Monday March 21, 2005 8:03 AM
SVU Squad Room

A weekend of sleep had done the detective good. He felt better than he had since the case started. Slowly making his way to his desk he gingerly lowered himself into his chair stretching his leg out as far as it would go.

"You're a sorry sight," his partner smirked from across the desk looking at his still black and blue face as well as the crutches that were now propped up against his desk. "I see you lost the crutch argument."

Elliot's eyes narrowed. "Yes, but only because that woman is an evil sadistic…"

Just as Elliot was getting into a full blown rant he was interrupted by the Cregan. "Lumley is our guy." The detective's heads snapped around. "The DNA test just came back. He matches the DNA from all of the rape kits. This guy is going away for a long time."

Elliot smiled and turned to his desk and picked up the phone so he could give Anna the good news.

Tuesday April 19, 2005 9:42 AM
Trial Part 32

Anna had been amazing throughout the entire trial. She had held her head up as she recounted the events that led her to the witness stand and identified Camm Lumley as her assiailnt. The case was open and shut.

The two detectives sitting behind the prosecution bench sighed their relief as the verdict was read. Guilty. It had only taken the jury 45 minutes to decide. The sentencing hearing was the following week.

Olivia and Elliot stood to leave in unison. Just outside the door they bumped into Anna with her mother's arm wrapped protectively around the teen.

"Anna." Elliot said with a genuine smile on his face. "You were amazing in there. I'm really proud of you."

A shy smile was sent back his way. "Thanks." Her breath hitched. "It's over right?"

"Yeah. It's over. Camm Lumley will be put away for the crimes he committed and you will be able to go back to school and put this behind you. It's going to be hard but you're a strong and amazing young woman." He stooped and looked her right in the eye. "You don't have to worry about him any longer."

She briefly hugged him and turned to leave with her mother.

"She looked so sad." He turned to Liv.

She nodded and replied, "they all do. She'll be fine though. I heard her step-father is being brought up on assault and battery charges for the stunt he pulled."

"Good riddance." The detectives turned on heel and strode out of the building.

Thursday April 24, 2005 1:15 AM
Stabler Residence

Elliot rolled away from his wife's warm body and reached out a hand to grab his cell phone from his bedside table. The insistent ringing of the Scottish National Anthem (something Lizzy had done and refused to change) dragged him from his sleep.

"Stabler." He blearily rubbed the sleep from his eyes. However the sound on the other end of the line had him sitting up straight and pulling on pants and shoes before he had time to think. The girl on the other end of the phone was crying. "Hello."

"Detective Stabler?" The voice was muffeled between sobs.

"Anna." He searched his mind franticly for the source of the late night call. "Anna what's wrong? Did someone hurt you? Are you at home? I'm coming over."

"I'm going to think about it forever. I'm never going to be able to stop thinking about it. I just want to stop thinking about it." Her voice rose and soon she was practically screaming.

"You don't have to think about it anymore honey. It's over. He's in jail he won't be able to hurt you again."

Her voice took on a high pitched wailing sound just as Elliot reached his car door. "You don't understand! He's always there he's inside me all the time."

He backed out of the driveway speeding down residential roads ignoring stop signs and praying that his police plates on his car would keep him from getting pulled over. "What don't I understand?"

The sobs died down to sniffles. "It's been a month. It's been a month." She just kept repeating it like a mantra and suddenly it clicked for Elliot. It took a month between exposure to HIV and an accurate test.

"Anna, I'm coming over. This isn't all there is. Just talk to me."

"I'm sorry." The heartfelt cry went up and then Elliot couldn't hear anything out of his left ear because the sound of the gunshot had reverberated in the ear piece of his phone.