Olivia blinked several times and took in details every time she opened her eyes. What she saw was dull. Everything was gray, except for the several faces in front of her.

When she'd finally opened her eyes all the way and had full vision, she realized that she was in a...a warehouse...? She tried to move her hands, but she quickly realized that they were tied to a chair, as well as her ankles. Great. Exactly what she'd envisioned was happening. But she'd thought that Rob would at least think of something more creative. This was just the classic kidnap/drug/torture/kill thing that everybody saw in the movies. This was just dumb. Yet, Olivia was terrified. Why shouldn't she be? She was stuck in a chair in a warehouse with a guy who killed her best friend in college and almost raped her, and then came back 30 years later and raped and killed another girl, not to mention that she'd held a gun to his head but he'd ended up in prison and she hadn't. Also, just to make things ten times worse, there were six other escaped prisoners who didn't look too happy with her. She definitely wasn't about to escape this.

When Elliot woke up in a hospital, he immediately remembered what had happened. He'd gotten shot and he couldn't get up and help Olivia when she needed him. Things hadn't gone how he'd thought they'd go when Rob came. He thought that Rob would have come over a week ago, in the middle of the night when they were both asleep. Elliot thought he'd probably have flipped on the light and aimed a gun at Olivia, and then Elliot and Olivia would both pull out their guns, and that would be that, Rob would be out of their hair. But no, even though Elliot had known that Rob would come at a time they wouldn't expect, he hadn't expected two weeks later, nor first thing in the morning. They'd been completely unprepared.

Elliot spotted a nurse and grabbed her arm. "Hey, when can I leave here?" he asked.

The nurse looked surprised. "Oh, you're up, Detective Stabler! Let me go tell your team," she exclaimed.

Elliot tried his best not to glare at her. He wasn't in the mood for nurses who were all happy that he'd woken up, just to keep him trapped in that shitty hospital for another two days, with shitty food, and with the shitty fact that he wouldn't be out to help Olivia. He sure hoped things didn't go like that. He sure hoped he'd get out of this place.

The nurse walked out of the room and seconds later, Cragen, Fin, and Munch appeared in his room. Even though he knew that Olivia was gone and that was all he'd been able to think about for the five minutes that he'd been awake, it was still really weird for Elliot to see the three of them come into his hospital room without Olivia. It just reminded him that this was all real, and Olivia was really taken, and it sickened him.

"It was Rob Lawrence. Olivia and I didn't tell you, but he escaped from prison, and he took Olivia this morning," Elliot said.

Cragen shook his head, not understanding. "Why Olivia? Yeah, so she was his arresting officer, but you were there too. Why go after her?"

Elliot looked down. This was the part that he couldn't tell Cragen about.

Cragen knew he was hiding something though.

"Elliot? What's going on?" he asked.

Think quick, Elliot, he thought. "Rob was...he was Olivia's college teacher. He raped and killed her best friend and he tried to hurt Olivia too," he said. That was all he was going to say. That was plenty explanation, and that was the truth. He was just hiding a couple things, like the fact that Olivia had almost killed Rob that night that they had "arrested" him.

All three of the men in front of Elliot looked shocked.

"So that was why Olivia was so upset during that case?" Cragen asked.

Elliot nodded. "Yeah. Anyway, Rob came to her apartment early this morning. I heard him kick in the door, but Olivia must not have. She had on music. So I knew he was there, but before I could even find my gun and prepare myself, Rob came in and shot me in the shoulder. I guess he got the gun from the officers he hurt when he escaped prison. He held the gun to my head, knowing that Olivia was coming, and he made her go with him because he told her he'd kill me. Olivia agreed to go but only if Rob called an ambulance for me."

Elliot did his best not to cry in front of his team, and he didn't, but it was really hard. Olivia had chosen to keep him safe but she'd given herself up. When Elliot had first woken up, he'd been sort of shocked, but now that he had to explain the whole story out to his team, he was reminded of just how awful this was. What if he never saw her again? What if she was tortured and in pain when she died? What if he never found her, and she never saw him coming to help her? What if Rob got his way?

"Please get me out of this hospital. We need to find Olivia," Elliot said.

Cragen looked like he disapproved of this idea. "You should stay and recover."

"No. I want to help find her," he said.

Cragen knew how awful this must be for Elliot, so he gave in and talked to a couple nurses and got Elliot out of the hospital.

Elliot's arm hurt like hell, but his heart hurt a lot worse with a longing for Olivia.

AN: Watch out for the next chapter, it should be up by late tonight, I'd say. And review for me, because the more reviews I get, the faster I update. Thanks to balseirocharmed for reviewing & especially thanks to SilvrBlade-you review all my stories, thanks for that. (: