When Olivia opened her eyes she momentarily forgot where she was but as her eyes adjusted to the morning sun seeping through the window she began to remember. The warm body sleeping peacefully on her shoulder made her not want to instantly move and glancing at the clock she decided that the sleeping detective could have five more minutes before being woken from her slumber. Olivia began to play with Jessie's hair which ended up slowly waking her up.

"Good Morning." Olivia said softly.

"Morning? Did we sleep here all night?" Jessie asked as she slowly pulled herself up to sitting.

"Indeed we did." Olivia smiled as Jessie rubbed the sleep from her eyes.

"Wow I haven't slept a full night in God knows how many years." Jessie said a smile teasing at her lips.

"Right how about I make the coffee whilst you go and have a shower?" Liv said getting to her feet.

"No I'll make the coffee and you go shower, you looked after me last night." Jessie grinned.

"Ok I won't argue!" Olivia laughed and she headed for the bathroom.

Twenty minutes later and she was in her room sipping away at her coffee deciding what outfit to wear out of the extensive collection that had been bought for her as a bribe to keeping her in Brooklyn. She finally settled on a pair of maternity jeans and a black T and a white flimsy cardigan.

Jessie stood in the shower and began to hum one of her favourite pop songs, she had woken feeling happy and she was excited for the day ahead whatever horrors that it might bring she felt ready to face them knowing that Olivia would be by her side.

As Olivia dressed she made a conscious decision to invite Jessie to her home for the weekend, she didn't know what was driving her, probably her hormones, but she wanted to open up her family to Jessie and help her feel what she did when she was with them. She told herself to call Elliot and arrange that the extended family come for dinner Sunday evening so that Jessie could really feel a part of the family.

Once dressed Jessie sat in the mirror and applied her usual faint makeup that just helped her feel more feminine, she slowly tied her hair in a scrunchie and brushed her bangs to the side. Once ready she made her way to the kitchen to find Olivia making them both a bowl of cereal.

"Eat." Olivia said pushing the bowl underneath Jessie's nose where she had sat at the breakfast bar.

"Thanks Olivia." Jessie smiled digging straight in.

Olivia just smiled, seeing this girl as a much younger version of herself that really needed a mother figure to look after her.

"I was thinking earlier, how would you like to come back to mine Saturday night? Then you can spend some time with my family, I'm sure they'd all love to meet you." Olivia smiled softly.

"I can't ask you to do that!" Jessie said feeling glad she had just swallowed the large mouthful.

"You're not asking, I'm offering. I want you to come back with me tomorrow and then stay the night, I have a guest room at my place and on Sunday you can spend the day with us. We have family Sunday's when both Elliot and I are not working which happens to be this Sunday and we usually go to Church in the morning which you don't have to come to if you're not religious and then we usually go to the park and have lunch out together and I'm inviting the extended family to tea and I would really like it if you'd join us." Olivia said showing that she wasn't really going to take no for an answer.

"Wow, Thank you Olivia, I'd really like that." Jessie smiled.

"Good now that's settled now get your food down and we'll get going. We've got a case." She smiled.

Xxx

A/N: Time and place given because otherwise it will be confusing!

Brooklyn SVU squad room 9.20am

"Benson! Taylor! You're needed on scene!" Meyers yelled as they both walked through the door.

He passed a pink slip to Olivia and she sighed.

"Come on." She said and they both headed out the door and to the location they were required at.

Xxx

Crime Scene 9.40 am

"What have we got?" Olivia asked approaching the ME.

"Olivia?" Warner asked getting to her feet.

"Melinda what are you doing here?" Olivia asked in surprise.

"Brooklyn ME has been in a bit of trouble so for now I'm working backwards and forwards between Manhattan and here." Melinda smiled.

"Brilliant, so what have you got for us?" Olivia asked nodding over to the hidden body.

"Jane Doe, age between twenty and twenty five, definite signs of sexual trauma cause of death suffocation." Melinda said as Olivia pulled on a pair of gloves.

"Ever seen a body?" Olivia asked turning to Jessie who had gone a pale shade of green.

She just managed to shake her head without vomiting.

"Ok if you're going to be sick move as far away from the crime scene as you possibly can alright?" Olivia said softly.

She knelt down by the body and pulled the sheeting off the girl.

