One Heart

Summary: See ch1

Disclaimer: Not mine

A/N: MOST REVIEWS EVER! and to respond to all the reviews, this is the longest chapter I haev EVER written! It is double the length of most of my chapters! Glad to see you all like the action

the third story is still coming a long, although slowly. I think you'll like where I take the end of this story and the beginning of the next. This one is alomst complete, keep reading to see what will happen!

Not Now

Brian flinched slightly as he heard the sirens outside the house. Back up had arrived.

Olivia was hidden in the den watching the scene unfold, her gun trained on Brian.She had re-entered the house after she was sure Dickie wassafe.She didn't want to go into the hallbecause she didn't want to aggravate the man anymore than he was.

She whispered into her radio for the backup to turn off their sirens and back away from the house. She also told them that Dickie was in the car, and to get him to safety.

She found out that Kathy and James were in one of the cars as well, and the other kids were safe at the precinct. Munch, Fin, and Cragen had also made it to the house.

"You wanna take your daughter away from this alive, Stabler?" Brian asked sadistically.

"More than anything." Elliot answered honestly.

"All you have to do is call off your troops, and get me on a plane out of the country." He said methodically.

"Okay Brian, you got it. Just let Kathleen and Melanie go, and I will personally make sure you get anything you want." He lied. He would lie about anything and everything to save his daughter's life.

"Daddy." Kathleen cried again. She was sure she was going to die.

"Baby, relax. I'm here." Elliot soothed again.

"CALL THEM OFF!" Brian yelled, growing angry that Elliot hadn't done so yet.

"I can't do anything until you let my daughter go." Elliot warned quietly. He spoke evenly and calmly despite all the anger and fears inside of him. "Just let her go, and I'll do whatever you say." Elliot bargained.

"No, first you make the call." Brian seethed. "Make the call or she dies." He said, forcing the barrel of the gun closer to Kathleen's head and making her cry out in fear again.

"Daddy, please, please." She begged through a tear stained face.

"Okay, okay." Elliot submitted. He took out his radio and pressed the button. "This is Detective Stabler; I need everyone to stand down." He said clearly.

"We can't do that Detective. Not with an armed perp in the house." Cragen answered over the radio.

"Captain, please." Elliot begged when he recognized the voice. "The bastard has my daughter. He wants a plane and police escort out of the country. He'll kill her." He pleaded.

"Shit!" Cragen yelled before responding to Elliot's request. When Kathy heard Elliot's plea she had to be restrained from running into the house, and collapsed into a heap of sobs.

"What do you need?" Cragen finally answered.

"Tell your men to back away from the house." Elliot began. "I'm also gonna need a plane ticket out of the country." He added.

"Good job Detective." Brian smiled.

"I did what you wanted. You heard my Captain, he'll let you leave. Now let my daughter and her friend go." Elliot seethed.

"Not yet." Brian answered. "Not until I'm sure I can trust you."

"You gotta give me something." Elliot demanded. "After all I did for you Brian. I can help you, but I need something in return."

"Melanie can go." Brian said, indicating her with his head.

Melanie looked up from the corner she was crouched in at the mention of her name.

"Alright." Elliot agreed. He could see that he wasn't getting Kathleen away that easily, but he had to take the opportunity to get the other girl to safety. "Mel, I'm gonna tell my captain that you're going out. I want you to slowly go out the front door, keep your hands in site of the officers outside. I want you to walk straight over to my captain. He'll be the bald older man calling you. Okay?" Elliot instructed.

"No." Melanie argued. "I'm not leaving Kathleen."

"Mel, you have no choice. Now I am not asking you. I'm telling you." Elliot said with authority.

"Just go Mel." Kathleen cried. "I'll be fine."

"Will everyone just shut up!" Brian yelled. He was becoming agitated with all the arguing.

"Mel, you're going." Elliot ordered. He then did as he told the girl he would, and radioed Cragen to be ready for her.

"Okay Mel, go now." Elliot ordered.

Melanie left the house as she was told slowly. She didn't want to leave her friend, but knew that her father wouldn't let anything happen to her.

"I'm sorry Kathleen." She said as she left.

Now only Elliot, Kathleen, and Brian were left in the foyer with Olivia hiding in the shadows of the hallway.

Elliot was happier that one of the girls were now safe, but he wouldn't relax until his daughter was out of danger.

"Come on now Brian." He began, trying to negotiate with the man. "I know you don't want to hurt Kathleen. She's told me all about the things you've done with all the kids and Kathy." He began.

