A/N : I'm very sorry I haven't been able to post the second chapter I have had a very busy summer. I'm sorry it's really long. i couldn't find a cut off point! Well here it is. Chapter 2!
Olivia was in shock. She couldn't believe what had just happened. For the first time she didn't know what to do. She couldn't think straight. Should she call her boss? Should she call 911? Should she call Elliot? She couldn't call him, but she had to for Casey's sake. She picked up her cellphone which was now on the floor by her feet. She scrolled through her contacts and clicked call Elliot Stabler. The phone rang three times before Elliot picked up.
"Stabler" Elliot said weakly.
"Elliot! It's Olivia!" Olivia said frantically into the phone.
"Liv? You're back?" Elliot said confused.
"Yes i'm back, but that's not important right now. I didn't know who else to call." Olivia said tears coming to her eyes when she thought of Casey.
"Olivia whats wrong?" Elliot asked worriedly.
"Casey's been attacked!" Olivia screamed into the phone. Tears streamed down her face. Elliot took a few seconds to respond. He was probably in shock.
"Call Cragen! I'll meet you at the precinct!" Elliot said urgently. Olivia and Elliot both slammed their phones shut at the same time.
"Elliot?" Dani said, slowing waking up. "Whats going on?"
"Casey's been attacked." Elliot said, calmer than when he had heard those words. He looked over at Dani while he was pulling on his jeans. Her face was in shock.
"We were just with her. Tonight. At the bar," Dani said staring at Elliot with a confused look on her face.
"I know." Elliot said with a sigh. "I know. Now get up and get dressed. We have to hurry over to the precinct." Dani hurried out of bed and grabbed her clothes that were lying on the floor, scattered all over the place.
Olivia was pacing in the squad room. It was empty except for Cragen who had just arrived at the sqaud room along with Munch, Fin and Morales. They were trying to see if Morales could locate where Casey made the phone call to Olivia. She kept pacing until Elliot and his new partner, Dani Beck, walked into the squad room.
"Aren't you the woman that came in looking for Detective Stabler yesterday?" Dani said to Olivia. She looked towards Elliot. He turned his head, looking at Olivia, and smiled.
"Yes, I was Elliot's partner before you." Olivia said, turning back towards Dani.
"Oh! You're Olivia. It's nice to meet you…again," Dani said smiling at Olivia. Olivia half smiled and turned away.
"Wait. She came in looking for me and you didn't tell me?" Elliot asked, a little angry at Dani.
"The case and Casey were more important and I forgot," Dani said apologetically.
"Lets focus on Casey," Cragen said. "Morales, do you have anything on the location of the phone call yet?
"No not yet. I will soon though. It will just take a few minutes." Morales said typing on his keyboard.
"Olivia. Was there anything in the background you could make out that sounded odd?" Cragen asked turning to Olivia who continued to pace.
"No. There wasn't anything." Olivia replied disappointed that she couldn't help.
"I got it!" Olivia lifted her head and looked shockingly at him.
"Where is she?" she said, running over to him. Morales looked at the computer screen again and read.
"She is at…" Morales said looking at the address.
"Her apartment." Olivia answered for him calmly. "Lets go!" She screamed at them all, the calmness floating away and replacing itself with panic.
"Olivia..." Cragen said putting his hand on her shoulder gently.
"What?" Olivia said in an annoyed, screaming voice.
"Are you sure you want to work this case?" Cragen asked, concerned. Olivia took a second and looked around at everyone staring at her. Munch, Fin, Morales, Cragen, Dani and Elliot. She stared at Elliot for a while. If she worked this case it wouldn't be with Elliot for the first time in almost 8 years. Then she answered.
"Yes." Olivia said grabbing her jacket and heading towards the elevators. The rest of them followed her. They arrived at Casey's apartment building and showed their badges to security guard at the desk. They made their way up the stairs to the third floor. When they reached apartment room 3-D the door was already busted open. The latch had been ripped off the wall. They all pulled out their guns except for Morales who stayed behind. They split up quietly through the apartment checking each room for Casey or someone else. Olivia looked through the living room and kitchen areas. Nothing. The apartment was a mess. Chairs were broken and flipped over, as well as tables. There was a broken lamp on the ground. Pieces of glass from a shattered vase were all across the floor. They all met back by the door. Nobody was in the apartment anymore except for the detectives who had just discovered the crime scene.
