Just watched the episode Zebra’s and oh my god, awesome episode or what?!?

Anywhoo, here’s more of Sick. Enjoy.

So this chapter isn’t very long but the next one is pretty long so it kind ‘a worked out better this way.

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Chapter 7

Olivia had somehow found her way to the rivers edge. When the water was shallow enough she managed to drag herself along the floor until finally she was out of the freezing cold water. Once safely on dry land she allowed her body to collapse into the dirt. She couldn’t help but choke on the water that had lodged in her throat.

Her body was tired and aching all over. It was heavy, like lead. She was freezing, which just seemed to make her body feel heavier. She tried to push herself up but her body refused to cooperate.

“Get up. Get up Olivia!” she ordered herself.

She tried to push herself up but still her body barely cooperated.

“Damn-it, get up!” she screamed at herself.

Willing her body on, she managed to shakily get to her feet. She began moving forward, taking little steps because it was all she could do. She used trees to lean on and keep herself up. Each step was painful and hard work but she kept moving.

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She’d only made it a little way when she came to another huge ditch. She knew she had to climb down it but she also knew it was going to be hard work. She was barely able to stay sturdy walking along the flat ground, she really didn’t want to have to risk climbing down a ditch. She was terrified she would fall and risk hurting her unborn baby who was still counting on her for its protection. But what choice did she have, she couldn’t go back?

Steadily she began making her way down the ditch, taking each step slowly and as steadily as she could, analysing every move before she made it. She held onto anything she could, mainly the low hanging branches above her. She was just beginning to feel ok with the ditch when the branch she was depending on snapped.

She toppled head first down the ditch, rolling and crashing along the floor. Twigs and rocks stabbed and prodded her body all over. She landed and screamed as pain shot through her leg. It was almost enough to want her to fall into unconsciousness again but she knew she couldn’t allow herself to.

She rolled onto her back and after taking a minute to try to catch her breath she worked up the courage to look at the damage. What she saw physically made her roll over and throw up. “Oh God,” she muttered. She wiped her mouth and took another deep breath and rolled back over to look at the damage again. The awkward way she had landed had left a sharp stick piercing through her flesh in her thigh.

Blinding pain was all over her body, she couldn’t stop the tears that rolled down her cheeks.

She wanted to lay down and give up, well, part of her did anyway. More of her told her to get up and move. She knew it wasn’t just her she had to survive for. She had to keep going for her child. She prayed that somehow Elliot knew where she was and was coming to help her, because although she knew she had to keep on going she wasn’t sure how much longer exactly she could keep on going.

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Once more, Elliot, was leading the others in their cars. He was speeding but he really didn’t give a shit. He had his foot flat on the floor yet still pushed down harder wishing that it would somehow make the car go faster. He knew the car wasn’t going to go any faster but that didn’t mean that he still wasn’t going to try.

“We’ll find her Elliot.” Cragen, who sat next to him, promised.

“I should have known, I did know, I mean, that this guy was bad news. She was acting so differently. She’s my partner. I should have protected her from him.” Elliot said feeling tremendous guilt.

Cragen just looked at him. He could see the guilt that Elliot was feeling taking over in his eyes in the form of tears that promised to burst their banks if he didn't get control over them quick. Cragen didn’t know what he could say that would possibly make him feel better, then he said, “You can tell her you’re sorry when we find her.”

Elliot just looked at him and at the promising look on his face and was suddenly able to take control of the tears in his eyes.

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Elsewhere, Olivia, was also feeling guilty. She kept thinking that if she had just listened to what Sophie had told her, what she now knew was true….what she had known then was true…that she would still be alive.

Sophie had only been killed because she had allowed Alex to stay on the streets. If she had just reported him and hauled his ass in when she knew she should have then Sophie would still be here, but she hadn’t and Sophie wasn’t and the guilt was almost too much for Olivia to bare.

She had found part of a broken branch and was using it as a crutch. She could hardly put any weight on her leg, it hurt far too much. It was bleeding badly and she knew that if Alex was still following her that she would be leaving behind a trail that would lead him right to her.

However, she was just beginning to think she had gotten away from Alex when she heard rustling around her, twigs snapping and leaves crunching.

Her heart began pounding again. She threw the makeshift crutch down and hopped behind a tree. Her head told her to stay calm and that she wasn’t the only thing in the forest, there was probably endless amounts of wildlife. Still, she couldn’t help but panic.

She pressed her back right against the tree and tried to breathe. She peeked out from behind the thick tree trunk, checking out what lay behind her. She could see nothing or no one. She relaxed a little and turned back around.

She quickly regretted having done so as Alex stood in front of her and before she had time to move Alex swung out at her and clipped her across the face with something hard and cold. Olivia grunted in pain but was out cold before she even hit the forest floor…

TBC

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