It's Time for a Change

A/N: I OWN NONE OF THE RECGONIZABLE REBA OR SVU CHARACTERS!! This is a Crossover AU story!

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PREVIOUSLY:

Ashley starts thinking to herself, 'what if he had shot me in the police station earlier today, would I still be here for Cheyenne? What if he decides to shoot again later? He's never been interested in guns before, why'd he pull one on me at the police station? I wish this wasn't really happening. Why does his mother hate me so much? What'd I ever do to her to make her angry? Was it because I named her Cheyenne instead of Brittney? I guess I'll never know because she'll never talk to me…' the blond woman closes her eyes and falls asleep. Cheyenne continues watching the last part of her movie and then falls asleep, again, herself. Neither her nor her mother have any idea what her father has been planning, and that his plan will change their lives forever…

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The rest of the night goes by smoothly, Cheyenne sleeps through the night, as well as everyone else, except Reba, who took on the night shift to stay with Cheyenne.

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That morning, Olivia gets up, gets herself ready and makes her way to the Queens SVU. When she gets there, Captain Dooley is waiting in the bullpen to greet her. "Good morning Detective Benson."

"Morning Captain…" Olivia greets the man.

Detective Bradford sees the woman that's just walked into the room, "Olivia…"

"Tanner…"

"I'm guessing you're my new partner?"

"Yeah, just for the Brown case." the woman tells him.

"Okay, well, what do you think we should do first?" Tanner asks.

"I was going to stop by the hospital before Cheyenne was released, she was too traumatized to talk when we brought her in yesterday afternoon." Olivia explains.

"It's still seven, she may not be awake yet. We should probably review everything we've got so far and talk to the ADA to see if this will even make it to court." Detective Bradford replies.

"I think he's right. I'll call Connor and see if he can come by." Captain Dooley adds, and walks back to his office.

Olivia looks around the squad room, and notices that this squad is mostly men, unlike Manhattan, where there were three other women, not including their ADA. She sees the information about their case displayed on the board in front of her, reads the medical report from Cheyenne's exam the day before, and realizes that this isn't the first time someone's attacked her.

"Tanner, come here a second.." she calls.

"What's up." the blond man asks.

"I just reread the medical reports from yesterday, and not all of her bruising was from two nights ago. They're in different stages of healing." the woman tells him.

"Should we tell captain? The man asks.

"I think so. But isn't he on the phone right now?" Olivia replies.

"You're right." Tanner replies.

Olivia looks up and sees a large man wearing a suit walk into the room. "Detective Bradford…" the man calls.

"Yes Connor?"

"Captain Dooley called me, said you had a case transferred from Manhattan?"

"Yeah, eight year old girl, Manhattan detective that lives here in Queens found her. Called his partner and she came to talk to her, they brought her to the hospital to get her checked out, she's got lots of bruising that's in different stages of healing." the man explains.

Connor sees Olivia sitting at her desk reading a file, "Who's this?"

"Oh, she's my new partner while Matt's out with his wife." Tanner says.

Olivia stands up, "Detective Benson…" she says and shakes hands with the ADA.

"Connor Henley, ADA…" he replies.

"Nice to meet you." Olivia kindly says.

"You too."

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ST. MARY'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
CHEYENNE BROWN'S ROOM
7:20am

The door opens and Ashley sees the sleepy redheaded nurse smiling at her. "Good morning Ashley…"

"Hey Reba." the woman replies.

"How's Cheyenne today?"

"She's okay, she's still sleeping." Ashley tells her.

"Well, the other night she slept out in the park in the snow so I'm sure she's getting a much better sleep right now." Reba says.

"Do you know when the detectives are coming?" Ashley asks.

"Not yet. I haven't heard from them yet, neither has officer Nicholson."

"Depending on how the conversation with the detective goes, we may need her to talk to one of the therapists…" the blond woman says.

"Okay, I recommend Dr. Adams, she's really one of the best." Reba tells her.

"Can you tell her about Cheyenne, and see what she thinks, and I'll let the detective's know that you recommended her." Ashley replies.

"That'll work. I'll stop by her office now. If we hear from the detectives, I'll let you know."

"Thanks…" Ashley says.

Reba turns around and walks away, Ashley walks back into her daughter's room, to find her still asleep. She sits down and grabs her book out of her purse and starts reading.

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QUEENS SVU SQUADROOM
QUEENS, NY
7:30am

Olivia is sitting at her desk reading through the case file and some emails. She gets an idea and looks up at her partner, "I think we should talk to Cheyenne's teacher, see if she's said or hinted at anything that would spark concerns."

