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Elliot, Kathleen, Olivia and Jason sat in the living room of Kathleen's apartment. Olivia was sitting on one side of Kathleen and Jason on the other, with Elliot across from them.

"Jason I love you can you please forgive me?" Kathleen pleaded.

"Baby none of this is your fault." He said holding her in his arms. He looked over at Elliot. "Please tell me you already have this asshole in custody. Because I will find him and I will kill him."

"We don't… but trust me we will find him and this will not be taken lightly. This is my baby. She is my little girl. And I will not let this guy get away with this. I promise you both." Elliot said getting choked up.

"Jason I think that the best thing right now is that Kathleen is surrounded by people who love her and that she is secure and safe." Olivia said also getting a little choked up.

"She will always be loved and she will always be safe with me. And from now on she will always be protected." Jason replied quickly.

"Kathleen we have to go to the precinct later and we are going to need you to come down there. We need you to fill out some papers and make a couple statements and things like that. Do you want us to call you?"

"Can we do it later? Like tonight I just want to sleep. I don't want to do anything but sleep right now."

"That's fine honey you go sleep and we will make sure that everything is taken care of as much as we can. When you wake up Jason can call us and we can all go up to the precinct together."

Kathleen nodded, got up, and started to walk to her bedroom. "Thank you, for everything you have done Olivia."

Olivia got up from her seat. She walked over to Kathleen and wrapped her in a hug. "Baby there is nothing that you have to thank me for." Tears began to fall from Olivia's eyes. "I would never have let you go through any of that alone. I love you and you remember that."

Kathleen began to sob. "I love you too Olivia." She said through her tears.

"You go ahead and go to bed and I will see you later." Olivia said pulling away from the hug. She wiped her face and kissed Kathleen on her forehead.

XXX

The car ride home was brutal; Olivia knew that Elliot was angry that she lied to him. She also knew that he was going to explode.

The silence was finally too much for her. "Please if you are going to yell and explode I would like to take it now." She said breaking the ice.

Elliot just drove. He remained soundless.

"Elliot did you hear me? I know that you are pissed at me and you have every right to be. I am so sorry. I know that I deserve it. I really do."

Elliot just stared out the windshield. No movement. No sound.

"Elliot please…. Talk to me." Olivia pleaded.

Finally, she realized that Elliot wasn't going to talk to her. Tears filled her eyes. She wasn't going to give him the satisfaction that it upset her. She turned and looked out the window. That's when she noticed that Elliot wasn't going home.

"Where are we going?" she questioned.

Still he just drove.

She gave up, she just waited.

He would never hurt me…. I have nothing to be afraid of; I know I am safe. I just wish he would talk to me. Even if he yelled at me. Even if he told me he didn't want to be with me anymore. At least if that happened he would no longer be ignoring me. I take that back…. I couldn't handle him leaving me. What if because I lied to him about Kathleen he does leave me? Then what will I do? Maybe I am just over thinking this. I think that it will all be fine.

Just then, Elliot parked the car. They were at a beach.

Why are we here?

"Get out!" he said angrily.

Olivia did as she was told. She opened the door and climbed out. She shut the door behind her and took a couple steps back.

Elliot just sat there in the car. It was still running.

Great what is he going to do leave his pregnant fiancé? Alone? With no idea where I am?

After a few minutes, Elliot shut the car off and climbed out, slamming the door behind him. He walked past Olivia and straight to the sand. Once there he just sat down and looked out at the water.

Olivia was confused. She didn't know whether she should go talk to him or let him think to himself for a while. She just watched from a distance.

The waves danced on the shore as if something from a movie it was incredible. If Elliot and her were talking this might be romantic. The sun was just rising. It was about 7:30 in the morning. She wanted to go snuggle with her soon to be husband, but she knew that there was going to be a fight. She knew that this was not what he brought her here for. She wasn't sure of the real reason but she knew that he didn't bring her here to watch the sunrise.

After about 15 minutes of letting him calm down she couldn't take it anymore. She walked over to him and sat down.

"Are we talking yet?" she asked.

"I'm sorry Olivia. I shouldn't have ignored you like that. I should have at least told you where we were going."

