You Were Never Here, but You Were Never Gone
Chapter 2
Elena looked around at the waiting room that she had now occupied . Damon was stuck working late again and to save them the trouble of losing more than a whole grand she agreed to go to their therapy session alone.
Elena exhaled as she waited patiently for Dr. Josette Parker to arrive. It had been nearly thirty minutes since Elena had got their and the therapist was still busy calming down her latest patient. Elena could hear murmured conversation through the walls.
It had hit the forty five minute mark when Josette finally entered the waiting room smiling at Elena. Elena tried to imitate her smile but it just wasn't working out for her. She always hated when people were late to their own appointments.
"Hello Mrs. Salvatore, I'm Dr. Josette Parker, but you can call me Jo for short. I'm sorry I was trying to calm down a client, but if you still want to resume your session I'll be more than happy to wave the charge for the first day."
"Thank you Dr. Parker that's very kind of you. I think maybe that's not such a bad idea."
Josette nodded and Elena walked with her to the nice but very cramped office. Josette sat down in her chair and opened up a folder that read Elena and Damon Salvatore. She grabbed her pen and looked at Elena bringing the smile back on her face.
"So Elena. Tell me why you are here."
"I thought my husband would tell you over the phone."
"He did, but I like to get all the perspectives first before just jumping into it."
"Fine you want the truth, here's the truth. I was driving a car one night. A teenager got a little too drunk and decided to drive then he got in our lane I was changing a CD and not paying attention and before I knew it our car was flipping over and I felt the blood dripping down my thighs. It was horrible when the doctors told me that I lost my baby. And I've been trying to make it right ever since."
"How does that make you feel?"
"Really? You're seriously using the how does that make you feel question on me?"
"It's just a simple question Elena."
"How do you think I feel? I feel hurt and betrayed. I feel angry and depressed. My emotions have magnified because of my grief. I hate feeling like this and everything I try to talk to my church about it they always reply that God needed my child to come back to heaven. Why would they say that if my child had not lived in the first place? Can you tell me why? Or is that a little bit above your critic."
Josette sighed and jotted down something in her notes.
"I can't tell you why God did it Elena. No one can except Himself. I personally think it's a crime of nature to take a child so young."
Elena's tears fell from her eyes. She didn't want someone to pry into her emotions. She wanted the pain to go away. All of it.
"I just want the pain to go away Jo."
"That's the problem Elena I don't think it ever will."
"Have you ever been in this situation doctor?"
"Actually I have Mrs. Salvatore. My husband and I were expecting twin when my deranged brother broke into the house and stabbed my stomach. It's a miracle that I'm still even alive."
Elena nodded looking at Jo in a new light.
"I'm so sorry Dr. Parker."
Josette took hold of Elena's hand and squeezed filling Elena with hope. Maybe this therapist wouldn't be such a bad idea after all.
