Literature
A/N: Hey everyone thanks so much for the great reviews! I appreciate it. Anyways, I wrote this chapter about two weeks ago after hearing on the news that an Islamic dude who wrote a book, (but I won't tell you about what you'll have to see for yourself when you read this chapter) and it caused a lot of controversy in Spain. But I don't even know the name, so I made it up.. So I wasn't in any way discriminating the Islamic people, or their ways of life, if you guys were wondering. (Yes I am a loser lol). Enjoy this chapter and ch 4 will be up soon, and I promise there will be more of a Ewan and Olivia thing (hint hint). Thanks for the support. -J'adore SVU
The squad stood together in the room talking and joking. Their attention was suddenly jerked away from each other and towards the door.
"What the hell!?", exclaimed Fin as a barely dressed woman rushed through the door. Just as she was about to collapse Elliot grabbed her. She panted heavily saying something inaudible and in a different language.
"This woman needs help...NOW.", Elliot yelled as he instructed Olivia to call for an ambulance. A few hours later a nurse instructed Elliot and Olivia to come into the doctor's office.
"What do you have for us doc?", Olivia asked.
"Well, I know she's of Middle Eastern decent, but without ID it's hard to determine who she actually is. However, I can get a translator in here if you want.."
"That will be great. What about the rape kit?", asked Elliot.
"Present for fluids, but I don't think she was raped.", the doctor replied.
"What do you mean?", asked Olivia confused by his statement.
"Well, she's a Middle Eastern woman, middle aged, not a virgin. She's most likely a Muslim, and they're traditions are to marry early, so it was probably consensual with her husband."
"Well we just wanta make sure it wasn't rape, before we rule anything out.", Elliot added.
"Your right detective...it wouldn't hurt finding out.", the doctor stated. He picked up the phone and called upstairs. "Yes, can I get Fajhad down here please as soon as possible?", he asked. "Thank You..Bye", and he hung up the phone. "He will be here shortly detectives." Olivia and Elliot looked at each other, knowing this man meant business. A few minutes later an Arabian man came in after a swift knock on the door.
"Yes Doctor Jennings?", asked the young man.
"Fajhad...This is Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler, they're detectives from the Special Victims Unit.", the doctor introduced himself. Olivia and Elliot rose and shook his hand as they introduced themselves.
"Fajhad Jamal.", he introduced himself as he sported a brief nervous smile.
"Mr. Jamal, we need your help.", Olivia began. "We have a Middle Eastern woman in critical but stable condition, and we don't know what happened to her. Your job is to translate what she says. Ok?"
"Yea, no problem.", Fajhad answered. Olivia and Elliot walked Fajhad to the victim's room. She was looking out the window and looked towards them as they came in. She moaned in pain, and Fajhad introduced himself as well as Elliot and Olivia. Elliot looked at her with pity. The wounds spilt her face. She had bruises on her face and neck. He would never do that to Kathy or any woman.
"Her name is Wafa Kazani. She's forty five years old..." Fajhad explained as they talked in Arabic. Elliot wrote it down on his notepad. "She says that it was Allah's choice....what happened to her..."
"A religious freak..", Olivia murmured. She told Fajhad, "Please ask her how she was hurt." Fajhad nodded and asked her. She started to cry and answered, "I will not disgrace him.." Elliot was discontent with her answer.
"Mr. Jamal, please ask her what her husband's name is and where she lives." He instructed. After a circle of interrogation, Fajhad answered, ".His name is Ali...Apartment 27B, East 137th Street. Detectives, I think it's him."
"Why would you think that?", asked Elliot.
"Muslim women will do anything for their husbands...it's all in the territory. Beating is probably one of the things this woman went through.", Fajhad answered. Elliot and Olivia kept that in mind as they went back to the precinct.
(Cut to precinct)
"Well, looks like we got an ID and an address.", Olivia stated as she dropped the file on Munch's desk.
"Talk to me...", Cragen said.
"Wafa Kazani, forty five, living on 137th street, apartment 27B. She doesn't make a direct statement about who did it but another Arabic man told us that Muslim women usually do what their husbands tell them too. She said, 'It was Allah's choice'." Elliot remarked.
