Summary: AU Fanfiction. What if there was a reason Eric Matthews cheated on his wife with Alison Kerry. A hurt&comfort and romance story exploring the affair of Alison Kerry and Eric Matthews
TRIGGER WARNING : Abuse will be mentioned loads through the story
Chapter one: where it all begins
A sharp shooting pain shot through the ribs of Eric Matthews making him wince loudly as he sat on the edge of his bed. He ran his fingers through his dark hair and sighed, he felt ashamed looking at himself in the mirror. A large purple bruise covered his ribs and nail marks violated his back. Eric chewed his lip putting on his shirt on doing up the buttons. Since the birth of their son Daniel Eric has noticed a large change in his wife Kate. She had been very cruel to Eric telling him he was useless, he was a bad cop, telling him he was a terrible father ect. Eric thought it was hormonres at first but Kate had been getting worse and with little Daniel getting older Eric feared that Kate would hurt their son. Eric put his shoes on walking down the stairs pouring himself a cup of coffee. He looked at his watch 7:30 he wasn't due to go into work till 8:30 so he had some time. Just as he finished his coffee he heard the front door close and his three year old son Daniel ran in smiling followed by a exuasted looking Kate. Daniel's curly hair was messy and his large blue eyes sparkled in excitment he ran over to Eric who picked him up kissing his head. He winced loudly forgetting about his ribs he looked at Kate who was smirking proudly Bitch Eric thought to himself. He turned his attention to his son who was smiling happily. Eric could see a large gap in Daniel's teeth, his son had lost his first tooth. Eric suddenly felt old, his son was growing up fast and he hated it he was alwways working so he missed out on a lot.
"Dad look I lost my first tooth" Daniel said proudly opening his mouth again. Eric smiled ruffling his sons curly hair
"your getting big kiddo!" he said getting his work jacket on which made Daniel frown
"daddy do you have to go to work?" he asked in his innocent voice. Eric hated leaving Daniel as their bond as father and son was very close.
"afraid so buddy but tell you what on Wednesday you can come with me to work sound good?" he asked as his son nodded excitedly"alright see you later buddy behave for your mum"
-TIME SKIP 25 MINUTES LATER-
Eric walked into his office seeing his work partner Alison Kerry frantically typing up some sort of report. He and Alison were close friends they always had been since freshman year. Eric like his relationship with Alison it was professional but also had flirtatious banter too. Eric put his coffee on the desk and smiled at his partner
"busy?" he asked smirking he knew the awnser but he liked winding her up too.
"Typing up reports on the Seth Baxer case. Poor Mark he must be going out of his mind I mean he's just lost his sister" Alison said sighing
"Mark will be okay he's a strong guy" Eric said placing a haand on Alison's shoulder
"I hope so... Come on were on patrol duty tonight" Eric sighed in fustration This should be fun
