Disclaimer: I don't own law and order SVU or any of it's character, or any of the songs and bands used in these song fics

A/N: I 've been wanting to write an actual SVU story instead of just the song fics but I couldn't think of a plot line to use so I decide to write one based on one of the song fics. So the three that gets the most review that doesn't end with a character death with be placed in a poll on my profile once I get a few more wrote. Then everyone can vote on which one I write.

Updated: I rushed the ending a bit the last time because I had to leave and I wanted to post it before I left. But I wasn't happy with it and it was bugging me so I re-wrote the ending. Let me know which one you liked best and let me know what you think.

Warning: Dark plotline

Martina McBride- Concrete Angel

Olivia and Elliot both watched as the young girl sitting across from them colored on a piece of paper. She would glance up at both of them every time she switched colors but never said a word to either of them unless they talked to her first. They could tell she wanted to tell them something by the way she was acting but she was too scared to say anything. Everyone there knew she was being abused by her parents but none of them could gather enough evidence to prove it or even enough to get her temporally removed from the home. She had blond hair and bright blue eyes. She was six years old but she was small for her age and she had bruises on her arms and legs. They had been talking to her for over an hour and neither of them was able to get enough out of her and they were running out of time. Before too long the parents would get a lawyer and they had nothing to hold either of them on.

"Emily, would you like something to drink?" Olivia asked smiling.

Emily Blake smiled and slowly nodded but never responded. Olivia stood up and walked towards the stairs but stopped beside Elliot and bent down next to him.

"I'm going to check on how Fin and Munch are doing with the parents." She whispered before going down stairs.

Elliot watched her until she was out of sight before looking back at Emily. "Emily, do you mind if I ask you a few more questions?"

She stopped coloring but continued to stare down at the piece of paper. "Why are you asking me so many questions?"

"Because we want to help you." Elliot said softly.

Emily just nodded and continued to color. Elliot sighed and glanced down stairs at Olivia talking to Cragen. From the looks of things they didn't have much time. None of them wanted to send this girl home but if they didn't hurry they wouldn't have a choice. Elliot looked back at Emily and waited for a few moments.

"Where did you get all those bruises?" He asked.

"I had an accident." She said looking up at him.

"What kind of accident?"

She shrugged and looked back down at the piece of paper. "I fell…"

She walks to school with the lunch she packed
Nobody knows what she's holdin' back
Wearin' the same dress she wore yesterday
She hides the bruises with linen and lace

"Really? Where did you fall?"

Tears formed in Emily's eyes as she looked up at him. It was obvious she was scared of someone and most likely they were both down stairs talking to Munch and Fin. Elliot gave her a small smiled. He stood up and walked to the other side of the table and sat down beside her. He kept his distance not wanting to make her feel uncomfortable.

"You know Emily…If someone is doing something to hurt you, you can tell us. It's our job to protect you."

She opened her mouth to say something but before she could a loud yell echoed throughout the prescient.

"EMILY!"

Emily jumped and tensed up at the sound of her father's voice. She looked behind her and seen her father down stairs through the bars of the railing. He looked mad and the madder he looked the more scared she got. She got down out of the chair and looked over at Elliot.

"I have to go now…" She said barley above a whisper.

"EMILY NOW!" Her father yelled.

She jumped again as a steady stream of tears rolled down her cheeks. "Please?"

Elliot slowly nodded, stood up and walked over to her. She reached up and grabbed his hand and they both walked down the stairs. She hid behind Elliot's leg until they were standing right in front of her mother and father. Her father jerked her hand from Elliot's and pulled her towards him.

"Next time you want to talk you can call our lawyer." Her father said angrily before walking towards the elevator. Her mother walked beside him.

She stared at Elliot and Olivia as her father dragged her past them but she didn't say a word. She was obviously terrified and there was nothing any of them could do to get her legally removed from the home. Everyone in the room watched as they stepped into the elevator and the door close. They all knew that her father would take out his anger one her when they got home and probably the mother to. They couldn't stand letting her leave but they had no other choice. They had nothing that proved she was being abused by them other than a gut feeling that everyone had.

The teacher wonders but she doesn't ask
It's hard to see the pain behind the mask
Bearing the burden of a secret storm
Sometimes she wishes she was never born

Elliot sighed and leaned on his desk. Olivia stood beside him staring at the floor. Munch, Fin and Cragen stood in front of them feeling the same disappointment that everyone was feeling. They couldn't believe that they were forced to let a child back into the hands of her abusive parents.

