"We just came back from the crime scene, it was pretty gruesome," Elliot said to Cameron calmly. "Why?" he said shrugging his shoulders.

"He threatened to kill me," Cameron responded. "We had gone out to a party at his country club. One of his rules was not talk to men as little as possible if not at all. He would always tell me, 'You are just a woman and are below men, so do not talk to them as if you are equal. You are stupid and don't even try to act intelligent around them.'

"I had been good about it, but he had taken away my medication so I was feeling a little self-destructive. We get to the party and this man is talking about Stem Cell Research, and he was making a terrible argument so I called him on it. This man and I had a long in-depth conversation; it was the best time I ever had.

"So Franklin sees this and gets pissed, he walked up behind me and grabbed my shoulder. It might have looked sweet but he was digging his nails into my flesh. We were fighting the entire way home; he said he was going to kill me because I was an 'insolent little wench.'

"We got home and I stormed into the apartment and started doing dishes. He just kept screaming, he wouldn't stop, it was like he was possessed or something. I turned around and told him to stop yelling at me and he moved to hit me and so I went to hit him back, but I had the knife in my hand and it hooked him in the throat."

Cameron began to sob uncontrollably; her body was racked with sobs. "He hit the floor and began to convulse. At first I was scared and went to call the ambulance but then I heard him gurgling and I stopped dead in my tracks.

"It was the same noise I made once, while he was raping me. He showed me no mercy so why should I have showed him any. I became so angry so I took the knife and cut off his penis, he gurgled louder. Then I took his penis and rammed it up his ass. After that I looked at what I did and just broke down.

"I had done the one thing I thought I would never do. Take another person's life. I came here immediately and that's what happened," she concluded, her voice was suddenly devoid of all emotion.

Sherri stood up, tapped Olivia on the shoulder and led her out of the room. "What?" Olivia asked feeling a little rushed.

"If you try to prosecute her you'll lose," Sherri said. "Dr. Huang and I talked to her before you got here, she's been abused, raped, and from what she told us that she was whored out, for lack of any better terminology.

"You could argue that it wasn't self-defense after she first cut him across the throat, because the threat was gone. I honestly believe that a jury will feel too much pity to allow her to go through anymore hardships."

"I know, but this is all up to Casey Novak, our Assistant District Attorney, and I know how much experience you have but it would be better if Dr. Huang agreed with you," Olivia replied.

"I understand," Sherri conceited, "but I just want you to bring this up to Miss Novak, okay?"

"Of course," Olivia said leading her back into the interrogation room.

They were stopped before they could enter the room by a slightly frustrated Captain Cragen. "Benson and…" he paused searching for a name before giving up and pointing at Sherri, "you. My office now!"

They both nodded and Olivia led the way. "Is he always this stressed out?" Sherri questioned.

"Yeah," Olivia stated. They walked into Captain Cragen's office to be met by three other figures, one was Brian Cassidy, another was Casey Novak and the other was a tall, elderly man with deep lines and a dark tan face.

"Captain Robertson this is Detective Benson and…" Cragen began to introduce them but again faltered at Sherri's name.

"Dr. Sherri Myers," she interjected helping the captain.

"Thank you," Cragen stated, "Dr. Myers, Det. Benson, this is Captain Albert Robertson, he runs Narcotics. And I assume you both have met Det. Cassidy and A.D.A. Casey Novak." Sherri and Casey shook each other's hands and greeted one another. Olivia and Sherri nodded, so Cragen continued, "Capt. Robertson has some information of the case that just walked in."

"Thank you Captain Cragen," Robertson stated, his voice sound like a truck driving over gravel. "You see we have had Franklin Reese under observation for the past four years. We have reason to believe that he and his partner, David Howard, were trafficking drugs to most of the gangs in New York.

"We had a nice case building up, Cassidy had infiltrated their operation and had become close to both David and Franklin. We figured that in another year or so we would have all the evidence we would need to nail them."

He paused for a moment so that they could all let the information he had just revealed sink in. "As you can well assume, when we heard of Franklin's death we thought our case had been completely jeopardized. Yet after conferring with Det. Cassidy we believe that the woman who you currently are interrogating, Cameron Jameson, has information that would greatly help us with our case."

"So, what exactly do you want us to do?" Olivia questioned with some anger.

"Cut her a deal in return for information that will help us shut Howard's operation down," Robertson answered.

"You have to be kidding me," Casey said testily, "she confessed, we have the weapon and all the evidence we need. We couldn't possibly loose this case."

"Um…Miss Novak, about that," Sherri interjected. "Well, I interviewed her earlier and this was an act of self-defense and emotional distress. Once a jury hears about how Mr. Reese had treated Miss Jameson, they will not convict her."

Casey looked at Sherri incredulously, "And who are you to say this, look, no offense, but unless Dr. Huang agrees I'm going to have to try her."

"Well, Casey, then you're not going to have to, because I truly agree with Dr. Myers diagnosis. After talking to Cameron, it is clear that she had been under a lot of emotional distress, and with the lack of medication she had in her system at the time she would be much more susceptible than you or I."

"Fine," Casey conceited, "I'll cut her a deal. So what can you nail this guy on?"

"Drug trafficking, money laundering, murder, rape, and kidnapping," Cassidy stated. "Franklin was David's lackey, anything David wanted Franklin supplied, even his girlfriend."

Cassidy paused and observed the confusion on most of the faces in the room. "Franklin was dating Cameron but if David wanted to have sex with her Franklin forced her to."

"Okay," Casey said and exited the room, both captains and Olivia followed behind her.

Sherri looked over at Cassidy and smiled, "So, we meet again."

"It would seem so," he said lightly. "I thought you said you weren't a detective," he said slightly accusingly.

"I'm not," she replied, "I'm a psychiatrist, and I should start training under Dr. Huang soon."

"Oh," Cassidy stated before continuing, "What about you and Olivia, are you two really cousins?"

"Well," Sherri stated, "not legally."


A/N: The next chapter will deal with Olivia not having any family. I prefer making the murdered man the real villian which allowed me to force Cassidy to come into the picture. Again I do not own these characters and I would appreciate if you would R&R.