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"Well look who finally decided to have a social life. Hey gimpy feeling better?" John Munch said jokingly as he noticed the short haired woman walk into the crowded bar. Olivia smiled at her college, she was in too good of a mood to be angry at the creative nick name he had just called her.
"Hell yeah, no more stupid ass arm sling, no more desk duty-"
"But let me guess, the best thing is no more pain pills?" John piped in while handing Olivia a cool glass of beer. Olivia smiled and made herself comfortable by sitting down next her partner.
After taking the rape kit down to the lab there wasn't much left to do with the case until the following morning, when the results came back and their victim had a few hours of rest. So the detectives decided to go out and have a quick beer, figuring they most likely won't have much free time after tonight.
"How's the shoulder?" Elliot asked his partner once she was seated. Olivia shrugged and took a generous drink.
"Hey guys." Fin Tutuola greeted his squad.
"Well there's my long lost partner, where have you been?" John said staring at him over his glasses.
"Not that it's any of your business old man, but I was out on a date." The bear of a man said taking the seat next to Elliot, and just across from Olivia.
"A date? For crying out loud this is like the third one this week, I hope it is at least with the same woman there Casanova." John stated.
Fin gave his partner a sly grin, he did love messing with the veteran detective. "What can I say I'm a ladies man."
"Ladies man my ass, who is the one here that has had many successful relationships?"
"You mean the successful relationships that all ended in divorce?" Elliot said making everyone around the table laugh out loud. This is the time when Olivia felt most at ease, when she was with the people she thought of as her family, when she was with the people who she did consider her family.
"I don't know guys, I think that cute little brunette over there has been giving Olivia more than a once over."
"What are you talking about?" Olivia said, turning around to try and see what girl Fin was referring to, it didn't take long however for the detective's eyes to catch a familiar face staring back at her.
"Hey, isn't that Dr. um…" Elliot in trying to remember the doctors name.
"Hall, Dr. Hall." Olivia offered, turning back around to face the three men.
"That's it Hall. She was the doc who took care of Liv's shoulder." Elliot explained to the guys.
"Well, aren't you going to at least go say hi?" Fin asked once he realized the short haired detective wasn't moving from her seat.
"Or at least tell her to come over here, I wouldn't mind saying hi to her." John also said, putting his two cents in.
Olivia glared at John, luckily Olivia didn't have to respond because all of a sudden a cool voice behind her spoke. "Well if you wouldn't mind saying hi to me, I guess it's a good thing I came over here huh?" Turning around Olivia was met quite a pleasant site. The good doctor was wearing black pants, that hugged her tone legs in all the right places, and dark sweater to match, with a slightly low cut top, just enough to tease the eye. The doctor's outfit was nothing special, something she could have worn to work, but for some reason Olivia thought this woman looked absolutely gorgeous.
"Sorry about that, usually we put a mussel on him when we go out in public. Olivia said standing up to greet the woman.
The woman just laughed, "It's quite ok, I have had a lot meaner things said about me than wanting me to come say 'hi' to them."
Olivia relaxed a little, knowing the doctor didn't take John's joke the wrong way. I love the man, but he can be rather…forward at times. "Well, it's very nice to see you again Dr. Hall."
"Likewise Detective Benson." Hall said, "I was just here with a few of my colleagues, and I thought I recognized you so I thought I would come over and say hi."
She came over just to say hi…Olivia smiled, and then quickly shook her head. "Oh, I'm sorry, Doctor Hall, this is Detective John Munch." Olivia pointed over to Munch who gave Hall a toothy smile.
"Doctor." John Greeted while shaking the woman's hand.
"Detective Odafin Tutuola."
"Odafin, Korean decent right?" Hall asked, now shaking Fin's hand.
"Right." Fin said happily, "Normally people who hear my just give me some strange look."
"Well I would take that as a compliment, it is rather a unique name." Hall commented.
"And you met Elliot Stabler at the hospital."
"Ah, yes, the good looking detective who put my desk nurse in a rather happy mood." Hall said teasingly.
"Nice to see you again Doc." Elliot greeted with a small chuckle.
"Please, call me Sidney." Hall said while shaking hands, "So all four of you detectives huh?"
"Yeah, but don't say that too loud." Fin said who hadn't taken his eyes off the Hall since she came over to the table.
"Um, can I buy you a drink Doctor?" Olivia asked, no need to stand here and watch Fin get his fourth date of the week.
