Chapter 3: Sedatives

"Hi Claire. It's Olivia do you remember me?" Olivia asked as she walked into the interrogation room. Claire was know sitting on the floor with her legs crossed, so Olivia joined her. "Yes." Claire said nodding. Then she started picking at her finger nail again. "That's good. We just need to know what your last name is so we can get your mom to come and get you, okay?" " Walters " "Walters?" Det. Benson asked. "Yup". At that Det. Benson looked towards the darkened glass, because she knew Stabler was listening. Claire stood up and walked over to one of the tables that had containers on it she went through the pens and colouring in pencils untill she found a pair of scissors. She turned around " I DON'T LIKE IT HERE! I WANNA GO HOME NOW!" she screamed holding the scissors. "Claire you need to calm down okay. My partner is ringing your mom now. So just put the scissors down." " NO! I WANNA GO NOW!" Claire screamed again, this time she ran towards Det. Benson. Dr. Huang ran in and grabbed her but she managed to stab him in the arm with the scissors. Stabler ran in and grabbed Claire and restrained her as Olivia ran over to Dr. Huang. "Doc are you okay?" she asked kneeling in front of him, as he sat on the floor clutching his arm. "Yeah i should be. You may need to.. oh. You may need to put her into confinment so she can calm down". "We need some help in here!" Stabler yelled as Claire struggled in his hold, screaming the whole time "GET OFF ME! AHHHHHHHHHHH!". With that security came running in and helped Elliot with the screaming teen.

"Is George going to be okay?" Olivia asked one of the EMT's as they walked out to the ambulance. "He will need a few stitches, but other than that he will be fine." "Thanks." Olivia said as she walked back over to her desk. " Is the doc okay?" Stabler asked walking over to Benson. " Yeah one of the medics said that he would need some stitches though. What about Claire?" She asked sitting down at her desk, Stabler sat at his desk which was directly opposite to hers. "Yeah she uh, she was pretty strong but we managed to get her into a holding cell, one of the medics gave her a sedative, she calmed down after a few minutes." "That's good." "Where are we going with this case?" Stabler asked leaning back in his chair. "I'm not sure at the moment. We are still waiting for results on the gun, maybe that will lead us somewhere."

" We got something on the gun." Stabler told Benson, as she was pouring herself yet another cup of what passed as coffee. "Oh yeah?" she asked eagerly as she took a sip of her coffee. After which she realised that she would rather be tired than drink anymore of it. She placed it on her desk as she took the file from Elliot. "Justin Mawson." she read aloud. " Yeah kid reported his gun missing a few months back. He does have a background though. Spent four months in juvie for trespassing and vandalism when he was 15. And eighteen months for possession of a class B drug. Got out last August. "

Stabler and Benson walked into the 24/7 store. There, leaning on the counter talking to the store clerk was Justin Mawson. "Justin." Stabler said walking over to him and placing his hand on the young mans shoulder. "Whoa, who are you?" he asked moving away. "I'm detective Elliot Stabler, this is my partner detective Benson. We're here to talk to you about the gun you reported stolen." Stabler said leading him outside. "Oh yeah, did you guys find it?" he asked suprised. "Yeah. You seem suprised about that" Olivia said staring the man in the eyes. "Well, yeah. I mean that gun did cost a lot." he said defensively. "Is that all you're worried about?" Stabler questioned. "What? Where did you find it?" his eyes widerning. "Maybe you can tell us" Benson stepped closer towards Justin. "I told the cops it was stolen. How am i supposed to know?" he said backing away. " Okay well a man was shot with your gun." Justin' eyes opened so wide it looked like they would pop out of his head. "Oh..oh my god. Is he okay?" he said turning a new shade of white. "No actually. He died." Benson told him. "Oh man. I'm sorry i don't know anything." "Okay. Here is my card. Give us a call if you think of anything." Stabler said handing him a card with his number on it. Justin slowly took the card, Olivia noticed his hand was shaking. Stabler and Benson headed back towards their car. "That knocks him off the suspect list" Olivia said as she pulled the car door open. "Why is that?" "Did you see the way he reacted? He was shaking when you gave him your card." "He could have been acting." Stabler said as he got into the car, and shut his door. "I don't think so. We will keep him in mind though." she said putting on her seat belt. "Great, Elliot sighed. "We are back to square one. Trying to get Claire to talk. We know how well that works." he pulled out from the curb.