Accidental Misunderstandings

Accidental Misunderstandings Chapter 1

"Accidental Misunderstanding"
Chapter 1

Early on a Thursday morning, Amanda Rollins had been to work for no more than an hour. The SVU office had been quiet that morning as she sat across from her co-worker, Detective Fin Tutuola. Distracted from reading emails from her unit chief Lieutenant Olivia Benson, she looked up at him, her foot tapping anxiously.

"What's the matter, Amanda?" Fin asked.

Amanda had been five months pregnant and had been dealing with all the symptoms of the pregnancy.

"I really have to pee." Amanda replied.

"On a scale from one to ten, how bad is it?" Fin asks.

"A ten." Amanda replies.

Fin smiled at her and said, "I'm sure Liv won't mind if you need to take a bathroom break. Just go."

"Okay, because I'm dying." Amanda replied and rose from her seat very slowly.

She stood and headed towards the public office restroom. She went into a stall and locked the door behind her. As she unzipped her pants, she noticed something under the lid of the toilet seat. A camera! It appeared to be that someone had placed a tiny camera in the seats of all the toilets in the public girls' restroom. She yelled out, and as she did, Fin rushed in, and she opened the door to the stall, as she did, he noticed the spot growing on her pants.

"Oh, no. What is it?" Fin asks.

Amanda explains that someone put the cameras under the toilet seats to record the girls using the bathroom. As Fin examines one of the cameras, he said "Let me hit this up and I'll call Liv. But first, let me drive you home to change."

Looking down at the accident she just had, Amanda agreed. In the squad car, he handed her a blanket and laid another on the seat. As they drove she thanked Fin and headed out of the car towards the house. No one was home, Declan was working and Jesse, her two year old daughter, was at preschool. So she stepped inside the quiet apartment. She went to her room that was connected to a bathroom. She undressed and stepped in the shower. Afterwards, she changes, calls Fin to come back and pick her up and take her back to work.

By the time they arrive back at SVU,
Olivia has arrived and wants to know what happened with Amanda in the bathroom with the peeping Tom incident. Amanda explains and Olivia is horrified. In wonder if there had been any other similar incidents in New York, Fin looks at the SVU computer database. Coincidentally there had been that morning at a coffee shop not far from the office. So Fin and his partner Amanda headed over to the scene. As they did the police and some other detectives in the unit removed the cameras from the public restroom and investigated further.

At the coffee shop Fin talked to the local cop that was on the scene, "What's the story officer?"

The officer replied, "A side tracked customer on her telephone headed to the girls restroom. She claims she came in and was talking to a demanding coworker and as she did she dropped her phone in the toilet. She lifted the lid to get her phone and noticed the camera." The officer said as he held up a tiny camera in his hand. "How long has the camera been there?" Fin asked. The officer gestured over to a young technician, the man said, " The camera is a water proof, pinhole lens spy camera. According to the camera battery life, thirty percent power remaining,  it's been here less than two hours and the perp only had to be about a block away or as close as the next room to be able to see the footage live."

Fin and Amanda stepped back out into the coffee shop, seeing all the people on laptops.

Amanda said "So which one is our perve?"