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A/N: If you don't like drama and suspense, don't read it. As little as it is, it could trigger some kind of trigger.

* final excerpt from previous chapter *

-Angela, don't do this! Don't be dumb... Release her, now!

Olivia stays still, already in this situation more than once, she tries to remain calm as she stares at Elliot. Angela has a gun pointed at Olivia, has gone from her waist to her head now, the look Angela gives Elliot is one of anger, about to do something she'll probably regret later.

Elliot needs to think quickly of a strategy, he has lost his wife and cannot lose the true love of his life.

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CAP 2

GOOD THAT YOU CAME BACK

Elliot was panicking but, he couldn't demonstrate that to Angela, he needed to be in control of the situation. He couldn't take a false step, couldn't risk something happening to Olivia, his Olivia, the SVU captain, Noah's mother. Raising his hands in a sign of calm Elliot tries to get a little closer to Angela and Olivia, taking a deep breath and calmly saying:

-Angela, come on... You don't really want to do this. Olivia is the SVU captain, you don't want that on your back. This immediately takes you to prison. And what do you want?

Olivia takes a deep breath feeling a gun in her head, her eyes fixed on Elliot's, a thousand things going through her mind right now: Noah can't be without a mother, she can't die now that she's got Elliot back, and his family from work? How will they feel if she leaves now, they needed to get out of this, she needed to get out of this.

-I thought we were really having a connection, I thought there were feelings there! Oh, he didn't tell you Captain Benson? That we were close?

Elliot sees Olivia take a deeper breath and all he wants now is for Angela to shut up, God he was hoping she didn't mention the damn kiss.

-Angela, this is between you and me, let Olivia go...

Angela squeezes Olivia even tighter and with anger in her eyes screams.

-NOT! She needs to stay Elliot, she needs to listen! Come on, let's tell her about the day you came looking for me at my house, let's tell her how you were venturing to me, how about we tell her we kissed? Yes Olivia, Elliot kissed me! Didn't he tell you?

Olivia feels a shiver down her spine upon hearing that Elliot has kissed her and Elliot immediately looks at her with an 'I'm sorry' look. But it still didn't make sense to Olivia, when Angela first approached her, she questioned Elliot about her being the other woman, and that phrase was hammering in Olivia's mind, carefully Olivia finally says something:

-What makes you think I'm the other woman Angela? Why are we here? Why are you with a gun pointed at my head? We do not know each other!

Olivia is playing with her, trying to get answers, but at the same time playing to get out of this situation alive.

-Oh, come on captain! Don't insult my intelligence... From what I've heard, all of New York knows there's something else between you.

Elliot notices Amanda and Carisi approaching, the car they came to the party was also in the parking lot, when they realized what was happening, that Olivia, her captain and friend were being held hostage while Elliot apparently tried to reverse the situation, Amanda took the gun carefully and gestured for Carisi to follow her in silence so Angela wouldn't notice. Elliot understood and tried to get Angela to stay away from Olivia.

-Angela, I, uh, I... I don't regret that kiss~ Olivia looks at him doubtfully, wanting to throw up at his admission, only after he quickly glares at her does she understand what he's doing~ you're right , having a connection and good... Olivia? Olivia is nothing more than a co-worker to me. We didn't see each other for 10 years so, well, we took the occasion of the wedding to see each other again, but nothing like you and me Angel.

Angela shivered at her nickname on his lips, he had never called her that, only Richard called her that. Without her realizing it, she's loosening her grip on Olivia a little, and Elliot doesn't miss a beat:

-But if you hurt her, the only place you go is to prison! And well, I don't want that for you. We need more time to understand these feelings of ours and with you in prison this will be complicated.

Olivia wasn't putting up with this game anymore, as much as she knew Elliot was saying these things just so Angela would calm down and a tragedy wouldn't happen, hearing him say such things made her sick. Amanda and Carisi were now closer, Olivia saw them hiding behind one of the cars and without realizing she let out a sigh she didn't know she was holding, Angela seemed to be enchanted by Elliot's words, he was winning this game.

-I want to explore these feelings with you! Well you know, at first I approached with only one goal, but you Elliot Stabler, you made me fall in love and well, she can't take you away from me. I've already lost a lot, I won't lose you.

-You will not lose me, you have me!

Elliot couldn't believe his own words, now he was looking at Olivia, trying to see if she was okay, out of the corner of his eye he saw Amanda approaching and he needed to act.

-Come on Angel, give me the gun, let's get out of here!

-No not yet! I need to make sure she doesn't go after us!

Angela squeezed Olivia back and now with the gun on her hip, Elliot shudders at the possibility of shit happening. Amanda manifests with her gun towards Angela:

-Drop the weapon! Rollins says with that look of detective, protective and friend of his captain, but Angela doesn't obey.

-DROP THE GUN, NOW! Amanda repeats, but this time with more emphasis.

Angela is startled by the change in Amanda's voice, it was practically a scream, she stumbles and with the imbalance the gun fires ''BOOM BOOM'' Angela and Olivia are on the floor.

Everything goes in slow motion, Elliot sees Liv falling to the ground and immediately runs, Amanda picks up the gun Angela dropped on the ground to make sure she can't recover and Carisi runs to Olivia too.

-Liv, Liv... Look at me, look at me!

BLOOD, THERE'S BLOOD ON THE FLOOR. With the sound of gunfire the few guests who were still at the party leave towards the parking lot. Fin is startled to see Olivia on the ground, blood, Elliot, Amanda and Carisi with scared expressions and a woman Fin has never even heard of. Amanda was desperately calling 911.

