Concrete Angel

Chapter 12:

A/N: I OWN NONE OF THE RECGONIZABLE SVU CHARACTERS. And thanks to all who've read, reviewed, alerted, favorited, ect…

PREVIOUSLY:

Cragen sees the woman leave the office so quickly and approaches Elliot, "Where's she going?"

"ACS. Mackenzie had a nightmare and won't stop screaming for Liv." the man answers.

"Well Tutuola and Munch just got back from aunt Elizabeth's. They said she had a gut feeling something bad was happening to Mackenzie because Derek's called her in the middle of the night before but hung up before he could really say anything." Cragen tells him.

"Well what's she going to do now?" Elliot asks.

"She's going to visit ACS and see if she can take Mackenzie. She'll probably run into your partner." Cragen answers.

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ACS FRONT DESK
MANHATTAN, NEW YORK
2:15pm

Elizabeth Johnson stood at the desk while the dirty blond receptionist tried to find where Mackenzie was. As she is doing this, Detective Olivia Benson approached the counter, "Where's Mackenzie Johnson?"

Elizabeth turns her head to look at the woman who has just asked the receptionist for her niece and asks, "Who are you?"

"Detective Olivia Benson, Manhattan SVU." the detective answers.

"I'm Elizabeth Johnson, Mackenzie's aunt. She's not telling me where Mackenzie is and I really want to be with her right now." the blond replies.

"Room 103, down the hall on your right." the receptionist tells Olivia.

"Let's go. I got a cal saying that she was sleeping and had a nightmare and they couldn't get her to calm down because she was screaming my name." Olivia tells Elizabeth.

The two women take off and nearly run down the hall to Mackenzie's room where they can hear her screams from outside the door.

"Poor baby. I hope she's okay." Elizabeth says to Olivia.

The detective throws open the door, drops her purse in the chair and rushes to the little girl's bedside, "Honey, it's Olivia, I'm here now."

Elizabeth slowly enters the room and sees her niece bruised, and scratched, with red, tear stained eyes. She drops her purse on the chair with Olivia's and slowly walks to Mackenzie's bedside.

Olivia switches place with Stephanie Wheeler and puts her hand on the little girl's shoulder, "Shhh, sweetheart, it's Olivia. It's okay."

The child looks at the brunette woman trying to comfort her and realizes that it is Olivia and leans into her. Olivia hugs the little girl and says, "I'm gonna pick you up now okay?"

"Kay." the little brunette cries.

Olivia lifts the little girl off the bed and she clutches the detective's shoulder with her eyes shut tight. Olivia then sits on the side of the bed and starts to rub the girl's back, trying to calm her, "Shh, shh, shh."

She starts to rock back and forth to help comfort her and she notices that her crying is beginning to stop.

Elizabeth looks at Stephanie and then at Olivia, "Can I talk to her?"

Mackenzie hears her aunt's voice and sobs, "Aunt Liz???"

"Yes honey, it's me. Everything's going to be fine, trust me." the blond tells her niece.

The little girl sits up in Olivia's lap and sees the woman's face for the first time in almost a month and the tears begin to flow freely again.

Elizabeth sits down on the bed next to Olivia and takes her niece's hand, "Honey, don't cry. I'm here to help you, I've already talked to Olivia's friends and they like the idea of you staying with me for a while."

Mackenzie looks up at Olivia who nods, causing a tiny smile to form on Mackenzie's face, "Can… can, you hold me?" the little girl asks her aunt.

"Yes honey, come here." the blond kindly answers.

Mackenzie gets up and scoots over into her aunt's lap, puts her head on her aunt's shoulder and closes her eyes.

Elizabeth wraps her arms around the little girl and rocks back and forth, "Shh, shhh, shh."

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16th PRECINCT
MANHATTAN, NEW YORK 1 POLICE PLAZA
2:30pm

Elliot Stabler sits at his desk working on paperwork from a previous case, there's not much he can do right now, they've already contacted the aunt, interrogated the parents, gotten the confession from both siblings, and now they're just waiting for the ADA to get the trial going.

While he is sitting there, his phone rings, "Detective Stabler, Manhattan SVU." he answers.

"Hi, this is Sarah Davis, Mackenzie Johnson's teacher. I was told I could reach an Olivia Benson here. I have Mackenzie's things, and I was wondering if I could bring them by on my way home." the woman explains.

"Olivia is with Mackenzie at ACS right now. You can bring Mackenzie's things by and I can give them to her brother, who is here now, and I can have him give them to her." Elliot answers.

"Okay. I'll be there after school at around 3:45" the woman replies.

"No problem. We'll see you then." Elliot responds and hangs up the phone.

Munch is spinning around in his chair and asks, "Who was that?"

"Sarah Davis. Mackenzie's teacher. She has Mackenzie's things and wants to bring them by." the detective answers.

"That's nice. I hope the she's okay. Liv didn't look too happy going over there." John replies.

"John, you know she doesn't like it when we deal with abuse victims, especially children."

"I'm sure it's harder on her than it is on any of us."

"You have no idea." Elliot responds.

Upstairs, Derek is staring mindlessly at MTV. He's too worried about his little sister to really pay attention to TRL. He decides to ask one of the detectives if they know anything more about what happened.

As he makes his way downstairs, Elliot notices him coming. "What's up?" the man asks.

"I'm worried about my little sister, she looked so scared this morning when we were getting ready for school." the teen answers.

"Do you think she was scared because her father hurt her the night before?" Elliot asks.

"Yes. I walked in on them. I know that's why she's scared, she's always going to school bruised up and her clothes are tattered, and I'm sure she knows people wonder why." the teen answers.

"Apparently your neighbors thought so to. They're the ones who called us." Elliot replies.

"Who? The Judd's or the Bennett's?" Derek asks.

"The Judd's." Elliot answers, "Mrs. Judd was always worried about your sister when she saw her walking to the bus. She heard her screaming last night and knew something was going on."

"I knew it. Paige has always been concerned about Kenzie. She's asked me before but I couldn't tell her. I tried and Mackenzie begged me not to." Derek replies.

"She didn't want to get hurt. But I'm sure now if she knew Mrs. Judd called us, she's be happy. Olivia's helped her a lot already and your aunt Elizabeth went over there to help her as well." Elliot tells him.

"Let me know if you hear from Olivia or my aunt about her okay?" Derek says.

"I will."

The teen turns to go back up the stairs but Elliot says, "Hey Derek…"

"Yeah?"

"You know we're not letting you or your sister go back with your parents tonight." Elliot tells him.

"Then where am I gonna go?" "I'm missing baseball practice." Derek replies.

"I can get Detective Munch to take you. How long has it been going on?" Elliot says.

"It starts at three and it's 2:45." Derek tells the detective.

"I'll drive him. I can use my siren." Munch offers.

"Cool. Police escort to practice!!!" Derek excitedly replies.

"Sure John. Just don't do anything stupid." Elliot says.

The two leave and Elliot continues his paperwork, silently worrying about his partner and the little girl she's taking care of.

A/N: I'm so sorry for the long wait. It's been that way with all my stories lately and I finally found the time to finish this. Chapter 13 will be up much faster, hopefully… REVIEW TIME!!!!