"Perp really did a number on her." Olivia commented as she felt Jessie squeeze her shoulder trying to keep her composure. "Go wait by the car Jess." Olivia said softly.

Jessie stalked off trying to get the image she had just seen out of her mind. Olivia watched her go knowing that she was kicking herself internally.

"Who's the rookie?" Melinda asked.

"Detective Jessica Taylor, she's adorable Mel but struggling, straight from uniform to SVU I didn't think that was allowed but the girl's going to be fine once she believes in herself a bit." Olivia said turning to her long trusted friend.

"Poor girl." Melinda said gently.

"First body is the one that sticks with you forever too." Olivia said glancing down at the mess in front of her.

"Always." Melinda said.

"Ok well let us know what you get when you get her on the table, I'm going to take Jessie for a coffee before we go back to the precinct, I don't think she needs the boys teasing her right now." Olivia smiled softly.

"See you in a bit Liv." Melinda smiled as her friend got to her feet.

"Bye Mel, give us a shout when you've got something ok?" Olivia said knowing that her friend would.

Xxx

Coffee shop 10.05 am

"How do you get that image out of your head?" Jessie asked as she clutched a carton of coffee in her shaking hand.

"Truth?" Olivia asked and Jessie just nodded. "It doesn't go out of your head but it will drift into the back of your memory." Olivia said softly.

"Great." Jessie sighed sinking further into her seat.

Olivia just gave her a reassuring smile.

"Benson." Olivia said answering her ringing cell. "No problem we'll be right over." Olivia hung up and grabbed her coffee.

"What is it?" Jessie asked getting to her feet.

"CSU got something for us." Olivia said.

Xxx

CSU Lab 10.44 am

"What have you got?" Olivia asked walking into the CSU office.

"Hey Benson." Jamie smiled seeing the detective.

"Hi Jay, this is Jessie Taylor." Olivia said nodding her head sideways towards Jessie.

"Hi." Jessie said timidly.

"Right, we got some receipts on the body. One, was from nine forty five pm." Jamie said passing the receipt to Olivia's now gloved hands.

"Warner said time of death somewhere between ten and eleven last night." Olivia said looking at the receipt.

"Exactly." Jamie said.

"Anything else?" Olivia asked.

"Not yet." Jamie said.

"Alright well give us a call if you get anything." Olivia said before turning on her heels and leaving.

"We need to go back to the squad room get a picture of our Jane Doe see what the cashier from the store can tell us." Olivia said to Jamie.

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Bodega 11.06 am

"Sir this woman came here last night around nine forty five pm do you recognise her?" Olivia asked holding up a picture of Jane Doe.

"Uh- Yeah, she uh was talking something about business I wasn't really paying attention." The cashier replied with a thick middle eastern accent.

"Yeah ok did she pay by cash or card?" Olivia asked.

"Card want the receipt?" The cashier asked and Olivia nodded gratefully.

The cashier dug into the box beside the checkout and pulled out a pile of receipts as he was going through them Olivia continued with the questioning.

"Sir did anyone come in after her or was anyone in here at the same time that may have seen interested in her?" Olivia asked.

"Nope, it was a quiet night ... ah here we go." He passed over the credit card receipt to a grateful Olivia.

"Thank you sir, if you think of something else please call." Olivia handed over one of her new Brooklyn business cards and she and Jessie followed her out.

"What next?" Jessie asked once they were in the confined of the car.

"We go back to the precinct and find out who our Jane Doe is and we then locate a next of kin and let them know what's happened followed by hopefully a call from Warner." Olivia said as she fired up her engine.

"Warner? She was in the picture you showed me last night wasn't she?" Jessie asked.

"Yeah that's Melinda." Olivia smiled.

"She seems nice, wish I didn't meet her over a body I could maybe have been a little bit more polite." Jessie sighed.

"It's ok, Mel's coming to tea on Sunday so you can meet her properly outside the work." Olivia explained.

Jessie nodded and sat back into the comfortable seat of Olivia's SVU, she couldn't believe how luck she was to have such a wonderful and caring partner and mentor for her first stint with SVU.

Xxx

Brooklyn SVU squad room 12.05 pm

"Jane Doe also know as Holly Malone, next of kin is husband Terry Malone here's the address." Jefferson said handing Olivia a piece of paper.

"Right we're on to it." Olivia said getting out of her seat once again.

Jessie didn't need to be told, she quickly slid her coat off the back of her chair and rushed after Olivia.

