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Chapter 2

Elliot and Fin walked back into the squad room, both looking equally as pissed off as the other. Fin stormed straight over to the coffee machine for a much needed cappuccino. Elliot got to his desk and sat down. He looked up as Olivia walked back into the room, to his surprise she was holding the baby.

"Liv I thought she was going?"

"Yeah so did I. They sent someone out before," she said, throwing him the person's card that she had been given, "There's been an outbreak of measles in the children's homes in Manhattan, the good ones at least and they have no free foster homes at the moment."

"Are you kidding me?" Elliot asked in disbelief.

"Elliot it's 6 weeks till Christmas, no one will take on a baby then." Olivia told him what the woman had told her.

"So why is she still here?" he asked.

"Because I told her I would take care of her until they found something more permanent. El what is your problem?"

"Nothing." he lied.

"What did you get from the hospital?" Cragen asked as he walked out of his office.

"Nuffin." Fin told him.

"Why not?" Olivia asked.

"Because the girl refused to talk to us, she said we wouldn't understand." Elliot told them.

"So she admitted that the baby was hers?" Olivia asked.

"She was saying all sorts Liv, not much of it made any sense." Fin explained.

"Okay so why don't I try. Maybe she'll open up more to me." Olivia offered.

"Go for it." Elliot said, he wasn't going to waste his time going back there only to have the kid tell him to get lost.

Olivia walked over to him and passed him the baby.

"What are you doing?" Elliot asked.

"Well I can't exactly take her with me, can I?" Olivia said.

Elliot took hold of the baby and held her in the crook of his arm, straight away she began crying. "She likes to be held like this," Olivia said as she fixed her in his arms so that now her head was resting on his shoulder.

"Anything else I should know?" Elliot asked her.

"Yeah don't wave things in her face because she hates it and if she starts crying hold her tight and sway it'll make her fall right off to sleep." she said.

"Quite the expert, aren't you?" Munch said to her.

Olivia just smiled at him. Without thinking she stepped forward and kissed the baby's head. She could feel herself blushing as she knew everyone was looking at her. 'I'm not getting attached' she thought to herself before she hurried over to her desk, grabbed her cell, keys and jacket and then scooted out of the squad room.

Elliot watched until she was out of sight. He knew it was already too late. She was attached and as the baby began whimpering he knew she was equally as attached to Olivia.

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Olivia had arrived at the hospital and showed her badge to the people she needed to until finally someone had taken her to the girls room. Olivia knocked on the door before walking in.

"Who are you?" The girl asked.

"I'm Detective Olivia Benson," she said as she held up her badge.

"What now?!" The girl asked, annoyed.

"I really need to ask you a few questions." Olivia told her as she walked over to the bed.

"I don't want to talk to you people. I didn't do anything wrong. I never had a baby." she protested.

"Sweetheart we know you did. We've taken samples from both you and the baby and they're gonna match."

The girl suddenly looked up at her. No one had really mentioned anything to her about the baby. They had just asked questions like 'why did you get rid of it?' and 'why put it in a dumpster?' "Is she okay?" she asked.

Olivia sighed inwardly, she had known right away the girl was the baby's mother and she had no idea how she must be feeling and what must have been going through her head to make her abandon her new born baby in a dumpster. She sat down in a chair next to her bed and brushed her hair back off her face before saying, "Yeah she's okay. She has one hell of an appetite and she loves to be cuddled all the time. She's great." she said.

"I didn't want her to get hurt and I didn't leave her there to die…I just…I didn't know what to do." The girl said.

Before Olivia had chance to speak a nurse walked in. "I'm sorry Detective, I just need to check Holly's stats." she said.

Holly just put up with the nurse poking and prodding and making all the other checks. None of the nurses had been nice with her since finding out she had dumped a baby, so none of them took extra care to be careful with her weakly body.

With the checks done the nurse left without even saying a word to Holly, but she smiled at Olivia.

"Bitch," Holly muttered.

"Excuse me?" Olivia said.

"Since those other two Detectives came in before all the nurses here have treated me like something they stepped in. I'm not a bad person I just…I…I just panicked. I didn't know what to do. At first I thought she wasn't breathing. I thought maybe it was something I had done but then she started crying, really crying like there was something really wrong so I just left her."

"Did you tell your parents you were pregnant?" Olivia asked.

"What parents?" Holly said.

Olivia wasn't sure what to say next. "Why didn't you go to a hospital when your contractions started?" she asked.

"Because I didn't know what was happening until I felt her coming out of me. I thought I was dying." Holly said as she brushed away tears.

"You didn't know you were pregnant?" Olivia asked in disbelief.

"Nope. I'd been staying in a foster home for a while so I guessed the reason I put on some weight was because I was eating for once. I didn't have a big swollen belly or anything and my periods continued." she told her.

