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When Olivia walked into the precinct the next morning, Elliot's spirits were immediately slammed to the ground when he saw that she still looked just as upset as she had the day before. She looked worse than she had the day before. Her hair was thrown up in a clip, partially wet from her recent shower, she was wearing clothes that were inappropriate for work-an NYPD t-shirt and some gray sweat pants, her eyes were exhausted-looking and she had on the same make-up she'd had on yesterday, only now it was smuged a little. Yeah, she still looked beautiful as usual, but she looked really upset. Her face was flushed, she was wiping her eyes. She had to tell him what was going on, pronto.
Elliot stood up and walked over to Olivia and grabbed her arm. She looked at him confusedly, but he ignored it and led her into the crib. She sat down on a bed and Elliot sat down beside her.
"Look, I don't want to badger you, but you've got to tell me what's going on. I need you to tell me everything about Rob beginning to end, and "I'm fine" isn't going to work anymore. You've got to tell me so we can fix this...you aren't being yourself anymore. Look at what he's doing to you!" he pointed out. He grabbed her hand for comfort but then noticed the big, swollen...bites, is that what they were...? He stared at them. They were puffed up and they kind of looked like stab wounds, only a whole lot smaller.
"What's that?" Elliot asked. Then he realized he was getting off subject and wished he hadn't said anything. "Tell me what happened," he demanded.
Olivia was quiet for a minute, but she finally began to talk. "Last night when I went in my apartment, there was a vase with flowers in them by my front door. I already knew they were from Rob. There was a card, but it was inside the vase, so I reached in to get it, but there were leeches...they bit me, but I got them off," she explained.
"Leeches?" he winced.
"Yeah," she said, nodding her head with a look of disbelief on her face.
Elliot was quiet a minute. "Okay, so what happened in college?"
Olivia stared at him. "I don't want to talk about it," she said, waving her hand in the air and turning her face away.
"Tell me." Elliot stared at Olivia with eyes that he really hoped would make her open up. He was successful.
"He always used to pull moves on me. He'd massage my shoulders in class, he'd feel me up after school if I was ever the last one to leave. One day he felt me up too far and I slapped him. He was so pissed. I ran to my dorm and tried to act like nothing had ever happened. But later that night, I heard my roommate scream," she said. Elliot could tell that she was trying not to cry. "I woke up and saw Rob on top of her, raping her. I went to help her, but he hit me with a lamp and knocked me unconcious. I don't know what he did to me. He may have raped me, he may have done nothing to me. I don't know, but when I woke up I didn't feel like I had been raped, and I didn't...I didn't have any evidence that said I was raped. But my bra was unhooked, and I know it wasn't like that when I went to bed. I thought he probably just...touched me. I don't think he raped me," she said quietly, wiping her eyes. "My roommate was found dead in a dumpster a few blocks from the college; she'd been stabbed three times."
Elliot felt worse for her than he ever had. She had never told him that she may have been raped, or violated, or anything else! He now understood why she had been so upset when she'd seen Rob. And he wanted to kick Rob in places that would hurt very, very badly.
"Well, it was reported, right?" Elliot asked, rubbing a hand over Olivia's back.
"Yeah, but he hadn't left any DNA on my roommate, Glori. He must have worn a condom. He had an alibi, but I knew it was false because I saw him raping her, and the people backing up his alibi were his two best friends. I told the cops over and over that he was the one who raped and killed Glori, but they didn't believe me because there wasn't any evidence against Rob and he had an alibi. I fought it for months, but the murder looked like suicide because of the way her stab wounds were. Sometimes I wonder if she actually did commit suicide because of the trauma of her rape, but I knew Glori. I don't think she'd have done that," Olivia said. "Rob was found not guilty on all charges. He left the school after that, and I hadn't seen him again until the other day," she finished.
Elliot felt so bad. He knew that something serious had to have happened for Olivia to be reacting this way to seeing her old teacher, but he had no idea that it was this serious.
"And it's not like I can do anything now, of course. No double jeopardy," Olivia reminded him.
Elliot nodded sympathetically. "Well, you can get him for stalking you..."
"No I can't...he sent me flowers, El," she said.
Elliot realized that she was right. Rob Lawrence had raped and murdered a young girl, and violated Olivia, and was now making Olivia's life hell, but there was nothing that could be done. He was free. But if Elliot found him, when he found him, he'd make Rob regret every little thing he had done to Glori and Olivia.
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