He could hear the way her voice broke in the middle of the words 'I need you'. He'd known something was wrong, though yet again Sandra has pushed him away.

"I'm on my way round right now."

She sat down, the tears that had been threatening to fall for a while now doing just that. She had absolutely no idea why she'd rang Gerry. All she knew is she needed someone, but she didn't want to talk, she didn't want to feel judged.

Gerry stood on the doorstep as Sandra had just managed to pull herself out of bed to answer the door.

"Are you going to let me in?" she immediately stood to one side, leaving him enough room to enter. She'd made no attempt to clean herself up, the black sticky mess down her face proof of how much she'd been crying, she just hoped he wouldn't notice her arms. There wasn't much chance of that happening, her pyjamas had blood on them and the cuts were visible with the pyjamas she had on. She just wasn't thinking straight.

He looked her up and down, taking in all the details as evidence of how she was feeling because she so obviously was not going to tell him anything. His stare became fixed on her arms.

"Sandra...?" she looked up and saw him studying her arm. "This isn't what I think is it?" she just nodded, the tears threatened to fall again. She couldn't hold them back though, she sat on her sofa breaking down.

Gerry had no idea what to do, he'd never seen anyone like this before.

He reached out for her hand, she felt physically cold, she pulled away warily not knowing whether he was being genuine. He took her hand again and helped her to her feet. He had to help her up the stairs to her room, the crying and stress had taken any slither of energy she'd previously had.

He looked at her bed in shock at the blood covering her duvet too.

"Okay, we're getting you some clean pyjamas then you're coming to mine, where i can keep an eye on you. I'll help you clear up this in the morning. She shook her head, still not believing anyone could really care about her.

Hope this is okay and not to sad. Reviews welcome, the reviews I have had have meant a lot as this story is very personal to me.

Beth xx