Vegas Adventure

Law & Order: SVU and CSI crossover

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters from Law & Order: SVU and CSI, and I make no profit from this story.

Summary: A serial rapist takes the SVU squad to more victims in Las Vegas, in which they recruit the help of the LVPD's graveyard CSI shift, run by Gil Grissom and his team.

Note: This story is Part I of a series I'd like to call, Against All Obstacles, yeah it's probably been taken, but I don't know what else to call it. The series itself is EO, but since each story chronologically follows the previous one, there won't too much of EOness in this one. But don't worry, there will be eventually. I might add Nick/Sara and Grissom/Catherine, but I haven't written that far ahead yet, just outlined it. The series is going to focus on Law & Order: SVU, but when and if I feel I can, I'll write a crossover, like this one.

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Chapter 1

Friday night, May 26, 2006

On an unusually quiet Friday night, Detective Olivia Benson made her way over to an Adrian Rundell's residence to serve him an arrest warrant. Rundell had abused, tortured, raped, and murdered seven women in the past six months: Jody Campbell, Kyra Stover, Donna Hoffman, Lydia Beckett, Lynn Delamater, Ellen McNevin, and Faye Ackland. Unfortunately for the Special Victims Unit, Rundell was knowledgeable in forensics, so it proved to be quite a difficult task in retrieving hard, tangible evidence linking him to the all of the murders. Olivia desperately wished they could get him for all of the murders, for she had a gut feeling that he murdered all of them, but he only slipped up on the last two.

Normally, Detective Elliot Stabler would be right there with her to arrest him, but shift had technically been over for an hour already and Elliot was spending time with his kids (something he rarely got the chance to do anymore). Plus, Olivia had stayed late and was there when the warrant came in. Not wanting to waste anymore time, Olivia took the liberty and went by herself.

He's probably already left the city by now, she thought to herself. That was another reason she felt safe by herself tonight. She had the feeling he wouldn't be in New York. Although he slipped up the last two times, everyone associated with the case knew Rundell was smart, and he knew they were on to him, before they could legally do anything to him.

Olivia parked outside his apartment complex, withdrew her badge and gun, and walked up the stairs in a fast pace.

"NYPD, this is Detective Benson, Mr. Rundell, are you in there?" she called, while knocking on the door.

After hearing no answer, Olivia tried the door knob, finding that it wasn't locked. She cautiously entered and searched the apartment with her gun at the ready.

Great, she thought, making her way back into the living room. I knew he'd skip town on us, pretty much just drove over here for nothing. Olivia slammed her fist down on an end-table by the couch, accidentally forcing open a stuck drawer. Olivia looked down at the product of her frustration and saw a brochure of a hotel in Las Vegas, the Tangiers. Curiosity getting the better of her, she picked up the brochure glancing through it.

There were pictures of people smiling and laughing while gambling in the hotel's casino; pictures of the Tangiers's shops and restaurant. The brochure also featured a section for their shows, with a dominant picture of a showgirl.

Whoa! Olivia thought. This girl looks like Jody Campbell, and she's not one of the two we can arrest him for!

With this new lead, Olivia raced out of the apartment and down to the car. Maybe there's a connection with all of the victims.

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