This story came to me after I spent a week of being ill having an SVU marathon. I always wondered what it would be like if Olivia had experienced her mothers pain first hand. What if she wasn't always the strong willed, cock sure character we see on screen? Not a shipping fic, but a lot of E/O and F/O friendship. Own character which I hope you will all grow to love as much as I have while writing her :) Enjoy, let me know what you think

x C

"What do we got?" Liv asked as her and Elliot waded through what seemed like endless bushes to get to the crime scene for today.

"Female, mid to late teens, blunt trauma to the head- assumed cause of death. Unless she made a habit of walking out of the house half dressed she has items of clothing missing- no socks, shoes, no bra and a pair of panties were found just over in a clearing to the left of these bushes, which until the lab comfirms we are guessing were hers." Liv knelt down between Melinda and the victim being careful not to touch anything. "Early signs of what would have been bruising to the upper arms, abdomen and inner thighs." Melinda added, Liv nodded in understanding and stood back to her feet.

"And that's why we were called" she said out loud. "Weapon? Circumstance?" she questioned.

"A rock was found in the next field covered in blood."

"This method of kill suggests spontaneity. Not planned" Elliot piped up and stepped forward. "Any ID on the vic?"

Olivia looked up hopefully at her colleague and friend but Melinda shook her head regretfully and began to walk away from the scene.

"Okay Jane Doe, late teens. That's all we got? I want an ID on the vic by lunch people lets get moving!" she instructed the team as she followed Melinda's path.

"Captain, it's been hours! We've been looking at similarities between our Jane Doe's murder and other in the area- nothing. I checked up in the whole state and nothing. There literally are no recorded murders that match our case exactly, not even partial. The method of murder points towards it being spontaneous, it's gotta be a circumstantial. The girl was in the wrong place at the wrong time." Liv blurted as Cragen passed her in the main office, he stopped and before saying anything nodded in agreement.

"Get Warner to rush any DNA she finds and we are going to need that ID as soon as humanly possible" with that he was through his office door and shut inside.

Munch stopped what he was doing on his computer and mustered the best 'well I tried' expression he could.

"Well you heard the man" Elliot said and lead Liv back out towards the entrance. Time to visit the lab.

"Okay what can you tell us?" Benson asked on arriving in the lab to find Melinda leaning intently into her computer screen. The two detectives put gloves on as they passed the cabinet and approached the table.

"Okay, so far no ID matches for the vic on any records in the tri state area, didn't expect there to be. Her blood levels show a fairly high amount of alcohol and I found this..." she carried on, picking up a small baggy of what looked like marijuana "...in the jacket we found next her body.

"Was she high?" Benson asked and received a shake of the head from her friend.

"Not that I can see, effects may have worn off through the evening...we know that time of death would have been early hours of the morning; no rig and that she put up one hell of a fight!" she explained grasping one of the girls hands.

"Defence wounds?" Stabler questioned, Melinda nodded.

"Extensive, the perp will have some hefty fingernail scratches and you see this?" she curled up the victims hand so that the two could see her knuckles clearly, they were grazed.

"She through quite a punch!" Liv commented and stepped towards the table before stroking the young girls dark shiny hair. "...good for you" she frowned, knowing the girl had tried her best.

"The ring she's wearing would have left quite a mark, here, I made an imprint of what said mark may look like for your reference"

"Thanks" Elliot replied quickly, all of this would make finding their 'one off' killer easier.

"But here's where it gets interesting" Melinda pointed upwards in a matter-of-fact manner. " We took DNA from the vics hair follicles. There were 3 different types of hair pulled from the girls jacket and top, all with different DNA." she spoke clearly, getting excited at what she had found. Also we found a pair of earrings in the pocket, the vic doesn't have her ears pierced and this lead me to compare DNA from the earrings to the hairs. There was a match, but not our vic." she stated.

"So she borrowed the jacket, can we run a DNA check for girls on the system for the owner of the jacket? Maybe she can shed some light on what happened last night" Liv dug, maybe they were getting somewhere. Melinda nodded and turned to her computer once more.

Before Liv or Elliot could dig any further Fin entered in a hurried manner, looking a little out of breath and holding print outs and an evidence bag with what looked like some sort of card inside.

"We've found an ID for the vic" he spoke hurriedly, looking a mixture of success and sadness. "Liv, I think you should look at this" he said, his voice full of regret.

"What, what is it?" she asked, worried at the tone in her friends voice, he held out the evidence bag for her to take into her hands. As she received it and began to survey the ID card that had been found Melinda cut in at finding a DNA match on the hair and earrings found in and on the jacket.

"Danielle Benson"

The four of them stopped dead in their tracks.