Hello hello!
So here is chapter 2! I hope you guys liked the first chapter. The next chapter is when a lot of the visual stuff will come in, so please be prepared. I don't want to offend anyone.
Let's get to it, shall we?
DONG DONG!
Alice was still deeply under. The rape kit was taken care of and she had been cleaned up, proving my earlier thoughts about her: she was a beautiful girl.
And she looked so much younger than she actually was. She was 22. She looked 15.
My phone buzzes in my pocket and I answer, never taking my eyes off Alice's face.
"Swan," I answer.
"Hey, I've got a few numbers for you. We couldn't find her parents, but we found her sister, Jackie Turner. She and her husband, Terrence, live on the other side of Manhattan. So give her a shot and let us know," Cullen says before reading off the number.
I mumble a quick thanks before I hang up and dial the number.
After several rings, a female voice answers. "Hello?"
"Hi, is this Jackie Turner?" I ask.
"Yes, who is speaking?" She questions.
"My name is Detective Bella Swan. I'm calling about your sister, Alice," I say.
"I'm going to meet her in about 20 minutes for lunch. Why, what happened? Is she okay?" Her voice begins rising in pitch.
"Mrs. Turner, your sister is in the hospital. I'd prefer to explain things in person, if that would be possible," I say gently.
"I'll be there as soon as possible! What hospital?" Jackie says. Her voice is still rising in hysteria.
"Mrs. Turner, you need to calm down. Is your husband home?" I say calmly, keeping my voice as level as possible.
"Yes."
"Have him drive you," I say before I tell her the name of the hospital. She says that she'll be there shortly before she hangs up.
I shove the phone in my pocket and look at Alice, whose bruised face had barely moved since arriving.
"Alice, please. The sooner you come around, the sooner we can get this creep behind bars," I whisper to the sleeping girl next to me. I grab her small hand in mine and squeeze it gently. "I'll get you through this, and I'll throw that bastard in jail if it's the last thing I do."
A few minutes later, a woman around 30 runs into Alice's room with a man following close behind her. The woman has the same short hair as Alice does, but hers is dirty blonde. Her bright blue eyes are leaking tears and her appearance is haphazard at best.
She's a mess, and I can't blame her.
The man behind her is tall with dark black hair and brown eyes that look upon Alice with concern. He looks more put together than his wife, and he nods at me in greeting as he follows his wife in.
Jackie stands on the other side of Alice and grabs her other hand. "My poor baby sister," she sobs. "What happened to her?"
Her eyes look at me with such worry and pain that I have to restrain the tears I can feel pushing their way to the surface. I pick up my chair and pull it around to her side of the bed and gently push her down.
"Your sister was found in her apartment earlier this morning beaten and raped." I'd learned in the past that it's better to just say it instead of beat around the bush. "The rapist chained her to the wall and left her there until her neighbor found her."
Jackie starts to sob even harder and Terrence puts his arm gently around her shoulders.
"Do you have any leads, Ms. Swan?" Terrence asks.
"Please, just Bella is fine," I say. "And I've seen a case like this before I came to this particular section of SVU. The similarities are too bizarre to not be the same person. Once she wakes up, I'll ask her a few questions as soon as she's ready, so it's still fresh in her head. If she got a good look at him and if we can get DNA from the semen that was found on her, then we can catch our perp," I say.
Jackie nods. "When will she wake up?" She asks as she strokes a strand of hair out Alice's face.
I sigh. "It depends on how much medication they gave her and if she had any trauma or injuries in her brain."
"Okay," she whispers. "Thank you, Bella."
I nod. "I'll give you some time alone," I say as I begin to back out of the room. "If she wakes up while I'm gone, please call me. I can be back here in minutes." I promise.
Terrence shakes my hand. "We'll call you if anything changes."
I smile and walk out of the room.
December 10th- 4:15pm
"Swan!" Chief McCarthy booms as he walks out from his office. "What's the verdict with Alice Braden?" he asks as he comes over to pat me on my back. I flinch at his heavy hand and he laughs.
"She's with her sister," I say as Cullen approaches. He's loosened his tie and rolled up his shirt sleeves since I last saw him. I see the new secretary check him out.
I roll my eyes. "Have you found anything else yet, Cullen?" I ask.
He nods. "A neighbor saw someone climbing up the fire-escape but saw him climb down a few minutes later so she didn't think she'd need to call the cops. Said he was tall with long blonde hair in a ponytail."
I bite my lip and hold back the attack I feel coming on. This is all too familiar. So much was the same.
"When Alice wakes up, I'll ask her what I need to so we can nail this guy," I say seriously.
Cullen gives me a funny look and I raise an eyebrow. He shakes his head and walks back to his desk.
"What was that about?" Emmett asks me.
I shrug. "Who knows? Keep me posted," I say.
He nods the affirmative and I smile in thanks before I walk out of the room.
Just wait till the next chapter! Things are going to get real!
Lots of love,
Emilia Elliot.