"We're not going on suspicions, detectives, we want cold hard facts. Munch, Fin go down to the apartment and interview the husband. You two, find out more about this woman, and get me some leads, pronto.", Cragen instructed.
(Kazani Residence Apartment 27B 137th Street)
Munch and Fin got out of the car and approached the building. They knocked on the door and buzzed the buzzer for an answer. "Anybody Home?", Munch inquired as he yelled in the intercom.
"Yo, look at this creep.", Fin said as he pointed to a suspicious man picked up his pace, dropped his groceries, and was watching their every move.
"Let's get 'em. I bet he knows why we're here....", Munch said as he descended from the stoop and approached the man. "HEY!", he exclaimed as the man started to run. Fin followed in pursuit.
"Watch out man...", Fin yelled as he pushed a pedestrian out of the way. Munch cut the runner short, as he leaped grabbed the man and wrestled him to the ground.
"Welcome to my world, buddy.", Munch said breathing heavily, he quickly arrested the man and brought him back to the precinct for interrogation.
In the meantime, Elliot and Olivia traveled around the Arabian parts of the city to find out about Wafa. "Excuse me sir..Do you know this woman?", asked Olivia. All the man did was eye her and walk away. "Nice answer.", Olivia replied pissed. She approached an elderly woman and asked, "Excuse me, miss?" The woman stopped in her tracks and looked at Elliot. She knew they were strangers to this part of town.
"Do you know this woman?", Elliot asked.
"Wafa...", she replied under her breath. Elliot and Olivia glanced at each other.
"Do you mind if we ask you some questions?", Olivia asked.
"Come...", she instructed them. Olivia and Elliot followed the woman to an ally way. "Everyone knows about Wafa."
"Explain.", Elliot suggested as he flipped open his notepad and the same time flashing his badge to let her know who he was.
"Her husband..He's a good man, but...", she started.
"But what?", asked Olivia.
"After what he did to that poor women, Wafa...", she was interrupted by Elliot.
"Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. What poor woman?"
"He had an affair; got the girl pregnant, but she's gone back to Iran to have the baby.", the woman whispered.
"How do you know?", asked Elliot.
"When your walls are paper thin...you hear everything.", she replied. "Ok, then what?", asked Olivia.
"Wafa threatened to divorce him, but being the good Muslim, he wouldn't have it. He told her he was sorry, but she didn't forgive him."
"So what did he do?", asked Elliot.
"I heard screaming, fighting, hitting, and slapping above other things, name calling. Stuff like that. I didn't want to intrude or nothing.", she replied.
"Thank you.", Olivia told her as she took her statement and name.
(Interrogation Room)
"Why were you running...Ali?", asked Munch.
"Why not? Why did you want me?", he answered arrogantly, Munch was obviously pissed, as he slammed him fist on the table.
"Don't you start with that reverse psychology or I'll reverse your face.", Munch threatened,
"Is that a threat?", asked Ali. "I'll tell my lawyer about this."
"I didn't hear nothin'", said Fin out of the blue. Ali rose from his chair to leave, but Munch grabbed him by the shoulders and sat him back down.
"Your under arrest, we make the calls.", Munch reminded him.
(Outside I.R.)
"What's going on?", Olivia asked Casey.
"Munch is being an ass.", Casey replied. "So, what did you find for me?"
"Ali was having an affair, Wafa found out, he kicked her ass after she threatened him with a divorce.", Olivia replied.
"Great!", she exclaimed. She knocked on the window and Munch came out.
"Yea?", he inquired. Olivia repeated what she just said to Casey to Munch, and he replied, "Bastard." , and went back inside.
"Where's Elliot?", asked Casey.
"Down in Hallmark, getting a card for Kathy. It's been 19 years he's telling me..", Olivia replied.
"Alright..", Casey replied. They both were silent and listened in on what Ali was confessing.
"So....tell me about the little Kazani on the way.", Munch said.
"What?", asked Ali.
"We know about your little secret.", Fin explained.
