A/n: I've said this several times already but this chapter is especially dark, a lot darker than my previous ones , I worry about my mind when it comes to me being able to think up these ending scenes so I'm serious when I say read at your own risk. This chapter is dedicated to AriesGod OfWarFnaffan because of her love of gore and horror filled scenes. I hope you guys enjoy this chapter and that I'm doing the Lewis ark justice.
Elliot's rental car, 9 PM.
Elliot had gotten the rental car about a half hour ago and had been all to eager to leave officer Rios behind. He had kept his thoughts to himself thank goodness, but he still didn't trust the man 1 bit, not after what he had accused Olivia of.
"Sweetheart you ready to go inside?" Elliot asked Izzabella softly as he pulled in to his mother's driveway.
He had called his mother briefly and told her that he was coming, bringing Izzabella and that it was an emergency but he refused to go into any major details over the phone.
"Mmhmm," she said groggily as she had almost fallen asleep in her booster seat.
Elliot smiled slightly and nodded "go ahead and let yourself fall asleep honey, I'll carry you inside," he said softly as he got out then gently picked her up and cradled her against him, stroking her hair as he walked as she fell asleep just as he rang the doorbell.
Bernadette opened the door quickly, immediately noticing Elliot's tired and stressed appearance "come on in, put her down in there," she said as she pointed to her guest room.
Elliot nodded slightly and did so gently as he carefully tucked her in and kissed her forehead before quietly stepping out "mama thank you so much for doing this for me... You know I wouldn't have asked if this wasn't a true emergency."
She nodded "I know Elliot , I know you don't trust your old mother."
He sighed "mama it's not that..."
She chuckled "don't kid yourself Elliot it is that."
He sighed slightly "I love you mama but I really don't have the time to kid around with you tonight..."
She nodded slightly, her face growing serious "what's going on Elliot?"
He sighed "it's Olivia 1 of the perps from the cases that she works took her, he was in our house , escaped with her before I was able to get home... God he hurt her bad, so bad..."
Bernadette frowned "she's such a sweet woman, your saying you haven't found her yet?"
He shook his head slightly "they were already gone by the time I was home, he had shot our neighbors son and a cab driver. That's why I brought Izzabella here was so I could look for her myself."
She nodded slightly "I know you wanna find her, god I hope you find her but you can't get yourself hurt in the process. That man is dangerous Elliot if he shot a little boy and a cab driver he'd shoot you too with no problem."
He nodded "I'm gonna be careful mama, but if he shoots me and that saves Olivia's life then it'll be worth it to me."
She sighed as her eyes brimmed with tears "please don't say that Elliot... I know I wasn't the best mother but please don't say that..."
He sighed slightly and pulled her into his arms, rubbing her back "look mama I have to go... If Izzabella wakes up at any point and needs me let her call me, if I'm to where I can I'll answer. She can't have milk or dairy, she'll ask for it in the morning but she can't have it she's lactose intolerant, found that out today. If she asks for Olivia just tell her she's on a case and can't answer the phone. If it's nice out tomorrow feel free to let her build all the sandcastles she wants, she can look for seashells on the shore too but if she wants to go into the ocean you'll have to go in with her."
She nodded "that sounds easy enough."
Elliot nodded slightly "she had a happy meal on our way here so she shouldn't be hungry till the morning. Whatever happens just please, please don't go chasing any clouds or snowflakes with her mama. I'm begging you."
She nodded and hugged him tightly "I know you'll never let me live the snowflake incident down but I learned from what happened that night and wont do it again, I promise."
Elliot nodded shakily "alright mama, alright I trust you.. Just please don't let me down alright?"
She nodded a bit "I wont son, but you can't let yourself get killed either."
He nodded slightly "I'll do my best I promise, I love you, call me if you need anything, I'll keep you updated," he said as with those final words he left the house.
9:15 PM, the Mayers home.
Once Lewis had stolen the cab he had to make a lot of moves and fast. After abandoning the cab at the halfway house he had been staying at before his stent in Liv and El's closet, he stole his roommates Lincoln , putting Olivia's still unconscious body into the trunk of it as he had then driven to the Mayer's and had a nice dinner with his lawyer girlfriend and parents who were none the wiser.
After the dinner was through they had a quick make out session in the back of the car, then he dropped her off at the train station, promising her a romantic evening at the beach another time.
He then drove back to the Mayer's as once he pulled up he opened the trunk to find Olivia awake and struggling "well sunshine looks like you woke up just in time for the show," he said as he ripped the tape off of her mouth.
