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Chapter 5

The flames danced closer and closer to Elliot as he slowly started to regain consciousness, just enough to feel someone rip him up from the floor and up onto his feet. He felt them hook their arms under his armpits and around his chest as they dragged him along, whoever it was choking on the thick black smoke.

It was only once he was outside and the cold air hit him that he properly woke up. He began coughing along with the person next to him. "Elliot, you ok?" Fin asked him.

"Where's Mac?" Elliot choked, looking at Fin, the man who had just saved his life.

"I came looking for you when I saw you answer your phone at the precinct and then rush out. I was coming to kick your ass, not save it." Fin told him.

"I thought maybe he had Liv here. He was here."

"Well he wasn't when I got here." Fin coughed.

They both jumped as an explosion rang out behind them, the sudden blast of heat and flames knocking them both to the ground. That's when Elliot turned to see his house smothered by flames, although he could hear fire engines approaching he doubted the house could be saved now. His families home was gone.

He shook his head and could only listen along with Fin to the roar of the angry flames.

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Olivia was under the water, pulling at the step, as she struggled to hold her breath. She stood up and took in a deep breath. The water was now creeping up by her shoulders. It was bitter cold and as she refilled her lungs with some much needed oxygen she couldn't help but begin to shiver.

The step had come a little looser but not enough that she could break free. The rain still fell around her and the water seemed to be rising even quicker now.

"Help me!" she shouted as loud as she could. "Please, somebody help me!" she cried out. There was, like every other time she had shouted for help, no reply.

She took a few more shallows breaths before she took another deep breath and then ducked back under the water, ready to try to break herself free again. She knew she had no choice but to save herself.

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Elliot was sat in the back of an ambulance watching as firemen continued battling to save his families home, luckily the heavy rain was helping to put the flames out but it would still would have to be demolished and rebuilt from scratch.

A paramedic, who was putting sutures on the gash on his head, said "This will do for now, but you really should go to hospital and have proper stitches and a head scan."

"I can't." Elliot told him.

Fin walked over to him with just his hand bandaged. He'd burnt it whilst getting Elliot out. Around them CSU waited, ready to collect some evidence if any was left, luckily for Olivia one of them had snuck around the back and so walked up to Elliot and Fin with some of his findings.

"I found a footprint on the back porch, whoever made it had recently stepped in some paint. I took a sample and I'm gonna get it back to the lab for analysis. Maybe it could help, maybe not. I had to get it before all the water and the rain washed it away." the young tech said.

"Thank you." Elliot said genuinely, knowing the man had took a big risk in getting the evidence whilst the house was still burning.

Both Elliot and Fin watched as the tech ran off. Then it hit Elliot how stupid he had been. "I really thought Mac was going to let her go. I don't know why I was so stupid." he said, angry and frustrated.

"I'd probably have done the same thing." Fin said as Elliot stood up and they began making their way towards the crowd of Elliot's neighbours who were watching the fire tear through the remains of the Stabler home.

It was when they got into his car that Fin and Elliot continued talking. "I'm sorry, for being such a prick." Elliot said, "I just…I hate the thought that Olivia is getting hurt because Mac wants to hurt me. I moved my family away from the danger only to put Olivia in it and she doesn't deserve that."

"You didn't do it intentionally. You couldn't have known he would go after Olivia." Fin said sensitively.

Elliot just nodded. "If anything happens to her." he began.

"It won't." Fin told him. "We'll find her in time."

Elliot just nodded and prayed Fin was right.

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Olivia was under the water, still trying to break the bottom step of the ladders off. It was close to breaking now, really close, but it was getting harder and harder for her to stay under the water, to keep holding her breath. She was just so cold.

Needing air quick, she kicked off the step and broke through the surface of the water, taking in a long and somewhat painful breath. She rubbed the water out of her eyes, one at a time. She looked at her broken wrist, it was badly bruised and now more painful than ever, the icy cold water made it sting and throb.

She wrapped her arm around the ladders and let herself just rest for a minute, the water was just above her shoulders now and as soon as she realised she knew she couldn't rest. Not even for a second, not if she wanted to live.

She was about to take in a long breath and go back under when she thought she heard something. Footsteps, moving closer. "Help! Help me! I'm down here!" she shouted, praying it was someone who could help her.

"I know where you are!" Mac said as he dropped to his knees above the drain, shining a bright torch in her face, the only other light in the drain coming from the full moon in the very early hours sky.

Olivia sighed and tried not to sink under the water in frustration. "Please," she begged. "Please, let me out of here?"

"Tell me where Elliot's family is and I will." he told her.

Olivia sighed before she looked up at him and told him, "Not in a thousand years."

"Then I guess that's how long you're staying down there." he told her.

"I won't let you hurt any of them." she said.

"Your choice Olivia, but this is your last chance. When I leave next it will be for good, and I'd say in less than an hour that water is going to be above your head."

"Why are you back here? Just to see if I'm still alive and if I'd changed my mind on telling you where they are?" she asked coldly.

"Kinda." he told her, "I also came to bring you the good news about Elliot."

Olivia was confused, but tired to stare up at him through the torch light.

"He's dead. Toasted like bread." he told her.

Olivia's stomach flipped in her belly, she had to swallow hard so as not to throw up. "You're lying." she said, sounding more like she was asking it.

"No, I'm not. Last I saw of him he was lying face down on his kitchen floor with flames surrounding him."

Olivia heaved, loudly, Mac laughed upon hearing it. Tears began burning her eyes, she tried to tell herself that Mac could be lying but just the thought of Elliot being dead broke her heart. "You came just to tell me that, you FUCKING SON-OF-A-BITCH!" she screamed angrily at him.

"Nope, also to do this…" Mac said as he whipped out a gun, her gun, and pointed it through the grid at her.

Olivia's vision was too blurred by the heavy rain falling in her face and the torchlight shining in her eyes and so her reactions too slow to see what he did. The bullet sped through the rain filled air and broke into her flesh and right through her collar bone. She screamed in agony, burning, blinding, agony. Her scream and the gun shot echoed loudly in the drain around her.

Mac laughed, unable not too seeing the intense pain she was now clearly in. "That looks like it hurts. You should really get to a hospital." he mocked as he stood up.

Olivia barely heard him walking away from the drain, her head was ringing with pain. It was suddenly becoming more and more difficult for her to breathe, there was a sharp pain every time she tried to take a deep breath. She wasn't a Doctor but she guessed the difficulty breathing had something to do with her broken collar bone. She was right, but what she didn't know was the bone had pierced the top of her lung, she was now in more trouble than ever.

Her tears began to fall uncontrollably but even though she was in a world of it they weren't tears of pain, they were tears of sadness. Elliot was dead, and just knowing that made her want to give up the fight for her own life, she had nothing left to give and wasn't sure what she had to live for.

However, just as she was thinking about how pointless it would be to continue trying to fight for her life something occurred to her. She wanted to see Mac punished for what he had done, she wanted to see him writhing in pain for what he had done to Elliot and she wanted to be the one to do it.

TBC

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