"You're riding around town and you just so happen to get some girl preggers. Wafa finds out, threatens you with a divorce, and you won't have none of it. You kick her face in, rape her, the whole works.", Munch explained.
"That's not what happened!", he yelled.
"Then tell us, Ali, what happened.", Fin suggested.
(Cut outside)
"Hey what's happenin'?", asked Elliot with the Hallmark bag in his hand.
"Shhhh, he's going to break!", anticipated Casey.
(Back inside)
"It was all because of that book...", he said crying.
"What book?", asked Munch.
"The Secrets of the Islamic Marriage. I was reading it and it told me things like, how to beat my wife, how to rape her..", Ali replied. Munch and Fin looked at each other and exchanged humorous smiles. 'This guys a dump', thought Munch.
"Are you telling us that a book instructed you on how to beat your wife?", asked Munch trying to clear the air. By now, Ali was balling his eyes out.
"Yes, I'm sorry...I made a horrible mistake. I deserve to die.", Ali stated. Outside the interrogation room, Casey looked at Elliot and Olivia.
"What do you want us to do?", asked Olivia.
"Well, he just admitted that he beat and raped his wife. I'll get you a search warrant. The only thing that can save this sorry guy's ass is that book. Bag it when you find it."
"You got it.", replied Elliot as he stuck the card in his coat pocket. A few minutes after receiving their search warrant, Elliot and Olivia drove to his apartment. They searched the premises and found it to be clean of stains and what not, except for the bedroom.
"Hey, El.", called Olivia. "See that?" she asked as she pointed to blood stains and semen in the bed.
"Well, we have physical evidence he's our man. But where's that damn book?", Elliot said. He instructed the CSU to take care of the stains and the physical evidence. Elliot entered the study with Olivia.
"Ahhh, the study.", he remarked. He opened all the drawers and found the book. "Liv, I think I found something."
"The Secrets of the Islamic Marriage...", Olivia read the cover. She opened the book and looked at the table of contents. "Disciplining your wife...Chapter 14." She read the beginning of the chapter and was horrified at the account. "Looks like Ali was telling the truth."
"Bag it.", Elliot instructed. Back at the precinct, Casey read the book. "This guy is a sicko.", she said. "His name is Rashad El Kazhan. Look him up, see what you can find.", she instructed to Elliot and Fin.
Elliot and Fin looked him up on the police file. Nothing. They looked him up under green card holders. There was an address, he was in the Bronx.
"We got him. He lives on 324 East 327th Street, south Bronx.", Elliot said.
"Alright, here's your arrest warrant, get moving. In the meantime, I'll get all further publication of his book stopped as well as removed from each book store and library in the city.", Casey replied.
Olivia, Munch, Fin, and Elliot drove to Kazhan's house. Munch hopped out of the car and knocked on the door. "Rashad El Kazhan?", Olivia yelled. "Open up this is the police." Still no one came to the door.
"On three.", Munch stated. On three, they burst down the door. A woman was standing there with a gun, and a man was on the floor.
"Nadia, please...don't shoot.", the man pleaded.
"You bastard. You will NEVER hurt me again.". she yelled. Her finger trembled as she was twitching the trigger.
"Please, ma'am, put the gun down!", Olivia ordered. The woman dropped the gun on the floor and started to cry. She was severely bruised and her tights were down to her ankles. Elliot rushed to her, and called for an ambulance. Munch radioed for backup. Fin, with Olivia's assistance grabbed the man from the floor, and asked him if his name was Rashad El Kazhan. He nodded without saying a word. Fin and Olivia arrested him, and walked him to the car after reading him his rights. Back at the precinct, while Rashad and Ali were being charged for separate crimes, Cragen came out of his office.
"Ok, gang. Great work today; now's the hard job, cleaning out those desks. They're filthy.". Cragen stated, "Oh no...", Elliot said in shock as he looked at the time.
"What?", inquired Olivia.
"I promised Kathy I'd be home early tonight.", he explained.
"Go home, El. I'll clean your crap.", she said sarcastically.
"Thanks.", he replied and grabbed his jacket.
"No problem."
