Olivia Margaret Benson-Stabler's point of view
It's been a very long and exhausting day for me today and I'm just looking forward to going home and spending a quiet evening with my incredibly sexy husband Elliot and our 14 year old son, Sean. Today has been an extremely tough day for not only me and my husband and son but also my entire 'family' here at SVU because today is the 13 year anniversary of the day my daughter and Sean's twin sister, Susan, mysteriously disappeared without a trace. She had only been 1 1/2 at the time. We were never able to find any leads or clues as to what could have happened to Susan. I miss my little girl so much and I desperately wish that I could find out what happened to her.
I'm alone in my office at the 1-6 fighting back tears as I sit at my desk thinking about Susan when someone knocks on the door. It's Amanda Rollins, one of my detectives and closest friends.
"What's up, Rollins?"
"I know that you're supposed to head home to Elliot and Sean in like 20 minutes Liv, but we've um we've got a bit of a situation."
"What kind of situation exactly?"
Amanda looked at me for a moment before explaining that there is a teenage girl out in the squad room claiming that she is my missing daughter and that she wants to speak with me. I get up out of my chair and follow Amanda out into the squad room where I see the teenage girl she just told me about sitting next to and holding hands with a boy with jet black hair who doesn't look like he's much older than 15 or 16 years old. I walk over to them and introduce myself as Olivia Benson-Stabler. The girl remains silent but the boy tells me that his name is Will Roberts and that he is the boyfriend of the girl claiming to be my long-last daughter.
"Okay, here's what we're going to do. Susan, you and I are gonna go down to our medical examiner's office and I'm gonna have her run a DNA test on you. You have to understand my daughter has been missing since before she was 2 years old and I just-"
"You just want to make absolutely sure that I am who I'm claiming to be."
"Yes."
"I completely understand. Let's go get the DNA test done."
After Melinda swabs the girl's mouth, she leaves me and the girl alone in her office so that she can run the girl's DNA against mine and also Elliot's since both our DNA is in the database because we both work for the NYPD. Its then that I notice that the girl's hands are trembling despite her trying to hide it.
"Susan, are you okay sweetie?"
"I'm fine. Just feeling a little nervous right now. It's nothing new, really."
"Why are you feeling nervous?"
"Well, I'm kinda scared that the DNA test is going to reveal that I'm not really your daughter and that the woman who told me that I was your missing daughter is just messing with me as some kind of really sick joke."
"Who is the woman that told you that you were my missing daughter?"
Before Susan can answer my question, Melinda comes back into the office with a big smile on her face. I ask her what the results of the DNA test are and I swear her smile somehow gets even bigger.
"Congratulations, Olivia. You finally found your daughter. Or rather she found you."
Susan suddenly burst into tears and I wrap my arms around her, holding my daughter in my arms for the first time in 13 years. Susan wraps her arms around my shoulders and buries her tear-covered face in my shoulder as she continues to sob. I kiss her hair and rub her back in an attempt to comfort her.
"It's okay, baby. It's okay. I'm here."
Susan lifts her head and smiles at me through her tears. I reach up and wipe away the few tears that are still trickling down her cheeks before suggesting to her that the two of us go back upstairs and tell everyone the good news. Susan agrees and as she and I exit Melinda's office, I notice Susan turning her head and waving at someone as we make our way through the lab back to the elevator. I turn my head and see Melinda smiling and waving back at Susan and it makes me smile as well.
When Susan and I finally get back up to the squad room, I'm a bit surprised to see both Elliot and Sean in the squad room. Elliot is talking with Fin and Sean is sitting in the chair beside Amanda's desk and is engaged in a conversation with her. I notice that Susan is no longer next to me but is instead behind me as if she's hiding from something or someone. I ask Will to take Susan into my office for a few minutes. Will nods and takes Susan's hand in his own but before he can lead her into my office, Elliot walks over to me, wrapping his arms around my waist and pressing a soft kiss to my cheek.
"Hey, baby. Is everything okay? Sean and I got pretty worried when you didn't get home when you said you would."
"I'm fine, babe. I'm sorry I didn't call to let you know I had to stay a little later than I had originally planned but something pretty amazing has happened."
"What has happened that's so amazing, baby?"
I turn and motion to Susan who releases Will's hand and moves to stand next to me. I put my arm around Susan's shoulders and she leans against my side, one arm around my waist.
"El, Susan found us. Our daughter found us."
Elliot stares at Susan in complete shock for a moment before he realizes that it's really her.
"Susan? It's really you?"
Susan smiles at him and nods her head.
"It's really me, Daddy."
Hearing our daughter call him Daddy for the first time in over a decade causes Elliot to begin to cry and we all watch in complete silence as he wraps his arms around her and buries his tear streaked face in her long brown hair. Susan buries her own tear streaked face into Elliot's shirt as she cries as well. Sean comes up beside me and asks me if I know how Susan managed to find me.
"Susan told me down in your Aunt Mel's office when we were getting a DNA test done to confirm that she really was Susan that a woman that she knows told her the truth about who she really was but I didn't get a chance to ask her what the woman's name was."
Susan must have heard me and Sean talking because she turned around and looked at me with a look in her cerulean-blue eyes that were exactly like Elliot's eyes that I couldn't quite place. I think Elliot can tell that Susan is possibly feeling scared because he wraps his arms around her shoulders from behind and places a soft kiss on the top of her head in an effort to comfort her.
"It was Melanie Parker, Mama. She was the woman who told me the truth about who I really am. She also said that the reason she wanted me to know the truth about myself is because she didn't think that her brother should be able to keep getting away with being the person that took me away from you and Daddy and Sean."
I can feel myself start to become very angry. I'd known Trent Parker and his sister Melanie since my sophomore year of high school which was the same year that I first met and fell in love with Elliot. I didn't realize it for a long time but Trent had had a huge crush on me since the day he had met me and he had been crushed when I had agreed to be Elliot's girlfriend and eventually his fiancée. I can still remember how both Trent and Melanie had abruptly severed all ties with both Elliot and myself right after we'd had shared the news that we were expecting twins. I honestly didn't think much about it at the time but since I now realize that Trent is the one who had taken my baby girl away from me and her father, I can't help but feel like I never really knew Trent Parker at all.
I'm jerked from my thoughts when I feel Susan's hand on my arm. I smile down at her before wrapping my arms around her and pressing a kiss against the top of her head. She motions with her finger for me to come closer and she whispers in my ear that she really needs to talk with me in private about something. I nod my head. I then take her hand in my own and lead her into my office, closing the door behind us so we'd have a bit of privacy. Susan sits down on the small black couch in the corner and I sit next to her.
"So what did you wanna talk with me about, baby?"
Susan looks down at her hands and with a shaky voice tells me that something really awful has been happening to her almost every day for the past 6 months. I reach over and take my daughter's hand and assure her that she can tell me what exactly has been happening to her for the past 6 months so that I can try my hardest to make sure that it never happens to her again. I notice a few tears trickling down Susan's cheeks so I pull her closer so that I can wrap my arms around her.
"Trent- he's been forcing me to have sex with him almost every day for the past 6 months, Mama."
Susan bursts into tears then and buries her tear-streaked face in my shirt and sobs. I hold her as closely as possible and bury my face in her brown hair in an attempt to keep myself from crying as well. Trent Parker not only took my baby girl away from me but has only been hurting her in a horrible way for the past 6 months. He needs to pay for the damage that he has caused my family but he has to pay the right way: the legal way.
