Day 1: Midnight Confessions

Part II

Rated: R

Author's note: Thanks for reading guys! I'm very happy to continue this story, especially since I know people are actually reading it. Quick disclaimer: I do not own SVU or any of the characters in it. If you are wondering where I get my ideas or other stupid facts, repeat to yourself it's just a fic and I really should relax.

Elliot wouldn't leave the crime scene, even though the police had been there and he had personally gone over it with a fine tooth comb. They pulled a lot of prints from inside the trailer and on the door but Elliot wasn't going to be surprised if the only prints they matched to were Krista's and Monica's. Elliot was trying to delay going home as much as possible, it's not that he didn't want to see his kids it was more of the fact that he didn't know what he was going to tell them. Monica came up to him and handed him a cup of coffee, he looked at her and forced a weak smile.

"You really should go home, there's not much more anyone can do and I'm sure Hope and Serena are wondering where you are." Monica said to him, it was getting dark outside and although everyone had taken a break from filming they were planning to start up again in a few minutes. The actress that was going to portray Monica had just arrived on the set and was in the makeup trailer.

"Why aren't you going to halt the filming?" Elliot asked her and then took a sip of his coffee. Monica took in a deep breath and tried to think of how she could explain this to him. She didn't know if she could say that Olivia would want them to carry on, but Monica wasn't a cop this was her job and although her best friend had gone missing she had to do it.

"It'll cost us about a million a day to halt production Elliot. This is my job and I need to do it. I'm just as worried as you are but we can't stop now, we just can't. Go home to Hope and Serena they are going to need you." Monica explained, "John and Fin will be here to tie up the loose ends." Elliot looked over to Munch and Fin who were still talking to the crime scene investigators. He wondered when Monica came to know Munch on a first name basis but he shrugged it off. She was right and he knew it, he needed to get home and see his kids, he could go into work in the morning and sort more of this out.

When Olivia woke up she was bound and gagged, laying on the floor of a very nice limousine. Her wrists were bound in duct tape, so were her ankles, and her mouth was covered with a piece. She looked around frantically and her eyes settled on a woman who was sitting back on one of the chairs sipping a martini. Olivia struggled and tried to sit up but the woman put her foot on Olivia's chest and pressed her back onto the floor. Olivia blinked a few times to clear her blurry vision, when she noticed that the woman who was sitting there was the same woman who had given her the bottled water back on the movie set. For the life of her she still couldn't figure out why the woman was so familiar. She struggled again and this time sat up. She stayed sitting on the floor but propped her back up against the seat that was across from the mystery woman.

"Who are you?" Olivia asked even though it mostly came out as a muffled jumble of sounds. The woman seemed to know what she was asking but she leaned forward and ripped the tape off of Olivia's mouth, not being too gentle about it either.

"Mariann Lovett." She replied and then balled up the tape and tossed it aside, "You're lucky I'm not Liz, she wanted to slice you up like a piece of meat but I told her I had better plans for you." Mariann took a sip of her martini and reached for a pack of cigarettes.

"Liz? You must be her sister…."

"Wow your powers of deduction are incredible! Why use them here? Go save the city!" Mariann replied, her voice just dripping with sarcasm, "Liz got out on parole this morning, luckily you and Elliot weren't aware of it. Doesn't matter anyway because she's the first person they'll go to and when they don't find you the case will go cold. Even Liz doesn't know where I'm taking you. I'm being nice and giving Elliot a sporting chance to find you, 10 days, and if on the 10th day he hasn't come you will be snuffed." She lit the cigarette she had taken out of the pack and exhaled the smoke into Olivia's face. Olivia turned her head in disgust when the word snuffed hit her. She knew that snuffing was a way of sexually murdering someone and she most certainly didn't want a part of that. She began to struggle more but the tape wasn't going anywhere.

"Where are you taking me?"

"That's for me to know, and you to never find out." Mariann replied as a sadistic smile crossed her lips. "Now either stop talking to me or I drug you, I don't owe the new toy any explanations." Olivia glared at her, wondering what she meant by "new toy" but she didn't want to be drugged again. She turned her head to look out of the window but it was tinted on the inside, and she guessed it was on the outside too. If it wasn't, then Mariann was taking a very big risk keeping her tied up like that. She shifted into a more comfortable position and pulled her knees up to her chest. She could keep quiet for the time being, she needed to do some thinking anyway.

Elliot came home and was greeted by Hope and Serena as soon as he got in the door. They looked so much like Olivia he almost wanted to cry. He paid the sitter and told her that he would probably need her around for the next few days to take care of his daughters when they got home from school. She told him that she would be there and without questioning where Olivia was, she left the house.

"Where's mommy?" Serena asked him as soon as Dana, the babysitter, had left the house. Elliot sat down in the living room and patted the couch next to him. Serena got up on the couch on his left side and Hope crawled up next to him on his right side. He thought for a moment, for the best way to approach the answer. He didn't want to lie to them, they were smart kids and if he lied they would probably figure out that something was wrong in time.

"You girls know what daddy does at his job right?" Elliot asked as he looked back and fourth between the two of them.

"You capture the bad guys and put them in jail." Hope replied with a smile on her face.

"You're a police man." Serena added, also smiling. Elliot bit his lower lip, they looked so happy he didn't know if he could break this news to them or not. For the moment they were safe, protected from the horrors of the outside world. Once he told them what had happened to their mother then the terror would set in, would they even be able to sleep? Tonight? Ever?

"Well, one of those bad guys took mommy away….but daddy is going to find him and put him in jail." Elliot said to them. They both looked at each other in utter disbelief, and then back to him. No doubt a million questions were streaming through their heads.

