Knock knock
"Miss Smith?" Elliot asked.
"Miss Smith it's the police, we have a warrant, we need you to open the door." Olivia said shortly after Elliot.
"Okay, we're going to have to kick the door open, stand back Casey." Elliot said to the A.D.A
Casey stepped back and Elliot kicked the door open. Elliot and Olivia went in first to make sure it was clear.
"Okay Case, you can come in." Elliot yelled to her from the other room.
"Why am I even here El?" Casey asked
"Because we needed the warrant from you, and well… why not?" he replied.
In the living room, detective Benson walked in on a gruesome sight. A female, with brown hair and blue eyes was dead on the couch. Just by looking at her, she could tell that the woman was in her late 20's and that she had been raped and beaten.
"El, call a bus, we got a victim over here!" Olivia yelled to the other detective.
"Got it!" he yelled back.
Casey did not want to see the sight of a dead woman at eight in the morning, so she stayed in the kitchen. As Casey was looking around, she spotted a cooler on the floor which she noticed had been taped shut, and there was blood on the tape. She didn't want to know what was in there, and at the same time, she did. She grabbed a paper towel, and carefully lifted the tape off the cooler. The tape was off and as she opened the lid, she stared in shock of what was in the cooler.
"Liv, El, There is a little girl in here, in the cooler, with ice and she is tie up!" she yelled.
"Well pick her up and find a blanket and wrap her in it, hold her close and share your body heat, she might have hypothermia." Elliot called back.
Casey picked up the little girl and saw a blanket on the back of the couch in what she assumed to be the T.V. room. Casey grabbed it quickly and wrapped the little girl in it. She sat down on the couch with the little girl and as she pulled her closer, the little girl's eyes started to open. Casey was surprised that she wasn't unconscious. The little girl looked up at Casey with fear in her big blue eyes, and Casey quickly explained herself.
"Hey sweetie, shh it's okay…my name is Casey, Casey Novak, and I'm here with the police, you're going to be okay."
The little girl soon realized that she was safe. She nodded her head slightly and closed her eyes again as she fell into a light sleep in the A.D.A's arms.
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It was 2 hours after Casey had found the little girl, and as she awoke, she found herself in the hospital.
"Excuse me, nurse?" she asked wearily
"Yes?" she asked
"Where's Casey?" she asked the nurse
"I'm sorry...who is Casey?"
"She was the one that found me, she is with the police." She said
"Oh, well I'll call the detective that brought you in and I'll see if she knows, uh...Casey. Okay?"
"Okay, thanks"
--------------------------- Back at the precinct -----------------------------------
"Okay so who is the girl?" Casey asked Olivia.
"Well from what we could find at the apartment, her first name is Maddy, and she is 9." She responded.
Ring Ring Ring
Olivia picked up the phone, "hello, Special Victims Unit, how may I help you?"
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"Oh, okay thank you that's great"
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"She did? Oh okay, I'll bring her with me,"
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"Okay, thanks again, uh-huh…bye."
Olivia hung up the phone and turned back around to everyone else.
"Maddy is awake, and she asked to see Casey." she said as she turned and looked at Casey.
"Liv, I can't I have arraignment in 20 minutes, it should only take about half an hour, but tell her that I'll be there as soon as I'm done, okay?"
"Alright, see you later, captain, I'm going to go now." Olivia said
"Okay, call me when you're done interviewing her."
With that, Olivia nodded her head, and headed for the door.
--------------------------------- At the hospital -----------------------------------
"Uh hi, I'm here to see Maddy?..." Olivia said to the receptionist
"Oh you're the detective right?"
Olivia flashed her badge as she nodded
"Right, she's down the hall in room 128A, she should be awake, unless she's dozed off again."
"Thank you." Olivia said as she headed down the hall.
126A, 127A, ah 128A Olivia thought as she approached the door. She knocked on the door, and from the other side she heard a meek 'come in'. She opened the door cautiously as she stepped inside the girl's room.
"Hi Maddy, my name is Olivia Benson, I work with Casey." She said staring into the little girl's deep blue eyes.
"Where is she? Is Lily dead?" Maddy asked.
"Casey had to go to court, but she told me to tell you that she will be right over as soon as she is done, and is Lily your mom?"
"Oh… no, well yes, Lily is my mom, but I haven't gotten used to calling her that yet… is she dead?"
"What do you mean sweetie, is she your step mom?"
Suddenly, Olivia's phone rang.
"Hold on one moment sweetie...Benson … oh she is … she doesn't … what do I tell her … okay … bye. Okay, so where were we, oh yes, so what do you mean about Lily, and I'm sorry sweetie, she's gone."
"Oh…I mean, Lily was my foster mom for 4 months, and just 2 weeks ago, she adopted me."
Olivia could see that Maddy was fighting really hard to hold back tears.
"Ooh...I see"
The nurse then walked into the room.
"Detective? The doctor said it was okay for Maddy to leave now."
"Oh okay, could you get her clothes please, and I'll take her back with me." Olivia said to the nurse.
"Right away" she responded, and went to go get Maddy's clothes.
"Where are you taking me Olivia?" the sweet faced nine year old asked.
"I'm going to take you back to my office okay? I'll call Casey and tell her to meet us there."
"Okay" Maddy replied.
Just then the nurse walked in with her clothes
"Here you go, when you get out of that nightie, you can just leave it on the bed" The nurse said to Maddy.
"Okay"
Olivia looked at her and thought boy, this girl doesn't say a lot, she was probably abused; I can't wait to hear her story.
"I'll be right outside okay sweetie." Olivia said as the young girl nodded her head.
--------------5 minutes later -----------
The door opened behind Olivia, and out walked Maddy, dressed in the clothes she had came in.
"Are you ready?" she asked. Maddy nodded her head and off they went.
---------------------------- Back at the precinct in the child interrogation room --------------------------
"Okay sweetie, here we are, we are just going to talk okay?" Olivia asked the trembling child.
"Okay… where's Casey?" she asked
"She just came in, she is right outside that window, you can't see her but she can see you."
"Are you sure?" Maddy asked.
"Casey, if you are out there, can you please say something?" She asked Casey through the window.
"Hey sweetie, I'm right here, and I'm not going to leave unless you want me to, okay?"
Maddy smiled when she heard Casey's voice.
"Okay" Maddy replied.
After the first sentence Maddy said, Casey began to tear up.