A/N: well my reviewers and my muse have spoken. It continues.
Late Night
2
Alex and Olivia urged Kathleen to go take a shower and get dressed. With reluctance, Kathleen gathered her things and proceeded down the hall. She took her time in the shower, she was really unsure of everything right now. She really had to talk to Emily, but knew that now wasn't going to be a good time. Finally after thinking it over for a while she decided to stand by her new friend now during her rough time, and then when the time is right they will talk about everything. That was her plan anyway.
Kathleen reentered her room to find Alex, Olivia and Julie, her roommate. All sitting quietly in the room. She looked at each of them.
"So, you guys been introduced."
"Yup." Julie said unenthusiastically.
"Okay, I'm all set if you are." Kathleen addressed Alex and Olivia.
"Okay." Olivia said and all of them exited the dorm room.
Kathleen paused and looked at the door to Emily's room for a second, before continuing out of the building. Once outside Olivia started talking.
"Are you okay Kat?"
"Well, define okay. I'm kinda in shock now. This has been a very emotional week and now I just really want to stop thinking for a few hours."
"Alright, but listen if you need anything, talk, advice, whatever we're here, okay." Alex said as they climbed into the car.
"Okay thanks guys. What happened before I came back to my room?"
"Um, well, remember how I said their was a dorm party upstairs last night. After I saw Emily I went there to find some one to question." Olivia started.
"Yeah"
"Well your roommate was there when we busted it up."
"Oh?"
"Let's just say I caught her in a compromising position with possibly her boyfriend."
"Oh, somehow that doesn't surprise me." Kathleen said with a little chuckle.
"She looked like a deer caught in headlights when she walked in and saw Olivia."
The three of them started chuckling, it felt nice to just giggle over silly things, the seriousness of the morning just set aside for the time being.
Alex found a place to store the car while they shopped. All three of them hopped out of the car and started up the street.
/lunch time/
Alex, Olivia, and Kathleen settled down for lunch in a booth in a nice little pub. No sooner had they ordered then Kathleen's phone went off.
"Oh no, it my Dad." Kathleen said before she answered. "Hi Dad."
"Kathleen Elaine Stabler, why didn't you call me this morning like you said." Elliot yelled through the phone.
"Dad I'm sorry, I got sidetracked and forgot."
"Kat that's no excuse, do you know what I did last night?"
"Yes, you were on a case on my floor in my dorm, I know. And you are worried about me, but Dad trust me I'm fine." Kathleen could almost hear Elliot nodding his head and rubbing his chin, in frustration.
"Where are you now?"
"Out to lunch."
"With who? Are you safe?"
"Yes I'm safe."
"No Kathleen who are you with." Elliot enunciated his words overly clear.
"Why is it important?"
"Because Kat, I care, I'm worried, about you. You never talk to your Mom or I anymore. Come on help us out here."
"Fine, I'm with Olivia and Alex."
"Really? Or are you just saying that so I'll leave you alone and think your safe."
"Oh my God Dad," Kathleen exclaimed. "Here talk to him." She thrusted the phone across the table to Olivia. Olivia fumbled for a second then placed the phone at the ear.
"Hi Elliot."
"Olivia, what's going on?"
"Well Alex and I are shopping and invited Kat along with us."
"Oh. Okay I guess, just make sure she is safe."
"Elliot, what's going on with you, this case has got you all worked up."
Elliot sighed before continuing, "Liv, it could have just as easily been Kathleen that boy raped."
"I know, but it wasn't, and she's safe, if she wasn't I would have called you."
"Alright, alright go back to your lunch let me talk to Kat again real quick."
Olivia handed the phone back to Kathleen.
"Hi Dad."
"Kat, I'm sorry, I'll talk to you later, if you need me call. Enjoy your day with the ladies."
"Thanks Dad."
"Bye." They said at the same time and hung up.
Lunch arrived by then and the girls made small talk over their various plates.
Once appetites were satisfied, Kat looked nervously at Olivia.
"Liv."
"Hmm?" Olivia said as she rummaged through her coat pockets looking for tip money.
"Where is Emily?"
Olivia looked up from her task.
"Well, her parents were on their way down from upstate early this morning. I think she may now be with them."
"Oh." Kathleen rested her cheek in her hands and stared off into the pub.
"Is everything okay?" Olivia asked.
"I'm just worried about Emily, I haven't really known her all that long, but you know."
"I think I do."
Alex, who had gone to pay the bill at the counter, returned.
"Alright guys what's next, I think I'm shopped out."
"Let's go check on Emily, I told her I might stop by today if I got a chance. I'd like to meet her parents," Olivia said.
"Alright, lead the way." Alex said as she wrapped an arm around Kat and the two of them followed Olivia back out onto the street and into the car.
Olivia took the driver's seat this time and took off toward the hospital.
