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17. medusa

Finn, Carisi, Peña were called in to the hospital about the americas favorite famous family, their 13 year old daughter fainted and is three months pregnant.

Olivia and Jocelyn went to speak to the parents of Lane, trying to figure out what happened and who could've done it.

"We appreciate you being here officers, but we didn't call the police." The mom, Pam says as she stands close to the door and kept looking at her daughter through the window.

"Right, the doctor did, she has to. There's mandatory reporting in these situations, so... Your daughter Lane is 13 years old and shes pregnant."

"We are aware of that now." The dad stands close to his wife. "And this is complicated, but it's a family matter."

"We need to talk to her." Jocelyn crosses her arms as she speaks to them. "She is underage and maybe she would probably want to say who got her pregnant."

"We're going to have to say no." Jocelyn raises an eyebrow as the mom shuts her down. "We...we don't want her talking to the police now. Shes not well, shes upset. This is no..."

"What my wife means that we need to talk to Lane first." The Husband speaks. "She doesn't even know shes pregnant."

"But she knows how and who did it to her." Jocelyn squinted her eyes. "Does Land have a boyfriend? Seeing a guy?"

"No. Our children dont date." He immediately shuts that down."

"Not to sound rude, but we dont need your help. Shes our daughter. We'll take care of her." Just as Jocelyn was going to speak again on how this isn't right and how Lane is only a little girl, Olivia stops her. She places her hand on her arm.

"Mrs. Baker, we have a job to do, right and your daughters condition could be the result of a criminal act."

"If Lane had been hurt in any way, she would've told us." The husband wraps his arm around his wife.

"We are good parents. We watch over our children."

"With all due respect, this wasn't an immaculate conception alright? Now, to your knowledge, has your daughter been alone with any boys?"

"No."

"School? Is she close with anyone there?" Jocelyn asked.

"We homeschool." Jocelyn widened her eyes, looking away of course. The thought of been THAT close with family would honesty kill her. All you are doing is be with family, no friends, cant date and find your own path. Having your parents hang over you. She didn't that much freedom when growing up but at least she had a chance to do normal stuff that teens did. "We believe in a faith-based education. Pastor Eldon." She looks over to see the Pastor walk over to them.

"Pastor Eldon, this is detective Peña and Lieutenant Benson, theyre with SVU." The two women make their way to meet Pastor Eldon, who is equally frightened of what happened.

"We're also very concerned about Lane." Liv steps forward.

"Okay." Pastor stuttered.

"They want to talk to her Pastor." Pam looks at Eldon for approval.

"Oh." He eeked. "I think that Frank and Pam and Lane would be more comfortable talking to the local authorities. But rest assured, as their pastor and lawyer..." He hands Liv his card. "I will contact the Allanville PD." All Liv did was look at Jocelyn with a look of disbelief and all Jocelyn did was lick her lips and rolled her eyes.

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"Ive gotta say, it is extremely frustrating. I mean, they did promise to take it up with their local PD." Liv said as she paces around the bullpen. "But it seems like they dont trust outsiders very much."

"Maybe they're just protective of their kids." Sonny says as he leans on his desk.

"Only if they did, might even protect the guy who did this." Jocelyn rolled her eyes after the encounter with the famous family. "They would probably do anything to keep the show going."

"Peña..." Sonny stops her. "These people they take their faith very seriously and they're entitled to their beliefs." They looked at each other. Jocelyn hums, sure they might be, but everyone has a secret.

"But not everyone is very faithful, like it or not. My aunt is extremely catholic, you can't divorce or cheat, but shes on her fourth husband and is seeing her much younger arm candy." Sonny tired not to laugh as she elbows him.

"Alright, not to interrupt a theological debate. but give. the fact theres no evidence of an assault, no complaint from the girl or her parents. I mean why are we pursuing?" Dodds, from his desk, started to chime in. Jocelyn knew that he messed to even say why.

"She's thirteen Dodds. Its statutory rape." Was enough said.

