Ever After «A Law & Order: SVU Fanfic»

Chapter Two: Canvas

Olivia's POV:

It's 3:30pm. Zoe's not home yet, and I want not to freak out. She would never come home from school late and not call. She would never go to a friends house and not call me first. What the hell is going on? I'll wait until 4:00 and if she's not here, I'm calling the school and Lucy's parents.

At 3:40, I get a call from Amanda on my work phone.

"This is Benson. Rollins, this better be good, because I'm busy."I told her, I can't stop thinking about Zoe and what I need to do to look for her.

"Lucy Caine is dead."every word that came out of her mouth made the hair on my arms rise and my spine feel prickly. I stand up quickly and run to grab my coat.

"What happened to her? Where's Zoe?"I practically yelled to Rollins through the phone, I was walking downstairs to the car fast.

"They found her shot in the head about ten blocks away from your house. Zoe isn't with her, we have no idea where she is."she said, her voice quivering.

"Don't panic, Rollins. I love her too, and I promise we'll find her."I reassured her, but I don't even know where to start looking, or how to approach the situation.

"Ok, Liv, what do you want us to do first?"she asked me, I was at my car, I hook my cell up to the aux cord so I could talk and drive at the same time.

"I want you and Fin to talk to whoever discovered the body and everyone who lives on the street they walk down after school. I want Carisi down at the school with the principal. He has a way with words so he needs to ask for tapes, before he does that, he needs to make a call to Roger Whitney, I need him to be waiting outside of his store, I need his tapes. Nick, I want him to tell the Caine's about Lucy, after that I want him to stay at the precinct and answer phones. I'm going to meet Roger and look for other stores. Got it?"I asked her through the phone trying to sound composed.

"Got it, Sarge."said Amanda, she hung the phone up quickly, which I know means she's getting to work.

I'm trying to keep myself calm while I'm driving down to the stores on Main Street. A lot of places are closed today for some reason, there may be a storm. When I'm parked, I'm ready to get out of the car before I realize that I'm crying. Tears streaming down my face, hands shaking from the nerves.

"It's ok, Olivia. It's ok."I keep telling myself, but I don't know if it is, or if it ever will be.

When I get to Roger's one of three stores open during Lucy's murder, and possibly Zoe's abduction, Roger's outside the store with a few neighborhood people and his wife and children.

"Roger, can I speak with you inside?"I ask him.

"Anything for you, Sergeant."Roger's a good guy, he allowed me to check his cameras before when we've had assaults on this street. His cameras catch everything. We've won a ton of cases because of him, and so many people have been put in jail with his help.

"I'm sorry. I hope you catch the asshole who killed Lucy. And I hope you find Zoe."he sighed, then started to rewind the tape.

"Thank you for helping me, Roger."I say nicely with a smile, but inside I'm dying because I miss my daughter.

"Anytime." he says, "Ok, well, here you go."he says moving to show me the screens.

On the tape you can see Zoe and Lucy running all the way at the bottom of the street, getting closer and closer to Roger's. Across the street and a few stores back, you can see Lucy's body drop. Zoe tried to shake her up, but then looks through her backpack, when she doesn't find what she needs, she starts to panic again. From the corner of the video, you can see four men walking towards her and Lucy, they emerged from a black van. A man pulls out what looks like a pistol and Zoe covers her eyes. They shoot an unconscious Lucy in the head. The man who shot Lucy gets into the car while the three other men pick Zoe up, she puts up a fight but I know she isn't strong enough to handle them all. The men tape her mouth and then her wrists together and start to carry her away. She opens her eyes and looks at Lucy's dead body, I know she can't believe what she just saw.