A/N: Just a note for clarity's sake so you guys don't get confused. From this point forward, Sarah will be referred to by her real name, Melissa, but it's still the same person as before.

Olivia chuckled listening to her squirming submissive laugh hysterically as she tickled Grace's sides, reached underneath to tickle her belly, and reached over to tickle under her arms. Grace had to keep her hands on the floor to keep her balance, so she had no way to defend herself as she was tickled into a puddle of exhaustion over Olivia's lap, her face beet red and her hair disheveled while she panted for breath. Olivia chuckled again as she finally stopped tickling Grace and tenderly rubbed Grace's bottom while the young submissive gradually stopped laughing and caught her breath. She released her hold on Grace's legs and shifted her so that Grace was lying over her lap properly.

"That was a dirty trick, Ma'am." Grace coughed. Olivia laughed.

"Probably, but I hope it taught you a lesson, little girl. And I certainly had fun, even if you didn't." Olivia continued to rub Grace's bottom.

"But I don't understand. Yesterday you said if I wasn't in bed when you came home you were going to spank me."

"Actually, what I said was if you weren't asleep when I came home I was going to put you over my knee. When I came home, you were asleep on the couch, so technically you obeyed me. However, I knew you were awake past ten o' clock so I figured a trip over my knee was necessary, and technically you are over my knee right now. Are you going to obey me from now on, or do you think you still need a spanking with the spoon? You seem to be ready for it." Olivia gently patted Grace's bottom.

"No, Ma'am, I'll be a good girl." Grace was quick to promise exemplary behavior in the future, and since she was still facing the floor she rolled her eyes good-naturedly at her Mistress's "technicalities".

Grace yelped in surprise when she unexpectedly received two sharp spanks with the wooden spoon, one on each cheek.

"All right, up you come now, my baby."

Grace stood to her feet and reached back to rub her bottom. Olivia took Grace into the bathroom and gently washed her red face with a cool cloth.

"Am I still restricted from the internet, Ma'am?" Grace asked, leaning into the refreshing coolness of the damp cloth.

"Yes, that part was real. You can have your internet privileges back in one week." Olivia told her.

"Yes, Ma'am."

"All right, as much as I would love to stay home and cuddle with you all day, I have work to do."

Olivia slipped into her leather jacket and kissed Grace's forehead before she left to go to work.

"I come bearing gifts, and one of you people owe me a cannoli for taking my life in my hands interrupting Judge Nelson's daughter's birthday party." Carisi announced as he walked into the precinct, "Here's your search warrant for Sarah's home; there are no restrictions, anything you find is fair game. And here is a copy of her original birth certificate. May I introduce you to Melissa Pearl Steele."

"Melissa Steele. Why does that name ring a bell?" Olivia wondered aloud.

Kat turned to her computer.

"I got it. Melissa Steele was the daughter of Paul Steele, the writer turned serial killer. He was put to death when she was seven, and she had no other family to take her in, so she went into foster care. So she really was orphaned at seven."

"At least this woman knows how to tell the truth about something. Let's go search the house." Olivia said.

"Ouch!" Elliot winced as he tried to ram the front door of the house open with his shoulder, "Either I'm getting weaker or doors are getting stronger."

"Move over, old man." Olivia teased, and made a show of easily kicking in the door.

"I loosened it." Elliot justified himself.

"Of course you did. Nick, Amanda, Fin, take the upstairs. Kat, Churlish, Elliot, and I will take the downstairs and the basement. I want every inch of this place turned inside out."

Nick, Amanda, and Fin disappeared upstairs to do as they were told. Olivia put Kat and Churlish to work downstairs while she and Elliot made their way to the basement and searched it carefully, making their way toward the dungeon.

"I've never seen a lock this big on a home dungeon before." Elliot observed.

"We need CSU. They should have been here by now." Olivia said, looking at the big, heavy chain and preparing herself for whatever they found behind the door.

"Captain, Sergeant, you had better get up here!"

Olivia looked up when she heard Nick's voice calling them and they ran upstairs and found Nick, Amanda, and Fin in the bedroom where there was a TV by the bed.

"We hit the jackpot. At least sixty tapes of video in the closet, and there's a tape in the TV. You're not gonna like this, Liv." Fin warned.

Amanda turned on the TV and a video came up. Grace was chained naked to a Saint Andrews Cross in what they assumed was the dungeon downstairs. Her body was covered in sweat, bruises, and whip marks, her face streaked with tears, her big blue eyes glazed over with utter fear, exhaustion, and confusion. They suddenly heard Sarah's voice as she walked on camera holding a blazing hot branding iron.

