Author's Note: I'm glad people are liking the story I hope I won't be confusing for long, but that's also part of the mystery. I'll be adding chapters but they may take a while since I started a new semester of college. But for now enjoy!
Chapter 2: New Perspective
Olivia had been in hostage situations and standoffs before but this was just too weird. At the moment she has a gun pointed at her head by a woman who looks almost identical to her. They had the same height, build and shoulder length brunette hair, the only difference was the eye patch and scar that adorned the shooter's face. They stood staring at each other in confusion.
"I'm Olivia Benson and you better start explaining who you are!" The scarred woman shouted.
"N-no I can prove it!" Olivia was nervous but she didn't show it. "In my coat pocket is my wallet, it has my id and badge." She moved to get.
"Don't move!" the scared woman told her. "I'll get it." She never took her gun off her but went searching in the coat pockets. She saw the id and looked it over, it looked just like hers. "Is this some type of game?" She looked at the golden badge as well and saw a gun in its holster too. She looked back at Olivia.
"See, I'm Detective Olivia Benson and I work for the Manhattan SVU." She hoped the scared woman started to believe her. 'This has to be some crazy dream!'
The other Olivia thought for a second. 'She has a gun, a badge, works for SVU and looks like me, is this something Casey did?' She had her gun on Olivia the whole time as she pulled out her phone. It rang a few times before she heard a voice on the other end.
"Cas..." It was the voice of ADA Casey Novak.
"What the hell did you do?" She yelled.
"What?" It sounded like she hadn't woken up yet. "Olivia?"
"Yes it's me, unless you want to talk to the clone you made! And how the hell did you clone me!?" She was already agitated.
"Clone?" Casey questioned from the other end. "Olivia I'm too tired to deal with your crap right now, I'll see you tonight and then we can talk." Casey hung up the phone.
'I have half a mind to kill her when I see her.' The scarred Olivia thought. She looked at the other Olivia again. 'I still have to deal with her. Maybe one of the guys know what's going on.' She lowered her gun and signed. "Well at the moment I can't kill you, but I'm not letting you leave my sights."
Olivia nodded and was grateful she wasn't at gun point anymore. She lowered her hands and started to ease up a bit.
"Don't relax too much." Her scarred other told her. "Just because I'm not pointing a gun at you doesn't mean I don't have other ways of taking you out."
"Alright," Olivia believed her.
They stared at each other for a while before the scarred counterpart took a seat, she instructed the other woman to do the same. It took a while before one of them thought of what to say.
"So I see you have a badge and you work for SVU." The scarred Olivia started. "Did Casey put you up to this? Or did the guys do this?"
"What? No one is making me do this." Olivia stated flatly. "I'm just really confused right now. Yesterday I woke up from a coma and was released from the hospital; I came here and went straight to bed. This is my apartment, it's not like I broke in I have keys." She hated being treated like a suspect.
"Wait, you were in a coma?" her other asked. "Do you remember anything before that?"
Olivia thought for a moment and put a hand on the back of her head where the gauze was. "….Before this I was interrogating a suspect and she slammed my head into the one-way glass." She let out a heavy sigh. "You're clearly Olivia Benson but so am I, I don't know how to explain it but I do want to know what's going on. You mentioned Casey, Elliot, Fin and Munch before, do they know something?"
'This is crazy,' The scarred Olivia thought. 'I never mentioned the guys by name and yet she knows them.' She really didn't want to trust the look-alike but they were both confused. "We can see what they know, but later. Right now I want to talk more." She got up and went to go make some coffee for them.
"And before you ask I got this as a permanent reminder of the day that changed my life." She pointed to the eye patch. "My mother was a fucking drunk and she often abused me but I didn't know what to do. I was more of her punching bag than her daughter and all because I was the result of her rape. When I was eleven she smashed a vodka bottle into my face and I just snapped." Oddly enough she was still very calm as she told her story. "She abused me for the last time that day and I killed her; I still had the glass pieces in my eye but I picked up a knife and stabbed her. She bled out before police arrived."
With all the time Olivia spent working at SVU she has dealt with a few situations like that before. She herself tried her hardest to love her mother but it was hard at times. "Serena Benson was your mother, right?"
The other Olivia brought over the coffee. "Yeah…where are you going with this?"
"My mother's name was Serena Benson and she was raped, I was the result of that." she sighed. "Whenever she was angry she'd hit me but she tried to be a good mother. Unfortunately she was an alcoholic and that's how she died."
It was silent for a while as the two just sat there and drank their coffee.
"It's like we really are the same person but with divergent paths." The scarred Olivia spoke. "I don't know how it's possible, but I've seen a lot of crazy things before."
The scarred one looked at her watch and saw it was almost 8:30. "Clearly we wear the same size so put something on, we're going someplace." She pointed to the dresser.
"Where?" Olivia asked.
"You do not get to ask questions!" scarred Olivia exclaimed.
As the normal Olivia got dressed her scarred counterpart was texting John Munch.
Benson: I have a situation
Munch: What kind of situation?
Benson: One that you have to see to believe
Munch: What is it?
Benson: I want to go over it with you guys first. I should be there in 45 minutes.
Munch: Alright, I'll try and tell the Captain.
The scarred Olivia put her phone away and watched the other woman get ready. "Make sure to bring your id and badge."
Olivia did as she was told and grabbed her belongings. They left the apartment easily since the building she lived in had no security, not even a camera. They got into the black BMW and drove off.
Olivia stared at the scarred woman as she drove. Their ride was silent as they rode down the Manhattan streets with all the other morning traffic. They drove past Mercy hospital and far past the 16th precinct until they reached a one way street with a cobble stoned path. They pulled up behind a small bar.
"Get out of the car." The scarred Olivia ordered.
They both got out and went up to the closed bar. The scarred Olivia pulled out a key and unlocked the pulled down gate. She slightly pulled it up so Olivia could slide under, she did the same afterward and the gate slammed to the ground. There were a couple of other security measures and the scarred Olivia smirked at her counterpart. "You can never be too safe."
They walked inside and nothing looked out of the ordinary. It was a regular bar with big TVs on the walls, booth seating, a dart board and pool table.
"So my counterpart is a bartender?" Olivia asked sarcastically.
"You're right," Scarred Olivia answered back just as sarcastically. "I'm just a boring bartender who serves regular people every day; nothing out of the ordinary."
They walked into the back room and scarred Olivia banged on the wall looked up at the security camera. "Munch, open up!" She yelled.
She shoved the other Olivia in front of the camera and waited. It took a minute before the wall sunk in and slide out, they both walked though and the wall went back to normal.
"Like I said, you can never be too safe."
The two lookalikes walked up a flight of stairs and as they progressed they heard the muffled voices of two men.
"I keep telling you!" they heard someone yelling. "I worked last night Stabler, you gotta stay tonight!" It was Fin clearly mad at Elliot for something.
"And I told you I'm finishing this job!" Elliot shouted back.
"Would you two stop acting like children!" the scarred Olivia shouted as she entered the room.
They stopped arguing and looked over at their comrade but then saw the other Olivia without an eye patch walk beside her.
"Who the hell is she?" Elliot demanded.
"Do you have a twin sister?" Fin also asked.
Before either woman said anything Munch stepped out of an office. "So I presume this is the situation you mentioned before?"
Author's Note: So I'm ending the chapter here where they meet the guys. Next time we get to find out what they do and why. I hope it's not too confusing still but if it is tell me in reviews what to clear up. Also I will better differentiate between the 2 Olivias next chapter.
