A/N: Midterms are over, one stress relieving chapter coming up :)
The warrant finally arrived in the afternoon. Olivia and Fin were on their way to Paul Hoffman's apartment, one of the men who had raped Erin Colton the day before. It had been a hectic, but albeit productive day so far. Despite Olivia's initial concerns, Amanda was holding up well during the course of the day. The SVU Lieutenant had sent Amanda and Carisi back into the field once they had finished their interview with another one of their victims. The case they were currently working on needed a lot of leg work, and Olivia had instructed Carisi to keep an eye on the blonde as well as to look out for the man that had startled her at the bar.
"Sometimes I wonder if I chose the wrong profession" Fin mumbled as they pulled up to an expensive apartment building. The building was in the richer part of town, no surprise considering that their man was able to buy a sex slave for a few hours like it was a normal weekend activity.
"You'd die if you lived next to these high maintenance people every day, or more likely you'd kill your neighbor the moment they complained about your taste in clothes and music" Olivia said as she stepped out of the car, looking up at the impressive building
"What's wrong with my taste in music" Fin responded as he followed the brunette up the steps and entered the lobby
"Nothing" she cast him a glance "it's your taste in clothes that has the problem" she smirked as they finally caught the attention of the front desk clerk behind the counter. Fin returned her smirk with a frown knowing that they had to get down to business now.
"Hello, can I help you" the young man asked with raised eyebrows at the two SVU officers. It was apparent that they did not live there nor could they afford it.
"Yes, we're going up to see one of your tenants" Olivia responded as she flashed her badge and continued walking to the elevator.
"Wait can I ask who you're looking for so I can tell them to expect you?" the young man asked concerned, he knew the residents there didn't like surprises. They paid for the gatekeeping.
"Nah, see we like to surprise our hosts. Lets us find them in their natural states" Fin answered back with a head nod just before the elevator doors closed.
"Really what's wrong with my clothes?" Fin asked defensibly while fixing the material at his collar.
Olivia nearly laughed at how her old friend was concerned about his appearance right before they were going to serve a warrant "nothing" she sighed out as she rolled her eyes.
Olivia and Fin stopped just as they reached the door to Hoffman's apartment. "Do you want to do the honors?" Fin said as he tilted his head towards the door. The brunette pushed past him gently and grabbed the warrant from his hands.
"Paul Hoffman" Olivia shouted as she knocked loudly on the door "NYPD, open up" she commanded. They heard nothing from the other side at first, but suddenly the silence was interrupted by a crashing sound as if someone was trying to rush while grabbing something but slipped.
"Open up" she commanded again. They waited a few more seconds. When nothing happened, Olivia gave Fin the go ahead to kick down the door. They both entered with guns drawn, the strong scent of marijuana shifting through the air. "Stop where you are" Olivia commanded at a slightly chubby man with black hair and olive skin. Fin went to clear the rest of the apartment while the seasoned SVU Lieutenant handled the man in front of her "Paul Hoffman?" she asked and received a nod of confirmation "we have a warrant to search your apartment, and obtain any computers, cameras or other forms of external hard drives"
"Wait, what?" Hoffman stuttered confused "why, it's just a little pot, no need for problems. I have a medical condition?"
Olivia looked the man up and down "I'm sure you do" she said flatly "but we're here for the rape of Erin Colton"
"Rape?" he questioned back surprised "but I didn't... I don't even know a..." his sentence was cut off by Fin.
"Hold it right there" he yelled "I see you, now come on out with your hands up". Olivia looked towards the direction of her partner's voice, waiting to see what the situation was. Moments later a blonde man with green eyes appeared carrying a laptop followed by Fin.
"You?" Olivia stated in surprise. The man before her was the same man that had sent Amanda running only a few short days earlier. Olivia was getting a knot in her stomach as she tried to connect the dots between his appearance here and Amanda's strange behavior from before.
"Do I know you?" the man questioned at her reaction.
"No" Olivia said as she slowly shook her head, she needed to be focused on the present "but what's your name and why are you here?"
The man looked her up and down as if he was contemplating even answering "Corey Dunham" he finally answered "and I'm here visiting a friend, there's nothing illegal about that" he stated back sarcastically.
"We'll see about that" Fin said as he walked past the pair and went to grab the laptop from Corey's hands.