"Call CSU," Cragen said to the detectives. Elliot had his cellphone out and made a few calls. Everyone stood there in silence, unsure of what they had seen and terrified about where Casey might be. About 15-20 minutes later a truck from CSU was here along with a few other cop cars. CSU started to block the area off and began searching for evidence. The detectives made their normal rounds, asking neighbors if they had seen or heard anything.
"Excuse me? Ma'am? I would like to talk to you." A man with flat brown hair yelled over to Olivia. He was wearing a black zipper-up sweatshirt with a white t-shirt underneath. On the bottom he wore dark blue sweatpants with white Nike sneakers on his feet. The man was standing by the crime scene tape trying to get a better view of Casey's apartment. Olivia walked over to the man and stood in front of him.
"Hi, I'm Detective Benson. Can I help you?" Olivia said.
"Hi, I'm Evan Stevens. I live in apartment 3-C, right across from Casey," he said frantically to Olivia. "I saw a man early this morning standing outside Casey's apartment. He banged on her door really loudly — thats why I got up because I thought it was my door. When no one answered the door he busted it open and went inside. He was walking but at a fast pace."
"What did he look like? Did you see his face?" Olivia said, rushing to get her notepad and pen out.
"He was wearing all black and had a ski mask on his head." Evan said to Olivia. " Also, Detective Benson? After he went into the apartment their were screams and I could hear glass shattering. I went to get my phone but I didn't want to miss the guy's face if he came back out. A few minutes after that he came out dragging Casey. She was unconscious. I still couldn't see his face. He's white though and he had light brown curly hair."
"Why didn't you call 911?" Olivia asked angrily, still writing down what Evan had said.
"Well I opened the door to try to help her but, he hit me in the head and said if I called the police he would kill her," Evan said, severely worried about Casey now.
"Thank you Mr. Stevens. We will call you if we hear anything or need you," Olivia said to him, shoving her notepad back in her pocket.
"It's Evan. And here's my card call me whenever you want," Evan said with a wink as he started towards his apartment. Olivia thought about it for a minute and tried to consider going on a date with Evan but one thing kept blocking that thought... Elliot.
"Olivia!" Elliot yelled from the apartment door, interrupting her thoughts. "Come look at this." Olivia walked into the apartment. Every inch of it was being swept over by CSU. She followed Elliot to the bedroom.
"What are we doing in here? He didn't rape her. There wasn't time. The man who lives across the hall said after he broke in he came out in 5 minutes," Olivia said pointing towards the exit.
"Thats not why we are in here. Casey has cameras in her bedroom, kitchen, living room and bathroom," Elliot said, pointing to a ceiling corner where Morales was trying to take the camera off the wall without destroying it.
"Someone has been watching her?" Olivia said, confused.
"Yup. As soon as I get these back to the lab I can tell you for how long they have been in here and get the footage off of it," Morales said proud of his accomplishment.
"How did you spot that when I can't even see it?" Olivia said, squinting her eyes to try to see it better.
"I checked for bugs just in case and this came up. It also has a listening device," Morales said, heading towards the bathroom to detach the camera and bug in there too.
"Does this mean we might have the attack on film?" Olivia asked Elliot walking to the door.
"And we may have the attackers identity," Elliot said hopefully.
"That's impossible. My witness said he was wearing a ski mask. Unless he took it off for some odd reason we don't have his identity," Olivia said sighing with disappointment.
"But with that bug we might be able to get a voice. If he said anything to her," Elliot said. "You go ahead. I'll meet you there. I have to wait for Dani." Olivia nodded her head and continued walking down the hall and down to the street where her car was parked. She couldn't get the thought out of her head. The one case that directly involved them was the one case she wouldn't be working on with Elliot Stabler.
Elliot waited outside the apartment for Dani. He couldn't take being inside. It was too much for him to bare. He was filled with rage. He had been trying to control it but he needed to take it out on something.
"You ready to head back?" Dani asked, putting her hand on Elliot's shoulder as she walked out of the apartment. Elliot could hear the concern in her voice.
"Uh…Yeah. Let's go," Elliot said while starting to walk underneath the crime scene tape. They walked in silence until they got to the elevator. Elliot pushed the button for the elevator when Dani stepped in front of him.
"Elliot, I know this isn't the best time, but we need to talk about this." She looked worried and confused about the whole situation. Elliot felt the same way. He thought about what to say for a few seconds.
"Dani, last night was the most fun I've had in years, but with Casey being kidnapped I just haven't been able to think straight. I'm afraid whatever decision I make now I'll regret later on after this is all over. Do you understand?" Elliot asked, putting a hand on her shoulder. Dani sighed and looked up at him.
