Weightless

One.

Obviously I don't own any of the SVU characters.

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Olivia Benson walked into the 1-6 precinct on a Friday morning, she placed her belongings down on the desk and took a seat at her desk. It had been a long week and she was ready for the weekend hoping she could just enjoy some time locked away in the peace of her apartment and not be called in for a case.

"Morning Liv" called a familiar voice. Her partner, Elliot Stabler.

"Hey." Olivia replied with a soft smile as Elliot handed her a cup of coffee, he knew just the way she liked it. "Thank you." she sighed gratefully as she took a sip and Elliot sat down at his desk directly facing hers.

"How are you?" Elliot asked glancing over in her direction.

"I'm fine and you?" she replied as she logged onto her computer.

"Fine" he said with a teased back with grin on his face that earned him a glare from Olivia. Before Elliot could take a sip of his coffee Cragen called out from his office.

"Benson, Stabler. I need you down at Mercy, we have a vic. Nineteen year old was attacked and raped last night at NYU."

"And the day begins." Elliot stated taking a large sip from his cup before the pair grabbed their things and headed towards their squad car. The car ride over to the hospital was spent in a comfortable silence with the exception of Olivia playing with the radio stations every few minutes. Elliot had picked up on her habit early on that she would constantly change the music playing on the radio until she found something she liked.

As they both entered the hospital room Olivia took the lead to start the questions. It was their unspoken connection they shared that made their partnership unlike any regular partnership. They could read each other like a both with just a look.

Without uttering a word to each other they knew exactly how they would approach the situation, being so in sync with each other they could read one another like a book.

The young woman was beaten, bruised and in quite an emotional state.

"Hi, Ashleigh. I'm Detective Olivia Benson and this is my partner Elliot Stabler." Olivia stated gently as she flashed her badge. "We would like to talk to to you about what happened last night."

She took a deep shaky breath before she began to speak, "I was walking back from the library just after midnight when someone grabbed me from behind and covered my mouth. It tried to get away but he threw me to the ground and hit me in the face. He was too strong." She sobbed. "He held me down and pulled up my dress.." Tears ran down Ashleigh's cheeks and she began to hyperventilate.

"It's okay honey, take some nice deep breaths" Olivia spoke as she took Ashleigh's hand, "nice and easy."

Ashleigh focused on Olivia. She looked into Olivia's big brown eyes and felt a sense of safeness, this woman was a complete stranger to her but she already felt comfortable with her.

"Good girl." Olivia cooed as Ashleigh began to calm herself down after a few minutes with Olivia's coaching.

"I was only walking back to my dorm room across campus. I had my headphones in and didn't hear anything."

"This is not your fault, you did nothing wrong."

"How am I supposed to tell my parents, they ship me back home to Florida." Ashleigh sobbed.

They had been out all morning after questioning the young woman for her statement of events. Olivia had stayed with her while they did the rape kit, she was incredibly shaken up from her attack and Olivia wasn't going to let her go through the trauma of the kit alone. They returned a few hours later around lunch time.