AN: It has been a long time since I updated, but have recently found a love of fanfiction again, and I really want to finish this story. I hinted at a crossover with CSI:NY at the end of the last chapter, and I have decided to go with it, but if you don't watch CSI:NY it is still essentially more of a SVU fic than a crossover.

This is pretty short, and is more to introduce a new detective to the story, will be back with Olivia and Elliot soon I promise!

As always I love reviews, even if they are just to criticize my spelling and grammar, I promise I will try and look for a Beta, volunteers welcome!

Stella sat at the desk in her office and began checking through her latest messages. She had arrived at work half an hour earlier and after grabbing a coffee she had sat down to work through some paperwork. First order of business was a quick scan of her open cases, sometimes new lead would come in, or new results would yield something to work on. As she worked through the list she made a note of what needed follow up.

A new witness claiming to have seen a man dumping something in an alley not far from the DiMartino crime scene, she would have to go out and take a look.

A new missing persons report had been filed matching a John Doe they had found a week ago, she would have to go and talk to the person who filed the report and get a DNA sample.

The next message took her a little by surprise, a case to case hit on a DNA sample from a rape case she had worked 2 months ago. She had hated having to tell the victim they had reached a dead end, so new evidence was welcome, but it meant he had struck again.

She brought up the results, wrote down the name of the lead detective, and made a note to try and get hold of him later in the morning.

Clicking through the rest of her messages revealed nothing urgent, but she added to the list of follow ups. She decided to call the detective on the rape case and try and arrange a meet up before she headed out to do the alley search. As she picked up the phone though there was a tap on her door. Looking over she saw two men, who even without the gold shields on display she could tell were detectives.

"come on in"

The men entered the office, the older detective entering first, with the younger man close behind.

"Detective Bonesera?" It was really more a statement than a question, given her name was right outside the door and she was sat at the only desk in the room.

"I'm Detective Munch and this is my partner, Detective Tutuola, we're with Manhattan SVU"

"please call me Stella, and I was about to call you to arrange a meeting, it seems we are both after the same guy, I assume that's why you are here?"

"yes, could you spare some time to discuss the case, tell us what you have?"

"I have some time now, why don't you take a seat, I'll grab us some coffee and collect the case file, then we can talk and share what we know" she emphasised the word share, she was all to used to detectives wanting information but being none too forthcoming when it came to giving information. She had sat for hours with the victim and she wasn't going to just hand everything over to these two detectives, no matter how good the reputation of their unit was.

She directed the detectives towards the sofa and chairs positioned around a small table on one side of her office.

"Thanks" Fin spoke up for the first time since entering the office "A decent coffee would be great"

John noted the emphasis Fin had placed on 'decent' and was actually slightly relieved to hear him mocking his coffee, there had been little light relief in the last two days, and conversation between the two had either been case related or non existent, given the current lack of real suspects there had been a lot of time spent in silence.

They took a seat as Stella left to go and get the file. They were hopeful this might give them some leads, they were going back to the bar when it opened to see if they could talk to the barman who had been there that night, but without any new from CSU, they were hoping this meeting could give them something useful. They had both however realised that if they really wanted to get anywhere they were going to have share details of the case with this detective. John knew that Detective Bonesera had an excellent reputation as both a detective and as a scientist, and that she was rated highly in the department for her empathy with victims, but John knew it would still feel uncomfortable having to share the details of Olivias rape with someone outside of their own department. He knew she would understand, and that working with Stella would be their best hope of finding a viable suspect, but this would be the first time he would have to recount the details to anyone outside of SVU, and he realised he was somewhat nervous and uncomfortable at the prospect.