A/N: well this is my second fan fiction I hope it's going to be better then the last one I did. This is the details of my story. Elliot and Kathy are still together no divorce, and no EO (never going to happen in this story). Maureen is in college Kathleen is in high school and the twins I guess late elementary.
Another weekend had past meant another long Monday. The detectives of the special victims unit were just relaxing a very rare moment.
"Where do we stand on the Anderson case? Asked a bald man their captain.
"Ah yes New York's very own Vlad the impaler. As I recall he gifted them with his darkness."
"That's not all he gifted them with." Olivia stated.
"You care to elaborate?"
"On all of his victims he carved his initials into them also two small puncture marks were left."
"Oh that's just great! Benson and Stabler head over to Ridgeview Elementary and talk to the latest vic."
Elliot and his partner drove over to Ridgeview Elementary they had just visited the same class the week prior to the teacher's attack to talk about stranger danger. The halls of the school made their foot steps each as they walked the seemingly endless hallway. They came to a stop at a door with a bright yellow sign that read 'Welcome to Miss Anderson's class' knocking on the door it was answered by a woman in her late thirties.
"Detectives what are you doing here?"
"We have to tie up a few things."
"Can we do it later I'm in the middle of a class?"
"It'll only take a few minutes my partner can watch the class, please,"
She hesitated for a while, before agreeing to talk to Olivia.
"You all remember detective Stabler? He's going to watch you while I step outside for a few moments."
Elliot walked around the class room watching the children as they continued drawing as if he wasn't even there. As he past another group of desks a young girl grabbed a hold of his sleeve and tugged to get his attention.
"'Member me?" there was a glimmer of hope in her vibrant green eyes.
"How could I forget." his eyes traveled down to her desk where a drawing of what looked like a family portrait. There was one person in particular that stood out from the rest. She was holding what looked like a skateboard, but what had really caught his eye were the purple spots and a hand print "What are those dots?"
"Spots." the child signaled for him to come closer "I think my big sister is turning into a big leopard" there was a big grin on her face.
"Why would you say that?"
"Because she has these big purple spots, once she had a hand print on her, but they always go away." Elliot knew all too well what she was talking about.
"Do you mind if I take this drawing and put it on my desk at work?"
"Mmm, I guess so." replied the young girl.
Outside in the hallway Olivia and Miss Anderson walked the empty halls in silence until the young teacher finally spoke up.
"What can I do?"
"We just need to talk. Is there anything you might have forgotten at the time that you might remember now?"
"No—not that I can think of."
"Why don't you walk me through what happened that night?"
"I left the school at about 6:30 that night my car was in the shop so I had to walk home. I took a short cut because it was really cold that night and I had left my jacket in the back of the car."
"You're doing great."
"I was about halfway down the alley when he grabbed me and pulled me into a doorway."
"Did the guy smell? Like was he wearing aftershave or did he smell like smoke?"
The young woman leaned against a wall recalling the horrible events of that night. Then something clicked in her mind, it was a smell, but she had just shrugged it off.
"Oil he smelt like he had bathed in car oil."
As Miss Anderson continued her story Olivia began to put it all together in her mind. Each of the women that he had attacked all had problems with their cars that week. Was it just a crazy coincidence? Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't
"Alright, thank you. Let's get you back to your class I'm sure that my partner had his hands full right about now."
"They can be a hand full at times, but then again aren't all children like that?"
"I suppose that you've got a point there."
Returning to the class room they found that it was just the way they had left it. With each child busy with their drawing. Elliot shot his partner a glance that screamed 'We have to talk'
"Oh one more thing, what was the name of the auto shop that you used?"
"Jack London's that's what it was called."
"Thank you for your time" the two of them left the class "What was that look all about?"
"I think that we might have our next case." he handed her the drawing as he got into the squad car.
"We'd better show the captain this." she looked down at the girl who was holding the skateboard with her bruises.
"What did you guys get from her?" Cragen asked the second his two finest detectives stepped foot into the room you could see the desperation painted on his face.
"She remembered smelling oil from a car."
"So what, we're thinking an auto shop?" Fin asked
"Yeah, and we've also got this." Elliot pulled out the drawing
"Why Elliot I didn't know you were an artist." Munch peered over the top of his dark glasses.
"Shut up John." Cragen, Fin, Elliot and Olivia said all at the same time.
"Alright go back to the school and talk to the principal before you talk to her again."
At a local high school another period was just getting underway. In a grade 12 English class the teacher was pairing up people to work on the class novel.
"Kathleen Stabler you'll be working with Jaden Scott."
A boy who was wearing a New York Yankees baseball cap leaned over to Kathleen "I heard that she hasn't spoken a word since grade five."
"Bryan be nice!" she shot back.
The class novel they were reading was Bram Stoker's Dracula of course the teacher knew that most of his students would be renting the movie instead of actually reading the book. The two girls sat side by side listening to the teacher monotonely explain what they were required to do.
"Wait a second aren't we in the same gym class together?" Kathleen knew she saw her from somewhere.
"Yeah, we are." there was a smile on her face wow someone actually remembered me. Just as she finished talking the bell rang ending the class. Although that class was over the two of them still had gym together.
"Walk to gym with me?" Kathleen asked.
"Sure, I hope that he's not going to make us do ten laps again." She adjusted the skateboard that she was carrying so it wasn't stabbing her in the side anymore.
Down in the locker room the girls were changing into their gym gear. As Jaden pulled her studded hoody off the back of her shirt lifted up reveling quite a nasty bruise no her back.
"Ouch that must have hurt."
"Yeah falling off your board and onto a rail will do that. Let's get to class before the teacher yells at us for being late."
