Chapter 2
Detective Benson walked to detective Stabler, "Well he isn't our rapist." Stabler stated, "Now were back to square one."
"No, but, Rachel said Kurt knows who might have done this to Blaine." Benson said watching Kurt comfort Blaine. "Lets take him to the station get some answers."
Blaine finally let go of Kurt, "How did you guys find me, I told them not to tell anyone." Blaine said.
"Blaine, I volunteer here every weekend, I recognize that curly mop head of yours anywhere, which I have a bottle of gel in the car with your name on it, your hair looks like a small puppy died on you head." Santana said, Kurt was looking at Blaine shocked, how could Santana not see the bruises and bite mark.
"Thanks, tana," Blaine says sarcastically giving her a smile that didn’t reach his eyes.
"Blaine you can't stay here," Kurt said looking at the uneaten food by Blaine's bedside. "You can come back home with me."
"No I can't," Blaine says quickly but sadness cracked in his voice, "Don’t tell any one, they can't know. I just I can stay here for a while." Blaine sounded like a twelve year old begging to spend 10 more minutes at the park.
"Come stay with me and abuela, Blaine, she won't care, she's going blind anyway. I'll just tell her you need a place to stay for a while. The most she will say is your skinny then she will try to feed you 7 or 8 times a day." Santana said.
"Blaine what happened?" Kurt asked looking closer at the scratches on his neck.
Blaine looked away and squeezed Kurt's hand; he shook his head no. Detective Benson spoke up reminding the young adults that they weren't alone. "Can I talk to you two in the hall please?” she flashed her badge. Santana walked out the room with out hesitation; Blaine wouldn’t let go of Kurt. "I'll be right there, then I'm not leaving your side." Kurt said he put his hand and cupped Blaine's face. Blaine slowly let go of Kurt's hand and Kurt was then out there with the detectives and Santana.
"I'm detective Stabler and this is my partner, we are apart of the Special Victims Unit, we deal with cases that sexual exploitation, child abuse and most commonly rape."
"Wait, why are you here, that would mean Blaine..." Kurt took a breath and didn’t let the words leave his mouth so Santana finished "was raped. By who?"
"He won't tell us. In fact he won't talk about it. He thinks if he talks about it then it was real. He's not ready to confront it." Benson said. "Can we take you two into the station for some questioning?"
"What about Blaine?" Santana asked. "Can we go one at a time, I'll go first and Kurt and Blaine can talk." she looked at Kurt who was still frozen in shock.
"That’s fine" Stabler answered.
"Kurt stop it, relax don’t get upset, Blaine need you right now, more then ever." Santana whipped his face of tears; her cold hands snapped him back to reality. He nodded and whipped his face. Taking a deep breath they went back into the room.
"I'll be right back Blainers, then we can go to abuela's and you can sleep in a warm quiet bed," Blaine started to protest, "No, its final, don’t even try to open that dream boat mouth of yours and tell me no, this isn't Regionals you won't win." she says. She leans down and kissed his forehead very softly. She walked away with the detectives.
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"Santana Lopez,” Olivia Benson said looking at the beautiful young woman, "I can't get your records with out your lawyers consent, I don’t need them but I thought you should know I requested then so when your parents bring it up you know why. But is there a reason I cant pull them up."
"My father likes to keep an incident under the table unless its really important, my records are under safe and key for college and job purposes, so I can have a lawyer present in case something happens." Santana explained. Olivia took a seat in front of Santana.
"What is your relationship to Blaine?" she asked
"Blaine is like my little brother, I mean we pick on each other all day, but turn around and defend each other. I helped him a year ago when he moved to VPA I am head cheerleader and co-captain the New Directions, our singing choir. He needed to perform and I helped him. Plus my girlfriend think he's an adorable puppy that should 3rd wheel all our dates. He also makes Kurt happy so he was easily accepted by us." Santana explained.
"In the hospital you did something that surprised me, " Olivia said, "you didn’t panic, and you told Kurt that he needed to calm down. You also told Blaine a joke that almost made him smile. Why did you do that?"
Santana stared off into the distance for a minute. She did the joke for a completely different reason the getting Kurt to calm down. "I read or sing or just hang out with the kids in the special care unit, it started as community service but I just kept coming back. When you see a kid who has been burned half to death you look past it and tell them they are beautiful. I just wanted Blaine to know that even if he was beaten to a pulp I still see him for the adorkable, junior he is. And his ridicules hair is my on going joke so nothing to drop kick you reality they a comment that you would hear everyday." Santana said.
"Your really calm about all of this." Olivia observed.
"I've been here before." she said coolly, "Your going to do everything you can to help Blaine right, because there is only a 58% chance that this guy will get convicted. 15 of 16 rapist will end up walking free, because lack of evident or a really good lawyer." Santana's eyes watered she shook her head to blink back the tears. "I don’t want that to happen to Blaine, to know that that man who did that to him is just walking around free."
"Santana, is there something you want to tell me? " Olivia put her hand on Santana's.
"I just don’t want the same thing that happened to me happen to Blaine." She said in a soft voice.
"Santana were you raped?" Santana nodded her head.
"But they let him go, I was 13 and they let him go so my dad moved us here and everything just changed." Santana stuttered Olivia handed Santana some tissue.
"I will do everything to make sure that what that man did to Blaine gets put away for life." Olivia promised, "I just need to know who he is. I talked to Kurt's family and Rachel, she told me that Blaine when for coffee with some one the other day"
"Blaine hasn’t told me about coffee with anyone, well there's this guy Sebastian Smyth. Blaine has gone out with him but not this past week, " Santana thought for a second, "There's this other guy he has been seeing, I only remember his first name, Andrew, he was in college and Blaine really liked him, but I told him that he shouldn’t date someone 4 years older then him and Andrew is like 22." Santana scoffed.