A/N: Hey everyone thanks so much for the great reviews! I appreciate it. Anyways, I wrote this chapter about two weeks ago after hearing on the news that an Islamic dude who wrote a book, (but I won't tell you about what you'll have to see for yourself when you read this chapter) and it caused a lot of controversy in Spain. But I don't even know the name, so I made it up.. So I wasn't in any way discriminating the Islamic people, or their ways of life, if you guys were wondering. (Yes I am a loser lol). Enjoy this chapter and ch 4 will be up soon, and I promise there will be more of a Ewan and Olivia thing (hint hint). Thanks for the support. -J'adore SVU
The squad stood together in the room talking and joking. Their attention was suddenly jerked away from each other and towards the door.
"What the hell!?", exclaimed Fin as a barely dressed woman rushed through the door. Just as she was about to collapse Elliot grabbed her. She panted heavily saying something inaudible and in a different language.
"This woman needs help...NOW.", Elliot yelled as he instructed Olivia to call for an ambulance. A few hours later a nurse instructed Elliot and Olivia to come into the doctor's office.
"What do you have for us doc?", Olivia asked.
"Well, I know she's of Middle Eastern decent, but without ID it's hard to determine who she actually is. However, I can get a translator in here if you want.."
"That will be great. What about the rape kit?", asked Elliot.
"Present for fluids, but I don't think she was raped.", the doctor replied.
"What do you mean?", asked Olivia confused by his statement.
"Well, she's a Middle Eastern woman, middle aged, not a virgin. She's most likely a Muslim, and they're traditions are to marry early, so it was probably consensual with her husband."
"Well we just wanta make sure it wasn't rape, before we rule anything out.", Elliot added.
"Your right detective...it wouldn't hurt finding out.", the doctor stated. He picked up the phone and called upstairs. "Yes, can I get Fajhad down here please as soon as possible?", he asked. "Thank You..Bye", and he hung up the phone. "He will be here shortly detectives." Olivia and Elliot looked at each other, knowing this man meant business. A few minutes later an Arabian man came in after a swift knock on the door.
"Yes Doctor Jennings?", asked the young man.
"Fajhad...This is Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler, they're detectives from the Special Victims Unit.", the doctor introduced himself. Olivia and Elliot rose and shook his hand as they introduced themselves.
"Fajhad Jamal.", he introduced himself as he sported a brief nervous smile.
"Mr. Jamal, we need your help.", Olivia began. "We have a Middle Eastern woman in critical but stable condition, and we don't know what happened to her. Your job is to translate what she says. Ok?"
"Yea, no problem.", Fajhad answered. Olivia and Elliot walked Fajhad to the victim's room. She was looking out the window and looked towards them as they came in. She moaned in pain, and Fajhad introduced himself as well as Elliot and Olivia. Elliot looked at her with pity. The wounds spilt her face. She had bruises on her face and neck. He would never do that to Kathy or any woman.
"Her name is Wafa Kazani. She's forty five years old..." Fajhad explained as they talked in Arabic. Elliot wrote it down on his notepad. "She says that it was Allah's choice....what happened to her..."
"A religious freak..", Olivia murmured. She told Fajhad, "Please ask her how she was hurt." Fajhad nodded and asked her. She started to cry and answered, "I will not disgrace him.." Elliot was discontent with her answer.
"Mr. Jamal, please ask her what her husband's name is and where she lives." He instructed. After a circle of interrogation, Fajhad answered, ".His name is Ali...Apartment 27B, East 137th Street. Detectives, I think it's him."
"Why would you think that?", asked Elliot.
"Muslim women will do anything for their husbands...it's all in the territory. Beating is probably one of the things this woman went through.", Fajhad answered. Elliot and Olivia kept that in mind as they went back to the precinct.
(Cut to precinct)
"Well, looks like we got an ID and an address.", Olivia stated as she dropped the file on Munch's desk.
"Talk to me...", Cragen said.
"Wafa Kazani, forty five, living on 137th street, apartment 27B. She doesn't make a direct statement about who did it but another Arabic man told us that Muslim women usually do what their husbands tell them too. She said, 'It was Allah's choice'." Elliot remarked.
