I own no one but my own people and once again thanks so, so, so much to my beta Jo. You rock Jo! And I appreciate you so much. Like you have no idea. (Okay, creepy moment over with)
WARNING!! Contains racist language and thoughts!!!!!!!!! I do not mean to offend anyone!!!!!!!
Elliot's house
"So then the black guy goes, 'well dat dere white woman is a lyin'-"
"For the hundredth time, shut up!" Olivia yelled at Jimmy as she drove to Elliot's house.
"Calm down Olivia, god you need to relax," he said with a sneer looking out the window, "It's easy to tell them what they want to hear when you know what you're supposed to say"
"Yeah, and I hate hearing them, so just do me a favor and shut up."
"Oh, okay, but let me guess, if it had been your husband that had said it, or any of your black friends, it would a huge laugh right? But since I'm white, it's racist. Am I correct?"
"No, actually you're not, I hate them no matter who says them, be it black, white, or whatever. So just shut the hell up. You are so lucky Fin isn't with us right now."
.Jimmy rolled his eyes and continued to look out the window. "Why? What would he do? Hit me over the head with a bottle of Malt liquor?"
Olivia slammed on the breaks and then reached over and opened his door. "Get out, get out of my car now!" she yelled at him.
"Oh relax, I was kidding. God, people are so uptight," he mumbled closing the door.
"No. That right there crossed the line, I want you out of my car now!"
"Sorry detective, it is my duty to protect you, and leaving you would be way too irresponsible of me. Plus, what if something were to happen to you if I left?"
"I don't care! No one insults my husband like that! Especially not some two-bit bigot like you!"
"Now, that's just insulting, I mean really detec-" but his words were cut off by loud sirens.
"What the hell?" Olivia asked as an ambulance drove by them.
"You don't think something happened to them do you?" Jimmy asked as the ambulance siren faded away.
"It, it could be anybody," Olivia said doubtfully "I mean it doesn't necessarily have to be-" but her words were cut off by a large fire truck speeding by them. Olivia quickly stepped on the gas and quickly drove to Elliot's house.
"If your gonna break the speeding limit at least put on your siren," Jimmy said flipping on her siren. Olivia ignored him and continued to speed to Elliot's house. When she got there she gasped in surprise. A large firetruck was parked in front of his house, along with three ambulances. Wrapped in a large blanket, Tina was sitting in the back of one.
Olivia quickly got out of the car and ran over to the ambulance but a fireman quickly stopped her.
"I'm sorry ma'am but you can't come any further."
"You don't understand, my daughter was in that house!" Olivia cried trying to get past him.
"I'm sorry ma'am, but I can't let you get by, please go wait over there."
"No! I want to know if my daughter is okay!"
"Ma'am, I'm very busy right now, please go wait over there by the crowd, and after the whole situation calms down, I will let you come get you're daughter."
"I want to see my daughter now!" she yelled trying to get past him, but he gently grabbed her arm and pushed her back.
"I'm sorry ma'am but-" he began but Jimmy ran up to them and pulled his arm away from her.
"Excuse me, do not touch her, if you do I will be forced to arrest you," he told him calmly. "Now, let this woman by to see her daughter." The fire man glared at him for a moment before he moved out of her way.
Without stopping for a thank you, Olivia ran towards the ambulance.
"Mommy!" Tina cried happily jumping off the ambulance and running towards her. Olivia rushed up and quickly scooped her up.
"What happened sweetie, are you okay?" she asked looking her over. She seemed to be fine, no burns she could see, her face wasn't full of ash, so she knew that she didn't breathe in all that much smoke.
"I'm fine, the doctor jus' wanted to check me out."
"Are you sure?"
Tina nodded. "Yup, mommy, why did I have to spend the night at Elliot's?"
"To try to keep you safe," she thought to herself bitterly beginning to look around trying to spot Elliot
"I thought it would be fun" she lied, finally spotting him talking to a cop. "But do you want to spend the night at a hotel with me and daddy instead?"
