Chapter 3
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Olivia knocked on the door of a house on Park Ave. Her partner Elliot was standing right next to her.
The door opened and a black haired man with gray eyes, who looked like he hadn't slept in days, opened the door.
"May I help you?" he asked.
"Yes, do you know Skylar Winters?" Elliot asked.
"Yes. She lives here." He nodded, looking skeptical.
"She's in the hospital. Elliot informed him.
"Oh my. Is She alright? What happened to her? I knew I should've picked her up from school a few days ago! Oh, I should've called Mrs. Justice or Mrs. Davis to see if she was with them! … Of right, come in." he said, letting them in.
"Where were you a few nights ago?" Olivia asked.
"I had a meeting at work that ended at 1:30 in the morning." He replied.
"Why didn't you report her missing? I mean, if she's blind and I was looking after her, I'd be awfully worried." Elliot said.
"She spends a few days with her friends every now and then." he replied.
Elliot sighed. They weren't likely to get anything else out of him so he gave him his card and they left.
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Dr. Huang and Cragen stood in front of the glass, so they could see into the interrogation room. Elliot and Olivia had arrived a few minutes ago and joined Munch and Fin in the room to help speak to the 5 kids.
"Can you tell us what's going on?" the blonde, Jessica, said.
"This morning at 5:30, your friend Skylar was found in an alley way. She had been raped." Fin told them.
Jessica couldn't take hearing that and she began to cry immediately.
"That counts her out knowing anything." Cragen commented.
"Uh-huh. I don't think anyone else knows anything either. They look shocked, but that doesn't really mean a thing." Dr. Huang said.
They looked back at the room.
"How could anyone do that to Sky? She's never done anything to anyone!" Naya said outraged.
"It would've happened eventually. We couldn't have always hid her from the world." Chris said.
"What do you mean by that?" Elliot asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Well, she's blind. She's dependant on us, but we can't always be there for her. Anyone could be able to take advantage of her because she can't right back." Chris reasoned.
"Her caretaker, Brendan Daniels told us that she spends days with you guys. Can you collaborate?" Olivia asked.
"Well… With the help of our parents and Brendan got a house that whenever any of them are angry we go there-" Chris cut Jessica's sentence off.
"Basically we go there whenever we don't want our parents to smash our brains in." Chris told them.
"Says the person who put a phone booth in his room." Jessica mumbled.
"I'm sorry, I don't think I heard you correctly." Chris said, turning towards Jessica.
"Oh, I believe you heard me pretty clearly." Jessica snapped.
Chris took one of his rolled up posters for Politics and hit Jessica with it.
Naya tackled them both so they wouldn't start fighting. She took Chris' Posters away, and she also took their book bags.
"No more fighting! Or when we get to the Safe House, I'm not letting you two see the light of day!" she snapped. She looked at Elliot. "see what I've had to put up with for the past 7 years? They won't stop!" she commented.
"Would you really not let them see the light of day?" Elliot asked.
"No. They'd just have to cook for the rest of the week." Naya shrugged.
"What are you, their mother?" Fin asked.
"Someone needs to be." She said.
"You know, I think I recall Skylar stopping Chris from sticking his tongue in an electric outlet." Brenton said to Naya. "And, Skylar's the only one who can actually cook… You do remember she's blind, right?" he asked her.
"Okay, Brenton You're grounded." Naya replied.
"How? You're only my cousin, you can't ground me!" Brenton asked, surprised.
"Yeah, but Isaiah's my cousin too, and he's well behaved." Naya replied.
Brenton and Naya began fighting and Chris and Jessica began fighting again. Isaiah was left watching, along with Olivia, Fin, Eliot, and John. The whole time, Isaiah was completely clueless.
"You can leave if you want." Fin said to Isaiah, who nodded but just kept on watching his cousins and friends fight.
Cragen felt like he wanted to bang his head against the glass if it would help.
"This isn't going any where." Cragen said.
"Well, at least you know they aren't suspects." Dr. Huang said, as he watched amused.
"Right." Cragen sighed.
A tall thin guy with tan skin and glasses came in.
"I'm Anthony Paul. The principle of my son's school said I'd be able to find my son here." He said to Cragen.
"Yes. I'll go get him." Cragen said before going into the room. "Mr. Paul, your father's here to pick you up." He said.
They stopped fighting.
Chris gathered his stuff together. Naya went over to him.
"Chris, go straight to the Safe House, don't let him do it." She whispered so no one could hear.
Chris nodded.
"I can handle it. Don't worry Loony." Chris said, smiling weakly.
Chris left.
An hour later full of questions lead to Jessica being awfully bored.
"Can we go home?" Jessica asked.
The Detectives looked at Cragen, who nodded.
"Yeah, I'll call your parents to pick you up." He sighed.
"We can take the bus." She said.
"It would be safer for you parents to pick you up." He said.
"Trust me, no it wouldn't." Jessica pushed.
"Why not?" Cragen asked.
"Um… my parents aren't home?" she mumbled.
Suddenly they heard a ring that sounded like a guitar and Naya went into her bag and pulled out a cell phone. She flipped it open.
"Naya Jeanne here." She said. "Are you kidding? The Safe House is wrecked?… Nothing's missing… Yeah that's good… When was the last time we were there?… 5 days ago… Wasn't Skylar there… UH OH!" she said while talking on the phone. "Uh huh… Yeah, we'll come see you in the hospital… Uh huh… Bye Babe." She said, turning off her phone.
"Who was that and why?" Jessica asked.
"Chris is in the hospital and someone broke into the Safe House." She shrugged.
"He's in the hospital already?" Brenton asked shocked.
"Uh huh." Naya nodded. Brenton mouthed the word 'ouch' and looked at her.
"Mrs. Sevetello caught him chewing gum in class, didn't she?" he asked.
"Yep." She said. "I told him to go straight to the Safe House but he didn't listen. He just said I can handle it, don't worry." She told him.
Naya's phone rang again and she answered it.
"I'm not here right now… Uh huh… Okay… buh-bye." She said before hanging up.
"Who was that?" Brenton asked.
"I don't know. I never asked." she shrugged before putting her phone in her bag.
