When they arrived at Olivia's apartment, there was no settling in, no drinks were offered, no 'make yourself at home' was uttered. They simply pushed through the door and started where they left off in the parking garage. Olivia shoved Amanda into a wall and pulled her shirt from her slacks, she removed her own jacket as Amanda rid herself of hers. Hands were everywhere, feeling, groping, pulling clothes from the others body, tangled in hair, and exploring new skin. Once they were both free of everything but their bras and panties, Olivia lifted Amanda from the floor, arms wrapped tightly around her waist. Amanda wrapped her legs around Olivia's middle and her arms behind her neck. They made their way to the bedroom and fell onto the bed, still wrapped around each other. Olivia looked into Amanda's eyes, those beautiful blue eyes told her everything. They said how badly she wanted Olivia, they told her everything the blonde wanted to say but couldn't find the words. They crashed into each other again, the kiss was hard and passionate, full of want and need. The building stress that Olivia had been under for what seemed like an eternity since becoming the commander of SVU and then having it taken from her so suddenly was coming out in the way she took control and finally let go with Amanda.
After making love for what seemed like an eternity, they found themselves comfortably wrapped in each other's arms, both slowly coming down from their highs.
Olivia ran her fingers along Amanda's spine causing Amanda to shiver slightly at her touch. Her stress seemed to have drained away after her second orgasm and she was floating on air, happy to be skin to skin with the woman she had been steadily falling for.
"That was wonderful." Amanda whispered into the darkness, drawing lazy patterns on Olivia's chest.
"I think I have to agree with you on that one. Wow." She still couldn't believe it. The two were silent for a few minutes before Amanda suddenly propped herself up on her elbow to get a look at Olivia. "I know this might ruin the mood, buy I keep thinking about it. What are we going do about Reynolds? I mean, clearly he's nuts, I don't think I can work under him indefinitely." She said, cringing at the thought of having to work for that man any longer than necessary.
"I don't know, I agree though, he's clearly unstable. It really bothers me that he's the one they chose to replace me, it's like they never even spoke to him and drew his name out of a hat. He seems like the least likely candidate for that position, or any position really if he has to deal with people." Olivia said, honestly confused with the decision by 1PP. "I mean I've never even heard of him before, we know nothing about him."
"I know, that's what bothers me so much." Amanda said, brushing hair away from her face, sighing her frustration.
"Is that my phone?" Olivia asked as she heard a faint ringing sound, realizing it was in fact her phone, and she had left it in the living room along with her clothes and her bag. "Shit." She muttered, jumping from the bed and hurrying to answer it.
She got to it just in time, seeing it was Fin calling she quickly answered it, slightly out of breath. "Hello?" she breathed into the phone.
"Am I interrupting something?" Fin asked with a slight chuckle.
"No you're fine, I left my phone in the other room. What's up?" trying to even out her breathing.
"Okay well, I made some calls trying to find something on Captain Jack-Ass and I got some pretty interesting info." He said, proud of himself for finding such sensitive information, but slightly concerned about what exactly that information was.
"That's great! I was just wondering if I could find anything out about him. I've never even heard of him until he walked into the squad room this morning. What did you find out?" she asked as she settled back into her bed with Amanda who was fixing her with a questioning look. "It's Fin." She mouthed, earning a nod of understanding and the full attention of the blonde.
"Well, I want to meet up with the team tomorrow morning and discuss everything, I don't really want to say anything over the phone." He was not usually this paranoid, but with what he had just discovered he wanted to be as safe as possible. "Can you meet at nine in Central Park?" he asked.
"Uh, sure I think I can manage that. Nine a.m. in Central Park. Have you called anyone else?" she asked, giving Amanda a look that expressed her confusion.
"No just you, I was about to call Amanda and then Carisi."
"I'll let Amanda know, you deal with Carisi. I'll see you in the morning. Goodnight Fin."
"Alright, sounds good. Night Liv."
She ended the call and looked to Amanda who was growing more and more impatient with each moment she didn't know what was going on.
"Fin found some information on Reynolds." She said plainly.
"What was it?"
"He wouldn't say over the phone, he wants us to meet him and Carisi in Central Park at nine tomorrow morning." Olivia said, crawling back under the blankets and snuggling close to Amanda.
"He's not usually so cloak and dagger, I wonder what he found out." Amanda wondered out loud.
"I don't know, but I'm sure it's not good." She placed a soft kiss just below Amanda's ear. "Let's get some rest sweetheart, I have a feeling it's going to be a long day tomorrow."
"Goodnight Liv." Amanda said, pulling one of Olivia's hands to her mouth and placing a light kiss to her knuckles.
"Goodnight."
The next morning was chilly, Olivia wondered if it was more her nerves or the actual temperature outside, but she couldn't stop shivering as she and Amanda waited on a park bench for Fin and Carisi to arrive.
"I wonder what Fin found that makes him want to be so secretive." Amanda asked, pulling her coat tighter around her, hugging herself. "And why the hell couldn't we meet indoors?"
"You know Fin doesn't get paranoid very easily. Whatever he found is a big deal if he's going to these lengths to keep it secret." Olivia answered with a slight chuckle at Amanda's irritation. Just then she spotted two men walking towards them, it was Fin and Carisi, Fin carried an accordion folder containing what she assumed was the information causing him to become so secretive.
"Finally." Amanda groaned.
