Sociopath
"Let her go!" Olivia yelled. "Cameron Hughes, put the gun down and let the girl go."
SVU's 11 year old suspect was holding a young girl hostage in an abandoned warehouse. Olivia was the first one on the scene. Elliot, Fin, Munch and the SWAT team weren't far behind her. Her plan was to distract the boy long enough for the others to arrive in hopes they could disarm him without anyone getting hurt.
"Cameron, we can talk about this. We can get you some help, but you have to put the gun down," Olivia said. The young girl being held hostage started to cry.
"Shut up!" Cameron yelled before he smacked the girl's face. Olivia cringed, silently begging Elliot and the others to hurry.
"Cameron..."
"Shut up! Stop talking to me!" the boy interrupted her.
Olivia took a deep breath. She hated the cases that involved kids. Children were so innocent, they had their entire lives ahead of them, so much potential and for anyone to have the arrogance to steal that from them was despicable. This case was even more complicated as their suspect was a child himself. Olivia wasn't too surprised after meeting his mother though.
Cameron's mother was a horrible woman. Elliot and Olivia had met her not long after they had been assigned to this case. After digging into Cameron's history they found multiple visits to the hospital with black eyes, bruises, broken bones, malnourishment, burns, cuts, and the like. There was no doubt he had been abused. He also had a criminal record; animal cruelty, theft, and minor arson. Now he was escalating. The abused was becoming the abuser. It wasn't the first time SVU had seen it happen.
Cameron had used his charm to con, Hailey, a third grader from his school, to leave with him. The SVU squad had been scouring the area, tracking their movements when Olivia got a lead. As soon as she arrived at the warehouse she heard Cameron and the girl inside. She radioed Elliot before entering.
"We can all walk out of here Cameron, nobody has to get hurt. You gotta let Hailey go though," Olivia told him.
"Liv, I'm pulling up now. I'll go around back, just keep him talking," she heard Elliot say through her earpiece. As she was listening to Elliot, Cameron cocked his gun and started raising his arm towards Olivia. He took a step towards Olivia, pushing Hailey and causing her to fall.
Olivia squeezed the trigger of her already aimed gun, firing one shot directly into Cameron's heart. She heard Elliot screaming her name as she watched the boy drop to floor. Munch and Fin ran past her. Fin kicked the gun away from Cameron and checked for a pulse and Munch grabbed Hailey and took her out to his car.
Elliot took the gun out of Olivia's shaking hand. He kept saying her name, trying to get her attention but she was frozen, staring at the dead boy lying in the pool of blood. Her mouth was hanging open and her eyes were wide. Elliot moved between Olivia and Cameron, blocking her from seeing him. He put his hand on her shoulder and turned her around. He guided her out towards his car.
Cragen, Warner, and CSU were arriving on scene. The ambulance had already arrived. Hailey was in the back being checked out. Munch was with her. The scene was quickly growing more and more chaotic and there were a growing number of civilians gathering to see what was going on. Elliot's only concern at that point was Olivia. She seemed to be in shock. Fin got a blanket from the ambulance and wrapped it around Olivia.
"Liv, Baby, you ok?" Fin asked.
"Cameron, is he... is he gonna be ok?" Olivia asked.
Elliot and Fin looked at each other. Cameron was clearly dead, Olivia had to know that.
"No Liv," Elliot said softly.
"Yes!" Olivia told him. "He has to be. Why aren't they putting him in the ambulance? They should be over there trying to help him..."
"Liv," Elliot interrupted her. She looked at him and he just shook his head.
"I... I killed him? No! That can't be right!" Olivia started freaking out.
"Better get her back to the house," Fin said to Elliot. "Don't want all these media vultures putting their spin on this tragedy." Fin knew it didn't matter if it was a good shoot or not, when it came to the media and an officer involved shooting, things usually got turned around so the cop looked like the bad guy. He didn't want the media capturing Olivia's raw emotional state and twisting it to misrepresent her.
"I'll take her," Elliot said, opening the passenger side door to his car.
"What happened today?" Huang asked.
"Cameron died," Olivia answered directly and quietly.
"How does that make you feel?"
Olivia scrunched her eyebrows at Huang. "How does that make me feel? How does that make me feel!" Olivia repeated, getting increasingly agitated. "I killed an 11 year old boy, a kid, a victim. That boy has been abused his whole life, he never had a chance and I came along and ended his life! How would you feel!" Olivia was irate; she stood and began pacing frantically around the interview room.
Huang sat still and watched Olivia pace around as he patiently listened to her. "What about Hailey?" he asked her softly.
"Hailey? Hailey's fine," Olivia said. She was so focused on Cameron that she hadn't thought much about Hailey.
Huang knew it wasn't at all like Olivia to disregard a victim but she wasn't thinking clearly. "Hailey is going to be ok because of you Olivia. What do you think Cameron would have done to her if you hadn't been there?" he asked.
"God only knows," Olivia said quietly, shaking her head. "But I didn't have to shoot him. There had to be another way. I didn't have to take his life!" she was starting to get angry again.
"He pulled a gun on you. He primed his weapon and was aiming it at you Olivia." There was a little more desperation in Huang's voice as he tried to get through to Olivia.
Olivia sat down in the chair in front of Huang again. She thought for a moment. "Yah," she finally mumbled. She knew she wasn't going to win this argument with Huang. She was sure he didn't know what it was like to take the life of a young boy. "I gotta go. I have some paper work to do," she said quietly as she stood and exited the room.
