Semper Fi

Three Men in a Bar

Over the next two weeks as Sydney's wounds healed she began to talk more to Olivia and she learned a little more about the little girl's background. Her rescue and the discovery of the baby's body must have been enough to spook Harrington and his crew momentarily because another body had not turned up. She was trying to be patient and slowly earn Sydney's trust but she needed more details and she needed them now.

The frustration of still not having found the suspects and certain aspects of the case were making Olivia restless. She didn't want to keep Elliot up because he had just gotten back from his weekend of training in DC and was dead tired so she decided to relocate to the living room and go over some of Sydney's statement to see if there was anything she was missing.

Olivia was convinced that because there were other girls they had captive over the years this couldn't have been the only baby they killed and it could help them put a pattern together to help find Marshall and Jonathan's location. Moreso she needed to know why he killed some girls and not others. They tracked them to several old warehouses but they had since been cleaned out and there was little to no evidence there.

"What are you doing up babe? It's almost 3am," Elliot asked his voice raspy and full of sleep.

"I couldn't sleep so I'm just going over some of the notes I have on what she's told me so far," she responded still concentrating deeply on the papers surrounding her.

"Liv, you need to get your rest. Come on, let's go back to bed," he said. He tried to reach for her arm but she pulled back.

"I can't. We've got to catch this guy," she said determined. "I know there's something we are missing. Someone has got to be helping this guy or there's a contact that we aren't thinking of. And Sydney...I just...she's almost there to trust me but I need her to tell me everything and she keeps holding back."

Elliot looked on at her still keeping quiet. He could see her frustration and he knew why this case meant so much to her but it affected him to see her so upset about someone not opening up about what they had gone through when she still hadn't opened up to him. It's something that hadn't been talked about much between them and he didn't want to push it but the more he had seen her so affected by this case the more he was hoping that she would see the parallels and want to talk to him about everything.

He was so quiet standing in front of her that she finally looked at him for some kind of reaction. He hesitated a moment before it eventually came out. "It's definitely frustrating when someone won't talk to you about what they went through," he said looking her square in the eyes. "I'm sure she will come around though."

Olivia fidgeted with her hands in her lap, his ironic statement not lost on her.

"It's not the same thing," she whispered.

"To me it is. You won't tell me what happened to you. With Lewis..... or with Sealview," he continued to speak softly. Now he was fidgeting with his hands as well.

"This is for a case Elliot." Her tone was a bit more forceful and she was pissed that he would use her work as a way to bring up what happened with her.

"And this is for us," he quickly countered. "I want you to be able to talk to me about anything, about everything."

"I do talk to you just not about this! I told you I don't want to relive it. Why would you bring this up now? When I'm pregnant?" she asked her voice getting louder.

"That's exactly why I'm bringing it up. I don't know what it is but something is off Olivia. There's a reason other than reliving it that you don't want talk to me about it and with this case I am concerned about you. You think I just want to get off on the sick details?!" he yelled back. He took a deep breath and tried to calm himself.