Chapter Three

The moment seemed to be frozen in time. The tow women just looked at each other. Olivia's face, once again, showed more worry and uncertainty. Rebecca wasn't sure how to react; her brain seemed to have frozen. Her face looked scared, concerned, and confused. She desperately wished any second someone was going to swing open the door and yell "Surprise!" like it was all a joke, but it was anything but funny and no one ever came.

After what seemed like hours, maybe even days, but was only a few brief seconds, Rebecca spoke up. She wished she could've found something more to say, but the shock value was too much.

"What?" she asked, her mouth had gone dry. Olivia nodded to let her know that she had heard her correctly.

"I've been ra-"

"OLIVIA!" she wasn't even sure why she was yelling. She just didn't wan to hear it again. Hearing it again would be confirmation that it was true. Complicated thoughts swept over Rebecca. Olivia, a special victims detective, was raped. A sex crimes investigator was raped. She had to watch this everyday and now she knew what it felt like. This made Rebecca sick. Of all people, Olivia was the last person to deserve this. She also felt guilty. This was bringing her and Olivia closer together like she had wanted; it was just for all the wrong reasons.

"When?!" Rebecca said struggling to find even the simplest of words to ask an easy question.

Olivia looked at her watch, "About four hours and twenty-one minutes ago."

"Oh, Liv, I thought you were gonna say yesterday or something… well I guess it was yesterday but, oh my God, Liv," Rebecca said standing up and gathering a few pages. She knew she had to get Olivia a kit done to preserve the evidence.

"At least you came right after instead of waiting a month or so like other victims do…"

"Well…" Olivia said quietly.

"What?" Hendrix froze.

Olivia took a deep breath, "I've been raped three times in the past three months, and I told you that when I first came and I was telling you why I was here…" Olivia said, her chocolate brown eyes now glittering with threatening tears.

"Olivia cut through the strained friendship and awkward situation and hugged her friend. She silently cried dry tears on her shoulder.

"Oh, the evidence!"