Elliot walked into the police station Thursday morning after being gone for three days. He had signed his divorce papers two weeks before, and Cragen had told him to take some time off after recent problems at work.
He looked around for Olivia, and not seeing her walked over to Munch and Fin, standing near their desks.
"Look who's back." Fin said, now used to seeing Elliot having to take some time off, or be suspended. This time, he had seen him knock a suspect out of his chair during interrogation.
Elliot, as well as most of the other detectives, knew that the divorce was coming, and had been for years. The divorce itself wasn't the most stressful thing he had experienced, in fact at first he had a since of relief, that he and Kathy wouldn't be fighting any more, and that he wouldn't have to choose between his job and his family. What wasn't working for him was the time it was taking. A divorce in New York normally took about 30 days, but they had to decide on custody agreements and Kathy had moved out, making things go slower.
He grinned at Fin, and picked up a file off the desk. "What did I miss?"
Fin opened his mouth to answer but stopped when a young woman walked over to Munch and handed him some papers. "What's this?"
"Some sort of leak on the Marshall kidnapping." She said. "A guy called the paper and said he has proof it's a fake."
"How are you getting' this stuff before we do?" Fin said.
She turned to him and smiled. "I've got friends in high places."
She walked away, not even looking at Elliot as she went around them to stand near one of the numerous gray desks staked with papers where someone urgently handed her a phone. She looked like she was in change over there, where all the press calls came in.
"Who is she?" Elliot asked, looking at her as she talked on the phone, her back turned slightly towards them.
"That's Sienna Smith." Cragen said, suddenly popping up beside them. "She came in two days ago and she's our new press manager.
Elliot turned to him questioningly. "I didn't know we ever had one."
"We didn't." Cragen answered. "But considering the lack of good press we've been getting lately-" He eyed Elliot, indicating her meant him.
Elliot raised his eyebrows at Cragen's un-approving look. "Why us?"
Cragen looked down and then back up, his hands tucked in his pockets. "Her dad was a cop."
"That's Henry Smith's daughter?" Elliot said motioning at her as he looked from her to Cragen.
Cragen looked at them briefly before walking away as Fin answered Elliot's question. "Yeah, she cute ain't she." He said grinning as he looked towards her.
"She's too young for you." Munch said, sarcastically stomping on Fin's words.
"Oh yeah, look who's talkin'." He said, turning towards Munch, who chuckled slightly.
Elliot was still watching Sienna when Olivia hurried through the door. She knew her dad, and despite their age difference, she had Sienna had become good friends. Sienna also knew Fin and Cragen, who had both worked with her dad before his death.
Sienna motioned for her to come over and hung up the phone. "That kidnapping you've been investigating was a fake. The guy's brother showed up at the paper, saying his brother and his daughter were living out at their beach house."
Hearing Olivia, Cragen re-appeared from his office, seeing Elliot, Fin, and Munch watching the girls
"You're kidding? Does his story check out?" Olivia replied in disbelief.
"I just gave Munch a sample of the news report they're about to run, apparently our kidnap victims will be appearing on the 8 o'clock news."
Olivia rolled her eyes and turned to see the men standing there, quickly noticing that Elliot was back. She noticed him look from her to Sienna and realized they hadn't met yet.
"Sienna, this is Detective Stabler."
Sienna as she shook his hand with a grin. "Oh, the one who throws chairs and likes to flip over tables." She said playfully.
Elliot smiled as she let go of his hand and turned to Olivia. Cragen immediately began talking to them, Sienna explaining how she would keep the detectives from looking like idiots over the now fake kidnapping of Conrad Marshall and his 8 year old daughter Elizabeth, who had apparently gone missing first, and was said to have a history of sexual abuse, putting SVU on the case.
He hadn't known much about the case, not having been there for most of the investigation. From what he had heard it was mostly Olivia's. He watched Sienna go to her desk and come back to Olivia and Cragen with copies of papers. She seemed to purse her lips when she smiled, something she did often he noticed. She had brown hair and gray blue eyes that hid behind big black eyelashes.. She was young Elliot noticed, remembering Munch's statement to Fin.
A few days later, Elliot went into Cragen's office, wanting to talk about Sienna. He had only seen her leave alone once, the other days, leaving three times with Fin, and once with Olivia. He knew she and Olivia were friends, but obviously, she and Fin were much closer.
