Hey Everyone! I'm SO sorry I haven't updated in SO long, I just had to deal with moving, and with that and school I have been extremely busy, so I haven't been able to update, but I've finally got an update for you guys! I've already got a couple chapters written, I just have to type em' up and all so I'll be updating soon I PROMISE! I'm all moved now so I won't be crazy busy anymore! So, review it, let me know what you think!

Olivia was early today, even earlier than Elliot. She was still in a good mood, despite her pessimistic thoughts last night. She sat at her desk doing some paperwork that had piled up on her desk. She felt her phone vibrate, she looked at her phone, she had a text message… from Elliot. Her heart jumped.

Elliot doesn't text, why the hell is he texting me? She thought.

"Hey Liv, won't be coming in until later, meeting the Kathy & Lawyers" the text message read.

He's meeting with Kathy and the Lawyers today? Does that mean this is really happening? They are actually going through with it? Should I say something back to him? What would I say? No, I'll just ask him how things went when I see him later.

Cragen came out of his office

"Fin you're with Olivia for the morning, you two go see Warner, she's got something for you about the open case with the dumpster boy."

"Let's go" Fin said to Olivia.

They walked in and saw Melinda standing there waiting for them.

"So what've you got for us?" Fin asked Melinda

"Do you have an ID on the boy?" Olivia questioned eagerly.

"Not exactly, but I do have something that I think will help you with that" Melinda answered.

"Alright, let's hear it" Olivia said

"Well I was looking at an X-ray and I noticed something I didn't see at first." Melinda picked up a specimen jar with a metal object in it.

"This was in his shoulder" Melinda said

"What's that?" Fin asked.

"It's a surgical pin" Melinda said

"So?" Olivia said skeptically

"Well every surgical pin has a serial number in case of a recall. It should give us a name and what hospital it came from"

"So, you do have a name." Olivia said

"Yes, the name listed is Johnny Smith, but I have my doubts that's his actual name, it could have just been the name whoever was with him gave to the hospital." Melinda said

"Sure sounds like a fake name to me." Fin said.

"But, why would someone lie about their name? I mean I get if it's a criminal, or a con artist, but he's just a kid."

"The person he was with at the hospital could have been an abuser, or a criminal, it could have been anyone, so it's not like the child was lying, whoever he was with would have been talking to the hospital, I checked with the hospital before you both got here, they told me that they collected very little information on the boy because it was emergency surgery, and after the boy was out of surgery he disappeared from the hospital."

"Which hospital was it?" Olivia asked

"Roosevelt" Melinda answered

"Let's go see if there's anyone who can tell us anything about him at the hospital" Olivia said to Fin.

Olivia and Fin pulled up outside the hospital and got out of the car.

"So where's you're partner today" Fin asked Olivia

"He had some stuff he had to take care of, I'm pretty sure he'll be in later though." Olivia said with a slight grin.

"Some stuff huh?" Fin replied

Olivia just gave him a look, as they walked through the hospital doors.

They walked up to the desk

"Hi I'm detective Benson, this is my partner detective Tutuola, we have a few questions about a boy who received surgery here, do you recognize this boy?" Olivia asked the nurse sitting behind the desk, showing her a picture of the boy.

"Can't say I do" the nurse replied.

"What information can you give us from this?" Olivia asked holding up the jar with the surgical pin in it.

"What's that?" the nurse asked

"It's a surgical pin, out ME said you could get some info from its serial number or something" Fin said to the nurse.

"Uhm, wait here" the nurse said as she walked away taking the jar with her.

They stood around for about 20 minutes before someone came out with some papers and the jar. It was not the same nurse.

"Detectives, here is all the information about the patient and that surgical pin." The woman said handing Olivia a folder.

"Thanks" Olivia said glancing over the papers.

"It says here that a Dr. Nathan was the attending, could we speak with him?" Olivia asked

"Let me check to see if he's working today." The nurse said walking over to the desk. Olivia and Fin followed her over to the desk.

"Yes, he is working today, I'll page him for you"

The doctor walked over to the nurse's station.

"Someone paged me" he said

"Yes, these detectives would like to speak with you about a patient" the nurse said to him.

The doctor looked at the detectives.

"Hi I'm detective Tutuola, this is my partner detective Benson, now do you remember this boy?" Fin asked the doctor showing the picture of the boy.

The doctor paused for a moment "Yes, I do remember him, he had a broken shoulder, he went into surgery, came out then about an hour later he just disappeared."

"Do you remember who he was with?" Olivia asked

"Let me think…" the doctor said as he squinted his eyes. "Yes, he was with an older boy, about 5'11, mid-twenties, He said he was the boy's brother."

"Do you remember his name?" Fin asked the doctor.

"Well he claimed his name was Reed." The doctor said.

"But you didn't think that to be the case?" Olivia questioned

"Well, his younger brother kept calling him Ryan."

"Could you tell us anything else about the Ryan-Reed character?" Fin questioned.

"I remember he seemed jumpy, like he was on edge, afraid of something, definitely freaked out when his little brother called him Ryan.

"Do you remember anything else about what he looked like?" Olivia asked

"He had long blonde hair, he was wearing a gray knit cap, he was pretty scruffy looking, very thin, and that's really all I remember about him."

Thanks you've been a great help" Fin said to the doctor

"If you remember anything else. Please give us a call" Olivia said handing him her card.

Olivia and Fin walked into the prescient, Olivia was looking the room over, expecting to see Elliot. She searched the room for her partner; he didn't seem to be there.

Olivia went back to her desk to go over the mystery boy's case. She looked at the statement the doctor gave, but her mind was elsewhere.

Why isn't Elliot here? He said he was going to be in later, and it is later. How'd the meeting with the lawyers go? Was he officially a single man? Would he even ever consider her as anything more than a colleague, or a friend?

Unable to concentrate on the case she decided to go ask Cragen if he had heard from Elliot.

She walked over and knocked on his door and opened it. Cragen looked up from his desk at her.

"Liv, what's up?" he asked

"I was wondering if you've heard from Elliot, he told me he would be in later and I'd really like to go over the mystery boy's case with him."

"Sorry Liv, he called to say he wasn't coming in after all." Cragen said

"Oh…" she paused "Alright, I guess I'll just go over it myself" she sighed.

"You know what, why don't you go home and get some rest, you and Elliot can go over it tomorrow" Cragen said noticing Olivia was distracted.

"Thanks Captain" Olivia said turning around.

I wonder why he decided not to come in she thought to herself.

Maybe I should call him to see how the meeting went. What if him and Kathy decided not to go through with the divorce? Maybe I should stop by his place, bring some take out, and see how things went.

And with that idea, she was off to his apartment.

Thanks For Reading! (Not a very good chapter I know, but the next one is SO good, I promise!) Don't forget to review!