A/N: thanks for the reviews and the support everyone. I just feel there isn't enough Rolivia stories out there (although I have read some good ones!) I'm actually writing Olivia's sexual exploration from a little bit of personal experience as I didn't realise I was bi myself until I was almost 30! During lockdown I was watching a movie and two women got into a pretty heavy make out session...and the rest is self explanatory. Anyway enjoy this next instalment.
Chapter 5
The next few weeks passed in a flurry of activity. Work was busy, They were still hunting for the killer of the little girl in the park with no luck in DNA or finger prints off the belt they were scrambling in the dark. Another little girl had gone missing and now they were spending all their time in the squad room, at the parents house and in the cribs snatching an hours sleep when they could.
Olivia was exhausted, more than she'd felt in years. She had been awake now for 48 hours not counting the 2 hours rest she had gotten yesterday. They had to find this kid before she was the next body they found. She was stressed and so were the rest of the squad but she felt it hitting her harder than she ever had before.
"Benson?" Amanda's voice broke her chain of thoughts abruptly.
"Yeah?" She looked towards the blonde questioningly when she saw the concern on her face she straightened herself up and stood , walking towards the coffee maker and turning her nose in disgust at the stale smell emitting from it.
"I'm gonna make a coffee and sandwich run, anyone want anything?" Olivia asked. Fin and Munch asked for sandwiches and doughnuts and Cragen just said he only wanted coffee. The blonde got up to help.
"you sure as hell ain't carrying all that yourself and I need to stretch my legs" She said before Olivia could object.
As they walked down the street Amanda broke the silence when she asked with concern "Where was your head at a minute ago?"
"Just thinking that I hope we can find this kid in time before she becomes the next body we find" Olivia answered truthfully "And also that I'm so god damn tired that I must be getting old." She added with a half smile.
"Liv we've been awake for days, we're all feeling it trust me. You're not old" Amanda rolled her eyes.
"Well I'm older than you" Olivia muttered sceptically.
"Just how old are you Olivia?" Amanda asked cheekily throwing in a wink when she saw Olivia scowl.
"Don't you know it's impolite to ask a lady her age?" Olivia countered. "Besides, I know I'm old. You don't have to lie to me" Olivia answered walking into the deli.
"Come on , you can tell me I wont tell anyone" Amanda teased "If you don't answer I'm gonna start assuming you're drawing your pension soon" She laughed at Olivia's outraged stare.
"I'm 43" She mumbled under breath.
"no shit?" Amanda answered surprised her eyebrows disappearing under her hair for a second.
"See...Old" Olivia laughed at the younger woman's reaction.
"No you're just looking good for a woman over 40...Like really really good. I would have said 35 if I had to guess" Amanda replied grinning back at her as they placed everyone's order and waited for the sandwiches to be ready.
"Flatterer" Olivia laughed again "Now it's your turn, how old are you Amanda?" She waited for a response.
"I plead the fifth" Amanda tried to avoid answering the question knowing the age gap would bother Olivia more than her gender.
"Hmm then I'm gonna have to assume that you're deflecting because you're way too young for me to even be considering what I have been considering" Olivia mused aloud her voice dropping lower suggestively.
"Well I guess I have no choice if I want to find out more about those thoughts huh?" Amanda replied and sighed "I'm 31 Olivia, not too young for anything you might be considering . Trust me" her voice also dropped lower not wanting to be overheard when she added "And I've been considering it too, a lot. Especially late at night" The conversation came to an abrupt end when their order was ready they got coffee and doughnuts and headed back to the squad room.
They worked all night when a lead finally came through that an anonymous tip off had come through to check an abandoned warehouse. The caller said he had seen a man with a child go in late at night and had seen him come and go a few times but he had always been alone apart from that once when he had seen him with the child.
"Alright everyone wear your vests, call for back up before entering and try to resolve this peacefully" Cragen instructed "we want that scumbag in here so we can charge him but above all we want that girl back at home with her family ,safe and sound. Got it?" He waited for the nods from his team then added "Right get to work guys!" he turned to his office and called for more uniformed officers to back his team up.
When they got to the warehouse Olivia and Amanda were front and centre with Fin not far behind as they rounded the corned of the building with their backs to the wall and weapons drawn. Olivia signalled to Fin that she was gonna open the door and to hang back and she turned the door knob surprised when it opened easily.
They crept through the dark clearing each room quietly so not to alert anyone to their presence when they heard a high pitched childish voice pipe up.
"Stop it you're hurting me" and then a scream followed by sobs echoed through the building.
"Shut up , you little bitch" A voice snarled and the sound of glass breaking could be heard.
