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Chapter 4

2 days earlier

As Olivia walked into the squad room she felt all eyes on her. She knew what people would be thinking; what she was thinking; that she was a complete failure. Little did she know no one was thinking that they were all just really concerned for her.

She slumped down at her desk and immediately turned her computer on. She couldn't help but jump as Elliot walked up behind her and touched her shoulder. Her other arm was up in a sling; it was in a lot of pain: just like her other injuries. Everything felt sore this morning but she wasn't about to complain. Emma was dead and it was her fault.

"How are you feeling?" Elliot asked her.

"What?' she asked him. Her head wasn't registering anything so far today.

"Not good ha?" he said taking note of her behaviour.

"El was there something you wanted?" she asked him quite coldly.

Elliot just shook his head then walked over to his chair. Olivia sighed then turned back to her computer until someone threw her mail down on the desk. She picked it up, not bothering to check if Elliot had any; like she would normally do. She noticed one letter in particular. She opened it up and pictures of a battered, bloodied and naked Emma fell out onto her desk. She noticed them but her eyes were concentrating more on the letter.

'It's your fault she's dead Olivia.

You should have heard how she cried and blamed you

How will you live knowing you're the reason she's dead?

How's your head feeling?

You're next!'

Olivia pushed herself up from her desk and limped up to the crib. Elliot quickly got up and took a look at the letter and the pictures before he quickly followed her. He got in there just in time to see her slam her fist into the wall, leaving a smudge of blood. He watched as she put her hands over her face and cried into them. Unable to take it anymore he walked right over to her and wrapped his arms around her, holding one hand on the back of her head as he guided it to lean on him. He kissed her lovingly on the top of her head as he continued to hold her.

"She looked so scared Elliot." she cried.

"I know." he said sensitively. There was no point lying to her and telling her she probably felt nothing because a blind man would have been able to see the fear plastered on Emma's face.

"I want to get him for what he did to her." she told him, looking up at him so he knew just how serious and determined she was now.

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Olivia and Elliot both stormed into Derek's club. They walked straight over to where he was sat; in the VIP area with two of his strippers on either side of him. It was in the middle of the day so the place was pretty much deserted, except for the few perverts who spent all day and night in there.

"Move it ladies." Olivia ordered.

"It's okay then can stay. If you wanna sit with me Detective Benson you can sit right here." he said as he grabbed his crotch.

"Don't you know Derek you have to have something there for me to be able to sit on it!" Olivia said smugly.

Derek glared at her. "Fuck off." he told the girls either side of him. They both got up and walked off. "You look like hell." Derek said to Olivia.

"I look a hell of a lot better than Emma does right now. You wanna tell us what happened to her?" she replied.

"Why what's wrong with that lying bitch now?" he asked.

"Don't play dumb Derek. She's dead and we just know that you're involved." Elliot said.

"I didn't kill anybody." He said.

"No you're too much of a fucking coward you have to get someone else to do it." Olivia snapped at him.

He stood up and walked right over to her. Elliot stepped closer to them ready for if he tried anything. "We'll see who's a fucking coward." Derek said. "So unless you two have a warrant get the hell out of my club."

Olivia continued to glare at him. She wasn't backing down no matter how much he tried to intimidate her. Derek just smiled at her. He then puckered his lips up as if to give her kiss; if they had been an inch closer he would have kissed her straight on the lips. Olivia swung her arm out to hit him, but Elliot quickly pulled her back.

"He's not worth it Liv." Elliot said as he dragged her away from Derek and towards the exit.

"Bye Liv." Derek said, purposely using the nickname he had just heard Elliot use.

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Elliot pulled up outside Olivia's apartment and shut the engine off and looked at her. She looked so hurt and so guilty it broke his heart. She was his partner and his best friend and he hated seeing her like this.

"Thanks El." she said as she climbed out of the car.

Elliot quickly jumped out and began following her.

"Elliot I said no to protective detail because I don't want someone following my every movement." she said defensively.

"I just wanna make sure you get in your apartment then I'll leave." he said.

As they got closer to her building they both noticed a small bunch of flowers lying on the steps. There was a card propped up by them with Olivia's name clearly wrote on it. Olivia carried on towards it but Elliot stopped and had a casual look around. He noticed a black van parked a little up the road. His head suddenly screamed at him that something wasn't right.

"Liv put them down!" he yelled at her before knocking them out of her hands and pulling her away from them. There were loud shots followed by the sound of glass smashing. Elliot pushed Olivia to the floor and lay protectively over her as the van continued driving past still firing at them, missing them but smashing all the windows on the ground floor of her building.

Once the van was out of sight Elliot rolled off Olivia and they both looked at the shot up building. The once quiet night was filled with barking dogs, car alarms, and people inside the building screaming. Elliot looked at Olivia, she looked in complete shock. They both silently prayed no one had been hurt.

TBC

One more chapter and then it will continue on after the events of the first chapter.

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