"Nurse!" Dr. Jason Kloss stood quickly from his desk and hurried to help the woman passed out on his floor. Something about his presence had frightened her, though what exactly had triggered her he didn't know yet. A nurse came rushing in and they worked together to pick Alex up off the floor and lie her down on the sofa in his office. The nurse began taking Alex's pulse and blood pressure.

"Alex, honey? Can you hear me? Open your eyes for me, sweetheart." the nurse coaxed.

Alex's eyes slowly fluttered open. She gazed around the room until her eyes landed on Dr. Kloss and she began to sob, trembling in fear, curling up fetal in a corner of the couch and trying to make herself as small as possible. Dr. Kloss went back to sit behind his desk so that there was a barrier between him and Alex and nothing blocking her access to the door.

"Alex, I'm so sorry if I frightened you, but I promise I am not a threat to you, I am here to help. I know that you have trouble speaking, so on the table next to you is a spiral notebook and a pencil if you want to write." Dr. Kloss said kindly. Alex snatched up the notebook and pencil.

Don't hurt me, Alex wrote, underlining each word three times.

"I'm not going to hurt you, I promise. Can you tell me why you think I'm going to hurt you?"

You did before. You kidnapped me and Michaela and you tortured us.

"I'm afraid I don't understand what you're talking about, Alex. To my knowledge this is the first time we've ever met."

You look just like the man who kidnapped us. She's still missing. What did you do with her?

Jason suddenly got a sick feeling in the pit of his stomach and thought he might be physically ill.

"Alex, I'm going to go out on a limb here. When you say Michaela, do you mean Michaela Brightman?" Jason asked slowly, treading carefully.

Alex's baby blue eyes popped open wide and she shrieked in fear.

I KNEW YOU WERE HIM! STAY AWAY FROM ME! DON'T HURT ME!

"I won't come near you, Alex, I promise, but would it be okay if I showed you something?"

Alex nodded hesitantly.

"Okay, I'm going to open my wallet and show you a picture. I'm going to put my wallet down on the table and then go back behind my desk."

Jason fished his wallet out of his pocket and flipped through it until he found what he was looking for. He got up, put his wallet down on the table, and then went back behind his desk so that there was once again a barrier between him and Alex. With a violently trembling hand, Alex picked up the wallet as if it might come alive at any moment and bite her. Her expression of fear changed to an expression of confusion as she gazed at a picture of Dr. Kloss and… Dr. Kloss?

"I'm a twin, Alex. That's my brother, David, everyone calls him Dave. If you flip over to the next picture, you'll see a picture of my brother with his submissive." Jason explained.

Alex almost fell off the couch when she flipped over to the next picture and saw a picture of Dave with Michaela smiling by his side.

Alex spent the rest of her hour-long therapy session sitting on the couch in stony silence, her brain working furiously to comprehend the information she had just learned. Jason didn't push her to speak or write and spent the hour making phone calls from his desk phone. Based on what he knew of his brother's criminal history, the lack of background information in Alex's file he had been given, and the contradictory reports, he was fairly certain that Alex didn't belong in a Transition Station at all.

"Sir?"

Jason hung up the phone and smiled when Alex spoke to him.

"You can call me Dr. Kloss or Dr. K., everybody else does."

"I… I… I… w… wa… w… want…" Alex stuttered, attempting her first full sentence in over a month.

"Take your time, Alex. Just relax and let the words come." Dr. Kloss encouraged.

"... t-to… g-g-go… h-ho-h-home." Alex finally managed to complete her sentence with tears in her eyes threatening to spill over.

"I know you do, Alex, and I am going to do everything in my power to make sure you get to go home as soon as possible. I called the Special Victims Unit to speak with the Captain there, but I had to leave a message."

"Sh-s-she's… m-my… M-M-Mi-Mistress." Alex stuttered.

Olivia stepped off of the elevator into the familiar hallway on her way back to the precinct after her lunch break and was greeted by Carisi practically knocking her over in his haste to run to the elevator. Declan Murphy was still technically acting as Lieutenant of SVU, but Olivia had been going crazy sitting at home with nothing to do just waiting for the phone to ring and decided to go back to work and make herself useful.

"Carisi, what the hell?! Where's the fire?!" Olivia scolded.

"Captain, you need to get back to your office immediately. You got an urgent call from one of the therapists at Rosewood. His name is Jason Kloss and he says he has information on the whereabouts of Dave Kloss and Michaela and he's willing to testify in court on your behalf and-"

Before Carisi could finish his statement, Olivia took off running back to her office. She found the phone number that had been written on a post-it note on her desk and quickly dialed the number.

"Jason Kloss." a man's voice came over the line.

"Dr. Kloss, this is Captain Benson returning your phone call."

"Oh, yes, Captain Benson. As you are well aware, your submissive Alex is here at Rosewood and today was her first therapy session with me. As soon as she walked into my office and laid eyes on me, she screamed and passed out. When she came to, she was genuinely frightened of me, but was able to communicate with me through writing and accused me of being the man who kidnapped and tortured her. What she didn't know is that I am an identical twin, my brother is Dave Kloss. My brother has been in and out of trouble with the law since we were young, and based on that alone I can only imagine what he's done now. In any case, I would like to help in any way I can. I can give you Dave's last known address. I am also willing to testify against him in court and I am doing everything in my power to get Alex out of here and back home to you. On a brighter note, more of her speech seems to be returning. She has a stutter, but she was able to string together a full sentence and expressed a desire to go home to you."

"Oh my God." Olivia sank into her chair, stunned, and ran her hand through her hair, unable to say anything else at the moment.

