in and she has some nasty injuries to her face and abdomen. But she is responding to painful stimuli which is a very good sign," the doctor told them. She smiled at Casey. "We just have to pray for the best ok?" she reassured her.

"Ok. I need to ring my Mom and Dad and Mike and Bowden," Casey looked at Ella and Elliot could tell that she didn't want to leave her twin.

"I'll ring them Casey. You stay with Ellie ok?" Elliot told her.

"Thank you," Casey smiled gratefully.

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"We were walking along the river. We'd just been out to dinner and thought it would cap off the night nicely," Scott Hammond told Munch. "We were just walking along when Lilly said she could see something floating in the water. Then all of a sudden she started yelling that she thought it might be a person. She got closer and then she said that it was a person. I didn't even really think about it. I just jumped in and tried to swim out to her. She went under just before I got to her and I had a hell of a job getting her back above the water. Then I noticed that her hands were tied up and someone had beat the crap out of her. Who is she?" Scott asked curiously. "Lilly said that she heard someone say that she's a missing Detective" he said.

"Detective Ella Stevens, Manhattan Special Victims Unit," Munch told him.

"Wow. Well I hope she's ok," he told them sincerely.

"So do we," Munch sighed.

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Casey was angry. Olivia could see it in every move she made as she walked over to her sister's side.

"Painful stimuli huh," she said softly. She reached over and pinched her arm hard. Ella made a mewling noise and her eyelids flickered. "Don't you ever scare me like that again all right? Because if you do…" Casey paused swallowing hard. She reached over and brushed a strand of hair out of Ella's eyes. She flinched as her hand came into contact with her sister's skin, it was cold to the touch. "She's cold Olivia. She's just so cold," Casey said softly. She flattened her hand against Ella's forehead to try and warm her skin with her own body heat.

"I think she'll be ok Casey. She's a fighter. She'll get through this," Olivia rested a hand on Casey's back as she reached over to squeeze Ella's hand. Soon Casey's family arrived and Olivia decided to leave them to it. She leaned down closer to Ella's ear and whispered. "You better hurry up and get better because I am not doing your paperwork for you," she squeezed her hand again and headed out to help the guys track down George Stevens.

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Y'know I'd never kill her. That wouldn't be much fun at all.

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