"Ok now this is bit is difficult because you never know how the next of kin is going to react. We have to get him to come and formally ID the body so we have it on record that it actually is her. They sometimes shut off, some will scream but most cry." Olivia explained.

"Ok." Jessie said drinking in the wisdom Olivia was sharing with her.

"You just need to be quick and straight to the point don't dance around it you just have to apologise and understand their reaction." Olivia added.

Xxx

Home of Holly and Terry Malone 12.37 pm

"Hello sir I'm Detective Benson this is Detective Taylor Brooklyn SVU could we speak with Mr Terry Malone?" Olivia asked as she and Jessie showed their shields.

"That would be me please come in." Terry said opening the door. "What is this about?" He said as he showed them the way to the sitting room.

"I believe you reported your wife Holly missing this morning?" Olivia asked gently.

"Yes. Why? What's happened?" He asked his face becoming a sickly shade of white.

"I'm so sorry sir, a body was found this morning we believe that it's Holly." Olivia said.

Jessie was watching Terry who seemed to have become paralysed. It took him a few seconds to regain the ability to speak.

"Do you know how?" He asked his voice hoarse.

"We don't know anything yet sir but we do have to ask you to come and identify the body so that we can be sure it's her." Olivia said gently.

"Of course. SVU that's special victims was she raped?" He asked.

"It looks like it but again we can't be sure until the results of the autopsy." Olivia explained.

"Ok I'll meet you down at the morgue." Terry said getting to his feet.

Xxx

Brooklyn Morgue 1.23 pm

"That's her!" Terry sobbed as the thin blanket was pulled back to reveal the face of the deceased. "That's my Holly."

"Ok sir." Olivia said and she gave a small knock on the window for Melinda to cover the body up again.

"This is all my fault, if I wouldn't have been working last night I would have known she was missing sooner!" He sobbed.

xxx

Once the husband had left Olivia and Jessie went to get an update from Warner.

"Hi Olivia, Hi Jessie." Warner smiled as they came into the room.

"Hey Mel."

"Hi." Jessie said softly mainly trying to show Melinda that she didn't mean to be rude earlier.

"So what have we got?" Olivia asked wanting to get on with the job, she hated the morgue.

"Right well Holly Malone was killed but not before she was raped and branded." Melinda said handing over the file.

"Oh my God, that's gruesome." Olivia said looking at the images in the file.

"Yes well that's not all. Elliot, Fin and Munch are working a case with the exact same branding in Manhattan." Warner said.

"What?" Olivia asked.

"Perp hit around tea time yesterday, the branding is exactly the same so if you want a head start on your case I'd visit the one six." Melinda said.

"Ok. What have you ruled as COD?" Olivia asked.

"Suffocation, I found fibres in her throat so find me what was used and I will match it." Melinda said.

"Any idea's what it could be?" Olivia asked.

"I'd say the sleeve of a jacket, pressed along the mouth and pinching the nose." Melinda explained.

"Ok. Thanks Mel anything else?" Olivia asked.

"Not here but I do know that Manhattan have sperm so between the two precincts I'm sure you can find me this guy so I don't have to see anymore of his handiwork." Melinda said.

"We'll do our best Mel. See you later." Olivia said and she quickly left grabbing her cell phone to call Meyers.

Xxx

Olivia and Jessie were back in the car en route to the one six, Olivia could sense that Jessie was nervous about meeting the people Olivia was visibly very fond of on a case, she knew it meant showing them that she was a detective and not a timid girl.

"They won't bite you know." Olivia said trying to ease Jessie's discomfort.

"I know." She mumbled.

"Ok, well we'll stop for coffee as it will give them a reason to be in a good mood." Olivia laughed.

Xxx

Manhattan SVU 3.09pm

"Back already Baby Girl?" Fin asked as Olivia deposited one tray of coffee on the table, Jessie doing the same with the other.

"I wish Fin but I'm here on business." Olivia said giving her friend a large embrace.

"Fin meet Detective Jessica Taylor, Jess meet Detective Odafin Tutuola." Olivia said introducing her partner to the first detective.

"Where's that husband of mine?" Olivia asked noticing that Elliot wasn't around.

"He and Munch are with CSU, so what business bought you here?" Fin asked.