Olivia shook her head vigorously and went to scream but Lewis anticipated it and covered her mouth with his hand "don't even think about it," he snarled as he grabbed the syringe with the heroine inside and jabbed her wrist hard, shooting it into her vain as she just gritted her teeth while he injected himself 1 handed with the same needle.
"Y-you realize that's how you get hepatitis c is by sharing needles right?" Olivia said in a mostly steady voice.
Lewis chuckled "I could care less about that Olivia," he said as he uncapped a bottle of vodka and forced her to drink a 5th of it as she gagged the liquid down.
He smiled evilly and took an adderall with some water "okay now it's time for the show," he said as he taped her mouth back shut and forced her out of the trunk and onto her feet as he roughly lead her by her shoulders as he broke into the Mayer's home.
They were in the Mayer's home for over an hour as Lewis kept Olivia bound to a chair the entire time , making her watch while he murdered the husband and raped the wife.
She tried her best to dissociate, think of Elliot , Izzabella and other positive things but when Lewis would notice her doing that he would burn Mrs. Mayer as that made her stop trying as Olivia then had no choice but to watch Mrs. Mayer be brutally violated as a deep sadness lingered in her eyes.
Lewis finished in the home at around 10:30 as he forced Olivia to help him string mrs. Mayer up in the closet as the house was an absolute disaster when they left "you realize this is gonna happen to you right?" Lewis taunted.
Olivia shook her head vigorously as Lewis yanked the tape off of her mouth then shoved her into the back seat of the Mayer's SUV as he handcuffed her to the door.
"Oh yes it will," he said as he used the husbands car keys to crank the car as he drove away from the house.
Olivia shook her head again "Elliot and my squad will find me before that happens."
Lewis chuckled "ohh no they wont sweetheart that squad of yours is hopeless and by the time I'm through talking to your husband he wont care if your found alive or dead."
Olivia glared up at him "if you were so confident of that you would have already called him. So tell me, tell me why you haven't called him yet hmm?"
Lewis smiled, a wild high look in his eyes "ohh we're gonna call him, just not yet, we're gonna wait until we're more settled."
Olivia slightly shuttered, getting a bad feeling "we?"
Lewis nodded his head "yes we, because if you've convinced me of anything it's that he wont take my word on anything I say but I do know whose word he will take.."
"Ohh god no..." Olivia mumbled to herself, trying her best to be quiet as Lewis heard her though and smirked back at her as he then gave her an eerie chuckle that would most likely haunt her for the rest of her days.
Around 20 or so minutes passed silently in the car as Lewis jammed to rap music while Olivia tried to find some way to escape from her restraints but the effort was futile as he pulled up to a small 24 hour pawn shop and stepped around to her door and opened it "give me your ring, now."
Olivia shook her head as her lip quivered "use my debit card, i-it's in my wallet if you brought that don't take my ring."
Lewis chuckled menacingly "have you forgotten whose in charge? It seems like you've forgotten," he said as he ran around the car and sat down on the seat beside her as he held the gun to her head "give me the wedding ring, now!!"
Olivia sighed slightly and held back her tears, determined that she wasn't gonna let him see her cry and that she was gonna hold herself together "t-that's not a good idea Lewis, this ring has our initials engraved on the inside as soon as you give it to the broker they'll know it's stolen, the best thing you can do is just use my debit card."
Lewis slapped her hard across the face "I didn't bring your damn debit card! There wasn't time for that! You need to remember whose in charge!" he shouted as he burned her breasts twice a piece with a cigarette.
Olivia whimpered through a sigh as she hung her head in defeat "if your gonna take it take it but I am not handing it to you, I'm not handing you 1 of the last pieces of Elliot that I have left."
Lewis chuckled "fine suit yourself," he said as he roughly pulled her arm forward, displacing her shoulder in the process as when she cried out he smirked, roughly jerked the ring off her finger then taped her mouth shut again and headed into the pawnshop as once he was out of sight she allowed her tears to fall.
"Hi there would you like to buy, sell or pawn tonight?" The owner Joe asked as Lewis was the only 1 in the store because of the late hour.
He smiled slightly "I'd like to sell this ring please, I just went through a rough divorce and don't want the memories anymore."
Joe nodded his head sympathetically "trust me I understand that man I divorced my wife last year and when I took the ring off it was a huge weight off my shoulders. You have no idea how much lighter I felt."
Lewis smiled and chuckled "I can only imagine," he said as he handed him the ring to appraise "I see that the initials EO with an infinity sign are engraved on the inside, that makes this ring quite rare but it's also not to likely that a random person would buy it."
Lewis sighed and nodded "I understand really man. I mean I don't want that much for it I'd be happy with 100 or 150."
Joe nodded "I can meet you in the middle, say 125?"