"We can't let them leave with her captain." Olivia pleaded. "They are going to blame her for being pulled in here. There is no telling what they're going to do to her."

"We have no choice last time I checked kidnapping was still against the law." He said looking at his detectives.

"So is beating your kids." Fin added.

"We can't prove that and until we can they still have rights." Cragen said looking at Fin.

"The legal system hides the perp more then it helps catch them" Munch said looking around at everyone.

After a few moments of silence he walked up stairs shaking his head in disappointment. Cragen looked around at Elliot, Olivia, and Fin feeling the same disappointment that everyone else felt. The job was beginning to get to all of them especially him. He had to fight the urge to drink everyday and he was beginning to think that the fight wasn't worth it anymore.

"Find evidence that proves the parents are the ones responsible for the bruises and I'll have Novak get a warrant for her removal but until then there is nothing we can do." He said before turning and walking to his office.

Elliot shook his head and stood up from his desk. "How are we supposed to prove it when no one will talk to us?"

Olivia shrugged. "Like Munch said the legal system is too busy hiding and protecting these guys instead of getting them off the streets or at least get that little girl away from them…We have to get her out of there."

"I about had her talking until he came out screaming her name then she froze up like most kids do when they hear their abuser screaming at them." Elliot said looking over at her.

"Maybe her school councilor knows something they usually send the kid to a councilor before they contact children services or the cops." Fin said looking at both Olivia and Elliot.

"Maybe…" Elliot shrugged. "It's worth a shot."

Through the wind and the rain
She stands hard as a stone
In a world that she can't rise above
But her dreams give her wings
And she flies to a place where she's loved
Concrete angel

Emily sat in the car staring up at an old broken down house. The white paint was chipped revealing the wood underneath it. The porch looked like it was going to fall through at any moment a lot like most of the houses in the neighborhood. Her parents stopped at the liquor store right after they left the police station and now they were inside buying drugs. She wanted to get out and run but the fear of what would happen kept her from doing anything. She already knew that her parents were going to hit her when they got home and this time it would be worse then the other times because of what happened that day.

She wondered why no one loved her and why she got a mommy and daddy who hated her when all the other kids in her class got good mommies and daddies. She loved them despite the abuse that she had to endure but she couldn't understand why they wanted to hurt her all the time. If they weren't hitting her, they were saying mean words to her. They locked her in the attic when their friends were around and sometimes they would leave her there until the next morning. The only real friend she had was an old teddy bear she got from a girl down the street when she moved. She jumped when she saw her father come out of the house. She wondered why her mom wasn't with him but she soon found out. The back car door swung open and her dad reached in and grabbed her arm. He jerked her out of the car causing her to fall on the gravel drive way. Her father slammed the car door shut and grabbed her arm again. Tears streamed down her face as she looked up at him in fear.

"Please daddy don't? I'll be good I promise!" She cried.

He ignored her pleas and grabbed her arm. When she didn't stand up he began to drag her inside. She cried and tried to pull away from him and claw at his hands but it only seemed to make him madder.

Somebody cries in the middle of the night
The neighbors hear, but they turn out the lights
A fragile soul caught in the hands of fate
When morning comes it'll be too late

Munch and Fin walked into Emily's school hoping they could find something there that could help them build their case up enough to get Emily out of the home. They knew it was a long shot but it was a shot none the less. Munch and Fin both flashed their badges to the women at the front desk. She looked at both of them carefully before giving them each a friendly smile.

"How can I help you detectives?"

"We need to speak with the guidance councilor." Fin said simply not wanting to go any further into detail.

"I'm sorry, Ms. Martin isn't here today. She's at the high school."

Munch narrowed his eyes. "What is she doing there?"

"We're kind of on a low budget so the school nurse and the guidance councilor has to travel from the elementary school, to the middle school and to the high school depending on what day it is."

"What about the kids who needs them while they're at another school?" Munch asked.

"We call the parents if it's an emergency."

"And what if it isn't?" Munch asked beginning to get annoyed.

"We page them and they come when ever they can." She explained.

"Well why don't you page the school nurse and the guidance councilor? We really need to speak with them." Fin said.

"Sure have a seat and get comfortable it could be at least an hour before they can get here."

