Amanda followed Olivia into the room. Olivia sat down on the couch opposite of Dawn and Amanda took the chair on the other side. Dawn was still curled into a ball and her eyes seemed to be fixed on nothing except the fabric of the couch. Amanda looked at the girl and couldn't help to notice how her eyes were as dark and sunken in with bones showing on the teen, just like her own.

"Hey, Dawn," Olivia said quietly getting the teen to look up. "Hi. You remember Detective Rollins?"

"Hi," Amanda said softly. "You can call me Amanda."

Dawn looked over to Amanda and nodded before placing her chin on her knees. She wore an oversized NYPD sweatshirt with a pair of sweatpants.

"I know this may be hard," Olivia started, "but Amanda and I need to ask you some questions. If you can do your best to answer that would be great. If you need to stop, just say so. Do you think you could do that?"

Dawn nodded.

"Okay," Olivia asked. "We looked into your files and saw you are from Ohio. Do you know why you are here in New York?"

"Yeah," Dawn said barely audible. "I had gotten accepted into NYU and Columbia and I was here to look at the schools."

"Did you know anyone here," Dawn said with her eyes going cold with the next thing she said, "Just here with my parents."

Amanda was writing all of this down in her notes, "That's great. Do you know where you were staying?"

"Um a hotel near Central Park," Dawn muttered. "I don't know where exactly because I'm still getting used to the city. Where are my parents? Why aren't they here yet?"

Olivia looked at Amanda who gave her a look of dread. This was always the worst part of the job. Dawn was curled into the ball and was looking between Olivia and Amanda.

"Dawn, honey," Olivia started, "When we found you, we traced you back to the hotel. When we went to look in the room you were staying in we found lots of blood."

Dawn's face flashed to stone that you could almost see the reflection of the horror she was remembering.

"We looked for them," Olivia continued, "We found them, but they were not alive when we did."

"NO!" Dawn exclaimed. "No. You're lying. They can't be. I just saw them. Please. Please…"

Dawn was overcome with sobs as her body curled almost impossibly tighter. Olivia looked to Amanda; who was biting her lip, before scooting closer to Dawn. Olivia reached out her arms wrapping one around around Dawn's shoulder and other on her forearm and pulled the teen against her and into an embrace. Dawn's body shook with sobs against Olivia. Amanda watched as her superior tried calming down the traumatized girl. It took a while, but Dawn eventually pulled back. She wiped her eyes eyes more tears continued to fall. Olivia's phone started to buzz and she nodded to Amanda that she had to take it. Olivia got up and headed out leaving Amanda and Dawn alone. Amanda scooted closer handing Dawn a box of tissues and placed a comforting hand on Dawn's shoulder. Dawn looked up to Amanda with glossy eyes.

"Um," Dawn said, "Thanks for finding me yesterday."

Amanda gave a small sad smile, "You're welcome, honey."

Dawn let out a shaky breath, "Oh god. What's gonna happen?"
"Well we are gonna figure that out," Amanda nodded. "We are gonna find the person who did this and make sure we get justice."

"And me?" Dawn asked.

Amanda paused and looked at the girl's face that was red with tears, "We'll figure it all out."

Dawn the back of her hand across her face to wipe away the tears revealing a bandage over one of the cuts that had looked like a restraining mark. Amanda closed her eyes briefly keeping herself focussed on the job.

"Um…" Dawn started, "Is there any water?"

"Yeah," Amanda nodded. "I can get you a bottle."

"Thank you," Dawn nodded.

"I'll leave you here if that's okay?" Amanda asked.

Dawn nodded. Amanda squeezed her shoulder and headed out. Amanda made her way over to the vending machine and pulled out a dollar from her wallet and put it in the machine. Amanda heard footsteps coming up behind her.

"Hey," Olivia said. "Did Dawn say anything?"

"Wondering what would happen," Amanda said tilting her head back and forth. "I told her we would handle it and get justice. She doesn't know what will you know happen to herself. No one does. She wanted a water so I'm getting her one."

