A/N: this part will be done in bold italic to show the difference

He remembered that day 10 years ago like it was yesterday, he was 12 year old boy who was found hiding in a closet after his mother was killed. He remembered the nice detectives who came in and found him, they promised to look out for him. The male detective had taken a special interest in him, he could tell he was a father and had a lot of experience with kids. The female detective was just as empathic she had gotten him into a foster home, through the course of his mom's trial the detectives were there for him all the way through and he thought he would always remember them for the good detectives he thought they were.

After the trial they kept in touch for the first 6 months and then nothing after that. They had given him their business cards in case he needed anything but he never called. Not even after all the bad things started happening and his life was threatened if he talked. He just kept quiet and wondered why they stopped caring.

He followed their careers through the newspaper, and on television. He would see a glimpse of one or the other sometimes both during a news report on a rape or child abducts, and he would silently scream 'don't trust them'. Two years ago, on his 21st birthday when he was ready to confront them about their lies, they split as partners, he left the force with no forwarding address and she got a new partner. He watched her from a distance but wanted them both, her and her old partner, not just one of them.

He figured if he joined the force he would become one of them and it would open more doors and opportunities for his revenge. As he sat at the back of his first SVU training class with the 11 other recruits he looked around and when he turned his sight to the front of the room his eyes saw him, he had a full goatee and he was much more muscular than he remembered but his voice was the same as he heard him say,

"Good morning Recruits and welcome to your first day of training on your way to becoming Special Victims Unit detectives. My name is Elliott Stabler and I am a retired Special Victims Unit Detective. We will be spending the next year together so let's get started."

This was not what he expected, but he got what he needed...