Chapter 2
Olivia and Nick walked into Mercy.
They walked up to the nurses station and flashed their badges. Before they could say anything the nurse said "you must be here for that little girl brought in an hour ago, the poor thing."
Olivia said," Yes, what room is she in?"
The nurse smiled and said," Her name is Bethany Greene. She's in room 304."
"Thank you" Olivia said and her and Nick walked to Bethany's room. When they walked up to the room there was a man standing outside the door with a worried expression on his face.
Nick noticed his expression. "Are you Bethany's father?"
The man looked up "Yeah, who are you?"
"I'm detective Amaro, this is my partner detective Benson. We're investigating her attack. We need to ask her some questions."
The man looked at them.
"All right, but you should only go in", he pointed to Olivia," I tried to see her, but she was terrified of me when I walked in."
"Okay," Olivia nodded. At least they knew the perp was a man.
Mr. Greene nodded back and said," Her mother is on there with her now."
Olivia walked into the room, Bethany was tightly holding on to her mother's hand tightly. The poor girl was covered with bruises and was shaking a lot.
"Hi Bethany, my name is Detective Benson. I'm here to ask you a few questions" Olivia said softly.
"Okay" the girl's response was barely audible.
"Mommy, don't leave me, please" when she said this she sounded terrified.
Olivia felt so bad for her, but they had to talk to her eventually.
Her mother, who was sitting next to her bed, said" I won't baby," she looked up at Olivia," you better find the SOB that did this.
Olivia replied, "we will."
Olivia sat in the other chair next to Bethany's bed. "Do you remember what happened?"
Bethany quickly looked at her mom, who nodded, then looked at Olivia. Her voice was very light and soft.
"I was playing in the yard with my ball. I dropped it and it rolled to the sidewalk. I went to go get it, and someone grabbed my arm. I tried to yell for mommy, but he put his hand over my mouth. Then he dragged me to a van, and put something metal on my hands." She paused for a second.
Olivia knew what she was talking about. She pulled out her hand cuffs,"Did what he use look like these?"
Bethany's eyed got wide "yes", she gulped and continued.
"He put duct tape on my mouth and shut the door. He got up front and started driving, and when we stopped he got out and pulled me out too. He said 'This will teach them' t-" Olivia interrupted her quickly.
"Did he ever say who "them" was?"
Bethany thought for a second "no"
Olivia sighed, "ok, do you know where you were?"
Bethany answered quickly," yes, we were in a park, I think it was Central Park, I'm not sure."
Olivia nodded," that's ok honey, you can continue again.
Bethany nodded," then he pulled a bat out, but first he started kicking me, I fell over and he started to hit me with the bat. He did it over and over again." She paused," it hurt so bad. He took the tape off my mouth and and the metal things too. He went to hit me again but someone yelled at him and he ran away. Then the person came over to me and called you guys." Bethany started to cry.
"Baby, you did good, it's ok" her mother was consoling her.
Olivia said to Mrs. Greene," I only need one more thing."
Mrs. Greene said to Bethany," calm down honey, you're safe now, Detective Benson needs to ask you one more question, then you're done."
Bethany stopped crying and sniffled, "ok."
Olivia took out her notepad and asked Bethany,"Do you remember what he looked like?"
Bethany started to answer,"He h-"
She was interrupted by a gun shot and the window breaking.
"Get down!" Olivia yelled and took out her gun.
Mrs. Greene ducked and they tried to pull Bethany off the bed, but another shot rang out. It hit Bethany in the stomach. She cried out in pain. Olivia put pressure in the wound.
Nick ran in the room with his gun drawn. He carefully went over to the window and saw nothing.
Olivia shouted," We need a doctor in here!"
Bethany was gasping for air and was holding her hand and crying.
A doctor and a bunch of nurses came in and Olivia let them get to work.
She walked over to Nick, who was still by the window in shock.
"Did you see him?"
Nick sighed and looked over at Bethany, who was losing her battle.
"No, there was no on-"
He was interrupted by Bethany's heart monitor flat-lining.
Both their hearts sank as Mrs. Greene started screaming and Mr. Greene came in and wrapped his arms around his wife, he was crying too.
Olivia sighed and looked back at Nick then out the window.
"Whoever did this, didn't want her to spill his description."