As Olivia silently shuffled through the open door and she was met with a small light coming from what looked like it had once been an office. She turned back and saw Fin and Amanda were still on her tail and motioned in front of her towards the light to signal that's where she was going. She moved forward slowly not looking back because she knew her back was covered. When she got to where the window on the door was she crouched to avoid being seen and made to open the door finding it locked she decided she best just kick it in as the man would know of her presence now. Standing and putting her wight behind it she kicked with full force breaking the old cheap wood easily.
"NYPD! Freeze" She called gun pointing at the balding slightly overweight man she found stood over a frightened little girl who was tied to a pipe by her hands. The man was holding a broken liquor bottled above his head and had obviously been about to harm the child more than he already had.
The man lunged towards the kid with the bottle and held it against her throat and snarled "yeah touch me and the kid gets it" He smirked even though he was afraid he wasn't gonna show it.
"I have back up with me and if you try to hurt the girl again I will have no reason not to shoot you in the face you son of a bitch" Olivia was in complete command now, adrenaline flowing through her veins; this was a situation she had been in multiple times. She registered Fin and Amanda behind her weapons still drawn but hanging back not wanting to make the situation worse.
The man faltered, he didn't actually want to die but he didn't want to go to prison either. Olivia saw the movement and pounced forward when she saw his hand drop the glass and hold his hands up in surrender. She pushed him to the ground and cuffed him roughly motioning for the other detectives to come in.
Amanda rushed to the little girls side untying her quickly. "It's okay honey were cops. You're safe now come on"she pulled the distressed girl into a hug as Olivia used her radio to inform them that suspect was in custody and to call a bus for the victim.
Two hours later Olivia and Amanda were sitting outside the kid's hospital room waiting to interview their victim. All were exhausted but there was still work to do until they could arraign the bastard. They sat side by side not touching but aware of one another's need for quiet reflection at this time.
Victim interviewed, rape kit concluded and evidence bagged and tagged they made their way back to the 16th precinct getting ready to interview their suspect who had stupidly asked for a lawyer straight away. There would be no deals and no remorse on their part when he was put away for as long as possible.
It was nearly 24 hours later when their man was remanded to Rikers to await trial and the squad finally were readying to leave. Olivia stood quickly before swaying on her unsteady feet for a moment and then collapsing to the floor in a dead faint as she heard Amanda's voice as if far away cry out "Somebody call a bus!" Olivia heard nothing more as she lay on a crumpled heap on the floor.
When she opened her eyes she was in a bright room, the bright fluorescent lights burning her eyes a little she winced as she took in the surroundings, She was in a hospital bed and fluids were dripping into her arm via an IV. She looked to her left and saw the blonde detective hunched in the uncomfortable chair asleep.
When she moved a little stretching her muscles, she groaned alerting the young detective that she was awake.
"Thank god Liv!" She got up and moved towards the bed "We were all so worried" Amanda took her hand as Olivia gasped and said simply "Water" her throat felt so dry and felt immediate relief when she took the first sip from the staw of the plastic cup that Amanda held up to her mouth.
"why am I in the hospital?" Olivia questioned her quietly.
"You fainted at the precinct, you were dehydrated and in dire need of sleep" Amanda explained to her "You scared the shit out of me Olivia" She admonished her friend.
Olivia chuckled weakly "Yeah sorry about that" She mumbled and leant back on her pillow unable to do anything more except enjoy the way the blond held her hand rubbing her thumb over the back of her hand.
"I'm gonna let the nurse know you're awake" Amanda kissed the back of her hand before laying it down on the white sheets and walking from the room quickly informing the nurse who followed her back into Olivia's room.
"Ah Detective you're awake . Good." She said checking her vitals and writing in her chart. "Now do you have a next of kin or a family member you would like us to inform as there's nothing on file" the nurse asked her patient.
"No I uh...I don't have anyone" Olivia blushed a little realising how true those words were stung a bit.
"Well I need to speak to you alone about some things that were found during our tests whilst you were unconscious." The nurse stated looking at Amanda warily.
"Um Amanda is my...she's my best friend so you can talk in front of her" Olivia answered a little scared now so she reached her hand out to the blonde who took it quickly and squeezed it with reassurance.
The nurse nodded and then asked her question "Did you know you were pregnant detective?" She waited and noticing the look of shock on the brunettes face she assumed that she had not known.
"Well you are, I'd say about seven or eight weeks from the results we have of your tests. That's why you became so dehydrated and exhausted that you collapsed." The nurse explained softly.
"I'm pregnant?" Olivia asked even though she had heard the words hadn't sunk in "you're sure?" She asked needing the confirmation.
"yes" The nurse nodded "Are you sure you don't want me to call someone?" She asked again.
"Um no" Olivia said still dumb struck. She was pregnant and there was no doubt in her mind that it was Elliot Stabler's baby.