"I'm the one who should be sorry Elliot. I shouldn't have lied to you at the house. I should have told you that I had to take Kathleen to the hospital. But she told me that if I told you then she wouldn't go and I was more concerned about getting her there and getting the rape kit done than I was about anything else. I should have told you and I know that. I know that I should have been woman enough to tell you that your daughter needed help. But all that was running through my mind was I had to help her. She came to me. She asked me for help. I wanted to tell you Elliot. I wanted to let you know that she needed you but I had to get her seen before she changed her mind."

"Olivia, stop. I'm not mad at you. I don't want an explanation. I don't need you to tell me that you wanted to tell me. What I need is for you to follow your own damn rules. You said no secrets; that was your rule Olivia. And then you completely contradict yourself. When it is most important. I know why you did it. I do and it makes sense that you would. But Olivia that is my little girl. I have been there her entire life. And now she goes to you with this and tells you not to tell me. She told you not to tell me and that makes me more upset than the fact that you listened to her. I mean she was daddy's little girl. She is my everything. I just don't know what I would do without all of my kids. I would take a bullet for each and every one of them if it meant that they would be safe and happy for just 5 seconds. I don't know why she felt like she couldn't come to me with this. I mean this is not only my daughter but also my job. My job as a detective and my job as her father."

"Maybe that is the problem El. You put your job first."

He shot her a quick look. A look that she knew meant that it struck a nerve. Elliot had always been all about his children but he tries to be too much of a detective when dealing with his personal life.

"I didn't mean it like that Elliot. All I meant was that you don't deal with this stuff like a father you deal with it like a cop. She didn't need a cop today she needed a parent."

Elliot looked down at his hands. He knew she was right. He did act more like a cop with his personal life than he really should. He loved his kids so much that he just wanted them to be safe. And being a cop, he knew that they would be safe. And that was all he knew. That was all he wanted safety. And security. And he knew that he could provide that. He didn't want to be like his father and that is exactly what he was doing. Working all the time and not knowing how to be a father. Just a cop.

"All I ever wanted was for my kids to have the father I never had. I wanted them to be safe. I wanted them to have better than what I had." He said in a soft voice.

"And they already do." She said wrapping her arm around him and leaning her head on his shoulder.

"Liv. I love you." He wrapped his arm around her.

"I love you too. And I promise never to lie to you again."

Elliot looked at her sweet loving eyes, he couldn't be mad at her. He kissed her head and leaned his cheek against her head.

They looked out at the sunrise and waves bouncing on the shore.

"Why are we here?" Olivia said breaking the silence.

"This is where we were when I found out that Kathy was pregnant with Kathleen. We were here with Maureen. Watching her play. And that's when Kathy told me."

"She is still your baby Elliot. She is still that little girl that you held in the hospital. And the same little girl that you had to take to soccer practice. She is still the little girl that needs her daddy Elliot. She just doesn't want you to look at her different. She wants to be that little girl again."

"Why did she go to you? Why didn't she go to me or Kathy?" Elliot asked sadly.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Olivia got defensive.

"I didn't mean it like that and you know it. I meant was it something that we did that made her not talk to us?"

"She needed someone who was going to listen to her, not feel sorry for her. And not to police her. But someone who would listen to her. And that is why she came to me. It wasn't because she doesn't love you. She loves you more than anything, Elliot you are her father. I believe that she came to the house to talk to you but when she seen you she got scared. I know that she would have told you I just think that she didn't want you to be disappointed in her. And I know how she feels. Think about it, it took me 5 years to tell you what happened to me. She was raped Elliot. That was scary enough but then to have to tell you…." Olivia stopped.

"What is so hard about talking to me?" Elliot asked exasperated.

"You are the only person who cared about me. You are the only one that I didn't want to find out that I wasn't as strong as I acted. I couldn't have lost you because I was weak I loved you too much. I know it doesn't make sense. But to me it made more sense to keep the strong bad ass Benson face, rather than the helpless and defenseless face. So that is what I did. And now I wish I would have told you. I wish I would have had your support through the whole thing. That is why I told her that it was important to tell you from the beginning. Elliot I know what it is like to go through it all alone. I mean I went and sought help but it would have been better if it was you. Casey was there. And she was wonderful through it all but it wasn't the same. I needed you. I wanted you. I loved you and I was afraid to tell you because you were still with Kathy. That is another thing I couldn't have told you and had you worried about me when you had Kathy and the kids you had to take care of and all the problems you were having. I wouldn't have done that to you. Elliot I don't think that you realized what I went through loving you while you were married. There were nights that I would cry because I wanted to be with you and you were at home with your wife. I couldn't handle it that is why I shut you out. That is why when all that stuff happened to me I couldn't tell you. I know what she is going through Elliot that is why I told her that it was important to tell you."