"Looks like ..." Olivia said as she walked around to their crime board. "...we're looking for the same guy." Olivia said as she looked at an exact duplicate of the pictures she had seen back at the morgue.

"Jess pass Fin the file from Warner." Olivia said.

"Oh yeah!" Jessie dug the file from her purse and handed it over to Fin.

"Looks like it Liv." He said flicking through the images.

"Benson what are you doing here?" Cragen called from the door of his office, a wide grin on his face.

"Pops!" Olivia smiled rushing over to give him a hug.

"Meyers had enough of you already?" He teased.

"Funny!" Olivia said before poking her tongue out playfully.

"No Taylor and I are here on business. Jess come and meet the wonderful Captain Cragen, Pops my new partner and project Detective Jessica Taylor." Olivia said.

"Nice to meet you Detective." Cragen smiled extending his hand to Jessie.

"You to sir." Jessie said accepting the handshake and giving the aging man a warm smile.

"So what case you working?" Cragen asked taking the coffee Olivia had passed to him.

"Same as you by what we can see and Fin seems to agree, it's the same branding and as we have no leads Meyers agreed I should come here and see what you got for us." Olivia said.

"Well Elliot and John should be back any minute ... oh speak of the devils." Cragen said seeing his Detectives walk through the door.

Both Olivia and Jessie turned round to see Munch and Elliot enter the bullpen.

"Liv?" Elliot grinned seeing his wife.

"Hey El." Olivia said going over to him and giving him a firm kiss.

"Oh I missed that this morning." He smiled wrapping his arms around her neck.

"I didn't! Your morning breath can be quite something!" Olivia said gaining laughs from all the other detectives.

"Now let go of her so I can have a hug!" John said pulling Olivia into a firm embrace.

Olivia introduced Jessie to them both and continued to explain about the case. Elliot and Munch told her that they also had no leads and that they all needed to work together to find the person responsible.

"Do these two have anything in common?" Munch asked looking over the Malone file.

"Nothing I've seen yet." Fin shrugged.

"Is she a mom?" Elliot asked.

"Nope." Olivia shrugged.

"Their work both requires them to travel around the state, that's the only common factor I've seen." Jessie suggested.

"Best place to start." Olivia said.

"There were also pictures of the Malone's with a kid at the house, could the kid have died?" Jessie asked.

"Not from what we could find." Olivia shrugged.

"Ok Liv and Jessie find out who the kid is ..." Elliot was cut off by Cragen rushing towards them.

"All of you are needed in Queens, it seems our perp struck again." He said. "Warner's on scene and Queens SVU are just holding the fort until you get there." He added as he handed Olivia a piece of pink paper.

"Ok come on." She sighed and they all headed off together.

Xxx

Crime Scene Queens 3.36pm

"The whole team?" Warner asked spotting the five detectives walking towards her.

"Yes you've got the lot of us, lucky you!" Munch teased.

"Exactly the same?" Olivia asked earning a pitiful nod from the ME.

"Shit." Elliot said as he leaned over the body.

Jessie was stood one step behind Elliot looking over his shoulder at the dead woman, it wasn't that she wanted to see it but she wanted to get over her fear of the dead as soon as she could and she knew the only way to do that was by looking. Olivia walked over to her and gently placed her hand on Jessie's shoulder causing her to jump.

"Hey where did you go?" Olivia asked softly as it seemed Jessie had disappeared into a world of her own.

"I was just thinking." Jessie shrugged not wanting to tell Olivia what exactly was going through her mind.

"Ok, just let me know if this gets too much alright?" Olivia said firmly.

They all grouped together out of the way of CSU who were already hard at work looking for evidence.

"Where do we go from here?" Olivia asked knowing that they needed to get a move on.

"Liv and Jessie why don't you go back to Brooklyn find out about the kid as that seems to be one of our links, Fin and I will go and see if we can find out who Jane Doe over here is." Munch suggested.

"I'll go with Liv and Jessie that way if they don't get any leads both of them don't have to come all the way back." Elliot suggested.

"Ok Elliot we'll see you in a bit." Munch said and he and Fin headed off.

"Let's go." Olivia said dangling her car keys in front of Elliot teasing him that she would be driving.

Xxx

Home of Terry and Holly Malone 4.51 pm

"We're sorry to bother you Mr Malone we just have a few questions we need to ask you to help in our enquiry." Olivia said as they entered the sitting room.