/at the hospital/
Olivia went to the window and flashed her badge and asked for information on Emily Sanders. She was still here, her parents had just gotten here, and they were hot to talk to a detective. Oh boy, Olivia thought this should be interesting.
Olivia waved the other two with her through the sliding door. Kathleen and Alex fell instep behind her. Olivia made her way through the hospital and to the room she had left about 12 hours ago. Inside the room, a man and a woman were standing on either side of Emily's bed. Emily was awake and all three were extremely quiet.
"Mr. and Mrs. Sanders?" Olivia asked gently, going into passionate detective mode.
"Yes?" The woman answered curtly.
"I'm Detective Benson, I'm the lead detective on your daughters case."
"Oh so where have you been all day."
"Ma'am why don't we step outside for a second and let Emily rest."
Olivia and the Sanders went out into the hall and joined Alex and Kathleen.
"And who are these two?" Mrs. Sanders asked, you could hear the venom in her tone.
"This is our unit's ADA, Alexandra Cabot. And this is a mutual friend between all three of us."
"Humph."
Olivia addressed Kathleen. "Why don't you go sit with Emily while we talk."
Kathleen just nodded, trying to avoid any sort of eye contact with the upset woman.
After Kat had gone into the other room, Olivia turned to the parents.
"I have the weekend off, Ma'am and my coworkers Detective Munch and Detective Tutuola are working the scene today. There is not a whole lot we can do until the lab gets our rape kit processed and that will take at least until Monday. It being the weekend and all." Olivia was keeping her cool.
"If you have the weekend off Detective, why are you here."
"Because I told Emily last night that if I was in the area I would stop by and check on her."
Alex noticed that the husband was keeping his mouth shut, she found that somewhat odd.
"I am willing to answer any questions you might have and Alex here I'm sure will answer any questions as well."
"Well if you ask me I think she is just faking it. She probably brought this on herself."
It was then that Olivia finally lost her cool. "Ma'am, you don't bring rape on your self. There is also physical evidence of the rape." Olivia stated coldly.
Alex glanced back at the father. He was staring at his wife, wide eyed.
"What are you staring at Richard," his wife noticed. "You know what she is like. We were just waiting for something like this to happen."
"I don't believe you. How can you blame our daughter for this? She has been hurt. My God, Fran don't you have any compassion."
"You know as well as I do, that she brought this on her self." Fran screamed at Richard.
"No Fran, I don't," and with that Richard walked away.
Fran took off after him and swatted him a few times with her purse. He put his hands up in defense, but she kept going at him.
"How can you take her side on this, you know who she is." Fran growled, getting her purse strap around his head.
Olivia was already in motion after the second swing. She pulled Fran off of Richard and had Richard looked after by a nurse. He was holding his throat. She took Fran down the hall and sat her in a chair in the security office to cool down.
/Meanwhile in Emily's room/
Kathleen entered slowly and watched Emily from the door. She looked so small in the bed. She was normally the stronger one, more athletic, even though both played in high school. Emily was playing soccer at Hudson too.
"Kathleen?" Emily noticed her standing in the doorway.
"Hi." Kathleen came further into the room and pulled a chair up to the edge of Emily's bed.
"I didn't figure you'd ever talk to me again after the last time we were together." Emily looked down at her hands.
"Don't be silly, okay. I just needed some time to figure some things out."
"Have you figured them out yet."
"Well I'm getting there." Kathleen took Emily's hand in her own and squeezed it.
"Enough talk about that. I'm more worried about you."
"I'll be okay I guess, I just want to have it all go away. I wish it never happened. I really don't want to go back to that room ever again. And now my parents are here and they are just making everything my fault and I just want someone to help me." Emily was crying now.
Kathleen's heart broke, "I'm here for you Em. Anything you need I'm here. I swear."
"Just, just don't hug me yet, please."
Kathleen nodded and played with Emily's fingers. "I won't do anything until you give the okay."
"Thank you." Emily said her eyes getting heavy from emotion and finally being relaxed in over 15 hours.
"Sh, you can go to sleep, I'll keep you safe."
Emily tired to smile. She let her eyes close and held on tight to Kathleen's hand. Kathleen sat there and watched her friend sleep. Her face was worried and scared even in her sleep.
/in the cafeteria/
Alex sat with Richard Sanders in the Cafeteria, each sipping a hot beverage and him eating a cookie.
"Mr. Sanders, what did you're wife mean, it was all her fault."
Mr. Sanders sighed, "Emily came out to us last summer, my wife has taken it pretty hard. Emily is our only daughter. When we got the call last night to come down to the city, our daughter had been raped. She just kind of snapped. The ride down here seemed longer than it should have."
"Hmm." Alex slipped into ADA mode.
"Will this, my wife's accusations, have any effect on the case once the detectives catch the monster who did this." Mr. Sanders sounded nervous.