"You stupid slut, you just can't do anything right, can you? Maybe I should use this to teach you some manners. You'd like that wouldn't you? You'd like to feel this iron burning your skin, wouldn't you? I bet it would hurt so bad. Maybe I can burn your nipples, or between your legs. You'd scream and scream and no one would hear you, because no one is looking for you because no one cares. I am the only one who loves you. Tell me you want me to burn your nipples." Sarah demanded cruelly.

"Please burn my nipples, Ma'am." Grace whimpered, clearly terrified and lying to satisfy Sarah and tell her what she wanted to hear.

"I think we should play a game. You like games, don't you?" Sarah picked up a knife.

"Yes, Ma'am." Grace sobbed in fear.

Sarah never actually touched Grace with the branding iron, but by the end of the video Grace was sobbing deeply and pleading with Sarah to burn her just to stop the torture that Sarah was putting her through.

"Turn it off." Olivia ordered, trying not to throw up.

"Liv, we can go through all of these videos back at the precinct ourselves. You don't have to see any more of them." Fin said, seeing how upset his Captain was.

"I intend to watch every single one. I want to know what that monster did to my baby and anyone else on those tapes." Olivia choked out.

After finding the tapes, CSU had finally arrived, so Olivia and her detectives went back down to the dungeon and CSU broke through the chain on the door. They were a little confused to find another TV in the dungeon. This TV had no tape in it, but they did find at least thirty more tapes in the dungeon.

"It's going to be a long night." Amanda observed when they arrived back at the precinct and stacked all of the tapes in an interview room so they could watch them.

"I'll make coffee, we can at least have caffeine while we pollute our souls." Fin said.

Several hours later, Olivia couldn't stand to watch anymore. Each tape had a woman's name labeled on it, and Grace's name was on at least fifteen of them, and each tape contained numerous hours of various sessions in the dungeon. Olivia couldn't listen to Grace scream anymore, sounding so terrified and hopeless as her body and mind were mercilessly and viciously tortured. It was a miracle that Grace had only come to the precinct with purple hands and a whipped back and swollen, bruised genitals, and not anything worse than that.

"You guys were right, I can't watch this. I have an errand to run, call me if you find anything important. I'll be back in about half an hour."

"Yes, Ma'am." the detectives replied.

Olivia went down to the tombs and flashed her badge at the guard at the desk.

"I need to speak with Sarah McPherson."

"Of course, Captain." The guard led Olivia to a cell.

Olivia placed an elbow on one of the bars and just stared coldly at the woman inside the cell for several long minutes.

"Hello, Melissa."

The woman looked up at Olivia and smiled a strange smile.

"How did you find me?" Melissa asked.

"I'm very good at my job, Melissa, I've been doing it for a long time. There isn't much that I can't find out. We searched your house and found your stash of videos, and we're now investigating you as a murder suspect."

"Who do you think I murdered?"

"Kelli Ming and Laura Bryce."

"Ahhh, memories. Laura was more of a screamer, like Grace, but Kelli was more fun because of the way her body would react. You'll see on her tapes, Kelli was fascinating. Unfortunately, they had to leave me, and I don't know if you'll be able to find them to have them testify against me. None of the others will testify against me either."

"Why are there no tapes of Laura?" Olivia inquired.

"Who says there aren't?" Melissa smirked, "Anyway, it's nice of you to come see me, Captain. Come by again sometime and let me know how Grace is doing. I miss her body in my arms, so soft and sweet."

"What do you think Grace is going to think when I go home later and tell her that you lied to her about your name?"

"It doesn't matter. Grace knows me as Sarah, others know me as Rebecca or Jillian or Nadia. There's no law that a Dominant has to register with SPS, so I can call myself whatever I want and I've done nothing illegal. When Grace comes home, I'll make sure this whole mess is rectified. Grace just wants to make whoever she is serving happy, she doesn't care about anything else."

"And you still think Grace is going to want to come back to you after the hearing?"

"She's a submissive, what she wants doesn't matter. She won't have anywhere else to go and she'll be begging to come home. I know you think you want to keep her, but you'll find out how much trouble she causes, if you haven't already. She needs special discipline that only I know how to instill."

Olivia gave Melissa her best Detective Benson glare.