As he entered Cragen's office, Elliot closed the door behind him. Cragen was sitting at his desk when Elliot entered and looked up quickly. "What is it?"
"It's uh, Sienna." He said hesitantly, glancing behind him at her through the blinds.
Cragen leaned back in his chair, puzzled. "Yeah, what about her?"
Elliot paused for a moment, leaning in. "Are you sure she's safe here?"
"What? Why wouldn't see be?"
"Aw, come on Captain, you know how it is. Yesterday we had a guy come in who slapped her ass when she walked by him." Elliot said sitting down.
"Well, maybe that rookie kid shouldn't have put him in front handcuffs."
Elliot leaned back in the chair and gave Cragen a whatever look. "What do you want me to say Elliot, if you've got a problem with her working here, you should talk to her about it."
Elliot's eyes widened at Cragen's statement. "I don't have a problem with her working here, I kind of like it actually." He grinned and Cragen raised his eyebrows at him. "But what about when some guy walks up to her and pulls it out of his pants?"
"Then tell all the rookies to put the handcuffs in back."
Elliot sat back in his chair and though for a moment. "So how long have you known her anyway?" He asked. "Since she was 18. I met her a month before her dad was shot."
"Yeah, what about her and Fin?"
"Fin met her a little while before me, they got a weird relationship if you ask me." Cragen said, filling out some paperwork.
"Weird. How so?"
"They're best friends or something, even with that age difference. They get each other on some sort of Fin level."
Elliot nodded. "Huh." He got up to leave the room and then turned around, opening his mouth for one last question.
"She's 22." Cragen said, not looking up from his desk. He had already known Elliot's question.
When Elliot exited, he went to his desk where Sienna came up to him. "Detective Stabler, Olivia asked me to give you this." She handed him a yellow file.
"Thanks." He noticed that she called Olivia Olivia and Fin and Munch by their last names. She called Cragen Captain, but in private conversations called him Don. He was the only one she called Detective Stabler. "It's Elliot."
Sienna gave him a slight smile and walked away, leaving him with the file. Just as he opened it, the doors busted open and in came Olivia and Munch, both dragging a loud and kicking suspect, Fin holding the guy my his hooded jacket behind him.
Elliot jumped up, taking the file with him. They put the guy in interrogation as Elliot reached them. "Who's the perp?"
"That's the file I gave you." Olivia said, out of breath. Elliot opened it and skimmed the information. "Guy's a rapist, what's new?"
"What's new is, I'm not dealing with him." Olivia said, going to get some water.
Fin went over to Sienna and handed her the file. "Find everything you can on this guy. Let's see what makes him tick."
An hour later Sienna knocked on the police observance room where Cragen, Fin, and Munch were. "Come in." Cragen shouted through the door.
Sienna opened the door and walked in, carrying the file. "Alright, what'd you find out?" Fin said quickly.
"Send in Olivia. He likes cops. When he lived in Florida, he got caught stealing from an action figure store."
"Yeah, that was on his rapsheet, so what?" Fin asked.
"They were all action figures of women cops. Not to mention that he told his shrink down there." Sienna said, handing Munch the file.
"You can't get screwed on your own, so you go out and rape women!? Is that how it works Tommy!?
Sienna turned to the one sided window when she suddenly heard the loud yelling of Stabler's voice. He was leaning down on the table, his sleeves rolled up to his elbows.
The guy didn't respond and Stabler moved around the table, pointing at a picture laying on it. "And you don't recognize her?"
"No."
"Really?" Stabler got right in the subject's face. "Cause I think you're liar."
"Alright send Olivia in." Cragen said quickly. "Before Elliot flips another one out of a chair."
Fin left and knocked on the door, letting Elliot out, leaving the man alone as he went to find Olivia. Barely a minute later, the door to the observation room opened and Elliot walked in, noticing Sienna. He stood beside her at the window, crossing his arms. He realized Sienna had seen his display of interrogation.
"Doesn't look like this guy could've done it." Munch said, looking at the file. Cragen nodded. "Oh yeah, why not?" Elliot asked.
"He told his shrink that he doesn't like "real women." Munch responded.
"He uses mannequins and blow up dolls, that he dresses up as cops." Sienna said, casting her eyes up to Elliot who looked down at her.
They both looked back to the window, and Elliot spoke. "Kinky.