Broken ~ Law and order SVU

~ 2 ~

Olivia p.o.v.

We're standing in front of Elliot's house. He unlocks the door.

"Don't worry, Kathy is not home yet." He walks me to a bedroom. "You can sleep here." He drops my bags on the bed. I nod.

"Thank you."

He smiles at me. "Shall I help you unpack your clothes?"

"I don't know if this is such a good idea El."

"Stop worrying Liv, I want to help you, and Kathy has nothing to say about it." I smile as he starts unpacking my clothes. I help him. When we've finished unpacking we decide to go out and lunch somewhere. We decide to go to a place nearby the precinct. As we walk to the place I notice which street we're turning in.

"Elliot can't we take another route?"

"Why, this is the shortest one." I immediately stop walking as we're about to walk past the alley. "What are you doing?" Elliot asks me.

"I... Can we please take another route?" He walks over to me and places his hand on my cheek.

"Why do you want to walk another route Liv?" I sighed deeply.

"I just can't walk past that alley." And then he finally seemed to know what I meant. He looks at me with a sense of pity in his eyes.

"It's okay, we'll take another route." He puts his arm around me and we take another route. While we're lunching we don't talk a lot. Then Elliot placed his hand on mine.

"You know you can tell me everything, right?"

"I know, but I just don't want to talk about it right now."

"I know, just so you know I'll always be there for you."

"Thank you so much El, for everything."

After lunch we walk back to Elliot's place. Kathy's car is in the driveway. Elliot squeezes my hand as he opens the door.

"Kathy, I'm home."

"Hey, I'm in the kitchen."

I follow Elliot as he walks to the kitchen.

"Kathy we need to talk." He says. Kathy turns around to look at him when she sees me standing behind him.

"What is she doing here?" I can see the fire in her eyes but the fire disappears as soon as she notices the bruises.

"What happened?"

"Olivia will be staying for a while." She can see in Elliot's eyes that it's serious.

"Okay, I'll go and make us all a cup of tea." A few moments later we sit in silence at the kitchen table.

"So... What happened?" Kathy asks. Elliot looks at me with a reassuring look.

"I...eehm...I was raped." The tears immediately start flowing again.

"Oh god." Kathy gets up from her seat and sits down next to me as she gives me a hug.