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Chapter 2
Olivia and Elliot walked back into the squad room. Tired and cold from the bitter night they had left behind at the doors. Elliot took his coat off and hung it up before reaching his arm out to take Olivia's jacket from her, hanging that up too.
"Well, how did it go at the hospital?" Munch asked.
Olivia sat down at her desk and ran her hands through her hair. "She was definitely raped, tearing, bruising, no fluids though. Perp wore a jacket." she told him.
"The smart ones always do." Fin replied from his desk.
"Didn't find any hairs or anything, this guy knows what he's doing." Elliot thought out loud.
"You think he's been through the system before?" Fin asked.
"We're thinking maybe he's just got out of the slammer and he's looking for the woman who put him there." Elliot said.
"So he attacks the counselor to get their details." Munch summarized.
Olivia just nodded. Elliot quickly pulled out his notepad. He began flicking through the many pages of names they had. It was the all the women in Judy's groups and most of their details. She had a good memory but it wasn't perfect, which meant more work for the team.
Elliot stood up and began sharing out the many sheets of names from his pad. "We have some phone numbers, some we just have addresses for. We need to check up on all these women. We don't know who our perp is after." Elliot said as he sat back down.
Olivia looked at the lists in front of her. Staring at the top she rang the first number she had.
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Four hours and a lot of phone calls later the team was through with the names. There was still a small list of women that they had no number or address for and no one else knew them.
"The best thing we can do is go through our files. Maybe if they reported their rapes they came here. We could have their details that way." Elliot suggested.
"I'll get on it." Olivia said as she pushed herself up. She was beginning to feel smothered in the squad room.
Fin watched her walk off into the file room. "I'll give Liv a hand." he offered.
Elliot just nodded and looked back over the information he had collected.
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When Fin got to the file room Olivia was already going through the filing cabinets. "You okay?" he asked her.
"Why wouldn't I be?" she asked without looking away from the files she was going through.
"Vics a rape counselor, your attending counseling…"
"This case isn't about me, Fin. It's about Judy Clarkson and whoever our perp is after." she said firmly, looking at him with serious eyes, before going back through the files.
Fin just nodded, accepting her answer, for now. "Let me help you look." he said as he walked over to some more cabinets.
"Thanks." Olivia said without looking up at him out of fear he'd see the tears that had filled her eyes.
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Some days later
Olivia lay in bed but she couldn't sleep. They had managed to find details on some more of the women and officers had gone to check on them, they were all okay. However, they still had a smaller list of names of women who hadn't been informed and who could still be at risk.
Olivia had only been in bed for a little while, but the entire time she had been tossing and turning and her body was now all tangled up in the sheets. She couldn't get the case and other things out of her head and off her mind.
She almost jumped out of the bed as her cell phone began ringing and buzzing on the bedside cabinet next to her.
With some difficulty she managed to wriggle across the bed, still all tangled up, and pick up her phone. She answered it as she began trying to untangle herself from the blankets. "Benson,"
"Liv, its El. Looks like we may have a serial. Another counselors been attacked."
She suddenly stopped to pay full attention, "Was her patient records taken?"
"Yeah, Look I'm already on my way to yours. I'll see you in 5." he said before hanging up.
She shook her head, exhausted by the case already. She quickly jumped out of bed and ran over to the chair in the corner of her room where she always kept an emergency set of clothes on. As quick as she could she began getting ready.
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By the time they arrived at the crime scene it was almost midnight. The victim had been knocked unconscious and still remained that way. She was already on her way to the hospital
"Our guys escalating." Elliot thought out loud.
Once again Melinda was there after having received another call about a dead body. This one had come much later than the first. "Blood had already began to dry around her head wound," Melinda said pointing to a small pool of blood on the floor, "There too. For some reason if it is your perp reporting the attacks, he waited to call this one in." she said.
"You think he wants them to die?" Elliot questioned.
"If that were the case why not just kill them and get it over and done with?" Olivia argued.
"Did CSU find anything?" Elliot asked Melinda.
"No. This guy is good. He knows what he's doing." Melinda said before walking off.
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"Second vic is one Mary Atherton, 36, mother of three. Her husband's at the hospital with her now." Olivia said as the team all looked up at the screens showing a picture of their new victim.
"Do we know how she's doing yet?" Munch asked.
"Still not awake, but the Doctors said she's stable." Elliot informed them. "It's just a matter of time."
"Do we have the records of the names of her patients?" Fin asked no one in particular.
"Yeah," Olivia answered before looking back at the screens, rubbing her temple where she could feel a headache coming on.
"If this is the same guy, I'd say it's a safe bet to rule out any of the woman from Judy's group being his target." Munch began, "He mustn't have found the one he wanted so now he's looking elsewhere."
"I agree." Elliot said.
"So it's back to square one, checking all the names out." Fin said.
"Let's get this party started." Munch replied, sitting down at his desk. The others all took his lead.
They all sensed it was going to be a long, long night.
TBC
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