Chapter 3

Olivia slammed the phone hard against its receiver and stared at the teen's file in front of her. She stayed fixated at the images of the young girl's face and the bruises that were all over her body. The cut on her neck definitely stood out.

Whoever did this to her wanted her dead. The doctors admitted that if it weren't for the drop in temperature that night the teen would have bled out to death.

Amanda noticed her captain's reaction as soon as she walked into her office. She stopped in her tracks, wondering if she should continue but Olivia had already glanced up at her.

"Everything alright, Captain?" Rollins asked her even though she knew it was a stupid question.

Olivia let out a huge sigh. "You know that 24 hour tail we asked the hospital to put on that girl…"

Amanda rolled her eyes before responding. "Don't tell me they lost her..."

"They lost her," Olivia shook her head in disappointment.

"Its not your fault," Amanda said to her matter-of-factly.

"Someone should have stayed there," Liv told her.

"The hospital asked us to leave," the blonde justified.

"Well, without a witness, we don't really have a case anymore," Benson added before she let out another deep breath. "I knew that she was going to bolt." She blamed herself again. "I could see it in her eyes."

"She was unconscious before we left. She had a seizure and was being taken care of by the staff. There was no reason to assume she would leave when she needed that much medical attention."

"What the hell happened to her?" she asked as she stared at the picture of her again. "I wish I knew what she was so afraid of that would cause her run when she was in that much pain..."

"We'll find her," Amanda assured her.

"Let's hope so," Olivia said as she closed the file in front of her.

"Hey," Carisi appeared in the doorway. "Is this a bad time?"

"No," Liv told him. "What's up?"

"We just got a call that a body was found on twenty-first and second. A young girl," he ended.

"They think it was a rape?" Liv questioned.

"She was found completely naked," he informed them.

Amanda and Olivia shared a saddened look at the thought. That was only a few blocks from St. Catherine's Hospital, where they last saw the teen.

"Fin and I can go," Carisi offered when he misunderstood their reactions.

"No," Olivia answered. "I'll take Rollins. We may already have an idea on this one," she said in a defeated tone.

Lieutenant Benson and Detective Rollins began making their way to the crime scene and saw the blue plastic from a long distance. It was never a good feeling seeing a covered up body on the ground despite how many of them they've seen in their time.

Melina gazed up at the two of them and stopped writing her report.

"What happened?" Olivia asked her when they were in hearing distance of eachother.

"A young girl. I would say she was about 14 or 15. Blunt force trauma to the back of the skull looks to be the cause of death."

"Time of death?" Olivia asked.

"Well, telling by the discoloration of the upper and lower extremities, lividity of death was approximately between 3 to 6 am. I'll know more, after doing some more examination though."

"That's about the time we left the hospital," Amanda concluded.

"You think you know the victim?" Melinda asked them just before they reached the body.

The other medical examiners noticed their badges and lifted the plastic accordingly, to display the girl's face.

Benson and Rollins both furrowed their eyebrows in confusion.

"Uh, no," Amanda answered after getting a better look at the blonde-haired dead girl lying in front of them. "We thought we did."

Olivia leaned in closer to assess the body and noticed the long slash across the girl's neck. It was very similar to the other young girl's injury.

"And the knife wound?" she asked.

"It was done post-mortem," Melinda informed them.

Amanda chimed in. "Why would he slit her throat after she was already dead?" she questioned aloud. "To send a message?" she answered herself.

"Or maybe he didn't know she was dead," Olivia added.

"They're both possibilities. One thing to note…" Melinda said as she reached over and lifted the dead girl's right hand. "She didn't go down without a fight. There's blood and debris underneath her fingernails. I'll run some tests to see if I can gather some more information."

Olivia let out a small sigh of relief. "And with any luck, he'll be in the system..."

"There are fresh bruises on her abdomen and chest as well," Melinda pointed out.

"Consistent with the other victim," Amanda told them. "It has to be the same guy."

"Well there's a woman who claims to know the girl," Melina pointed to the older woman leaning against a town-car just a few feet away. "She might be able to tell you more."

Olivia and Amanda studied the thirty-something year old woman, who was smoking a cigarette and speaking to other police officers on the scene.

"Thanks," Olivia answered.

A/N: I know you all are dying to know who the teen is to Olivia and that will be revealed soon. Don't worry. I will tell you this… It is NOT her daughter. For some reason, I find it hard to believe that Olivia would ever give up her daughter or stop looking for her if she was kidnapped so that is why I don't ever write Olivia/Daughter fics. But there definitely is a connection.