Olivia figured that if she couldn't keep her safe at Elliot's, maybe she would be safer with two body guards and her and Fin around. Tina nodded furiously
"Yeah, yeah , yeah! Can we go now!?"
Olivia chuckled then nodded. "Yeah, but let the doctor finish checking you out, okay?"
Tina nodded then Olivia set her down and the paramedic picked her up and set her on the truck, once again examining her for injuries.
"I told you, my wife and I were sitting on the couch, and then a fire broke out, thats all there is to the story!" Elliot practically yelled, after what he felt was the hundredth time he told the story to the cops.
"Hey, are you okay?" Olivia asked running up to him. Elliot turned and looked at her with a little bit of sympathy in his eyes.
"Yeah, yeah I'm fine" he said, feeling himself cooling down.
"Are you sure?" he nodded
"I'm okay."
"Do you know what happened?"
"I don't know, a fire just broke out upstairs, I ran up, grabbed Tina, ran down stairs, and thats when the fire trucks and ambulances started showing up," he said, avoiding her eyes. It was killing him that he was lying to her about this, knowing it could put her and her family in danger, but he wasn't about to take chances. Someone had threatened Kathy, and he knew he couldn't take the chance of that happening, no matter who it hurt. .
Olivia noticed the discontent in his eyes. "El, please tell me whats wrong," Olivia pleaded with him.
"Nothings wrong, I gotta go," he mumbled before walking away.
"Elliot wait!" he turned around and looked at her for a second before he walked back up to her.
"Look," he told her in a hushed voice, "you gotta promise me you'll be careful these next few days."
"Elliot I got the detail, I'm spending the night in a hotel, what else do you want me to do to stay careful?"
"Just promise me."
"Why?"
"Because" he told her a little loudly before he looked around and lowered his voice again, "you just gotta be careful. I have a feeling something bad is about to happen, something really bad."
"Elliot' she asked after a brief moment of realization, "does this have anything to do with the fire? Tell me!" she demanded after a moment of silence, "does the case have anything to do with the fire?".
"I gotta go, I promise I'l call you later okay" he told her walking away.
"Elliot wait!" she cried out, but he ignored her and kept walking.
She was about to follow him before she noticed Kathy sitting in the back of one of the ambulances drinking a large cup of coffee, looking very shaken up. She looked at Elliot once more before she walked over to Kathy
"How you feeling?" she asked her.
Kathy looked up from the cup and gave her a very weak smile.
"I'm okay, just a little shook up. Olivia I'm so sorry, I mean-"
"Kathy it's not your fault, and what do you have to be sorry about?"
"How about the fact that your daughter almost died under our watch?"
"Kathy that wasn't your fault, and she's fine."
"I know, but..." She sighed then shrugged, "I don't know, but we should have kept a better eye on her."
"Kathy it's okay she's gonna be fine."
"When I heard those foot steps and that crash I just assumed the worst and-"
"What footsteps?" Olivia asked cutting her off.
"Didn't Elliot tell you?"
"Tell me what?"
Before Kathy could speak, Tina came up to her. "Can we go to the hotel yet?"
Olivia picked her up then looked at Kathy. "I'll tell you later, she needs to get some rest."
As much as she wanted to know what she was talking about, she knew Kathy was right. "Do you guys have a place to stay tonight?"
"Yeah, after we get this whole mess sorted out, we're gonna head over to Elliot's parent's house."
"If you need anything, don't be afraid to call my cell alright?"
"Yeah, thanks Olivia." They smiled at one another before Olivia and Tina walked towards the car.
"So, you find out the story?" Jimmy asked walking them back to the car.
"Nope." Olivia told him opening the back door and putting Tina in her booster seat and then closing the door.
"I want to thank you," she said softly.
He looked at her in confusion for a moment "For what?"
"For letting me get to Tina, I mean who knows how long it'll take before this whole situation is calm."
"No big deal" he said with a shrug getting in the car and shutting it.
