A/N; Hello all, thank you so much for all of your kind words. With school starting back up I'm not sure as to when I can update, but I will update as much as is possible. Thank you to all my loyal reviewers, and to my readers (even if you don't review) I thank you, and hope you are enjoying this story. As always if there is something you want to see in the story let me know and I will try to fit it in there. As I have told my many reviewers who have asked for EO, it will come, but first Olivia must over come the sexual assault, and the kidnap she endured. This is an EO story, and Elliot helping Olivia through this time will lead down the road of EO. Oh Tanner is not a real place, I made it up, so just go with it. : )
Previously;
Elliot entered the drivers side of the van and looked at Olivia.
"Do you have any clue as to where we are?" He asked.
She shook her head and said, "Why don't you go back in there and look for a phone or something that the squad can trace and then they can tell us how to get out of here. He has to have our cell phones some where."
Always the rational one, Elliot did as she instructed. He looked all through the house, and found one land line. Picking it up he found it dead and cursed under his breath. Going back into that horrid room, he looked again through Jim's pockets. Not finding anything he went back to the van.
"Anything?" She asked.
"Nadda." He replied. "Were just going to have to drive until we hit something.
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After choosing a way to go, and going that way, Elliot settled into the van and just drove. They appeared to be in a mountain road. At least it appeared to be very deserted, with no buildings anywhere. Just a narrow dirt road, that winds and curves, at dangerously steep turns. Somewhere in the long drive Olivia fell asleep, and Elliot kept quiet, letting her get her much needed rest. Soon, after about an hour and a half in the car, Elliot though they were getting close to a town. After a little longer he saw a gas station and decided to stop. After pulling over, Elliot glanced at Olivia, finding her still asleep he locked the doors and went into the station.
"You don't look so well, sir." The attendant, an older, short, and slightly overweight man, said.
"Well I've been through hell." Elliot replied. "Where are we?"
"Tanner sir, would you like some coffee?"
"I don't have any money, but thank you, where is Tanner?" Elliot responded.
"On the house, and most people don't know about this place. We are way out of New York. Up in the mountains. Where ya headed?"
"Manhattan"
"Manhattan eh? You are way out of your home district." The attendant said with a laugh that rumbled out of his stomach. "Go this way for about another hour, then you will se signs that will take you to the freeway. Get on south, and you'll get there eventually."
"Alri…" Elliot was cut off by the sound of a door slamming. He looked outside and saw Olivia's retreating form. Elliot took off out of the gas station and ran after her.
"Olivia STOP. Where are you going." Elliot shouted at her. She just kept running. With it still being night, once she was out of the station's parking lot, she was running blind, with only the dim light of the moon. Not realizing that there was a hill, Olivia tripped and tumbled down the hill. Elliot caught up to her and looked her over, she didn't appear to have any external injuries.
"Please… Please don't hurt me…Just let me go… I wont tell… I promise, just let me go." Olivia pleaded with tears in her eyes.
"Shh Liv, its me, Elliot, I'm not gonna hurt you, I promise." He comforted.
"Please let me go." She whimpered.
"Shh, its ok Liv, come on." Elliot gently lifted her up and went back to the station. He walked inside. The attendant gave him a strange look.
"Is she alright?" The attendant asked.
"No, where is the nearest hospital?"
"Go the same way, just keep going until you see it on your left."
"Thanks" Elliot said and put her in the van.
"Where are we going?" Olivia asked.
"To a hospital, your going to be ok."
"Ok." Olivia replied, as she closed her eyes.
"Please don't be too hurt, just hold on until we get there, Liv. Please" Elliot pleaded to himself as he speed to the hospital.
After about 20 minuets he reached the hospital. Carrying her inside, Elliot flagged down a nurse.
"What happened, put her here." The nurse said pointing to a stretcher.
"We were kidnapped. We are detectives. You need to do a rape kit. I think she was beaten, please help her. Her name is Olivia Benson" Elliot said. The nurse nodded and rushed Olivia off into a room, telling him to wait here. Elliot went to the nurse's station.
"Excuse me. What hospital is this?" He asked.
"Tanner Fairland Medical Center." She said.
"Would you mind if I used your phone?"
"Here."
"Cragen"
"Cap, its Elliot."
"Oh my god! Are you two alright? Where are you, we'll come and get you." Cragen exclaimed.
"I'm alright. Were at Tanner Fairland Medical Center. Olivia is in there, and I don't know what is wrong with her. She went crazy, thought I was Jim trying to hurt her, and ran, after we got away from Jim. He is dead, in the house he kept us in. I'll tell local PD what happened. Just can you send the local PD out here, I don't know where we are at, in some town named Tanner. Its way out here." Elliot explained.
"Done. We will be there soon, Elliot. I'll bring you guys some supplies."
With that the phone call was ended, and Elliot sat to wait.
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As promised, Cragen sent out the local PD and Elliot recounted the story to them. They went to investigate, leaving Elliot to wait. After that a nurse came out to check on Elliot.
"Sir, do you need medical attention?" She asked.
"No, how is Olivia?"