"We're not going on suspicions, detectives, we want cold hard facts. Munch, Fin go down to the apartment and interview the husband. You two, find out more about this woman, and get me some leads, pronto.", Cragen instructed.
(Kazani Residence Apartment 27B 137th Street)
Munch and Fin got out of the car and approached the building. They knocked on the door and buzzed the buzzer for an answer. "Anybody Home?", Munch inquired as he yelled in the intercom.
"Yo, look at this creep.", Fin said as he pointed to a suspicious man picked up his pace, dropped his groceries, and was watching their every move.
"Let's get 'em. I bet he knows why we're here....", Munch said as he descended from the stoop and approached the man. "HEY!", he exclaimed as the man started to run. Fin followed in pursuit.
"Watch out man...", Fin yelled as he pushed a pedestrian out of the way. Munch cut the runner short, as he leaped grabbed the man and wrestled him to the ground.
"Welcome to my world, buddy.", Munch said breathing heavily, he quickly arrested the man and brought him back to the precinct for interrogation.
In the meantime, Elliot and Olivia traveled around the Arabian parts of the city to find out about Wafa. "Excuse me sir..Do you know this woman?", asked Olivia. All the man did was eye her and walk away. "Nice answer.", Olivia replied pissed. She approached an elderly woman and asked, "Excuse me, miss?" The woman stopped in her tracks and looked at Elliot. She knew they were strangers to this part of town.
"Do you know this woman?", Elliot asked.
"Wafa...", she replied under her breath. Elliot and Olivia glanced at each other.
"Do you mind if we ask you some questions?", Olivia asked.
"Come...", she instructed them. Olivia and Elliot followed the woman to an ally way. "Everyone knows about Wafa."
"Explain.", Elliot suggested as he flipped open his notepad and the same time flashing his badge to let her know who he was.
"Her husband..He's a good man, but...", she started.
"But what?", asked Olivia.
"After what he did to that poor women, Wafa...", she was interrupted by Elliot.
"Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. What poor woman?"
"He had an affair; got the girl pregnant, but she's gone back to Iran to have the baby.", the woman whispered.
"How do you know?", asked Elliot.
"When your walls are paper thin...you hear everything.", she replied. "Ok, then what?", asked Olivia.
"Wafa threatened to divorce him, but being the good Muslim, he wouldn't have it. He told her he was sorry, but she didn't forgive him."
"So what did he do?", asked Elliot.
"I heard screaming, fighting, hitting, and slapping above other things, name calling. Stuff like that. I didn't want to intrude or nothing.", she replied.
"Thank you.", Olivia told her as she took her statement and name.
(Interrogation Room)
"Why were you running...Ali?", asked Munch.
"Why not? Why did you want me?", he answered arrogantly, Munch was obviously pissed, as he slammed him fist on the table.
"Don't you start with that reverse psychology or I'll reverse your face.", Munch threatened,
"Is that a threat?", asked Ali. "I'll tell my lawyer about this."
"I didn't hear nothin'", said Fin out of the blue. Ali rose from his chair to leave, but Munch grabbed him by the shoulders and sat him back down.
"Your under arrest, we make the calls.", Munch reminded him.
(Outside I.R.)
"What's going on?", Olivia asked Casey.
"Munch is being an ass.", Casey replied. "So, what did you find for me?"
"Ali was having an affair, Wafa found out, he kicked her ass after she threatened him with a divorce.", Olivia replied.
"Great!", she exclaimed. She knocked on the window and Munch came out.
"Yea?", he inquired. Olivia repeated what she just said to Casey to Munch, and he replied, "Bastard." , and went back inside.
"Where's Elliot?", asked Casey.
"Down in Hallmark, getting a card for Kathy. It's been 19 years he's telling me..", Olivia replied.
"Alright..", Casey replied. They both were silent and listened in on what Ali was confessing.
"So....tell me about the little Kazani on the way.", Munch said.
"What?", asked Ali.
"We know about your little secret.", Fin explained.
