The second Elliot opened the door, there was a scuffling sound and then a small bundle of red hair and bandages collided with his chest as the girl, 'Marls' made a break for the open door.

"Woah woah woah! Hey, hey easy, take it easy!" He said "No one's gonna hurt you, but you're gonna hurt yourself if you don't- hey calm down, calm down!"

But his attempt at soothing words did no good.

"Let me go, let me out PLEASE! I have to go, I have to get out! Let me out!"

Realising that struggling against the much bigger and stronger man was hopeless, the small girl fled to the corner of the room and cowered in the corner. Her back pressed to the wall, arms wrapped round her knees and green eyes watching the two Detectives wide eyed.

Olivia stepped forwards and put a hand on Elliot's chest, gesturing for him to take a step back. Then, she crouched down a few metres away so that she was far enough not to spook the girl but wasn't standing over her either.

"Hey" She said kindly "My name's Olivia. A friend of mine said that some people call you Marls? Is that right? What's that short for?"

She was met with silence.

"What's your name sweetheart?" Olivia prompted again.

More silence.

Until…

"Marlene" came the quiet answer.

"Marlene. That's a nice name. Like I said I'm Olivia, this is Elliot."

Elliot smiled as softly as he could as Olivia continued

"Marlene do you think it would be alright if we talk to you for a little bit."

" m'not supposed to talk to cops. Trey said you'll lock me up." Marlene sounded like she didn't believe her own sentence, like the words were not her own and both the detectives noticed it. It sounded rehearsed.

"Marlene I promise no one is going to lock you up ok? We just want to talk about what happened this morning." Elliot spoke up assuredly.

The young redhead looked intently from Olivia to Elliot before taking a deep breath and nodded.

"Okay. Okay come on out sweetie. Let's talk."


"Mornin' fellas"

"Kate Cauley, if it ain't my favourite tech dweeb!" grinned Carisi as the woman he had named mock saluted him and Fin as they entered the squad room.

Kate Cauley was relatively new to TARU but she had made quite the impact on her first case with the SVU team, providing the critical evidence to secure a conviction and being an almost scarily quick witted person. She got along with everyone and she and Carisi had an ongoing prank war, in which she had one the last round by filling the vents in his car with glitter, so that when he had pressed the button in order to get hot air blowing round his car he had been covered in a deluge of glitter.

Pushing her thin wire framed glasses up her small, slightly upturned nose Kate beckoned two detectives over.

"What you got for us Cauley?" asked Fin as they approached the small woman.

"Depends. If I say I have an ID on your shooter are one of you gonna buy me a drink?"

"Cauley if you can ID her I'll buy you a bar" Carisi said with a smirk and Kate laughed, pushing her shoulder length blonde hair out of her face, her green eyes twinkling.

"I'll hold you to that Carisi" she warned before pressing a key on her keyboard and a CCTV still image came up on a screen.

"We tracked your girl using CCTV after she left the clinic. Guess she thought she got far enough away because six blocks away she took that thing off her face and bam!"

She zoomed into the screengrab to reveal a slightly blurry image of a scared looking girl. It was hard to tell much because the picture was in black and white, except that the girl had long dark hair.

"So there's our mystery girl" Said Fin before looking at Kate "So who is she?"

"Ran her through facial rec and got a hit in an old case" Kate swiped across the screen and another photo appeared next to the CCTV image. It was definitely the same girl, though she was a good few years younger.

"Meet Rielle Garner, eighteen years old. You guys first met her when she was fifteen and-"

"Hold up, we met her?" asked Fin and Kate nodded.

"Well not you. Staten Island. She was arrested at the scene of an assault back in 2015. John went after a hooker, so the pimp went after the John and it got messy, but no charges were brought in the end, the A.D.A just made it go away after neither side would cooperate." Explain Kate emphasising the word messy. "They found Miss Garner locked in the back of the pimp's car."

"And they arrested her for it?"

"No they arrested her after the cops let her out and she punched the responding officer in the face when they tried to take her in for interview."

Another picture appeared of a male cop with a bloody lip and nose.

"Damn. She packs a punch." Muttered Carisi raising his eyebrows.

"No charges were brought against her and she disappeared before social services could get a hold of her." Fin read off the screen. "Bet you money she ran straight back to whatever scumbag pimp had her in his car."

"That name…" Carisi said almost to himself "I think…I need to make a call but I think I might have come across her before…"

"Carisi…" Kate said slowly but she stopped like she wasn't sure if she should continue "Carisi you have met her before. You were one of the ones who interviewed her."

"Wait what?" Carisi looked at Kate, brow furrowed.

"Your name's in the file Sonny" Kate said softly and Carisi blinked.

"Right. Uh, I uh, I'll make a call, see if Staten Island SVU has any details about the case. Yeah I- yeah"

And with that Carisi hurried from the room, his brow furrowed.

Fin and Kate watched him go, before Fin turned to the younger woman and said

"You ever seen him act like that?"


Sonny Carisi felt more shaken than he had in a long time.

And he had no idea why.

All that had happened was that he had forgotten a one off encounter with a girl three years ago. He had dealt with so many cases both before and after that had happened, there was no way he could remember them all in immense detail.

And yet...

And yet the fact he had forgotten this girl left a sour taste in his mouth and a heavy feeling in his stomach.

And he didn't know why.


Sorry it's kind of short, just wanted to get another chapter out there.

There will be more action to come, I promise!

And coming up some time in the next few chapters will be an appearance from my favourite character.

Any guesses as to who?

More soon.

Geronimo xx