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Thomas' parents house. Down Town Manhattan
"I hate this part of the job" Olivia said as she and Elliot made there way up the stairs. Elliot nodded in agreement.
"I know, I can not imagine what it would be like to bury a child, no matter what age." They finally got to there apartment and knocked on the door.
"Hold on a second" a women said from inside. Then a few seconds later, a women in her late fifties appeared at the door.
"Yes can I help you?"
"I'm detective Benson, this is my partner detective Stabler, we're from SVU, do you mind if we come in?"
"What seems to be the trouble?"
"it would really be better if we talked inside" Olivia said softly. The women nodded then moved out of the way so they could come in. When they did she closed the door and then turned to them.
"I'm Amanda Montague by the way, can I offer you officers a drink?"
"no thank you mam. But we need to tell you something about your son Thomas."
"Thomas, is he all right?" Amanda asked a little nervously. Just then a man came into the living room, he looked to be about sixty.
"Sweetie whats going on?" he asked seeing the nervous look on his wifes face.
"These are detectives from the SVU, I think Thomas in in some sort of trouble." The man looked at the detectives
"I'm Eric Montague, Thomas' father. What is this regarding?"
"Please, sit down" Elliot said softly christening to the couch. The two of them looked at each other before they sat down.
"I'm sorry to have to tell you this but, your son was found murdered this afternoon." Amanda started crying and hugged her husband who just got a look of shock on his face.
"Bu, but how? I mean, how could this happen?" Erik asked in shock."He was going to be married, his wife wasamonth pregnant., he-" but he stopped cold. "Oh my god, I need to tell Maxine, she'll be devastated."
"I'm sorry, but she was also murdered along with Thomas."
Eric looked down then sniffed then looked back up.
"D, do you have any cue who did it?"
"no sir, we just started investigating. Do you know anyone who would want to hurt your son or Maxine" He shook his head then Amanda released the hug then turned towards them
"no, Thomas was loved by everyone, and Maxine was funny, kind smart, she was like a daughter to us. Who would want to kill them?" Amanda said beginning to cry again.
"I'm sorry I can't do this" and she got up and left the room. Eric sighed then ran a hand through his hair.
"I don't know how she's going to get through this" he said softly. Olivia and Elliot gave him a sympathetic look before she spoke again.
"we were told that Maxine's parents didn't like the fact that their daughter was marrying your son because of his race. Do you know if they would be capable enough to do something like this?" Eric thought for a moment before he spoke.
"I have never spoken ill about anyone since the day I was born, but they truly hated the fact that there daughter was marrying a black man. After Thomas and Maxine had been dating for a while, we said we would like to meet her parents, and she was really kind of embarrassed and upset that we asked this. At first, I thought it was the fact that she had a black boyfriend, but then I found out later she was embarrassed because of her parents. They said that they would refuse to sit with 'our kind' and that she would go to hell because she was dating a black man. There rude, inconsiderate bigots, and frankly, I don't know how Maxine could be so kind and generous being raised by those two." Olivia nodded then sighed.
"it's standard procedure that we ask this, where were you between nine and eleven o'clock last night?"
"Me and my wife were at a friends house, we left around eight and didn't get back until around twelve. I truly can't believe my son is gone. Do any of you know what it's like to lose a child? Sure he was thirty eight years old but it doesn't matter, he was still my son" he said getting tears in his eyes.
"I do" Olivia said softly Eric turned to her and wiped away his tears
"you do?" Olivia nodded
"yeah, I lost two due to miscarriages, it was one of the worst experiences of my life."
"I'm sorry" he said sincerely. "Ho, how did you get through it? I mean, Amanda is going to be a wreck."
"I told myself that even though its hard, I had to get through it for my daughter." Eric nodded then Elliot's cell phone rang.
"Stabler" he said picking up the phone and walking into the next room.
"You said you had a daughter, do you have any pictures?" Olivia got out her wallet and opened it to a picture of Fin giving Tina a piggyback ride. Eric took it and looked at it for a second before he gave it back.
"She's a beautiful girl, your very lucky" he said wiping away a tear. Olivia gave him a supportive smile before Elliot came back in the room.
"I'm sorry for your loss and if you think of anything else please call us." Eric nodded then they all stood up and went to the door.
"Please find my sons killer, I, I don't want that demon to get away with what he's done." Elliot and Olivia nodded then he closed the door.
"Who was that on the phone?" Olivia asked him as they made there way down the stairs.
"CSU found something we need to take a look at." Olivia nodded then they made there way out of the building.
Crime scene, half hour later.
"Okay we're here, whats going on?" he asked one of the CSI's.
"Something sick, I'll tell you that much, come on" he said leading them to the bedroom.
"look up there" he said pointing to a dismantled light right above the bed. They both did and got confused.
"Um, why are we looking at a bunch of wires?" Elliot said confused
"because this was found in the lamp, right over the bed" he said handing them a small evidence bag with a tiny metal thing in it. Olivia took it and looked at it in confusion
"what is this, some sort of chip?"
"nope, it's a miniature camera. We also found one in the shower head." Olivia shook her head
"that son of a bitch, the perp was watching them" Olivia said a little angrily.
"We're searching the house for more, but so far thats all we can find. We gonna send them to the lab just as as we're done looking for them."
"All right, do we know who owns this apartment?" Elliot asked
"yeah, he lives in room D 56, right next door." Olivia nodded then the two of them walked out of the apartment and knocked on the door before someone answered it.
"Hello, can I help you?" a man around thirty said opening the door.
