Panic

Summary: see ch1

Disclaimer: Not mine

A/N: wow, not a single solitary review for the last chapter, I hope I still have readers :(

Interrogation

Olivia had been right, the next day was draining. Elliot dropped Kathleen and Dickie off at school, telling them that Lizzie wasn't feeling well. She wasn't ready to admit what had happened to her siblings, and begged Elliot to make an excuse up for her as to why she wasn't attending school that day.

After dropping off the younger kids, he returned to his apartment to see off Maureen. She was supposed to be going back to school, but realized something was up when her mother showed up at her father's apartment.

Elliot returned to find Maureen sitting on his couch with Kathy, Olivia, and Lizzie.

"Maureen's not going back to school today, is she?" He simply asked, knowing the answer already.

Everyone just shook their heads.

"Okay, we should get going then." He simply offered, holding the door open so that the women in the room could leave.

"You okay?" He asked his ex-wife quietly as they made their way to the cars.

"No, but I have to be." She breathed, making sure she was out of earshot of her daughter.

"Me too." He sighed before piling into the elevator.

When they got to the street, Elliot and Olivia got in Elliot's car, and Kathy and the girls rode in Kathy's car.

No one said a word on the way to the precinct. In Elliot's car Olivia simply rode with her hand resting on Elliot's knee to try to comfort him silently. Lizzie sat in her mother's car and just stared out the window silently.

After talking to the Captain that morning, Elliot found out that Lizzie was going to have to repeat her statement again once she got to the precinct in order for it to be admissible in court.

He had already set up an interview room when the group got there.

Lizzie followed her parents up into the bullpen, but stopped at he door of the interview room

"Baby, it's okay. You can do this." Kathy assured her daughter.

Lizzie took a deep breath, but pushed her way into the room. Elliot and Kathy sat on either side of her, while Olivia sat across.

Cragen and the rest of the squad took their places on the other side of the two way mirror.

"Okay sweetie, Can you tell me whose been writing you the notes that you gave me last night?" Olivia began. She didn't see the need to have to re-question her in front of everyone, so tried to make it as painless as possible.

"My history teacher, Mr. Brummon." She said quietly.

"How long as has this been going on?" Olivia continued.

"Four months." Lizzie answered.

"Can you tell me how it started?" She asked.

"He, he gave me a note on my test at the beginning of the year. It said that he was always impressed when he met a girl with both brains and looks. I, I thought it was weird, but I just ignored it." She answered.

"What happened after that Hunny?" Olivia continued.

"A few days later he came over to me when I was at my locker during a class period. He said I shouldn't wear the jeans I had on. He said… he said it turned older men on, and I shouldn't tease them like that." She said, lowering her voice.

"Then a few days later he asked me to stay after class, and started asking if I had a boyfriend. He asked if age mattered to me, then asked how far I would go. He… he said that he noticed me looking at him; said that he liked it." She now whispered.

"Hunny, it's okay if you had a little crush on him." Olivia assured her, taking her hand.

"I shouldn't have kept staring at him. He knew that I liked him. That's why he thought it was okay." She cried.

"Lizzie, he's your teacher. He had no right to say anything to you, and he knows that." Elliot butted in. "You have nothing to feel bad or ashamed about."

"I know, I just…" She began.

"You just nothing. You're allowed to have a crush on whoever you want, Mr. Brummon had no right to approach you the way he did." Elliot fought.

Lizzie just nodded and turned her attention back to Olivia.

"I told him that I wasn't interested. He asked if I thought he was attractive. I said I guessed he was. I didn't know what else to say. Then he asked if he could call me sometime after school. I said that I didn't know if that would be a good idea. He said not to worry about it. That it was okay for two people who are attracted to each other to talk. I just told him that I had to go to math, and left." She continued.

"What did he do next?" Olivia asked.

"When I got home that day there was a message on my IM. It was from Mr. Brummon. It said that he missed me, and wanted to see me outside of school. I just didn't respond. Then the next day there was a note in my locker from him. It said he… he wanted me." She whispered. "Then a few days later he left me a message on my cell phone. It said… it said that a more experienced man in my life would be good for me." She said, as tears began falling.

Elliot and Kathy each took turns soothing their daughter as she told her story, and encouraging her to continue.

"He kept leaving me notes and stuff like that. Sometimes he would ask me to see him out after class, and he would just tell me why I should consider going out with him. I kept telling him that I didn't want to, but he kept insisting that he knew I had feelings for him." She continued.

