Saving Bradley (An SVU Fanfiction)

Statement of Lies

*Olivia's POV

Nick and I creep into the room and see Bradley playing with the IV in her hand. She looks up and sees us coming her way.

"Mom, am I gonna get arrested?", she asks. I sit on the edge of her bed and Nick stands behind me. "'Cause like, I don't wanna go to jail, aaaand, he-"

"Baby, you are NOT in any kind of trouble, I promise."

"Daddy, is she lying?"

"No. You know your mom wouldn't ever lie to you, neither would I.", I love the way he says 'your mom'. I love the way he says everything. I love him.

"Okay.", she sighs. "Can I go home now? I wanna hold my baby.", she calls Alex her baby. I think its really adorable, honestly.

"Alejandro is with abuela.", and the way he speaks Spanish just, ugh.

"Ab-what?", I chuckle.

"He said your brother is with grandma."

"Ohhhhh."

"Yeah.", after a few hours, she wasn't loopy anymore and could finally talk. "Bradley?"

"Yeah?", Nick and I don't want to have to put her through making a statement, but she needs to.

"Would you be up to letting someone come take your statement?"

"You can wait until the morning, but if you do it now, it'll be out of the way.", Nick adds.

"Only if Mandy does it.", Nick went to the waiting room to get Amanda, but he never came back.

"Hey, sweet pea. How you feelin'?", Amanda greets her.

"Okay, I guess..", she sighs. "Why isn't daddy back?"

"Your dad felt like it might be easier to talk about it if it was just us girls."

"Oh, okay."

"Now, Bradley..I need you to be completely honest with us, okay?", I tell her. "I know you wouldn't lie about what happened, but this is serious."

"I know, mom."

*Bradley's POV

"Alright. Let's get started.", she takes out a pen and notepad, I assume they take these wherever they go. "Let's just start from the beginning."

"Okay. Um..I was watching Alex, mom and dad were working. Mom just started going back a couple weeks ago and I said I would watch the baby. I did it before, but usually Lucy is there."

"Who's Lucy?", she knows who it is. Its just for the report.

"The babysitter-Alex's babysitter.", I clarify. "So, everything was going fine like normal and then I went to put Alex in his crib. He fell asleep on my chest while I was doing homework.", I smile. I can see they are, too. "Anyways, I was just about to lay him down when I heard the doorknob giggling.", Amanda keeps scribbling words on the paper.

"The nursery is the middle bedroom, right? How did you hear the doorknob-"

"It was completely silent and I heard it, okay?!", I snap. Mom holds my hand and rubs her thumb over my knuckles, letting me know its okay. "I'm sorry."

"Its alright. What happened next?"

"I just-I got that feeling in my stomach. You know, like when something isn't right and you just know it? Well, I wrapped Alex in a blanket, because it was kind of cold, and then put him in the closet."

"Why the closet?"

"Because, I was scared. Someone was breaking in and I was alone with a two month old baby. If something happened to him, I wouldn't ever be able to forgive myself.", I sniffle and look up at mom.

"Its okay, sweetheart.", I nod and continue telling them what happened.

"I looked around the corner and seen this guy. He turned around and looked right at me. Then, he grabbed me and put his arm around my neck-like a choke hold. He asked me where the baby was.", I looked back at mom. "I-I told him Alex was with you. I just got scared and-"

"Its okay, just continue, alright?", I nod my head.

"He said that I had to call and make you come home with him.", my voice cracks and I start crying. "When I didn't do it, he..he..he raped me.", I pull my knees to my chest and cry into them. "When he finished, Alex started crying, and he got mad and called me a liar. He-he made me go get hm. I begged him to leave him alone. That's when I called you. He told me to repeat everything he told me to say.", I wipe the tears away. "Then, he took Alex from me and I dropped the phone. He was gonna do really bad things to him and I didn't want that to happen, I swear."

"We know, Bradley.", Mandy tells me. "None of this is your fault.", I ignore her and continue.

"I told him to do it-it to me a-again. I-I thought you guys would get there before anything bad happened. I put Alex on the couch and made sure he wouldn't fall off. Then he-he got mad again, I don't know what I did, but he got so mad. He went to the kitchen and got a knife and he..he came at me. I-it hurt and I screamed. He pushed me on the floor and did it again. He stood up, so I tried to move. When I started crawling, he pushed me on my back and so I kicked him. The knife went under the couch. I guess he thought I wouldn't be able to get up, but I did. He went to the bathroom and I didn't know he was in there. I thought he left. I was going to put a shirt on in my room. When it was on, he came at me, but I fought him off. Then, when he was on the floor, I stabbed him. I didn't know he would die, I just didn't want him to get up again.", I lie. The majority of that was true, but not all of it.

He did rape me, he did take Alex from me, but he did not stab me. He did go into the bathroom and I knew he wasn't gone. I knew it. I can't tell them that. I would go to jail. I'm not meant for jail. I don't wanna get shanked in the shower. What have I just done? Mom and Mandy exchange looks.

"Bradley, he's much bigger than you.", fuck. "How did you fight him off if you've been stabbed?"

"I..I found the strength."

"Alright, well, I think we have enough for today.", Mandy says as she gets up. "Liv, if you need anything, call me."

"Thanks, Amanda.", she walks out and leaves the two of us alone.

He went to the bathroom with the knife. He set it down, I don't know why he did that, and I grabbed it when he wasn't looking. He chased me to my room, so I stabbed him. Once I started, I couldn't stop. I wasn't in control, my emotions were. I got scared when I saw all the blood. I put on a long shirt and made sure Alex was okay. I went back to my room and I knew that guy was dead, so I stabbed myself. I would rather die than have to spend another day breathing. But then, mom came, and I didn't wanna die anymore.

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Over the next few weeks, they eventually found out the painful truth. I didn't get in trouble, though. I got lectured, but not in trouble. Weird, isn't it? The guilt still eats at me, though. There's only one way to get rid of it.

A/N

I am going to try super duper hard to get another chapter up tonight. Like I said, I'll be on insta a lot, I usually am. I just posted this really cute Petska selfie of them kissing, like ugh.😍 Anyhoo. I love you, bunches!