Chapter 4
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"that was a waste of a day." Fin sighed.
"At least you're theory was proved that there is people weirder than John." Cragen stated.
"Very funny." John snorted.
Right now there wasn't much to do. They interviewed who they could and she still wasn't awake.
Elliot was busy on the computer trying to find information on Skylar Winters' mother and Skylar, and luck had it.
"Seems our victim has been in Child Welfare before her Mother died." He stated.
"What for?" Olivia asked.
"Abuse." He replied.
"Our victim was abused? Did she get placed back with her mom?" John asked.
"Yep. Then a week later her mother dies." He read.
"I'm going to Alex to see if we can get a warrant for her file if they still have it." Cragen said before leaving to call Alexandra Cabot the Assistant Defense Attorney(ADA).
"After today, I feel sorry for parents." Fin stated.
"Not all kids are that bad, Fin." Elliot stated.
"Well then, I feel sorry for those kids' parents." Fin corrected himself.
"Amen." Olivia said.
"apparently our vic has a website." John said after Internet Surfing.
"What's it called?" Olivia asked.
"Sky Meets The Snow." He replied.
"Skylar Winters… Ironic." Elliot said as he looked at John's computer.
John scrolled down and stopped when he saw a picture of a man.
"Well, I think I've found a picture of her Dear Old Dad." He said.
"He's in the Army? Gotta be joking me." Fin said.
John looked and found a date on the bottom of the picture.
"And since she wrote this is her most recent picture of her father, I wonder if Dad knows his little girl is blind." He said.
"How could she do all the typing on the computer if she's blind? She can't see what she's doing, and I doubt she'd allow one of her friends to type all this for her." Fin said, noticing the typing.
"Possibly she took a typing class so she'd be able to know what keys she's hitting without seeing them." Olivia suggested. "Besides, it's not a perfect typing job." She noted, pointing out the typing errors.
"It seems like the person she mentions the most is that Naya girl." John said.
"Does it?" Cragen asked, returning.
"Yeah. She's writing that her most loyal friend is Naya, she's always been protected by Naya. She also wrote that she rarely keeps secrets from her…" he said.
"Well, you may want to question Ms. Justice again, because I found out that an hour ago Ms. Winters was taken out of the hospital, AMA." The captain said.
"By who?" Fin asked.
"Brendan Daniels. Though the nurse said that it was Skylar who kept on insisting and badgering him into signing the release forms." He told them.
"You may was to go to her school tomorrow and talk to her. And if you could, see if you can talk to some of her classmates and teachers." He said.
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Elliot and Olivia pulled into a parking spot by the school and went into the school, leaving Simon the lab. in the car. After getting visitor passes Elliot asked where he can find Skylar Winters and the woman at the front desk, after looking at the student schedules, said the Gym because she had choir.
Olivia and Elliot walked down the hall before reaching the gym. They were met with the sound of music and students singing.
They saw a red head in a chair shaking her head.
"Come on! Mr. Lambe! I can't believe you're not stopping! The sopranos are missing their notes and the Altos are singing the sopranos part!" they heard the girl say.
The teacher with brown hair and green eyes stopped playing and turned to look at the girl.
"Ms. Winters, you're blind. How do you know which section is wrong and which section is right?" Mr. Lambe asked.
"I'm blind, not deaf. If anyone else heard, they'd agree if they knew which section was which." She frowned, closing her unseeing eyes before her sunglasses. "Anyway, we've got company." She said, pointing at Elliot and Olivia over her shoulder with her thumb.
"Oh, hello." Mr. Lambe said. He got off the stage and went over to talk to them.
"Mr. Lambe! The concert is in 4 days! You can't interrupt practice! Not when they're this bad!" she complained.
Mr. Lambe smiled. Skylar was his favorite student. She always had to be right when it came to the choir.
"Then why don't you take over, Ms. Winters?" Mr. Lambe suggested.
"Really?" she asked excitedly.
"Yes. Just… be careful playing the piano!" he warned.
"Just 'cause I'm blind doesn't mean I'm deaf." She said before getting up and using her cane to lead her onto the stage and behind the piano. She started playing music and the students began laughing at what she was playing. "On top of spaghetti all covered in cheese, I lost my poor meat ball, when somebody sneezed!" she sang as loud as she could without laughing.
Mr. Lambe shook his head, laughing silently.
"Skylar, I wasn't aware that we were singing that. Would you care to try again?" he asked.
"Sure." She started playing again. "London bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down, help me Mr. Lambe!" she sang.
"what? Did the bridge fall on top of you?" he asked.
"No. I'm just trying to annoy you." She shrugged.
"Just play anything. I don't care." He laughed before going over to Olivia and Elliot. "Sorry about that." he apologized.
"that's alright. We're just surprised that she's back in school so soon." Elliot commented. "I am Detective Elliot Stabler, and this is my partner Olivia Benson." He said and they heard her begin to play the piano and sing.
"Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
Wake me up when September ends"
Olivia frowned. She had watched the music video for this song on VH1 last night after she got home.
"Well, I doubt anything else could've stopped her if it wasn't for the concert we have in 4 days." He told Elliot.
"This is her favorite class I take it?" Olivia asked.
"Yes. She's the most dedicated student I have. The school has been debating about keeping Choir as an after school activity, or have it as a cycle, and I know I'm not really allowed to tell students things, but of course, Ms. Winters found out, and she came to me saying that if it was turned into a cycle, she was willing to change her schedule around, just as long as she could be in the choir if it turned to a cycle." Mr. Lambe told him.
"Like my fathers come to pass
Seven years has gone so fast
Wake me up when September ends
Here comes the rain again
Falling from the stars
Drenched in my pain again
Becoming who we are"
After hearing Skylar sing this, Mr. Lambe turned around and watched his favorite student. The lines also made Elliot and Olivia pay attention to her.
"As my memory rests
But never forgets what I lost
Wake me up when September ends
Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
Wake me up when September ends
Ring out the bells again
Like we did when spring began
Wake me up when September ends"
If Mr. Lambe had ever heard Skylar sing with so much pain in her voice, he would've pushed it from his mind with how Skylar was singing this song right now.
"Here comes the rain again
Falling from the stars
Drenched in my pain again
Becoming who we are
As my memory rests
But never forgets what I lost
Wake me up when September ends"
Skylar didn't notice that the whole room had gone quiet when she started to sing emotionally. The song just brought back memories… Painful memories.
"Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
Wake me up when September ends
Like my father's come to pass
Twenty years has gone so fast
Wake me up when September ends
Wake me up when September ends
Wake me up when September ends"
Skylar's voice faded with the end of the last line as she finished the last few notes of the song on the piano. When she finished she was shocked to hear an applaud from the choir members, Mr. Lambe, and the two people who came in.
Skylar started playing the music to one of the songs the choir was performing, getting groans from the other choir members and they practiced as Mr. Lambe talked to the two detectives.