"I do." Dani said this exactly at the same time the elevator opened and 2 police officers stepped out. Elliot and Dani stepped in the elevator. Dani pressed floor 1. They were in silence the whole way down.
Two hours had passed and they had not moved one step closer to finding Casey. Morales was stilling checking the cameras and the detectives were still going through files looking at possible threats to Casey. Nothing had shown up yet. It was now seven in the morning. Olivia had, had two cups of coffee in the last hour. She couldn't figure out anything from any of these files. She could read the file as many times as she wanted and not understand it. Morales started running in. He yelled "I got it!"
"Took you long enough" Munch said walking over to Elliot's desk where Morales had set his laptop down.
"Sorry. There was a code I had to crack to get in and then another one just for the sound but, I finally got them to play at the same time. The videos were also recorded only when someone was in that room. Say Casey was in the bedroom and then got up and moved to her living room. The bedroom camera would turn off and the living room one would turn on," Morales said, setting up the video.
"Do we know how long this guy has been watching her?" Elliot asked.
"A little over two weeks. I made a smaller version of the stuff that happened last night, but afterwards if you want the full version I'll give it to you," Morales said hitting play when he saw everyone was over by him and ready to watch. The video showed Casey walking around her living room and then gong to the door. When she came back there was a man there. He had flowers and they kissed for a minute then she went to the kitchen to put them in water. They were talking about their days and work and how everything was. Then Morales fast forwarded to another part. "This is all before the attack happened," Morales said hitting play again. This time they were kissing on the couch. They got up and walked to Casey's bedroom and started kissing. You still could only see the back of his head.
"I could do without seeing Casey's sex life," Elliot said looking at Morales.
"Just wait for it." Morales said. They were lying down on the bed when the man got up and turned his head. Morales paused the video. We got him. The man was tall and white. He had spiky chestnut hair and light brown eyes. He was wearing a white t-shirt with a grey jacket and dark jeans.
"Is that the same man who attacked Casey?" Dani asked looking at Morales then back at the screen.
"That's all there is until the attack. Someone cut the rest out and I couldn't retrieve it. The attack has no audio to it." Morales said clicking another video. The video pulled up on the screen and Morales hit play. Casey was sleeping in bed when she jerked up in bed and then it switched to the living room. The door was on it's hinges. A man dressed fully in black walked towards the bedroom. It switched over to the bedroom. Casey had her cellphone in one hand and a lamp in the other. The man walked over to her. She swung the lamp and missed. He punched her in the stomach. She fell to the ground, the phone flying out of her hand. He took the lamp and tried hitting her with it but she grabbed onto it and threw it against the wall. It rolled underneath the bed but he went to the kitchen and grabbed the flower vase. When he came back Casey had the phone to her ear but he kicked it out of her hand. It landed not to far away from her face. He kicked her in the stomach a few times and then smashed the vase on top of her body. That didn't do anything besides cut Casey a little bit. He kept kicking her and then got down next to her. Casey said something then he punched her and got on top of her and kept punching her. She was screaming. You could tell even though there was no more sound. Then when she was unconscious he picked up the phone and slammed it shut. He then put it on the floor and smashed it with his foot. He took the broken pieces and threw them out a window in the living room. He then came back and picked up Casey and dragged her out the door. The video ended. Olivia's face had tear streaks down it, which she quickly wiped away. Nobody said anything. They were all in shock.
"The guy before, was he in any other parts of the videos?" Fin asked, breaking the silence.
"Yes, he's in a lot of them," Morales said taking out a disk and shutting his laptop. He handed the disk to Elliot, who put it in a case on his desk.
"Could Casey have a boyfriend she just didn't tell us about?" Olivia asked the group of detectives still standing around Elliot's desk. "She was talking to someone last night on her cellphone outside the bar."
"You saw her at the bar?" Elliot asked looking at Olivia with confusion.
"Yes, I did. So this means the man in the video is the last person to see Casey," Olivia said.
"We better start finding out who he is then," Dani said heading back to her desk.
"If I find anything else suspicious I'll call." Morales said, leaving the squad room.
"The man I interviewed today in Casey's building could maybe identify him!" Olivia said heading to the phone on her new desk, taking out his business card a dialing the number.
