Disclaimer: I don't own Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, or any of its characters. They all belong to Dick Wolf & NBC.
A/N: A few differences, that I want to clear up before you start reading. Noah has already been adopted and is living with Olivia. Also she already is broken up with Cassidy.
Olivia's POV
I want to scream. I wanted to kick something—well more like someone. William Lewis was out on bail. I can't believe that bastard got away again. I can't believe he gets away again. What now? Do we have to wait for him to commit another rape? We have to wait for another women to suffer so we can try once again to lock him up? And who knows if Barba will even be able to nail him then. His offense attorney could probably figure out some way for him to walk.
It makes me angry.
Is it really fair that this bastard gets to walk which can cause other women to suffer?
It's not.
And to make it worse, his defense attorney paid his bail.
It just keeps getting better and better, doesn't it?
"Tell you what, who wants to come with me and just shoot the son of a bitch." Rollins speaks up.
"Rollins—"
If only we could. No one would miss him. And it would save his next victim from hours of torture and trauma they will never get over.
I wish I could shoot him.
"Don't worry, Captain." Fin speaks up. "I'll take her out for something to drink." Fin says as I grab my coat and put it on. I was ready to get out of here.
"Liv?" Fin asks and I shake my head, though I probably could go for a drink, but I just really wanted to go home and shower. I need one.
"Raincheck." I tell him as I put my bag around my arm. "I've barely been home at all this week." I say and then Captain approaches me.
"Well, go home. And stay there for two days." He says.
Wait, was he suspending me?
"Captain—"
"Liv, that's an order. You show up for work, I'll have you arrested." I sighed, but didn't argue. I wouldn't win.
"Liv, you okay?" I look and see Barba standing next to me after I hit the elevator button to go down.
"They declared a mistrial and Lewis is out on bail. So no, I'm not okay." I say and then take a breath. "It could only be a matter of time before he chooses his next victim. And what do we wait until that happens? We wait until someone else has to be tortured and raped for hours before we try again?" I put my hand on face and take a breath. It made me angry and frustrated.
I can't believe this bastard keeps getting away with this.
"Liv, we'll get him." Barba says.
"How do you know that?" I ask. "You don't know if they will let you retry it."
Barba sighs.
"I'll think of something." Barba says.
"And meanwhile, some other defense woman will become his next victim!" I snapped as he walked into the elevator. I took a breath as Barba walked inside. He stood next to me. "I'm sorry. I just don't want this bastard to get away."
"Neither do I." Barba says as he puts a hand on my shoulder and looks me in the eyes. "I will do everything I can."
"Thanks Barba." I smiled at him.
"See you tomorrow?" Barba asks.
"If I come in, Captain will have me arrested." I tell him and Barba laughs. The only good thing about this was that I get to spend more time with Noah.
"Goodnight Barba." I say as I walk out of the elevator and into the parking lot.
"Goodnight Liv."
I threw my bag onto the counter when I got home and I grabbed a water out of the fridge. "Lucy! I'm home!" I shouted as I closed the fridge. I took a sip of water and then I heard a noise. I put the bottle down on the corner and took a step forward before calling out for Lucy again. I knew she still had to be here.
"Lucy? Is that you?" I called out as I walked forward and then I froze as a gun is held to my head.
"Welcome home, Detective Benson."
Lewis is here.
He hit me in the head with the gun and everything went black.
I woke up with my legs and arms tied with tuck tape. I was leaned against the wall. In front of me was Lucy, whom was also tied up. Tears were running down her face and I could tell she was terrified. I wanted to speak, but I couldn't as my mouth was duct taped shut. Lucy's was as well.
I then turn to see Lewis walking back into the room. He was holding Noah.
"Get away from him!" I screamed, but it came out muffled because of the tuck tape. I knew it was pointless to scream, but I could just sit here while that psychopath held my son.
"Looks like mommy's awake." Lewis says as he then takes the gun out of his pocket. He then holds it at Noah's head.
"No!"
Noah then starts to cry.
"Oh, looks like someone is cranky." Lewis says and he heads for Noah's bedroom. I try to scream as loud as I could for him to hear me. I don't know what he will do—but I don't know want to know. He walks slowly back over to me with Noah in his arms. "Looks like mommy misses you."
I nodded quickly.
He slowly brings Noah over. He was maybe a foot away from me. I felt a tear roll down my cheek. I wanted to hold him. I wanted to protect him, but I couldn't; I'm powerless.
I can't protect my own son.
He then holds the end of the duct tape in between his fingers.
"No screaming. You scream and I'll shoot him." Lewis whispers.
I nodded quickly and he slowly peeled the tape off of my mouth. He then brings Noah close to me and I move my head and kiss his forehead. I try to stop myself from crying, but I can't. I know Lewis won't let this last.
"My sweet boy." I whisper to Noah. "I love you."
Lewis then pulls Noah away from me. He goes into Noah's bedroom and then comes back out without him. I had heard a door close.
