A Year and 365 Days

Chapter 11

Right there, pull over." Rollins said pointing over at the restaurant in the small town

"You sure it's that one?" Amaro asked eyeing a corner restaurant behind the tinted
windows of the squad car

"Lydia said it was on the corner."

"Alright then, we better get the info we came three hours for." Amaro huffed frustrated with the time they had wasted while being led different ways

Amaro put the emergency break on and got out of the car with Rollins following. Rollins eyed the old feeling of the atmosphere when they walked into the restaurant.

"Detective Amaro and my partner Detective Rollins NYPD" Nick stated flashing his badge at the host

Partner he had said. Well his temporary partner, he was on the hunt for Olivia bit she meant so much to him. She completed him and gave him a bar of support to lean on. Olivia was always there right when things in his life were falling apart.

"What's NYPD doing in Massachusetts?" The host asked
"Please, we just need to see your list of guests that came in four days ago."
"Got a warrant?" The host asked with an attitude

Nick grabbed his collar and held him slightly against the wall.

"Listen, one of our own has gone missing and reportedly came here with a man but were disguised. We need anybody that was here four days ago, now search."
"Geeez pal, alright." The host responded getting out of Nick's grip and brushing himself off

Lydia came from behind a door in the hallway where the host desk was.

"Oh hey, sorry Michael, I can help you with them." She said looking at Michael who was scrambling through papers from underneath the desk
"Found the list, some guests are actually here today." Lydia said grabbing the papers from Michael who was high strung from Amaro's encounter

Lydia walked through the entrance door into the bar with Amaro. Rollins stayed behind and put her hand on Michael's shoulder.

"Sorry about my partner, ummm, he can be a bit handsy." She said looking at him with a sympathetic look
"It's alright." He said turning to the entering guests

Rollins passed through the bar entrance and stood next to Amaro.

"Attention" Amaro said to the loud crowd cheering over the baseball game playing
The crowd ignored him.

"If the crowd won't listen, I'll make them listen." He said going behind the bar table
Amaro walked past the bar tender who questioned why he was there and he flashed his badge. Unplugging the television, the crowd booed and he jumped onto the bar table.

"Hey! We are NYPD detectives looking for any witnesses that were here four days ago on Sunday, September sixteenth."

"Why?" A man said staring up at him obviously angry with him unplugging the tv

"If you don't know, Friday September fourteenth, one of our own, Detective Olivia

Benson was kidnapped by two armed men. She has been missing for a week now. Recently reported, she was here posing as a wedded couple with one of her captors."
"Now we need the following people, Jean Gallagher, Peter Daugherty, and Adams Collins." Nick said reading off a list that Lydia had given to him
"All three are present correct?" Rollins asked the crowd
"We're all here." The group said coming forward
"Alright guys, enjoy the game, thanks for the help." Rollins waved them off letting the crowd back to the baseball game
"Let's go outside, it'll be easier to hear." Lydia said guided the group of three plus Rollins and Nick outside

Lydia guided them all to a table outside with seating for six. She left them immediately letting the detectives get down to their work.

"All three of you were here the afternoon of Sunday the the sixteenth, correct ?" Nick questioned

"Yes, all three of us came as group here."

The group of three seemed to be childhood friends that had gone out for a drink. All three were around their mid thirties. Jean had a wedding ring and so did Peter. Adam didn't have a ring on. Jean Gallagher had curly red hair and green eyes while Peter Daugherty and Adam Collins had brown hair and blue eyes. Rollins recognized the Irish brogues that matched their names.

"Did you see this woman at the time you were there?" Rollins asked pulling out a picture of Olivia in full uniform

"Not like that but remotely similar to her." Adam said taking the picture and staring at it

Peter and Jean leaned in to Adam looking at the picture. Nick immediately made his move to ask questions.

"Remotely similar?" He asked
"Yeah, the woman had shorter hair, but green eyes and she definitely wasn't wearing the uniform."
"What was she wearing?" Rollins asked
"A white blouse and black slacks with some heels or something. Oh, and she was wearing a wedding ring, pretty big one too." Adam responded
"Yeah, all three of us sat at a nearby table, we had been seated maybe two tables away from them. Some point or another I passed by the table to go to the bathroom." Jean stated

Rollins wrote down notes in her notepad and putting it on the inside of her coat.

"They got up to leave, and we did too, and the man bumped into me." Peter said speaking up
"Did he say anything or did you get a good look at him at all?"
"Not really accept sorry but he definitely had some foreign European accent, maybe Russian or something. He spoke English very well."
"Thank you guys, call us if you have any more information" Nick said handing them
NYPD 16th precinct cards while rising from his chair

The detectives walked away to their squad car. On the way, they passes a medal street sign. Nick forced his fist to it causing his knuckles to bleed. Rollins stared at him in disbelief. This search had gotten to him, and it was showing. Who knows where Olivia was and what her captors were doing to her. Finally reaching the squad car and resting in the seat, Nick took a deep breath. The car made its way to the high way when Nick finally broke the silence.

"We're back to square one, all we have is what she looks like now and the fact it's only two captors, but that was four days ago! Who knows where the hell she could be." Nick said angrily
"Nick-"
"I mean, why did they have to take her, it's been a week, and we haven't been able to find her-"
"Nick-"
"What if-"
"NICK!" Rollins said raising her voice more than she ever had to with him
"We will find Olivia, whether it takes days, a week, a month, even a year, we will find her. I promise you, and she is fighting, I know it." Rollins said staring at him as he looked ahead at the road

Three hours later

"Anything?" Cap asked as he looked up at the detectives entering the bullpen
They walked towards Fin, Cragen, and Munch surrounding the pin board with evidence pointing towards this and that. Fin noticed their expressions.
"Please tell me it's something good." Fin asked
"Back at square one" Nick said dropping heavily into a rolling office chair joining the team next to the pin board
Rollins followed behind him.
"We just have to keep looking, we'll need to extend our search farther."