This is my first Law and Order: SVU fanfic! I hope y'all like it! I've changed the timeline a little bit. In this story, Casey is about 27/28 years old, and she's been with the SVU since she graduated law school. All of the original characters are still at the precinct, and Nick and Amanda are partners. I hope you enjoy this fanfic, and please review! :)
As Special Victims Unit Detective Olivia Benson leaves the precinct for the night, she sees a tiny girl going into the building. "Excuse me, where is the Special Victims Unit?" the tiny girl asks. Olivia stops and looks at the young child.
The girl is about three feet tall and can't weigh more than 30 pounds. She looks malnourished, and she has a large, fresh bruise under her left eye. She clearly looks like a victim of abuse.
There's something about the girl that makes Olivia wonder. The child has an uncanny resemblance to someone she knows, but she can't quite put her finger on who the girl looks like.
"I'm Detective Olivia Benson. I work for the Special Victims Unit. I can take you there," Olivia tells the girl. The girl gives Olivia a small half-smile. "Thank you," she says politely. Olivia leads the girl to the Special Victims Unit.
"It's very late, Sweetie. Why aren't you at home, sleeping?" Olivia asks the small child. The little girl looks at the floor. "I need to talk to the police," she answers. Olivia raises an eyebrow. "I can help you," she offers. The little girl follows Olivia into the juvenile interview room.
Olivia grab a notepad and sits down in front of the girl. "Okay, sweetie, can you tell me your name and age?" she asks. The girl nods. "My name is Gabriella Elizabeth Novak, but everyone calls me Gabby. I'm five," she tells Olivia.
When she hears the girl's last name, it clicks for Olivia. The kid is a dead ringer for ADA Casey Novak. The only major difference between the two is their hair color. Casey has red hair, while the girl has blonde hair.
"So, Gabby, can you tell me how you got here?" Olivia asks. Gabby shrugs. "I walked here," she answers. Olivia jots something down on her notepad. "How did you know how to get here?" she asks.
"At school, they gave us iPads. There are special apps on the iPads that the teachers use to track our progress and give us schoolwork. I looked up directions on my iPad. My biology teacher noticed this bruise under my eye, and she asked how I got it. I told her that I wasn't allowed to tell her how I got hurt. She asked me if someone was hurting me, and I told her that I couldn't answer her question. So, she gave me a card with this address written on it. She told me that if someone is hurting me, then it's not normal and that I should tell someone about it. Then, she said not to show or tell anyone about it. I thought about what she said, and I looked up the address and came here," Gabby tells Olivia, watching closely as the detective quickly scribble what she's saying on her notepad.
"Biology? iPads? What school do you attend?" Olivia asks, shocked.
Gabby takes a business card out of her backpack and hands it to Olivia. The detective looks at the card. "Morewood? Isn't that a private school for teenage prodigies?" she asks with a raised eyebrow. Gabby nods. "They recruited me. They made special arrangements for me to attend the school even though I'm only five," she tells Olivia.
It all makes sense to Olivia now. At first she was extremely confused as to how a five-year-old was able to come to the precinct all by herself. This isn't an ordinary five-year-old. She's dealing with an intellectually advanced child prodigy with a mental capacity that far exceeds most people four times her age.
"So, why are you here?" Olivia asks, writing something down. Gabby sighs and looks at the floor. "My parents have been doing bad things to me," she whispers. Olivia stops writing and looks up. "What are they doing to you?" she asks. Gabby bites her lip, trying to hold back the tears that are stating to prick at her eyes. She pulls out a portfolio of photos from her backpack and slides it towards Olivia.
Olivia opens the portfolio and looks through it. There are overly airbrushed head shots of Gabby with tons of makeup caked on. There are photos of the girl dressed in skimpy clothing on stage, performing in pageants. Some of the poses that the child is in make Olivia want to vomit. There are pictures of Gabby accepting awards, crowns, and trophies.
"When I don't win, they punish me," Gabby says. "They hit me and make me do things that I don't want to do."
Olivia looks at the child again, astonished.
"What do they make you do?" Olivia asks. Gabby wipes her eyes. She takes the notepad and pen that Olivia was using and begins writing. When she finishes writing, she shows Olivia what she wrote. Olivia reads what Gabby has written down.
They make me do "special" pageants. There are lots of men in the audience, and the people who are competing in the pageants don't wear a lot of clothes. The competitors have to do inappropriate routines. When you win, you don't get a prize. Instead, you are the prize. If I win, a strange man takes me away for a long time. It's usually a different man each time. I have to do "special" performances. The man makes me take off my clothes, and he touches my private parts. Then he hurts me. He puts his private parts in my private parts. My daddy was the first man to put his private parts in mine. The first time he hurt me was on my fourth birthday.
Olivia stares at the little girl. "When was your most recent 'special' pageant?" she asks. Gabby shifts uncomfortably in her seat and whimpers. "Last night. I was bleeding a lot. It really hurt! And my parents wouldn't take me to the doctor. My daddy whipped me in the face. Then, he locked me in the basement all night. My mom let me out this morning, so I could go to school. That's when my teacher asked about the bruise under my eye," she cries.
Olivia scribbles Gabby's information down on the notepad and finishes interviewing her. When the interview is over, she takes Gabby to Mercy Hospital to be examined.
Once Gabby is examined and DNA samples are taken, she is brought to the pediatric ward, where she'll be staying the night. Olivia talks to the doctor and goes back to the precinct. At the precinct, she makes a file for Gabby. After that, she finally goes home with Gabby's case weighing heavily on her mind.