Tangled Webs II: Normal For The Spider - An SVU fic

11.Resignation

His plan had been brilliant and he was only angry that he hadn't thought of it sooner. While her security was busy following her to the courthouse, her home was left unguarded and he was free to slip inside and wait for her; of course he hadn't counted on the house later being filled with caterers and wait staff who'd arrived even before she herself had gotten home so he picked one of the many unused extra bedrooms upstairs and he waited for what seemed like an eternity.

As the day wore on and turned to evening he could hear the house becoming fuller as her guests arrived - cops, lawyers and more judges, all of them with their fancy jobs and fancy words sitting around talking about the redhead he demolished last month...man he wished that he could have another go at her even at the risk of catching what he later learned she had. Still, he wasn't worried about disease, not that he planned to live long anyway; no, as soon as his list was complete he'd be offing himself anyway. There was no way he was going back to prison so he had nothing to lose.

Finally after what felt like forever, the guests departed and he was alone with the esteemed judge - not so high and mighty now that he had her spread wide and fucking her like a madman naked on her bathroom floor; he only wished that she'd been conscious so he could hear her scream but he played the hand he was dealt! He'd just ejaculated all over her and zipped his pants when he heard her security detail enter the house and in the quiet he could hear their footsteps as they performed a check of the lower level of the home.

"FUCK!" he screamed in his head. He was nowhere near finished with her but time was suddenly against him. He quickly grabbed his knife, looking over his shoulder as he heard the footsteps coming nearer and hurriedly drew the blade across her throat, dropping her head when he saw the blood begin to pour from her neck and without looking back he dropped the knife and hurried down the back stairs as he heard security approaching the front to check the second floor. The very second her opened the back door, the alarm sounded but he didn't care about that, he'd done what he came here to do and as he ran off into the night he laughed with an incredible feeling of accomplishment at knowing that there was just one final piece to his puzzle!

***

Hospital, White Plains...

"How's Travis?" Olivia asked the moment Trevor emerged from the doors of the treatment area in the emergency room. She was still a mess from having seen him unconscious in Trevor's arms after trying to take his own life; it was one thing to see these kinds of horrors on the job but when it touched her own family it was a whole other ballgame.

"He's still unconscious but the doctor says he's gonna be fine" Trevor assured her as he took her in his arms and held her tight. "The doctor says if I had found him just a few minutes later..." he trailed off, too choked up to even think about having found his little brother's corpse and instead, held his wife closer, comforted at feeling her in his arms.

"You got to him in time, that's what's important. I knew he was grieving I just didn't think he'd..." Olivia couldn't stop her tears.

"None of us did; I mean i knew he was upset tonight... Why did I leave him alone?"

"Baby, you didn't know"

"I'm his big brother, it's my job to keep him safe; Liv I failed him" he cried, breaking down in her arms

"Shhhhh! Baby you didn't...you didn't" she soothed, plying his face with kisses. "Travis knows how much you love him, how much we all love him; he just misses Casey so much and he doesn't know how to deal with it...he just wants the pain to stop. This is not your fault." She held his head in her hands while looking him in the eyes and wiping his tears with her thumbs. He nodded and took a deep breath that he blew out through his mouth.