"Yeah i know that, but ive been here before, The Hasidim in Crown Heights, these religious communities, they close ranks." He stands up. Jocelyn just sighs and looks the other way.

"Which is exactly why we dong let it go." Liv leaves it at that. She gets off the desk and walks around again. "Lane lives in an insular environment. Whoever got het pregnant is a predator with access."

"Yeah, access outside of our jurisdiction. You want me to put in a call to Allanville PD? Lieutenant?" Sonny gets up, ready to take off.

"Local celebrities in a small town?" Here is that voice again. I dont think they're gonna be much help." Here comes Dodds with his amazing ability to always take something and make it crumble.

"Hold on, i think i got something." Amanda said as she was on her laptop. "Their entire life is an open blog. You guys said that the doctors think that Lane is ten to twelve weeks pregnant right? Which means it happened probably..." She scrolls through the website.

"September or August." Sonny nods.

"July." Amanda corrected him. Sonny bit his lip and frowns. "When they were here in Harlem, doing some mission work. Lane and some of her siblings. Look." She turns around the laptop and shows the pictures.

"That's probable cause for statutory rape here in New York." Jocelyn said as she takes a look. Dodds rolled his eyes and turned around. "Liv, want me and Carisi to take another shot at them in the hospital?"

"Actually, you are going with Dodds, since he has experience with insular religious communities." The two slowly moved their eyes toward each other. Both did not like the idea. Dodds knew she doesn't like him and Peña knew that he would do anything in his power to make her like him, go on his good side. Peña immediately looked back at Carisi, eyeing for help. All he did was sighed. None of the wanted to trader or disobey Liv's orders.

Jocelyn grabbed her coat, Dodds tried to take it but she won, and walked away from him. They met at the elevator. As they got in, the air was thick. Jocelyn started to chew the inside of her lip as this was the first time that they ever got partnered. Mike had stressed himself to even speak to her but he ended up letting it slide out.

"Is the lieutenant always this proactive?" He looks at her. It was like Jocelyn was medusa, he was scared to even look at her.

"Why? Is there a problem with the way she does things around here?" Jocelyn crossed her arms, looking straight at the doors.

"Its just when this happened with the Hasidim in Brooklyn, the DA called us off. Its like my father says, pick your own battles." The way that Jocelyns got a migraine when he brought up his dad. Always. My dad this, my dad that.

"Im new here and all i know is that Liv has been doing this for a while, if she thinks something is wrong, usually it is." The doors opened and she steps out, leaving Dodds. He swore that it wasn't cold anymore when she stepped out.

The car ride was even worse, quiet. Dodds hate to say it but he is terrified of Peña. Just the look of her face, the way she looked at him. But he had to stand his ground.

Once they arrived at the hospital, the headed up to the floor where the Bakers were. They checked the room, empty. So they headed up to the front desk and ask.

"Lane Baker. She was discharged this morning." The nurse told them.

"By Dr. Sloane?" Jocelyn leans over the desk.

"Uh no. Oh." He made a face. "I see theres a note here saying we were supposed to call you. Sorry."

"I bet you are." She squinted her eyes, faking a smile.

"How long ago did she leave?" The two managed to drive to the hostel that they were staying. They ran down the street and saw them packing up their things into the truck. They pass by the kids and headed to the parents who were in the middle of shooting their little moment.

"Isn't that lovely." Jocelyn huddled as there was a real situation going on they decided to carry on recording. "Mr. and Mrs. Baker, glad we caught you in time." Jocelyn interrupts the shoot.

"Sargent Dodds, Manhattan SVU." Pam tells the crew to cut off the cameras.

"Lets take a break here for five minutes." The crew members left.

"How are you holding up? Rough night?" Dodds smooths in.

"It was, but we all prayed together."

"We are on the road now."

"Lane's well enough to travel?" Jocelyn asked. "We still need to talk to her."

"Well, like Pastor Eldon told you, we'll deal with all this in Allanville." The crowds of people who were taking pictures and taking videos were around the family.