"Sure, why not, I've only had one, I don't think another one will hurt." Sidney replied. "It was nice meeting all of you." Hall said before Olivia led her away from the group.
The two women stepped up to the semi-crowded bar, "So what will it be?" Olivia asked.
"Um, rum and coke." Olivia gave Hall a curious look.
"What?"
"Nothing, I just figured you would order something more…fruity." Olivia explained.
"Oh, you mean something more girlie?" Hall asked, Olivia could see the twinkle in the crisp green eyes, and surprisingly found herself unable, or unable, to look away. "Sorry to disappoint you detective, but I'm not that kind of woman."
"Obviously." Olivia replied.
"Your drink ma'am." The bartender said breaking Olivia from her staring marathon.
"Thanks." The detective said, hoping the blush on her cheeks wasn't too noticeable. "Here you go doctor." Olivia handed Sidney the glass, Olivia's hands brushed against the doctors long fingers, and she could feel a slight tingle run up her arm. Ok…weird.
"Thank you detective."
"Olivia, please." Olivia said with a toothy grin.
"Only if you call me Sidney." Both women couldn't help the smiles that graced their lips. There was just something about the other woman that neither could put into words, Olivia was about to break the silence when a very familiar and down right annoying sound of her cell phone beat her to it.
"Excuse me." Olivia said before answering the phone, "Benson….where…yeah ok…no they are all here with me I'll fill them in…thanks Cap."
Olivia looked up at the woman before her, "I'm sorry to have to do this but I have to-"
But before Olivia could finish her sentence the pager that was attached to Sidney's hip went off. She quickly snatched it up and looked at the message. "Well, looks like I'm being called away as well. Gotta love work huh?"
"Kind of refreshing to see that I'm not the only person that get's interrupted with work." Olivia honestly said.
"Unfortunately that seems to be my life sometimes." Sidney answered. "Well Olivia, thanks for the drink."
"Of course, maybe next time you'll actually get to enjoy it." Sidney gave the detective one last toothy smile before grabbing he coat and heading for the exit.
Wow. Was all Olivia could think of, she shook her head, and entered into cop mode, and headed towards the guys to let them know that they now have a second victim…but for some reason she couldn't wipe the grin from her face.
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"What do we got?" Elliot said ducking underneath the crimes scene tape and walking up to the forensic tech who was scribbling on a clipboard, with his partner right behind him.
"Couple of horny teens decided to take a late night walk, stumbled on the victim just behind this tree." The tech explained. "Pants around her ankles, and one nasty head wound."
Olivia walked around the tree, getting a good look at every angle. "Drag marks." Olivia said pointing to the tracks.
"Leading from the cement to the bushes, just like the first." Elliot commented. He bent down and let his eyes roam over the blood that stained the green of the grass. "Blood is all here in one place, as if the victim-"
"Didn't put up a fight." Olivia finished her partners sentence. She ran her long fingers through her short brown hair, all of a sudden the shrill of Olivia's phone broke her train of thought. "Benson." Olivia answered turning away to listen to the person on the other line.
"Detective." The young tech called Elliot over.
"Got something?"
"Maybe, looks like a partial foot print, I'll make a cast of it and send it in."
Well, at least it's something.
"Ok, thanks." Elliot heard his partner end her phone call and turned his head to meet her gaze, and new the news she had just got was not good. "That was the lab, Lilly Jones's rape kit, turned up squat. No, hairs, fibers, semen, nothing."
"So we've got two rapes in less than 24 hours, no forensic evidence, no eyewitness…shit is going to hit the fan." Elliot simply stated locking eyes with his partner.
"Yup."
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"Emma Johnson?" Olivia asked quietly as she poked her head into the hospital room.
"Yeah, that's me." A blond haired woman said sitting on the bed pulling on her sock.
"My name is Detective Benson, this is my partner Detective Stabler, has the doctor already been in to see you?" She asked noticing the grey hospital sweats and sweatshirt the woman was wearing.
"Yeah, she came and went."
"Do you think you are up for giving us a statement?" Elliot asked taking note on the large band aid wrapped around the woman's forehead, covering what the detective assumed to be a nasty head wound.
"What do you want to know?" The woman said adamantly, it always amazed Olivia how differently victims handled these types of trauma.
"Let's start from the beginning."
"I had just picked my daughter up from her karate class and dropped her off at home, I fed her, put her to bed and waited for my husband to get home before I went out for a run, it's the only time when I have a free moment to myself." Emma explained while tying her tennis shoe.
