"JJ, did Emiko ever seem really upset?"
"Sometimes, and she came in with bruises, whe I asked her about it she freaked out and told me it was track or gymnastics." JJ cried.
"Sweetie,it's o.k, do any of your other friends suspect something?"
"Paige and Torri, they're are our only friends."
"O.k, we need to speak to you,Paige, and Torri privately, can you get them for me?"
"Yeah follow me." JJ got on her feet,walked to the door, and pushed it open hitting Elliot."
"OMPH!"
"Oh my god I'm so sorry!" she apologized.
"It's ok." he rubbed his forehead.
"JJ, this is Elliot Stabler, my partner, he is going to get your friends with you while I go get Emiko's address, o.k?"
"Whatever." she flipped her blonde hair over her shoulder and started walking to the door. She stopped in front of the door that labeled 415 Spanish, took a deep breath, and opened it.
"Mr.Bail, I need Paige Brownson please." Paige looked up from her book and gathered her things. Looking one last time at Mr.Bail who nodded his head she headed ou the door, Paige right behind her.
"Paige this is Detective Stabler, he is here about Emiko." Elliot smiled causally as a wave of fear took over Paige's body.
"Is she alright?" she whispered.
"That's what we want to find out."
"Come on, lets get Torri." JJ walked to the door right next to it and opened it.
"Miss.Kingswat can we borrow Torri Bradford?"
"Sure, Torri follow JJ." A girl with black hair and a thin frame walked up to them and eyed Elliot.
"Emiko?" The girls nodded.
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"Paige, have you noticed anything different in Emiko's behavior?" Olivia asked.
"Not really, she is usually the same, angry and depressed." Paige took her brown hair and tied it back in a pony tail.
"What about her appearence?"
"She gets alot of bruises, just yesterday she came in with a broken nose." she looked down at the floor.
"How do you think she got that?"
"Gymnastics, she is very dedicated, she said she fell of the beam and hit her face."
"What about the bruises?"
"I know those are from track, she loves running but everytime she hits a hurdle, boom she bruises!"
"That simple?"
"Yep."
"O.k, we are just about done here, Paige if there is anything you need to tell me, go ahead." She took a deep breath and looked into Olivia's eyes.
"Emiko gets upset easily, when I questioned her about the bruises she threw her book at me, it took our Algebra teacher to get her to calm down, we first met in 4th grade when I got put into a foster home for being abused myself."
"You clicked automatically?"
"Yeah, we cried on each others shoulders, told each other secrets, and learned to cope with our problems."
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Elliot stared at Torri for about five minutes before she started talking.
"Emiko hates going home, everytime the day ends, she begs the teachers to let her stay, but they say she had no reason, so she cries until I let her come home with me."
"Why do you think she does that?"
"Her Dad is crazy, everytime I am over there he is drinking or hitting her."
"Hitting?"
"Yeah, one time he broke her nose." Torri let out a piercing cry.
"Is Emiko dead!"
"We are not sure, we checked her house but we couldn't find her, do you know where we could find her?"
"Try the Junior High gym or Mcglauglins Gymnastics, that is probably where she is." Torri started crying.
"I knew it! I tried not to think about it, she said it was all accidents, like she fell off the beam or hit a hurdle, I believed her but it got worse and worse!"
"Why didn't you tell anybody, didn't you say you knew her Dad hit her?"
"I thought it only happened once, I witnessed it, I swear Emiko only said it happened once."
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"Did anyone find Emiko yet?" Captain Donald Cragen asked as he came out of his office.
"Munch and Fin are checking Mcglauglins right now, El and I are on our way to the Junior High." Olivia informed the Cragen. He retreated back to his office.
"Lets go." Elliot grabbed his coat and walked out the door.
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"Is that her?" Detective John Munch asked pointing to a Japanese girl on the rings.
"Might be, look at her nose, it looks broken just like Torri,JJ, and Paige said." Munch's partner Odafin Tutuola answered.
"EMIKO!" Munch called out. Everybody stopped and looked at him. A short,stocky girl pointed to Emiko."
"Thanks." The girl nodded and returned to her flips.
"Emiko Kobyashi?" Fin asked her. She quickly turned her head and nodded solemnly.
"Detectives Munch and Tutuola, can we speak to you for a minute?" Emiko took her towel lying next to the rings and wiped her face.
"Where?" asked Emiko in a thick Japanese accent.
"Can we take you down to our precinct for a little while?" Munch asked.
"Sure." she picked up her back and followed the Detectives out of the building.
3rd chapter possibly tomorrow!