It's Time for a Change
A/N: I OWN NONE OF THE RECGONIZABLE REBA OR SVU CHARACTERS!! This is a Crossover AU story!
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PREVIOUSLY:
"Geeze El, give it a chance. You may find that you like it, it's got some pretty good love songs…" she admits.
He puts the car in reverse and makes his way into the now rush hour traffic. They ride in silence the entire hour drive back to Manhattan, because every time he tried to talk to her, she'd shut him up, because her song was on the radio. He thought to himself the whole way back, "I'm gonna have to stop letting stressed women ride with me, because I hate this country crap." they pulled into the station and he noticed Olivia had fallen asleep. He just sat there, contemplating his options of how to get her back into the station house.
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16th PRECINCT PARKING LOT
MANHATTAN, NEW YORK
5:15pm
Elliot looked over at the sleeping detective in the passenger seat next to him. He killed the engine and unbuckled his seat belt.
He gently placed his arm on Olivia's shoulder to wake her. "Liv, we're back." he calmly says.
She jumps awake, as if he startled her. "Huh, oh. I must've fallen asleep." she says, unbuckling her seatbelt.
"You okay?" he asks, concerned.
"I'm fine El." she says, opening the passenger door and stepping out of the car.
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Elliot gets out and follows the woman upstairs to their office and when he gets there, he sees her talking to Casey Novak. He sighs and walks towards his desk.
Cragen notices Olivia's return and comes out of his office to talk to her.
"Hey Olivia. How's the girl?" the older man asks.
"She's okay, considering her circumstances." the brunette woman explains.
"I meant physically. Could you see any obvious signs of abuse?" he asks.
"She's got major bruising on her chest, one broken and two cracked ribs, she has a fever, and hasn't eaten since god knows when." the woman states.
Casey sighs and Cragen nods. "How did the mother react when she saw her daughter?"
"She felt bad that someone's been hurting her. And I can tell by the way she acted, she doesn't want her little girl to be in pain." Olivia tells them, hinting that she doesn't think the mother did anything wrong.
Cragen nods again and says, "Well the father's in lock-up and he's got a restraining order on him. I'm about to call the mother and tell her that the protective detail has been approved, it'll be one officer at night at the hospital and then two twenty-four seven once they return home."
Just as Cragen informs them of this, a tall man with dark brown hair walks in the room. Cragen realizes him as the captain from Queens SVU. "Donald." the man says.
"Richard, what are you doing here?" Cragen asks.
"I'm here to inform you that your latest case has been turned over to us. Since the family resides in Queens, its out of your jurisdiction." the man states.
Olivia looks at Cragen, Elliot and Casey and then leaves the room. Cragen sighs and says, "That went over well with her."
Elliot looks at the man and says, "She's probably going to want to transfer. The little girl is terrified and she won't even look at me."
Richard sighs and looks at Cragen, "I'm just doing my job. We'll need any and all information you've gathered about the Brown case so our detectives can continue working. And if your detective wants to transfer to work the case, you know how that works."
"Thanks for ruining her day." Cragen retorts as the man turns around to leave.
Casey sighs and looks around the room at the detectives. "I tried."
"We know you did Case." Cragen reassures her.
"Now Olivia on the other hand, is not going to like this." "She knows Cheyenne isn't going to tell any of those men at Queens what happened. She won't even look at Elliot from what I hear. So somebody needs to go find the woman and talk to her." Cragen instructs the people standing around him.
Elliot nods in agreement and Cragen returns to his office. Elliot looks at Casey, "I'm going to go find Liv."
"Okay." the redhead replies, turns around and makes her way back to her office.
Elliot walks upstairs and finds the brunette detective sitting on the couch staring into space. "Liv, Olivia." he says, trying to get her attention.
"Huh, oh." she replies.
"Hey, what's up?" he gently asks.
"Cheyenne's not going to talk to any of those men in Queens. Hell, I don't know if I would even talk to them." she answers.
"How do you know that? Detective Bradford is a pretty nice guy." Elliot tries to reassure the woman.
"Yeah, and so are you. But Cheyenne didn't even look at you." Olivia retorts.
"Just give them a chance." Elliot begs.
"I don't know El." "When we tell Cheyenne and Ashley that we're not on their case anymore, Cheyenne's going to freak, and possibly Ashley." the woman muses.
"Cragen thinks you want to transfer for the case." Elliot informs her.
"Duh. What does he think I am, stupid? Of course I'm transferring. Detective Hunter's wife just had a baby. So he's out and Bradford needs a new temporary partner." she explains.
"How did you know that?" he asks.
"I'm friends with Mrs. Hunter." Olivia answers.
"Okay…"
Olivia stands up and says, "I'm going to find Cragen and tell him."
"Are you sure Olivia?" Elliot asks.
"Positive. Cheyenne needs someone to talk to, and Elliot, that whole Queens squad is men." she informs him.
"I know that Liv, I almost got the job there. But they hired Bradford instead." he tells her.
Olivia didn't hear his last statement because she was already down the stairs and halfway to Cragen's office. She approaches the closed door and before she can knock, he motions for her to come in.
"Olivia…" he calmly says.
"I want to transfer to Queens. Detective Bradford needs a new temporary partner." she informs him.
"That I didn't know." Cragen replies.
"Detective Hunter's wife just had a baby so he's out. And I knew there was an opening for about a week before we got this case, so now I have a better reason to transfer." she explains.
"So you've been wanting to be temporarily reassigned?" Cragen inquires.
"Sort of." she hesitantly answers.
"Well here's your chance. I'll call Queens and let them know Bradford's got a new partner. Does Elliot know?" he replies.
"I told Elliot already. When Captain Dooley came in I knew he was going to take away the Brown case and I didn't want to accidentally say anything." she explains.
"Okay Olivia. Are you sure you're up to this?" he asks.
"I'll be back after the Brown case. Just don't get Elliot some kind of quack for a partner." She instructs him.
"You don't want another Dani" he asks.
"NO." she answers and walks out of the office.
He sighs and watches her walk back to her desk. He knows she's hiding something but he just can't figure out what.
Olivia sits down at her desk to check her emails for the last time before moving to Queens. She opens the one she got from Captain Dooley three days ago about transferring. She re-reads it and sighs. Elliot comes up behind her and she quickly closes the window.
"What's up?" he asks.
"Junk mail." she muses.
"From Captain Dooley?" he asks.
"Yes." she lies.
"Livia, what's going on?" he questions.
"I'm transferring to Queens to work the Brown case." she informs him.
"Wanna go get something to eat. It's almost six." he asks.
"Sure. Just let me get some of my stuff out of here." she replies.
"Okay."
She turns off her computer and walks to the coat rack and grabs five of her jackets that have been living there for the past month, she returns to her desk and opens a drawer and grabs her favorite pen that she always does paperwork with. She closes the drawer and sees Munch standing over her.
"Where you going that you need five coats?" he asks.
"Queens." she answers.
"It's no colder there than it is here." he states.
"I'm working the Brown case. Incase you didn't know, they took it from us. But not from me anyway." she explains.
"Be careful. We'll miss you." he says.
"Thanks John." she replies.
"Ready Elliot? I'm hungry." she looks at the man sitting across from her.
"I've been ready. Waiting on you." he says.
She smiles and makes her way towards the door. He follows behind her and they walk out of the building and get into his car and start heading to the restaurant.
A/N: I'm sorry this took so long to update. I've been having a writers block with this one. I've been working on my other stories. I've also been busy with school. So I hope you enjoy this update and another one will come MUCH sooner!! Oh, and I wonder what that little green button does…. My goal is 5 reviews!