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Waking up to the alarm blaring, Elliot reached over and turned it off before looking down at Olivia. She was still sound asleep.
Rubbing her back, he tried to ease her awake. "Wake up, Livia. Time to get up for work," he whispered, still trying to ease her awake gently.
Olivia moaned and went to roll away, to go back to sleep but Elliot stopped her, lightly chuckling.
She always had a habit of trying to roll away when he tried to wake her up when she slept in the crib at work, so he was quite used to it by now.
"Uh-uh. Where do you think you're going, Liv? I'm sorry but it's time to get up."
Grumbling a few choice cuss words under her breath, Olivia sat up, rubbing her eyes. "Thank you for staying with me. I... I didn't want to seem weak but..." she thanked her best friend, once fully awake.
Elliot caressed her cheekbone as they leaned in close to each other and before they knew it, they were sharing their first kiss on the lips, forgetting about their other halfs. It was soft and sensual but at the same time completely hot and toe-curling. But the instant they pulled away and looked in to each other's eyes, the mood turned awkward upon realizing what they had just done, even if it did feel right.
"Sorry," they muttered to each other as they both got up off the bed.
Olivia shook her head and went over to her chest of drawers to get clothes out for work. "Um... I think you shoulld go and I'll see you at work, El," she said, refusing to look at him.
Nodding in agreement, Elliot put his shoes back on. "Yes, of course. I'm sorry. See you at work," he replied and rushed out of the apartment.
Olivia stopped for a moment after she heard the apartment door shut behind Elliot and put two of her fingers on her lips. She could still feel the tingling on her lips from their very passionate kiss. Olivia had to admit that Elliot was a better kisser then Andrew though.
She sighed and looked at the clock. She had to hurry up and have a shower and get ready otherwise she would be late for work.
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Walking in to the squad room with five coffees in hand, Olivia found her partner's desk still empty but she didn't expect him to be there yet. She put a coffee on each Fin's and Munch's desks before making her way to Captain Cragen's office but stopped after two steps when the door swung open and Don appeared.
"Benson, where's your partner?" he asked, seeing Elliot's empty desk chair.
"Ah, stuck in traffic, Cap," she lied quite easily, especially since it was her fault that he was late.
"Okay. Well call him and tell him to meet you at the docks," he told her and took the offered coffee.
Furrowing her brows, Olivia asked, "Huh? Why?"
"Mrs Sadler got a call from her husband. He said he was going to break out of prison and kidnap Julian. Now she is standing at the end of the dock and threatening to throw Julian in and the current is too strong."
Nodding, Olivia quickly grabbed her coat and ran out. "Fin, call Elliot and tell him to meet me at the dock," she yelled out over her shoulder.
"No problem, Liv!" he yelled back.
Instead of waiting for the elevator, Olivia ran down the stairs and outside to the detective car. She had to get down to the docks.
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Pulling up at the docks, Olivia saw the scene buzzing with law enforcement.
"Detective? She's demanding to talk to either you or your partner," an officer informed her as she approached.
Olivia nodded. "Okay, thank you," she replied and slowly headed down the dock to the distraught woman and the screaming boy in her arms. "Mrs Sadler. It's Detective Benson."
"I have to keep Julian safe from Henry," she cried. "Stay back or I will throw him in."
Olivia put her hands up in surrender. "Okay, Mrs Sadler. Calm down. You don't need to throw Julian in. We can keep you and Julian safe from your ex-husband," she tried to assure her. "All you need to do is pass Julian to me." She snuck a step closer, hoping Mrs Sadler wouldn't notice.
"I told you to stay the hell back, Detective. I'll throw him in. I mean it!" Mrs Sadler yelled over her son's frightened cries.
"Mommy! Mommy, let me go! Please! I'll be a good boy, I promise!" he cried, squirming, trying to break free from his mother's strong, tight girp on his small body.
"Shut up, Julian. Let mommy handle this," she scolded her son.
"Mommy, let me go!" he cried again.
"Mrs Sadler, let him go! We can keep Julian safe!" Olivia tried again, her voice growing frantic seeing Mrs Sadler take a step closer to the edge, getting ready to throw the boy in to the frigid cold water, thinking in her mind that it was the only way to keep him safe from his abusive father.
"Stop! You don't need to throw him in!"
"Yes, I do!" Mrs Sadler screamed, "It's the only way I can keep him safe from Henry! Henry will never leave us alone! Stay back!"
"Okay, okay." Olivia stepped back just one step with her hands up in surrender again. "Just pass Julian to me, Mrs Sadler and we'll take you somewhere safe. Think about your unborn baby too. You don't want to hurt him or her either," she tried to persuade the younger woman, but she could see that it unfortunately was not helping much.