"The physical evidence should hold the case together well. I don't see it as a huge problem; it could cause some bumps in the road, but it should all work out in our favor. The hardest part is Emily is going to have to face her attacker. We will, almost certainly, have to put her on the stand. I tell you what though, right now let's not worry about the trial. Let's worry about helping Emily live through this. Let's let Detective Benson worry about finding the monster."
"Alright, thank you for talking to me."
"Not a problem Mr. Sanders. Here is my card, if you have anymore questions just give me a call." Alex reached into her pocket and handed him a business card with her Office number and Cell number.
"Thank you, Ms. Cabot. I think I want to get back to Emily."
Alex and Mr. Sanders made their way back to Emily's room. They found Emily asleep with Kathleen sitting in the chair beside her, holding her hand. With the presence of two more people Emily woke up.
"Daddy?" Emily cried out.
"Yes baby," Richard Sanders took a vigil on the opposite side of the bed from Kathleen.
"I'm scared."
"I know sweetheart." He took his daughter's hand in his own strong one. "I'm here now. I'm so sorry."
Fran Sanders was standing in the doorway with Olivia. She watched the scene before her. Entering the room, her husband and daughter looked up at her.
"Mother, I'm not really in the mood for any thing right now."
"Emily, you need to grow up. This is the sort of thing that happens to people like you."
"How can you be so ignorant. Just leave please."
"I…" with that Fran marched out of the room back to the hotel where she and Richard had stored their stuff.
Everyone just stood there for a moment. Olivia finally broke the silence.
"Um, we should get going. Emily, Mr. Sanders here is my card with my cell number." She handed a card to each of them.
"Thank you Detective Benson." Emily said through tears.
"You can call me Olivia." Olivia smiled at Emily.
"Thank you Olivia." Emily tried to grin back, but wasn't able to.
Kathleen squeezed Emily's hand as she stood up and exited the room behind Olivia and Alex.
Once outside and back in the car, Alex who was driving after a suddenly sullen Olivia handed her the keys, spoke up.
"So Kathleen, where too? Anything you need?"
"No I'm all set, how about just back to Hudson, I need to talk to Jenny, our RA." Kathleen sat looking out the window as she spoke.
"Okay no problem." Alex pulled the car out into traffic and headed off in the direction of Hudson University.
Pulling up to Kat's dorm she turned around to look at Kat.
"You know that you are welcome to come to us for anything you need."
"I know, and thank you for everything, last night, today." With that Kathleen hopped out of the car with her packages and raced into her building.
Alex pointed the car in the direction of home. Olivia hadn't said anything since she told Emily to call Olivia. Parking the car in their designated spot, Olivia and Alex hopped into the elevator and rode up to their 4th floor apartment.
Olivia threw off the coat and dropped it in a chair and kicked her shoes off into the pile by the door. She proceeded around to the couch where she just flopped down. Alex watched her movements with curiosity. Alex took her shoes of and placed them in the pile and hung both her and Olivia's coats on the hooks by the door. She then went into the living room where she found Olivia sprawled on the couch.
"What's the matter Liv?" Alex sat down on the couch, careful not to crush any parts of Olivia.
Olivia didn't speak she just scooted until her head was in Alex's lap. She wrapped her hand around the blonde's knee and sighed.
"I never was able to tell her Alex," Olivia said softly.
"Never tell who what," Alex said running her hand through Olivia's hair.
"My Mom. I was never able to tell her about me."
"Hmm." Alex hummed as she continued to stroke Olivia's head.
"I guess… at some level I always knew, but I never admitted to it until you came back. I just wonder how she would have reacted. She might have behaved like Emily's mom. Or maybe she just wouldn't have cared."
"You needed to tell yourself first Liv. I wouldn't worry about your mom. You never knew maybe she did know. Mom's sometimes know these things."
"How did your Mom and Dad find out?"
"Well…"
/Meanwhile with Kathleen at the Dorm/
Kathleen made it upstairs and into her room with little trouble. She hadn't bought that much stuff. As she was pushing through the door to her room she noticed that things seemed off.
"I don't believe you are friends with her?" Julie snapped as she threw some books into a bag.
"That cop woman. She came bustin' up that party on Friday and ruined everything. Her and them cop friends of her's."
"Wait, it wasn't her fault that they had to bust up the party. Emily, from down the hall was raped while she was sleeping. That's why the party got busted up. Olivia just doesn't go around busting up parties cause it's fun." Kathleen was so mad.
"Well all of this just sucks, I've been wanting to do this for a while now. I'm moving upstairs with Katie."
"Wait what you've been meaning to do this for a while. What's up I thought we were getting along fine."
"Not really." Julie snapped. "Whatever even if we were we're not now. I'm so outta here, Katie and I wanted to live together anyway, and now that her roommate dropped out, they said I could move up."
