Olivia nodded and looked around the room, she saw a little leopard that was with Amelia's stuff and picked it up bringing it over to Amelia.
"Hey, Lia," Olivia began softly as Amelia looked over taking the leopard from her hands and wrapping her arms around it tightly.
"Are you okay? Can you talk to me and tell me what happened?" Olivia asked the little girl gently.
Amelia sat down in front of Olivia staring at the floor, she nodded and began speaking, "Daddy's gone... Which means he can't save me... Which means I'm stuck with those angry men..." Lia said quietly.
"That's not what it means Lia..." Olivia said looking at the sad little girl, "It means that you have to be strong for your daddy, and for you to be strong, you have to tell me what happened to you." Lia nodded looking up at detective Benson.
"They said that they needed money, and for them to get their money back they need me to be a good girl. They put me in a nasty room and made me stay there giving me food only 3 times... Whenever they needed to get the money they put me in a new room, it was a black room with a big red bed with a really soft red blanket. They brung men into the room and the men got to hurt me..." Amelia whipped a tear from her eye, rubbing the leopards ear. "They would put their things inside of me and it hurt me... Really badly... After, they got to hit me, and hurt me more... The man came in and got his money and then put me back into the room..." Amelia quickly looked up at Olivia, "Please don't make me go back! I don't wanna go back! They hurt me!" She yelled.
"Amelia, Amelia, baby," Olivia shushed the girl up pulling her into her arms gently, "we're not going to make you go back, okay? You're not going back into that house, I promise you, okay?"
"Okay..." Amelia said quietly wrapping her arms around Olivia's neck. Amelia left school with Olivia and Nick. In the car on the way back to the precinct, Olivia called Amanda and had her and Fin leave to go arrest the bastards who were abusing Amelia. On arrival to the precinct Fin brought Amelia to the children interrogation room while Olivia got Alice some water.
Amelia sat down a chair holding her leopard as she stared at the table Olivia came in and sat the water down in from of Alice as she sat down across from her and Fin left the room. He watched from the other side of the glass with Nick.
"Amelia," Olivia began gently, "can you talk to me about what happened to you?"
Alice looked up with fearful eyes, "But... What if he finds out, and hurts me more?" Amelia asked shaking a bit.
"He won't hurt you, I promise, my friends have already taken care of making sure he won't ever hurt you again, okay?"
Amelia nodded, "Judge said that he would be good to me, that he wouldn't hurt me... But she was wrong... He put me in a nasty dirty room with the bed on the floor... I didn't get much food, and 1 bottle of water..." Amelia said sniffling, "He started bringing me to a new room, a clean room, it was black, with a really big red bed, men payed him to hurt me..." Amelia whipped some tears away, "They really hurt me..." Amelia looked up, I don't wanna go back... I wanna stay with you... Please, please don't make me go back..." Amelia begged Olivia with sad, fearful eyes, "You're nice to me, you're not mean, and you care, please, I wanna stay with you..." Amelia begged Olivia to let her stay with her.
"Amelia, sweetie, I-"
"I know you have a son, I can help... I'm real good with babies... Please..." Amelia begged Olivia once more.
Olivia looked towards the glass at her reflection, knowing that her co-workers were on the other side.
"Okay, you can stay with me Amelia." Olivia gave in to the little girls pleads and nodded.
"Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you!" Amelia wrapped her arms around Olivia, "I'll be real good, I promise." Amelia said, thankful that she doesn't have to go back to another horrible home.
The next day Olivia had already arranged to go down to court and sign everything so that she could foster Amelia.
At around 9 pm Olivia went back to the bunks were Amelia had fallen asleep earlier and laid down in a bed next to her.
Fin came in the next morning around 7:30 to wake them up, he started with Liv.
"Hey, baby girl," he started, gently shaking her, "it's time to get up, you have to go sign the papers."
She opened her eyes stretching out a bit, before thanking him and going to wake up Amelia.
Hours later Olivia and Amelia walked back into the precinct.
"How'd it go Liv?" Nick asked.
"Well," she started with a smile, "we got the paperwork signed and she's my foster girl for a year, after that if I want to, I can officially adopt her." She said as everyone looked at her.
"Good job Liv." Fin said as he sat down and looked at his empty desk.
"You finished all your paperwork?" She asked Fin.
"Yep." He nodded, just as Amelia went over to him with some crayons and paper from Nicks desk.
"Will you color with me?" She asked quietly.
"Of course I will." He laughed gently smiling as she crawled into his lap and they began drawing and coloring together as Liv headed to her office to do her own stack of paperwork.
A few minutes later Fin looked up at Nick questioningly.
"Hey man, why you got crayons in your desk?" He asked with a smirk.
"For moments like this." He said as he quickly snapped a pic of Fin coloring.
"Would ya look at that," Olivia laughed for the doorway of her office, "big strong Detective Fin Tutuola is coloring." They all then laughed.
"Man it's fun when you're bored." He laughed.
"Yea, but so is eating, but if I ate every time I was bored id be huge!" Nick said cause everyone to laugh again.
"Yea, but if you think about it," Amanda joined in, "if you draw every time you're bored, you'd be a pretty good artist."
"Why you gotta bring all your knowledge and logic into this?" Nick said jokingly.
"Cause if I'm not the one to be smart enough to do so, who is?" She asked and everyone once again laughed.
"Alright guys," Liv said laughing, " we gotta get all this paperwork finished."
"Got Liv." Amanda said.
"Yes ma'am" Nick replied.
They all got back to paperwork as Fin got back to drawing with Amelia.