"You're riding around town and you just so happen to get some girl preggers. Wafa finds out, threatens you with a divorce, and you won't have none of it. You kick her face in, rape her, the whole works.", Munch explained.
"That's not what happened!", he yelled.
"Then tell us, Ali, what happened.", Fin suggested.
(Cut outside)
"Hey what's happenin'?", asked Elliot with the Hallmark bag in his hand.
"Shhhh, he's going to break!", anticipated Casey.
(Back inside)
"It was all because of that book...", he said crying.
"What book?", asked Munch.
"The Secrets of the Islamic Marriage. I was reading it and it told me things like, how to beat my wife, how to rape her..", Ali replied. Munch and Fin looked at each other and exchanged humorous smiles. 'This guys a dump', thought Munch.
"Are you telling us that a book instructed you on how to beat your wife?", asked Munch trying to clear the air. By now, Ali was balling his eyes out.
"Yes, I'm sorry...I made a horrible mistake. I deserve to die.", Ali stated. Outside the interrogation room, Casey looked at Elliot and Olivia.
"What do you want us to do?", asked Olivia.
"Well, he just admitted that he beat and raped his wife. I'll get you a search warrant. The only thing that can save this sorry guy's ass is that book. Bag it when you find it."
"You got it.", replied Elliot as he stuck the card in his coat pocket. A few minutes after receiving their search warrant, Elliot and Olivia drove to his apartment. They searched the premises and found it to be clean of stains and what not, except for the bedroom.
"Hey, El.", called Olivia. "See that?" she asked as she pointed to blood stains and semen in the bed.
"Well, we have physical evidence he's our man. But where's that damn book?", Elliot said. He instructed the CSU to take care of the stains and the physical evidence. Elliot entered the study with Olivia.
"Ahhh, the study.", he remarked. He opened all the drawers and found the book. "Liv, I think I found something."
"The Secrets of the Islamic Marriage...", Olivia read the cover. She opened the book and looked at the table of contents. "Disciplining your wife...Chapter 14." She read the beginning of the chapter and was horrified at the account. "Looks like Ali was telling the truth."
"Bag it.", Elliot instructed. Back at the precinct, Casey read the book. "This guy is a sicko.", she said. "His name is Rashad El Kazhan. Look him up, see what you can find.", she instructed to Elliot and Fin.
Elliot and Fin looked him up on the police file. Nothing. They looked him up under green card holders. There was an address, he was in the Bronx.
"We got him. He lives on 324 East 327th Street, south Bronx.", Elliot said.
"Alright, here's your arrest warrant, get moving. In the meantime, I'll get all further publication of his book stopped as well as removed from each book store and library in the city.", Casey replied.
Olivia, Munch, Fin, and Elliot drove to Kazhan's house. Munch hopped out of the car and knocked on the door. "Rashad El Kazhan?", Olivia yelled. "Open up this is the police." Still no one came to the door.
"On three.", Munch stated. On three, they burst down the door. A woman was standing there with a gun, and a man was on the floor.
"Nadia, please...don't shoot.", the man pleaded.
"You bastard. You will NEVER hurt me again.". she yelled. Her finger trembled as she was twitching the trigger.
"Please, ma'am, put the gun down!", Olivia ordered. The woman dropped the gun on the floor and started to cry. She was severely bruised and her tights were down to her ankles. Elliot rushed to her, and called for an ambulance. Munch radioed for backup. Fin, with Olivia's assistance grabbed the man from the floor, and asked him if his name was Rashad El Kazhan. He nodded without saying a word. Fin and Olivia arrested him, and walked him to the car after reading him his rights. Back at the precinct, while Rashad and Ali were being charged for separate crimes, Cragen came out of his office.
"Ok, gang. Great work today; now's the hard job, cleaning out those desks. They're filthy.". Cragen stated, "Oh no...", Elliot said in shock as he looked at the time.
"What?", inquired Olivia.
"I promised Kathy I'd be home early tonight.", he explained.
"Go home, El. I'll clean your crap.", she said sarcastically.
"Thanks.", he replied and grabbed his jacket.
"No problem."