"Did you tell the baby's father you had had her?" Olivia asked.

Holly looked at her for a minute before she put her face in her hands and began crying. Olivia got up and perched herself on the bed. She gently rubbed Holly's shoulder. "Holly sweetheart what is it?" she asked. Holly looked up at her. Her face was red and stained with tears. "Sweetheart?" Olivia said encouragingly.

"I was raped. It was on my prom night. God I wasn't even going to go but my friend said it would be fun. It was raining and I didn't want to ruin my dress. I'd saved up for weeks so I could get it, so i got a taxi." she said with a little smile.

Olivia smiled back. She had always had to save for dresses for school dances too. Her mother spent all the money on alcohol so if it was left to her she' be going in a tank and jeans. "What happened?" Olivia asked.

"I told him where to go and he started the right way but then he turned and I tried telling him he was going the wrong way but he didn't listen. He pulled into some parking lot down some back alley. I tried to get out but the doors were locked. He climbed in and he put a knife to my throat and he…he raped me..." she said quietly.

"Oh sweetheart," Olivia said as she wrapped her arms around Holly and hugged her. As Holly remained in her arms she cried until eventually she had cried herself to sleep.

- - - - - -

Olivia stepped out of the elevator doors and walked into the squad room. She almost had to put her hands over her ears, the crying was so loud. She walked over to Elliot and when he saw her he practically ran over to her and passed her the baby.

"She has been screaming like that since you left." he told her. "What took you so long?" he yelled above the screaming baby.

"Olivia threw her keys and phone down and held the baby closer to her as she gently began to sway, she nuzzled her face next to the baby's and lightly stroked her head. "Shh, I know sweetheart. It's okay." she said soothingly.

Gradually the baby began to stop crying and began to calm down. She rested her head on Olivia's breast and snuggled into her warm body as slowly she began to fall asleep. Olivia continued swaying, hoping to get her into as deep a sleep as possible.

Elliot just looked at her, he was slightly amazed. "I tried everything. I fed her, I changed her, I swayed with her but nothing." he said before he walked over to her and gently brushed the now sleeping baby's cheek with his finger.

"You have to know the tricks." she said, using his own words against him.

"Is that so? Munch was right about one thing?" he said.

"What's that?" she asked him.

"She does actually kind of look like you." he said before walking off to make some coffee.

Olivia just looked at him then looked down at the baby. He was right, she did.

- - - - - -

A little while later Olivia was sat at her desk with the baby sleeping soundly in her arms. They were all drinking some much needed coffee whilst Olivia filled them all in on what Holly had told her.

"Did she give you the taxi driver's plate number?" Munch asked.

Olivia just shook her head. "She said it was a yellow taxi with a rusted patch on the left side and on the bonnet."

"Wait one minute," Fin said before he got up and ran off into the file room. They all waited and wondered what he was doing. He finally ran back in carrying two more folders.

"What's up?" Elliot asked.

Fin flipped the files open the passed them both to Elliot. "Two teenage girls reported a rape on their prom night, said they were raped in the back of a taxi. Check out their description." Fin said.

"Yellow taxi, rusted stains on front and side," Elliot read aloud. "We got a serial." Elliot said.

"Is there any DNA on file?" Munch asked.

"There's a sample but there was nothing to compare it to." Elliot said as he studied the file.

"What are we gonna do, get a DNA sample from every taxi driver in Manhattan?" Munch asked sarcastically.

"We have to do something." Olivia pointed out.

"I'm gonna check the file room for any more reports with a matching description on the taxi." Fin said.

"I'm gonna get someone to run the DNA again. Maybe our guy has done something else to get his DNA in the system." Munch said. "Hey I'll try and match it with the kids." he thought out loud

"It's worth a shot." Cragen said as he stood in the doorway to his office. "Olivia, can I have word with you in my office please?" Cragen asked, even though really it was an order.

Olivia nodded and stood up and followed him in, being careful not to wake the baby up. As she walked in he closed the door. "What's up?" she asked him.

"I just wanted to check you were still okay taking care of the baby. If not I can arrange something else." he said, already kind of knowing her answer.

"Why wouldn't I want to take care of her anymore?" she asked. She knew why he was asking. It was one thing to be a product of rape but to then have to take care of a product of another rape... It may have been too much for anyone else, however Olivia just wasn't seeing it that way.

"Captain there is no one else to take care of her. I'm happy to do it." she said as she held the baby a little tighter to her.

"I knew you'd say that. Okay, get back to work." he said with a smile.

Olivia smiled back then walked out. The moment Elliot saw her he spoke. "That was the hospital," he said as he put the phone down, "They said that Holly is missing. All her stuff is gone. She must have left." he said.

"Why?" Munch asked.

Elliot shrugged his shoulders. "Why would you wanna be free?" he asked.

"Revenge," Munch said.

TBC

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