Lewis nodded "that's a deal man, thank you so so much, I feel lighter already."
Joe smiled slightly "I'm glad I was able to help make that happen. Hey why is there a smidgen of blood on the ring?"
Lewis chuckled "Ahh I just cut my finger the other day and a little bit of blood must have gotten on there."
Joe nodded and chuckled "yeah that happens right? Well here you go and I hope you have a nice night," he said handing him the money and putting the ring down to be cleaned as Lewis smiled and left the pawnshop.
"Well that went well, I got 125 dollars, that's more than enough for what I need to buy," Lewis said with a bright smile as he drove away from the pawnshop as Olivia didn't react since her mouth was taped shut as she had decided she'd try to conserve the rest of her energy as she knew she'd truly need it later.
About 45 minutes later Lewis was jolting her awake as they were in the empty parking lot of a hardware store "I'm back, I got some supplies, are you resting?" He shook his head "no can do," he said as he raised her up and recuffed her hands behind her back.
Olivia's head rocked back and forth as she was out of it and dazed as Lewis smiled watching her "I love hardware stores."
She didn't respond as he kept talking "I got a tarp, some rope, extra duct tape, and some surprises for later," he smirked evilly knowing what those were "and some drinks. How does that sound hmm? If I take the tape off will you be a good girl?"
Olivia nodded and moaned slightly as he pulled the tape off and her head leaned back in relief.
"You thirsty sweetheart?" He asked as he stroked her face.
God I wish he'd stop calling me that, she thought to herself as she cringed at his touch but nodded her head slightly.
He smiled, nodded and opened the bottle of vodka from earlier as she recoiled away from it "no no no, hey hey you don't get to say no anymore!"
Olivia shook her head again at the vodka as Lewis just smiled "you have some vodka and I'll give you some water."
Olivia didn't respond but he forced her mouth open anyway and forced another 5th of it down her throat as she tried to spit it out as Lewis shook his head and held her mouth closed, "suck it down, swallow!" he said harshly as she gagged the vodka down, then convulsed eyes wild.
Lewis smiled another evil smile watching this happen to her body as after a minute he uncapped a bottle of water "see I'm a man of my word, I do every thing I say I'm gonna do, just like I did with mrs. Mayer."
Olivia didn't respond, her eyes focused on the water as Lewis grew angry "you wont ignore me when I'm talking to you next time," he said harshly as he poured the water out in the floorboard then crushed it in front of her face.
"I-I'm sorry..." Olivia croaked out weakly as Lewis just shook his head with a smirk "soon we're gonna find our special place, and when we do your gonna tell your husband our new truth."
Olivia shook her head "y-you'll have to kill me before I tell my husband that."
He chuckled "be careful what you wish for darling," he said as he then retaped her mouth and kissed the tape "1 move lights out, I'll do you cold," he said as he then tossed her body into the floorboard , shut her door then got into the drivers seat and drove off.
May 23rd, 1:10 AM Suffolk county Nu York.
Olivia laid half asleep in the floorboard of the SUV as Lewis had been driving around for a while as he'd occasionally pull over on the side of the road to torture her a bit then start driving again as he still hadn't given her another chance to drink some water if I had only answered his question, damn I miss Elliot, I miss my baby girl.. I-I hope she's not scared, I hope she's safe with Elliot and not worrying about me.
Speaking of Elliot I-I shouldn't have even spoken of him to that monster, I shouldn't have told him that he'd save me now I just might lose him for good, I can't say what Lewis wants me to say I'll lose him for good.
Olivia you wont lose him , he'll know better. He'll know that what your being forced to say is a lie just like the note that he was sent was a lie. He's a smart man and he's probably already seen the bedroom the little voice inside of her head reasoned.
Maybe so but we never lie to each other and what if he just thinks it's true because I said it?
Olivia's thoughts continued to spiral down a negative path as soon they were drowned out by the radio and Lewis's singing.
"Every morning, every evening, ain't we got fun?
Not much money, oh but honey ain't we got fun?
The rent's unpaid dear, we haven't a car.
But in anyway dear, we'll stay as we are." He sang as a police cruiser behind him turned on his lights and sirens as he groaned and pulled over.
He quickly looked into the back of the car where Olivia was "he's young, 1 sound, 1 move and he's dead understand?"
Olivia slightly nodded her head, hoping to goodness that an amber alert had been put out or something as she listened to him deal with the officer while holding her breath.
"Good evening officer, is there a problem?" Lewis asked.
"Did you know you ran through a blinking red light back there?" The rookie asked pointing in the general direction.
"Oh I did? I looked both ways," he chuckled slightly "slow night right?"
