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Intro
The screams of a woman echo through the thin walls of the apartment building Martha Billingsley a woman in her mid-fifties jolts awake, sitting up she turns on the lamp on the table next to her bed and looks over at her husband who is sound asleep she listens intently not sure if she was dreaming or what, suddenly she hears a blood curdling scream coming from the apartment next door.
"George, George wake up!" She says nudging her husband in the side.
"What is it?" He says groggily wiping the sleep from his eyes.
"Do you not hear that?"
"Hear what?"
Just then they hear more screaming coming from the apartment next to them, "I'm calling the police."
"What we got?" Detective Elliot Stabler asks flashing his badge to the officer standing outside apartment 13B.
"Call came in about two-fifteen, neighbors heard screaming coming from the apartment, and when I arrived the door was open and the woman had locked herself inside her bedroom. The apartment is leased by an Ashley Johnson twenty six. I called CSU and their own they're way."
"Okay thanks." Stabler said as him and Benson made their way down the narrow hall to the bedroom door.
"Maybe I should talk to her alone." Detective Olivia Benson said turning to Elliot
"Okay I'll go talk to the neighbors." Elliot said as he turned and walked back down the hall toward the front door.
Knock Knock, Benson knocked on the door, "Ashley, my name is Detective Olivia Benson I'm with the Special Victims Unit, Can you unlock the door for me?" she said softly.
"No Go Away!" Ashley screams as tears roll down her face
" I just wanna talk, okay."
"I don't want to talk."
"Okay well at least let me in to make sure you're all right, please," Benson said trying to convince her to open up the door . . . a few minutes went by, and then she could hear her walking toward the door and unlocking it. She waited a few seconds before opening the door she went in and shut the door behind her.
The victim was sitting on the bed her face buried in the sheet that was covering her half nude body, her legs folded up against her chest, Olivia could hear the muffled sound of her sobbing. The young woman looked up for a second at Olivia, and Olivia could see the cuts and bruises on her face. She was relived in a way cause she noticed it didn't look like the victim had showered since being attacked which meant she hadn't washed away any potential evidence.
"Can you tell me what happened? Were you raped?" She said gently as she sat down beside the woman on the bed.
The woman began to sob uncontrollably as she put her face down in the sheet, Olivia took that as a yes.
"Do you know the man who did it?"
She nodded her head slightly.
"Who was it Ashley?" she asked but the woman wouldn't answer.
"Come on Ashley, who was it?" Olivia pleaded.
"I can't he'll kill me"
"No one is going to hurt you, I promise." She said in a gently and reassuring tone.
"NO!" she said as tears began pouring down her battered face.
Olivia decided that she wouldn't push her any further for right now since she had been through a lot already. "Ashley there are paramedics waiting outside to take you to the hospital. Okay?"
"I'm not going."
"Ashley, you need to go and get checked out, listen I'll ride with you; How bout that?" Olivia said holding out her hand she hesitated but finally reluctly grabbed Olivia's hand, and she led her downstairs to the waiting ambulance.
Mercy General Hospital
Friday, September 2nd
3:45a.m.
Elliot was sitting in a chair outside the exam room drinking some coffee when Olivia walked out, "Here I got you some coffee, figured you might need it." He said as he handed her the cup of coffee.
"Thanks." She said with a gracious smile as she sipped on the coffee.
"How is she?"
"Doing okay considering, the perp. beat her up pretty good. , They're doing the rape kit now. She knows who raped her Elliot," she said taking a seat next to him.
"Who?"
"She want say."
They sat there waiting for the nurse to finish the rape kit both of them slumped down in the chairs they were both exhausted, and they knew they were in for a long day.
"CSU get anything? " She asked turning to Elliot
"They got prints off the front door,"
"Neighbors see anything?"
"Na, they just heard the screaming."
A nurse appeared out of the room and the two detectives stood up to greet her "Detectives here ya go we've finished the rape kit, she'll be kept here overnight for observations." The nurse said handing Olivia the rape kit
"Okay, thanks." She said taking the rape kit, and they headed back to the precinct
When they got back to the precinct Olivia headed down to the morgue to give Melinda Warner the M.E. the rape kit while Elliot sat down at his desk to fill out the paperwork, awhile later Elliot heard the phone on his desk ring, "Stabler." he answered. " Uh- Huh . . . Okay thanks." He said hanging up the phone
"Who was that?" Olivia said as she walked over to her desk.
"That was CSU, they didn't get any hits off the prints from the door. Warner get anything off the rape kit?"
"We got semen but there were no hits in the system."
"Damn ." Elliot thought to himself as he put his hands behind his head and leaned back in his chair he had hoped they would get lucky with the rape kit but today was apparently not their lucky day, he looked up and seen Cragen coming down the hall.
"What we got?" Cragen asked
"Ashley Johnson Caucasian twenty-six beaten and raped in her apartment, CSU didn't find any signs of forced entry and the prints they got didn't match anything in the system." Stabler replied as he sat up.
"What about a rape kit?"
"Warner found traces of semen but there were no hits in the system." Olivia said.
"Any suspects?"
"No, but she does know who raped but she want say who it is." Olivia said.
"Okay Olivia I want you to go back to the hospital later and talk to the victim again and see if you can get her to tell who you did it. But for now you and Stabler go home and get some rest, we got a long day ahead of us."