"Let's get one thing straight between us, Melissa. If by some chance you don't end up behind bars for the rest of your life, you will leave this state and never come back; because if you ever do anything to hurt, harass, intimidate, frighten, or threaten Grace again… I'll kill you myself."

Olivia turned to leave the tombs and return to the precinct.

"Oh, Captain, you're back. We were just getting ready to call you." Elliot said, hanging up the phone.

"What have we got?" Olivia inquired.

"A possible double homicide. We were watching the videos of Kelli Ming, and in the very last one Kelli appears to be pregnant." Elliot wasn't going to make Olivia watch the video, but he pulled up a picture and Kelli Ming had a small but visible baby bump.

"Where's her autopsy report? I don't remember reading anything about a pregnancy." Olivia shuffled through a stack of papers until she found what she was looking for. "Nope, nothing about a pregnancy or a baby… oh, no." Olivia's heart dropped in her stomach.

"What is it?" Elliot asked.

"When Kelli's body was found, her stomach had been cut open." Olivia sighed, "How much worse could this possibly get?"

"I thought we learned not to ask that question in this line of work a long time ago." Elliot sighed.

"I went down to the tombs and I threatened Melissa's life. If that comes back to haunt me…"

"I've got your back, partner. Always have, always will." Elliot promised.

"Where's Mama?" Jessie asked while she watched Lucy help Billie change into her pajamas.

"It's okay, Jessie, Mama's working. She'll be back very late tonight. Come on, we have time for two stories and then it's time for good girls to go to sleep." Lucy smiled.

"I wanna sweep by da win'ow!" Billie announced.

Lucy cuddled up with the girls and read to them, unaware of the figure lurking outside the window in the shadows. Lucy tucked the girls in, kissed them goodnight, and turned the light off as she left to go into the other room to watch TV until Amanda came back. Sometime later, Lucy was startled to hear both girls screaming for her and she ran into the other room where they were sleeping, and she was horrified to see a man she didn't recognize who had somehow gotten through the window and was holding Billie under his arm and attempting to pick Jessie up with the other. Lucy sprang into action and managed to get Jessie behind her and attempted to pull Billie out of the man's arms while both children sobbed and screamed. Suddenly a shot rang out and the man fell to the floor dead. As he fell, he dropped Billie and Lucy caught the child in her arms. Everyone looked over to see Amanda standing in the doorway with her gun drawn. Amanda held back her tears as she rushed to embrace her sobbing children.

"Mama, da scary man hurted me!" Billie sobbed.

"I know, baby. Mama's here. Mama's got you, you're safe." Amanda kissed both of her babies and held them close.

Amanda called Olivia to tell her what had happened, and Olivia and Elliot showed up at the hotel quickly after. They took Lucy's statement and then sent the frightened nanny home to take a warm shower. Jessie and Billie were no longer screaming, but they were still crying and frightened.

"Are you okay, babies?" Olivia asked with loving concern.

"I's scared, Auntie." Billie whimpered.

"I know you're scared, honey. You and your sister were very brave. I think Uncle Elliot brought lollipops for you."

Jessie and Billie ran into the other room to find Elliot, and Olivia turned to her frightened detective.

"Do you know this guy?" Olivia gestured toward the man on the floor. No one had touched the body yet while they waited for someone to come take it away.

"He looks familiar, but I don't know from where." Amanda replied.

"This has to be connected in some way to Melissa Steele, it can't just be a coincidence. Have you noticed anyone paying particular attention to you since you've been staying here?"

"No one suspicious. Yesterday a woman said that Jessie and Billie were cute, but she was eighty or so."

"Well, we can move you to a different hotel, or you can change rooms in this hotel and I can order a protective detail to stay with you for the rest of the time you're here, however long you decide to stay. I would offer to let you come stay with me, but I don't have room for all of you."

"I haven't decided when we're going home yet. In my gut, I want to wait until after Grace's hearing. If Melissa goes to prison, I'll feel much better about going home then. But I hate to keep the girls away from home for that long. I guess we'll take our chances at another hotel." Amanda sighed.

"Let me know what hotel you choose and I'll order that protective detail for you."

Olivia drove home and let herself into the apartment, and was concerned to find Grace sitting on the couch visibly shaking with tears streaming down her pretty face.

"What happened, little one?" Olivia asked with loving concern, sitting on the couch and gathering Grace into her arms.

"Everyone is getting hurt because of me." Grace sobbed on Olivia's shoulder.