It has been a while, but I am back with a new chapter. Sorry for the delay, I have had some personal things going on, and I have also had mountains of school work the I have had to get done. Anyway here is my new chapter. As always I only own the storyline and my characters that I have created and not the SVU Characters.

It seemed like the drive from the hospital took forever. I finally made it to the Smith home, and I parked my car out front. As I made my way inside the house, I saw Fin and Carisi standing in the kitchen. I made my way over to them.

"What have you guys found?"

They both turned and looked at me before Carisi started to give me the details.

"We know there was some disagreement because neighbors reported hearing loud yelling coming from the residence."

I nodded at him, and I continued to make my way through the house. As I passed through the different rooms, I made sure to check each of them. I was making my way back to where the other detectives were, and as I approached the kitchen, for the first time since I had arrived I saw all of the blood. I stopped dead in my tracks and just looked at the blood. I had seen crime scenes with blood before because I worked homicide before I was transferred to SVU, but there was something about this case that was just tugging at me. I knew exactly what it was. It was the fact that I hadn't had to confront anything so similarly to what had happened in my life. Except this was different. It wasn't about me, and it wasn't what happened to me. This was about a boy in a dangerous situation, and I needed to fix it.

I slowly started to back away from the kitchen and head towards the door. As I was backing out, Fin made his way over to me and placed a hand on my shoulder. I jumped from my thoughts when I felt his hand land on my shoulder.

"Hey man, are you ok?"

I turned around and saw the concerned look on his face and just nodded.

"Yeah…. yeah I'm fine. I just need to go out and get some air."

With that, I made my way outside and just stood there. I just couldn't believe that this was happening right now. The fact that I walked out of a crime scene because I couldn't deal with my own issues. I gulped in as much fresh air as I could before making my way over to the house. I stopped and turned to look across the street. I stood there and thought to myself a little and then made my way across the street.

I made my way up the porch steps and walked up to the door. I knocked and waited. I heard movement in the house, and then the door opened.

"Mrs. Thompson, Karen was attacked again along with Sammy."

She gasped as she raised her hands and covered her mouth.

"Do you have any idea where Marcus Smith might have gone? He is nowhere to be found. We don't know where he may have gone, but it'd be good if you could give us at least one place we could start looking for him?"

She just nodded her head, and we stood there in silence for a little while. I looked at her and watched her as she thought of anything that might be helpful. After a couple of more minutes, she nodded her head.

"I remember Karen telling me that he has a brother that lives about an hour or so out of the city. Has farmland as far as the eye can see and it would be easy for him to hide there. That's about all I can think of. I haven't spoken to her much lately. I hope that is helpful."

I smiled and nodded at her.

"Yeah that is great, we will we get right on it. Thank you, Mrs. Thompson."

I pulled out my wallet and left my card with her.

"If you think of anything else just give me a call."

She just gave a weak smile and nodded. I let her go back inside and then made my way back over to the Smith residence. I saw Fin and Carisi standing outside, and I approached them.

"I just spoke to one of the neighbors, and she said that Smith has a brother that lives about an hour outside of the city. Considering that Smith is using an alias who knows if this is his brother or a friend of his helping him out. We have to find that address and get out there before he is in the wind again. This is the only lead we have so let's make sure that is not just dead end."

Once we finished up at the crime scene, Fin and Carisi head back to the crime scene while I made my way back to the hospital.

When I arrived at the hospital, I made my over to a nurse's station so that I could find out which room Karen Smith was staying in. I flashed my badge, and the nurse told me the room number but also to keep my visit short. I made my way down the hall and found Karen's room. I lightly knocked on the door and then entered the room. I made my way into the room where she could see me. I saw her look up at me and then roll her eyes.

"Marcus didn't do this to me. You keep insisting that he is a monster, but he isn't. He cares about Sammy and me. Now he is gone because he is afraid that you are going to blame him again."

I just shook my head.

"Karen, if he cared about you and your son he wouldn't beat you."

She just scoffed at me.

"You should be trying to find the person that did this to me instead of trying to blame my husband for something he didn't do falsely. He told me you'd do this. That you would come here and accuse him and try to find him. He says you're obsessed with us. Our family. He says that you are the monster and hiding behind a badge. Why don't you just leave me alone?"

"Because I don't want to end up at a crime scene where you're dead because your husband killed you. Just tell me where he is, and I will be out of your hair."

"Well, I won't say so just leave…. now."

I looked at her and then out the door and saw a nurse standing there. I knew that she had probably overheard that last part, so I started making my way out of the room before Karen said something else.

"And Detective."

I turned and looked at her.

"The next time you try to talk to me or my son without a lawyer present, I will make sure to have you arrested for harassment."

With that, I was out the door and gone. I knew I had just screwed up in a major way because now we had nothing to go on except for some farmland an hour outside of the city.

There you go guys, the newest chapter of my story. Life has been crazy and has kept me busy but here is the new chapter. The semester is coming to an end, so hopefully, I'll have the next chapter out soon. Thanks again for reading and commenting. Until next time.