Hi, just wanted to say thank you for the good reviews, this is my first SVU fanfiction story and the reviews are appreciated. Anyway, onto the fourth chapter beginning at the house of Eddie Cavanaugh, enjoy and I will try to get chapter 5 up as soon as my timetable allows me enough time to complete it.

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Chapter 4 – Road to nowhere

Eddie Cavanaugh's residence

"Hello, Mr Cavanaugh?" Elliot shouted banging on the door, "Amy go check round the back." He ordered she obeyed and took a uniformed officer with her.

"Mr Cavanaugh!" Olivia shouted, Casey was stood peering through a window.

"Nothing." Casey sighed checking again.

"Right here we go." Elliot said taking a step back and letting the uniformed officers break the door down.

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They were inside when Amy came strolling in through the kitchen.

"Back door was open, and the coffee cup is still warm, looks like he's done a runner." She said pulling open a drawer and looking inside.

"Put an APB out on him and his car, he can't have gotten far." Olivia said and Amy nodded heading out to the squad car.

"I'll leave you to get on with things, let me know when you find anything." Casey said following her sister out of the house.

"I thought all sisters were supposed to be best friends." Olivia observed watching Casey catch up to Amy.

"You never had a sister; they can be pretty annoying sometimes, especially younger ones." Elliot replied moving to one side to let the forensics team in.

"But I can appreciate how annoying an older brother must be though with you." Olivia sighed taking one last look at Amy and Casey who were stood deep in conversation.

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"I just wanted to say you did well this morning, in the interview." Casey said to Amy who was sat in the squad car after circulating the APB.

"I told you I wouldn't fall apart; you just got to have a little more faith in me." Amy replied.

"You can't exactly blame me for worrying, it comes part and parcel with the role of older sibling, just ask any of the other 4, I get it from them too." Casey smiled.

"I know, but to be honest you're the worst of the lot, you're almost as bad as mum, honestly you both worry if I tell you I sneezed twice."

"You're the baby of the family; you should be used to it by now. Anyway Amy I'm sorry for doubting you and you really showed how good you are at what you do today." Casey hesitated.

"You're only 3 years older than me remember, I sense a however coming on now." Amy sighed waiting for her sister to finish.

"However I still think I'm right, you've been bottling things up for too long. I'm not going to pressure you into talking, but you know where I'll be when you decide the time is right."

"I do but I won't need it, like I said I'm fine. You have to learn to trust my judgement."

"I prefer my own gut instinct, I'll see you later. Be careful Amy." Casey replied turning away and going to her car.

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"Definitely blood and semen on the sofa, I'll let you know as soon as I get the results." The forensics guy told Elliot as Olivia came down the stairs.

"Anything else?" Elliot asked.

"A closet full of dirty magazines, unwashed clothes, a disgusting bathroom, other than that no." Olivia replied at the same moment Elliot's cell rang.

"Stabler." He answered. "Great we're on our way in." He put the phone away. "That was Fin, Cavanaugh's just been pulled up a few blocks from here, faulty break light just at the exact moment the APB went out. He's at the precinct now." Elliot told Olivia.

"Let's go. Amy can stay here and check the rest of his drawers I think I saw a journal in a box in the closet." Olivia replied following Elliot out of the door.

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Precinct

"Hey Eddie, I'm Detective Stabler and this is Detective Benson, and we'd like to ask you some questions." Elliot announced walking into the interview room with Olivia.

"Let's start with Monday night, where were you?" Olivia added.

"At home watching TV as always." Eddie replied.

"What did you watch?" Elliot asked sitting down opposite him.

"I can't remember, I kept changing the channel, couldn't find anything good to watch." Eddie replied with a grin.

"Well I know someone that say's you weren't at home. Was anyone with you?" Olivia asked.

"I live on my own."

"Shame, I bet a guy like you doesn't have many friends." Elliot said.

"What do you mean a guy like me?" Eddie asked.

"You know the kind of guy that takes 14 year old girls to his house and rapes them, sick bastards like that." Elliot snapped.

