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It was a little after two in the morning when squad cars and the CSU guys started to pull away for the night. All except for the three SVU cars and the two squad cars which one of them happened to be sergeant Kendall and Officer Reilly's car and the other was ordered to stay parked outside the building while one stood guard outside the apartment door. Cragen was satisfied with the way the 2-5 was handling the situation, it made him wonder if the squad does this for every major crime scene or just specific ones. But his biggest concern was that he still hadn't heard from the hospital or the officer who went with Olivia, to the hospital. That was making him worried and the three uniform officers there could tell.
"Sir, are you alright?" (officer Charlie Brown)
"I'm fine, why'd you ask?" (Cragen)
"Your kind of standing on my foot" (officer Brown)
"Oh…sorry, about that" (Cragen)
"No problem sir, I had to head to the hospital anyways to get my hand checked out anyways, someone slammed a door shut on it" (officer Brown)
"Charlie, get to the hospital with Noah. I'll stay here with Quinn until you get back" (Sgt. Kendall)
"You sure serge?" (officer Brown)
"Yeah, now get" (Sgt. Kendall)
"Come on Charlie, let's go before he changes his mind and makes me stay. I think I jammed my arm reaching behind the fridge, I wouldn't mind getting it checked out. Plus we can see how Tina, is doing at the hospital on guard duty" (Noah)
"Okay" (officer Brown). After they were gone, everyone who was standing there secretly knew that Noah wasn't just talking about checking on there colleague who was watching Olivia but to actually find out how Olivia was doing so he could tell them.
The hospital was not a place that Noah and Charlie liked going not even during daylight hours, so going during the middle of the night was a new experience for both of them. Mercy General looked different to them like it was a completely different place, they didn't really know any of the staff but they knew they had to get themselves looked after.
"Hello, men in uniform" (random drunk patient)
"I think she's talking to you Brown" (Noah)
"No I think she's talking to you Reilly" (Charlie)
"I think I'm in heaven" (random drunk patient)
"Darlene, shut-up over there…sorry about that officers what can I do for you two?" (nurse Bates)
"Well we ran into some problems, while working. My colleague officer Brown had an apartment door slammed on his hand and somebody slam his foot down on top of his foot several times. As for myself I scarped my arm up and possibly sprained it when reaching behind a fridge" (Noah)
"Well then, let's get you two looked after. By any chance do either of you know why there's a police guard on the seventh floor?" (nurse Bates)
"Yeah a cop was attacked earlier tonight at her apartment, that's kind of where we have been" (Noah)
"Alright, so let me get you two fixed up so you can find out how she's doing so you can report back to whoever's in charge about her condition" (nursed Bates)
"Thank you, our sergeant and her squad will be mighty happy" (Noah)
"Besides our serge can't leave till we get back. See I'm scheduled to stay at the apartment with my partner, while the rest of them gets to go back to the station and start working on the information gathered" (Charlie)
"I see. Well from what I can see you officer Brown have broken you hand and your ankle has a mild sprain and slight swelling, while you officer…" (nurse Bates)
"Reilly" (Noah)
"Reilly have sprained and scraped your arm up to the point where I believe you are going to need a tetanus shot, unless you've had one in the past six months?" (nurse Bates) "Does a rabies shot count?" (Noah)
"No it does not count" (nurse Bates)
"Then no I haven't had a tetanus shot recently" (Noah). Not that it was going to make a difference the doctor was going to give him the shot anyways.
By the time they got out of the E.R. and got to go upstairs and check on the condition of Olivia, Charlie had been replaced and the two were ordered back to the station house, right away. They weren't even inside for more than a minute before those in the squad room started hounding them for answers.