Olivia walked over and got in the driver's side and drove off.
"So," Jimmy said looking out the window again, "do you think it could have been an accident, or do you think it was the murderers?"
"What's murderers?" Tina asked curiously.
"Someone who wants to kill your mom, dad, and you" he told her before Olivia could interject.
"You bas-" Olivia began, but she restrained herself because Tina was in the car.
"Why?" she asked.
"You answer that and I stop the car and throw you out," Olivia told him sternly.
"I wanna know," Tina said eagerly.
"He was just messing around sweetie, right?" she asked turning to him and giving him a stern 'you better agree with me' look. But he apparently didn't recognize that look.
"No I wasn't, and the reason he wants you all dead, is because your parents didn't want to stick to there own kind."
Olivia looked at him in disbelief. Tina looked at him in confusion,"What's that mean?"
"It means nothing, just ignore everything this guy says, okay, Tina?" Olivia told her.
"But I wanna know what kind you are, Mommy."
"It doesn't matter," Olivia told her, trying not to let the anger in her voice break through, "just lay your head back and take a nap okay, sweetie? We'll be at the hotel soon okay?"
Tina sighed a little disappointed, but she leaned her head against the window and fell asleep.
"What?" Jimmy asked seeing Olivia's angry stare.
"You know damn well what," she said, fuming at him.
"Hey just because you lie to you're kid, doesn't mean I can't tell her whats going on."
"'Because your parents didn't want to stick to there own kind'? How is that telling her what's going on? What if she does figure out what that means and she thinks that if you date outside your race, something bad will happen?"
"Then she'll have learned a very important lesson."
"You're such a prick," Olivia said turning on the car CD player, not wanting to hear him anymore. A rap CD of Fin's was playing, and even though Olivia a majority of time disliked his taste in music, she decided to play it just because she knew Jimmy would hate it. He reached for the radio controls but Olivia slapped his hand away, "No, no way in hell am I letting you choose the station."
"And listen to crap misspelled? I don't think so," he said making a move for the radio again.
"No. This is my car, my CD player, and my husband's CD, and I don't not want you touching it."
Jimmy shrugged "Fine, but this means I can say the N anytime I want, and you can not scold me, only fair Olivia."
"As long as it's not in front of me or my family, go right ahead," Olivia told him looking straight ahead.
"No, I can say it in front of whoever. I can say it in front of you, I can say it in front of your husband, hell I can even call your daughter one and you can't say a damn thing about it."
For the second time that night, Olivia slammed on the brakes. She quickly looked at him with a ferocious glare.
"You ever," she said, her voice shaking from anger, "call my daughter that word, I will have absolutely no qualms about killing you. Do you understand me?"
Jimmy looked at her for a moment, seeing that she was dead serious, "Yeah, I get it" he told her
Olivia continued to look at him, her body almost shaking from anger before she finally looked ahead of her and drove on. The rest of the drive to the hotel was silent except for the music, and Jimmy making a large coughing noise every time the word 'nigger ' or 'nigga' was used. When they finally got to the hotel, Olivia parked the car and got out of the car, slamming it shut. Jimmy also got out and shut his door as Olivia got Tina out of the back seat and carried her into the hotel. Jimmy went ahead of them and opened the door for her; Olivia muttered thanks and then walked to the front desk.
"May I help you miss?" the receptionist asked with a large false smile.
"Did Odafin Tutuola check in already?"
"Yes he did, are you Olivia Benson?"
"Yeah." The receptionist looked at her computer for a moment before she turned around and got a key from the wall.
"Here you go, master suite 2027 on the twentieth floor, and have a wonderful stay at-"
"Wait? A suite? We just ordered a two bedroom room though."
"That's what the computer says ma'am."
"Who made the reservations?"
"I don't know ma'am, but someone called and upgraded you to a suite with at least two bedrooms."
"Olivia sighed "He knows we're tight on money and he books us a freaking master suite."
