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Chapter 2: Rejection
Olivia and Elliot sat in their car for a brief minute. They did not know how they would tell Lindsey's parents the news.
As a parent, Elliot would not have dreamed that he would hear something like this in his life as a parent. He probably could not handle it if he received this kind of news from people he did not know. He would not be able to handle it as some of the parents who they have met had. They were stronger. It would be hard for him to handle anything as drastic as this. And on top of that, learn that their kid was being teased because of his name.
Who would name their boy Lindsey? Usually, you would only use that name for a girl. But, there are always first times.
A couple seconds later of silence inside the car, Olivia finally got out and looked at Elliot, waiting for him to get out. Slowly he nodded and opened the door, but held it there for a second, then finally stood up and closed it.
He dreaded this moment. He always dreaded it. He dreaded telling the family or friends about their los. But he imagined that it would be easier to find out from the police than from someone who had heard about it secondhand. The police should not be telling others about their findings, but who knows what a person off of the street would be saying. All hell would break loose.
The lights inside the house were out, and there was no motion to be seen.
"Not home?" Olivia asked her partner.
"I don't know. Probably. They have long shifts."
"But wouldn't you think that even with their long shifts they would know if their son was missing, much less a family member that lives with them?"
"You would think that," Elliot said sadly. "But some parents neglect their children so much; they don't know what they're missing."
He paused. Was it just him or did his statement not only apply to others but also to himself? He was getting that vibe, somehow. And unfortunately, it spooked him a little.
Olivia looked at him. "El, you okay?"
"Uh, yeah…yeah."
Olivia nodded wearingly, not completely trusting what she heard, but she started walking towards the house anyway. She rang the door bell and waited for her partner to catch up with her. After a couple of seconds, the door to the house opened. Behind it stood a middle-aged man, maybe around his thirties, sporting a suit and tie.
"Yes?" he asked unknowingly. "May I ask why the police are here?"
Olivia spoke. "We are here concerning a young boy." She lifted out a picture from her pocket and showed it to the man. "Do you mind telling us who this boy is?"
The man was quite for a moment. "No. I don't recognize him."
That answer hit the detectives fast and hard. It was a very clear picture. Not one of the boy dead, but the most recent school picture supplied by the school principal. It could not be mistaken by anyone who knew him, much less his father.
"Are you sure?" Olivia asked him trying not to let her surprise be noticed. "Look at it again."
The man sighed, but looked at it again. But again, he shook his head. "No, I am pretty sure I do not know that boy. I am sorry, though, for him. I assume that something sexually bad must have happened to him?"
Elliot lifted an eyebrow. "Really? Why do you think that?"
"I have heard some things going around the neighborhood. Something about a kid being skinned and eaten? I haven't heard any names, though. So I'm afraid I can't help you."
The fancily dressed man began to close the door, but Elliot halted it with his foot. "And who do you assume we are?"
The man turned back around. "Well, if I know my departments around here, then my conclusion would be that you would be from the Special Victims Unit? Is my assumption correct?"
Olivia squinted at the sun hitting her eyes. "Yes," she answered. "May we have your name?"
"Yours first," he countered.
"Benson," she said motioning to herself. She then motioned to Elliot. "And this is my partner, Detective Stabler."
The man seemed alright with that answer. "Jim Watson."
"Do you live alone, Mr. Watson?" Elliot asked.
"No. I live with my wife, Carolyn Oakner. "
"Oakner? I thought she was your wife."
"She is. But you know how some women are. They don't want to give up their first name that they've had. So they don't change it. They keep it." He paused and eyed Olivia, but didn't say anything.
"Is Mrs. Oakner here right now?" Olivia asked.
"No. And even if she was, I would not allow two detectives with no warning to come barging into my house. Now I'm sorry, but you must leave. I have to get to work."
This time as the door was closing, it was not stopped by a foot in its way. It just kept going until it was finally closed.
The detectives were in disgust and awe of this man who was claiming to not know Lindsey. For God's sake, it was his own son! Would his wife tell them anything if she was there? The detectives would hope so. If not, they were dealing with the rejection of some sick-hearted criminals.
PREDATOR
Olivia and Elliot were back at their desks in the stationhouse when the "Big Chief", as Munch had nicknamed him, came storming through the door sand straight toward their desks.
"What is this??" he yelled for everyone to hear. "I thought the detectives here knew quite well that they should not be leaking these stories. They should have already learned from past experience!"
Olivia stood up while the article on the front page was thrown onto Elliot's desk. "We didn't tell anyone anything that is not a part of this investigation," she told the chief.
"Then why is this already in the paper?!" he shouted again.
Olivia opened her mouth to keep saying that it could not have been them who leaked it, but luckily Cragen had heard the chief's arrival from his office and had come out to take care of the situation.
"I assure you that none of my detectives have told anyone not needing to know about this case."
"Well, someone did. And you have to take care of it. I cannot keep ignoring when this happens! This cannot keep happening! So take care of it, or your detectives are off the case!" The chief walked angrily out of the Special Victims Unit, clearly not having a good day.
Once he was gone and out of earshot, Cragen spoke, motioning towards Olivia and Elliot, "You two. My office. Now." He turned around and went inside his office, closing the door and waited until Olivia and Elliot came in.
As the two got up and left, Elliot tossed the paper onto Munch's desk. He looked at it.
MAN-EATER IN MANHATTEN was in big bold letters. It was also on the front page; in clear view. Underneath was: Boy in park found completely skinned; LUNCH found carved in his arm. Is there a cannibal in the city?
Fin looked over onto Munch's desk, and what came out was: "Damn."
PREDATOR
"Did either of you two leak anything about this investigation?" Cragen sternly asked his two best detectives.
"No," Olivia said while Elliot shook his head, indicating the same thing. "We haven't leaked anything out about this case to anyone who doesn't need to know anything. Nothing."
Cragen nodded. "What about Munch or Fin? Did they have a chance to leak the story?"
"Well of course they had the chance to, Cap," Elliot explained, "but they wouldn't leak the story if they were given a hundred dollars."
Cragen nodded again.
"You've got to trust us, Captain," Olivia pleaded.
"I do," Cragen replied.
There was silence for a few seconds, then, "Who do you think did it?"
They were all silent, then Olivia shrugged. "Either someone who found all the details from the inside leaked it, or someone was at the scene and did nothing about it."
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