Underneath It All
Chapter 1
Damon
Damon Salvatore took a sip from his coffee and read over a patient's file on the computer. It had been a slow day in the psychology ward and he was on the computer reading over a few files. That's when his chief burst through the door and looked at him with a bewildered look on his face.
"What's wrong chief?"
"We have a kidnapping victim coming in."
"What's her case?" Damon said getting up so he could follow the chief to the patient's room.
"Elena Gilbert. She was the one who was kidnapped when she was eleven years old. According to her records she's twenty now. They found her on the street this morning, but every time they try to talk to her about it, well, her PTSD kicks in."
Damon exhaled, but all of his chiefs prepping couldn't have prepared him for what he saw next.
"NO! Let go of me you fucking bastards!" she cried.
That was the first time he saw Elena Gilbert. Two of his coworker Matt and Tyler were trying to calm her down and pull the scalpel from her hands. Blood was streaming down from her wrist as Damon took in the rest of Elena's appearance.
Her skin was covered from head to toe with dirt. There were scratches new and old spread across her body along with more than a few bruises. She had two black eyes and a few deep lacerations on her face. Her hair was also full of tangles, but Damon would not fault this young appearance.
"Please! Just let me die! I don't want to live like this anymore! He'll find me! Don't you understand! He'll find me and he'll kill me! Or worse! He'll take me back there and he'll do what he did to me over and over! Just please let me die! I don't want to feel the pain anymore!" she yelled.
Damon grabbed a syringe so that he could give Elena a sedative. It wouldn't help her through everything, but it would calm her down at least a little bit. She was still thrashing in Matt and Tyler's arms when Damon approached her.
"Please. Make them stop." She said to him almost in a whisper.
"I promise you'll be safe Elena."
"You can't make a promise like that."
"You're right, but I can promise that if you let me help you, I'll do everything in my power to make sure you get through this. I'll do everything in my power to make sure that the animal who did this to you gets caught and put away for a very long time."
Tears streamed down Elena's face as Damon watched the scalpel fall from her hands. She looked up at him looking at him intensely with her brown eyes .
"He deserves to die." She whispered. "Please help the police find him. He has two other girls down there who weren't as fortunate to escape. You have to help them."
"We will Elena, but you have to let me help you first."
She nodded as Damon prepped the sedative.
"This will calm you down a little."
"Will it help me forget?"
Damon stared at her while she closed her eyes. It was obvious she wasn't going to do anything to him. He pressed the syringe in her arms and pressed down to release the sedative in her blood stream. It would at least help her a little.
"Thank you." She said opening her eyes giving him a small smile.
He looked at her and then the chief and back to her again. What had happened to this poor girl?