Elliot looked at his fiancé. He saw the sincerity in her eyes. The truth that she was telling. "You don't have to go through that anymore. You have me now. And I'm not going anywhere."

With that said, they sat there, watching the sunrise into the morning sky.

XXX

Elliot and Olivia walked into the squad room, and made their way to their desks. As soon as they sat down, Munch walked over and laid a piece of paper on Elliot's desk. Elliot picked it up and started reading it.

"Are you fuckin kidding me?" Elliot blurts out.

"What?" Olivia asked quickly.

"Which room?" Elliot asked completely ignoring Olivia.

"I can't tell you that Elliot. I just thought that I would let you know. Man to man. Friend to friend."

Elliot stood up, paper still in his hand. "John, please." Elliot pleaded. "Which room?"

"Benson, Stabler my office now," Don said stepping out of his office interrupting before Munch could answer.

Olivia and Elliot walk into Don's office and shut the door.

Don is sitting at his desk. His old and tired face looked sad and full of sympathy. "Sit down, please." He said motioning to the unoccupied seats in front of his desk.

They both did as was asked of them.

"I hope you both understand what kind of trouble I could get in for this," he started, "but given the situation I don't give a rat's ass. We found the guy."

Right away both Elliot and Olivia knew exactly what he was talking about.

"We have him in custody. Olivia, me and you will be doing the questioning. Fin and Munch will be in here with Elliot."

Right away Elliot interrupted, "captain,"

But Don didn't let him finish, "no Elliot!" he exclaimed. "Shut up and listen. Me and Olivia will be doing the questioning. You will be in here with Fin and Munch. If you so much as breathe out that doorway, I will see to it that you never carry a badge again. Do you understand me?"

"I don't care I will hand it to you now if that means I get three seconds in there with that asshole."

Elliot stood up and turned toward the door.

"Elliot sit down!" Don said raising his voice.

Elliot turned. "Don look, I know that this is hard for you to understand, you have never had to be put in this situation, but if you think that there is anyway in hell that I am going to let you and her go in there with that son of a bitch and not do a damn thing about it then you are sadly mistaken. I am going to go in there and I am going to kill that fuckin bastard. He raped my little girl. He took something from her that she will never get back. And now there he is nothing but a wall between us and you won't let me go in there. You won't let me protect my little girl. My baby. Don please let me go in there please."

"Elliot you have another child on the way, if you go in there you will come out in cuffs. You know it, I know it and Olivia knows it. Is that what you want for this baby? Do you want Olivia to do it on her own?"

Elliot took a deep breath.

"Elliot do you trust me?" Olivia asked standing and walking over to him. She grabbed his hands in her own.

He was breathing heavily trying to fight the tears that were rolling down his face.

"Baby do you trust me?" she asked squeezing his hands tight.

"With my life." He answered.

"Then let me go in there."

"I want to go in there. I want to be the one who makes this bastard pay. I want to do it."

"I know you do Elliot but if you go in there you will do something you will regret later in life and that is what we are trying to avoid."

"I don't care I want to go in there."

Olivia moved his hands to her belly. "That right there. That is why we don't want you to go in there. We know that you will not control yourself. Baby I don't want anything bad to happen and I know that it will if you go in there. Please let me handle it."

"Olivia, don't make this out like I want to go to jail. I don't want that, I just want that asshole in there brought to justice."

"And he will be. We caught him in the act, baby, he will not walk away from this. And when the DNA comes back we will have him for Kathleen too."

"Ok I will stay in here, but I will not be babysat." He said looking at Don.

"Elliot we are not going to have you babysat. As the arresting officers Fin and Munch need to watch the interrogation."

A/N: sorry that this is so late I know for as short as this chapter is I should have had it up in no time but life happens and when that occurs there is little that can be done I will try to update more regularly and make longer chapters….. up next is the interrogation…. How do you think that it will go….. well you know the drill reviews keep the story going….. thank you for reading and please review