Okay a little nervous about this one as I am trying something different. Fingers crossed you all like it.

Chapter 1

January 22nd 2008

She dropped the gun she was holding to the floor as she fell to her knees in the snow gasping for breath, her hands going to the wounds around his neck and shoulders as she tried to cover them and stop the bleeding, his blood warm on her hands as it flowed from him turning the pure white snow red around him.

"Stay with me Baby," she sobbed, "Stay with me."

She looked around frantically but the street was empty except for the two dead bodies lying not too far from him. His body jerked and he coughed, blood spluttering from his mouth and covering her.

"Shit!" she said as she tried to move her hands between the wounds trying to stem the bleeding the best she could. "Don't do this," she warned him. "Don't you dare fucking leave me," she whispered looking down at him as he closed his eyes. "Open your eyes…. Open your fucking eyes!" she said harshly trying not to shout to loud, as she didn't want to draw any attention to where they were.

He opened his eyes and looked at her. "Hurts…" he spluttered. "Oh god ….. It hurts so much."

"I know, but you got to stay with me."

He shook his head. "No…..Go," he coughed. "Save them."

She shook her head "No….. I'm not leaving you."

He coughed again blood covering her and winced in pain.

"Leave me," he begged her. "Get out of here."

She shook her head tears running down her face. "I can't," she sobbed. "I can't leave you….. I can't…."

She stopped talking and looked around quickly when she heard a scream in the distance.

"We need to move," she said looking down at him. "We aren't safe out here in the open."

"No," he told her as blood poured from his mouth; he turned his head and coughed clearing his throat of the blood clogged there. "Get out….. Take the….Take the kids," he gurgled.

"I won't leave you!" she whispered harshly. "I'm not leaving you," tears ran down her face. "I need you…. I. Need. You, I won't leave you to die."

He reached up and took hold of her hand "I'm already dead Liv," he choked. "You know that"

"No….. No …." She said shaking her head.

She heard an explosion and more screaming.

"You're not dead, you hear me…. you're not dead," she cried. "You're not dead El," she said grabbing hold of his ice cold hand. "You're not…."

He tensed up with the pain and looked her in the eyes, "Save those kids Benson….do your fucking job," he gasped. "Get those kids to the high point…. Fuck…. get them to the sun…. to the sun rise," he grunted out before dropping his head back into the snow his eyes closing.

"El…El!" she yelled louder than she meant. "No, no, no," she said pressing her fingers to the side of his neck. "Don't do this to me," she begged him. "Don't leave me; please don't leave me… You can't do this to me. You can't leave me alone Baby."

She pressed her fingers against his neck frantically trying to find a pulse. "I love you," she sobbed and her body began to shake when her cold fingers found no pulse. "You can't leave me, I'm your partner, I love you," she sobbed lifting his head up and cradling it to her as his blood soaked into her clothes. "I love you," she repeated over and over as she rocked him gently, her fingers still trying to find some sign of life.

Her head shot up and she looked around when she heard gun shots and more screaming closer this time. She wiped her eyes smearing her face with his blood from her hands and looked down at his lifeless body. She took a deep breath and gently lowered his head to the floor as she looked around again. She leant forward and gently kissed his blood covered lips.

"I will come back for you," she sniffed. "I love you. I will come and get you."

She reached down to his left hand and slipped the wedding ring off his finger. She then pulled her ring off her finger and gently pushed his ring onto it, before putting her ring back on. She stood up and looked down at him just as there was a loud explosion. She knew she had to leave. She picked her gun up and reached over Elliot's body for his.

"Bye El," she said as the tears streamed down her and she turned and ran towards the SUV and jumped in. She looked over to the young, scared boy in the passenger seat, and then over her shoulder to the five smaller children squashed into the back.

"Let's get out of here," she said putting the vehicle into the gear and wheel spinning away in the snow. She looked in the mirror one last time at Elliot before she concentrated on the road and the dangers that lay ahead.

She got to the main street and looked up and down, there were cars on fire and she could see bodies in the street. She could see people running trying to find a place to hide.

"You ready Ryan," she asked the young boy. He nodded and gave her a little smile. She reached over and handed him her gun. "It's ready to fire," she told him. "I need you to be the man now. Any of those bastards come towards us, kill them."

Ryan nodded.

"Just remember what Elliot said," he said to Olivia.

"What's that?" she asked him trying not to cry at the mention of Elliot's name.

"Don't fucking stop no matter what, run the fuckers down and keep on driving, don't stop till you see the sun."

She nodded and turned around and looked at the kids "Hold on," she told them as she pulled forward into the street and the SUV picked up speed. She wanted to go faster but didn't dare because of the snow and ice that covered roads.