"I agree, she may have said something, or her teacher has probably noticed the bruising…" the man replies.

"Well, it's Sunday. And I'm sure that the teacher is either still asleep and they're probably going to church at some point today." the brunette detective tells him.

"Okay, then today we need to concentrate on Cheyenne, we can either talk to her at the hospital, or bring her here. But we have to be careful when we let them go home, because for all we know, the father could be there." Tanner says.

"They have protective detail, they'll check the premises before they let Cheyenne and her mother back in their house. And if the father's there, they'll make him leave, because they also have a restraining order." Olivia informs him, I'm going to call the hospital and see if Cheyenne's awake. And if she is, I'm going to go down there and talk to her…"

"Okay…"

Olivia picks up her phone and dials the hospital. "Thank you for calling St. Mary's Children's Hospital, how can I help you?" she hears when someone picks up.

"Hi, Is Nurse Hart available?" the female detective asks.

"May I ask who's calling?"

"Detective Olivia Benson, Queens SVU…"

"Can you please hold while I page her?" the receptionist asks.

"Sure."

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ST. MARY'S CHILDREN'S HOSPIAL
QUEENS, NEW YORK
7:40am

Reba is standing in Dr. Adams office, waiting for her to return from seeing a patient, when her pager goes off. She looks down at it and sees that she has a phone call on line 3. She picks up Dr. Adams' phone and answers it, "Nurse Hart…"

"Hi, this is Detective Olivia Benson…" the woman replies.

"Okay, hi, I'm guessing you're calling about Cheyenne?"

"Yes, how is she?" the detective asks.

"She was still sleeping when I checked on her. She actually slept through the night. She's doing great, she'll be ready to leave by noon." the redheaded nurse replies.

"Okay. So if we come talk to her at about nine, will that be okay?"

"Sure. I'll let her mother know. Oh, and her mother asked me if she should see a therapist, and I'm actually in one's office right now borrowing their phone… but I told her to wait until she talked to you." Reba says.

"I think it would be a good idea if Cheyenne saw a therapist, at least once. I'll talk to her to see how she reacts, and we'll just go from there." Olivia tells her.

"Alright, here comes the therapist now, I'm going to talk to her, and I'll let you go." Reba replies.

"Thanks… Have a nice day." Olivia replies, and hangs up the phone.

Reba hangs up Dr. Adam's phone and the woman glares at her, "Nurse Hart…"

"I can explain…" the redheaded woman calmly replies.

"Well please enlighten me as to why you're in my office, on my phone?" the therapist asks.

"I have a patient, she's eight. And the SVU's involved. I just got off the phone with the detective and she's coming by to talk to the girl at nine, and her mother asked if the girl should see a therapist." Reba answers.

"What's her name?" the black haired therapist asks.

"Cheyenne Brown…"

"Oh god…." the woman replies, knowing that the girl is Reba's best friend's daughter. "What happened?"

Reba blinks several times and replies, "SVU brought her in about twoish yesterday because one of the detective's kids found her in the park by her self and she wasn't talking. The detective had to call his partner who's a woman to come talk to her and they found out that her father had been beating her, she's got one broken and two cracked ribs, but no signs of sexual assault. She ran away Friday night, and when the SVU was trying to get her to the hospital, her father showed up and caused a scene. Now the man has a restraining order on him and the mother and daughter have protective detail…"

Dr. Adams notices tears pooling in Reba's eyes, but before the therapist can say anything, Reba continues, "And I let her go home… when she'd come over to my house after school, she'd cry and cry, but I had to make her go home…"

"Reba, it's not your fault. I'll definitely talk to the girl, but I'll wait until after the detective leaves…"

"Thanks." the nurse replies.

"You look exhausted, are you okay?" the woman asks.

"I took the night shift to stay with Cheyenne, I was afraid she'd wake up in the middle of the night screaming for me. She did that once yesterday afternoon, so I didn't know if she'd do it again…" Reba answers.

"Please tell me they're giving you tomorrow off…"

"Yeah, I tweaked my schedule so I work an hour after Cheyenne goes home, I have all of tomorrow off and then I come back Tuesday."

Dr. Adams nods, "Alright. I have an eight o'clock. It's ten till. I've gotta find my files. Let me know if anything changes with Cheyenne."

"Thanks Maggie." Reba replies and walks out the door.

A/N: again, no drama. But it will come next chapter. I wanted it in this chapter but it would have made it seriously long, so I'm going to have to wait. But we had to have this chapter to build up to the drama. Please review and let me know what you think should happen..