Just as they stepped into the gym the bell rang, the gym teacher ordered the class to run their usual ten lap around the gym. By the time they were on the sixth lap the whole class was out of breath.
"I know that we didn't get much done in English how about I come over to your house after school tomorrow?"
"That might not be a good idea, what about your house?"
"Sure, I just have to warn you that I have two younger siblings."
"It's just my house isn't the perfect place."
"That's okay you don't have to explain." they were rounding their ninth lap.
"Is this guy trying to kill us or something?" Jaden felt like her lungs were going to explode.
"Now that you mention it, yeah I think he might be."
"Alright class, those of you who need a drink go now, when you get back be prepared for a game of dodge ball. Boys against girls."
"Didn't they ban that game?" another girl from the class asked.
A few moans and groans escaped the kids from the class. They obviously weren't too thrilled about playing. The rule of the game was anything below the waist counted and anything above wasn't the second the gym teacher blew his whistle the balls went flying. Of course the boys had the advantage of being, well boys. The boys' side of the gym slightly had more players then the girls' side did. That all changed when a blonde haired girl hit two boys with one shot, now the playing field was even, four players left on each side. Jaden noticed that the boy from her English class was still standing she personally wanted to change that, or so she hope she would. Throwing the ball directly at him it hit him square in the ass as he bent over to pick up a stray ball. The whole class erupted in laughter as the ball bounced off his butt allowing Jaden to catch it. Finally the girls were winning. What Jaden didn't see coming was the retaliation for a fallen dodge ball player. The rubber ball ended up hitting her smack dab in the middle of the bruise. The pain that shot up her back was that of what she had never felt before. It had almost brought her to tears. After Jaden and another girl had been hit the only person that was left on the girl's side was Kathleen, on the boys side two other boys stood watching her each of them were holding a ball. The first boy missed her by a mile the second boy had much better aim then his team mate. The game was over again the boys had won. There was less then ten minuets left in the class so the teacher let his students go get changed early.
"Miss Scott I'd like to talk to you for a moment."
"Uh, sure thing. Did I do something wrong?"
"No—nothing like that. You got hit pretty hard out there."
"I'm alright really, just a bit sore." Wouldn't be the first time
"Just take it easy the rest of the day. Tomorrow I want you to sit out of the class."
"Okay, but I'm really fine." He doesn't care about you, you're nothing a voice replayed in the back of her mind, her father had said the very same thing to her just as she was leaving for school.
She quickly got dressed in her baggy jeans and studded hoody. Glancing at her watch there was only two classes left, she really didn't feel like going to any of them. Grabbing her skateboard and backpack she shut her locker and headed to the skate pack in the middle of town.
At Ridgeview Elementary Elliot and Olivia were waiting for the principal to finish up with a meeting.
"Bring back memories?" she joked with her partner.
A young hansom man walked into the office "I'm Mr. Blackwell you two must be the detectives what can I do for you?"
"Is there somewhere that we can talk?"
"We can talk in my office" he kindly gestured for them to walk into his office "Bernice take a message if anyone calls." Shutting the door behind him Mr. Blackwell took a seat behind his oversized desk "What can I help you with?"
"We need your permission to talk to Jamie Scott."
"If you don't mind my asking why."
"She drew a family portrait that's a bit unsettling." Elliot handed over the drawing to the principal "We also need your help, do you have any idea who the older girl might be?"
He took a good look at the drawing before speaking "that would be her older sister Jaden, do you think happened to her?"
"That's what we're here to find out?"
"I'll have her come down to the office, you two can use one of the unused class rooms to talk."
"We'd appreciate it."
Young Jamie was busily working on her math problems when the office called her name over the PA system. As she rose out of her chair she received a few oooo's and a few laughs.
"Someone wanted to see me?"
"Jamie, two detectives would like to see you." the principal walked her down to the spare class room where they were waiting.
"Am I in trouble?" she shuffled her way into the room.
"No sweetheart you're not in any trouble, my partner and I wanted to ask you a few questions about your pictures." Olivia pressed record on the tape player.
"Otay!" Jamie skipped her way over to where the detectives were seated.
"Is this a picture of your family?" the question got a nod.
"Can you tell me who this is?" Olivia was pointing to the girl with the "spots"
"That's Jaden!" she said excitedly.
"Is she a friend?"
"Nope, she's my big sister!" you could tell that she really loved her sister.
"But what are all of those spots?"
"She gets that a lot, especially when she has nightmares, but they go away."
"Do you know what she dreams about?"
"Something scary."
"Why would you say that honey?"
"Because she cries at night, she said that it hurt when I hugged her." Jamie wasn't the tallest but if she were standing next to a teenager she's stand just below the waist.
"Hurt her where?" Elliot asked.
The little girl jumped out of her chair and ran to a poster and pointed to where they had thought she was talking about. "she cries at night when daddy has friend over. He said that she doesn't like them."
"It's alright we can help your sister."
"So she doesn't cry anymore?"
"We can try."
"Can I go back to class?"
"Yeah, you can go back."
"Think that we got enough?" Elliot pressed the stop button of the recorder.
"Cragen will want to listen to this."
"School lets out in less then two hours let's head over to the high school and pay them a visit."
After getting the name of the high school from the office both detectives headed straight over. Flashing their badges at the secretary she pointed them in the direction the Jaden's VP.
"This is detective Stabler we have to talk to one of your students."
"Who do you need to speak with?"
"Jaden Scott."
"Let me class her teacher." he picked up the phone and dialed the class room phone "I'm sorry detectives, but she's not in class."
"You got security cameras?"
"Yes."
"Check them for us."
"Right this way then." he led them to a set of monitors.
Pressing rewind on the VCR the VP came to a stop. The tape was showing a girl carrying a skate board she was leaving the school through the front doors. The girl was Jaden Scott