I love all reviews! You guys are awesome

Chapter 3

"Oh, Elliot, hi- and I'm walking this way, goodbye-"

"Wait up, Liv!" Elliot called, pulling her back. "You've been avoiding me- what did I do?"

Olivia groaned and started walking with him and Casey, who winked mischievously at her and grinned. "Um... it's not really what you did so much as me... why don't you ask your wife, she looks like she's been dying to tell you. Counselor, I'm warning you, be nice, because I could so blackmail you, if I wanted."

"Are you threatening an officer of the court? Looks like I've got some blackmail-worthy material of my own..." Casey laughed, then explained what happened for Elliot. "Yesterday, during the game, Olivia's ball hit me in the head. The doctor said I had to stay with someone, so she and Alex made me stay the night at their place, and when I had a craving in the middle of the night, Olivia heard me get up and thought I was a perp... I ended up on the ground with a gun to my head. And then we woke Alex up..."

Elliot burst out laughing, staring at Casey and Olivia in shock. "I don't know what's better, Liv tackling my wife or Alex woken up in the middle of the night! What'd she do?"

"Well, at first she couldn't even see us since she forgot her glasses, and then when she went back to bed and we were still talking she practically screamed at us to both shut up before she killed us. Of course, she doesn't remember any of this when she wakes up..."

"Quiet, both of you!" Casey ordered. "I have work that's sitting on my desk, not getting done, so I want to find out why Melinda wants to see us and get back to my office! Besides that, I want to keep my stuff safe, so shut up!" Chuckling, Elliot and Olivia followed Casey into the morgue, where Melinda was already waiting for them.

"Hey, you two. Olivia, if you're looking for Alex, she's over there. Anyways-"

"Alex?" exclaimed Olivia, wondering over to the blond, who was standing behind her assistant and nodding encouragingly. "What are you doing here?"

Alex slipped an arm around Olivia's shoulders as she murmured, "My assistant caught a case mixed in with the murder. I fought for jurisdiction with Homicide and won, but now Julia has to learn how to handle dead bodies. I've got a bet with Melinda she'll hurl. You want in?"

Melinda led Elliot and Casey over to the body she was currently working on, gesturing at the bloody mess. "Elliot, you're here because I need to give you the results of my autopsy for my current case. Casey, you're here because I can't testify tomorrow, my brother just rescheduled his wedding."

Casey threw her hands up in exasperation, groaning theatrically. "For when, tomorrow? Melinda, I can't change my court date just because one of my star witnesses has a brother getting married- seriously, you think Judge Donnelly will let me pull that off, she wouldn't grant me a continuance when my star witness was kidnapped, for god's sake, and if you think she's going to-"

"Look, I know it's really bad timing, but I'm sorry, my brother's fiancé already has me as a bridesmaid and I-"

"Alex!" Casey whirled around at Olivia's scream, then froze in horror.

The blond was passed out in Olivia's arms, a trickle of blood running from a cut on her forehead. A uni was standing next to them, holding his hands up in surrender, a tall woman holding what was most likely his gun and pointing it at Olivia.

One of the MEs screamed and ran for the door, freezing when the woman fired a shot off. It ricocheted off the metal tables and whistled by Casey's ear, so close it tore the skin, before burying itself in one of the corpses. Casey gave a surprised gasp as her hand flew up to feel the damage, breathing a sigh of relief when everything was where it was supposed to be. "I'm fine, El, it's just a graze," she whispered as he started to reach for her in concern.

"No!" the woman shouted, unaware of their little exchange. "No one leaves! You and you, barricade the doors- the rest of you, up against that wall!" When no one moved, she screamed, "Now!"

Wrapping his arms around her protectively, Elliot led Casey to the wall, getting in front of her as Melinda and Olivia, who was carrying an unconscious Alex, followed, everyone else drifting over in their general direction.

"Liv, put Alex down," Melinda murmured, getting down on her knees next to the detective as she gently lay Alex down on the floor. "What happened? Was she shot?" Elliot got on Alex's other side as Casey knelt at her head, watching anxiously.

"No- no, um, she, the woman with the gun, her name's Lindsey- I think her son was one of the bodies, the ME's office called her in to identify him and she just freaked out and grabbed the rent-a-cop's gun... but Alex, Alex tried to stop her, but that bitch whacked her in the head with the gun and she just passed out-"

"Shut up!" Lindsey screamed, pointing the gun at them. "Shut up shut up shut up!"

Melinda waited for her to look away before whispering so quietly only the four of them could hear, "I can't be sure, but I think nothing's wrong, she'll just be out for a while. Elliot, I need you to get my briefcase over there, it has the stuff I need to clean the wound and everything..."

Elliot nodded without hesitation and was about to get up when Casey caught his wrist, staring at him with eyes full of concern. He nodded, understanding her unspoken plea and promising that he would come back safely, then got slowly to his feet.

"Hey! What do you think you're doing?" Lindsey screamed, whirling around to face him, the gun wavering slightly but still pointed at him.