Munch looked at the receptionist obviously annoyed with her. He took his cell phone out of his pocket and walked a few feet away from her and Fin before opening it and pressing the speed dial. He pressed the phone to his ear hoping Olivia and Elliot were having better luck then they were. Elliot and Olivia stood at the front desk of children's services waiting for Emily Blake's file. They usually just looked at it there but this time they were in a hurry and need all the information and proof they could get. Elliot's cell phone rang breaking the five minute silence. Everyone including the people in the waiting room looked over at him like he'd just broke the law or something. Elliot looked around at everyone and walked to the corner of the room.

"Stabler…Yeah…thanks Munch…" Elliot hung up the phone and walked back over next to Olivia. "That was Munch, he said it could be up to an hour before they get to talk to the guidance Councilor but they are also going to interview the school nurse."

"Here you go…" One of the case workers said walking out from the offices in the back. "We didn't have much on her, she had bruises but she was able to give a believable response on how she got them."

"She fell right?" Elliot said annoyed.

"We expect more of an explanation then that detective." She said handing them the file. "Everything's in there including the case worker notes that she took during the interviews."

"Thanks well have these back as soon as we can."

The women nodded. "Keep them as long as you need." She said before turning and heading back to her office.

Through the wind and the rain
She stands hard as a stone
In a world that she can't rise above
But her dreams give her wings
And she flies to a place where she's loved
Concrete angel

That night everyone sat at their desk looking through the countless files and notes that they got that day. None of them gave them enough evidence to take Emily away from her parents even when they put everything together they didn't have enough but they weren't ready to stop looking yet. It was almost midnight and no one was ready to call it a night. They all wanted to continue working until they could actually do something to help her. They even had pictures of the bruises she had when Children services got involved. Each one was explained by sometime of fall or accident but the notes weren't clear on what kind. Elliot sat back in his seat and rubbed his hands over his face. He let out a long sigh before looking around at everyone else.

Olivia yawned but continued to read through the files without looking up. Fin and Munch were looking through the notes that the nurse and guidance councilor gave to them along with the notes they took during the interview. Everyone was hard at work trying to figure this case out but no matter how hard they looked they couldn't find any solid evidence. Novak had even joined the search for a couple hours but then had to leave due to another case. Cragen rushed out of his office causing all of his detectives to look up at him.

"I just got a call, there's been a disturbance call at the Blake's neighbors said they heard gun shots coming from the home."

Elliot, Olivia, Munch and Fin all stood up and quickly grabbed their coats before rushing outside to their squad cars. Cragen watched them wishing he could go with them but he couldn't leave the squad room unattended. Elliot, Olivia, Munch and Fin all rushed towards the house hoping they weren't too late. So many thoughts were running through their minds that they could barley concentrate on anything else. The tires squealed to a stop when they pulled up in front of the house. The bright red and blue lights from the ambulances and the police cars illuminated the white broken down house. They all jumped out of their cars and rushed towards the house. They flashed their badges to the first cop that they came too.

"What happened?" Olivia was the first to ask.

"Double murder, suicide. The father killed the little girl and his wife before killing his self."

Tears formed in Olivia's eyes, she fought them from falling but slowly a small steady stream of tears fell down her cheeks. Tears formed behind Elliot's, Fin's and Munch's eyes but they fought to keep them from falling. Only a few escaped before they were all able to stop them.

A statue stands in a shaded place
An angel girl with an upturned face
A name is written on a polished rock
A broken heart that the world forgot

Cragen, Munch, Fin, Elliot and Olivia all stood around Emily's grave. They all listened as the priest read a few passages from the bible while memories of the time they spent with the young girl flooded their minds. They all paid for her to have a proper burial and a grave stone instead of a small marker with the help of a few of her teachers. Accept for a few of her teachers that were lucky enough to get off of work for the day and them no one else was there. Olivia laid her head on Elliot's shoulder. Elliot gave her a soft smile and wrapped his arm around her. She found some comfort in his arms but the tears continued to steam down her cheeks.

"We should have done something." She whispered just high enough for Elliot to hear.

Elliot tightened his grip around her. "I know…but at least now she's someplace safe where nobody else can ever hurt her again." He said kissing her forehead.

Through the wind and the rain
She stands hard as a stone
In a world that she can't rise above
But her dreams give her wings
And she flies to a place where she's loved
Concrete angel