Reinventing the Wheel
Chapter 12
Elliot held the door open for Olivia so she could wheel herself into the interrogation room. Ryan was standing against the window drinking a soda and turned when they came in.
"Why don't you have a seat?" Olivia said, not really asking.
"I'd rather stand," Ryan answered.
"Oh yeah? Me too." She countered as she moved towards him and 'accidentally' rolled over his toes.
"Ouch!" Ryan screamed out in pain as he was forced to sit down.
"Oops, guess I still don't have the hang of this thing." She said with a smirk.
"Well you were thrown for a loop earlier," Elliot offered.
"I was wasn't I?" Olivia went on. "You must have something to hide if you're willing to go to jail for sending a police officer down a hill in a wheelchair."
"Jail? For that?" Ryan asked nervously.
"Assaulting a police officer," Elliot informed him. "Judges don't like that, especially when they're disabled."
"Look I'm sorry. I just freaked." He tried to reason with them.
"Save it." Olivia spat at him. "Let's talk about the party that you threw last week."
"What about it?" Ryan asked evasively.
"Well, I talked to your friend Billy," Elliot began. "And he told me that you were bragging about getting some girl to do anything you wanted…"
"Billy's a liar!"
"Okay well if that's the case you won't mind giving us a DNA sample then?" Olivia offered.
"For what?" Ryan asked nervously.
"To match against the rape kit." Olivia told him.
Ryan's face dropped, "What rape kit?"
"The one that we got from your victim," Olivia informed him.
"I'm not giving you my DNA so you can frame me," Ryan said trying to be tough.
"Okay, we can't force you," Olivia said sweetly, too sweetly. "You done with this?" she asked, referring to the soda can.
"Yeah, can I leave now?" he asked itching to get away from them.
"Why don't you stick around?" Elliot said.
"For what?"
"To see if the DNA off of your soda can matches the rape kit," Elliot said as he picked it up and bagged it.
Ryan put his head in hands, defeated. Olivia and Elliot exited the room but not before Elliot gave Ryan a decent smack against the back of his head.
Later that day Halle entered the squadroom and approached Olivia seated at her desk.
"You really caught him?" she asked, thinking it was too good to be true.
"We really did," Olivia confirmed. "His DNA matched the rape kit."
Halle heaved a sigh of relief, "Thank you so much Olivia."
"You're very welcome. You'll still have to testify at the trial unless Ryan takes a plea bargain, but you don't have to worry about him doing this to you or any other girl ever again."