OZSVU3
Lovers & Killers
"It's just these four walls and you and I, Chris." Said Toby.
"Why are you helping me?" Was the first question out of Chris Keller's mouth.
Toby's eyes shifted away from Stabler/Keller and he took a moment to answer. "I once told you that you were like a drug to me. I was addicted to you just like alcohol and heroine. I told you that you were unhealthy for me… and then you jumped and changed my life forever, your life too. Look at us now, Chris? I thought I was headed off to death roe and that you were already in Hell; for all my talk about Heaven I don't think a suicide would make it. But then all of a sudden the charges were dropped and I was a free man. So why don't you tell me what that was about and I'll answer your question?" Tobias said, neatly turning the question around on Keller.
"I asked first!" Stabler/Keller pointed out in an angry childlike way. Toby just smirked at his ex-lover.
"Yeah but I have the power to help you… or not so the ball is in your court, Chris."
Keller, to his credit, didn't glare or try to play mind games with Toby like he would have in his old days, instead he answered the original question. "Fine. It was my back-up plan." He admitted, watching Toby carefully for his reaction. "If you couldn't forgive me and accept me when we were stuck together then I wanted to make sure both of us got out alive. I sure as hell wasn't staying in Oz without you! This way I got a new life and you got your old one back – sort of."
"Chris, what did you do?" Toby asked, shocked. This was not what he had expected. It was typically selfish of Chris to try his best to keep Toby with him – even at the cost of Toby's life, his daughter, and his freedom. But it was very unselfish of him to let them both go – very Stabler of him.
"I sold out the residence of Oz. Every single one of them, all their dirty little secrets and proud errors. They got locked up in different jails and I got out. So did you – because I admitted the drugs were planted." Chris said, without shame but full of pride because he had done the ultimate 'fuck you'.
"Everyone except me? Didn't they think that was a little suspicious?" Toby asked, still in shock.
"Naw… not with your squeaky clean past! And anyway I told them there was no deal unless you were included. Didn't leave them with much of a choice. Now; are you going to answer my question, or not?" Chris said, every bit a challenge.
Toby nodded. "I took this gig to prove to myself that I was completely over it – that I was over you. But now…"
"But now?" Chris asked, trying to suppress hope that he shouldn't feel. He loved Kathy – he really did! And he shouldn't want Toby anymore but the truth was he would long for Toby forever; his once-and-truly-fucked-up-love. The fact was he was sat here facing multiple murder charges, but as soon as Toby had hesitated over those last words his heart had jumped and his breath had caught.
Toby shook his head. "I can't do this right now, Chris. Please don't ask me to! Let's just concentrate on the case and when we clear you – at least of the last six murders – then we can talk. Agreed?"
Chris nodded – because really what else could he do?
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Somewhere in the police department Olivia Benson was waiting for a printout of Christopher Keller's police report. When it arrived she ended up spilling her coffee down her trousers in shock as her trusted partner's face stared up from the paper with eyes full of hate and loathing.
"Olivia? What is it?" Asked Wong from where he had been chatting to another police officer.
"Stabler's a killer." She whispered in shock and horror. Wong glanced around the room to make sure no one ad over heard her before looking back at her sadly.
"I know," he told her, and her eyes widened in shock and betrayal. Wong escorted her to his office.
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