Title: "Telling"
Author: Honey Johnson
Pairing: N/A
Rating: PG-13
Summary: After a report of incest made by a fifteen-year old girl, The SVU team investigates.
Disclaimer: The characters of SVU are not mine. Other characters are mine, but Dick Wolf's Law and Order SVU inspired them and the story.
Complete or To Be Continued: To Be Continued.
"Let's go over this again. So the last time you saw Marlena Jimenez was?" Elliot regarded Elaine Elmhurst, sitting in the very spot Ashley sat earlier that day.
"Look, I'm not here to play twenty questions. I'm here to pick up my daughter." Elaine was the picture of indignation and dressed well- pearls, silk, wool. Olivia noted the family resemblance. Both had light hair but Elaine's was wavy instead of Ashley's ringlet curls. The eyes were the same color, blue-gray, but the expression in them was completely different. Ashley's were open as the ocean and Elaine's were remote as a glacier. "Where is she? Is she here or not?"
"She's here." Elliot said, turned and leaned on the table, eye to eye with Ashley's mother. "So why did you tell your daughter not to let her father take pictures of her?"
"Because she's young and impressionable. Walt photographs models. I don't want Ashley throwing away her education to try and pursue some modeling career."
"And you are familiar with Walt's photography?" Olivia asked.
"Of course. Walt's an artist. And I know you see perverts all day long so that's all you are going to see."
"Uh-huh. So is this one of Walt's artistic photos?" Olivia asked. Elaine glanced at the photo Olivia held, sealed in plastic. She quickly looked away, shutting her eyes. Olivia held a far-fetched hope Elaine could identify the girl in the photo but she could not.
"When Walt and I divorced, I found a lot of photos like that. I assumed he had affairs with many of his models…"
"Teenage girls?" Elliot asked.
"I don't know. Young. I didn't exactly ask."
"Why didn't you go to the police?" Olivia leaned forward.
"And make the divorce worse than it was?"
"So this wouldn't be a photo of Ashley you warned her not to let him take?" Olivia held up another plastic bag. "Look at it."
"I don't know why Ashley let him do that! I've taught her not to behave like that!"
"Behave like what? Did something happen before?" Olivia knew they were getting closer.
"I told her not to let him touch her!"
"Did something happen-"
"No! This is my personal life and I don't have to discuss it with you!"
"Ms. Elmhurst, if you want custody of your daughter, you better start talking about it." Elliot was angry.
"Don't you see? Ashley's doing this because she's angry about the divorce." Elaine's voice was almost pleading. Elliot looked at Olivia, wondering if she was thinking what he was thinking. They had seen denial before, but this! There were photographs for Christ sakes.
"Ashley didn't do anything, Ms. Elmhurst. She was raped." Elliot said.