Here's chapter two, This is where it starts to get real serious. It shows the severity of the abuse.

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Abused

Chapter 2

Reno made it back t his office on time, the first time this week...well ever. He went back into his office and looked at his desk, Someone had sent a note to him. He sat down and looked over it.

"You shouldn't have taken her out for lunch." It simply read. He wasn't sure who sent it, but he knew it was a girl at any rate because of the handwriting. He stood and walked to his door and stuck his head out.

"Sara, who put this note on my desk?" His secretary looked up from her computer, and adjusted her glasses.

"Oh yes, the note. It came from Elena. She said she had something urgent to tell you, but I told her you had already left for lunch, so she wrote the note and told me to put it on your desk." Sara smiled. "I wasn't sure what she meant by it. I guess you should go ask her about it." Reno nodded, as she went back to typing and he walked down the hallway to Elena's office.

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Meande mustered up the motivation to get up and walk out of his office. She held her side and opened his door. Milana turned around quickly to look at her, Meande shut the door, and stumbled down.

"Oh! Meande." Milana stated, and caught her before she hit the ground. "What did that prick do to you this time?" Meande looked up at her.

"You know?" Milana shrugged.

"I hear him yelling, I just assumed hits flew too."

"It's my ribs, I think they're broken." She whimpered, not being able to take deep breaths, she was getting light headed and she passed out.

"Oh...Jilian, call 9-1-1!" Jilian jumped up, while dialing.

"What happened? Yes. yes I'm here. We need an ambulance at the Shinra building. 70th floor. Someone has collapsed!" She hung up and ran down to Meande and knelt beside her. The other peons gathered around her as well.

"Back up!" Milana shouted to them and motioned for them to back away.

The paramedic showed up shortly and checked her over. He seemed very worried.

"What's wrong with her?" Jilian asked him, as he prepped Meande to leave.

"She about to experience Hemopneumothorax, if I don't get her to the hospital now." Jilian and Milana looked at each other and shrugged. "Blood gets into the lung, and the pressure builds from the air and blood, then it collapses." They suddenly got extremely worried looks on their faces.

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Reno knocked on Elena's' door and peeked in, she was writing something down and she looked up at him.

"Here because of the note, I presume?" He nodded and walked in and sat down.

"Why shouldn't I have taken her to lunch?" Elena sighed and sat back in her seat.

"Tseng told me something the other night that he overheard when he walked by Rufus' office." She gave him a serious look. "We have reason to believe the Rufus abuses Meande. You taking her out to lunch might be a bad thing, you know. I was hoping to catch you before you left, but I didn't find out until Rude told me in the break room." Reno seemed to grow paler than he already was, he looked down at his hands.

"I had no idea." Elena nodded and moved some papers.

"Most don't in this building. Only the secretaries up there probably know the truth. Like I said, we are just thinking that. I mean, they could have been just having rough sex, you know?" Reno's forehead knitted.

"Sex? They aren't dating though." Elena looked at him in surprise.

"I guess no one told you. It's all over the break room." Reno looked down again, and back up to her.

"She would have told me. She doesn't lie to me." Elena gave him a sad look, and was about to comfort him when her secretary burst in.

"I'm sorry, but I just got news from Jilian that Meande collapsed and is en route to the hospital. She told me to tell you Reno." Reno jumped up, as did Elena, and they both darted out to the elevator.

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Upon reaching the hospital, Reno and Elena ran into Jilian.

"Oh, Jilian. What's going on?" Elena asked, as Reno went to the nurses' desk. Jilian looked around to make sure Reno was not listening.

"She came out of Rufus' office and just collapsed. The paramedic said her lung was about to collapse, so we rushed over here. About half way here her vitals went haywire. She's in surgery right now." She whispered to Elena, who gasped.

"Did...Rufus do this?" Jilian shrugged, but nodded.

"That's what Milana and I think, 'cause he was yelling." Elena shut her eyes and shook her head, as Reno walked back over.

"She's in surgery. The nurse says she thinks she's going to be fine." Elena looked up at him and weakly nodded. She rubbed his arm and they all sat down, and soon Milana walked into the emergency room, carrying some food for her and Jilian.

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An hour passed, and Reno had been pacing in little circles for the passed thirty minutes. Milana watched him with concern, and Jilian was calling Rude letting him know what was going on. Elena was cursing Rufus mentally. Where was he at? This was his fault, he should be here if she dies, that way we can kill him too. The nurses' phone rang and she answered it.

"Hello? Yes, they are still here. She's out of surgery. Ok I'll let them know." She hung up and walked over and Reno stopped pacing and grabbed the nurses' arms.

"Tell me she's ok." The nurse smiled.

"The doctor said she came out of surgery just fine. She's in the recovery room and you can go see her one at a time."

Milana, Jilian, and Elena exchanged looks.

"Reno can take our places. We'll see her when she's more comfortable." Elena stated, touching Reno's arm, he looked over at her and nodded, and the nurse lead him down the hallway.

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Ah, the giant word Hemopneumothorax, heh. Took me forever to do research on it. Read and review.