"Okay," Olivia said. "That was Fin on the phone. They confirmed it's her parents. They canvassed the hotel room and have found about two different DNA sets. One matched the one found on Dawn. She is traumatized but we might be able to get her to talk."

"Yeah," Amanda nodded. "I'm afraid we could push her."

"Yeah," Olivia said. "Let's go slowly. She hasn't gotten any sleep really, so it think it might be good to try to get a statement and then see if we can get her to a hotel or somewhere where she can sleep."

"Yeah that sounds good," Amanda agreed.

The two walked back into the room where Dawn was sitting. Amanda handed Dawn the water before resuming where she had been sitting. Olivia sat down too. Dawn looked anxiously between the two of them."

"So Dawn," Olivia started, "We would like to try to get a statement from you of what happened and what you remember."

Dawn looked anxiously at them.

"Dawn," Amanda said softly, "I know this is going to be really hard, but it would be really helpful in figuring out who did this."

Dawn nodded, "I get it. I can do it."

"Okay," Olivia nodded, "So can you tell us where you were the day when this happened?"

"Umm," Dawn started ruffling her dirty blonde hair. "We had just gone on a tour and finished a day at Columbia. I really, really, really liked it. My mom and dad were proud and wanted to celebrate that I had gotten in and would be graduating high school with honors. We went out to this pizza place. You know, wanted the whole New York pizza thing. We were having a good time. None of us had ever been to NYC so it was exciting. We were walking around and stopped into a coffee shop because it was cold and we wanted a hot chocolate. We left and went to head back to the hotel. There were these two guys who were outside making comments towards people. One...um...grabbed at my coat and my dad told him to 'fuck off'. The two started following us. We made it into the hotel and told someone at the front desk about them and they told us we didn't have to worry. We went up to the room and were getting ready for bed when um…"

Dawn paused and looked up at the ceiling. Olivia placed a hand on Dawn's, "It's okay."

Dawn nodded and continued, "Well, my mom had called for room service because we needed another towel. So she went to the door. I had just gotten out of the shower and threw my shirt on when I heard her yell and my dad say something." Dawn let out a shaky breath. "Well I crawled into the shower and closed the curtain. I could hear commotion and stuff going on. And then the door opened...it all happened so fast. One of the guys from before, well he, umm...pulled me out of the shower and took me into the other room. My dad was knocked out on the bed and there was blood all over his face. It was awful. I tried to scream, but the guy covered my mouth. The other one was on top of my mother and she saw me and told me to try to run. I did, but the guy on top of her grabbed me. Um he said something like 'This is the bitch from earlier'. They were laughing. The guys pushed me down on the ground. My mom tried to get up, but they hit her. They were so rough...they just got all over me. I kept fighting, but they just hit me or would do whatever. I don't remember what happened next. I just remember blacking out and the next thing I remember was you next to me in the park."

Dawn started to sob again and Olivia rubbed her shoulder, "That was very brave of you. You did a great job. Thank you."

"Dawn," Amanda continued. "The guys. Can you tell us anything about them. Like what they looked like."

"Yeah um," Dawn said between huffs, "One was white, tall, brown hair, I think he had blue eyes. I am not so sure. I closed my eyes a lot. The other looked hispanic, and was shorter. He was the one I think went after my dad and mom. I don't remember too much of what he looked like more than that."

"Thank you," Amanda smiled.

"Dawn," Olivia started, "I have to ask this; but I saw you were adopted. I was wondering what you know about that. It's closed so we can't get it opened easily and just want to make sure there is no connection between the two."

"Yeah," Dawn said with a yawn. "I don't know much. Like you said, it's closed. My parents got me from somewhere in the south. They didn't talk about it. Didn't like people to know and stuff. I never really had an interest. I passed off well enough as their biological child."

"Okay," Amanda nodded. "Do you have any family we could contact about you being here?"

Dawn started to cry, "No. Not anyone I know. Oh god. Yeah, my grandparents are all dead and my parents were only kids."

