A/N: I've been working on this fic for a long time, but was prompted to start posting by an anonymous reviewer here who asked to see how Mike helped Liz through her rape.

Please note that I've changed the timing of the episode Prince of Darkness, which seems to fall during the events of Helpless but for some reason has cue cards saying it takes place in April. In any case, the events of that episode take place in October/November 1992 in this fic.

Her heart is pounding so loudly she's afraid she won't be able to hear him come in. She undresses as quickly as she can, gets into the examination gown, and then goes to her purse and turns on the tape recorder. She makes sure the microphone is free of obstruction and rushes back to the exam table when she hears footsteps in the hall.

'How are we today, Elizabeth?' the doctor asks. She barely restrains a shudder.

'A little nervous,' she admits-the truth, though she's much more than a little nervous.

'Oh, don't be,' the bastard tells her. 'It'll all be over in thirty minutes or less.' He turns away from the gloves and looks at her. 'Uh, would you lie down, please? I'm going to give you a local.' As she lays back against the table, he says, 'Miriam, lidocaine.' The nurse disappears, returns with a syringe, and then disappears again.

He pushes her legs open with far more force than needed; she can't restrain a little gasp of pain.

'Relax,' he tells her, and of course she can't, now, her heart starts to pound again. 'Chances are you won't feel a thing. At most a little discomfort.'

More than a little, she thinks as he injects her, the needle going in much deeper than necessary.

'There,' he says, and there's pleasure in his voice. 'We'll give it a couple of seconds…'

It hits her. It's not lidocaine, it must be a sedative, she realizes with a growing sense of fear, and she looks with terror into his steely eyes.

'I-can't-move-' she chokes out, fighting the drug, and he smiles at her. It's a nightmare, she thinks with panic, this must be a nightmare…

His eyes glaze over.

He unzips his pants.

He grabs her legs, forcing them open.

She tries to scream, but nothing comes out.

He smiles.