The officer said nothing as Lewis sighed slightly "I'm sorry I really should know better."
The officer nodded "well can I see your license and registration please?"
Lewis nodded "yeah, yeah of course the registrations in the glove compartment, this is my in-laws car."
The officer nodded as Lewis handed it to him as he looked at it "your license?"
"Oh.. I left the house in such a rush I must have left my wallet at home," he chuckled slightly.
The rookie nodded suspiciously as he saw a vodka bottle on the floorboard "then what's that on the floor there? Have you been drinking?"
"No, no officer," Lewis said, starting to lose his charm and confidence.
"What have you got back there?" The officer asked, pointing at the back seat and growing more suspicious.
"where?" Lewis asked as he then elbowed the officer in the side of his head and pulled his gun, "I think your job here is done," he said darkly as he shot the officer in the head then sped away from the scene quickly as a single tear slid down Olivia's cheek but he didn't see it, now more determined than ever to find their special place.
16th precinct 1:30 AM.
"I'm headed up to the cribs for an hour," Rollins said as she had been busy going over Lewis's patterns for hours but nothing had come of it.
Elliot shook his head "nobody sleeps until we find Liv."
Rollins sighed "Mr. Stabler I know you wanna find Olivia, we wanna find her as badly as you do but we can't do our jobs running on empty and neither can you. You should head up to the cribs to sleep for a while yourself."
Elliot shook his head "I'm not sleeping until she's okay, when she's okay I'll sleep."
"What if when we find her she needs you awake and alert though?" Amaro asked.
Stabler looked over at him "then I'll be awake and alert. Coffee and energy drinks do wanders for me and I used to stay awake for 36 hours straight when we had a time sensitive case."
Amaro sighed "you did that 3 years ago, a lot changes in 3 years and to be honest man you looked exhausted yesterday at the precinct."
He nodded "I was and I am but I'm not going up to the cribs so stop trying to persuade me and get back to work," he said as he drank another coffee as the phone rang "special victims unit, detective Amaro speaking."
The room was quiet as pretty soon he ended the call "Ryan Maguire is awake, he's gonna make a full recovery and he wants to speak to us. Keeps asking his mother for the police."
Cragen nodded "take Tutuola and go, Elliot go with them, it'll give you something more to do than just sit here and stew and maybe he'll know something."
Elliot nodded and sighed "copy that captain," he said as they left the precinct and headed to Mount Sinai.
"I'm detective Tutuola, this is my partner detective Amaro and this is Mr. Stabler, he's consulting with us on this case we're here to see Ryan Maguire," Fin said to the nurse at the front desk once they had entered as she nodded her head "he's in room 225 with his mother."
They all nodded, "thank you ma'am," Amaro said as they all headed towards the room "we're gonna let you take the lead on this interview since you know him Elliot," Fin said as Elliot nodded and they entered the room "hi guys," Elliot said softly as he stepped close to the bed.
"H-hi Mr. Elliot," Ryan said with a slight smile.
"Buddy I'm so glad to see that your okay and awake, these are my friends detectives Amaro and Tutuola we're here to ask you some questions if it's okay?"
Ryan nodded his head slightly "I-I got the cookie dough orders in today at school so I went to your house to drop yours off, mom said it was okay," he said quickly.
Elliot nodded his head "nothing that happened tonight is your fault buddy you didn't do anything wrong I promise. Can you tell us what happened when you got to my house?"
He nodded slightly "I went on your porch to ring your doorbell, I saw that only 1 light was on but it was the kitchen 1 so I rang the doorbell."
He nodded his head "what happened when you rang the bell?"
Ryan kept his eyes focused on him "it took Mrs. Olivia a really long time to open the door, I rang the bell a couple times before she was able to open it."
He nodded "was anyone with Olivia when she opened the door?"
He frowned "I didn't think so at first but she looked kinda scared when she opened the door, it was like she wanted me to leave quick."
Elliot nodded "go on buddy," he said softly in his speaking to a victim voice as he was listening attentively.
Ryan nodded "I told her I had the cookie dough and she went to take it but I saw red marks on her wrists and a cut on her arm. I-I asked her if you had done it and if I needed to get mom, she said you didn't then the next thing I knew my back was hurting really bad and I was laying there on the porch."
Elliot nodded slightly and sighed "did you see who shot you buddy?"
He shook his head "nnhnn but I heard her cry once I fell down, she asked why and she called the man Lewis."
He nodded "alright thank you little man, we got all we need for now. Your so brave and buddy?"
Ryan nodded slightly "hmm?"
Elliot gently put a hand on his shoulder "it wasn't me who caused the marks or cuts, I just wanted you to know that."
