Nick was in his squad car when he heard the report. The static of the radio had made him focus and the announcement that followed made him panic.
It was a 10-13. An officer down. It was the one call that no other officers ever wanted to hear. And for Nick, with this call, it was about someone he never wanted involved in a call that said there was an officer down. After they repeated the code three times, the address that followed hit Nick like he had been punched in the chest. He felt like he couldn't breathe.
His first reaction was to turn the car around and head in the direction of his former partner and now commanding officer's apartment. After putting his siren on and moving through traffic, the drive was only ten minutes at most, but for Detective Amaro it felt much longer than that. He couldn't get to Olivia's aid fast enough.
The scene outside her apartment was a mess of police officers and flashing lights. As soon as he got out of the car, Amanda came running up to him from her own car she had shared with Fin for the ride to Olivia's apartment.
"Have you heard anything?" Nick asked his fellow detectives.
"Nothing. They called us at the precinct when they found out it was Olivia, but we haven't heard anything else." Fin sounded just as worried as Nick felt. They had done this before with Liv, too many times.
But Nick wasn't going to wait at the side lines. He quickly grabbed his Kevlar vest from the back of his unmarked car and ran into the crowd of officers.
"Woah! Where are you going?" A uniformed officer stepped in front of Nick before he could get through the door.
Nick pulled his badge out and flashed it in the officer's face. "That's my partner up there. I'm going in."
Olivia could hear the sirens surrounding her building. But she was stuck. The cuffs were keeping her in her place on the bed, just as Sutton had hoped, and there was no way she was getting out of their hold anytime soon.
And she could still hear nothing coming from her living room, which made her assume the worst and the best. Sutton being killed was something she could have only hoped for. Brian being seriously injured, or worse, was not something she wanted to even think about. But she had to stop herself from getting her hopes up with Sutton and had to stop thinking that Brian may not be in a condition she wanted to know about.
Olivia's thoughts were soon torn from the men in her living room and brought back to her own situation, as a sharp pain struck her abdomen.
"Ahh." She gave a small cry as another pain ran through her body.
Her breathe became heavy as she tried to handle the pain and the fear that she now felt. Her child might be all she had left and the last thing she was ready for was for them to be gone, too.
And she was torn away from her own problems again, when she heard the sound of voices from outside the apartment. They were soon followed by the sound of splintering wood as her front door came crashing down.
The voices became louder and she could make out one voice in particular. It was Nick's.
"Ni… ahh." She tried to get his attention when she felt another pain rip through her.
"Nick." Olivia tried again, but her voice was quieter than she had hoped and she knew there was no way Nick heard her. But he didn't have to hear her to know that she was somewhere in the apartment. The door to her bedroom opened within what felt like seconds and Nick stood in the door way for s split second, before he raced to her side.
"Liv." He said to her, though he soon registered the cuffs that were binding her wrists and took out his own handcuff key.
While he unlocked her arms, Olivia felt another pain, worse than any of the ones she had. "AHH." A scream escaped her mouth through her gritted teeth.
"Liv, what is it? Did I hurt you?" But Nick realized quickly that he hadn't done anything.
His gaze moved down Liv's body, as he looked for what had caused the pain that made his CO cry out in pain. With her shirt ripped off and her upper body exposed, it didn't take a medical degree for him to identify what was causing her extreme discomfort.
"Oh, Liv." He said to her, the realization of her situation playing across his face in a worried and confused expression. "I need the paramedics in here now!" He screamed towards the door.
A man and woman came through the door hurriedly, both of them in Navy blue uniforms and holding cases filled with medical supplies.
The woman approached Olivia where she laid on the bed. She noticed right away why they were needed. "Ma'am, how far along are you?"
"Eigh… Eighteen weeks." Olivia replied, still short of breathe.
"Have you had any complications before now?" The female paramedic asked her.
"Umm… no." Olivia answered.
"Okay, my partner is going to check your blood pressure and we're going to get you on the gurney." The woman moved out of the way of the other paramedic.
As he took her blood pressure, Olivia asked for the answer she had been waiting for. "What happened to Brian and Sutton?"
"They're both being taken to the hospital right now, Ma'am." The paramedic answered her.
"Are they okay? What happened to them?" Olivia started to panic.
"They were both shot." Nick told her this time, as he had seen the two men in the living room before he found Olivia.
"Sh… shot." Olivia's breathing picked up and it became faster and shallower.
"Ma'am we need you to try and stay calm, okay?" The female paramedic had come back with the gurney and was now placing an oxygen mask over Olivia's face. "We need to get her out of here quick." The last comment directed towards her partner.
Between both paramedics and the help of Nick they were fast to get Olivia onto the gurney; they laid a blanket over her to cover her up from the cold and left the apartment.
Olivia couldn't help but notice the blood stains that were spread out on her living room carpet as they wheeled her towards the broken front door. A look of horror flashed across her face as she thought about the two bodies, one of a man she had loved and the other of a man she would love to see gone. But the paramedics were moving too fast for her to take any time to inspect the room and she was soon left with only an image filled with bright red blood in her head as they entered the elevator across the hall from her apartment.
Nick followed closely as the paramedics went down the elevator and headed out the building. Amanda and Fin were waiting by the door, hoping to see Liv come out unharmed. But when they saw her on the stretcher, her face bruised from where Sutton had smashed the gun against her and the obvious discomfort she felt showing through her expression, they knew it wasn't looking good.
Amanda reached for Nick as he rushed by. He turned around to see them standing behind him. "How is she?"
"Did either of you know she was pregnant?" Nick looked between his colleagues as they shared a confused glance.
"Olivia, as in Sergeant Benson, is pregnant?" Fin questioned.
"Yeah." Nick answered him, but turned around to see Olivia getting loaded into the ambulance. "Look I need to go with her. They're worried about the baby and I don't want her to be alone. Just meet us at the hospital."
Nick darted through the crowd and made it just before they shut the doors of the ambulance. He took a seat next to Olivia on the metal edge that was around the whole perimeter of the back of the ambulance.
"How are you feeling?" Nick asked Olivia.
The paramedics had taken off the oxygen mask, but Olivia still couldn't respond as she felt the same pain that had been running through her body for the last half an hour. Instead she just gripped Nick's hand where it sat on the edge of the gurney.
"Hey, it's going to be okay." Nick could sense Olivia's worry and discomfort.
Olivia let out a shaky breathe. "What if something happens?"
Nick opened his mouth to respond to her, but he honestly didn't know what to say to her. He wasn't sure if she was referring to the baby or Brian or both. And Nick knew that no matter what he said the same pain-staking look would be on Olivia' s face until she heard for sure that both Brian and the baby were fine.
So he answered the best he could without giving her false hope. "No matter what happens, I will be here for you. So will Amanda and Fin, you're going to get through this."
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