Chapter 2
"Where is he!" a man was shouting.
"Where is he!" he shouted louder as cops tried to hold him back. Benson's boss knew then and there that it was the boy's father. Benson was talking to the boy, trying to help him feel better as Cragen argued with the father, away from the window.
"Where's my son!" he shouted.
"He's fine!" The boss told her.
"Where is he? I have a right mind to sue you for taking him away!" he shouted as he walked toward the window. He saw Benson watching him as his son pointed to different people in his picture. He hit the window, which startled Benson and Tommy.
"It's daddy" the boy quietly whispered as the father smashed through the door.
"Let me have my son!" he yelled as Benson stood in front of the boy. Fin and Stabler stood right behind him.
"You can't take him- he can't take him!" Benson argued to her boss, right behind the father.
"We don't have papers- and there's no proof of the boy being in danger" Cragen sighed as he knew it wasn't a good idea for the boy to go with his crazed father. Benson frowned- she couldn't let the father take Tommy.
"Come here son" The father squatted as Tommy started to walk around the table to face him.
"That's right, come on son" he told him as the boy walked closer to Benson.
"Come on, lets go home" The father smiled nicely to his boy. Tommy wrapped his arms around Benson's leg- Benson was surprised.
"Son" he said meaner.
"It's your fault mommy left" the boy said as he tightened his grip around Benson and she wrapped her arm over his shoulders, holding him close.
"Shut up!" he yelled as he went over to the boy. He grabbed him as Benson tried to fight him off of the boy. He grabbed Tommy and held him in his arms. Tommy looked at Benson as his father shouted at the three men to move out of his way. She didn't know what she could do, as the three men moved out of the way. The boy stuck out his arm to Benson.
"Mommy" he said as his father pulled him away. Benson stood there- as the three men tried to talk to her after the father had walked away with his son. They all decided to give her a minute though. As the door closed behind them she slammed her fist on the table.
"Dammit!" she yelled. She stayed in the room and looked at the pictures that Tommy had drawn. Stabler finally came in and sat across from her.
"Liv…" he began.
"Don't talk to me", she said before he could barely start.
"Just listen. He's not your kid, he's not in immediate danger…"
"He just went home with a killer. He's terrified of his father." She yelled then stared back at the picture of Tommy and his mom.
"What's going on with you?" he asked.
"You don't take cases this personal unless something is up" he said.
"No, it's just how can we let him go with a killer?" she said.
"It's his father- Fin is going to get the papers to let us search the home. If we find what we need- the boy will be back here." He told her.
"But it's just…"
"What is it? Come on, out with it" he said.
"It's just, when he was being taken away… he- he called me, mo- mommy" she looked up at Stabler.
"I don't know it just, it effected me", she said looking away. Stabler wasn't sure what to say. He just got up and headed for the door.
"Are you coming or what?" he asked.
"What? Come where?" she asked.
"We got to go get him", Stabler said as she smiled.
"Come on" he said as he walked, she got up quickly to run after him.
"You can't do this" Cragen stopped him.
"We got to", Stabler said as Benson came up behind him.
"I'll have to charge you" Cragen told them upset.
"I don't care" Benson said as she pushed between the two men. Stabler followed right behind her.