-I need an ambulance urgently, It's ONE 10-13.

-El...

-Liv, help is coming. I'm here, I'm right here!

Olivia was hit in the hip when Angela tripped and she lost her balance, which caused her fingers to slide to the trigger of the gun, causing it to fire and hit Olivia.

-El... Elliot I don't feel my legs.

-What? What do you mean, Liv... What do you mean?

-I don't feel my legs El, she hit me on the hip... Elliot I...

-Hey, it'll be fine! Everything will be fine.

Sirens sound, police and ambulance... While Olivia is prepared to be taken away, Angela is handcuffed. Elliot didn't leave Olivia's side for a second, and no one dared protest when he said he would go with her in the ambulance. As he called Bell to explain what Angela had done, with his free hand Elliot took Olivia's hand, to let her know he was there, and that he wasn't going anywhere.

Arriving at the hospital Olivia had to undergo emergency surgery to remove the bullet, his entire squad was in the waiting room and Elliot kept pacing, Fin trying to calm him down, without success, and he understood, he was nervous himself. SUCKS.

A movie started to go through Elliot's mind, 12 years of partnership, looks exchanged, touches that took longer than necessary, the mid-hour snacks, the nights they called each other after an extremely difficult case only to stand there, listening to each other's breathing. And after that, silence, for 10 years an absurd silence in which they both felt the absence of each other and now, when they're finally reunited, now when things were just a few steps away, Olivia is in a hospital, going through a surgery. He didn't want to think about the worst, but the last time he was here he lost his wife, he couldn't lose Olivia. The doctor appears like a ghost in the waiting room, interrupting Elliot's thoughts.

- Captain Olivia Benson's family?

In unison everyone in the room replied 'HERE' they were her family, of course they were.

-Everything went well in the surgery, in fact she was lucky that the bullet didn't reach any places of great risk. Now she is unconscious due to anesthesia and medications, but she will be fine!

-Doctor, she told me she wasn't feeling the feathers~ Elliot says tightening his jaw and rubbing the palm of his right hand across his forehead.

-Oh, uh, yes! That was due to the impact, but, you can relax... She's going to walk. Like I said, she was lucky.

Everyone in the room heaved sighs of relief. Carisi took Rollins to alleviate the girls' drools, Kat proposed to ease Lucy a little with Noah and Fin and Phoebe after ensuring that Olivia would really be okay, they went to pack their bags for the trip they would take together. Elliot promised everyone that he would give updates and call anything they needed. Later that night he was sitting in an armchair near the hospital bed where Olivia was lying, he couldn't actually sleep but was lightly resting his eyes when she woke up. Olivia watched him there with her eyes closed and for a moment she thought 'he's back and he's never gone again'.

-Elliot

He immediately opens his eyes, reaches over and takes her hands.

-Hey... How do you feel?

Olivia tries to settle down and he helps her adjust the pillow so she's more comfortable.

-It hurts~ she says with a grimace~ but, uh, at least I feel my legs again.

-Liv, I'm sorry! I am really sorry.

-El... it's not your fault! Do not do it.

He puts his hands on her cheek, needing to feel her, to make sure she's there, well, alive.

-She wouldn't come after you if it wasn't for me Olivia!

Leaning into his touch on her face Olivia doesn't hesitate to clear the doubt that from the very beginning has been pounding in her mind:

-El... who was she? You, uh, were...

-No, Liv, no! Well, the short story is: she's the ex-wife of Richard Wheatley... she was responsible for Kathy's death, and she was the person I was leaning on. I didn't think it was fair to fill you with my problems after disappearing for 10 years, I didn't want to overwhelm you and well, in a moment of weakness, I, uh, I, I kissed her and soon after I found out she was responsible for Kathy's murder , I felt like crap, the kiss didn't mean anything at all, but how could I be so weak? Kissing someone I didn't even feel for, just because I was vulnerable?

Olivia lets out a sigh, absorbing all the information, she closes her eyes for a moment and hears the concern in Elliot's voice.

-Liv, you need to believe me. You have to believe it didn't mean anything, you have to believe that you are the person I love.

It wasn't the first time he said he loved her, but whenever she heard him speak those three words, she felt mixed emotions.

-Elliot, you don't owe me explanations regarding who you kissed or stopped kissing. What I want to understand is how did she know about me? Did you talk about me?

-AH~ Elliot pulls back enough to look into her eyes~ you know we got Richard right? When we were interrogating him, well, Angela was in the same room and Richard knew about the kiss, and in an attempt to taste her and tease me he said she was not the love of my life, not even the woman she sent murder! That there was another woman, the true love of my life…Somehow Olivia, he knew about you.

She shivered at the admission 'the true love of your life' Elliot moved closer to her, to the point where their foreheads rested against each other.

-Liv, the possibility of losing you today terrified me, I can't lose you Olivia, I couldn't bear it.

-I'm here El, I'm fine!

She pulled him into a hug, he carefully wrapped his arms around her, her scent was something he missed so much, and now he had been smelling it very often since he got back. They stood there, wrapped in each other's arms, needing the physical contact, needing to make sure they both didn't lose each other again. When Elliot relaxed his arms a little Olivia moved to the side so he could sit on the bed with her, she rested her head on his chest, listening to his heartbeat she breathed a sigh of relief that he was. there.

-Good that you came back El...

He placed a kiss on the top of her head.

-I should have come back sooner.

They still had a lot to talk about, but for now, that was enough.

*TO BE CONTINUED*

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