Hi, I'm back! I know it has been forever but I hate unfinished stories so since I have some free time now I thought I would try and gett his finally finished!

Olivia sat opposite Eliot, pushing the eggs around her plate. She was aware he was watching her so she made a feeble attempt to eat the breakfast in front of her, but noticing his plate was no less empty than hers she gave up the pretence and put her fork down.

'no point in pretending, I can't eat right now'

For once she didn't get a lecture from her partner, 'more coffee?'

'thanks'

Eliot motioned for more coffee, and Olivia decided to broach the subject she knew was eating away at him.

'you know this is not your fault right?'

He looked up at her, she was struggling to bear the pain she saw in his eyes.

'I'm a grown woman, and I walk home alone every night. I wouldn't have it any other way and you know that.'

He knew she was right, but at this moment it didn't make him feel all that better, he didn't know if anything she said, no matter how true, would ever take away the guilt he felt for leaving her alone in that bar.

She finished her third cup of coffee and the waitress cleared their plates.

'I'm ready'

She wasn't sure how ready she really was but staying her and drinking her body weight in coffee wouldn't make what she had to do any easier, and she had a feeling the caffeine really wasn't helping her headache, which was starting again. She made a mental note to grab a couple of motrin, and avoid any of munchs coffee once they got back.

Eliot placed a couple of bills down, Olivia didn't even bother to try and pay, and they both got up. The walk back was spent mostly in silence, both of them not quite sure what to say, but knowing that neither really needed to say anything.

They entered the squadroom and Munch and Fin stood up, Olivia couldn't help smirk a little, they really were quite the double act. But she suddenly felt guilty looking at the look of devastation on both their faces, had she done that to them?

'Olivia'

Munch was the first to break the awkward silence, without saying anything else he walked over to her and hugged her. Eliot watched aware of his own internal debate about whether he should hug her and almost jealous of the fact that it came so easily to Munch, there was no awkwardness there, he held her and she let him. He pulled away and gave Eliot a pat on the back.

'What can we do?'

It was time for Fin speak up.

'your job, then I can go sleep, I have a killer headache' She hoped the joking tone might ease some of the obvious discomfort in the room.

She wondered if the more she repeated the story the easier it would get, but right now it wasn't getting any easier. As she sat reciting the story to John and Fin she felt almost switched off, she was reciting the facts but all she could think about was how they were handling it. She knew it was illogical, she should be thinking about herself, but more than the pain she was feeling, she was hating herself for inflicting this pain onto others.

Over an hour later and they had got all they could get out of her, she had tried, and hadn't objected to the repeated questioning but she simply couldn't tell them any more. She signed the bottom of her statement, and promised them they would be the first to hear if she remembered anything else. The events of the last 12 hours were starting to take their toll, the headache was back with a fury and she knew she needed to at least try and get some sleep. Eliot took her home, she hadn't needed to ask and neither had he, it was just natural.

He had walked her up to her apartment and gone in with her, she hadn't bothered trying to convince him to go home and sleep himself, instead she took a comforter out of the closet, told him she was gonna try and sleep for a bit and told him he should to, leaving the comforter on the sofa. He was glad she had accepted his continued presence, he didn't want to fight her but knew he wouldn't be able to rest at his place knowing she was at home alone. He watched her go into her room, and he took a seat on her sofa, he was hoping she would sleep but he didn't know if she would, so he settled himself and prepared himself to be there if she needed him.