Olivia sighed then took the key card from her and then made her way to the elevator with Jimmy following close behind.
. When they finally got to the twentieth floor, Olivia found their room and opened it.
"Holy shit," she exclaimed in shock as she looked around the very large room.
"This is bigger then my entire apartment times like three," Jimmy said in slight shock. Fin and Will came out the bedroom and went up to Olivia.
"I thought we decided Tina was spending the night at Elliot's house?" he asked taking her from Olivia.
"She was, but I'll tell you what happened after we put her to bed and after you tell me why you upgraded us to a master suite," Olivia said crossing her arms. Fin shrugged
"I have no idea, I came here and checked in, and I was told that we had gotten upgraded to a master suite. I swear I didn't do it."
Olivia sighed then shook her head. "Well there goes groceries for the next week. Alright, I believe you. Can you go put her to bed please?"
Fin nodded before walking into one of the bedrooms with Tina in his arms.
"I'm going to go get some coffee, there's a Star buck's right across the street. Do you mind Mrs. Benson? I'm going to need caffeine to keep me awake tonight" Will asked
"No, go ahead" she told him throwing her coat down on the couch
"Thanks, watch her, I'll be right back," he told Jimmy before grabbing a key card off a desk, making sure he had his gun, and then he left the room. Jimmy turned to Olivia, who was avoiding looking at him at all costs.
"So, are you still pissed at me for what I said in the car?"
"Yes, how could you say that about my daughter? I mean she's an innocent four year old. I don't want her knowing that there are racist pricks out there like you yet. I don't want her to think she's different in any way then from a little white girl or a little black girl or whoever. She doesn't deserve that," Olivia told him getting a little chocked up.
Jimmy could see the beginning of tears forming in her eyes "Look, I'm sorry I have been such an ass," he said with surprising compassion. "I have nothing against you or Detective Tutuola personally, but I do think what you're doing is wrong."
"Why?" Olivia asked, surprised that the creep could sound so reasonable.
He shrugged. "I just think people should stick with their own kind. I mean, mixing races does nothing to elevate Blacks (if you are using it as a race, capitalize), Asians, Arabs, or Mexicans, and it only drags the Whites down."
Olivia looked at him in disbelief, too shocked to even speak.
"Really, think about it," Jimmy said. "You and me, we're white. We're part of the racial majority in this country. We have an advantage when it comes to education, employment, government, housing, health care, everything. Now, your daughter's only half White, and most people, when they look at her are going to think she's all black. She's going to be overlooked in school because black kids aren't expected to excel. People will think twice about hiring her, because so many blacks are lazy and unreliable. If she ever runs for office, being a black woman will make it more than twice as hard to win as it would be for a white man. People are going to think twice about renting an apartment to her because they will doubt her ability to hold a job and automatically worry about whether she is using or dealing drugs, and a doctor is never going to give her optimum care because he will assume she doesn't have health insurance."
"It's a good thing most people aren't as stupid and bigoted as you," Olivia said, her voice thick with tears.
"You think so? Have you watched the news or read the paper lately? Statistics prove me right, and most people know it. Whether they have the courage to admit it publicly or not in politically correct, liberal America, they know it, and that knowledge governs their actions. Is it really bigoted to view a group a certain way when statistics prove that's how they are? When you're hunting a rapist, do you consider all possible suspects equally, or do you think it's more likely to be a man between, say eighteen and fifty-five than a woman in her thirties?"
Olivia just glared.
"Go to hell," she said quickly wiping away tears.
"You know I'm right Olivia, why do you keep trying to pretend like I'm not?"
"Not right about what?" Fin said coming out of the bedroom and going up to Olivia. He noticed the tears in her eyes, "Liv what's wrong?" he asked softly.
"Nothing," she said wiping away the tears "it's nothing. Look, I'm really tired so I'm gonna start getting ready for bed okay?"
"Alright, I'll probably be in in a few minutes okay?"
Olivia just gave him a weak smile before she turned around and walked into the bathroom.
