The Fair
Chapter 4
Nearly 15 years ago:
Olivia had just finished her day as a beat cop. She was exhausted. It had been a long busy week. She had been looking forward to the next two days off. She had decided to walk home. The walk from the station to her apartment helped her clear her head, usually, of the things that went on at work. Olivia was normally very observant in everything she did. However tonight, she had a date and she wasn't as observant as normal.
She was 3 blocks from where she lived when someone grabbed her from an alley she was walking past. The man was wearing a ski mask and a black work coverup with polished black boots, thus she had next to no description of him. During the attack he had said nothing to her. All in all the attack lasted 15 minutes. She begged him not to, she screamed, and she fought like a wild tiger. In the end it did not prevent the man from raping her. In the end of the incident, her screams went unheard. After the attack, the man pulled her pants back up and ran off, hoping to never be seen again. He had been wearing gloves.
Olivia just sat there for a minute in disbelief of what had just happened. She had just become a victim. She took her cell out of her pocket and called her date.
"Hey Babe, What's up?" He asked.
"I don't think I'm going to make it for our date tonight." She answered. Her voice was horse and shaky.
"You ok?" He asked.
"No I think I need to go to the hospital." She responded.
"Why? What happened?" Was the response.
"I just need you to bring me to the hospital. I'm not feeling well at all." She stated giving him her location.
A few moments later her boyfriend arrived. It still hadn't fully hit her of what had happened. She got in the car and told him next to nothing during the short drive to the hospital. Although he insisted on staying with her, she talked him into leaving. She would call later. The conversation was quickly over.
Olivia walked into the hospital and to the desk. She had given the nurse a fake name and told her what was going on. She was quickly taken to the back where the exam rooms were. The nurse then called the SVU department to report the crime.
The events of that night after that point, became a blur to Olivia. A couple of detectives arrived and spoke to her, an exam was done, pictures were taken. Hours after a nice security guard from the hospital brought her home. They quickly became friends. She had given the SVU detectives next to nothing to go on about the man who had attacked her other than the polished black boots. The case eventually went cold.
Olivia ended up taking a few weeks off after the attack. She was just too jumpy and paranoid to do her job, however things eventually returned to normal.
A few months later she found herself at her doctors office with what she thought was a bad case of the flu. In the end it turned out she was pregnant. Olivia dumped her boyfriend and debated keeping the baby. She did not want to end up like her mother. However she already loved this child. She had always dreamed of one day having her own children, preferably after she was married, if that ever happened.
Olivia went over her options with the rape councilor she was seeing. At the time she went into labor she had made up her mind. She loved this baby, but she was a mess and she worked long hours. She was hardly ever home. She did not see herself being a good mother at this point in her life. She had filled out the paperwork with a good agency that promised they would find her daughter a good home. Her friend the security guard vowed he would keep an eye on the child. She told him she wanted no updates. Those were words that years later she would come to regret.
Once her daughter was born she signed the papers finalizing her wish for the child to be adopted. Leaving the hospital without her baby girl had been the hardest thing she had ever done.
In the weeks after she came home, a mother, but not a mother, her friend the security guard was there often. He held her through the tears and doubts and emotions that hormones had brought on. A year after they barely spoke to one another anymore, her choice, not his. She had also transferred where she worked to the special victims unit. Every year she gave a present and a card to the guard around her daughters birthday. Every year he handed those items to the child.
He wanted to tell Olivia about the hell her daughter was going through. Every time, he tried to she blew him off and abruptly ended the conversation. He knew that one day she would regret giving up her daughter and requesting no updates. He had no idea that the little girl he watched for years would end up as one of her cases. How she was going to handle this, he had no clue. It was time for the past to meet the present. They could do nothing about the life the child had before, but he was damn sure going to do something about it now.
Off: Sorry it's taken so long to update. Time and family got away with me. This chapter did not come easily. It appears that the writers block is still trying to hang on again. I am also sorry if I seemed snappy to some of my reviewers. It has been a very rough couple of weeks. I am not sleeping well and I'm moody as can be. I will try to update this by the same time next week. As always review! I love you guys! Thanks!