"Fine whatever." Kathleen left the room and down the hall and started knocking on Jenny's door.
Jenny, a tall lanky brown haired girl opened the door.
"Hi Kathleen, is everything okay, do you want to come in."
"Yeah, thanks Jen." Kathleen entered the room and plopped down on the couch.
Jenny took a seat in her desk chair and swiveled around to look at Kathleen.
"Did you know about Julie leaving?"
"Yeah, she told me that she wanted to move upstairs, and since the spot is open now the director gave the okay. What's up? Are you upset she's leaving, you guys really never hung out much."
"No, I'm just upset she never came and talked to me about things I might have done to upset her or what ever. You know what I don't care. I actually wanted to talk to you anyway about something else and I might have an answer to the situation now."
"Okay."
"I went to see Emily today, my friend Detective Benson was able to get me into her."
"Oh no Emily, is she going to be alright, I wasn't around last night I was off for the night so I went home to see my brother. I just got back and heard about it from Christa, the hall director."
"Well physically she will be okay. However she told me she didn't want to live in that room anymore. I was wondering since my room is free now, maybe she could live with me." Kathleen looked at her hands the entire time she spoke.
"I see, well technically the person moving needs to initiate the move and sign off on it and all that stuff. But you know what I'll talk to Christa about it and see if we, considering the circumstances can change protocol for this."
"Thanks Jenny." Kathleen grinned.
"No problem Kat."
"I think I'm going to go help Julie move now."
Jenny laughed as she opened the door to let Kat out.
/a few hours later/
Julie was all moved up stairs to Katie's room and that left Kathleen in a half empty room.
As Kat was reading some history homework there was a knock at her door. Kathleen lifted herself off her bed and opened the door without looking who it was. Jenny and Christa stood there.
"Kat, Christa gave the okay, we can move Emily's stuff over tonight and then have the paperwork ready for when she gets back on campus."
"Really?"
Christa nodded. "And Emily's roommate completely understands and is really glad that you are letting her move in with you so they are still on the same floor. In fact she wants out of the room too but doesn't want to leave Emily on the floor without her."
"Cool." Kathleen was actually smiling for the first time that week.
Christa, Jenny, Kathleen and Steph, Emily's roommate, moved all of Emily's things over to Kathleen's room, it took then about and hour and a half to get the room in order. Not long after they finished Kathleen turned in for the night for a restless sleep.
/with Olivia and Alex/
Olivia looked up at Alex, she had finished her story about coming out to her parents about a half-hour ago. They had talked about it for a bit then fell into a nice comforting silence.
"I love you Alex."
"I love you too Olivia."
"Alex," Olivia lifted her head and placed her lips next to Alex's ear. "Can I kiss you again," she breathed.
Alex bit her bottom lip, grinning and nodded. Olivia gently tasted Alex's lips, drawing out a soft moan from her lover. Their kiss started to grow in intensity. Olivia adjusted so she could pull Alex into her lap, hardly breaking contact. She drew her hand behind Alex's head, threading her fingers in her hear. Her tongue sought out her partners, they gently caressed each other. Alex placed her hands on Olivia's back and drew herself even closer. They were becoming one. They finally broke for air, leaning their foreheads together, keep as much contact as they could. Alex grabbed Olivia's hand and they slowly made their way to their bedroom.
/Sunday Morning/
Alex and Olivia lay in bed still sleeping, spooned together. The shrill ring of the phone jerked them awake. Alex fumbled for the phone on the nightstand.
"Hello," she choked out, her voice not yet ready to speak.
"Oh no I woke you, I'm so sorry."
"Don?" Alex asked still half asleep.
"I'm so sorry Alex, is Olivia there." Don felt horrible for waking the women, but something had come up.
Alex handed the phone over to Olivia and rolled over and fell back to sleep.
"Captain?" Olivia said trying to get her voice to work also.
"Olivia, I can't apologize enough for waking you two. We got the guy."
"What?" Olivia said highly confused.
"Emily's rapist. He was charged with attempted rape, last night at another dorm party at Hudson. When we printed him last night, just for kicks I had the prints run from Emily's case and we got a match. He's in interrogation right now I thought I would give you first dibs on him."
Olivia had sat up further during the explanation. Alex sensing that something was up by Olivia's actions pulled herself awake.
"I'll be right in." Olivia said and hung up the phone.
She turned to Alex who was looking at her with a questioning expression.
"They got him, Emily's rapist, he's in interrogation right now."
"Lets go."
Olivia nodded and they both hopped into the shower and changed in record speed and where out the door.
A/N: well I went a little over my 12-page limit on this one. Okay so coming up: The interrogation of the rapist. We see how Emily is doing. Emily returns to the dorm. The trial starts. And what about Emily's Mom? Enjoy! Lishbug