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Olivia's POV

I slowly opened my eyes. I saw this bright light shining it my eye. Then suddenly I saw a bunch of people hovering over me and I could hear the sound of their voices, going over each other; which made it hard to understand what was going on.

"Olivia, can you hear me?"

I nodded before attempting to remove the oxygen mask to speak, but the woman advises against it as another person places it back on me.

How did I get here? How did they find me? What happened to Lewis? Why didn't he kill me? Why am I still alive? How am I still alive?

"Ow!" I yelled, but it came out muffled because of the mask. I shut my eyes tightly as I felt someone pushing into some of more recent burns. After we got to the beach house, he used not only cigarettes to burn me but also hangers, just like he had with that woman whom died later on.

I then started to feel dizzy again.

"She's losing a lot of blood." I just faintly heard right before I blacked out.

Barba's POV

I got to the hospital about an hour after the ambulance had left to take Olivia to the hospital. We would have gotten there sooner if Amaro hadn't gone to the wrong hospital. I knew I should have driven myself, but he had to insist. As soon as I walked into Mercy Hospital, I saw Rollins in the waiting room.

"Rollins." I say.

"Barba, how did you—"

"Not important. How's Liv?"

"She's in surgery. She lost a lot of blood. I haven't heard anything yet." Rollins tells me and I sighed. I slowly sat down and then she sat down next to me.

"Did you hear anything about Lewis?" I ask.

"He's alive. Barely." Rollins says and I just look to the floor. I thought I had killed him. I thought hitting with that bar would have been enough—well once would have been enough, three times on the other was a bit extensive but it didn't matter to me. That son of bitch was raping Olivia and I wasn't going to let him get away with that.

"He was on top of her—I grabbed a metal bar and—"

"He gave the son of a bitch what he deserved." I look up at hearing Fin's voice.

"He's right. You did what you had to do." Amaro chimes in.

"I wish I would've killed him." I admit. After I had stopped, I considered whether or not to do it again to ensure that he was dead. William Lewis being left alive didn't help anyone.

If only I could go back and kill him.

I know I wouldn't regret it if I did.

"Olivia Benson."

We all stand up and look over to the doctor whom was in scrubs, fresh out of surgery.

"She's going to pull through just fine. She's lucky. One of those stab wounds was just centimeters away from an artery." The doctor explains and I sighed in relief. "Now she a sprained wrist along with a bunch of burns so we'll be treating those and later we'll have to do a rape kit when she wakes up. I'll let you know when she is awake."

"She's going to be okay." Rollins repeats.

"Liv's a fighter. She'll be just fine." Amaro says.

It was good to know that she made it out of surgery, but I just wanted to get in there and see her. I wanted to see for myself that she is okay. Though I know mentally, she won't be okay after all she went through.

Olivia's POV

I slowly opened my eyes. I tried to sit up but stopped at feeling pain. I looked around the room and quickly realized that I was in the hospital. I never liked hospitals. I didn't have fond memories of them. But I knew arguing about my stay here won't be my choice at least for now. They will probably want to keep me overnight and of course, they still have yet to do a rape kit.

"Olivia, can you hear me?" I look over and see the female doctor. I remember her face somewhat from when I first came here.

"Yeah."

"You lost a lot of blood when you came in. Everything went fine in the O.R. Now I'm going to quickly check you over and then we can discuss treating those burns and doing a rape kit." The doctor tells me and I nodded.

I had been through this sort of thing before with victims. It felt strange being the victim rather than the detective, however.

She checks me over very quickly. Only a few things. She checked my eyes, heart, and stuff like that.

"Do what you need to do." I tell the doctor before she could start trying to explain what she would do. I knew what she would need to do for the burns and the rape kit. I also knew from experience with dealing with victims that it is better to get these things done as soon as possible.

"Okay, but before I start, you have some people out in the waiting room for you." She says and I look up at her. Who was here? "Someone people are more comfortable during this if they have someone with them."

"Who's here?" I ask.

"Um I think their names were Amaro, Fin, Rollins, and...Barbara?"

I felt the urge to laugh at that. But I resisted the urge and just amusingly grinned instead.

"Barba?" I questioned, to confirm.

"Yes, right."

"Can I see him?" I ask and she nods, leaving the room to go get him.

Barba.

That's suddenly when it came back to me.

I remember Lewis being on top of me. His hands were around my neck with his nails digging into me as I felt his penis inside me. It felt so disgusting and painful. It felt awful. I wanted to die. I wanted to be anywhere else. I wanted it to stop. I was ready for him to kill me.

But then I felt him getting out of me.

It still hurt everywhere, but I felt that he was no longer inside me.

I was turned over on my back as I continued to bleed and whimper in pain. I saw his face for only a couple seconds before I blacked out.

Barba.

Barba was there. He was at the beach house. Did he stop Lewis? He must have. I doubt Lewis would have gotten out of me so quickly. Barba saved me.

"Liv?" I look up at seeing Barba right at the door.

"Hi." I smiled and replied weakly at him.

"I'm glad you're okay." Barba says walking over to me and putting his hand on my shoulder. I tried—and managed—not to wince as I had couple of burns on my shoulders.

"Thanks to you." I say.

"It was—"

"You saved me." I say.

"He can't hurt you anymore, Liv." Barba says as he then squeezes my shoulder, causing me to let out a cry of pain. "Sorry." He says after his hand is jolted off me.

"It's okay." I tell him. It wasn't his fault. He couldn't see them and I know it's not his intent to hurt me; especially since he is the one whom saved my life.

"So when do you get to go home?" Barba asks.

"Well I assume they want to keep me overnight, so at least until the morning. And now they want to treat my burns and do a rape kit. The standard procedure." I tell Barba. I knew what had to happen, but in a way, I guess it hasn't completely sunk in that it's happening to me.

"I can come back—"

"No. Don't go." I say, but then look away out of embarrassment. Maybe I shouldn't have asked. I mean, it's not like he's my boyfriend or anything. I shouldn't have even thought about that. "Sorry. I just don't have fond memories of hospitals." I admit. I remember coming here frequently when I was younger and none of the trips, whether they were for my mom or myself, were fun.

"It's okay, Liv. I can stay with you if you want." Barba tells me.

"I'd like that." I say with my voice breaking a bit. I guess it was finally sinking in about what happened and what they are going to do to me.

The doctor came in shortly to start with treating my burns. I removed a part of my gown to which burns she would be treating. I felt Barba take my hand and I smiled a bit. But that quickly faded as she started to treat the burns. I shut my eyes tightly, squeezed his hand, and whimpered silently.

"You're okay, Liv. Everything's okay." I heard Barba whisper to me as he rubbed the back of my hand.

Barba stayed next to me and held my hand through the treatment of burns and then through most of the rape kit. Afterwards I just got my gown back on and got back into the bed. I wanted to shower, but I just wanted to sleep. I felt like I hadn't slept in a week.

"Get some sleep, Liv. You're safe now." I shut my eyes and hear Barba says, quickly falling back to sleep.

A/N: So here's the next chapter with a little bit of Barson cuteness. If you guys can, I'd love it you could check out my other story "I'll Protect You". Please don't forget to review.