A Year and 365 Days

Chapter 5

Saturday

"How'd you sleep?" Rollins asked Amaro as she poured him a cup of coffee in an NYPD mug
"I didn't. You?"
"Same."
"Sleeping in the cribs will do that to ya, especially when we're missing one of our own." Amaro stated with a touch of his New York accent
"Are Munch and Fin up yet?"
"Yea, they went out a couple of minutes ago."
"Seriously? On a day like this when Liv is missing?"

They sat at each of their desks. Amaro sat uncomfortable with the empty presence across his desk. Olivia's desk had been left with the chair tucked in and the stack of files neatly piled onto the right side of her desk. Back when Amaro had first joined the squad, Olivia had three frames of pictures on her desk. Some were of her and Elliot, her old partner who left without any closure. The other one was of her mother. Only one picture remained, and that was her of her mother.

"Alrighty, grab your donuts." Munch said entering the bullpen with Fin following
"Thought we'd get us all some better coffee then that shi-" Fin began"
"Get your asses together, now so far all we have as evidence is the impressions from the alleyway, the security cameras recording the incident, and the unidentified SUV." Captain intruded

The squad pulled their heads out of their circle of donuts, coffee, and tired eyes. They followed Captain to the pin board where a set up was already in the progress.

"Friday night, 9:15, Olivia Benson is taken by an unidentified man in a black SUV."

A picture of Olivia went up in her uniform. Her eyes stared out at every single detective.

"That's all we have right now. We need to get our heads out of our asses because who knows where the hell she could be right now. Our duty is to find her. Now, Rollins, Fin, did you get to TARU about Olivia's cell phone records?"
"Yes, so far the call from Brian was confirmed at the location of her parking lot. Her phone went off charts after 1:00am or so." Rollins responded

"What about GPS for her last recent location?"

Rollins stared at Fin as if they had forgotten something. With lack of sleep from searching and scanning the crime scene, they hadn't bothered to ask. A mistake on their part was what it was.

"Go." Captain said with an anxious tone
Fin and Rollins exited the bullpen leaving Munch and Amaro.
"What about security cameras? Anything?" He asked towards Munch
"After hours security cameras caught the SUV heading onto the Henry Hudson bridge."
"Alright, that's a start. Heading towards Riverdale."

Cragen put pinpoint tacks on the New York City map, that included several other cities and boundaries.

"Should I go see how Brian is doing? Heard he isn't at IAB today." Amaro asked
"No it's alright, Munch, go find Brian, you know him best."

Munch exited the squad room where Captain leaned forward on Olivia's desk. Amaro sat in his desk chair biting the end of a pen.
"How you holding up?" Cragen asked

Amaro scoffed tossing the pen on the table. He uncrossed his legs. He leaned his hands into his forehead where his elbows had support from his knees. Cragen could tell he hadn't slept at all, knowing that Olivia being his partner, had been taken and he couldn't do anything about it.

"Nick-"
"We have an exact location on her last recent location!" Rollins came running in
Fin followed behind her
"Last location was recorded in Yonkers at Woodworth Avenue. Fin said

"That's nearly an hour away. Let's go, strap up, I'll meet you down there, I'm calling in SWAT."
Rollins exited with Fin.
"Cap-"
"Your coming with me."

Within a few minutes they had made their way to a sedan and blasted the sirens and lights on. Captain drove through the clearing streets of New York City making their way towards the Henry Hudson bridge. The radio went back and forth between Rollins and Amaro

"Address is 4263 Woodworth Avenue."
"Alright, is SWAT down there?" Amaro asked over the radio
"No. We're a bit farther than you."
"Alright, let's make sure we get her this time."

20 minutes later

Rollins and Fin were already strapping up with their guns in hand. SWAT was already there talking amongst each other at what they possibly could find behind the front door they were standing in front of. Captain and Amaro exited their vehicles where Munch had pulled up behind him. Munch refused to let Brian come with him, having enough stress of a missing girlfriend and possibly finding her body behind the door. Munch knew best for him anyways.

"Alright let's go in." Captain ordered

The house had two stories from the outside. Chipped sky blue paint littered the outside of the house. A white porch surrounded by bushes with about six stairs or so stood out front. The detectives were protected behind their fellow members of the NYPD bearing shields and guns. Not knowing what would be behind the doors, they anticipated the moment of a door being kicked down.

"NYPD OPEN UP." A SWAT member ordered

They kicked the door down swarming each section of the house. Some of the members went upstairs, and some were still downstairs. Amaro and Rollins made their way to a door located under the stairway.

"One, two, three." Rollins counted opening the door while pointing their guns towards the approaching darkness.
"What the hell is that?" Amaro asked making a gesture towards a door in the corner of the room
"Some storage room I guess."
SWAT came down the stairs before Rollins and Amaro would search. Kicking the door down, they found it to be empty.
"CLEAR" Munch hollered from upstairs.
"The damn place is empty. We were too late." Amaro scoffed
"Nick, look, theirs blood." Rollins said pointing the right side of the room

Amaro came over to the area seeing a small patch if blood that had dried slightly.

"Get CSU down here" Rollins ordered one of the SWAT members
"Amaro, Rollins, what's going on down there." Cap signaled in from Amanda's radio
"We got some dry blood down here in a storage room."
"Alright, CSU will get down there, come up stairs."

Rollins and Amaro made their way upstairs where they joined a circle with Cap, Fin, and Munch.

"You think she would leave something for us, to know that she's alive." Munch stated
"She probably did, let's just start looking for it." Fin commented back
"Alright, start searching" Amaro responded

Captain waited outside the house where he talked to CSU technicians.

"We found DNA and fingerprints in the bathroom. They match Detective Benson."
Captain frowned fearing the worst yet again.
"Cap!" A SWAT member called over from the house porch

Cap ran over with anticipation hoping it was something worth seeing.

"Is this Detective Benson's?" The member said holding up a gold necklace

Hope went through his mind.