A/N: Ok here's the next chapter. Updated sooner than I thought cause I was a little sneaky and wrote half of this at work. Ssshhh, don't tell ;)

Elliot walked over to his locker slamming his fist against it in frustration; it had taken the jury 2 hours to deliberate only to return with a not guilty verdict. He walked over to his desk fully intending to unleash some of his anger out on his partner. His fist balled when he noticed her absence. He glanced at his watch noticing that it had only just gone 6.30pm knowing that that was early for his partner to leave for the day. She probably wanted to get out of here before I returned, he thought bitterly. Not that he could blame her; if she had been around she would have been on the receiving end of his wrath.

He looked up to see the captain walk out of his office glancing at his wrist watch and then over to him.

"Stabler, where's your partner. She should be back by now." he grumbled marching over to where Elliot stood by his desk.

"How the Hell should I know. I just came from court"

"You mean you haven't spoken to her?"

Elliot shook his head and let a short sarcastic laugh. If only his captain knew that him, talking and Liv was an inconceivable thing at the moment.

"Olivia got a call from Lizzie asking her to come pick her up from the mall. Olivia took off from here almost two hours ago," Cragen explained again looking down at his watch.

Elliot quickly whipped out his cell phone cursing himself for turning it off for court instead of putting it on silent. He turned it back on only to receive a message letting him know that he had fifteen missed calls from his youngest daughter and two voice messages from Olivia. He dialled the number to retrieve his messages and listened to the voice of the woman who was putting him through hell.



"Hey El it's me. Look I got a call from Lizzie. She's uh, stuck out at some mall in Queens, I'm on my way out there now. I'll swing by your place to drop her off if no one is home I'll just bring her back to the station. Ok. See ya."

Elliot could hear the hesitation in her voice as she spoke and hated that something as simple as leaving a voice message caused her such angst. Her second call was nothing but a short hostile message filled with curses as to why he was not answering his phone. He couldn't help but smile at the filthy words that exploded from her beautiful mouth.

He hit speed dial 1 on his phone and waited patiently for her to pick up; it rang for a good minute before eventually going to her voice mail. He left a quick message thanking her for picking up Lizzie and that it would be fine to bring her back to the station. He sat down at his desk and made himself busy as he waited for Olivia and his daughter to arrive.

An hour and a half later Elliot glanced at his cell phone to see if he had missed any calls. He was surprised that Olivia and Lizzie still had not shown up at the precinct. He cocked his head to the side wondering what could have happened to them. He had spoken briefly to Kathy last night and she had explained that she would be in surgery all afternoon there for allowing Lizzie to spend the afternoon and early evening with her friends, Dickie was to be spending the night at a friend's place and little Eli was going to be with Kathy's mother. He thought for a moment before dialling the number of his one time home. It rang three times before it was answered.

"Hello?"

"Hey Kathy, it's me. Is Lizzie there?" Elliot asked stretching one arm up above his head.

"No I told you she is at a friend's, I'm about to go pick her up now" Kathy was frustrated that he could not remember something as simple as one of his child's plans.

"Are you sure she is there? Liv apparently got a call to go pick her up at the mall when Lizzie couldn't get a hold of me or you"

"Look I'll call you back. Let me just call her friend and see what is going on."

Kathy hung up the phone and Elliot patiently waited for her return call, he wasn't worried about Lizzie knowing that if she was with Olivia she would be in safe hands, what he was worried about was having to thank Olivia for helping out his family once again knowing that she would probably throw any apology he gave her back in his face. He let out a frustrated puff of air and decided to call Olivia's home phone thinking that she may have taken her there for him to collect her from. He quickly dialled the number. It rang only a handful of times before her answering machine picked up letting him know she was not there.



He was about to try her cell again when it rang. He looked at the screen to see that it was Kathy calling him back.

"Hey, was she there?"

"No Elliot she wasn't. Apparently the girls all got in a fight and they left Lizzie buy herself in the mall. Look Elliot, I'm really worried." Kathy's voice wavered as she explained what she had just learned from her daughters so called best friend.

"I'm sure she's fine. She's with Olivia, maybe Olivia took her out to try and cheer her up"

"Well Elliot I'm not exactly happy that my daughter is running around town with your mistress" Kathy huffed.

Elliot could feel his blood start to boil at the mention of him and Olivia sleeping together. He has heard about it for years from not only his wife but also fellow cops and it was starting to wear thin.

"I already told you I'm not sleeping with Liv, ok. I was spending a few nights there and nothing ever happened" he seethed down the line.

"Whatever Elliot. Find my daughter and get her home right now!"

Before he had a chance to correct her by saying 'our' daughter she had slammed the phone down. He was just about to call her back when Cragen came out of his office with a concerned look on his face. Elliot snapped his phone closed and walked over to his captain.

"Cap what's the matter?"

"I just got a call from the 2-4. Seems a patrol car just found Olivia's car abandoned down by the Hudson River piers," Elliot felt his head instantly start pounding into what he knew would turn into a stress induced migraine, "her purse and cell phone where in the car. So was your daughters."

Elliot felt his knees start to buckle at what his captain was telling him. He had always mentally tried to prepare himself for the day when something would happen to Olivia. He had come close to losing her with Gitano but that was different from this. He was with her when that happened almost as if his being there had prevented her death. Him not with her when she needed him most chilled him to the core. And worst of all was his baby girl. Over the years he had played out the scenario of how he would react when a police officer knocked on his door to deliver bad news like he had done so many times in the past but in all his visualizations he had never gotten past the words spoken by said officer as to how he would react. He could feel everything closing in around him. His Lizzie and his Liv. Gone. In trouble. Together.

"Lizzie's with Liv. Liv would never let anything happen to her" Elliot mumbled.

Cragen looked towards Munch and Fin who had heard the whole thing, worry now etched on their faces.

"We have a CSU team heading to the mall and the pier. There are cameras at the mall, they should shed some light on something" Cragen said placing a gentle hand on Elliot's shoulder.



"Liv would never let anyone hurt Liz. Never. Never." Elliot muttered lost in his own distraught world.

Cragen knew he had no hope of getting Elliot to think clearly so he left him to console himself with his own reassurances of Olivia's dedication to the Stabler family. He turned to Munch, Fin and Lake and orded them to the crime scene and mall telling them not to return until they had answers.

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Olivia looked around the damp and darkened room. She tried to sit up but soon realised that she was handcuffed to a pole in the middle of a large empty room. She tried to gather her thoughts as to how she ended up there. Man with knife, trunk, phone call...Oh my God Lizzie. She looked around frantically for Lizzie her heart beating wildly in her chest. She hated herself for falling asleep and losing sight of her. As much as she tried to prevent it tears started to fall from her eyes. She had lost Elliot's daughter. She had failed him. How would she ever face him again knowing that she was the cause of his missing daughter? Olivia started to sob hard as her tears rained down her face. God, please if something has happened to her just let me die too. In all the shitty situations Olivia had been in she had never wished for her own death but there was no way she wanted to be alive if that meant having to tell the man she loved that she was the cause of his child's death.

Her sobs where interrupted by the screech of n opening door. Light flooded in causing her to squint against the bright intrusion. Her heart thumped rapidly at what she saw.

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