"Police, I'm detective Stabler this is detective Benson, may we come in?" Elliot said flashing his
"whatever" he said moving out of the way.
"So, like whats up? theres a lot of like people next door" he said closing the door. Olivia and Elliot turned to him
"Theres been a murder next door. Maxine Shaw and Thomas Montague." The man got wide eyes
"what? no way dude, that like, sucks man. Max and Tom were like, awesome tenants."
"There's something else to, there were cameras in there house, miniature cameras in their bed and bathroom. Would you have any idea why?" Elliot said. The man got wide eyes.
"What? no dude, why would I want to watch them guys going at it? Yeah Maxine's hot, but I'm engaged dude. Plus I''m not into dudes, and whoever planted those cameras as watchin' Tom to." Olivia nodded
'tell me something Mr-"
"Z, all my friends call me Z"
"Okay Z, did you have any problem with the two of them dating?" Z looked confused
"no, why would I?"
"maybe because of the fact that Maxine was white and Thomas was black?" Z scoffed
"dude, why would I have a problem with that? so there not the same color, big deal dude." Elliot and Olivia nodded
"alright, can you tell me where you were last night between 9 and 11 PM?"
"sure, I was at my fiancées, call her dude. We were" he chuckled "practicing for the wedding night. Look dude and dudeite, I had nothing to do with the cameras or the murder. And I have to go pick up my tux, so, can we like talk later? And you can have like full access to the security cameras alright?" Olivia nodded then the two of them left the apartment shutting the door behind them.
"So what now?"
"we go check out the security cameras, see if this freak can be IDed." Elliot nodded in agreement before they walked to the elevator.
"I know you don't like talking about it, but what do you think you'll name the baby?" Olivia shrugged then put a hand on her stomach
"I'm thinking, and remember that we thought Tina was gonna be Alee up until the day she was born, but I'm thinking Sarah Lee Benson if it's a girl or Jamel Elliot Tutuola if it's a boy." Elliot nodded
"those are nice names, and don't worry Liv, he or she will be fine."
"God I hope your right" she said softly as the elevator doors opened. They walked into a room that said security.
"Excuse me you can't be in here" a security guard said standing up.
"Police, detective Benson and Stabler, SVU, we need to view some security footage from last night from nine a clock to eleven a clock on the fourth floor."
"Whoa whoa, wait, you can't just barge in here and demand security tapes" he said a little annoyed.
"You do realize theres been a murder in this building right?" The security guard got wide eyes
"what? I'm the head of security, why haven't I been told about this?"
"I don't know, but it would really help us out if we could see those tapes. Z gave us full access."
"oh Z said you could? oh thats fine then. Um, just one question, who was murdered?"
"Maxine Shaw and Thomas Montague" the security officers face turned to surprise.
"Tom and Max are dead? damn, they were really nice people too. Damn, well just tell me anything I can do to help"
"Show us the security tapes from the fourth floor, from nine a clock to eleven a clock last night." The security officer nodded before going over to one of the small TVs with a VCR and put a tape in and rewound it.
"Sorry we don't have a great security system, but it's not the Ritz, but it keeps the tenets safe."
"Oh yeah, real safe" Olivia muttered. The security guard gave her a small glare then turned back to the TV.
"Ahh, here we go, fourth floor, at nine PM."
"Okay, fast forward it" Olivia said looking at the screen. The security guard pressed a button and they watched the empty hallway until they saw two people step off the elevator at nearly ten thirty
"Okay press play" Olivia said looking at the two of the people on the screen.
"Come on show us your face, show us you face" Olivia prompted the people on the screen, but they both had a hood over there face and was looking down.
"Look, there both going into the apartment" Elliot said as one of them got out a lock pick and began picking the lock. It took the man about a minute to get it unlocked then they looked around then walked into the apartment.
"Damn, we didn't see there faces, is there any other angle?" Elliot said hopefully
"no, I'm sorry thats all we got, I wish it was more."
"No no, it helped us a lot" Olivia said trying to hide her disappointment. The security guard shrugged then ejected the tape and handed it to Olivia.
"I'm really sorry, I hope you find the killers, they deserve to be punished. I mean it, Max and Tom were great people, a really nice couple too." Olivia nodded in agreement before they walked out of the building.
"Well, at least we know that theres two skinheads running around here instead of one" Elliot said as he got in the car.
"Great, two psychos who kill people because there in love with another race. This just made my day" Olivia said a little annoyed. Elliot looked over at her in confusion but decided not to say anything about it. They drove halfway to the precinct in silence before Olivia yelled at him to pull over
"pull over, pull over now!" she said feeling sick. He instantly obliged and Olivia opened the door and got sick. Elliot held her hair back until it stopped. When it did she wiped her mouth and fell back against the seat.
"Oh god, I now remember how much I hated having morning sickness" she said groaning.
"Come on, it's only for the next few months, you can get through it" he said giving her a piece of gum. She nodded then took a few deep breaths before Elliot drove off again.
A few buildings next door
"Yes, I need to get the medical history on Olivia Benson, I'm her doctor, Doctor Memorex. Uh huh, oh really? Two miscarriages in the last four years? Well thats horrible" the man said smiling coldly. "Okay anything else? She's a month pregnant? Well thats, terrific to say the least. Yes, thank you very much, good bye." He scoffed then picked up the phone and dialed a number. "Little mixer lost two of her 'children' then decided to get pregnant again. No, it's great, now when we get a chance with the whore, we'll be sending her, and herunborn half breeder through hell."
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