"Ok, what is it?" she finally blurted. Cragen took in a deep breath then nodded.
"Last night there was a rape, the young woman is in a room with Munch."
"Okay…" Olivia wondered what the point was.
"Olivia we gave her a rape kit and Elliot recognized the MO…"
"A serial rapist?"
"Yeah…" Cragen tried to form words again.
"What?" Olivia waited again.
"His DNA matches yours."
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Olivia stood with a look of shock. She understood Cragen's hesitance to tell her.
"Olivia, please sit down," Cragen watched her carefully.
"I want to see him," Olivia looked around the room like it was spinning.
"You will, but I want you to know what he did before you see him," Cragen assured her, "please, sit."
Olivia nodded and took a seat, "tell me the case."
Cragen, after letting out a deep breath, began, "The victim, Mary-Jane Lexmark, says that at about ten she went for a walk in central park with her dog Bones. She was on her way home at about eleven when her dog went chasing after something in the bushes. She ran to find her dog when someone grabbed her from behind. He pushed her to the ground, raped her, and then left."
"how'd Elliot know the MO?"
"Mary-Jane says that while he raped her she saw a necklace around his neck, it had a gold chain-"
"and a single pearl engraved into a small gold slate." Olivia finished. Cragen nodded, "I want you to understand something, this case is going to be difficult for you. For right now I'm keeping you on it, but if I feel your judgment is clouded I have to take you off it, understood?"
Olivia nodded, "what's he like?"
Cragen thought for a minute, "he knows what he's doing."
"He's raped others… I want to know what number my mom was."
"Olivia, just remember, he is your father."
Olivia looked up at Cragen, then away, "you're more of a father then he will ever be."
Cragen followed Olivia out of his office and into the viewing room of the interrogation room that Elliot was in. Olivia took in a deep breath, the first time seeing her father.
"The bad part is I can see myself in him," she whispered to Cragen. Cragen nodded, also seeing the resemblance. The man had full brown hair, a little taller then average. He was muscular, but good looking- he seemed liked a good guy at a glance. The only thing that seemed puzzling about the man was his age, he looked awfully young for a man in his later years…
Finally Olivia snapped out of her train of thought and paid more attention to the actual interrogation.
"So you admit to being at Central Park at around eleven!" Elliot shouted.
"I didn't say that, I said that no one would have seen me if I was."
"Well you're wrong, because the woman you raped saw your face, and she'll be able to identify you!" Elliot seemed extra angry today.
"And she's not the first person you've raped is she! How many is it now? Two, three, four? Huh?" Elliot leaned in closely to the man, taking note of the necklace.
The man smiled then let out a small chuckle.
"Why do you do it? Can't get women any other way?"
"Are you kidding me? Do you see how good looking I am? I could have any woman I want, but there's something about taking the few that would refuse…"
"So it is more then one?" Elliot wondered. The man let out another chuckle. Olivia knocked on the window then turned around closing her eyes. Elliot walked out of the room, Cragen already gone.
He looked to see Olivia's eyes closed still. "Olivia, I'm-" he began before Olivia opened her eyes with tears welting up.
"I want him behind bars," Olivia's lip shook.
"He will be Liv, he will be. I'm not going to let him get away with anything," Elliot reassured. He put his hand on her shoulder lightly, "why don't you talk to the victim with Munch,"
Olivia nodded. After he watched her leave Elliot went back into the interrogation room with a whole new confidence. No one should be able to do what he's done to Olivia and her mother, no one.
Olivia stepped into the interrogation room, Munch looked surprised, it was obvious he knew too. She took a deep breath then plastered a fake smile, "Hi Mary-Jane, my name is Olivia."
Mary-Jane, about seventeen, smiled back. Olivia sat close to the girl, "how are you doing?"
The girl nodded, "fine! I'm fine! I keep telling his guy that I'm fine but he doesn't listen!"
Olivia frowned, "well you know it's ok to not be ok, I understand if you're hurting,"
The girl looked around frustrated then stood up quickly, knocking her chair to the floor, "what is up with you cops, I said I'm fine."
"you were raped, Mary-Jane."
"No I wasn't! I've told him this twenty times!"
"If you weren't raped then why are you here?"
"I don't know!"
Olivia frowned then followed Munch out of the room.
"What's going on?"
"First she said she was raped, then she said she wasn't and now she wants to drop the charges."
"are her parents here?" Munch nodded leading her to Mr. and Mrs. Lexmark.
"Hi, I'm Det. Olivia Benson," Olivia shook hands with the parents.
"Can we go yet?" The mother asked.
"In just a minute. First do you understand what's going on?"
"Yes, Mary-Jane made a false allegation and she admitted that, can we go now?" the mother repeated.
"We found semen in her, it was Mr. Shaw's." Olivia said, the parents remained quiet.
"Is your daughter dating Mr. Shaw?"
"Can we please just go home now, we've dropped the charges," the mother grew angry. Olivia looked at her confused and surprised, "soon, but not yet."
Something was fishy, but either way, she wasn't going to let Derek Shaw get away with anything else.
TBC