Disclaimer: I don't own anything in this story (apart from Jenna, Jacob, Ashley, Holly, Amelia, Matthew, Melanie, Bernie Hampton and Brandon Tulleman). All rights Belong to Dick Wolf Films (oh Darn!)
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Central Park
Wednesday, September 28th
8:52 am
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"Jenna?"..." Jenna??" A young boy's voice shouted "Jenna where are you?"
Olivia Benson turned to the boy and asked "Hi, can I help you?"
"Umm" said the boy "I don't...uh"
"It's ok. My name is Olivia and I'm a cop" Olivia replied, showing the boy her badge "What's your name?"
He studied her face then said "Jacob, I can't find my big sister, Jenna. She was here a few minutes ago. I bent down to tie my shoelace and when I turned around she was gone"
"Okay" replied Olivia "How old are you Jacob and how old is your sister?"
"I'm 9 and my sister is 16. Tomorrow is her 17th birthday."
Olivia could see the boy was close to tears. He saw her looking at him and looked at his feet. "Hey! It's ok I'll help you find her, Jacob. Everything will be ok."
Ironically, however, just at that point a girl's screams ripped through the air. "NO!!!! GET OFF ME!!! LEAVE ME ALONE!!! AHHHHHH!!!!"
"JENNA!" Jacob ran towards the voice before Olivia could stop him he ran out of her reach. There was a clump of trees and Olivia ran after Jacob to discover he had found his sister, covered in blood, slumped against a tree. Olivia grabbed him just as he was about to run over and shake her awake. Olivia gave him her cell phone.
"Jacob I need you to do me a big favour ok? I want you to call 911. Can you do that for me?"
A sniffle and a nod. Good. Olivia smiled and said "Wait right here, I'm going to help your sister."
Olivia felt her heart racing as she went over to the girl. There was a pulse! Weak, but still a pulse. She listened to her ragged uneven breaths come from the girl's mouth.
"Jenna. Jenna, can you hear me? My name is Olivia, I'm a police officer. I'm here to help you can you hear me? Come on Jenna, sweetie wake up. Come on. Jacob did you call 911? Give me the phone." Olivia nestled her cell on her shoulder against her cheek and spoke into it "This is detective Olivia Benson of Manhattan SVU speaking. I got a white female, 16, badly beaten up, I need a bus immediately. There's a weak pulse and some breathing but no response. Please hurry she needs urgent medical attention!"
Some 10 minutes later, they could hear the ambulance sirens.
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Meanwhile downtown,
"I can't get a hold of Liv, Cap. Her phone's busy."
"Ok. Keep trying her Elliot. It's not like her to be three hours late. She obviously has a good reason for it."
"She said somethin' 'bout goin' to see her boyfriend this mornin' before she came down here. She said she was meetin' up with him in Central Park" Fin chipped in.
Elliot glared at him as he hit redial. Straight to voicemail. He hung up. Almost immediately him phone rang.
"Stabler. Hey, where are you? Oh th- yeah ok." Shutting his cell Elliot told the group "Liv may have just got us a case. The docs are running a rape kit now."
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St Vincent's Emergency Room
Wednesday, September 28th
9:38 am
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"Jen? Jenna? She's waking up, Olivia. Jenna!"
"Hey Jay, wh-where..."
"You're at the hospital." Olivia told her softly "Do you remember what happened?"
"N-no. I don't know. Maybe? It's all fuzzy."
"Excuse me, detective, the girl's parents are here"
"Send them in" she told the doctor. She turned to Jenna, slipping her card onto the bedside table. "As soon as you remember anything give me a call, ok?"
Jenna nodded.
"Oh my God! Jenna! What happened? Who did this?"
"Mom I don't remember anything."
"Oh ok honey." Noticing Olivia standing there she said"Excuse me, who are you?"
"Detective Benson, SVU, I'm the one that found your daughter. Can we talk in the hallway? I called and my partner should be here within 10 minutes."
