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Cragen heard munch and fin return. It was hard not to hear them, the sound of their bickering had filled the squadroom. He wasn't sure what they were bickering about and he knew it was probably over something as minor as whose turn it was to buy the coffee, but he could see that they were taking their obvious frustration out on each other.

'that's enough'

the bickering stopped and they turned to look at their boss, they knew the argument was petty but while the were taking their frustration out on it they were distracted from what they had spent the day doing, trying to track down the man who had hurt their friend.

'we went to the bar, last night bartender wasn't in and they didn't have an address for him, we are gonna head back later and try and catch him. The owner did say they had had some complaints about a guy hanging out there harassing female customers, gave us a description but he wasn't in last night, couldn't tell us if he had been in.' Munch was clearly frustrated that they hadn't got anything more.

'the description did match the one Olivia gave of the guy she blew off, we'll see if the bartender can give us anything else, see if this is the same guy'

'Anything from the canvas?'

It was Fins turn to report the rest of the mostly fruitless day 'no one saw anything, no one heard anything, if anyone did they are not telling us anything. There was a couple of people not home, we'll hit them again tomorrow'

'well Warner called while you were out, she got the kit, she's waiting for you guys'

When Melinda had got the kit that morning she had had to sit down, The name on the kit was staring at her, the patrol officer who had handed it to her had confirmed her fears. She had signed for it, and the officer had left, and after she had stared at it for a good 10 minutes she had stood up and opened it.

She wasn't sure what she had felt when she had started running the samples, she had done it on autopilot, after all these procedures were second nature to her. But now the processing was done she had to stop and her emotions had got the better of her. She had known Olivia for many years now, it was funny how close you could become to people you worked with, even if you never saw them out of work. Given time to think about the implications of the tests she had run she had suddenly felt sick to her stomach, she left the lab and headed to the breakroom, grabbing a bottle of cold water from the fridge. It was there that Munch and Fin found her.

'Hey, we heard you had something?'

'How's Olivia?' Melinda looked at the two detectives, she could see the tension in their faces.

'she's good, I mean at least I think so, she went home, Eliot is with her' Munch shared what little he actually knew about how she was, being asked the question had made him realise he wasn't actually all that sure how she was doing. He remembered the look on her face when he had asked her to repeat her story, to keep going over the details, he had pushed her, and he knew that was his job and that she really needed him to do his job, but still he felt a sort of guilt.

Melinda had got up and was heading to the lab, 'well when you find him I have what you need to nail him, he didn't use a condom'

The detectives looked at each other, these days it was rare to find a perp stupid enough to leave DNA behind, it happened sometimes though, first timers, or cocky ones who just assumed they wouldn't get caught, or the ones who didn't think they had done anything wrong.

'I also got a hit to an open case, another rape, 2 months ago, it's being handled by a detective Bonesera'

'thanks doc'

'when you see her, tell her……..well just tell her I'm here'

She didn't need to say anymore, she wasn't sure there was anything else to say. She realised how much she was hoping they would catch the guy, she always wanted them to catch the guy but this time, this time it was different.