It was now eight thirty in the morning. Still no one had found anything and they were still going through files. Olivia was looking through the video again and again. Nothing was on it except for the attack and Casey's alleged boyfriend. Olivia was just about to look through the video again when Evan Stevens walked in. Olivia stood up and met him by the entrance to the squad room. "Evan. Thanks for coming down here," Olivia said, motioning him to walk with her to the upper part of the squad room. "I have some new questions to ask you, if you don't mind," Olivia said offering him to sit down while she took the other chair.
"Sure. I'm happy to help. Casey is a close friend," Evan said with a sigh. Olivia took out a blown-up, printed out picture of the man with Casey.
"Do you know this man?" She asked looking at Evan.
"Well, yeah. He's Casey's boyfriend. I've met him a few times. He's very nice," Evan said, leaning back in his chair to relax.
"Who is he? Did you see him last night?" Olivia asked, leaving the picture on the table and sitting on the edge of the chair.
"He is Jonathan Zander. He came over with flowers for Casey," Evan said.
"Did you see him anytime after that?" She asked him.
"No. I haven't seen him since he came over to Casey's." He said, concerned on why Olivia might ask him that.
"And you saw all this from your peephole?" Olivia asked.
"Oh no no no no. I was coming home from work when I saw him on the elevator. We chatted for a little bit and then I went to my apartment and he went to Casey's," Evan said, clearing up the fact that Olivia might have suspected he stalks Casey.
"Evan. Was Jonathan ever violent with Casey?" She said struggling to ask the question. She couldn't bare the thought of someone who Casey trusted trying to hurt her.
"No! He would never even think of hurting her. I never even saw them fight once. You don't think he did this. Do you?" Evan asked.
"That's what we are trying to figure out. Thank you again Evan," Olivia said standing up.
"Anything I can do to help. Especially for you." He winked at her once again. "I hope you consider my offer." Olivia nodded her head and escorted Evan down the stairs and to the elevators. He waved at her as the elevator doors shut.
"The man in the video is Jonathan Zander. He is Casey's boyfriend." Olivia said posting his picture on the whiteboard and writing his name underneath it. "Let's find out who he is." She walked over to her desk and started on the computer. Elliot, Dani, and Munch still searched through files for possible suspects while Fin and Olivia searched online for info on Jonathan Zander.
"Got something!" Fin exclaimed, waving his hand to motion Olivia to come look. She walked over and looked at the computer screen. "Jonathan was arrested back in 1996 for second degree assault."
"What happened?" Olivia asked. "Shouldn't he still be in jail though?"
"He never went. The assault charges were dropped. It was his girlfriend," Fin said looking up at Olivia.
"We need the rest of that tape to prove he had motive," she said heading to her desk. "I'll go pick him up."
"Liv," Elliot said walking over to Olivia. "Why don't you go rest for a little? You need the sleep. Dani and I will go pick him up."
"Ok. Thanks El," Olivia said smiling and walking towards the bunks to rest and calm herself down a bit. Fin handed Elliot a piece of paper with an address on it.
"Thanks," he said, walking towards the elevators with Dani.
"What we got?" Cragen asked, walking out of his office and over to Fin and Munch.
"Well, Morales came over with the videos from the cameras in Casey's apartment. The man she was with last night was Jonathan Zander. He's Casey's boyfriend. He was arrested in 1996 for second degree assault but he never saw a courtroom because his girlfriend dropped the charges. Elliot and Dani are going to pick him up right now," Fin said to Captain Cragen.
"Where's Olivia?" Cragen asked looking around and at the empty desk.
"She hit the bunks. Elliot convinced her to rest a little," Munch said, leaning back in his chair with his feet on the desk.
"Anything off the files?" Cragen asked.
"Nothing yet. Elliot, Dani and I have been looking for hours and still haven't found anything. Who knew how many cases she's tried," Munch said putting his feet down and going through yet another file.
"Are you going through the ones from before she was here too?" Cragen asked. Munch nodded at him not looking up as he read a file.
"Hold on captain. This man, Jeremy Chase, was convicted of rape three years ago. It's listed that there were two victims but he was only convicted on one of them for rape. The other woman had committed suicide. He was sentenced six years at Rikers but got out on good behavior two years early. It says that as he was taken out of the courtroom he yelled at Casey, " 'I won't be there long. Watch your back when I get out, bitch!' " "Well I don't know about you but, that sounds like he wouldn't give up on his little promise," Munch said, letting the file fall out of his hand and onto the desk.
"Go and pick him up you two." Cragen said heading back to his office.