She kept her eyes focused on the road straight ahead, swerving every now and then to avoid a car or a body.

"Shit!" she yelled as two men ran towards them, she pressed down on the accelerator and screamed as the SUV hit them. One of them flipped over the top of the car but the other one held on to the front of the car. He began punching the windscreen trying to break it.

"Livia!" yelled Ryan his voice scared as a fist broke through the glass.

"Shoot him!" she yelled back at him. "Shoot the fucker."

Ryan raised the gun and pointed at the man, the man laughed at him as he punched another hole in the glass. Ryan closed his eyes and pulled the trigger over and over, the man screamed and slid down the front of the car. The car shuddered as the wheels went over him and Olivia kept driving freezing cold air rushing in through the broken glass.

"I got him….. I did it!" yelled Ryan.

Olivia was just about to answer when a group of about eight people ran out into the road and towards them.

"Get down!" she shouted to Ryan. Ryan slid down into the foot well of the car as Olivia put her foot flat to the floor as they ran towards them covered in blood and screaming. She raised her gun and began shooting as she ploughed through them, their bodies bouncing off the car like skittles. She never stopped and she never looked back as she drove out of town, finally putting some distance between them, the town and the people chasing them as road began to climb.

"Almost there," she said to herself. "Were almost there El," she said as she saw the top of hill coming into view. She looked at the clock on the dashboard, then to the sky in front of her. "Ryan look," she said to him. "Look!" she yelled.

Ryan uncovered his eyes and climbed back up onto the seat and looked ahead and then back to Olivia. "We did it," he grinned. "We did!" he yelled looking back to the smaller kids behind him, who were all huddled together.

"Yeah kiddo, we did it," she said looking at the sun as it began to rise. She had never seen anything so beautiful. She looked in the mirrors and saw the road behind them was empty, as the glow of the sun lit them up.

She stopped the car at the top of hill and turned off the engine. "Everyone okay?" she asked them turning around to face the kids.

"Are we safe now?" asked a little girl.

"Yeah were safe," said Olivia before opening the car door and climbing out she put her hand on the side of the SUV to steady herself, her legs unsteady and her hands shaking. She looked down the hill towards the town in the distance. She could see the cars still burning but apart from that the small snow covered town looked normal. But she knew that town was anything but normal and never would be again. Neither would she.

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"Olivia," said Cragen as he walked up to her in the diner and sat down opposite her.

"Have they found him?" she asked not looking at her Captain.

"No," he said shaking his head.

"Did they look exactly where I said?"

"Yeah, I went with them, he wasn't there."

Olivia nodded and looked down at the two rings on her finger. It had been 5 days since the sun had first risen. She had tried to get back into the town to look for Elliot, but the FBI had sealed the whole town off as a crime scene.

"There were loads of footprints around the area in the snow. They think he may have been alive still and got up to try and find help. He may have got disorientated and lost because of his injuries. They are going to widen the search but because of the weather…."

"He was dead," she said her tone flat. "I checked for a pulse, there wasn't one."

Cragen sighed. "You were cold; he was cold and injured from the animal bites…"

Olivia's head jerked up and she glared at Cragen. "It wasn't a fucking animal bite," she snapped before dropping her head back down and looking at her hands. "It wasn't an animal bite and we weren't drugged or poisoned and then went crazy and started to see things. We weren't attacked by rabid dogs, wolves, bears or whatever else they are saying attacked us." she said. "The FBI are talking shit and everyone in that town knows it….. Have they found any of the other bodies?"

"They have found seven."

"Seven, we gave a list of sixteen people who are missing….sixteen. Where the hell are the other nine, huh? Do the FBI think they just wandered off with Elliot, this is all complete bullshit, and you know it… how did those seven die?"

"Three of them died from some sort of gunshot wound, two from ani…. From bite wounds and the last two were stabbed in the heart."

Olivia grinned, "Stabbed in the heart?"

"Yeah," said Cragen, looking at her as she carried on grinning.

"Good the bastards deserved it. Just wish we could have got a few more."

Cragen didn't say anything as he sat watching her worried about her state of mind. "Olivia," he said reaching forward for her hands. She pulled them away from him and began to play with wedding rings on her finger.

"We should go back to New York," she said looking out the window as it began to snow. "They reckon the weather is going to turn bad again."

"Don't you want to be here when they widen the search? What if they find…."

"Elliot's dead," she said cutting him off and glaring at him. "They aren't going to find him, he is dead and they took his body."

"Who Olivia? Who the hell took his body?"

"I told you who," she said. "But you and the FBI don't want to listen," she pushed her chair back and stood up, putting her coat on and walking out the diner into the cold.

Yes or No?