"Do you run every night?" Olivia asked.
"Usually, and normally around the same time too." Emma said anticipating the next question. "I was running my usual route, when I thought saw someone just ahead of me sitting on the bench, I didn't think anything of it…I ran right be him." Emma said now standing up and leaning against the bed. "And then I remember something hitting me over the head…and then nothing." The woman had a distant look on her face, like she was a million miles away. "When I came to a man was standing on top of me, my pants were pulled down, and he was pulling his up."
"Did he say anything?" Elliot asked, while scribbling note on his note pad.
Emma nodded, "The only thing he said is was "Thank you."" Elliot and Olivia looked at each other briefly.
"Mrs. Johnson, is there anyone who can think of that may want to harm you, anyone from work?" Olivia asked calmly.
"I work at a dentist office Detective, my job really doesn't put me in the front row of violent people."
"What about your husband, what does he do for a living?"
"He owns his own bar, you know Dukes over on 10th?"
"Yeah, we know the place." I've actually been in there a few times. Olivia thought to herself.
"Emma, are you ready to go sweetie?" A man with sandy colored hair asked as he stepped into the room. He was built like a rock, toned arms with icy blue eyes.
"Yeah, um Ryan, this is Detective Benson and Stabler, this is my husband, Ryan Johnson." Emma introduced her husband.
Ryan nodded to the detectives, "So you going to find the bastard that did this to my wife?"
"We'll do our best. Now Mr. Johnson I have to ask, where were you between 10 and 11 tonight?" Olivia asked, preparing for the verbal abuse they usually got from husbands when they asked for their alibis.
"Home, with my daughter." The large man said looking Olivia square in the eyes, giving the veteran detective the idea that he was telling her the truth. "You really think I had anything to do with my wife's attack?"
And here it comes. "We have to ask Mr. Johnson." Elliot said stepping in.
"I had nothing to do with it."
Elliot nodded, "Then would you be willing to give us a DNA sample?"
"Take whatever you want, whatever it takes for you to stop pointing fingers at me and do your jobs and find the son of a bitch who raped my wife!"
"Ryan." His wife stepped in putting a hand on his shoulder. "They are just doing their jobs."
Ryan Johnson immediately calmed down, "Sorry, just please, find the monster responsible." There was sort of a begging looking radiating from his eyes, and Olivia's heart went out to the grieving couple.
"Come on honey, lets go home." Emma said grasping her husbands hand and walking out the door.
"I don't blame him for getting angry."
"I never do." Olivia said to her partner. "We better get the rape kit to the lab, see what they can find for us." The two detectives headed for the door when someone cut them off, nearly running into both of them.
"Detectives!"
"Dr. Hall." Olivia said with a surprised look on her face.
"Sidney," The doctor said with an equally surprised look on her face at seeing the dark haired detective once again. "I beginning to think you're stalking me Detective."
"Olivia, and I'm beginning to think that it is you that is stalking me." Olivia replied, her eyes traveled over the woman, who was back in her blue scrubs and white lab coat. Olivia's brown eyes looked down to the doctors full hands.
"Are you the doctor that performed the rape kit on Emma Johnson.?"
"Yes, it seems my nurse is still MIA." Sidney said handing the bag over to the detectives. "Very similar to Ms. Jones's case, along with the same head wound."
"Can you tell if it is from the same weapon?" Elliot asked.
"Yes, I treated both wounds, both lacerations have traces of some type of copper in them, I bagged the samples for you, they are in the kit." Sidney explained, "I say you are looking for something like a rusted pipe."
"Great, how many of those do you think are running around New York?" Elliot said sarcastically, Olivia knew her partner was getting frustrated, and Olivia could relate. The trio filed out of the room and headed towards the front exit. Elliot pulled out his phone while walking out of the hospital, "Guess I should call Munch and Fin, give them an update."
Olivia shook her head, it was going to be a long night. The brunette detective turned and looked at Sidney, "Sorry about him."
The doctor waved the apology off with a swift wave of her hand. "I wouldn't act any differently."
"Well, I guess you and I will be seeing more of each other, considering you were just lucky enough to be in the ER and perform both rape kits." Olivia couldn't help but say.
"I guess so, which is rare, I'm only here because we are short handed down here, I'm usually in surgery most days." Sidney said placing her hands in her lab coat pocket.
"You're a surgeon?" Sidney nodded, causing Olivia to become that much more impressed with the young woman.