"Actually, I'm here now. What have we got?"
"This is Mrs Hampton I found her daughter. Mrs Hampton this is my partner Detective Elliot Stabler."
"Hello detective. Detectives, who could have done this?"
"We don't know as of yet, but we will do our best to catch her attacker."
"Thank you" said a tearful Brenda Hampton "Thank you so much"
The detectives gave her their cards and told her to contact them if she got any information that could lead to the capture of her daughter's attacker. As they walked down the hall, a doctor stopped them and told them the rape kit was positive. They were in for a long night.
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SVU squad room
Friday, September 30th
4:37 pm
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"We got a hit on the DNA sample from Jenna's rape kit. A Brandon Tulleman. Oh looks like Brandon's been a bad boy, charges for assault, GBH, possession with intent to distribute, and a list of other felonies and misdemeanours a mile long. Oh looky here. Attempted rape. Guess who the vic was."
"Jenna?"
"No Jenna's older sister Amelia, 22 now. Was Jenna's age when he tried to rape her. Looks like our guy has a thing for the girls of this family. He made moves on their youngest sister, Melanie too. A restraining order against him for stalking. This guy doesn't know when to stop."
"Should we go pick him up Captain"
"Yeah. Tell him he's breaching the restraining orders. And tell him he's gonna need his lawyer present too."
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Interview Room
6:19 pm
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"So Brandon what do you know of a Jenna Hampton?" said Elliot, clenching his jaw.
"She's a sweet kid. Although it's been years since I've seen her so she could be a slut like her bitch sister Mia"
"Well we have reason to believe you were with Jenna on Wednesday morning just before 9 o'clock" Olivia replied.
He stared at her non-chalantly and said "I dunno what you're on about baby but hey I could have been waaay-sted. It's how I'm like now." He leered at her, winking.
"Hey, kid, focus on the question."
I don't gots to do nuthin til ma law-yeer gets here."
Irritating as he was, Tulleman was well within his rights. They had no option but to wait for his lawyer.
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Olivia's Apartment
Monday, October 3rd
2:51am
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A knocking at her door woke Olivia up. She watched as the clock changed to 2:52. Who coul be at her door now? The knocking again. She got up. More frantic knocking. She opened the door to find her neighbour, Ashley clinging to the door frame, for support, with her two young children.
"Ashley"
"Please you gotta let me in. It's Nate. He found me"
Nate was Ashley's abusive husband. He was back out of prison obviously. Ashley burst into tears and Olivia pulled her inside. The two youngsters followed their mother, Holly the younger at 4, rubbing her eyes and sucking her thumb. Olivia knew Nate had abused Ashley when she was pregnant with Holly in fact, Olivia was sure it was how both children had been conceived.
"Ashley do you want me to get him to leave?"
Ashley shook her head. Olivia took Holly and her brother Matthew into her spare room, and made up their beds she had when they stayed over. She got them to sleep and went to her living room to discover Ashley on her cell, crying,
"Yes, he found me.... I'm staying with a neighbour... Thank you, thank you so much... I know... thank you... I'll call you in the morning... bye"
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SVU headquarters
Monday, October 3rd
9:45am
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"CSU found traces of Rohypnol in Tulleman's apartment." Cragen looked up "Olivia, something on your mind?"
"No captain just... it doesn't matter."
"You sure?"
"Yeah. It's a personal thing with a neighbour. I'll try to sort it out as soon as possible." Olivia's Phone rang "Benson... Ashley? ... No... Yes... I'll get there as soon as I can." She closed her phone "Captain can the others get this, my personal matter just got more, well, personal. I gotta go help my neighbour."
"Sure"
"Want me to go with you?"
"Yeah ok Elliot"
"So what's this about?
"Do you remember I told you about Ashley?"
"Yea"
"Her husband's back out of prison and is trying to get to her"
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End of Chapter 1
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