AN: I said it would be up this week, so here it is… I know that there's a lot of SVU, but it's a crossover… please review.
"So, is your sister's name Rebecca Mitchells?"
"Mitchells was my mother's last name. It's Carolyn… Carolyn Barek."
Elliot and Olivia looked at each other and then back at Rachel as if asking her to explain, to go on, so say something else… but she didn't.
"Carolyn Barek who works in Major Case?" Elliot finally got out. Can't be.
"Yes, that's Becky…"
"So, umm, this guy Bobby's-" Please, this can't be happening.
"Robert Goren, yes. Could I ask you something, though? I know you're going to talk to him, could you just not do it in the precinct, I mean, he hasn't done anything and… could you just wait till he's out of there, at least, please?"
As a woman trying to protect her sister it's better than fine, but they're both cops and they work together! "I guess we could do that," Olivia said glancing at Elliot for a second.
"Thank you… I'm not going to ask you not to talk to Jimmy, though."
"Why not? What's the difference?"
"You guys go into his office, shut the door, draw the blinds, no one hears or sees anything, it could be about anything that you're talking about, it could be a message from your captain to him or something like that, you going there to talk to him doesn't imply Bobby has done anything, it doesn't get people thinking 'What has Goren done now?'…"
"Ok… were can we reach you?"
"This is my cell," Rachel said, giving Elliot a small piece of paper, "it's on all the time, so I'll probably answer."
Stabler and Benson walked into Major Case and felt everyone staring at them… and they were thankful the detectives weren't there (Goren, Eames, Logan and Barek, especially the first and the last).
"Captain Deakins…" Elliot started when they reached the boss' office.
"Detectives, what brings you here?"
"Umm, Rachel Mitchells… we understand you know her?"
"What? Did something happen to her? I saw her this morning and she was-"
"Sir, we spoke to her and she says she's fine, but we got a call and we need to check up on it, to make sure she really is fine, so if you don't mind we would like to ask you a few questions."
"So, what did you guys find?" Don Cragen asked Elliot and Olivia as soon as he saw them walking towards them – Munch, Fin and himself.
"Well," Olivia started, "Rachel says he's never touched her, and that he never would, she had a very interesting story… and it checks out."
"So the sister was wrong?"
"Apparently so. Cap I believe the girl, and even if I didn't, I don't think there's anything we can do. If something is going on, she won't say anything."
"Have you talked to the guy yet? Do you know who he is?"
"No, we haven't talked to him. Yes, we know who he is." And I wish I didn't know.
"You're going to say who?"
"Umm," Elliot asked Olivia silently and continued, "we'd rather not, at least not yet." We're really hoping this won't become another file, or a report, or anything at all… not even a rumour.
"Go talk to him, now." I know it's late, don't give me that look. "Let's just get this over with."
TBC…