"Don't you dare hurt him." I say and Lewis slaps me.
"You do not tell me what to do!" He screams at me.
"Please Lewis—this has nothing to do with Noah or Lucy. Please—I'm begging you—just put Lucy in his room with him. She can take care of him." I say, nodding quickly as tears run down my face. I don't care what happens to me, but not my baby. I will do whatever I have to if that means Noah will live and be unharmed.
"Please—" I plead with my voice breaking. "Do whatever you want to me, but d-don't hurt them."
"Don't worry. I will." He says before he bangs my head against the wall. Everything went black again.
"Wakey, wakey, Detective Benson." I open my eyes a crack. My vision's blurry at first, but then it comes to and I see his disgusting face. I make a move to talk, but I realized my mouth was duct taped again. I look over to my right and see Lucy was gone. My eyes widened.
"Don't worry, she's alive. Locked her in the bedroom with that baby." Lewis says and I sighed in relief.
"Now we can have some fun. Just the two of us." Lewis adds before he starts to punch me. After multiple hits, I looked down to the floor and saw drops of blood dropping onto the carpet from my nose. Lewis puts his arms around me and then throws me onto the ground where he starts to kick me.
I shut my eyes and whimpered after he stopped. My body was throbbing everywhere.
I pick up my head and see him trashing my apartment.
Then I started to smell a cigarette.
He turned me over. He put it into his mouth as he then dragged me. He then sat on my legs. He took the duct tape off my mouth.
I wanted to scream. But it wasn't a guarantee that someone would hear me or that they would even do anything about it. I wasn't going to chance Noah's current safety for that.
"Do you want some?" He asks as he takes a puff. He holds the lit cigarette in front of me.
I shook my head.
"Your loss." He says before holding the lit part of cigarette to my neck. He holds his hand over my mouth so my screams were barely audible.
Lewis takes a puff and then holds the cigarette right in front of my eye. It couldn't have been more than inches away from it.
"Try anything and I'll burn him." Lewis threatens as he looks up. I knew he was looking at the door to Noah's bedroom where Lucy and Noah were currently locked up in.
I glare at him.
"Scream again and I'll make your little boy scream." He whispers before he burns the top of my left breast.
It took everything I had to hold it in and not scream.
He burned me for what felt like hours in multiple places. My breasts. My stomach. My arms. My neck. He later turned me over and burned me in multiple places on my back.
Tears escaped my eyes each time, but I did not scream. I barely made a sound.
Then he brought over a bottle of vodka, I had in the fridge.
"Be honest, you bought this just for us, didn't you?" Lewis comments, but I don't reply. It wasn't even mine. It was left over from when Brian stayed over.
"Drink." He says and I shake my head. I tighten my lips together.
"Drink the vodka, Olivia." He says as he holds the open bottle close to my face. I turned away. "Do it or I will kill your son."
I turned towards him.
I knew it was pointless to fight. Lewis had leverage. I was tied up. He had two guns. He was holding my son and Lucy hostage. I knew if I crossed him, he wouldn't hesitate to kill them.
But I guess it is instinct.
And in a way, I guess it could buy myself more time.
I know eventually they will come. Someone will come to the apartment looking for me. Maybe I'll get lucky and Barba will come to the apartment in the morning.
I know it is wishful thinking, but that's all I have.
"Open up." Lewis says as he grips my jaw in his hand. I shut my eyes tightly for a moment before my lips separated. I opened my mouth to drink the vodka like I would any drink. He then started to pour the vodka in my mouth. It burned as it went down my throat. I tried to swallow, but maybe half of it went all over me.
"Swallow it. All of it."
It was too much at once. I couldn't keep it all down. Not all of it would go down.
He stopped for a moment, before forcing more down my throat.
I gagged.
He then poured the rest of the contents of the bottle onto me.
I reeked of alcohol.
"You could just walk now." I say after he threw the bottle over onto the floor where it shattered.
"What will they say about all these?" Lewis runs his fingers over the cuts and bruises on my face, before pushing his fingernail into one of the burns on my breasts. I winced.
"Doesn't matter. Your defense attorney will figure some way for you to walk again." I replied.
"You're probably right." He laughs.
"My squad. They will find me." I say. "You could go right now. Get out of New York. A free pass."
"Don't try and bargain with me. We're past that." Lewis says as he then holds the gun to my head again. "But you've been a good girl so far, so I might decide to let that little kid live."
He then gave me another beating before forcing me to take some pills. I did not fight him on that. I didn't even think about it. Not just for Noah and Lucy's sake, but for mine. I knew taking those sleeping pills and being unconscious was the only sort of peace I was going to get.
I knew Lewis all too well. He hasn't finished with me yet.
A/N: So here's the first part. Like I said in the first AN, Cassidy is not with Liv, which is why there was no call from him. Anyways, this is Barson and there will more of that later but first we deal with Liv being at the hands of Lewis. Let me know what you think of this so far. Don't forget to review.