"Not me, I was at home all night."

"Funny then that I know someone who said otherwise. By the way we'd appreciate a DNA sample from you." Olivia casually and coldly.

"I'm not giving you anything until my lawyer gets here."

"Well it's a good thing I've gotten a warrant then." Elliot replied with a grin and he got the sample from Eddie.

"We'll let you know when we get the results." Olivia replied bagging the swap and passing it to the uniformed officer.

"You won't find anything because I didn't do anything. Now are you done because I kind of want to get out of here, there's a game I want to watch." Eddie said.

"Take him back to the cells until we get the results." Elliot told the other uniformed officer.

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Two hours later Amy returned from the house with a huge smile on her face.

"Result?" Elliot asked.

"Yes and no."

"Then why the smile?" Olivia asked.

"Good news is there's a journal and receipts proving that he was out of the house at the time Della said he was."

"What about the bad news?" Olivia asked.

"The journal is in French, not my best subject at school, I preferred Italian probably because the teacher was better looking."

"French?" Elliot asked.

"Confuses you as much as it does me, Munch is working on a translator now. How did the interview go?" Amy replied as Olivia went to pick up the phone.

"Denies all knowledge, we're waiting for the DNA results, was there anything else at the house you found out?" Elliot asked.

"The house was a mess, honestly it was disgusting I felt physically sick with some of it, you only saw half. He doesn't appear to have many friends given the few numbers in his address book and dirty magazines." Amy replied with a shudder.

"What about them?"

"He could open up a library." At that point Olivia returned.

"That was the lab, the blood in the house is Della's and the semen is his. Bad news is that we didn't get any DNA from Della that matched his, she didn't put up much of a fight, and we can't prove that he raped her just from the fact that it's her blood." Olivia said disappointedly.

"She could have been there before, I noticed he doesn't clean, and as for the semen on the couch, lets not think about how that got there. What now?" Amy asked.

"Wait for the journal to be translated, unless anything else turns up it's her word against his. Maybe we should speak to Della again." Elliot suggested.

"I don't think she's up to it. The last time was really hard on her." Amy replied.

"I want George to do a profile on Eddie, see what he says." Olivia said.

"And let's hope we get something else from forensics, there were all sorts in his trash. I mean I know what rubbish two guys generate but this was something else." Amy added.

"What do you mean?" Olivia asked.

"I don't know; it's just a feeling I've got. I think he just throws anything away without thinking, maybe something will turn up. I'll go chase up the diary, let's hope he wrote down all the sordid details." Amy replied leaving.

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Office of ADA Casey Novak

"If we present what we've got to a jury he's going to get away, no DNA, no case it's as simple as that. I hate it when it's like this but I can't make it any clearer." Casey told Olivia who'd come to fill her in on the case.

"Is that how it was with Amy, no DNA evidence?" Olivia asked anxiously broaching the subject.

"Guy used protection there was no DNA at all, he was wearing gloves and he hit her so hard that she couldn't fight back so there was nothing, only a face and a name. And 13 years ago it was treated differently; the blame was on her, Amy's word against his. Looks like this case is going to go the exact same way, and I for one think it's going to be as hard on Amy as it is on Della." Casey sighed rubbing her temples, thinking about what happened to Amy always gave her headache.

"Well maybe we'll find something from his trash and his diary, any good at translating French?" Olivia asked hopefully.

"Always better at Italian, the teacher was gorgeous all the girls in the class used to swoon over him." Casey recalled and Olivia laughed. "What's so funny?"

"Amy said the exact same thing about him. And there's no need to worry about her, Elliot and I are making sure she's ok. Cragen has already warned us about not letting her get into trouble. I've I'm keeping my watchful eye over the pair of them."

"Good. In the meantime however, I think we ought to speak to Della again, if there is a chance she's lying I want it covered. I'll have to come up with my own way of dealing with Amy." Casey replied.

"Sure, and I've got George giving Cavanaugh the once over too. I'll let you know how we get on." Olivia said leaving the ADA to get on with her work.

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