I own no one but my own people.

Mike walked into his office with two styrophone cups of coffee and placed one on Lennie's desk.

"Wallice" he said coldly ignoring the coffee.

"Still mad about yesterday I see" Mike said sitting at his desk and getting out some paper work.

"Your damn right I am!" Lennie said angrilly

"I mean where the hell do you get off wailing your partner of six years in the mouth?" Mike shrugged

"I told you not to call her a slut. I mean what was I supposed to do? Just let you trash talk my girlfriend?" Lennie scoffed

"please, you and I both know that she's in it for the kicks. She's dating you because of what you can give her and her friends. Are you so blind that you can't see that?"

"First off she asked me out before she knew I was in IAB, then she tried to break it off when she did find out. So no, she isn't in it for the free ride."

"Your planning on marrying a detective that that has gotten in more hot water with us then any other two detectives combined?"

"I never said I was going to marry her"

"Ah ha! I knew it! Your just in it for the sex and the information!" Lennie said happily pointing an accusing finger at him

"never said I wasn't going to either" he said giving him a wink. Lennie scoffed then turned away

"come on man, will you just forgive me. I brought you coffee, that has to account for something" Mike said getting a little annoyed at him.

"Fine, but this better be a later" Lennie said taking the coffee and taking a drink of it. Mike rolled his eyes then began doing some paper work. The day seemed to go by pretty slowly, they got most of there paper work done, and at the end of the day the only case they had was a quick open shut case about a hooker saying a cop harassed her when he arrested her. But seeing the long scratches on his face where she had scratched the cop, and no marks on the cop. they didn't arrest the him.

"You know, I really wish that hookers would just stop making a big deal when they get arrested" Mike said hanging up his coat on the rack.

"I know, its like we got a hooker abuse call every week, and when cops actually do something to them, they wonder why they don't get off the streets" Lennie said going to his desk. Mike nodded in agreement before also sitting down at his desk. He looked over at the clock and realized it was almost time to go.

"Hey I'm gonna head out, you coming?" Mike said standing up. Lennie shook his head

"nah I think I'm gonna hit McGill's. Who knows, their could be some hot kitten just aching to be boned me me. And how could I deny her that.

"Boned? what are you fifteen?" Lennie shrugged

"whatever, long as I get some does it matter what its called? And what about you? You r little cop gonna use the hand cuffs on you tonight?"

"No she said she had plans with Elliot." Lennie scoffed

"and you believed her? Those two are probably screwing in the interrogation room as we speak.

"Are you some kind of idiot? Didn't you almost get a broken nose because you talked about her like that yesterday?"

"This is different. I mean it, how many times have we had to split up partners because they slept together. I'm telling you man, unless you want to share her I suggest you get someone to split them up."

"She wouldn't do that, there just friends."

"And you know this how?"

"she told me." Lennie scoffed

"and you actually believed that an extremely hot and sexy women and her best friend, who's also slightly attractive for a guy, have no romance between them and are one hundred percent friends and nothing more?"

"Yes"

"why do you trust her though?" Mike smiled a small smile at him

"because you trust the people you love" then he walked out with Lennie shaking his head at him.

1-6 precinct, 11:30 PM

Olivia and Elliot sat in silence working on the reports for Katie. The only other one in the bull pen was Cragen and he was in his office. Katie had died from Brain damage and her father was in a medically induced coma. They had told Cragen that they found him like that and that his wallet had been stolen, then when he was in the ambulance he woke up for a brief minute and told them what he had done. No one had come by the station looking for them and he covered the scars on his knuckle with cover up so it was all good for now. Olivia looked up at Elliot, he was looking down at his paper work but his pen hasn't moved for the past half hour.

"You okay?" she said softly. He looked up at her and sighed.

"How could someone do that to his own daughter? How could one man be that barbaric." They both knew that he didn't care one way about what happened to Katie's father, but he did care about what was going to happen to him if he told. Olivia shook her head

"I don't know Eliot. We live in a twisted sick world. You know, something like this just makes me rethink about a lot of stuff. Like why we're here at all if we something like this is going to happen, and about having children. It's like, why do it at all if something like this can happen to them?" Elliot just sat here silent for a moment

"It's insane how one man can cause so much pain on an innocent little child, his own daughter, its inhuman." Olivia nodded in agreement before she leaned back in her chair.

"Today in the hospital room, you saw your own daughter in that hospital bed didn't you?" she said softly. Elliot nodded like he was in a daze

"when I attacked him, I saw him raping Lizzie and I just couldn't deal with that." Olivia nodded in agreement, she knew that he saw his kids when there was children involved. Thats why silently she thank god that she didn't have children to worry about. She wanted them, any one that knew her could tell you that, but it hardly seemed worth it to her after a case like this. She sighed then Cragen came out of the office, oblivious to what they were just talking about.

