Wars Will Rage (SVU Fanfic)

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Sorry this took forever to upload! You know when the weekend hits I suck at updating!

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Lucy kicked and thrashed and managed to break free for a moment. She ran a bit and took her phone out. Her and Olivia's conversation was still lit up on the screen.

When she heard the man's voice again, she turned to kick him in the chest. She took self defense classes. It may not help her in this case, but it was way better to try.

She hit the button that made her phone dial Olivia's cell as she ran away from the man. The kick did nothing.

"Lucy? What are you calling me for?" She heard Olivia's voice. She answered!

"Liv, help!" she yelled before trying to kick him again. This time, he was too quick and pulled her foot. She fell to the ground, successfully breaking her supporting leg.

Olivia heard a scream on the other side of the phone and put it on speaker. "I need all available units to the parking garage now!" she called. All of the kids were off in different rooms so they couldn't hear what was happening.

The line went dead in a matter of seconds anyways.

As many officers and detectives that could make it down the street, did. They weren't sure which floor she was on, so everyone split up. It wasn't long until they heard a scream from the third floor that stopped every NYPD member momentarily.

"Third floor," Olivia said to the others. And off they ran.

They followed the sound of weakened cries. They saw a tall, large man with a smaller, skinner woman. It was them.

"NYPD! Step away now!" Olivia called, surprised she was able to sound so authoritative.

The man put his hands up. "I was trying to help her!" he insisted.

But Olivia had seen this man before. "Fin, help her. She needs a bus."

With that, she said, "Matthew Parker, you're under arrest."

He ran, but she ran faster, slamming his body into the first car she saw. She cuffed him easily, then dragged him, with Elliot's help, to the precinct.

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"Where the hell is he?" Elliot's deep but loud voice bellowed as he interrogated Matthew. "I know you know where he is."

The man in the chair laughed. "Come on, what do you need him for?"

Elliot knew he was being played. This asshole knew what his little partner in crime did. And he thought it was funny. But Elliot couldn't walk away. And he couldn't stay. Ether way, this man would get a kick out of it.

"To get his sorry ass back to prison."

"But he didn't do anything."

"He raped a little girl a-"

"Sixteen ain't little."

"And tried to rape a detective. N-"

"How was he supposed to know she was a detective?"

"Does it matter? You think jailed women are okay to rape?"

"They are."

With that, Elliot left the room.

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Lucy woke up in the hospital hours after the incident. The first thing she became aware of was the ceiling. And the beeping off the machines beside her. When she tried to sit up, she found she couldn't, that she was far too weak.

She groaned a small groan and that when Nicole noticed she was awake. "Lucy," she said, coming to the woman's bedside. "You're okay."

"W...Wha? What happened?" she managed to ask.

"What do you remember?"

Lucy tried to recollect the day's events. She remembers getting out of the car. She remembers calling Olivia for help. She doesn't remember why. She speaks her reasoning to the teenager next to her.

"One of the people my parents are trying to catch...Elliot thinks that this guy thought you were me. And that's why he went after you."

"But you don't have your license yet."

"How would he have known that? He knew I'm 16. And I know we don't look alike but the brown hair and height may have confused him. I'm sorry, Lucy. He broke your leg. He wanted me. He-"

"Baby, sit down," Lucy said, interrupting her. Nicole took a seat on the "Now I know I don't ever really talk to you. But I'm a parent to the little ones. Sometimes. And I can do that for you too. Now, I know you feel bad, but this isn't your fault. Nor can you take the blame or want this to be you. You can't do that. You become easy prey. They want you for the same reason they wanted your mother. Understand?"

Nicole nodded. She wasn't stupid. She knew bad people were out there. And that at some point, those bad people would target her.

"I'm still really sorry about your leg," Nicole said.

"I could use some practice with crutches," Lucy joked. She knew the state would pay for this hospital bill so she wasn't worried.

"I'll let them know you're awake."

Back at the precinct, Olivia was worried sick. She got the "Lucy is awake and seems okay" text from her daughter, but she was still so scared.

This man. This man that nearly raped her. Her. He was coming after her own daughter. And she was ten minutes away at a hospital that didn't have as much security as the building she was in did. The hospital was a safe place no doubt, but Harris was able to steal a rape kit. It wasn't as if he could flash his little badge and get in.

Olivia's phone buzzed again. "I'm fine, Mom," Nicole wrote.

The detective smirked. Same lines passed from mother to daughter.

She just hoped she could find this guy in time.