ChapterOne
The Law & Order SVU season fifteen premiere was brutal, right? The beautiful Olivia Benson was down right tortured and battered by that beast William Lewis. Awful. However, some of the brutality was left only to our imagination. If you're like me, you wish that the writers would find some ways to fill in the blanks. Because SVU 2.0 is on NBC and wasn't able to go the HBO rated route, I have decided to fill in the blanks myself. Most of this story is based on the end of "Her Negotiation" and all of "Surrender Benson". Although I plan to take nothing out of the dialogue originally aired, this is not just a recap. While you do get a recap, you'll also get to read what happened when the commercials or other non Liv/Lewis scenes got interrupted. You get to read what happened while Liv was out, her thoughts during the ordeal, and it's all very graphic. I feel so awful about the details I write regarding Liv. It's heartbreaking and to be fair, I got most of the ideas from past SVU episodes and real life readings from books like Ann Rule true crime. I do love Olivia Benson and believe it or not I hate this but Warren and Julie lit the match. So I warn you all now. WARNING: THIS MAY TRIGGER a lot of survivors so if you feel you can't handle the graphic content then please stop right here...
From the moment Cragen sends Benson home for two days up until her return to the SVU (post Lewis).
Hope I can try and level things. It's very frustrating to wonder about her experience when little was shown and Liv being very vague about everything lately. I DO NOT OWN these characters or their mindset so if you find something off about Olivia's character while reading, know that I don't have Warren Leights thoughts. Just a fan of the show.. Here it goes.. Enjoy!
Olivia opens the door to her apartment. She plans to do some light cooking, eat and drink wine while watching tv which she hopes somewhere in between she falls asleep. She was glad that Cragen gave her two days off because she hasn't been to this apartment in days. She was rather disturb about Lewis's mistrial but not quite hopeless that her and her team were not closing this case. Although, she wasn't sure how long it would take to catch Lewis or how many new victims he would add to his list, Olivia knew his luck would eventually run out. She felt she had to bring his victims justice and she wasn't going to stop until he was locked away. Another thing on her mind was Brian. For some reason, she felt as if she and Brian were going nowhere. She and Brian couldn't be more different and he was very much unlike the other guys she dated in the past. Nevertheless, Olivia genuinely cared about Brian and wanted to be with only him. Brian made her feel secure and all the loneliness she's had to dragging along side her for most of life was finally gone. She was making up in her mind that she would have a serious talk with him when he comes over later sometime.
As she puts the bag of groceries onto the counter, she immediately feels something isn't right. Then there's a noise coming from her bedroom and for a second she believes she's losing it. Instinctively, she calls out but has no idea why she just called out to whoever or whatever it is. She's not thinking clearly and it all happens so fast. Her actions have no logic to someone who's from the outside looking in but for Liv, her actions are impulsive.
It happened fast. She didn't think to pull out her gun. She didn't think to put on the lights. She didn't think to reframe from calling out to whoever was in her apartment. Maybe it was her tiredness. Maybe it was because she never imagined her night ending with an intruder breaking into her apartment.
For what it's worth, the next few moments were so unbelievable even Detective Benson didn't see it coming. In the dark there is a gun pointed at her, "Welcome home Detective Benson".
The only thing going through her mind in the seconds before William Lewis pistol whips Benson is,'Wait, I made a mistake. Let me try and grasp this.'
The gun smashes into her eye. The blow causes Liv to fall to her knees. Quickly, she tries to get to her feet as Lewis relentlessly comes at her for another hit. This hit is in the stomach and with his fist. Olivia is on the floor whimpering but refuses to stop fighting. He kicks her twice in her stomach very harshly, causing Benson to cry out in pain. He taunts her with some words, trying to establish the fact that he holds the power. She ignores his words. His continuing yapping strays him from anymore bodily harm which gives Liv time to regain her strength and stand to her feet. Lewis watches as she prepares to fight him. He points the gun at her and warns her not to be brave. Liv scans her apartment for anything, an escape, another weapon, but her eyes ends up right back on Lewis and the gun. "Be a good girl detective". Within seconds, Lewis rushes towards Liv and slams her into the wall. In this process she hits the back of her head and the impact is so huge it causes blood. This time, Detective Olivia Benson succumbs and falls lifelessly onto the floor.
Lewis examines Benson's lifeless body and kneels next to her, "Sweet beautiful detective Benson. Mmmmm."
He stands to his feet and begins invading Benson's apartment. He begins in the kitchen where he almost immediately turns on the stoves. He opens cabinets, drawers, the fridge, and even turns on the zinc for no apparent reason. Pulling out pots and pains to purposely cause the once tidied kitchen to appear unkept and a huge mess. He escapes to the bedroom where he opens a black bag located next to Liv's bed. Obviously it's his bag as he opens it and finds several canes of 5Krazys, a bottle of Jack Daniel, keys, prescription bottles of Vicodin and Ambien, duct tape, scissors, cigarettes, lye, lithium strips, muriatic acid, and lighter fluid. He places almost everything inside that bag onto Liv's bed. Now he starts to lurk around her bedroom since he couldn't risk turning on the lights while she wasn't home earlier. The first thing he notices is the picture of Liv and El taken in 1999. He wonders who the guy is but moves onto he next picture of Liv, Simon, and her niece. Lewis doesn't give that picture a second look and already feels that Detective Benson lives a boring life outside of her self righteous job. This almost makes Lewis laughs. He turns to her closet and quickly roams through. At this point, he begins drinking one of his 5Krazy's. Relentlessly, Lewis starts to pull out all of Olivia's dresses that hangs up in her closet. As he pulls out the dresses, he pictures her wearing most of them which excites the psycho.
Already done with his first cane of 5Krazy, Lewis pops open another drink and appears more hyped. Next, Lewis grows tired of invading Detective Benson's closet and pulls out her dresser drawers. The very first drawer is oddly the drawer that she keeps her diary inside. Lewis grabs the diary and tosses it onto the bed, he would read it later. The next drawer is Liv's underwear drawer. Unlike his rushy ways of snooping in the other parts of the apartment, Lewis takes his time snooping through Benson's underwear drawer. Slowly, he grabs one of her black laced bra's and caresses it against his face. Satisfied with the bra, he places it back into the drawer then grabs hold of Liv's silk and purple colored panties. Lewis disgustingly sniffs Benson's panties and smiles after feeling a quick sensation of lust.
Throwing the panties back into the underwear drawer, Lewis goes through the other drawers to senselessly pull out the clothes causing her bedroom to look like her kitchen, a colossal mess. When he finishes his second cane of 5Krazy, which he drinks like water, he makes his way back to the living room to check on Benson. Still out like a light, Lewis grabs the chairs from the bedroom and places them between the bedroom and living room. He seats the chairs in a position where it faces the other in an obsessive matter. Fully back into the living room, he kneels next to Liv's body and examines her like a predator examines a prey. His eyes falls onto her breast and when he curiously touches them, Liv's body jerks. He checks to see if she's still out by roughly grabbing her crotch. Nothing. Taking his hands off of her private area, he places them back onto her breast. He begins caressing them gently. As he continues to molest her breast, he puts his lips on her cheek and kisses her repeatedly. Too bad this isn't enough to get him erected. He needs to see the fear in her eyes and he needs to have the pleasure of knowing he's overpowering her in order to get a full erection. He felt he had nothing but time. In his mind, Detective Olivia Benson was this lonely woman who's family was either dead or very distant. He did worry about her snoopy little coworkers coming around but he had a plan to get her out before the morning comes.
TO BE CONTINUED...