Title: Destroyed
Summary: A girl faints in the squad room and is rushed to the hospital. SVU finds out that she was raped but the girl is refusing to tell them anything. What secret is she keeping?
Disclaimers: I don't own SVU, Dick Wolf does.
Author's note:
Umm…
is there anything I need to say? Can't think of anything. Oh yeah, HOLIDAYS D! Anyway
here's chapter 5:
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They had tried almost every tactic to get the girl to talk, but didn't not succeed. They had tried emotional, casual, motherly, fatherly, demanding, physical, and even touched that line of threatening. She still wouldn't say anything and even if she did, she didn't reveal anything about herself.
The detective gave in and called George to came and help. George had taken the day off. When George came in, he sat in the seat opposite the girl.
"How are you feeling today?" he asked.
"How do you think I feel? 3 hours of question and now they brought in a shrink?" the girl replied heatedly.
George nodded. He decided to change the subject.
"So what do you like doing in your spare time?"
The girl snorted.
"Spare time?" She looked at him for the first since he came in. "What makes you think, I have spare time?"
"Oh, well what do you like doing then?"
"Why does it concern you?
"I want to know you better."
The girl rolled her eyes. He's so pathetic
On the other side of the mirror, Cragen, Munch, Fin, Benson, Stabler and Novak were listening.
"This isn't working," said Cragen.
"We haven't tried the law." Pointed Novak
Everyone looked at her.
"You think she's going to let the law change her mind?" said Munch
"Umm no, but it's worth a try."
"Okay well we'll try it." Said Cragen, looking back at the interrogation room. Just then George asked
"Well then can you tell me anything about yourself? How about we start with your name?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"Because I said so. Anyway why do you want to know? I'm a no body! " She was starting to loose her patience.
"How about you tell me why you think you're a no body."
"I don't think I'm a no body. I know I'm a no body!!"
With that she stood up and ran to the door. She opened it to find that Fin was outside, blocking her from leaving. The detectives still didn't have what they needed and so she wasn't going anyway.
"LET ME GO!" The girl shouted, hitting him.
"No."
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Court room
"Will the defendant please rise."
The girl stood up.
"Please tell the court your name."
"No. I don't want to!" said the girl angrily. It was low that the police had to use this method to get her to talk.
"You do realise that I will put you to Juvenile civil jail unless you co-operate."
The girl nodded.
"Your refusal to tell the court your name, constitutes contamination of court, you will report to the juvenile house of detention until this order is revoked. Bailiff, please remove this prisoner from the court. Court adjourned."
With that the Bailiff handcuffed the girl and took her out of the courtroom.
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"We sent her to Jail!" said Olivia angrily
"She refused to tell us who she is and what happened!" said Elliot
"She had a right! Maybe we have stepped too far."
"Well she lied!"
"How do we know?"
"The newsagency owner." Pointed Fin, "anyway, stop bickering. What done is done." He was starting to get a headache.
"So what do we do now?" asked Olivia.
"Pay her a visit." Suggested Novak
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Juvenile Civil Prison
"How are you doing?"
"How do you think?"
"You know you have the power to get yourself out of there. You just have to tell us who you are and what happened to you."
"No. You can't help me."
"We can help you, just let us." Said Olivia
"As if." The girl snorted
Olivia sat down in the seat opposite the girl while Elliot paced up and down the room. He had to keep his cool but this was frustrating. Why wouldn't this girl tell us anything about her?
"Why don't you try? Let us decide if we can help you." Olivia was trying to connect with the girl but she seemed to have created a wall around herself.
The girl looked at her as if she was stupid.
"Come on, tell us. We can stop this guy and make sure that he doesn't hurt you or anyone else again." Said Olivia.
The girl didn't want to. She didn't care about others. The people she wanted to care about her never did, so why should she?
"No" said the girl, firmly.
"How about we tell you a bit about us and in exchange you tell us about yourself? A fair trade?" suggested Olivia
The girl thought about it for a few seconds and then looked into Olivia's eyes. They were caring and warm. She was angry; she didn't need pity and help.
"FAIR! LIFE ISN'T FAIR! NOTHING'S FAIR. WHY CAN'T YOU PEOPLE GET THAT? IT ISN'T FAIR THAT I'M IN THIS CELL. IT ISN'T FAIR THAT YOU PEOPLE LOST ME MY JOB. IT ISN'T FAIR THAT I CAN'T DO STUFF THAT NORMAL TEENAGES DO. IT ISN'T FAIR THAT I CAN'T HAVE AN EDUCATION. IT ISN'T FAIR THAT I HAVE NO HOME AND IT ISN'T FAIR THAT I HAVE NO PARENTS!
Olivia looked up at Elliot, and then at the girl, who was now standing up.
"We agree that life isn't fair. We see it every day. How about you sit down." Said Olivia
The girl took a few deep breathes to calm herself down. Then she sat down.
"Our job is to make people's life fairer, but we don't always succeed. Just let us have a go, please." Continued Olivia. "I'll start, if it's okay with you." referring to her suggestion she gave before the girl started shouting.
The girl didn't speak so Olivia took the silence as a yes and started,
"My mum was raped when she was in college and I'm the product. My childhood was rough because I reminded my mum of her attack." Olivia looked that the girl then continued, "My mum would get drunk, that's how she died, fell down the subway stairs. Their never found my father, so I don't know who he is." Olivia though for a moment. "That's the main reason I work here. Why don't you tell me about your childhood and your parent?"
The girl was startled, stunned at what Olivia just told her. She took a deep breath.
"I grew up with my neighbour, Mrs. Andrews. She was a widow. When I was seven, she died. Before she died, she told me something that I…, something about me." The girl looked down at her hands, "She told me that I had to go find my mum. She had my mum's name written down a piece of paper, Melissa Ladger. I always use to ask her where my mum was. She would never answer. Then I would ask her, why she left my behind." Tears started to fall down the girl's face. "She would say that my mum was busy. She couldn't bare to tell me the truth, but she knew that I might never find my mother so she wrote down the truth for me to read later, when I was older. The letter said that my mother was raped and she fell pregnant. I was the child born from her pregnancy. My mother couldn't deal with the pain and with me so she dumped me with Mrs. Andrews." The girl paused and wiped away her tears with the back of her hand and continued again. "Mrs. Andrews left me a bit of money and told me when she died to call the police. I did that and I ran away. I tried looking for my mum but I wasn't successful."
The girl stopped as tears poured down her face. Elliot and Olivia were shocked. This girl, who was around the same age as Kathleen, was a child of rape, abandoned by her mother, left with a neighbour who died when she was only seven.
There was a long silence and then Olivia asked,
"What's your name?"
The girl had given in on hiding her secrets.
"I don't know. Mrs. Andrews called me Nicole so I go by that name. My mum never named me and I don't have a birth certificate."
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Author's Note:
Well there's the secret! It's a bit weird but it's fictional so yeah. I don't know if there is a Juevenelle civil prison or if my courtroom scene is correct so if I'm wrong please forgive me. Anyway the stories nearly finished. Please Review! Oh same as the last chapter: I used 'mum' instead of 'mom' because I'm Australian, Sorry.