Raising his hands to show her he was unarmed, Elliot said, "I'm just going to get the doctor's medical supplies. A woman's hurt and we need to make sure she's okay."

Lindsey hesitated, then waved him on and backed away, still pointing her gun at him. "You have ten seconds!" Elliot rushed forward, counting hostages as he ran. Not including Olivia, Melinda, Casey, Alex, and himself, there were 10 MEs and one very frightened ADA huddled up on the floor, but no one was injured besides Alex.

Elliot dug through the bags and grabbed the one he hoped was Melinda's and rushed back to his corner, where they were currently using a file from Casey's briefcase to try and staunch the bleeding. "Here you go, Melinda-"

"Hurry!" Olivia exclaimed, and the state she was in made her forget to keep her voice low.

"Hey! I thought I told you all to shut up!" Lindsey stormed other to them and kept changing targets, as if she was unsure who to shoot. Casey's hand shot protectively to her stomach- this bitch can shoot me all she likes, but not my baby, not my son...

Glaring at them, Lindsey hissed, "I hear one more word out of you, I will kill you all, you got that?" Melinda waited until she walked away again to hand a bottle full of a clear liquid to Elliot and demonstrate pouring it over Alex's wound. When Elliot stared at her, confused, Casey grabbed her legal pad and a pen out of her briefcase and shoved it at the ME.

Melinda wrote, Clean the wound! You do know how, right? Elliot nodded and poured some of the solution onto Alex's skin while Melinda passed out some latex gloves and got some gauze out of her bag. Put these on I'll stitch it up KC bandage it Liv monitor vitals K?* They all nodded, and the moment Elliot was done cleaning the wound Melinda started to stitch it up. Casey wondered for a second why she carried all these supplies around with her, then realized it didn't matter. Right now, this was about Alex and saving Alex's life.

When Melinda put in two stitches before Casey carefully situated the bandage over the wound, glancing nervously at Olivia, who was holding her fingers to Alex's neck and staring intently at her watch. Olivia grabbed the paper and wrote, when will she wake up?

Melinda wrote back, cant say should be soon. I dont think theres a concussion but i cant be sure keep monitoring her pulse. She looked around at them all, her gaze resting on Casey before she scirrbled a message and gave it to Elliot. He read it then stuffed it into his pocket, nodding at Melinda before looking nervously at Casey too.

Elliot answered Casey's questioning look with a small smile, his mind on Melinda's note. KC could have a stress-induced miscarriage or- worse- go into labor right here and now. Don't tell her, but we have to keep her calm. I don't have the materials to keep a premature newborn alive, and I couldn't even guarantee Casey's survival.*

SVUSVUSVU

"One of my rookies texted me, there's a hostage situation in the morgue- I want every captain in this room up here to identify everybody on our view of autopsy, now! Everybody else, get out of this building!"

Cragen fought to get through to the front, freezing in shock when he finally was able to see the screen.

Among the ten or so MEs was Alex's assistant, and in one corner was Elliot, Olivia, Casey, Melinda, and Alex. Olivia was crying silently into Alex's neck, Casey had both her hands on her stomach protectively, Melinda was taking Alex's pulse and Elliot was rubbing Casey's back comfortingly and glaring at the hostage-taker.

He rushed to the captain of the SWAT team, exclaiming, "Those are my people! The unconscious blond, that's Alexandra Cabot, Bureau Chief for White Collar, the other blond is her assistant, Julia Carter. The pregnant one is Casey Stabler, SVU ADA, the ME with them is Melinda Warner, and the other two are Detectives Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson- do you know what's wrong with Alex?"

"No sir, and I'm going to have to ask you to leave-"

"Oh hell no. Those are my people," he repeated coldly. "I'm staying here."

The SWAT guy nodded slightly but ordered, "Stay out of our way," before going back over to the screen, where cops are jumping up and down in their attempts to see who was being held hostage.

Groaning, Cragen fell back against the wall, closing his eyes. In all his years of experience, he had been in some pretty tough spots. Been shot a few times, gone through a couple high speed chases. He'd seen his detectives held at gunpoint and put in more danger then he could stand.

But this was the worst it had ever been.

Now, his pregnant daughter was with four others of his children, one of whom was already unconscious. True, he didn't work closely with Alex anymore, but when she had risked her career when Garcia kidnapped Casey last year, it had been clear that it didn't matter who she worked with, they would always be family.

And he didn't know if he would ever see them alive again.

Coming up next: Alex wakes up and SWAT gets a hostage negotiator to talk with Lindsey. Note 1: Yes, I do have a knowledge of the English language, but I doubt Melinda and them would spend time writing out all the correct spellings and such. And it took my friend about twenty minutes to realize that KC was short for Casey, so I'm telling you now. Note 2: I'm basing that off the SVU episode 'Birthright' (I think that was it) when Elliot said Kathy went into labor when she was only eight months pregnant because she saw he was involved in a shootout on TV. So if I'm wrong, blame Dick Wolf, not me.