Semper Fidelis by RosiMeloniDuchovny

I started writing this story at the moment Christopher Meloni left SVU. It was hard for me to finish it because everything that happened related to the series after he left, I didn't want to write about the show anymore. I finish the story 7 years later, I post the original version in Spanish October of last year, this is the English version. Recently I decided that I was going to try to translate all my previous Spanish stories to English, so this one is the lucky second.

It has some allusions to several episodes of the series, both before leaving Chris and after, but for the record that will not be accurate since I've only seen three episodes after Chris left (Scorched Earth, Acceptable Loss and Poisoned Motive "I love Alexandra Eames") and they broke my soul. Anyway, I hope you like this story. (BENSLER ONLY). Rated M because of the last chapter.

All the characters of Law & Order SVU belong to Dick Wolf and NBC Universal.

Note: The gangs show in this fanfic I saw then in a NatGeo documentary. I found it super interesting. Although I think I soften them a bit, on TV they paint them much worse of course hahaha.

Chapter 1

In my Life

Olivia Benson is considered one of the best detectives of the Manhattan Special Victims Unit, with a percentage of 98% of cases resolved with the now her former partner detective Elliot Stabler. He left the Unit after a shooting.

Elliot and Olivia were very close, they had 12 years as partners, they knew everything about each other, even the things that the other would prefer forget. When Elliot left Olivia was devastated, she did not know what to do or what to feel and she lost her judgment completely and it was reflected in the erratic way in which she acted in her cases. The unit's captain, Donald Cragen, was worried about Olivia's feelings, she is like a daughter to him. He decided that the best thing for her was to get her a new partner, so he brought Nick Amaro.

Nick was a good detective from Narcotics, at the beginning Olivia did not want to have anything to do with him and ditch him every time she could. Even Nick asked Cragen to change his partner because he believed that Olivia needed a partner she could trust; but Cragen did not do it because he had been in that position before; Olivia once asked him to change her partner and he did; which was a waste of time given that a couple weeks later she came back with Elliot again. This time he did not make the same mistake, he left Nick and Olivia together and it worked, as time passed, they began to get along and work well together. After a year and a half together, Olivia already knew Nick's style and his way of doing things and he knew hers, they learned to get along and developed a friendship, even though at times they had their differences.

One day what appeared to be a normal case in a normal week in SVU arrived, but it turned out to be the last straw that the glass of Olivia's life could bear.

On Monday morning, Captain Cragen assigned a new case to Olivia and her team integrated by Nick and Detectives Amanda Rollins, Fin Tutuola and John Munch. The case was about a woman between the ages of 20 and 25 found floating in the Hudson River in a black bag, had been tortured, raped and beaten to death.

Amanda, Nick and Olivia were in the office of coroner Melinda Warner reviewing the autopsy report, while John and Fin were trying to identify the victim.

- She suffered a lot, internally it has fractures in the jaw, radius, humerus, clavicle, pelvis, femur and tibia, I have not yet been able to specify the object with which she was hit; It also has puncture wounds all over the body, was penetrated multiple times, I sent the samples to the DNA Lab; the cause of death is fracture of the temporal bone of the skull by blows with a blunt object – Melinda said

- Who would do such a thing to such a young girl - Amanda said horrified

- It seems work of a gang, I will be sure when I know her identity and with whom she was related - Olivia said while evaluating the wounds

- I agree, this has gang signings everywhere – Nick said

- No matter who her circle of friends was, she still did not deserve what happened to her; because if not all policemen should be kill for hanging around with criminals all the time - Amanda said

- You take everything so literally Amanda, also I never said she deserved to be killed and we will find the bastards who did this – Nick said

At that moment Nick received a call from Fin and left the forensic office with Amanda. Leaving Olivia and Melinda alone.

- How do you handle the constant fights of those two? - Melinda asked

- Honestly, they've me fed up, it's something new every day, and I do not know if it's him or her, but I swear that one day I'll kill them both - Olivia said frustrated

- Would you rather be with Elliot? - Melinda asked with some fear

- No, not at all, I do not want to see that idiot anymore in my life, or hear his name; I think I'm fine with Nick, as long as he and Amanda are not in the same room - Olivia said seriously, although she laughed a bit talking about Nick and Amanda

In that moment Nick and Amanda went back to the room

- Fin told me that they had already identified the victim, her name was Erika Lebron, 24 years old, she lived in Brooklyn and was a member of the Latin Kings, known for arms trafficking, drug trafficking, extortion, forgery, robbery and murder – Nick said

- As we already suspected there had to be gangs involve, so I already have my first list of suspects, all the rival gangs of the Latin Kings obviously – Olivia said

- Olivia come on, Fin said we met at the house on Riverdale Avenue, where the Latin Kings meet - Nick said sarcastically

-Yeah let's go; see you later Melinda - Olivia said and left

In the car, Olivia was driving, Nick in the copilot and Amanda in the back seat. Olivia gave both of them a kind of ultimatum at that moment.

- We are going to a very dangerous place, to get involved with very dangerous people, I would appreciate it if you left your stupid fights for when we return to the station, understood – Olivia said

- Yes, of course - Nick and Amanda said at the same time