EARLY MORNING IN THE SUBURBS OF NEW YORK

(A young girl walks out of her room and continues into the bathroom. She stops when she hears the shower in her mothers room going. The girl proceeds towards her mothers bedroom)

"Mom?" She continues to walk into the bedroom and looks at the covers of the bed pulled back, and clothes on the floor. She looks at the clock, it read 1:07 am. She knocks on her mothers bathroom door. "Mom? Why are you taking a shower at one in the morning?" Her mother doesn't respond. The girl begins to walk into the bathroom. "Mom, is everything okay in- OUCH!" The girl looks down to see her foot bleeding from all of the broken glass she had just stepped on. Her gaze travels to the window where she sees it has been smashed. "MOM!". The girl pulls open the curtain and finds her mom laying naked in the shower and bleeding out of a gash in her head.

Melinda, along with the other medical examiners start taking pictures of the crime scene. Olivia enters the crime scene and is greeted by Elliot. "Morning sunshine" Elliot says as Olivia yawns for the second time. "Yeah, so what happened here?" she said. "We found a woman about 43 laying in the shower with a massive head wound, and she barely had a pulse. She's on her way to Mercy right now, and they think she has a chance of a full recovery... well besides the emotional scaring of the suspected rape, but other then that-" Elliot was cut off by Olivia. "Lovely. Wait, who called this in?" Elliot looked puzzled as he tried to remember. "I don't know...nobody told me." Olivia asked one of the few ME's left at the scene. "Do you know who called this in?" The medical examiner thought about it for a minute "Sounded like a girl about 11 or 12." Olivia got a look of worry on her face. "Where is she?" The ME looked annoyed, "I don't know, we didn't look for her..." Elliot and Olivia both became frustrated. "Damn. I'll look down the hallway" She proceeds to run down the hallway past the bathroom and sees bloody hand-prints on the wall and floor that lead to a closet in a girls bedroom.

"El!" she yells and Elliot comes running seeing why he was called over. They walk over to the closet and Olivia tries to open the closet door, but its locked. She leans down to the crack in the door and begins to speak. "Hey, I know you're scared honey, but we're police officers, we're here to help you. But in order to do that you need to unlock the door so we can take you to the hospital and make sure you aren't hurt." They hear somebody moving from within the closet and then an unlocking click. Elliot opens the door to reveal a little girl curled up in the fetal position in the corner of the closet clutching the phone with her bloody hands. Her feet, arms, and clothing are also covered in blood. Olivia looks at her analyzing the blood before determining that the blood is her mothers. The girl peeks one eye out from under her arm and Olivia gives her a small smile.

"Hi, I'm Olivia, whats your name?" The girl looks around before deciding to answer. "Hannah." Olivia smiles again. "How old are you Hannah?" The girl isn't able to produce anything over a slight whisper. "Thirteen." "Hey Hannah, why don't you get out of the closet and we can take you to the hospital to get checked out? Hannah eyes widen and she shifts uncomfortably. "No..." Elliot realizes she is scared and says "If you were my daughter, I'd want to know that you were okay and being taken care of" in the gentlest voice he could. Olivia then reached out her hand for the girl and she takes her hand and crawls out of the closet. Olivia helps her get up because she is really shaky. When Olivia lets go of Hannah's arm, she notices many hand shape bruises, and looks over at Elliot. They both sigh, and when Hannah realizes what they are looking at she pulls down her sleeves, looks at the detectives nervously and starts to walk out the door. Olivia and Elliot follow her out while they think about who is hurting this girl and how they are going to help her get through it.