"Did you ever meet this Andrew?"
"No, but I picked Blaine once, at a house party with Andrew. It was the beginning of the month, he was handing out with Andrew and Andrew had Blaine really drunk I never asked what happened I just got a call and picked him up. Kurt and I are the only two who have cars, so we are DD most the time. Well I'm not going to lie to you I just give my keys to Kurt's brother."
"Did anything look wrong with Blaine that night?"
"No, he got in the car thanked me and fell asleep I let him crash at my house but the next day at school he was telling Kurt how pissed his dad was that he didn’t come home but was totally ok with it when he found out Blaine spent the night at my house."
"Have you met Blaine's father,"
"Are you kidding me, I didn’t think the guy existed until I heard him on the phone. Blaine is always at Kurt's house or mine, he hates being alone but his dad works in Jersey and it’s easier to stay there then come back to a gay son. Well that’s what Blaine tells me in his drunk hate rants about his parents. "
"Blaine's mother isn't around much?"
"No, but I have met her, she picks Blaine up but she has this medical conditions like social problems, she spends most of the time in rehabs because she I also a drug addict, well she pops antidepressants and when they mix with her anxiety drugs make her fall off the clock. She doesn’t ever leave her room." Santana said, Then a conversation popped into her head and Santana panicked, "Blaine needs to be watched." she said quickly before Olivia could talk.
"What do you mean by that." Olivia asked.
"Like suicide watch, He use to cut him self because he is so screw up. He constantly feels like everything is his fault. His father lets him think that way."
Olivia looked up toward the one way mirror and make sure that who ever was there understood what was about to go on. "What do you mean? His father doesn’t try to change his mind."
"Blaine had a twin but he technically took all the nurturance and the little girl was a still born and after that Lily Anderson couldn’t have any more kids. The night Blaine came out to his parents his dad stopped talking to him and his mom popped a bunch of pills and when to that vegetated state again where she didn’t do anything. And that was when Blaine stared to hurt himself. He swears to me that ever since he came to VPA he stopped but I'm scared that he might try to hurt himself if something happened." Santana was on the verge of tears again. “And Mr. Anderson hits Blaine a lot, never his face but sometime in Aerobics I see bruises on Blaine's legs and arms he tells me he walked into the table
"Thank you for telling me that Santana. It was very important to know. We're done, you can go to Blaine. Your 18 let me get you a paper that lets you have custody of Blaine."
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Olivia and Elliot were talking as they waited for Kurt to come to the station. “Do you think this will end at Kurt?" Elliot asked. " I really want to arrest some one for hurting that kid."
"I know what you mean, I just sent Warner to document his injury's, I want that bastard in jail forever. I don’t understand why Blaine just won’t tell me his name." Olivia said.
"Blaine is a popular kid, I mean, clearly all his friends love him." Elliott told Olivia, they were looking at some of the pictures Santana sent them with her phone of Blaine and his friends.
"I want to find the dad, call child services on him. Blaine claims he hasn’t seen him in 3 days but Santana told me that the only time they talk is to fight and even then he is never in town. Get a load of this; the mother is a prescription drug addict. She gets so high she doesn’t know what is going on around her most the time." Olivia said.
"Parents like that just piss me off." Elliott crosses his arms over his chest.
"What are all of these?" the tech guy asked looking at the pictures as he walked to the detectives.
"Friends of Blaine Anderson." Olivia tells the new kid.
"He seems really popular, he was in a play, he sings, wears bowties. I thought they stopped selling those after the 70's."
"I can't see how some one can do that to a child." Dr. Warner came in and stood at the wall of pictures. "Come down stairs if you want to see him now." she told the tech boy. He shook his head, "I just deal with their tech not them."
"Well you should come see them Liv, it didn’t stop at his neck." The women went down to the medical examination room. Warner pressed a few buttons and had the pictures posted up on the screen. Detective Benson shivered at the site. The pictures started on top of Blaine's head where the was a fresh cut, "So this is on the back of his head, our assail must have hit him with something to get him to stop moving and screaming. I'm sure judging by the face." Warner switched to Blaine's face the camera lights making it look worse. " They were fighting before the rape started. He had a concussion and the freak bit his ear."
Warner switched to Blaine’s neck, "He has a total of 23 bite marks on him 3 of them are right here, along with hickeys, but on he also has hand strangulation bruising. Down to his chest, more bites on his chest and stomach." The slide show was making even Olivia feel uncomfortable, she knew it would eat up the jury. The slide moved to a picture of his hips and penis. "The finger nail marks show that he was coming the other side there is a bite mark on his left hip. Move to his thighs and more scratches and bites. I have separate pictures for his hands, but lets move to his back." Warner pressed some more keys and a second set of slide played.
"The bites on the back of his neck are more violent then the others, and more on his back. Scratches from his thumbs in the same place above the hips. Scratches all over his bottom and thighs. The biting stops here though. His wrist are another story." the front view of Blaine's hands were clean and scar free except for the bruises and cuts from the handcuffs. His forarms however had hundreds of cuts going all angles some faded some still noticeable at first glance. "33 cuts, on both wrist. I didn’t know how this will play in court, the defense can take it as Blaine was a suicidal child that realized his fix was in sex and he liked it violent." Olivia also saw the case playing out with it. The Andrew guy, like Santana said, if he had a good lawyer he will accept assault but tell the judge Blaine wanted it.
"This kid is a good actor, I don’t understand how he can go from the smiling, singing, dancing, performer down stairs to this sad abused self harming one here. Show the wrist to Dr. Wong, see if he can get a therapist for Blaine." Olivia left not able to look at the pictures anymore. Upstairs Olivia saw Mr. Hummel in the station pacing the floor.