Preface & Shot:
The SVU squad was trying to get me to tell them who was shooting 8-yr-old girls & why. The fact was I wasn't in the mood to tell them & risk my life because of it. No one realized how dangerous my position was. If I told them the name of the man doing the shootings, I was a goner. If I didn't, I was going to lose my job & my reputation. The only person that really knew why I wasn't telling the cops who was shooting the girls was Maria, but she was in Texas at the moment.

There were a total of 8 girls at 'Angel of Mercy' Hospital. I wasn't supposed to be going there at all, but that is where my Cardiologist worked. He was about to get his license revoked & taken away because he refused to give me what I needed. For the past 4 years, he told me that I would get a heart, but when the time came he always gave it to someone else. Someone could get fired & thrown in jail because of it.

By the time Maria returned home from Texas, all of New York was trying to get me to talk. That's when Maria figured out that I had been suspended w/out pay from the 55th paramedic unit. Seeing the fear in my eyes as she helped me sit up that day on the couch, she knew that what doctor Andrews (my doctor) was doing was illegal. She also knew that if I didn't get medical attention soon, there was no telling what would happen. She knew she had to call the firehouse & have them come over, but they were mad at me right now & weren't talking to me. So Maria called Kim's cell phone.

"Hello," Kim answered.

"Kim. It's me, Maria."

"Hey, Maria. What can I do for you?"

"I need you to come over,"

"What for?"

"Cory."

"Look Cory isn't a person we want to associate with right now. She won't tell the police who is shooting these kids, until she does no ones talking to her. She has to realize that not everything revolves around her. These kids are awake, but their parents want to put this guy behind bars."

Everyone had looked up the sound of my name & stopped talking. Kim heard a scream on the other end of the line.

"Maria, is everything alright? Maria?"

"Just get over here, please. Her heart is stopping. The guy that has been doing the shootings is named David Dukeman. He told Cory that if she told anyone he'd kill her. Just get over here please."

Maria hung up the phone before Kim could say anything else.

"Well that was weird," Kim stated.

"What? We heard you say that Cory wasn't wanted around here right now," Alex stated.

"Maria said that we should get over to Cory's right now for some reason. She also told me that the guy that is shooting these girls is named David Dukeman. According to Maria, Dukeman told Cory that if she told anyone about him, he'd kill her. Then she said something about someone's heart stopping & hung up on me. That's all I got out of her. I heard someone scream just before Maria hung up on me."

"Let's go. I have a feeling we'll figure out why Cory's been hanging around the hospital lately," Doc said.

Everyone on the Third Watch was headed towards our apartment when Munch & Finn from SVU stopped them.

"Where are you guys going?" Finn asked.

"Cory's apartment building, why?" Kim asked.

"No need. Elliot & Olivia stopped by there & headed towards the hospital. According to Olivia, Cory had 15 bullets in her chest & 3 in her lower abdomen. Not to mention the fact that her heart was already stopping," Munch told them.

"I guess we're going to Angel of Mercy then," Carlos stated.

"Nope. They took her to St. Mathews. She may have been air-lifted to Angel of Mercy but we haven't gotten word yet," Finn retorted.