She doesn't sleep at all that night. She refuses to stay in his guest room. Instead she curls up on the couch. In the morning when he wakes up he finds that she's gone. For a moment he begins to dial her cell phone, only to remember it's in evidence lock up. He tries her number anyway. He is surprised when someone on the other end picks up. At first he reminds himself after all this time her number has probably been reassigned.
"Hello?" the voice on the other end repeats.
"I..." he stutters.
"Fin, do you need something?"
"Olivia?"
"Why do you sound so surprised."
"I just figured that..."
She cuts him off, "I got a new phone this morning. It is the same number."
"Where are you?"
"I am trying to put my life back together."
"Liv that is a journey, not a destination."
"I am looking for a new apartment."
"So you did hear some of what I said?"
"I was listening."
"I wasn't sure that you were processing anything that I said."
"I took what you said to heart. You're right."
"How did you get a phone, you don't have any money."
"I went to evidence lock up first thing this morning, and retrieved my belongings. Luckily they recognized me, because all of my I.D. was in evidence."
"Not all of it."
"Where is my gun, and badge?" she questions.
"Olivia slow down. You're skipping steps here. You are not ready to get back to work, just yet."
"I just want to know where they are."
"The captain has them."
"Ok."
"Olivia I don't think that it is a good idea for you to be by yourself right now."
"Who said that I was?"
He furrows his brow in confusion at her 180 from the previous day. He thinks about the situation for a moment, and then a light bulb flips on. "Liv you're not trying to bait him, are you?"
"What makes you think that?"
"Yesterday you were afraid that he would find you, and yet today you are acting fearless."
"I'm not alone. When I walked out your door this morning Amanda was asleep in your hallway."
"She wasn't supposed to fall asleep."
"Fin I appreciate your concern, but I have been a prisoner for the past several months. I really don't appreciate the guard at the door."
"I am sorry. I was just trying to keep you safe."
"I know."
"When will you be back?"
"I'll see you at the station."
"You're not going in today, are you?"
"Where else am I going to go? Fin I can't sit and wallow."
"Therapy, the gym, wherever you might go to feel better."
"Work is where I go."
"Liv, come on."
"Please just let me do this," she begs.
"Olivia I am not your keeper. You are an adult you can do whatever you want," he begins.
She cuts him off, "But?"
"Do me a favor and slow down. Don't try to be the hero."
"I'm not."
"Then what are you doing?"
"I am just trying to survive."
"I will see you at work. Be safe."
She hangs up the phone.
When he enters the squad room she has already arrived. He looks over at Amanda, who sits at her desk. She shakes her head. He approaches her desk, questioningly.
"What's the look for?" Fin wonders.
"Stay out of the path of hurricane Olivia," she warns.
"What's going on?"
"She's been in the captain's office since we got here."
"Why is that a bad thing?"
"I have seen at least two objects fly across the room so far."
"How long have you been here?""We just got here ten minutes ago."
He looks towards the captain's office. Olivia comes out the door. She slams it behind her. She grabs her purse, and walks past her desk, in a fury.
"Where are you going?" Fin asks her.
"The basement," she answers.
He furrows his brow, "Whoa! No, sit down!" he says firmly.
"Fin," she pushes, "Just get out of my way. Please let me go."
"Liv sit down at your desk, now!"
Her nostrils flare. She turns around, and goes over to her desk. She pulls the chair out, and has a seat. He gives her a stern look, "I am going to go talk to the captain, stay put."
She folds her arms across her chest. Fin enters the captain's office, closing the door behind him. Don looks up from his desk. Fin stands in front of him.
"What just happened here?"
"She wanted her gun, and badge."
"You didn't give them to her, did you?"
"I told her she had to pass her psych evaluation before she could have her gun back.""That is when she started throwing things?"
"I didn't realize how angry she was."
"She has a right to be."
"She's angry at everyone Fin."
"Wouldn't you be?"
"We never would have found her. She has every damn right to be angry. She can be angry at all of us, I am fine with that. I am angry at us."
"But?"
"The person she is angry at the most is herself. I am not ok with that."
"So what happened?"
"I gave her the badge back. I told her that she would have to wait for the gun."
"So why did she tell me she was going to the basement."
"I told her that she could work on cold cases."
"Captain those files are in the basement," he reminds his boss.
Don smacks his hand on his own forehead, "I banished her to the basement. I didn't even think about it. She's spent the last six months in a basement prison. What was I thinking?"
"You weren't."
"Will you have her come back in here?"
He nods. Fin exits the room. His eyes fall on Olivia's empty desk, as he enters the bullpen. He looks to Amanda.
"Where is Liv?"
"She wouldn't stay. I tried to make her. She went to the basement."