Hiya guys! I'm so thankful for all of your support in this fiction :) as I said it's my first ever SVU story and I'm loving writing it! Anyone else suffering from SVU withdrawal symptoms? I just saw the promo for season 15 and I CANNOT wait until september 25th! It's just too long for poor Liv to be trapped! (In my mind she's been stuck there the whole time poor thing). Anyhoo, sorry for my ramblings and I hope you still enjoy this...please keep reviewing, let me know if and how I could improve :)

x C

"She's strong Olivia" Fin reassured his friend. They had brought Danielle into the unit to get more details on the girl they now knew as Louise Raymont. Liv hadn't seen her yet, but had been told that the vic was indeed her daughters friend and that they would need to do this process formally regardless of who she was.

Liv perched against her desk with her arms folded, almost staring into space. She had to ask, she just had to! Olivia knew that soon enough she would see her with her own eyes but couldn't help wondering.

"What does she look like?" she asked without looking up, Fin tilted his head and studied his friends expression...what was that? Reminiscing, sadness, wonderment all wrapped up in one. He stepped towards her and put a hand on each of her shoulders beckoning her eyes to look up at him as he spoke.

"She's gorgeous Liv! Completely beautiful! Small, but perfectly formed" he smiled playfully and she let herself smile slightly back at him.

Detective Benson almost didn't want to ask her next question, what if the answer was no and she had to face the same thing that made her own mother resent her? Fin narrowed his eyes trying to figure out what she was thinking, but was soon answered.

"Does she look like me?"

Detective Tutuola pursed his lips and waved his hand in a 'come with me' motion.

"You wanna see her?" he questioned, Liv's eyes widened and she froze for a moment before nodding slightly and followed him to the soft interview suites' mirror windows. She didn't allow herself to look at first, she wanted to be completely ready. After a few seconds of thinking and preparing herself, she allowed her head to raise and her eyes to fall over the site in front of her. Fin heard an audible outward gasp, quick and sharp as if not even the air in her lungs were good enough for her now that she had seen her! The 18 year old was sat opposite Elliot, who was taking down the details of Louise's family and background.

"She's so tiny" were the first words to leave Liv's lips "She's beautiful" she added without looking at Fin; she couldn't look away from her daughter.

Her eyes took in everything! Hair, eyes, body type, the way she was sat, the way her lips moved as she spoke. Fin got himself ready for what could happen, he was ready to catch her if she had a flashback, if she cried, but nothing happened, Liv was entranced by this girl! "I can only see her"she told him, letting a smile cover her lips, over the moon that she could look at her little girl without seeing that boys face staring back at her.

"I know baby" he smiled back at her, then the unplanned happened and whether it was going to cause good things or bad, Liv stepped forward.

"I wanna go in" she said matter-of-factly, waiting for Fin's go ahead. He thought for a moment, revising her expression and the way she had reacted to the girl, then sucked his lips in and nodded.

"Go on

The door creaked open slowly and Olivia entered; a little hesitant, but carried on to sit next to her partner and opposite Danielle. Elliot gave her a wary look, wondering what was about to happen, but at seeing his partners expression of complete composure he turned back to the girl in front of him.

"Danielle, this is Detective..." he stopped and snapped his head in Liv's direction, wondering what she wanted him to call her to the teenager. Did she want him to use a false name for now? His decision was taken for him when Olivia spoke up herself.

"I'm detective Benson, I was there at the scene after your friend was found" she told her in the most professional tone she could muster, she was unable to stop herself from letting out a little more compassion come through though but didn't stop to see how Danielle had reacted to her name.

"Benson?" the 18 year old repeated, Liv closed her eyes. Only for a split second though and she hoped her daughter hadn't noticed. She took a deep breath and continued.

"We need to ask you, do you know of anyone who would knowingly harm Louise?" she asked, the girl hadn't properly taken in what she had said but was staring dead straight into Olivia's eyes. "Danielle" it pained her that the first time she was speaking her daughters name was in this situation and that Danielle didn't even know that it was her mother speaking to her. Danielle was curious, they could see that plain as day. Just as Liv was trying to do; she pulled that feeling back for a minute, but through a suspicious expression she chose to answer the question.

"No, no one."

"Are you absolutely certain?" Elliot pushed.

"She's so..." she corrected herself "...she was so lovely, she was a little skittish but she was friends with everyone! She was my best friend!" it was only then that the girl seemed to forget about the name similarity and her face scrunched up before tears began to emerge and her hands flew to her face. Olivia took a deep breath, she leaned back slightly but quickly. Elliot gazed at her, his partner was about to cry; he could see it! She couldn't handle seeing her little girl cry and not being able to take her in her arms and tell her everything would be fine because she was there! He took that opportunity to make things easier for her.

"Could you go and get Danielle some tissues?" he aimed at Liv, she nodded, welcoming his way out of her losing her composure in front of the girl. With that she stood and left the room.

"We found the parents, they're on their way in." Cragen told Olivia as she entered the squad room, wiping tears from underneath her eyes before they could fall any further.

"Good, Captain..." she turned to him, his face was sympathetic; he didn't want her to be hurting.

"Olivia" he replied and perched on the edge of a desk.

"She called me on my name" she told him, rubbing her forehead with her right hand. Don slowly nodded, he thought as much would happen if and when Olivia spoke to the girl.

"What did you say?" he asked, not wanting to sound too insistent on the fact that before they could carry on with her issue they would need to sort the case out. Liv shrugged.

"I carried on with what I was saying before. She knows something is up Captain" she sighed. Her face was sad, worried and with good reason. All she wanted to do was run to Danielle, hug her and tell her everything but as of yet she was powerless.

"Now that we know who the vic is and her parents are on their way here there is little cause for Danielle to be all that involved in this case. We will need to eliminate any of Danielles DNA found at the crime scene and Elliot has taken a statement of her account of events before Louise left the flat. Olivia...when you're ready" he prompted, it was up to her now. Question was; now that the ball was in her court, was she truly ready to throw it?