Shannon pulled out another cup and put the kettle on "Help yourself" after a minute Grace and Shannon both had steaming cups of coffee Shannon lead them to the lounge and sat down "SO what do you want to talk about?"
"Well firstly Rose has to go to Base tomorrow and make a statement about what happened today and about the rape"
"Okay why aren't the local cops going to do the interview?"
"I got Kerry to pull a couple of strings and let them familiar interview her"
"Thanks Grace, can I ask you to do something for me?"
"Depends but yeah"
"I am taking the week off can you please take my shifts?"
"Yeah that's fine, but why are you taking the week of?"
"Me and Lawson got into a fight and I just need to get out of there for a while"
"yeah thats fine but can i ask you about stella?"
"Yeah go ahead i guess"
"What's with you too?"
"Um I dunno I have kinda liked her for a while but yeah nothing really happened between us"
"Okay, I just don't want another bitch fight between me and Stella"
"What happened before I joined because Josh was really cold towards me and so was Lawson even though I already knew him"
"Well I was married to Connor and me and josh had an affair then there was an explosion, I blacked out. At the hospital I got a threat delivered to me Kerry knew about it and put me into witness protection, I had Josh's daughter who I haven't seen her in a while which I have to do when I leave here, when I go to the place that i was supposed to stay I found out that a guy who had killed josh's uncle was there and dealing and also running an illegal so i went undercover for six months shut down the place and then i got pulled out of witness protection cause the guy who made the treat was killed in a car crash with his brothers so there is no threat anymore"
They both sat on the couch for a while before they heard sobbing in the room next to them, they quickly glanced around before running to the room which Rose was staying in, they both could hear someone crying behind the door. They both looked at each other and knocked, the sobbing ceased Shannon opened the door before walking in, she could see red staining around Rose she quickly ran over to her and saw deep cuts along her wrists. "Grace ring for an ambulance"
"I'm sorry Shannon, I can't do it anymore, I just can't" rose said before collapsing
Shannon grabbed Rose in her arms and held her tight she could hear grace in the background ringing for an ambulance half a minute later Grace came over and pulled Roses arms out too inspect them, she grabbed a bandage like the person on the end of the line had said and wrapped them tightly around her wrists to try and stop the bleeding.
"Rose, why did you do it?" Grace said quietly when she had gained conscious again
"I don't want to do it anymore, I just don't want to"
"You are so, so strong Rose don't give up" Grace said, Shannon was quite she guessed that she had gone into shock. After a minute they could hear sirens approaching the apartment, men came through the door and started to check over Rose, half way through Rose passes out due to blood loss again. Shannon screamed and Grace held Shannon back while Shannon tried to get near Rose to help her
"Shannon, if you go over there you will only be in the way; please it is the best thing for Rose"
Shannon stopped struggling and fell to the ground for the hundredth time today she was starting to doubt whether or not she should get checked out by a doctor when she got to the hospital. "Shannon I need to ring Josh, sit down on the lounge okay and wait for me to come back then we will go to the hospital"
"Yeah thanks" Shannon said without looking at grace, Grace walked into the kitchen and grabbed her phone out ringing the familiar number that she had been trying not to ring for so long
"Hello?"
"Hey josh its Grace"
"Hey you said you where just taking rose and Shannon home and you have been gone for two hours"
"Yeah well that's why I am ringing While I was speaking to Shannon Rose hurt herself she is on her way to the hospital now can you come around and talk to her?"
"Maybe we should get Stella to do it both of them are kinda pissed off at me at the moment"
"Okay well I'll ring Stella and can you meet us down at the hospital?"
"Yeah sure, I'll get someone to look after Alice"
"No please bring her down Josh I haven't seen her"
"Okay now ring Stella"
"Okay bye"
"Bye"
Josh hung up the phone and picked up Alice carefully making sure not to wake her, even though he had only been her proper father for a couple of hours he loved her as much as grace, she was exactly how he wanted his daughter to look with grace. Blonde hair with brown eyes he just hoped she wouldn't be as stubborn as her mother.