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Previously: " Well....... Let's go see if she will talk to us," said Elliot.



" Yeah," Olivia sadly said. She was not in the mood for this sad of a case, but someone need her and her partner. It was their job, 'To Serve and Protect'.

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About twenty minutes after they had left the crime scene, Olivia saw Elliot pull into the hospital's parking lot. They walked through the automated sliding glass doors, and up to the front desk. Olivia asked the receptionist where the little girl was. She held up a picture that had been handed to her by John Munch, right before she was going to leave the scene.

"Oh. We had her taken in on a stretcher to the Emergency Room about an hour ago... She was in prettty bad shape from what I saw."

"Were the 'medics able to get her name on the way here?" asked Elliot.

" No. She was going in and out."

" Do you know what room number the doctors will be putting her in?" Olivia asked.

"Ummmmm..." The keyboard clicked as the receptionist looked through the files. " She should be in room 326."

" What do you mean she should be?"

" Well... The computers have been malfunctioning a little lately and sometimes it gets the files a little mixed up."

They both stared. " Maybe you guys should get it checked out," said Elliot.

" Oh. Yeah we are. He's coming in tomorrow."

They both thanked the receptionist before leaving to go to the ER waiting room. When they arrived there, they flagged down one of the doctors.

" Hey, doctor, you just had a little girl go into the ER about an hour ago, is that correct?" asked Olivia.

" Yes. I'm Doctor Cabello. Are you two detectives?"

" Yes. I'm detective Benson and this is my partner Detective Stabler." They both flashed their badges. " We're on this case. It's thought that the girl taken in there has been abused over a long period of time."

" Oh she definately has been. We found many healed fractures. A little too many."

Olivia and Elliot just listened. It was amazing how people can be so cruel and abusive.

" We just had her sent to room 326. That's where she's going to be staying for a few days."

" Can we speak with her?" asked one of the detectives.

" Well... I don't know if it is best to talk to her right now. She really needs her rest. Maybe tomorrow morning would be better."

"Okay. One more thing. When she was taken into the ER, did you by any chance save..." The doctor reached behind the ER receptionist desk, pulled out a paper bag and handed it to Olivia.

"Of course I did detective, and those are it." He pointed to the bag. A voice rang over the intercom and asked Doctor Cabello to go downstairs. " If you will excuse me, I have to attend to this call. If you two need anything else, just go to the front desk and have them page me." He shook their hands and left.

"Thank you doctor," Olivia and Elliot both said in unison.



They watched as Doctor Cabello disappeared down the hallway and walked into the nearest elevator. Olivia sighed and opened the bag. Inside were a little girls clothes. They were wrinkled and stained with blood.

Elliot cringed at the thought of what exactly had happened when she was wearing those clothes. He didn't even want to think about it. He couldn't help the horrid pictures coming into his head. He hadn't seen the girl yet, so his head filled in the blanks. It was his children that he saw. He tried to shake his head of those thoughts. They were starting to upset him.

"Let's go Liv. There isn't anything else we can do here right now."

It was about two-thirty when Elliot and Olivia left the hospital. They both didn't feel like going home, so they drove around for a while.

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"So... Has anything interresting happened with your family lately?" asked Olivia.

"Not much. Just the same ol', same ol'. Maureen got upset at me for not letting her go to a party. She didn't even know anybody who was going, except some guy that her mom and I haven't even met," Elliot snickered. "Then she wonders why I won't let her go. She doesn't even know what can happen at these parties."

"Most kids don't, but I think that she does. Being that you have this job," replied Olivia. " I think that sometimes she listens to what you say, even though you don't think so."

"Maybe. But if she does, then she is just doing the opposite of it all."

They both sighed and kept their eyes on the road and everwhere around them. They drove silently for about half an hour longer, until Elliot broke the silence. " This is kinda like patroling. Isn't it?"

" Yeah," Olivia smiled. " I kinda miss patroling. We haven't done it in a long time."

" Yeah, I know. It's been ages."

" Hey! Let's get something to eat," said Olivia.

"Allright. Where do you wanna go?"

" I dunno. You decide."

"Only if you pay."

"Fine, I'll pay."

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They found a place, ordered their food and ate. They were sitting around talking, when two officers, probably partners, walked into the diner.

" Those look like the officers that walked in on our case's scene. What were their names?" whispered Olivia.

"Last names Keller and Carlito, I think," answered Elliot.

Almost right after Officer Keller and Officer Carlito came in, John Munch and Odafin Tutuola came in.

"Man, everybody migrates to one place, don't they?" said Olivia.

Elliot laughed and turned around. He called Fin and Munch over and they sat down.

"So... What's up?" asked Fin.

"Nothin'," Elliot and Olivia both said.

" Well... After we're done eating, why dont we go back to the precinct and get started on the case," said Munch.

They all agreed. "We'll meet you guys there. Okay?" said Elliot.

"Allright. See ya!" yelled Fin.

Elliot and Olivia walked out of the diner and to the car. They both got in and drove down the road heading toward the Special Victims Unit precinct,ready for another stress-filled day of getting Child Abusers, Rapists, and Elder Abusers off the street.