"What are you two still doing here? You caught Katie's killer, the doctors think he'll be out until tomorrow, go home. And don't come in till twelve tomorrow, you two deserve that much at least" then he walked out. Elliot rubbed his temples then got up and so did Olivia.

"You want to crash on my couch tonight?" she said softly after Cragen was gone. She knew that he hated to go home to an empty house after a case like this. He shook his head

"no, I'm going over to Kathy's and see if the kids want to spend the night. It's Summer Break so they should all be up still." Olivia nodded then gave him a supportive smile

"good night El, I'll see you tomorrow."

"Night Liv" then she walked out the door and got into her car. She didn't want to turn on the radio tonight but instead thought about what they were hiding from the captain.

"He's going to kill us both when he finds out, but it wasn't Elliot's fault" she told herself

"I wanted to kill the bastard too"

"but he should have had more control over himself." She began to argue with herself

"he saw the freak raping his daughter, that would be enough for anyone to attack someone."

"But it wasn't his daughter though, it was another mans child."

"But she was blond and young,

"it still wasn't his." The battle continued until she pulled up to her apartment and went in. She quick went up to her floor and went in her apartment and turned on the living room light. She glanced at the clock and saw that it was past midnight. She yawned then went in her bedroom and quickly stripped and got into bed and closed her eyes. But she opened them with a small gasp. Every time she closed her eyes she saw Katie being beaten and raped by her father and his friends. She tried sleeping again, forcing herself to think about something else, but she still saw Katie being raped, only this time she could hear the screams. She opened her eyes, took a deep breath then closed them again. Only to see the same sight. She opened them again and realized that she wasn't getting any sleep tonight. She glanced at the clock and it read twelve thirty. She took a deep breath then picked up the phone and dialed a number. After a few things he answered.

"Hello?" Mike said groggily. Olivia considered hanging up ,but she just needed someone to talk to right now.

"Hi, it's me. Did I wake you? she said knowing she had.

"Olivia? yeah you did but whats wrong?" he said his voice slurred from sleep but caring none the less.

"I'm sorry, I just. I just need someone to talk to" she said a little sadly.

"I'll be right over Liv, see you in a few" he said softly before hanging up the phone

"Thanks" then she gently hung up the phone and got out of bed. ten minutes late there was a knock at the front door and she got off the couch and opened it. Mike was there, his eyes still showing signs of tiredness but the rest of him show signs of alertness. He saw the bruises on her almost instantly.

"Oh my God Liv what happened?" he asked gently stroking the areas around the bruising.

"Oh it's nothing, just had a little fight today at work. You want to come in?" she said moving to let him in. He came in and Olivia shut the door behind him.

"Well I'm guessing that this little fight isn't what you wanted to talk to me about?" he said turning towards her. Olivia sighed then went up to him

"you wanna sit down?" she said pointing to the couch. He looked at her for a moment before siting down down the couch.

"Are you okay? You seem really upset." Olivia sighed then at down and looked at the floor. She was silent for a moment before she started speaking.

"You ever wonder why we're here? You know, we live, we breathe, we have fun, only to have something terrible happen and then it gets ripped away form you." Mike was silent for a moment

"Baby, I really don't know what your talking about" he said truthfully. Olivia looked u pat him, trying not to shed the tears that was forming.

"Today, we got a call about a five year old in the hospital. She was, she was beaten and raped really bad. And when we went to notify the parents, it turns out that the father did it. We arrested him , but the girl died." She didn't want to tell hi about what Elliot had, she didn't know what would happen if he knew that her partner had nearly beaten a man for death then they both tried to cover it up. She decided it would be better for the both of them if Mike didn't know. The tears began to fall but she quickly mopped them up.

"Oh sweetie come here" he said pulling her into a hug. She hugged him back and let out a quick sob but then held the rest back.

"I just, why would he do that to his own daughter?" she said letting out a few more tears.

"I don't know, but you got the guy. And the girl is in a better place now where she can't be in pain anymore" he said beginning to stroke her hair. Olivia nodded then released the hug and wiped her eyes.

"I'm sorry for waking you up" she said softly.

"You don't have to apologize for this Liv. Anytime you need to talk, you can call me anytime, day or night okay? " Olivia nodded then ran a hand though her hair and gave him another hug.

"How'd I get a wonderful guy like you?"

"I just got lucky" he said hugging her back. She turned around so that he wrapped his arms around her and her head was leaning against his shoulders. He let out a yawn

"tired?" Olivia said feeling bad knowing she was the cause of it.

"Yeah, but your worth it" be said pulling the blanket from the back of the couch over them. Olivia gave a small smile, wiped the remainder of her tears away then moved in closer to him and closed her eyes seeing nothing but darkness.

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