It was a quiet night in New York City. Melinda Warner came home late that night because she had to do an autopsy on William Grant, a man who tortured and raped Senior Detective Olivia Benson. Nick Amaro had gotten suspicious when Olivia didn't come to work the morning after he was found not guilty. And when he had gotten there, Grant was on top of her, smiling, laughing. Nick didn't hesitate when he saw Olivia being victimised, he shot Grant 3 times to the head. He really loved Olivia, but she was with Cassidy at the time. Olivia was off duty until she went through psychiatric treatment. Warner had never heard such a horrific story, not in her days of the Army or as a Medical Examiner.
"Cassy, you home tonight?" Warner shouted to her daughters room, she forgot if she had a sleepover with her friend that night. There was no response.
"Hhmmm, guess not. Oh well, more Poptarts for me!" Warner never really had time to eat, and with the things she saw everyday, she could barely hold it down. Melinda devoured every crumb off of her plate, she hadn't eaten since 6:00 AM! Melinda quickly scurried into her bedroom and didn't bother to change into her pajamas, she was too tired. As she lay in bed, wide awake, trying to figure out why she couldn't fall asleep, she started drifting into thoughts as if she had some kind of disorder, but she just told herself that she was worried what her daughter was doing. Because of her work she didn't talk to her daughter a lot, she didn't even know her favorite color. Soon enough Warner just thought herself to sleep. She dreamt of the scene of when Nick entered Olivia's apartment, how Olivia couldn't scream because of the duct tape, how her hands were tied to her bed, how she had severe vaginal trauma, how she became a victim.
"RING RING, BEEP BEEP, RING RING" Melinda's cell phone went off.
"Jesus Christ who's calling at this hour? Its 3:30 for god's sake! Warner speaking"
"I have your daughter" The call seemed to last forever. The mans voice was raspy, kind of young.
Melinda sat in her bed crying, knowing that the reason that she couldn't fall asleep was because she knew that she was at her friends' yesterday.
"And no cops, ya got it? You'll make a big mistake if you call your little friends down at SVU" The man hung up.
"Oh god... oh god how could this happen, okay I have to think, what do I do?" She grabbed her phone again, and called Olivia.
"Olivia, it's Melinda, it's urgent, you need to get down here, and don't come through the front door, use the fire escape"
"Yeah sure Melinda, i'll be right over" Olivia was still dealing with her own problems, and she knew she was scared of everything right now. But Melinda's a friend, she helped them with countless cases, and she was still a cop, she needed to help the public. Olivia arrived as fast as she could, it was only a 10 minute drive from her house to Melinda's.
"Melinda, whats up? Why are you crying? What happened? Wheres Cassy?"
"Cassy's been....kidnapped and he called me and he wanted 20 thousand dollars for her by tomorrow and he said no cops but I needed help, Olivia I need you" Melinda was slurring her words together, some of her words were covered by her sniffing and crying.
"Oh my god Melinda, yeah i'll try to help in any way I can! But... why me? I'm a wreck at this point, i'm scared to leave my house sometimes, I know he's dead but the trau-"... Melinda cut her off
"Oliva that made you a stronger person, you have more passion right now and you're on paid leave right now, and plus, I know you deal with these things the best. And right now, the best is the only thing I can settle for"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ok so what did you guys think about this? Want longer chapters? Want more detail? More dialouge? Tell me and give me feedback! I'll update next Saturday and hopefully i'll have a cover by then! Until then!
~Jake
