Tortured Tears

Chapter 3

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The room suddenly filled with anticipation but Dr. Huang held up a hand, making Olivia stop talking. "First, I'm going to go get Tracy some toys…and a teddy bear. Olivia, maybe you should just hold that thought until I get back, then I can get detectives Munch and Tutuola in here so that they can be filled in on what's going on. Just sit down and relax for a minute," stated Huang as he left the room leaving Elliot, Donald and Olivia by themselves. They all sat down silently, waiting for George's return.

They didn't have to wait for long. In about 5 minutes George came back, followed by John and Fin. The two detectives sat down with Elliot and Olivia while George gave the toys to Tracy. Once everyone was back in the viewing room, Huang asked Olivia to tell everyone what Tracy had said.

"From what I understand, Caitlin and her children were just at home watching television when Caitlin got a phone call. Tracy said that her mom went into her room to talk but that she could hear her mom yelling at whomever was on the phone. After a few minutes Caitlin came back into the living room and told Tracy and Austin to go into her room and not to come out until she came and got them. Tracy said that she and Austin went into their mom's room and were hiding in the closet. They heard someone knock on the door and then lots of screaming and crying. She said that she heard a big bang and got really scared. Then Austin told her to stay in the closet and he left the room. She kept hearing crying and yelling mostly from her mom and a man. Then the door slammed shut and everything was quiet. She said that she stayed in the closet because she was really scared and her mom told her to stay in there no matter what. She was waiting for Austin to come back when she heard a bunch of people in the house and then Elliot found her.

"At first I was satisfied but then I remembered that gash on her leg. I asked her how that happened and she simply said that it was an accident. I tried to ask her again but she wouldn't answer me. That's when I tried asking her about the man that was in her house. She just started crying and then she started singing. Just like she did with you George. 'Can't tell you…Go away…' I told her that it was okay if she told me and she simply looked up and said, 'If I don't tell you, he can't hurt you.' I'm assuming that's when you turned the intercom on. I heard the little 'click'.

"I'm still confused though. We don't know how she got the gash on her leg. She won't tell us anything about the attacker…She knows something that we don't and she's not going to tell us anytime soon." At first everybody was silent but Huang was the first one to reply a few minutes later.

"You know…that's a lot of information coming from a 4 year old. You'd think she wouldn't be able to tell you what happened so easily…Has anyone heard anything new from the lab?" The detectives either shrugged or shook their heads. The Captain hadn't heard anything either. He stood up and paused for a moment; Then turned and told everyone to go back to their desks incase they got any calls. Cragen asked Olivia to go back with Tracy while he tried to find emergency foster care for the child.

Liv didn't have to occupy Tracy long when Fin came into the interrogation room, announcing that he got a call from the lab. Olivia told Tracy that she would be back in a minute and stepped outside to talk with Fin.

"They found that her blood alcohol level was really high. She was drunk when this all happened." Olivia just looked at him with a blank stare but after a moment, she finally spoke.

"She was drunk?" Fin nodded and gave a small "yeah," in response before Olivia went back to her desk to try and do some paperwork of some sort. Fin had followed her and was a little peeved that she hadn't taken what he said into consideration.

"Benson! Are you just going to leave that girl in there to play with those dolls all by herself?"

"What does it look like I'm doing? She's okay, Cragen is finding foster care for her as we speak." Fin didn't know why Liv was becoming so irritated all of the sudden but decided he'd go back to his desk and let her calm down.

He had just sat down when Cragen came out of his office and gave Liv a piece of paper with an address on it and asked her to take Tracy to her new foster home. At first she agreed but the stinging in her eyes and the glances she kept getting from Fin told her that she really needed some sleep so she politely asked Elliot if he could take tracy.

"Why can't you take her?" he asked.

"I'm not feeling so well and I haven't slept in about 48 hours. I was thinking maybe I could get an hour of two of sleep up in the crib. Please Elliot…Tell Tracy that I'll come by later on to check on her and give her some clothes and such." She gave Elliot a cold look before heading up to the crib. And just as she was taking off her boots she heard Elliot call from down below.

"You owe me one Benson!"

Sorry about this chapter. I know it's not that good or very exciting but I had to put in all of the information and stuff like that. I know this one sucked but chapter 4 is going to be pretty good. Hope you guys don't hate me or anything! Don't forget to review ;)