"But why would a bad guy want to take mommy?" Hope asked in such a sweet and innocent tone that Elliot could feel his heart breaking. He put his arms around both of his daughters and pulled them into a hug.

"Because sometimes bad guys really don't like police men like your daddy and mommy, so they have to do bad things, but I promise that I will get your mommy back very soon and she'll be okay." He said trying to reassure then that Olivia was going to be alright. Hope's lower lip trembled and a moment later both of them were crying. Elliot hugged them tightly, he felt like crying too but he didn't. He thought he was done dealing with the Lovett family, but here they were, back in his life. This time he wouldn't be too gentle in apprehending them either.

It was hours later when Olivia and Mariann arrived at a large house in the middle of nowhere. They were surrounded by trees and the only thing that was paved was the mile long driveway that lead up to the house. It was very big and just reeked of the money that the Lovett family had some how obtained in their lifetime. Mariann got out of the limo, leaving Olivia just bound on the floor, and shut the door behind her. Olivia struggled a bit until she had made her way to the door of the car, when it opened. A beautiful blond woman in a black leather dress, knee high black boots, and elbow length leather gloves stood there holding a black dog collar in her hand. The collar had a little black box on it, with two small metal studs coming out of the other side. Without a word, the woman leaned in, grabbed Olivia by the hair, and started to put the collar on her.

"What the hell are you doing?" Olivia nearly yelled as she tried to get away from the blond woman, although her strength could barely compare to her assailant. The woman held her in place and put the collar around her neck, tightening it to the point where she was almost choking, and then locked it in place. She then quickly unwrapped the tape from Olivia's ankles and yanked her out of the car. She grabbed Olivia's arm and started to pull her towards the house. Olivia pulled away and her bound hands went to her neck, but no matter what she did the collar wasn't coming off.

"It's locked in place." The blond woman spoke with a British accent. Olivia looked at her and without a second thought she took off running down the driveway. She knew her hands were still bound, and that made it hard to run, but if she could just find help they wouldn't be bound for long. How far could it be to civilization? Barring that, how far could it be to the next house? She turned her head to see if the blond was following her, but the woman just stood there with her arms crossed. Something was up, if she really had a chance of escaping the woman probably wouldn't just stand there. She decided to go for it anyway, this might be her only chance. She made it to the end of the driveway a few moments later and saw the brick wall that outlined the property, and the iron gate that allowed access to the drive. She didn't get 6 feet away from the gate when a tremendous electrical shock ran through her body. She didn't even have time to cry out before it knocked her to the ground, and she was unconscious.

Around midnight Elliot had gone outside onto the front steps of his house with his third beer and a pack of cigarettes. He didn't know why he had bought them, he hadn't smoked in years, but right now it seemed like it was something that he needed. He lit a cigarette and took a long drag and exhaled it slowly, when he heard the door to Monica's house open. He looked up, wondering who was there, because he knew that both of them were on location filming. He stood up, getting ready to apprehend anyone who was trying to steal from them, when Munch appeared in the doorway. He turned his head and looked at Elliot for a moment, before pulling the door shut and locking it.

"Since when did you start smoking?" Was the first thing that came out of his mouth as he came down the steps and walked over to Elliot. Elliot sat back down on the steps and took another drag from the cigarette and then a sip from his beer.

"Since when did you start coming and going from Monica's house as you please?" Elliot countered in a good natured tone. John took a seat next to Elliot and then shoved Monica's keys into his pocket and looked at Elliot.

"Promise you won't leak it to the press?" Munch asked in such a way that he couldn't tell if he was joking or being serious. Elliot arched a brow and took another sip of his beer, he was beginning to feel a little buzz from it. He had never leaked anything to the press about Monica and Krista, why would he start now? He laughed slightly.

"No I'm not, never have, never will. They are very good friends of the family." Elliot answered honestly and then took a drag from his cigarette. He was interested in what Munch had to say, it had to be juicy it just had to be.

"My cover story is feeding her cat, but if you must know me and Monica are sort of a thing…" He said softly. Elliot started to laugh and cough at the same time as he exhaled. His laughter was cut short when he noticed that the look on Munch's face was absolutely serious.

"Whoa, does Krista know about this?"

"Actually she's there too, it's sort of like a threesome thing." Munch replied, at this Elliot just had to laugh he couldn't believe what he was hearing was actually true. He gave Munch a look as if to ask him if this was really true, "I'm serious! Look just ask them next time you see them. Anyway, how are you holding up?"

"I'll be fine, it's Hope and Serena that I'm worried about." He replied and then snubbed the cigarette out on the front step, "I explained the situation to them the best I could, in the end they are both sleeping in my bed and I don't blame them. As for me, I can't sleep, not right now….there are absolutely no leads on who this M. Lovett is?"

"Fin is trying to track down Elizabeth Lovett, I went with him the first few places but the trail got cold and fast. I thought I'd duck out and actually feed Monica's cats and then come back, I needed a break." He confessed. Elliot looked at him a little strange, as far as he knew Liz was still in jail, although he hadn't checked his messages and then it hit him….Liz did get out on parole it slipped his mind cause he thought he'd never have to deal with her or the rest of the family ever again.

"Let me call Dana," Elliot said as he stood up, "I need to go with you guys to find her, I need to do everything I can to—"

"No…" John stopped him, "I told you the trail is cold, when we do find her, and we will, I'll give you a call okay?" Elliot turned and looked at him and took in a deep breath.

"Fine but when you get her in there I want to be the first to know…you got that?" Elliot insisted and Munch nodded slightly.

"I promise." He said, "Get some sleep." And with that he turned and walked down the steps and away from the house towards his car. Elliot watched him for a moment before going inside to be with Hope and Serena.

End Part II