The ride home was silent and slightly unnerving to the two women. Olivia waited until they had secured the door and motioned for the officer to make himself scarce. She turned to talk to Alex and found the blonde quickly retreating into the kitchen without a second glance.

"Alex is everything ok?" Olivia asked following Alex into the kitchen.

"Yes" Alex asked without turning around to face her.

"Alex please look at me" Olivia almost pleaded.

Alex took a deep breath and hoped she was masking what she was feeling before turning around.

"Alex" Olivia whispered as she closed the gap between her and Alex "If you're worried about Jess I will stay here till we catch her and you don't have to worry about that ok."

"Olivia that's not what's bothering me." Alex replied honestly for the first time in she couldn't remember how long.

"Then talk to me, please. Tell me what has you so worried."

"I guess I never thought about you leaving and going back home. Somewhere in my mind I had it that you would stay here. I know its childish or whatever you want to call it but I never once considered you leaving. I don't want you to leave."

"Listen even when I move back home" Olivia said silently adding to herself that she didn't want to move back home "We will still see each other every day and can have dinners, go out to plays or movies or just have a girls night at one of our apartments."

"Yeah but it won't be the same as having you here and to be honest for once I truly enjoy having someone to come home to."

"Thank you but did you think I was just going to mooch off you forever."

"I don't see a problem with it."

Olivia started laughing and pulled Alex too her "of course you wouldn't. You are an angel sent from above believe that." Olivia whispered as she pulled away and caught her crystal blue eyes "I need to go call Elliot I need to talk to him."

"Olivia" Alex said in a warning tone.

"Al, I have to have some guy time per say ok." Olivia responded placing a finger on her lips to silence her "You can lay all the rules you want out for him when he arrives ok. I need this ok."

"Deal" Alex said knowing how important it was for Olivia to maintain some autonomy even though she hated the thought of him intruding on her time with her. Hell if she wanted to be totally truthful she hated the friendship they had. It wasn't so much as their friendship as he was the one she turned to and leaned on when she needed somebody. There was nothing more Alex wanted then to be the one Olivia would turn to when she needed a shoulder to lean on. Granted she had been doing that since she was injured but there was going to come a time when it wasn't going to be her anymore and Alex hated that thought more than anything.

"Where too?" Elliot asked as they stepped onto the elevator with Olivia. He had been amazed that Olivia had called him since they hadn't talked since that night they fought in Alex's apartment. It wasn't their first fight and there was no doubt in his mind that as long as they remained partners that it wouldn't be their last fight, but that was the first time it had ever became as physical as it had with them. He was still sporting the bruise to prove it.

"Let's hit the range" Olivia answered with a smile.

"Umm Liv did you not hear that ass chewing I just got." El said looking at her "I would prefer to go home alive. She laid out the rules and I have every intention of following them to a tee."

"Aww is the big bad detective scared of the big bad ADA" Olivia said in a teasing tone as she pushed him into the wall.

"When it comes to you hell yeah." He answered honestly "You didn't see her when you were in the hospital. There's nothing that woman won't do for you Olivia. I can only imagine the amount of money she is spending on your rehab. She told Stephanie if they weren't the leading doctors in the field you needed she didn't want to see them. She would accept nothing but the very best for you."

Olivia fought to fight the tears at bay hearing Elliot tell her that. She knew that Alex had gone above and beyond for her and was paying at the very least forty thousand a month for her hyperbaric treatments that wasn't counting the other therapy she was doing as well or any extra testing that was ordered.

"Let's compromise then" She said "Remember the place where you had the twin's birthday party?"

"The one with the laser tag?" Elliot asked confused and wondering where she was going with this line of thought.

"That's the one. Let's go there. She didn't say anything about laser tag."

"You want to play laser tag?"

"Elliot it is similar to clearing a house. I have to use hand eye coordination and memory function. If you won't take me to the range that's the next best thing. Besides they have some arcade shooting games there that I can practice on."

"I never thought of that. Speaking of shooting games I should bring Dickie's play station II over. He has some shooting games that uses a controller in the shape of a gun. You could use that to help with your shooting and hand eye coordination."

"Please don't tell Alex that she will purchase every system and shooting game on the market for me if she thinks it will help.'

"Let's see how you do tonight and that will determine if I keep my mouth shut."

"Oh really?'

"Yeah Liv just think about it ok. She doesn't want you at the range shooting yet."

"Don't remind me." Olivia groaned.

"Shut up and listen for once. She doesn't want you at the range but she drove all over New York to find a hunting target and sent me to purchase a BB gun that would resemble our weapons. That way you could still practice shooting but lessen your chance at a reoccurring injury. It's helped you right?"

"Yeah the last time I shot it I got almost all the shots in the bull's eye."

"Right and she ordered you the boxing bag to help with your hand eye coordination as well."

"Yes."

"Has that helped?"

"Well yeah."

"Ok then. Let's see how you do with the games. They give you the fast past, twenty things happening at once, scenario's as you would have serving a warrant or going on a raid. You could use that to help your focus and judgment shootings. Hell write a report after each board to practice your recall skills of the events that happened leading up to and after each shooting."

"As much as it pains me to say this I think you may actually have a good argument there." Olivia said shaking her head as she followed him to the car. Never in her life time could she have imagined herself using hunting targets, BB guns, boxing bags and now possibly playing video games to help her career. Then again as the saying goes there's a first time for everything.

A/N: I honestly didn't think I would have time to write another chapter now that I am off desk duty but somehow I did. I have to say thank you for all the glowing reviews. There's nothing that makes my day more than to wake up after a five or six hour nap to work twelve hours and see such rave reviews. Thank you guys so much.