Hearing the voice, Olivia dreaded turning around to face it. However, one of the men spat at her, "Hey hottie, how bout you show us that pretty little face again?"
The comment made Olivia twitch, and it made Elliot start towards the men—guns or not. Olivia put out a hand to stop him and turned around.
"Yeah, some rat blew your cover, told us that you weren't who we thought." the men laughed at their blank faces. "And we knew y'all were gonna lead us somewhere interesting. But little did we know that we just got to see two of New York's finest in action!" An uproar of laughter rang through the empty precinct. Elliot took a step back, trying to get to a phone, a weapon, anything.
"DON'T YOU MOVE, you little spy. You thought you were going to dig up some dirt on us? Funny joke. Whatever you know—which is probably very little—will be gone once we're finished with you."
"You can't kill two cops and get out alive, I hope you know." Olivia snarled.
"She's just as feisty out of the sack as she is in it!"
"Shut up. Shut up. Don't even—" Elliot began to lunge at the men again.
"Look at this one. Now he wasn't just fuckin her to save his life. Ahhh, no. Look at these little cop lovebirds."
Elliot suddenly stopped struggling. Behind the group of men Cragen was sneaking through the door, gun aimed and flanked by three other cops. Olivia barely dared to breathe, afraid of giving them away. But what was Cragen's strategy, and was there any way to make it out of this with no bloodshed?
They needed these men to crack the trafficking ring. If shots began to fly, Olivia and Elliot were standing there completely unarmed and unprotected in the middle of the precinct, with not even a wall to duck behind.
Elliot, for once, did not want a battle. He didn't want to see any sick sonuva bitches get shot. He simply wanted his partner to get alive, and goddammit, he wanted to avoid a cock block for once. Out of the corner of his eye he saw her brush her hair out of her eyes. She was preparing for a fight, he could feel it.
A shot rang out from Captain Cragen's gun and all hell broke loose.