Cry

A/N: 17 year old Madeline tries to break up from her boyfriend, but he doesn't want to. He likes using her for something that no one should have to go through, and Madeline is terrified to tell anyone. But when he attacks her one day during school hours, she finally lets go. Each chapter is named after a song by Kelly Clarkson. I don't own SVU or Kelly…

Chapter 7: Don't Waste Your Time

"don't waste your time trying to fix what I wanna erase, what I need to forget…" -Kelly Clarkson

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PREVIOUSLY:

"Okay, and I'll let you know if I hear anything from her parents." Nicole replies.

"That's fine with me. I'm sure she wants to leave." Lindsey says, looking in the window at the teen.

"I'm sure she does, you're good to go." Mrs. McBride says and smiles in the window.

Lindsey walks around the side of the car and gets in. "You ready sweetheart?"

"Yeah, let's get outta here." the teen answers.

Lindsey nods, backs the car out of the parking spot and drives off.

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16th PRECINCT
ONE POLICE PLAZA
MANHATTAN, NEW YORK
11:20am

Elliot and Olivia return from their trip to the hospital. They are greeted by detectives Munch and Fin, and Captain Cragen.

"So what's up?" Munch asks.

"Well, the girl was freaked out at the hospital and she fell asleep after the rape kit, and I gave the assistant principal my number and told her to have whomever was taking care of Madeline to call me." Olivia explains.

"That's good. Because before we can do anything to Travis, she needs to make her statement." Cragen replies.

Olivia opens her mouth to reply but is interrupted by her phone, "Detective Benson, Manhattan SVU." the woman answers.

"Hi, detective, it's Lindsey Yearwood, the track coach at Manhattan West." the woman on the other end replies.

"Hi Mrs. Yearwood. How's Madeline?" the female detective asks.

"She's okay. We just got back to my apartment and she's resting on the couch. I know she doesn't want to talk about what's happened, but I know it's best if she does." the strawberry blond woman replies.

"Is she ready to come talk to us?" Olivia asks.

"Probably not. She's really bruised up, tired, and sore." Lindsey answers.

"I know she's in a lot of pain right now, but it would be better if she made her statement here at the precinct." Olivia replies.

"She doesn't even want to tell me anything. She's not talking at all. I remember her saying something about her father wanting to make the boy pay for what he'd done to her, and I think that she's afraid that now we know what's happened, Travis is going to do something to hurt her." Lindsey explains.

"We'll try contacting the parents, to see what they want to do. Why don't you try talking to Madeline and explain to her that if she tells us what's happened, we can get her the help she needs to start healing." Olivia tells the woman.

"I have a friend who's a rape crisis counselor, should I contact her and see if she'd talk to Maddie?" Lindsey asks.

"That might be a good idea. But you might want to give me her number, I can refer Madeline to her, so you have a better chance of her coming to talk with Madeline." Olivia answers.

"Okay. Her number is 317-689-4329" Lindsey replies.

Olivia jots down the number on a sticky note by her computer. "You can talk to Madeline, I'll call her parents and the counselor, and then I'll call you back in about an hour."

"Okay, and the counselor's name is Sharon Austin." Lindsey replies.

"Thanks. I'll talk to you shortly, tell Madeline about talking to the counselor, she might be able to get her to talk if you can't." Olivia says.

"I'll try. Thanks Ms. Benson."

"No problem, I'm going to make those phone calls now." Olivia kindly replies.

"Okay, I'll let you go."

"Bye Mrs. Yearwood, I'm glad you called." Olivia says.

"Bye detective." Lindsey replies and hangs up the phone. She walks out of her room and back into the living room to find Madeline sitting up on the couch, covered up with a blanket aimlessly staring at the wall.

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LINDSEY YEARWOOD'S APARTMENT
MANHATTAN, NEW YORK
11:40am

"Hey honey, how're you feeling?" Lindsey kindly asks the teen.

Madeline doesn't look at the woman, instead she looks down at the blanket and starts fiddling with the corner. She doesn't want to tell anyone what's happened. She's now regretting texting Brenda in the first place, and wishes she'd just waited and gone to third period and pretended nothing happened.

Lindsey is trying to find something to say, or do to get Madeline to talk. She doesn't want the girl to shut everyone out, and not let anyone help her. The woman is now beginning to worry that if they can't get her to talk soon, that the teen will develop self destructive behavior, because she has anger pent up inside from the abuse she's taken from her ex boyfriend in the past, and hasn't told anyone about anything.

"Maddie, I called detective Benson. She's going to try to get in touch with your parents and one of my friends, who's a rape crisis counselor, and then she's going to call me back because she wants to talk to you." the woman calmly explains.

Still, the teen doesn't respond, she just continues to fiddle with the side of the blanket. Lindsey tries to look Madeline in the eyes, but she's avoiding any eye contact. Lindsey quietly sits down next to her on the couch and waits for Maddie to respond.

They sit quietly for almost five minutes before Madeline breaks down and leans into Lindsey.

"Make this all go away, I don't know if I can take it anymore…" the teen sobs.

"Honey, you've been through so much today, and no one should have to endure all the pain you've been in." Lindsey calmly explains.

Madeline doesn't respond, she just cries in the woman's shoulder. Lindsey tries to find something else to say to calm the teen, but can't, and decides to let her cry, and let all her anger out.

Lindsey lets the teen cry on her for almost ten minutes before she decides to talk again. "Maddie, honey, I know you want everything to just disappear, but if you let us help you, your pain will slowly go away."

"Do something, anything, make it just stop now. Pretend this never, ever happened. I don't wanna deal with it." the redheaded girl cries.

"I know you want it to, but it's going to take some time, honey. I'm here to help you through everything, it'll be okay." the woman calmly replies.

"You've never been in my situation. It's hard, I've had to hide everything from everyone, for almost a year. It's just not what I want to do anymore…"

"Baby girl, listen to me, today, something happened to you that shouldn't happen to anyone, ever. I'm glad you decided to finally tell someone, because now we can get you all the help you need to get through this." Lindsey says.

"Coach, every time he'd hurt me, it got worse, I hated it. He'd threaten me and tell me that if I ever told, I'd die. Now I'm terrified he's going to come back and kill me." Madeline cries.

"Sweetheart, he was just saying that to scare you, he's not going to kill you, no one is." "I really think you need to talk to my friend Sharon, she's a rape crisis counselor, she can help you sort through everything that's happened." the strawberry blond woman says.

Madeline can't decide how to respond. She looks down at her wrists and sighs. The conversation is interrupted by the phone ringing. Lindsey smiles at the teen and gets up to go answer the phone.

"Lindsey Yearwood…" she answers.

"Hi, again, Mrs. Yearwood, it's Detective Benson…" the voice on the other end of the line says.

A/N: CLIFFHANGER!!! I love it! I hope you've enjoyed this chapter, and I'm sorry for the long wait. If you have any ideas for songs for the next chapter please let me know by REVIEWING! (they have to be Kelly Clarkson songs!!)