Samantha Barnes sat in the children's room of precinct 16 coloring in a princess coloring book. Her dirty blonde hair was pushed out of her face with a headband. It was very long and wavy. She wore a white t-shirt with one pink flower on it and a pair of blue jeans. Detective Olivia Benson watched her through the one way glass before she walked into the room.
"Hi Samantha. My name is Olivia," Sam looked at her as Olivia shut the door and walked over to her.
"Everyone calls me Sam. So I guess you can too." Olivia sat down on the couch next to Sam.
"Ok Sam." Olivia sat there just watching Sam for a little bit trying to figure out how to talk to her. "Who are you coloring?"
"Cinderella! She's my favorite!"
"Mine too." Olivia said to try and gain Sam's trust. There was a long moment of silence before Olivia thought of what to say to her. "Sam, You're in 6th grade now right?"
"Yea."
"And you know that if it someone hurts you that you should tell them no or to stop?"
"Yea."
"So how did you get this bruise on your arm?" Olivia pointed to her inner fore arm where a big bruise was.
"It's nothing," Sam said covering the bruise as she got up and walked to the window. Olivia got up and kneeled down beside her.
"Your older sister, Lucy, said that you have been really scared lately and you had a lot of cuts and bruises on your body. How did you get them?"
"I told you it's nothing." Sam ran to the couch and tried to color again, but she was coloring so hard that all the crayons kept breaking. Olivia walked over to her and sat on the couch next to her.
"Sam, I can help you. I can protect you. If someone hurt you I can get them," Sam stopped coloring, but didn't say anything. "Sam. He can't hurt you anymore," Sam started to quietly cry. Olivia started to rub her back then Sam hugged her tightly. "It's ok. You're going to be ok. I just need to know what happened," Sam pulled away from Olivia and wiped her tears.
"Last week I had to walk home alone after school because Lucy had a softball game and my little sisters stayed home because they both had the stomach bug. So I decided to cut through the park. It was cold and foggy out so there weren't many people there. I was half way through it when this man asked me to help him feed the birds. Mommy always taught me not to talk to strangers, but he was nice. So I walked over and sat on the bench with him. He was really nice. He told me I was pretty and that I was very nice for helping him. He gave me seeds and told me that they tasted really good. I gave him in ew! type face, but he said they were really tasty like M&M's. So I ate them and then it went black." Sam took a deep breath. Olivia rubbed her back as she began to tell her story once again. "I didn't know what had happened until I woke up. He was… on top of me. He was having… sex with me. I tried to make him stop, but he wouldn't get off of me. He just told me that he would kill mommy, Lucy, Zoey and Arielle. Afterwards he made me eat the seeds again. next thing I knew I was on the park bench." Sam started crying and hugged Olivia again. "The bruise on my arm isn't from him though."
"Who's it from?"
"My father"
"Did she tell you any of this?" Detective Elliot Stabler asked to Sam's older sister Lucy Barnes. Lucy had tears running down her face. She looked so shocked by all of this.
"N… No. I only noticed the bruises yesterday. She has been scared at night and when we walk home after school she has to walk right next to me." Lucy answered still staring at the glass.
"What about the bruise?" Elliot asked stepping in front of the glass to block her view. Lucy stared up at him with her mouth open. She looked as though she were going to say something, but nothing came out. Her curly dark brown hair was in a ponytail out of her face, but now looked very messy from Lucy pulling at it.
"I… I… I did know… because I have one too." Lucy answered rolling up her sleeve on her right arm to reveal a black and blue bruise the size of a baseball. Elliot looked at it and then back at her. Elliot and Olivia stared at each other through the glass. Although they could not see each other they knew they were both thinking the same thing. "We have to get this guy"
8 Years Later
"Looks like we are finally getting out of here." Detective Nick Amaro said to Olivia Benson, his partner.
"Just wait… now that you said that we won't be going home." Olivia replied back to him. Sure enough Olivia's desk phone started to ring. She stared at Nick and gave him an "I told you so" smile. she answered the phone. "Benson?
yea… ok… we'll be right there"
"Guess we all will be here for another night" Nick said pushing in his chair and grabbing his coat.
"It's like a superstition to say that in the precinct. So don't say it again." Olivia said jokingly as she followed him to the elevator.
"What happened?" Olivia asked to the cop on the scene.
"A 15 year old girl was attacked and raped. She was found passed out in an alley by a couple taking a midnight run." He pointed to the two people talking to the other cops. The man wore basketball type shorts with a tight runners t-shirt and the woman wore running tights along with a running jacket. Olivia turned her attention back to the cop.
"Do you know her name?" Nick asked.
"I thought I would leave the detective stuff to you two," He said walking away.
"Why don't you go talk to the girl and I'll find out more from the runners," Nick suggested walking towards the two people. Olivia made her way towards the ambulance. The girl was on a stretcher bundled in blankets. She was awake. Her eyes were darting all around. Olivia let them pull the stretcher into the ambulance and then climbed in after. The girl's eyes looked at Olivia. She was frightened.
"Hi…I'm Olivia Benson. I'm a detective with the Special Victims Unit. Can you tell me your name?"
"Olivia?" the girl said. She was out of breath. She could barely move. "I…I… know you… My name… My name… My name is… Zoey… Zoey Barnes." She closed her eyes. The machines started making a very fast beeping sound. Olivia was told to get out of the ambulance. The paramedics shut the doors, turned on the sirens and drove away. She was unsure of what she had just heard. Was this really Zoey Barnes? Samantha Barnes little sister? Olivia stood there and stared as the ambulance turned a corner.
"Hey Liv. Did she tell you anything?" Nick asked walking up to her.
"Her name… Her name is Zoey Barnes. She is the third of four girls. Her sisters are Lucy, Samantha and Arielle. Samantha was raped when she was eleven. I was the detective on the case."
A/N: So How did you like it? I know I didn't finish my other story, but I promise Chapter 3 is coming soon and Chapter 2 will come even sooner for this one! Please review I like hearing what you think.
