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Morning
Hotel room // Unknown location
Sonny woke up feeling groggy, last night was a blur. He opened his eyes and realized he wasn’t in his bedroom, Amanda wasn’t next to him and the girls weren’t burging in.
He was in a hotel room with a killer headache and no memory of how he got there.
He got up and searched for his phone - it was turned off. Whether he run out of battery or he turned it off intentionally he couldn’t remember.
As he was about to call the hotel reception to find out where the hell he was, there was banging on the door.
“NYPD, open up!”
Sonny opened immediately thinking Amanda called Liv and they found him.
“Dominick Carisi?” an officer asked
“Yes”
“You are under arrest for the rape of Natalie Black. Please follow us”
Sonny stood in shock. WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED LAST NIGHT. “ I am sorry, what?”
The officer grabbed him and put him in cuffs. “This will be easier if you cooperate.”
“I have no idea who Natalie Black is and I sure as hell didn’t rape her” Sonny stuttered too shocked to move.
“Come on man, let’s go” the officer said.
Police station
The officers took Sonny to the station so he could be processed. They ran his DNA, took samples from under his fingernails, and the forensic investigator took pictures. Sonny felt violated. He asked repeatedly what was going on, who Natalie Black was and what the charges were but nobody seemed to know.
An hour or so later he finally saw Olivia Benson arriving with Tommy McGrath.
“Liv, finally!” he said, relieved. “What is going on? The officer said I am accused of rape?” he said, feeling completely at loss.
Olivia looked uncomfortable. With a side glance at McGrath (not a good sign Sonny thought) she said “Carisi, a woman named Natalie Black claims you met her at the bar of Jokers you hit it off and got a room at the hotel next door but when she changed her mind you raped her.”
Sonny’s mind went blank. He had no memory of last night - so he had no idea what Olivia was talking about. He was only sure of two things: He would never rape a woman and he would never cheat on Amanda. “Not a chance that was me” he said.
Olivia looked at him with a strange look - between pity and contempt. “The hotel room had cameras - we have you on video having sex with her. It doesn’t look like a rape but her hands were tied. Maybe this was something else.”
“In other words, Counsellor” McGrath sneered “maybe you had a fun night out. Miss Black was on the job after all”
“I am sorry you are suggesting I paid to have sex with a prostitute?” Sonny asked. This morning was getting out of hand. He really needed to remember last night because so far he hadn’t heard a single word that made sense.
“I am just saying it is no crime to pay for amenities you cannot find at home” McGrath said and Olivia winced.
Sonny saw red - insulting him, Amanda, their life - Mc Grath had no right.
“Go to hell. I want a lawyer!” He needed time to think, to understand, to remember.
At that moment there was a knock on the window and with a backwards glance, Benson and McGrath left the room