Sweet Relief

Don't Look At Him

Olivia shifts uncomfortably in her chair, trying to force herself to focus on the presentation taking place in front of her. One of her agents is giving a presentation on the Russian porn case they've been working and she's heard the information a thousand times, it's taking in everything in her not to fall asleep.

Her phone rings for the third time and as she moves to silence it the Director clears his throat. "Deputy Chief Benson, if you need to take that, we can continue without you." 

Olivia knows he's not exactly pleased but she's painfully relieved to be given an excuse to leave the meeting and she grabs her phone from the table, standing up quickly. "My apologies..." She excuses herself, "One of cases is a joint task force with NYPD and it seems they need my attention."

The board nods at her and she leaves quickly, answering Ayanna's fourth phone call since nine AM.

"What is so important?" She asks, exasperated.

"Hello to you to." Ayanna says sarcastically, "I thought you'd want to know we have Reggie Bogdani in custody for the murder of Diana Garcia. We pulled Stabler, he's done. We're trying to get Reggie to flip while we've still got the grand jury."

"You pulled him? The case is over?" She asks, her heartrate picking up as she tries to convince herself she actually heard Ayanna say the words. 

"It's over." She says, kindly, giving Olivia a moment to process. "We could use your help with Reggie. And you're up soon with the grand jury."

"Yeah, yeah, of course. I'm on my way." She says hanging up quickly.

She takes a second to take a deep breathe in the hallway, her hand on the wall holding herself steady. It's done, he's really coming home to her. She pokes her head back into the conference room and Director Wright looks up at her.

"I have some things to attend to with the K.O. case, it's wrapping up, I hope you'll excuse me." She says, bracing herself to be told she needs to wrap the meeting and go later.

He nods his head. "Very well, good work there, Deputy Chief." He says, "I'll fill you in later."

She jogs out to her car and speeds towards the precinct. As she walks towards the building it occurs to her that she hasn't seen Elliot in over a month. She is one very carefully worn blazer away from everyone finding out she's pregnant. The last think she wants is for him to find out in front of everyone. She needs to be able to tell him. In her own way, in their own time.

She pulls her jacket forward nervously, sucking in her stomach just a bit as she walks in.

Jet immediately points her towards the interrogation room and she sees Ayanna standing outside, looking exhausted. "Thanks for coming." She says, "They've been going at him for four hours."

Olivia watches quietly as Elliot and Sergeant Brewster go back and forth, making no headway with a clearly overwhelmed Reggie.

Ayanna shakes her head, "We thought he was going to flip when we sent Stabler in but he's held it together."

Olivia nods, watching for a few more minutes. Brewster's always been too heavy handed, he's never known when to pull back to get results and now certainly isn't an exception. He's working too hard for it and she knows exactly how to finish this.

"Pull Brewster out."

Ayanna raises an eyebrow.

"Just trust me." Olivia says.

She opens the door and motions for him to step out. Olivia positions herself just in Elliot's eyeline and out of Reggie's. He nods his head ever so slightly and she smiles.