Hey everyone…this chapter could probably be in a soap opera… I guess I'm kinda getting carried away with the drama but w/e this is fanfic. Well I obviously don't L&O SVU I'm just borrowing them…right borrowing, so don't sue. Dick will get them all back.
Thanks to my lovely reviewers I love you guys and please continue reviewing everyone. Please review because the more reviews the quicker the next chapter gets posted."Hey Jamie. You get to leave today." Even her voice sounded strained as she tried to focus on the girl.
"Where am I going to live?" a monotonous tone…nothing more. The same as when she came.
"Well for now you will be staying in foster care until we find some of your family that you can stay with." She tried to give a smile to the girl but it turned out looking like a twisted grin.
"You have no idea what it was like do you? Day after day I didn't know what was going to happen to me and all that I could count on was one day finding my mom and leaving my dad. I've been beaten all my life and for about most of it I thought it was the way people lived. But it's not is it? The part that's even worse with the world is that it doesn't give a shit." Jamie's eyes were closed now but the still purple lids let the raindrops of humans slide down her gaunt cheeks and onto the pillow.
"Jamie… I know what it's like to be you, I know what its like to be lost but the only way that you can ever let this stay here in this time is to tell me about your dad." Slowly Olivia blinked hard, her tears also threatening to fall. "Name's of some of his hookers, if you know any could be a start."
"Uhh, are you sure that he won't…he won't find me?" Olivia nodded reassuringly. "The last one that I met was Maria and there has also been Bella, Hannah, Maureen, Katie, Jessica and Uhh Veronica."
"Any last names by any chance?" Olivia pried…but gently.
"Umm…no I don't think so," deep creases lined her forehead; little waves of hope and frustration. "Wait there was one. Maureen Staler…no wait Stabler. Yes that's it Maureen Stabler." Her eyes seemed to light up as she figured out the last name. Olivia's heart sunk.
"No not Maureen she must have it wrong."
"Ok thanks a lot Jamie I will go see what I can find." And she walked out while giving the girl an encouraging little wave.
"Oh, hello Olivia," Kathy's voice was flat as she answered the door.
"Hey Kathy. Is Maureen around? I kind of need to talk to her." She tried to make her voice sound normal but seeing even Elliot's ex-wife distraught about Elliot's stomach cancer made her realize how much Kathy still cared for him.
"Yeah she is. I'll take you to her room."
Maureen was curled up in her bed, the flowered bedspread coving most of her limp form. She seemed so young again and so fragile as if she could shatter into millions of little pieces in a split second. She could almost fit the part, back in the room that she kept as a child. Slowly Olivia shuffled into the room and Kathy shut the door behind her.
"Hey Maureen, how are you feeling?" her voice was slightly hurried.
"How the hell do you think Olivia? It's not like you even care about my dad if you're over here talking to me." Sharper than a knives point her voice threw daggers at the detective.
"Maureen of course I care about your dad but I have an eleven year old raped by her dad and I need to find him." Maureen paused and looked at the defeated woman who still lurked near the entrance of her childhood room.
"Then why are you here?"
"I honestly don't know how to say this Maureen but the girl's father…was a pimp. When I was asking the girl who some of his hookers are…" Maureen's eyes widened. "She named you Maureen." She stopped letting everything sink in. "Do you think you could explain it to me?"
"N...n...no," her eyes were saucers now and her lips contorting from fright.
"Please Maureen you have to tell me. I promise that this can stay confidential for now, but we have to catch the bastard who did all of this." Her hands hung limp at her sides and she wanted to leave but Olivia knew that she could never be the weak one. Not now.
"Please Olivia, don't tell my dad it would just break him more… you know. I met Peter if that is his real name when I was at the mall. He seemed nice enough maybe a little bit older but I honestly thought he was really into me. We went out on a few dates and then he offered me an easy way to get cash. He told me that I would only have to have sex with a few men but after the first time I quit. I think after that I realized how similar to my dad I am. But now…" she trailed off her eyes trained on the carpeted floor.
"I know Maureen but we all have to stay strong for your dad especially when he isn't. That's why we're here to help him." She gave a wan smile to the girl said a quiet thank you for sharing her story, told her that she would be back and left.
A/N There happens to be a little button below the chapter that says submit Reveiw. Unless you are totally screwed up in the head you might be able to figure out that it happens to be a slight hint. I won't dumb it down...you guys are smart. I hope.