"They're great kids Elliot, but I have no choice." Brian answered.

"Sure you do man." Elliot said in the friendliest voice he could muster. "Just do what you did with Melanie. Let Kathleen walk out the front door. It's that easy. No one has to get hurt here. And I'm sure the ADA will take that into consideration." He tried.

"No, no I'm already in a hill of shit!" Brian said, growing angry again. "She's my only ticket out of this and you and I both know it!" He said indicating the shaking Kathleen.

"You need a ticket out of this?" Elliot asked. "You can always use me."

"Daddy no!" Kathleen argued.

"Brian, listen to me." Elliot said, ignoring his daughter. "You let her go, and I give you my word, as a father, I'll empty all the bullets from my gun, and throw the damn thing away. Then you can use me as your bargaining chip. You can hold that gun to my head. I'll be just as affective." He reasoned.

"No, Brain don't!" Kathleen cried. "Daddy, it's my fault all of this happened. I didn't listen to Lizzie, and I forgot my project." She was not about to let her father be put in danger because of her.

"Kathleen, stop." Elliot scolded. "Let me handle this."

"No Daddy, I'm not leaving you." Kathleen argued.

"Kathleen Elizabeth, I am your father and you will do what I tell you to do." He warned her.

"No, she will do what I tell her to do." Brian piped in. "And I'm telling her that no one is going anywhere. Now get me my damn plane!"

Olivia waited in the shadows, her gun trained on Brian just in case he moved Kathleen the slightest bit so that she could get a shot in without hurting her.

"Okay, okay, okay." Elliot said submissively. "Let's just all calm down." He knew that agitating the man holding his daughter at gun point wasn't the greatest idea.

After what seemed like an eternity Cragen's voice finally cracked in over Elliot's radio.

"Stabler, we've got your plane ticket. How do you want to arrange the transport?" He asked.

Elliot looked to Brian for an answer.

"Simple, she comes with me. We both get out of the country, and then I'll put her back on a plane for the US." Brian stated.

"No way." Elliot argued. He had let Brian make all the rules up till now, but he had to put his foot down somewhere. "There's no way in hell I'm letting my daughter get on a plane with you out of the country."

"Well I'm not going alone. I know you people; you'll arrest me as soon as I step out of this house unless I have a bargaining chip." Brian pushed.

"Then take me. That's the only way you're getting out of her." Elliot answered.

"Daddy, don't." Kathleen whispered. She was too exhausted to make her voice any louder.

"Look, you either take me, or we stand in this hallway like this until one of us finally passes out from hunger, dehydration, and exhaustion; and considering my daughter's life depends on me staying conscious, it doesn't look all that good for you." Elliot said, trying to sway Brian's thoughts.

After thinking it over for a minute Brian finally gave his response. "Fine, but you hand over your weapon first."

"Done. All you have to do is let Kathleen go." Elliot agreed.

"Tell your captain first." Brian ordered.

Olivia couldn't believe what was transpiring, but she knew that Elliot had to do it for Kathleen. She probably would have done the same if she had been in his position.

"Captain, I'll be accompanying Brian overseas. He says I'll be on the next plane home as soon as his feet touch foreign soil." Elliot said into his radio.

"Detective, I don't like that idea." Cragen argued. Elliot was like a son to him, and he didn't want him leaving the country with a known cop killer.

"It's either me or Kathleen. I have no choice." He breathed into the radio. "She'll be out in a minute, be ready for her."

Brian was satisfied with the terms of the agreement, and decided Kathleen was no longer necessary to him. He threw her across the room so that she collided into Elliot's chest.

Elliot breathed a sigh of relief before enveloping her in his arms while she broke down in sobs.

"Shh, shh, it's okay sweetheart. You're safe now." He said, stroking her hair to try to comfort her. She was shaking so violently that Olivia could see she was making Elliot shake as well.

"I'm so sorry Daddy." She whispered through sobs.

"You did nothing wrong. You have nothing to be sorry about." He assured her. "I love you baby." He added before gently pulling away from her. "I want you to go out side the same way Melanie did. Go directly to Captain Cragen." He instructed.

"I don't want to leave you." She cried.

"Just go. I'll be home in a few hours." He assured her, praying he was telling the truth.

Little did anyone in the room know, but while everyone else truly believed Kathleen would be leaving the house unharmed, Brian had never planned on letting anyone leave alive. Everyone in the house knew too much about him, and they needed to die.