"My sentiments exactly. Just based on Alex's file alone I knew she didn't belong here. All of my patients have at least five years' worth of paperwork in their file. Alex only has the reports from SPS headquarters, the reports from the hospital after she was rescued, and the complaints made by Dave and Michaela. And anybody with two brain cells to rub together can see that the reports from SPS and the reports from the hospital don't match."

"If you don't mind, what do the complaints say? Can you tell me without breaking any laws?" Olivia inquired.

"Actually, I can. One moment. This one from Dave says that you sold Alex to him for cash knowing full well that she would be beaten and abused. This one from Michaela states that you coerced her into living with you and that while she was living with you, she witnessed you beating and abusing Alex on multiple occasions. Oh, I have someone here who wants to speak to you."

"M-Ma'am… I… w-w-wa-w-want… to… c-come… h-h-home." Alex's voice came over the line. Olivia's throat clogged with emotion upon hearing Alex's voice.

"I know you do, baby angel. I am doing everything in my power to get you home as fast as possible. Are you being a good girl?"

"Y-Yes… M-M-Ma'am. I… l-lo-love… y-y-you."

"I love you too, sweet girl. Always and forever."

Unfortunately, mostly thanks to bureaucracy, SPS refused to release Alex back into Olivia's custody without a trial. Olivia retained Rafael Barba as her lawyer and the trial was set for four weeks later, which was the quickest date they could get. Alex would have to remain at Rosewood for that time. She still had a stutter, but she finally had all of her words back and her physical injuries continued to heal nicely. Along with Alex's words came back her sassy tongue and she earned a session in the punishment room with Claire for the first time. The submissive blonde stood outside the door of the punishment room biting her lip nervously. She finally gathered her courage and knocked on the door.

"Come in." Claire's voice called from inside the room.

Alex hesitated for a moment before opening the door and letting herself inside, closing the door behind her. Claire looked up from where she sat at her desk writing something in a file.

"Hi, darling. I'm sorry we have to meet like this today. Go stand in that corner with your hands on your head and I'll be right with you in just a few minutes. While you're standing there, I want you to think about why you've been sent to me."

"Y-Y-Yes… M-Ma-Ma'am." Alex stuttered.

It was only a few minutes, but to Alex it felt like a few years passed before Claire called her out of the corner. Alex's stomach flipped as she turned from the corner and nervously walked over to where Claire sat in the middle of the small sofa.

"Normally I have my girls bend over my lap while I'm sitting in a chair, like you saw with Janelle when you first arrived, but I know your body is still healing and the only part of your body that should be uncomfortable during a spanking is your bottom, so I am going to have you lie over my lap here on the couch. The couch will give you more support. Do you understand why you're getting a spanking?"

"Ye-Yes… M-Ma'am. I… was… d-d-dis-disrespectful… to the… the d-d-dormitory… m-m-monitor… w-when… she… s-sc-scolded… m-me f-for… c-coming… in-inside… fr-from… the y-yard… w-with… m-m-muddy… sh-sh-shoes… a-and… t-tr-tracking… m-mud… on the… f-f-floor… th-that… had j-j-just… b-been… m-m-mopped." Alex pushed out.

Claire pulled Alex's jeans and panties down to her knees and gently guided the blonde over her lap with Alex's upper body and legs supported by the couch, her bottom elevated by Claire's thighs. Claire rested her hand on Alex's bottom, poised to strike. Alex squeaked in fear and tensed every muscle in her body. By now she knew that Claire had a reputation as a very strict but fair disciplinarian, but given that she had never actually experienced Claire's discipline before, it still made her very nervous. Claire gently rubbed Alex's bottom.

"Darling, if you are tense it is going to hurt much more than it needs to. I am not angry with you and I am not going to beat you. I am going to spank your naughty bottom and then it will be over and you are welcome to stay here with me for as long as you want until you feel better. Please try to relax."

Alex obediently forced herself to relax over Claire's lap.

"Good girl. It's much easier to take when you submit to it and don't fight it."

Claire raised up her hand and brought it down sharply on Alex's bottom, quickly followed by another, and another, and another.. Alex gasped and jumped in surprise at the intense sting. Claire didn't spank quite as hard as Olivia did, and Alex wasn't sure if this was because this was Alex's first spanking from Claire so Claire was going a little easy, or if Claire simply had a different style than Olivia. Either way, Claire definitely knew how to deal with a naughty little submissive's bare bottom and Alex soon found herself in a mess of tears and deeply regretting her naughty behavior. Claire was impressed with Alex's ability to stay relatively still and realized that Alex must have received a lot of loving training over the years to be able to restrain herself from thrashing and carrying on like a banshee. Most girls who came through Rosewood screamed bloody murder the first time Claire had to spank them. Claire had seen it all, from profuse begging and pleading to crocodile tears, and after all these years she was able to recognize a genuinely repentant girl versus a girl who was just trying to get out of her well-deserved punishment. Alex didn't offer reasons and excuses for her behavior, she simply accepted that she had broken the rules and needed to be punished for it. Alex's bottom was turning a dusky shade of pink when Claire started lecturing as she spanked. This was a new experience for Alex; normally, Olivia would scold Alex before putting the blonde over her lap and then let the spanking do the talking for her.

Claire spanked until Alex's bottom was a deep shade of cherry red and then she paused, resting her hand gently on Alex's bottom and listening to Alex sob. Normally she would continue for a while longer, this time with the hairbrush or paddle, but considering that this was Alex's first offense, Claire decided to show mercy.

"Okay, sweetheart, all done. That's a good girl."