"Okay, let me ask you this, was she in New York in July?" Pam hums. "Im no math genius here but that was three months ago and that means she could have gotten pregnant here. If you have a predator in your circle, you definitely want our help with that." Dodds nudges here to take it down a notch. She glances at him.

"Look, we're all on the same side here and we're starting to draw a crowd. The last thing any of us wants is for this to go public. Why dont you all come down to the station?"

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Sonny and Jocelyn went out to eat, meaning drinks and an endless supply of chips and salsa. It has been a rough week, first Lane confessed that it was the camera guy that got her pregnant, then he wasn't a match, them they thought the older brother, Graham had some way into this, getting both sisters pregnant.

"Alright, lets not talk about work for now." Sonny leans closer to Jocelyn, sitting in a booth. "The moment we step out of the building thats when we become ourselves, beautiful selves." He earned a smile from her.

"But can I bring up one thing?" She squinted., begging. Sonny nods. "Can I just say how hot you looked when you carried that baby, wrapping him in your coat." Sonny smirks, looking away from her. Jocelyn laughs, getting even closer to him. "Oh come on Dom, don't shy away from me." She gently grabs his jaw, making him turn back to her. Sonny had to give it to her, she knew how to make a grown man feel like a teenager again.

"Honestly you make it hard for me to think." She drags her fingers along his jaw. Her touch was soft. She smelled of vanilla and a hint of espresso. A smell that Dominick would drive him insane, in a loving way.

"I bet you think about me every time, don't you Dominick?" They laughed. Jocelyn drank her margarita as Sonny sipped on his whiskey. He wrapped his arm around her shoulder. They could do this since they decided to go out kinda farther so they wouldn't cross pass with anyone in the department. It honestly would be a pain for them and Liv, if her or Dodds, older, caught them in the act.

"Can I say something about Dodds?" Sonny felt the uneasiness shift that Jocelyn did. But she nodded. "I get that youre mad about the whole sargent thing."

"Not anymore." She clears.

"Right." He nods. "Don't you think to give him some air? The man is terrified of you."

"I haven't done anything to him, i don't know why." She rolled her eyes. Sonny just gave her look. It was more like really now? "Okay fine, i haven't actually done anything but staring him down and not talking to him but its not my fault that he thinks im a monster or something."

"Hes trying."

"Too hard." She whispers.

"Okay, conversation of Mike Dodds is over, lets just enjoy our drinks okay?" He kisses her head.

"Only because a hot guy is sitting next to me."

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Dodds, Finn and Peña sat at their desk working out some details as Rollins and Carisi went up to look on the DNA on Carisi's jacket to see if Graham their guy. Liv walks in, talking with Carisi on the phone about Rollins faint that happened.

"Hows Rollins? Is she alright?" Jocelyn comes up to ask Liv.

"Shes okay. The babys okay." Liv sighs. "But they want to keep her there for observation. So where are we?" She brings it back.

"Well turns out Graham isn't Tate's father." Fin says as they got the test. "No Baker DNA on the paternal side."

"So why'd they send him to Ecuador?"

"He may not be the father of Summer's baby, but we cant rule him out on Lane." Liv rolled her head back from the headache of the case. The team was going over hurdles and they all keep crashing when they get to them.

"Okay so there are two separate predators in her circle?" They nod.

"For a family that close? They don't know anyone from outside their circle, all they got is their family, the crew, you got..." Jocelyn stops. Son of a bitch. "Eldon." She looks up to see Dodds.

"Damn it. He was on that East Harlem mission trip in July with Lane, right?"

"I think so."

"Is there any chance we could put him with Summer three years ago?" Fin hops on his laptop and starts his search. "Remember I told you about Crown Heights? One of the cases involved three pregnant girls in the same synagogue well now we always thought it was the Rabbi, but we couldn't make the case. No one was willing to say a bad word about him."

"The way they worship this guy, i highly doubt they will say anything bad about him." Jocelyn scuffs.

"Whoa." Fin says. "I got something on their blog. Pastor Eldon and Summer, 2012. Christmas giving out gifts."

"And looky here, East Harlem Mission."

"He gets them away from home, thats his MO. Ill call barba."