"Alright, one at a time please" (Noah)
"How's Benson?" (Cragen)
"Yeah how is she?" (Elliot)
"What's the word on you and Reilly, Charlie?" (Lieutenant Lawrence Reynolds)
"Detective Benson is still unconscious, the rape kit was positive for fluids and they got scraping's from under her fingernails…" (Noah)
"Plus, she fought her attack, they found skin inside her mouth, seems like she bit down on something" (officer Brown)
"That's our girl, she's a fighter" (Fin)
"As for the answer to your question lieutenant. Noah has a sprained wrist, scratched up arm and they had to give him a tetanus shot. In my case my right hand was broken as expected and my left ankle has a mild sprain and slight swelling" (officer Brown)
"Once again I apologize for what I did to your foot officer Brown" (Cragen)
"Don't worry about it Captain" (officer Brown)
"Did you two bring the evidence from the hospital with you?" (Elliot)
"Yep, already dropped off at the lab personally" (Noah)
"We got everything the hospital wanted to give us, the rape kit, her swabs, clothes. Strange thing was that they said it looked like she wasn't…" (officer Brown)
"Wasn't what?" (Cragen)
"What else was there Brown?" (Elliot)
"Charlie, its okay, you can say it?" (Lt. Reynolds)
"I can't, I can't say it" (officer Brown)
"Reilly what did they say?" (Elliot)
"They said with the level of force this guy used to beat her, they figure that the attacker had to of had close intimate contact with her or past knowledge, at most. Also they said her clothes weren't ripped and her underwear wasn't torn off as well as the nurse pointed out that she didn't seemed to have been bound, gagged or restrained at all during the attack" (Noah)
"That's impossible, I saw the condition of her when the medic's were taking her out of there the attacker had to of ripped something and restrained her somehow" (Sgt. Kendall)
"How close of a contact are we talking?" (Cragen)
"Like they've known her for a while, as in they had a daily contact with her or something" (officer Brown)
"Daily contact? Was there any speculation on the attacker's profile?" (Cragen)
"Yeah, but Noah's going to have to tell you more. I had to leave the room, when the nurse went to show us something the attacker did to her" (officer Brown)
"Like what…Noah?" (Cragen)
"Serge, lieu, captain. It was rough the thing that Charlie had to leave the room for it was pretty out there the attacker did a number, in her. But for the other thing I can't say really neither could the doctors, the speculation only came from the nurse and her years of trauma work and her years of experience working with sexual assault victims" (Noah)
"Noah, that's not true the nurse gave us the doctors and hers best guess" (officer Brown)
"Which was what?" (Munch)
"Don't worry, Noah you can tell us" (Lt. Reynolds)
"According to them and this is only speculation mind you. Due to the level of bruising, they think that the person who attacked her could of done it out of the heat of passion, a refusal to take 'no' for an answer, possible vengeance for past failures or my personal favourite first person to open their apartment door to the attacker. They also went on to list after that an ex-psycho that she has put behind bars who got early parole, bent on revenge. Then they went onto ask the standard question on whether or not she is currently seeing anybody"
"Why would they ask, that?"(Elliot)
"Come on El, it's standard procedure for them to ask. About a victim's current or past sexual relationship's" (Munch)
"I know that but its Liv, we don't know anything about her personal life" (Elliot)
"Or do we? What did you tell them Noah?" (Cragen)
"Just what Olivia, told me three weeks ago when we bumped into each other at a café a block away from 1PP " (Noah)
"Which was?" (Cragen)
"Nobody said she just broke-up with some guy. She didn't give me a name, just said he was a real piece of work, nothing more" (Noah)
"Anybody else hear about this break up detective Benson had?" (Cragen)
"Yeah I saw some guy, following her last week when she dropped by to pick up some more DD5 forms from us. She told me it was nothing, guess it could have been something" (officer Andrea Parker)
"You remember what the guy look like?" (Cragen)
"No but I could probably do you one better this guy followed her right into the station house and into the squad room in order to do that all visitors have to provide photo id and sign in, so this guy would be recorded. Unless…" (officer Parker)
"Unless what?" (Elliot)
"Unless he was a cop, they don't have to sign in" (Noah)
"No cop, could willingly do something like this to another cop. Could they?" (officer Brown)
"You'd be surprised Charlie. What another cop is capable of doing, when there back is up against the wall and they think somebody's on to them" (Noah)
"Don't scary the kid, Reilly" (Fin)
"He's right, cops are just as dangerous as everybody else. Especially since we carry guns and control the power. We can pretty much do whatever we want, it's as if we are under big brothers control…" (Munch)
"Now look what you, did you got Munch going on his conspiracy theories again" (Fin)
"Sorry, but if you think about it we kind of do act as if we are the puppet for big brother. The government pulls the strings and gives orders and we follow them, without hesitation" (Noah)
"Enough with the big brother talk. Let's just work on finding something out about this guy, Cragen care to give out the assignments? If you need an office you can use mine. All I ask is for my squad to be back up for you guys, this prep walked into my station house" (Lt. Reynolds)
"You got it. Parker and Lake, you two sit down with TARU and go over camera footage for that day. Brown and Fin you two go over the statements that the canvas turned up and talk with the officers who took each one to hear from them if anything out of the ordinary came from the neighbor's responses or reactions. John go over Liv's phone records for the last two months and Elliot and Noah you two follow us, now everybody get to work" (Cragen). It was the usual dividing of work; it was just that this time they were using patrol officers as partners instead of doubling up on work.