Chapter One

Anthony Winchester's Home
Upper East Side Manhattan
Monday Morning

"So what do we have officer," asked Eames.

"Mr. Winchester is a teacher at an all girl private school, in Manhattan. The house keeper came in this morning and found him here in the living room, gunshot wound to the face. Nothing appears to be missing, no evidence of a break in." said the officer.

"Thanks, we will take over from here," said Eames.

"Looks like a hit, but he must have known the person. He let him in, no forced entry. Doesn't look personal, straight shot, gets the job done, didn't take anything," said Goren.

"Hey what's sex police doing here, we didn't call in any rape," snarked one of the officers on the scene.

"Hey man, stick it in your ear and go get a donut," said Finn.

"Finn?" said Goren.

"Bobby Goren, I'll be damn!" said Finn. Going up to him and sharing a guy hug.

"How you doing man," said Goren.

"Doing great, and you," replied Finn.

"Well we don't have the time, to go into all that," Goren laughed uneasly.

"Hey this is my partner, Alex Eames."

"Nice to meet you," Finn extended his hand and shook Alex's.

"Oh you will never guess who my partner is," he looks back and notice's she isn't there. "Oh she must be outside calling the Captain, to see what we are going to do now."

"So why are you here?" asked Eames.

"This guy is wanted for rape. We were here to arrest him, seems he and a partner been raping and killing 15yr old girls. We finally had a live victim who could identify him, but not his partner. We were here to arrest him, but seems we are too late," said Finn. "We were hoping he would lead us to his accomplice."

"Wooohooo, and speaking of the Special in Special Victims, Detective Madison, how do you do today?" said the officer at the door.

"Stick it in your ear," she snapped.

Goren's heart fell to his stomach when he saw her walk around the corner, Taylor Madison. He hadn't seen her in 10 yrs. Is it possible for someone to get more beautiful in that amount of time? They worked together for his first three years in Narcotics. Working narcotics wasn't easy, especially for a woman, most women went into vice, but she held her own. He was only interested in his career and didn't want to fall for a policewoman, but with her he couldn't help it, she saved his ass so many times. One night on a stake- out, it just happened, and after that they couldn't turn back. They kept their relationship secret from everyone, even Finn. But after 3 yrs she wanted more, and he couldn't give it to her, not with his mother. It broke his heart to have to break hers. After that she transferred out of narcotics to SVU, and she never talked to him again, but he couldn't blame her.

"Captain said, to keep with this case Finn," said Madison.

Then she saw him, her knees got weak. She hadn't thought of him, since she saw in the paper his mom died. She wanted to go to the funeral, she felt so bad for him, but how could she after so much time had passed.

"Hey, look who's here Maddie," said Finn.

"Hey Goren, long time," said Madison.

"Hi, how are you? This is Detective Eames," said Goren.

Eames and Madison shared nods.

"Captain, said the murder is probably, the second rapist, so we can either work this together or as two separate teams, he is going to talk to the Captain at Major Case, but he says it's up to us," said Madison, thinking to herself "oh please no, I can't handle this."

"Fine with us, if you two want to work together, it would be like old times, huh Bobby," Finn said, as he slapped Bobby on the back.

Eames could sense Bobby's uneasiness. "Well we have to wait till we hear from our Captain"

"Sure, we understand, here is my card, give us a call," Finn said.

Finn and Madison walked out of the house.

"Bobby you ok?" asked Eames.

Bobby came back to earth, "Yes, I am fine, real fine," he smiled, scratched his head and returned to the crime scene.