Chapter 3: Munch

Takes place a few weeks after the episode. Spoilers for "Taken."

Wow. That's weird. Just discovered who Amelia Chase's cell-mate is.

Siobhan Miller. Imagine that. Strange. She falsely accused a man and he got raped and killed in prison. Now, the first bona fide female rapist - more specifically, the first woman convicted of rape 1 - is her cellmate.

I wonder if she, Siobhan, I mean, will get the same treatment that Ramsey did. I can't wish it on her, as much as I hate her for lying and for making us unwitting accomplices to manslaughter. It was strange, I saw her the other day while interrogating a prisoner for a case. She looked haggard, scared. When she saw me, her eyes were pleading, desperate. I wasn't certain what had happened, until I noticed that her uniform was unbuttoned, and I could see her bare neck. Chafing marks of some sort.

Then I saw Amelia Chase. The sneer that had always marked her face - well, in my experience, granted, I didn't know her well, only what I saw of her during the case, but she always seemed to sneer - was gone. It was replaced by hatred. She looked at me, and made a silent growl. She then turned to Miss Miller, gave her a look, and she scurried away, terrified.

I haven't seen Pam Adler, but from what I hear, after her plea for the murder of Sydney Green, she went to prison for twenty years. I don't know how she is doing in prison. She is one cold bi- well, she's cold.

I can't imagine what it was like for Peter. Most men would fantasize about women forcing themselves on them. But when you see these two, and then think about what Sydney was probably like - it sends a shiver down your spine. Mses. Chase and Adler - they weren't women, they were demons. Amelia Chase, with her unbridled hatred for all men, Pam Adler, with her complete lack of empathy, her inability to actually emote, and Sydney, well, I never knew her, but for some reason I have this image of a junky, of someone whose soul is hidden beneath layers of chemical filth... eyuggg.

It wouldn't be like having a horny supermodel begging you, it would be like... like being tormented by the Furies. Trapped with demons from whom you couldn't escape.

Alex has, of course, been on a bit of a high since this case. Attorneys always enjoy winning difficult cases - well, in her case she didn't completely win, Chase confessed and Pamela got off on the rape charge. But, the fact that Pam Adler killed Sydney Green does sort of vindicate Alex anyway. It proves that she did rape Peter, she just got off. There's also a sense that - that well, that maybe this case will help more men to see rape as an issue of violence, not just as an issue to use against them. So many men see the SVU as a unit which is trying to put men away and trying to help women at their expense. There's always been a little divide, lots of men who see rape as simply a charge a woman can make to get them. Maybe this will help a few people to see it as violence, not as a weapon in the struggle between the sexes.

Is that how Adler and Chase saw it? I never saw Adler as particularly anti-male. She just seemed to ooze contempt for everyone. Chase, on the other hand, the first time we talked with her, she mentioned the fact that she loved to show up men. I talked to her once or twice after that, and each time she always made some comment about how dumb all the men at SVU were, how stupid all the men she worked with were.

I hear they don't know how to handle her. They put her in group counseling, but she's the only woman there. Adler refused such counseling, and as she wasn't convicted of rape, they can't force her. I'd love to be a fly on that wall... what the hell would she be saying?

Although I didn't act like I believed it, a part of me knew form the start. They had that demeanor about them. The demeanor of a predator. Boy, and I never thought I'd see someone who made me miss my ex-wives.