Once the door was shut, Fin quickly turned around and faced Jimmy.
"What did you say to her?" he growled.
"Nothing that wasn't true," he said looking at him angrily.
"Oh yeah? What do you think is true?"
"That not only did you mess up Olivia's life, but the fact that she could have had a beautiful white child and you wasted that. Science proves me right that once you have sex with some out side your own race, you're gonna be tainted the rest of your life."
"Tainted? What the hell is that supposed to mean?" Fin asked angrily.
"She'll always have the essence of a black guy in her, no respectable white guy is gonna want anything to do with her."
Words with actions Fin took a step closer to him, leaving not even an inch between them. "You never talk about my wife like that again. You got me you little punk?"
"Whatever," he said taking a step back, "I'll be outside the door. Anything happens give me a holler."
Before Fin could say or do anything, he practically ran out of the room. "Fucking prick" he muttered, considering going after him before finally just going into his bedroom.
"Damn nigger, thinks he can treat me like some piece of crap," he muttered sitting down outside the door. He sighed then looked at his watch.
"Where the hell is Will? He should be back by now," he thought to himself. He got out his cell phone and dialed his partner's number. He let it ring about ten times before he hung up. He looked at the door, then at the elevator.
"They'll be safe, it's only gonna be for like a minute not even." He got up and got on the elevator and rode down to the ground floor. He left the hotel and ran across the street to the Star Bucks. It was after Midnight, so there were only a few people in there. He looked around, but didn't see his partner anywhere.
"Where the hell are you Will?" he asked out loud before leaving the Star Buck's. He was about to cross the street again before he saw something odd. A cell phone at the base of an alley next to the Star Buck's. He went over and grabbed it and opened it.
"This is Will's phone," he muttered in confusion. He got out a mini flashlight from his pocket and shined it in the dark alley.
"Oh, my god," he muttered in fear as the flashlight landed on his partner lying on the ground, a bullet wound in his head, unmoving. He looked up at the hotel and he saw two people go in.
"Oh fuck!" he yelled before he ran across the street to the hotel. He got out his phone and dialed 911.
"This is officer Jimmy Nielson, badge number 3221J, 2-5 precinct. I need an ambulance at the corner of 15th and West Side, the Star Bucks alley way, we got an officer down and possible attack in progress at the Winchester Hotel 20th floor, room 2027!" he said frantically into his cellphone before he ran into the hotel and rushing over to the elevators. Just as he was about to press 'up' an annoying buzzer started going off. He tried again and again to press up on all of them, but none of them were working.
"What the hell is going on?" he asked one of the hotel workers who walked up to the elevators.
"That's the emergency stop button. When one elevator goes wrong, they all stop working."
"But I need to get to the 20th floor now! Someone could be getting attacked right now!"
"I'm sorry sir, you can either wait two hours, or take the stairs."
"Fuck!" he screamed before rushing off to the stairs and hurrying up them.
As Olivia laid in the bed, she rubbed her hands in slow circles over her stomach. She had decided she had to tell him he was pregnant. It wasn't fair to him that all these things were happening to them, and he didn't even know that he had another child on the way.
Fin stripped down to his boxers and got in bed.
"I should just get it over with now," she thought to herself nervously
"Fin I have to tell you something," Olivia said taking a deep breath.
"What?"
Before she could tell him, they heard the door open and then they heard someone walk in.
"Who's that?" Fin asked out loud sitting up in the bed.
"It's just Will, he had to get coffee, but I really need to talk to you," Olivia told him playing with her hair, something she did when she was nervous.
"I know this probably isn't the best time to tell you this, but I'm-" all of a sudden they heard Tina scream loudly.
"Tina!" Olivia cried out as she and Fin got out of the bed and ran to her bedroom, stopping dead cold in the doorway.
"Don't move or I kill the little half breed!" a pale man with black hair hollered as he held a gun to Tina's head and had the other one clasped over her mouth, the key he had stolen from Will lying on the floor .
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