"Okay," Olivia said with a sigh; knowing this would make this so complicated, "You've done so well."

Dawn pulled her knees up to her chest, "So what's gonna happen?"

"Well," Olivia started, "since it's an ongoing case, it would be best if you stay here in NYC. We can put you up in a hotel nearby for now. We will have an officer outside your door. No one will be able to get to you without going through us. Does that sound okay?"

"There isn't really another option," Dawn chuckled sarcastically; still crying.

"Okay," Amanda said. "We can have someone come get you now if you want."

"Yeah," Dawn nodded.

Within twenty minutes Dawn was on her way and Carisi and Fin had made it back. The team gathered where they were meeting. Olivia was hunched over with her hands on the table, Carisi walking around up front, Amanda sitting straight in a chair, and Fin lounging back. Just then more footsteps came up from behind them.

"So what do we have?" Barba asked firmly.

"Family on a trip visiting schools," Olivia started, "The parents were murdered, daughter assaulted and raped in the hotel room. The daughter is eighteen and was found in Central Park. Parents were found deceased in an ally. The DNA and Dawn's statements alleging saying that there were two men who followed them, got into the room, and then continued to assault them and dispose of the bodies."

"Anything else?" Barba asked.

"We aren't entirely sure how the men found out which room was theirs," Fin started, "We have them inside a back service entrance around 10:45pm. The next we have them is in the elevator."

"Yeah," Carisi continued, "They were smart and covered their faces in enough shadow to make it hard to identify them. So far the workers there say they saw nothing."

"So basically we have two men on the loose with no way to ID them?" Barba sneered.

"Well actually," Amanda started, "Dawn was able to give a brief description of what they looked like. And we have DNA."

"Where is Dawn?" Barba asked.

"She is at a hotel we put her up at," Amanda said. "She is extremely traumatized and hasn't slept much at all. She is fully cooperating."

"Okay, well that's good at least," Barba sighed. "Keep looking and keep me in touch. Glad to see you are back Amanda."

Amanda gave a quick smile and Barba headed out of the area.

"Okay," Olivia started. "Rollins, can you pull up all the workers at the hotel and start checking the backgrounds of those there."

"Yeah," Amanda responded.

"Fin and Carisi," Olivia said, "We got the name of the coffee shop where the men first started following the family. Apparently they were out there for a while. Could you go see if anyone working right around there has any information on the men."

"Okay, no problem, Liv," Fin said getting up out of his chair.

"Be back as soon as possible, boss," Carisi added.

The squad continued working. Olivia taking calls that came in and keeping up with what forensics had to offer. Amanda sat at her desk quickly reading and searching names. A few coming up as something to follow. Carisi and Fin were back within two hours with no luck from anyone except for the common 'yeah we saw them'. Amanda Fin and Carisi were all looking though the hotel records now.

"Rollins," Olivia called from her office. "I need to see you now."

Amanda rolled her eyes with the sound of Olivia's tone and seeing she had just been on the phone. Amanda made her way into Olivia's office and closed the door.

Olivia looked over to Amanda with a stern look, "Rollins, I have to take you off this case."

"What," Amanda exclaimed with peircing eyes. "Why?"

"It's complicated," Olivia sighed.

"Oh sure it is," Amanda spit back. "I'm doing great on this case. The victim trusts me. You can't just take me off it."

"Well Rollins, I can," Olivia said. "And I have to."

"This is bullshit," Amanda sneered. "I am completely fine working this case. You have no right."

"Yes I do," Olivia said back trying to find a way to not anger the blonde. "Just trust me on this."

"Yeah sure," Amanda said. "And why should I? You are just trying to watch your back so it doesn't somehow affect you with what happened to me."

Amanda made her way quickly out of Olivia's office with forced.

"Hey," Fin called out as Amanda threw her coat on and bag over her shoulder, "What's going on?"

"I'm off the case," Amanda called out as she stormed out of the precinct and made her way back to her apartment.