Henry Cooper had really thrown Jacqueline Sadler in to a loop. It was obvious that he must've said other things over the phone to have her reacting like this. Nothing was calming her down.
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Elliot was nearly at the precinct when his cell phone started to vibrate and ring from it's spot, where he had thrown it on the passenger seat.
He picked it up and answered it as he pulled over, thinking it was Olivia.
"Yes, Liv, I'm nearly there," he said as soon as he answered.
"Nah, man, it's Fin. You need to meet Liv at the docks."
"Why?" he asked confused. "A new case?"
"Not exactly. Mrs Sadler is threatening to throw her son Julian off of the dock. In her mind, it's the only way to protect him from the father."
"Okay, I'm on my way there," he said and hung up before turning on the siren and speeding off toward the docks.
Half way there, he pressed speed dial one on his phone for Olivia and put it on loud speaker, waiting for her to answer.
It rang and rang until it finally went to voicemail.
Elliot groaned. "Liv, call me when you get this. I'm on my way," he said and hung up.
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"Let him go, Mrs Sadler! Please let him go! Julian will drown if you throw him in there," Olivia began to plead with her as she inched closer again after Mrs Sadler inched ever closer to the end of the dock.
Screaming, Mrs Sadler shook her head. "I told you to stay back! But you didn't listen!" She moved her arms to throw Julian in and Olivia screamed in response.
"Don't!"
It was too late. Mrs Sadler threw him in.
Olivia took off her coat and jumped in before another word could by said by anyone. She swam deep down in to the water until she couldn't take it anymore and had to swim back up for oxygen. She shook her head to tell the officers she hadn't found him.
"The current is too strong!"
Olivia didn't listen. She took another deep breath and swam back down.
She finally found Julian and swam back up with him. "Got him!" she panted, gulping in oxygen. "He needs CPR!" she alerted the officer and passed him up.
With Julian safe up on the dock and Mrs Sadler in custody, they tried to pull Olivia out but the current became too strong and they lost grip with her.
"Liv!" she heard Elliot call for her as she tried to swim against the current. She was a very strong swimmer but it wasn't helping.
"El! Help!" she yelled.
The officers wouldn't let him jump in. "The current is way too strong!" They kept tell him. "We'll get her!"
"Liv! We'll get you!" Elliot yelled out the promise to her. "Save your energy! Don't swim against it!"
"Help!" Olivia yelled again. She hadn't been so frightened in her life as she was at this moment. She loved Elliot and hadn't even been given a chance to tell him yet. She needed to tell him but at the moment she had to keep her head above water.
Throwing caution in to the wind, Elliot yelled out to Olivia again. "I love you, Olivia! We'll get you out, baby! Hold on!"
"They're getting the search boats out as we speak, Detective. They'll get her safely," a high ranked officer tried to assure Elliot but it didn't help much, if at all.
"Well they better hurry the hell up! They need to get Olivia now!" he yelled at the officer before screaming when they lost sight of Olivia. "Liv! Baby, where are you?!" he screamed out at the top of his lungs before starting to pace back and forth, frantically. He was itching to jump in. He needed to save her.
"Call your Captain, Detective. They're searching for your partner as we speak. They'll find her any minute now."
Elliot nodded, trying to believe him and grabbed out his cell phone to call his Captain.
Cragen answered after just three rings. "Captain Cragen, Special Victims."
"Cap, it's Elliot," he spoke frantically, "Mrs Sadler threw Julian in and Olivia jumped in after to get him..."
"Elliot, settle down. Talk slower, it's hard to hear what you are trying to tell me."
"They got Julian out and he's now at the hospital. He'll be fine... But the current got too strong and Olivia got taken out with it. They're searching for her but we've lost sight of her," he told Don, frantically, unable to calm himself. He wouldn't be calm until Olivia was in his arms safe.
Don was up in an instant and telling Fin and Munch to get in to his office, with hand movements. "They'll find her, Elliot," he tried to assure himself and Elliot. "We're on our way." He hung up and turned to the two detectives that were standing in front of him, looking absolutely confused, trying to figure out what was going on.
"What's going on, Cap?" Fin finally spoke up.
"Mrs Sadler threw Julian in the water..."
"And Liv jumped in after to save him," Fin nodded, knowingly.
They all knew Olivia so well. She always put others before herself. They all would've done the same anyway, if they'd been in her situation.
Nodding, Cragen gulped. "They managed to save Julian but the current dragged Olivia away."
Fin's and Munch's eyes opened wide in shock.
"I'm on my way down there right now. You coming?"
Both men nodded straight away and rushed out behind their captain.