"Of course, anything to help." He sniffed.

"We just need to know who the child is in the pictures." Olivia said pointing to the images around the room.

"That's our niece Shannon, she lives with us most of the time as her mother has severe MS." Terry explained.

"Ok we need to know places that Shannon and Holly may have visited together, anywhere that you can think of could help." Olivia said softly.

"Well I know that Holly has been working in Queens a lot recently, Shannon was going to a day care centre near by... I think it was called Happy Days Day Care, I wouldn't be able to tell you anything else, I have no idea ... I'm sorry." He sniffed trying to hold back his tears.

"Ok, we need a recent picture of both Shannon and Holly if you have one." Olivia said.

The man reached over to the small table and passed Olivia a photo frame.

"That was taken a few days ago, I went to get them printed after leaving the morgue." He said.

"Thank you." Olivia said. "If you think of anything else that might help us please call." Olivia said placing her card on the table.

"I will thank you Detectives." Terry said.

Xxx

Somewhere in Brooklyn 5.02 pm

Olivia, Elliot and Jessie sat in the car waiting to hear from Fin and Munch. Elliot was caressing Olivia's swollen stomach and cooing making the women laugh. He suddenly withdrew his hand and looked at his wife who was suppressing a giggle.

"What was that?" He asked her still in shock.

"That was my belly rumbling El. I haven't eaten since breakfast." She explained.

"Now come on Liv, you know how much more important it is to eat properly now, I mean, you're eating for three!" He laughed.

"I know, I just haven't had a moment to eat El." She said not blaming her husband for being concerned but being annoyed as he should understand the difficulty of their job.

"Right whilst we are waiting on these two why don't we go and get a drive thru, my treat." Elliot smiled.

"Why not! Hungry Jess?" Olivia asked.

"I don't think my stomach's quite settled enough to eat yet Olivia." Jessie shrugged, she felt hungry but the images of the bodies were still etched in her mind and she didn't want to be sick all over Olivia's pride and joy.

"Come on you barely ate your breakfast Jess now you're having something to eat." Olivia said firmly.

Jessie just nodded not wanting to argue with a person she already trusted and adored and would even go as far as to say loved.

"So where are the kids tonight?" Olivia asked as she pulled from the kerb.

"Lizzie, Mo and Katie are next door and Dickie and Calvin are with the Lewis'" Elliot said.

"We'll have to do something in the summer and have them all over to show we appreciate all the help they give us." Olivia said.

"Yes and by them very expensive Christmas presents as they refuse payment for watching the kids." Elliot said.

Olivia spent the rest of the drive informing Elliot that Jessie was coming to stay and that they were having everyone over for tea.

Xxx

McDonald's Brooklyn 5.13pm

"I'll get the Chicken sandwich large meal El and a large Chocolate shake and Large fries and get me a bacon double cheeseburger too." Olivia said reaching for her ringing cell.

"Fatty." Elliot joked prodding her belly softly.

"Pregnant." She replied with a warning glare. "Benson."

"Olivia you all need to get back to Manhattan and fast." Cragen said on the other end of the phone.

"What is it Cap?" Olivia asked.

"He's hit again." Cragen said.

"Ok we're in Brooklyn so should we meet at the crime scene or precinct?" Olivia asked.

"Come to the precinct." Cragen replied.

"Ok see you in a bit." Olivia said before hanging up.

"What is it Olivia?" Jessie asked leaning forward in her seat.

"Another body." Olivia replied putting her head in her hands.

She looked at Jessie in the mirror as her mind went at full speed. Without any information in front of her she reluctantly called Fin.

"Hey Fin are you at the scene?" Olivia asked.

"I am same MO exactly, Warner says she hasn't been dead more than an hour." Fin replied.

"Ok the only thing we have is the day care centre, its a long shot but find out what you can on the vics concerning day care centres and we can see what that offers us up." Olivia said.

"I will do I'll call you if we get anything." Fin said.

"No don't we'll be back in about an hour so tell us then." Olivia replied.

"Ok baby girl see you in a bit." Fin hung up and Olivia returned her phone to the hands free slot as Elliot returned.

"We've got another vic." Olivia informed him as he passed Jessie her food.

He quickly climbed into the passenger seat wondering what type of psycho was out there and what on earth was going through his sick mind.

So Jessie's met the rest of the squad, wonder what they'll make of her?