"That's the second time you have given me that surprised look detective. What, do I not look like I could be a surgeon?" Hall grinned, faking irritation.
"N-no, it's just…" I always thought surgeons were like 60 year old men.
"It's ok detective, I kind of like surprising you."
Whoa! Is she flirting?
"Liv, dad wants us back at the house." Elliot said once again stepping behind his partner.
"Um, alright. Thanks for you help." Olivia said to the doctor.
"Anytime Olivia."
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"Ok, lay it out for me." Captain Cregan demanded walking up to Benson and Stabler who were conjugated in the SVU squad room.
"Our first victim, Lilly Jones, 24, lives on the upper west side. Was out for her usual jog in the park when she was attacked from behind." Elliot raddled off.
"Emma Johnson, 31, lives a few blocks away form the park. She also was jogging in the park when she was attacked." Olivia said following her partner. "Both were rendered unconscious, both said the perp "thanked" them before disappearing."
"They get a look at the guy?"
Olivia sadly shook her head, "They both were too groggy and it was dark."
"Where are Munch and Fin on the canvassing?" Cregan asked.
"Munch and Fin are finally done with the canvassing." Came Fin's voice as he and his partner walked in the room.
"And?"
"And, we got 6 I didn't do it's, 3 I didn't see anything, and 2 fuck off's." Munch said plopping into his desk chair.
"Benson." Olivia said picking up her desk phone. "Yeah thanks." She said before nearly slamming the phone down. "The lab got nothing on Johnson's rape kit."
"So basically we've got two rapes, and no leads…perfect." Elliot said also slumping down in his desk chair.
Unfortunately Elliot was right, this case was not going smoothly, in fact this case felt like it wasn't going at all. Before anything else could be said the SVU detectives heard the familiar 'click' of high heels walking towards them.
"By the looks on your faces I think it's safe to assume the case isn't going well." The cool voice of ADA Alexandra Cabot commented. Olivia took in the sight of the petite blond, she wore a navy blue knee length skirt, with a matching jacket and a white blouse underneath. Alex Cabot was by any standards drop dead gorgeous, but she also had brains to match, which made most men, and woman, very intimidated by the strong blond.
Olivia Benson had long ago accepted the fact her physical attraction towards the ADA, and along with that came the understanding that nothing would ever come of those feelings. "ADA here already, that can't be good." Munch commented from his seat.
"Two rapes, in less than 24 hours, the DA wants an update." Alex said as she set her brief case down on top of Olivia's desk.
"What updates? No physical evidence, no eye-witnesses, basically no case." Elliot couldn't help the smart ass comment.
Olivia stared at the photos that were hung up on the tack board. "There has to be some other connection between these two women, besides the fact that they were running in the park." Olivia said to no one in particular.
"We checked Liv. They don't go to the same gym, they don't go to the same stores, churches, so on and so on." Fin said.
"What about having the same doctor?" A new voice rang out. All eyes turned at Dr. Hall as she walked up to the group.
"Sidney." Olivia said, and once again finding herself smiling uncontrollably. Give it a rest Benson. "Um, Captain Cregan, ADA Alex Cabot, this is Doctor Sidney Hall, she treated both victims."
"Nice to meet you." Sidney said politely, shaking both hands.
"Likewise. So what did you mean they have the same doctor?" Cregan asked.
"I had thought both women looked very familiar to me, so I did some digging. Apparently I had treated both Ms. Jones and Mrs. Johnson before."
"When?" Alex asked.
"I treated Ms. Jones about a year ago, and Mrs. Johnson almost two years ago."
"For what?" Olivia spoke up.
"Minor injuries, Ms. Jones for a broken ankle, and Mrs. Johnson had a deep cut on her hand from a cooking accidents, just needed a few stitches." Sidney explained.
"But I'm sure you have treated hundreds of patients, why target these women?" Cregan voiced his question.
"I'm not sure." She said a little hesitantly.
"Wait, didn't you say that you are not normally in the ER, just when they need the extra help?" Olivia quickly interjected.
"Yeah, that's right."
"And I'm sure both Ms. Jones and Mrs. Johnson were treated in the ER right?" Again gave her the affirmative. "What if he is targeting people you have just treated in the ER."
"But why would he do that?"
"That is the million dollar question." Olivia answered.
"Well then we have another problem." Elliot joined in the conversation. "Olivia, you were treated in the ER, by Dr. Hall…
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