"She is doing alright, the doctor is in with her now. Please let me look at you to make sure you are ok."
"No just go help Olivia."
"There is nothing I can do for her. I have no other patients, just let me look at you, so I can do something." The nurse asked, hoping to appeal to his pity.
"Alright fine. But I'm telling you, I am ok."
They took Elliot into a room and looked him over. After a few X-Rays they told him he was fine. Other than his dislocated shoulder, which they relocated and put in a sling, and they let him rest in the room waiting for news on Olivia. The nurse promised that she would tell the doter that he was in there, so the doctor wouldn't go looking for him in the waiting room. After a few hours a doctor walked in. Elliot held his breath as he looked at the doctor that couldn't have been in this field very long. He looked way too young.
"Mr. Stabler. Mrs. Benson is in critical care. Her rape kit was negative, but she sustained many blows to the head and abdominal area's. She had bleeding in the abdomen. We put her in surgery and stopped that. The blows to the head caused her brain to swell, but luckily there was no bleeding there. We relieved some of the pressure. There is nothing more we can do for her. The rest of her body is fine. But with how bad the swelling was, the injury is a few days old. It was slow going. But because of the extent of the swelling, we have no way of knowing when she will wake up, and what her memory will be like when and if she does." The doctor explained.
"Wake up? When and if? She… what… no, she was fine… but…no" Elliot stuttered, and then fell to the floor, on his knees. His brain flew out the window, his thinking capability gone.
"Elliot she will be ok. She is a fighter." Fin's voice shocked Elliot.
"Fin? Doctor, can I see her." Elliot began to regain his composure, and started thinking again.
"Of course, but I must insist on one or two people at a time only."
Elliot's look of confusion was apparent on his face. The doctor noticed this and nodded his head behind the detective. Elliot turned around and his jaw hit the floor. There stood everybody, Fin, Munch, Cragen, Alex, Melinda, and even Ryan (yes the tec guy, NOT DEAD in my story lol : ) He is too cute to die.) Elliot was shocked to see everybody here, and everybody was carrying flowers and cards. There was even a few uniforms that he didn't recognize. But at the moment questions would be best saved for later. Elliot took off following the doctor, with Fin following him.
Elliot slowly entered the room Olivia was in. He stopped in the door way, and just looked. She was hooked up to a respirator, various IV's hung from two polls, and there was a cranial drainage tube hooked up to her head, and a catheter hooked up to her bladder. She was pale. Elliot thought she looked so broken. He sat by her bed and held her hand. Elliot zoned out as everybody came and went, giving their gifts, reassuring words to both Elliot and Olivia, and leaving to get back to work. Cragen came in last, and stayed to talk to Elliot. He told him where the local PD was, what they were doing. He told Elliot that the uniforms he brought were here to assist, because they didn't have the man power for a case of this intensity, and Cragen only trusted the best for Olivia. He told Elliot he talked to the doctor, and he was uncomfortable letting her transfer to a closer hospital so soon after admission, but if she stays stable in a few days he will transfer her by helicopter, only in transition less than an hour. Elliot tried his hardest to listen, but he was fried. He hadn't slept since Olivia went missing, and he knew he wasn't going to sleep until he knows she is going to be alright. If she wakes up he is going to be there for her. Cragen knew this so all that he told Elliot he had wrote down, and gave Elliot the note, telling him to read it when his head was clear. He nodded, and Cragen said his goodbyes.
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After two days the doctor cleared Olivia for transfer to the hospital in Manhattan. Elliot was both relieved and worried. The doctor explained the risks, but he strongly believed that Olivia would make it through it. And after all it was less than an hour. Once in Manhattan Elliot was relieved that the flight went smoothly. He resumed what he had been doing the last two days, sitting by her bed, waiting for her to awaken.
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A week had gone by. Nurses came and went, doctors came and went, but one thing remained constant. Elliot. He was always by her side. The hospital staff knew him by name, and after one night of sleeping in the chair, the nurses brought in a bed for Elliot. He was grateful. They would bring him coffee, and meals. They made sure he ate. Otherwise he would go all day without food. Olivia stirred in her sleep on occasion. This kept Elliot hopeful. He would say it was her trying to wake up. The doctors remained optimistic. Elliot hadn't been home since he was kidnapped. He would still be in the same clothes if it weren't for Cragen and the gang. They brought him clothes. Elliot had given his statement many times. Tanner PD talked to him again after he got back to Manhattan. Elliot got sick of repeating his statement over and over again, so he wrote it and just copied it for everybody who needed it. The rest of the time he just waited. Everybody was worried about him, he didn't talk to anybody, and he didn't move from her side at all. Everybody knew if Olivia didn't make it, if she dies, then Elliot would die right there with her, clinging onto her had at her bedside.
A/N: Hope you liked it. Does that ending qualify as a cliffhanger? IDK you tell me in your review : ) Well this story is progressing nicely I think. Its already chapter 10. That makes me happy. Anyway like I said before I don't know when I will be able to update again, but rest assured I will not forget about this story, I still have soo much planed for it. I hope you review, keep reminding me I have an unfinished story to compleate LOL : )
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