He nodded a bit "I knew it wasn't you as soon as I heard her cry the name Lewis, I'm sorry I thought it could have been you."
Elliot rubbed his shoulder slightly and gave him a slight smile "it's alright buddy, I'm just glad that you cared enough to notice and that you were willing to help."
Ryan smiled slightly as his shoulders sagged in major relief as he fell asleep "Elliot I'm so sorry to here about Olivia, I hope she's found safe. If there's anything we can do at all, if you need me or Tim to watch your daughter just say the word," Dana, Ryan's mother said from her seat in the room.
Elliot smiled slightly "that means a lot to me Dana, and I'm so sorry about what happened to Ryan, god I feel so terrible about it I want the neighborhood kids to feel safe when they come to our house," he said as Fin could be seen stepping out of the room to take a phone call.
"It's not your fault Elliot really, I'm sure they'll all still feel safe dropping by once this is all over."
He nodded "I hope so," he said as Fin then stepped into the room Elliot we've gotta go we have a lead," he said as Elliot nodded quickly and rushed out "what have we got?"
"There was sort of a hit on the amber alert, the owner of a smalltime pawnshop saw it, recognized Lewis as the guy who sold him a ring with EO and the infinity sign engraved on the inside , he payed him 125 dollars for it."
Elliot nodded "just 125 huh? I payed over a grand for that thing."
Fin chuckled, glad that Elliot was able to cut up a little considering the circumstances "well man you know how pawnshops are, they rip people off."
He nodded "ain't that the truth, lets go pick it up and I'm gonna have some words with that shop owner about buying property that was obviously stolen," he said as he hopped into the front seat of the sedan and they headed that way.
6 AM, 5925 River road, Long-island Nu York.
"I think this is the place," Lewis said to Olivia in a singsong voice as he cuffed her to an iron frame bed.
Olivia just moaned slightly as her mouth was still taped shut and even if she had wanted to respond she wouldn't know what to say to him anyway.
Lewis roughly removed her duct tape "now that we're here in this secluded spot you can scream all you want, the more the better actually," he said through a smirk as she just slightly shook her head at him.
"Now now Olivia why do you always have to be so difficult? Loosen up a little," he said as he shoved 2 adderalls in to her mouth then held it closed as she tried to spit them out and gag but ultimately swallowed them.
"There we go Olivia, now you'll be awake, no more sleeping time that's over you've gotta be awake for our fun," he said as he jabbed the very dirty and used needle into the vain in between her pointer and middle fingers as she couldn't help but cry out.
Lewis smirked "you've had your adderall, you've had your heroine now it's time for your vodka,"
Olivia sighed slightly but just nodded as Lewis smiled "attagirl now your learning, that's what I wanna see," he said as when he forced her mouth open though she bit down hard on his finger.
"Shit!!" he cursed as he recovered quickly though "your gonna regret that Olivia," he said as he smirked at the Semper fidelis metal of El's that was still resting on her chest from where she had put it on before heading to work the morning before as her heart dropped and she gagged down the large amount of vodka with out putting up any more fight.
About 15 minutes later Lewis had scarfed down a candy bar , done his bit of drugs and had his bottle of water "it's time to call your husband," he said with a smile.
Olivia sighed "I'm not telling him any lies Lewis so if that's what you expect me to do you may as well not even call him."
Lewis smirked "oh you are to, your gonna tell him that you cheated on him with me, and that we're happily together now and if you don't I'll put a bullet in your head."
Olivia shuttered "h-he wont believe it," she said shakily doing her best to believe her own words herself.
Lewis smiled "you'll make him believe it. I didn't bring your phone tell me his phone number."
Olivia shook her head "no," she said.
Lewis put the gun to her head "tell me the phone number, NOW!!"
She sighed shakily as her hands trembled "555:512:4468."
Lewis nodded as he punched the number into the phone and put it on speaker as while it rang her heart pounded in her chest please be some number with a standard answering machine , or better yet no answering machine that no one answers, she thought to herself as soon 3 beeps sounded from the phone. "We're sorry, but the number you have dialed is no longer in service, please recheck the number and try your call again."
Lewis glared angrily and shot the gun right above her head as the bullet pierced the wall "you give me the right number this time or the next bullet goes in your scull!"
She whimpered when she heard the gunshot as her life flashed before her eyes and she nodded her head furiously "f555:512:5212," she cried.
Lewis smirked and smiled, knowing by her reaction that this number was right as he punched it into the keypad then put it on speaker like he had before as it rang.
Don't answer El, Don't answer El, Don't answer El, she chanted in her mind as it rang once.
Twice.
Three times.
Four times.
Five times.
"Stabler," he answered.