"Did he ever try to contact you in any way other than by messages or notes?" Olivia asked.

"The other day, I was home by myself. He knocked on the door. He said that he knew I was in the house. He kept saying that this would be the perfect opportunity because no one was home. I hid behind the couch until he finally left." She confessed.

"Lizzie, did Mr. Brummon ever touch you in any way?" Olivia asked.

Kathy and Elliot held their breath as Lizzie shook her head no, when they both finally let out a releved sigh.

"Okay hunny. I think we have enough." Olivia finally said, letting Lizzie know that she was finally free.

"You did great sweet heart." Elliot assured her.

"Can I go get something to drink?" She asked meekly.

"Sure you can sweetie." Kathy told her. She wished that her daughter would have stayed and talked to her, but she allowed her to leave anyway, if that was what she needed.

Lizzie quickly exited the room.

"I'm gonna go talk to Casey and see how long until we can arrest this bastard." Olivia said, excusing herself and leaving through the same door Lizzie had just exited through.

"You okay?" Elliot asked Kathy after they were alone.

"I just had to sit here and listen to how my baby was sexually solicited right under my nose Elliot. No, I am not okay." She said harshly. "How could this happen?" She pleaded.

"I've been asking myself that same question." He answered taking her hand. "I wish I knew."

"How could we overlook this El? How could we not see this?" She asked.

"If this job has taught me anything, it's that we can't always protect our kids." He said sadly. "She didn't want us to see this one Kath. Liz did everything she could to keep us from finding out." He tried reassuring her as well as himself.

"So what do we do now?" She asked.

"We arrest this son of a bitch, and let Liz know that we're here for her." He answered before embracing Kathy as she cried over her daughter's pain.

Behind the two way mirror Olivia talked with Casey and Cragen.

"So, now what?" She asked with her hands in her pockets.

"Since he's a teacher, who is probably sitting in a room full of other thirteen year old girls, all I have to do is make a phone call; you won't even have to have the arrest warrant in your hand when you arrest the bastard." Casey answered.

"I promised Lizzie we wouldn't arrest him in school." Olivia revealed.

"Liv, we have to get to this guy before he has the chance to hurt anyone more girls. We can't wait on this." Cragen sighed.

Olivia just nodded her head. "I'll go tell Elliot."

Cragen and Casey exchanged quick glances before turning to Olivia.

"Elliot's not going with you." Cragen told her.

"What are you talking about Cap?" She asked, staring at him.

"For one thing, as of yesterday, Fin is your partner." He began. "And for another thing, Elizabeth is his daughter. There's no way I can leave him on this case. He'll kill Brummon before we even get the chance to get him into handcuffs." He explained. "You're lucky I'm leaving you on the case."

"I guess I'll let him know what's going on then." Olivia answered, a little dazed. She hadn't really given the fact that she and Elliot weren't partnered anymore much thought.

When she returned to the questioning room with Casey and Cragen Kathy had straightened in her chair and composed herself.

"So, what now?" She asked when the group came in.

"Olivia and Fin are going to go arrest Brummon just as soon as we get the okay from a judge." Cragen told her.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa Cap. What do you mean Olivia and Fin?" Elliot asked, standing from his chair.

"Elliot, you know there's no way I can put you on this case." Cragen said understandingly.

"She's my daughter Don." Elliot said, almost begging.

"Which is exactly why I can't let you on this one." Cragen answered.

"And you agree with this Liv?" He asked.

Olivia was caught off guard. "He has a point El…" She began.

"Great, so even my fiancé thinks I'm too incompetent to handle my own daughter's case!" Elliot said raising his voice.

"No one thinks you're incompetent Elliot!" Olivia yelled back. "You wanted to killed this guy last night, he wouldn't even get out the door before you beat the shit out of him and you know it." She said lowering her voice to a more caring level.

"There right Elliot." Kathy chimed in. "Let someone else handle this one. You know just as well as I do that Olivia's going to handle this like Lizzie was her own daughter."

Olivia was taken back when Kathy said this. She was touched that Elliot's ex-wife, and mother of her future step-kids had so much faith in her.

"Fine. Just bring the bastard in." Elliot huffed.

"We got the warrant." Casey said over everyone.

"We'll get him." Olivia assured Elliot, squeezing his hand before turning and heading out.

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