Jonathan Zander lived in an apartment building. He lived on the 6th floor at the very end of the hall. Apartment 620. The building wasn't as fancy as Casey's. It had black and white tile flooring. The walls were covered in white paint with a mustard coloring down near the floor. Elliot and Dani walked down the hall. They were both exhausted but hadn't had any time to rest. When they reached Jonathan's apartment they noticed the door was all scuffed up and it looked like someone had tried to break the door down. Elliot knocked on the door.
"Who is it?" Jonathan's voice yelled back, walking to the door.
"Police, Mr. Zander." Elliot said, holding his badge up to the peep hole. Jonathan swung the door open. He was wearing sweatpants and a white tank top.
"Can I help you?" He asked the two exhausted detectives.
"Yes. I'm Detective Stabler this is my partner, Dani Beck. Would you mind coming with us down to our precinct?" Elliot asked calmly.
"Might I ask what for?" Jonathan questioned curiously.
"We just need to ask you a couple of questions about your girlfriend, Casey Novak." Dani said resting her right arm on the door frame.
"What about her? Is Casey okay?" Jonathan asked worriedly.
"Mr. Zander, Casey was attacked last night," Elliot said trying to enclose the details.
"What? That's insane! I was with her last night. Is she okay?" Jonathan asked again, lifting his head up to look at Elliot.
"We…don't…know." Dani said slowly. Elliot nudged her a tiny bit to get her to stop talking.
"What do you mean you don't know?" Jonathan asked Dani. Tears started to form in his eyes.
"Mr. Zander, will you please come with us. We will explain there," Elliot said. Jonathan nodded his head and walked back to get his shoes and a jacket.
"What the hell were you doing?" Elliot asked turning to Dani.
"What?" Dani asked confused.
"He's a suspect." Elliot said Quietly. "We can't tell him the details of the investigation! We need him to tell us. If we have to we'll feed him information but not now!"
"Alright…alright. I'm sorry, it won't happen again," Dani promised, putting her hands in front of her surrounding to Elliot. Jonathan came back, stepped out of his apartment and locked the door.
The building was old. The red bricks that covered the whole building started to lose their color. The bricks turned a more dark grey sort of color. Munch and Fin walked to the front door of the building. As they entered the smell of cigarettes entered their nostrils. They walked up to the front desk, where a man maybe in his forties sat counting money and smoking a cigarette.
"Excuse me sir, do you know where we could find a Jeremy Chase?" Munch asked, leaning against the desk. The man ignored him and continued to count his money. He had a white tank top on that was two sizes small and black shorts. "Sir. We need to know where Jeremy Chase is!" Munch demanded this time, taking out his badge to show the man. The man tilted his head up and looked at the badge.
"He's up two flights. Apartment 3C," he said going back to counting his money. The two detectives walked up the third floor to Jeremy's apartment. The floors were dusty and pieces of the tile were broken off. There were cobwebs all along the walls and the wallpaper was starting to peel away. There were people shouting in different rooms they passed by and TV's were turned on extra loud. There were hundreds of flies buzzing around the building and there were spiders every now and then climbing up the walls. Fin and Munch finally got to apartment 3C. Fin banged his hand against the door.
"POLICE! Open up!" Fin yelled at the top of his lungs. Then there was a noise from inside. "Do you hear that?"
"Looks like our friend here is trying to escape," Munch said, taking his gun out of his holster. Fin did the same and kicked down the door just in time to see Jeremy start to climb up the fire escape. Munch and Fin dashed through the apartment and over to the window. Fin climbed up first, then Munch. Jeremy was already halfway across the roof when Fin got up there. He took off running towards Jeremy. Jeremy stopped when he got to the edge of the roof and turned to face the two detectives who had stopped running and continued to walk over. Jeremy kept looking for an escape route but nothing was insight.
"Jeremy. We just want to talk to you," Fin said putting his gun away and taking baby steps towards Jeremy. He took a step backwards and almost slipped off the edge. Fin moved closer and closer until finally he grabbed Jeremy and pulled him face down. Munch helped hold him down while Fin cuffed him. "Jeremy Chase, you are under arrest for the kidnapping of Assistant District Attorney Casey Novak. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in the court or law….." Fin carried on dragging Jeremy down the stairs off the roof and into the car.
A/N : I'm finally done! Yay! Sorry to leave at a kind of boring part. You really don't find out too much about what happened to Casey but it leaves you at who did it?Review and say who you think did it! It doesn't have to be one of those characters I just through at you! Please review! I like reviews. They make me put chapters up QUICKLY so do it! REVIEW!