"Hey" he yelled as he tried to pull the device even closer to himself "this is mine, you have no business looking at it"
"Actually we do" Olivia said as she held up the warrant "all computers in the apartment, even yours"
"I'm not going to stand for this" Corey grunted in frustration but released the device "my lawyer will be hearing about this"
"Great, why don't you call him and tell em to meet you down at the station" Fin said as he ushered the men towards the door "we have a few questions for you two that we need answered"
Back at the station Hoffman and Corey sat in different interrogation rooms. For once Olivia was happy about the large amount of menial tasks her detectives needed to do on a daily basis, for Amanda and Carisi were out of the station at that moment and wouldn't be back for a while. Olivia didn't want Amanda to know that they had Corey in their possession, and she didn't want that man to know this was where she worked, if he already wasn't aware.
"So this is the man that caused Rollins to bail on us" Fin stated darkly as he looked through the two way mirror in Olivia's office "let me talk to him"
"No, Fin" Olivia answered him quickly "we can't let him know about us and Amanda having a connection, he could taint our whole case if he thinks we're targeting him on her behalf"
"But why would she act like that over this guy? Is he involved in our rape case or is this just a strange coincidence?" Fin shook his head in contemplation "I just don't understand it, and it bugs me when I think about Manda being in danger"
"I think I know how they may be connected" Olivia offered from her computer screen "the fingerprints came back for Dunham, he's a known bookie" she deadpanned as she sent Fin a look.
"A bookie" he repeated "but she said she hasn't gambled... I know she hasn't" Fin was quick to come to his partner's aid
"I think so too" Olivia agreed "but the debt an addict builds up doesn't go away so easily, she's never told us how much she was in the whole last time"
"That doesn't matter, he's here" he looked at the calm man in the interrogation room as he waited for his lawyer "... they're here" indicating Hoffman as well "and if we can nail them to this rape then that's one less thing Manda has to worry about"
"One thing at a time, Fin" Olivia said as she leaned forward on her desk "I want to see what's on that laptop of his before we interview them. If we're lucky then maybe that film that Erin said they made of the attack is on there. It could lead us to the third rapist and solidly put them away"
As if on cue a knock on the door caused both SVU officers attention to be drawn away from their conversation "excuse me?" it was officer Jeffers again "TARU finished going through the laptop and sent us a copy of its drive" he said as he handed Olivia a flash drive. She thanked the officer and excused him.
Olivia wasted no time in looking through the new evidence that was just delivered. TARU had brought out certain files of interest to the forefront to make things easier for them. One of the early links was a large folder containing many different files with women's names on them and dates. A Library of video collections. "Here we are" Olivia observed as she noticed a file with Erin's name on it.
When she clicked on it several videos came up each about two hours long. One for each attacker, Olivia assumed. She clicked on the first one and a video of Erin hanging from the roof came on. The man standing in front of her was none other than Corey Dunham. He introduced himself as the facilitator and explained why she was there, to pay off her husband's gambling debt with her body. Olivia stopped the video right as he began tearing at Erin's clothes, she didn't need to see the rape, at least not at that moment. She also couldn't stand the sound of the young woman begging him to stop, to let her go. Her pleading was starting to reminder her of her time with Lewis.
"Oh my God" Fin stated in surprise "is it really this easy?" he asked the rhetorical question "idiot films himself raping a woman with no mask, even gives a dialogue for his motive" Fin shakes his head as he looked over to the calm man in the integration room "I love it when they make our job simple"
"Don't get too cocky Fin" Olivia chided "the case is not closed yet". Yes, the evidence was as clear as day, but in her experience, scum such as these men usually had a plan B. She just needed to figure out what it was first.
"I'm just happy we have the guy in custody" Fin said as he leaned against the two-way mirror, his back facing the glass "if this is what he does to collect his debt, I'm glad that we got to him before he got to Manda" Fin said as he had to physically shake away the image of this man tying up his partner from his head. The thought making him want to simultaneously hurt the man behind him and throw up his lunch. He didn't even want to think what he would do if that man ever laid a hand on his partner, all he knew for certain was that the law wouldn't approve.
"Oh my God!" Olivia yelled
Fin glanced over at his longtime friend to see her face depicting pure shock and horror as her hand moved to cover her mouth. "Liv, what's wrong?" he asked in concern as he ran to her side.
"Her... her name. It's already here" Olivia said with great difficulty. Her chest tightening as she tried to control her breathing "he already has a completed file on Amanda"
A/N: so some people guessed very close, but no one picked up on the fact that it was a past debt she had already paid as the reason Amanda was so afraid of this man. There was a very small hint in chapter two about this, the part where she whispered the truth to Carisi. Next chapter is going to be fun, well not for Fin, Olivia and Amanda :) thanks for reading and the reviews. I guess this wasn't as predictable as I initially thought, or maybe not? Did anyone see that coming, I really want to know. Thanks again.