As Kathleen turned her back to her father to leave, and he was sure Elliot's gaze was fixed on his daughter, Brian raised his weapon ever so slightly so that the barrel was pointing at the 17 year old girl.

Elliot and Kathleen may have been oblivious to the danger, but Olivia hadn't taken her eyes off Brian's gun the entire time. Her shot was blocked by Elliot, so she did the only she could do, she screamed.

"Elliot, gun!" She yelled, causing him to react without even knowing where the gun was, or who it was pointed at.

He launched himself across the foyer and pulled his daughter to the ground, covering her with his body.

Brian took one shot before Olivia could discharge her weapon. A split second after his bullet left the gun Olivia's bullet hit him in the chest.

Even outside bystanders could hear the screams of Kathleen as her father took her to the ground.

After the gunpowder cleared Olivia rushed over to assess the damage. She first cautiously, yet quickly approached Brian, and after seeing that he was still alive kicked his gun over to where Elliot and Kathleen still lay.

Then she hurried over to her partner, and lover, and his daughter.

Kathleen was lying still under her father.

"Kathleen, are you hit?" Olivia asked, terrified of the answer as she kneeled next to her.

"No." Kathleen cried as she straightened herself up off the floor.

"Thank God." She breathed. "El, you okay?" She asked, looking to her partner.

"I, I'm hit." Elliot said in disbelief. "Damnit!"

"Where?" Olivia asked as her eyes widened and she holstered her gun.

Elliot pulled his coat open to reveal the already growing bloodstain on his chest.

Olivia quickly rolled him on his back and took off her coat, balling it up to apply pressure to Elliot's chest.

"Daddy!" Kathleen cried when she saw the blood. "Oh God, no. Daddy!"

"It's… okay sweetie. I'll be… fine." Elliot said, struggling. It was getting harder for him to breath.

Olivia quickly grabbed her radio and yelled into it. "I need paramedics now. Shots fired. Both the perp and a cop are down. I need help now!" She demanded. "Kathleen, hunny, I want you to get outside." She added. No daughter needs to see her father like this.

"No, I'm not leaving. Please, Daddy, don't die." She begged, kneeling on the other side of her father.

"I'm... not gong... anywhere." He said, trying to sound believable. As the pain began to worsen, and he started loosing feeling in his feet, Elliot realized for the first time that he may not be making it out of this one alive.

"Daddy I'm so sorry." Kathleen cried.

"No Baby… Don't be." He said in fleeting breaths. "Baby... I need you to know… that I love you." He said, swallowing hard. If this was it, he wanted to be able to say good bye. "And your brother and sisters too… Tell mom… even though we split… I always cared about her…and that… she deserves to be… happy." He fought to continue.

"Daddy." Kathleen cried bringing his hand to cradle her face. "Stop." She pleaded.

"Yeah, Elliot, stop talking like that. You're gonna be fine. The paramedics are on their way." Olivia said, tears falling from her own eyes as she desperately fought to stop the blood from flowing out of the man she loved, taking his life with it.

Elliot ignored their requests, and turned his gaze to Olivia. "I love you... too." He managed. "More than I've...ever loved... any woman before Liv." He said, as tears began falling from his own eyes. "I… I'm so sorry." He breathed as darkness began engulfing him.

"You have nothing to be sorry for." Olivia cried. "Just hang on." She begged "Don't go. Please.". She didn't know where it came from, but the words just came out of her mouth.

"Daddy, hang on." Kathleen pleaded.

Elliot was trying so hard to hang on to their voices. But he was so tired. "I love you all." He breathed finally as the darkness took over, and he finally gave into his body's yearning to let go.

"Elliot, Elliot!" Olivia cried as the door opened and paramedics flooded the small foyer. "No, Please, Elliot, wake up. Stay with me Please." She begged, stroking his face.

"Daddy, Daddy!" Kathleen screamed. "Help him! Help him!" She begged when she sawJames in the doorway.

He had rushed in when he heard Olivia's call for help over the radio.

Paramedics pulled both Olivia and Kathleen off of Elliot, and forced them out the door.

"No, no." Olivia cried, fighting back against the paramedics. "He's my partner; I have to be here with him." She argued.

"Please, detective, if you want to save your partner, you need to let us do our jobs." He said gingerly as Olivia finally gave in and allowed the men to lead her and Kathleen out to awaiting squad cars.

TBC.. yes, I am that mean that I would leave you all there!

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