"Hey." Fin said as he and Carisi approached the two women. "Let's go somewhere indoors since Amanda looks like she's going to freeze to death out here."
"Hey, it's cold." She grumbled, pulling her coat tighter around her slender frame.
"Are you going to tell us why we're here at all?" Olivia asked Fin, gesturing towards the folder.
"When we get inside, there's a bar down the street and I know the owner. No one will be there at this time so we'll have complete privacy."
The group walked to the bar Fin had talked about and entered through a back door that opened up to a large private room in the back of the building. They chose a table and sat down, everyone giving Fin a look that said "get on with it".
"Alright, so after you two left to interview the Landry's yesterday, Captain Jack-Ass jumped on Carisi for not "addressing him correctly" and it got me thinking that maybe we need to see what we can find out about this guy. I made a few calls to some old colleagues and found some pretty interesting stuff." He opened up the folder he had been carrying and pulled out several files. "It turns out, Reynolds is the son of Avery Reynolds." He paused, waiting for his teammates to connect the dots. Carisi was lost, having no idea what Fin was getting at and Amanda only had a vague idea of who Avery Reynolds was, Olivia however knew immediately.
"Avery Reynolds? THE Avery Reynolds?" she asked in disbelief.
"Can someone help out the newbies? I think Rollins and I are both completely lost. Who is Avery Reynolds?" Carisi asked, looking between Olivia and Fin for answers.
"About ten years ago, there was a sex trafficking ring busted up by Brooklyn SVU. It was full of high status individuals, company CEOs, lawyers, judges- you name it, so it was a huge case. They recovered a client book and Avery's name was in it as a repeat customer." Olivia explained, she remembered that case well, it was on the news and front pages of every paper for months.
"So, the captain's father is in prison for rape and trafficking?" Carisi asked still confused on which direction this information was leading.
"You'd think so, but no. His lawyers convinced the jury that he was being framed by the NYPD. He was sleeping with the wife of one of the officers who handled the evidence. His name in the book was thrown out and he was one the only clients not in any photos or videos so the case against him was shot. He lost his job and house because of the arrest and the headlines he made. He got off scott free and was rewarded a twelve million dollar settlement by the city." Olivia explained further. She knew Avery Reynolds was guilty and so did everyone else, but a technicality derailed the case against him.
"I still don't understand Lieu, what does the captain have to do with any of that? That's his father's crime, not his."
"His son was later suspected of helping his father cover his tracks. He had just made detective around that time. The Interpol agent that worked with the detectives continued trying to build a case against Reynolds but had nothing but a couple of vacations to The Virgin Islands. Get this though, each time he went on his little trips, he didn't go alone." Fin said, going through his files to find a specific one to prove his theory. "He always went with his son, Captain Brian Reynolds." He pushed a paper to the center of the table and pointed out ticket receipts from both Captain Reynolds and his father.
"They were doing it together?" Olivia asked grabbing up the paper to see it for herself. "How did this get missed in the original investigation?"
"You know how it is Liv, that was a really big case." Fin said, understanding all too well how the pressure of a case like that can make you miss things. "There's more, I talked to a guy who I use to find out anything I need to be found out, he says that the Captain has continued his little vacations, only now he goes by himself, but on daddy's dime."
"He hasn't stopped." Amanda said, speaking up for the first time since they all sat down. "But why would they put him at SVU? I mean, he's got ties to human trafficking rings and they make him commander of a sex crimes unit? That's gotta be the dumbest thing I've ever heard."
"I thought the same thing, that's why I had my guy get into the discipline reports for NYPD." He turned to Liv. "Turns out there has been no discipline report filed against you Liv. As far as anyone looking at the paperwork knows, you're still in command of SVU."
"That doesn't make any sense! Technically I'm still in command, but I was told personally by the Chief of Police that I wasn't? What the hell is going on here?" she was getting frustrated now, she ran her fingers through her hair and leaned back in her chair with a sigh. Nothing was making sense.
"They want Reynolds out." Fin said plainly. "There have been more than a few sexual harassment reports filled against him that all went away just after they were reported."
"So daddy is paying off the women filling the reports, and once the complainant recants then it's all over with. Damn, they've gotta be some lucky bastards." Carisi said, not really speaking to anyone in particular, but putting things together for himself. "But what's the end game for putting him at SVU? They give him access to vulnerable women and expect that to help them make a case?"
"Alright, here's the big one. One of the women who filled a report against Reynolds is the niece of Deputy Chief Dodds. I think he is the one who requested this whole set up in order to get Reynolds for whatever it is he did to his niece. They all know we're good at our jobs and sooner or later we would put the pieces together to figure out what Reynolds was doing, it's what we do. I also think they know we will make it stick." Fin said, he had put some serious thought into why they would have put someone like Reynolds in charge of a unit like SVU.
"That might be a longshot Fin, but then again you could be spot on. This wouldn't be the first time a dirty cop was set up by the brass when they couldn't get enough on him. Putting Reynolds in SVU would be like dangling meat in front of a lion, it's only a matter of time before he slips up." Olivia said, finally understanding why she was taken out of command over her blow up at that reporter, she should've gotten a mark in her jacket, not a demotion. "Alright, so now we know what's going on, but what do we do about it?" she looked around at the other members of her team before turning back to Fin who had an ever growing smile spreading across his face.
"We catch him."
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