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Chapter Three~

By the time Emma arrived to Kara's house she had roused out of her foggy mindset and tried in vain to assure Emma she was alright. Emma wouldn't take it though and held her elbow as they walked up the stairs where she rang the doorbell and knocked twice.

"Emma I'm better, really." Kara tried again but the blond haired woman just snorted and replied turning to see the eighteen year old,

"You were in daze Kara, utterly out of it and in the world of fantasy." just then the front door opened to reveal Kara's mother Amy who gasped at the sight of her daughter; band aid on her forehead where a trail of blood was coming down into her right eyebrow and eyes slightly glazed over.

"What the hell happened Emma?!" she cried as she moved aside to let the two in, shutting the door behind them as Emma steered Kara into the family room. Kara didn't bother to complain or talk back, she had already tried her hardest on the car ride here and now just wanted to go back to bed and never wake up. Mr. Gold had kissed her, all over a stupid necklace! She should have seen it coming; the look in his eyes had been lust but she had never known what that was until he had kissed her sealing her fate.

"You're going to need stitches." Kara' mother as she inspected the wound that had started bleeding again and she snapped,

"Where did you do this?"

"In Mr. Gold's shop." Emma said simply as she stood by the couch with arms crossed before she asked,

"What that freak do to you? I can charge him with assault if—"

"No! It wasn't like that at all!" Kara shouted turning to see Emma and seeing stars because she moved so fast. Steadying herself on the arm of the sofa, she said,

"I tripped over some stupid piece of junk in his shop and hit my head on the side of the counter. He cleaned it and put the band aid on but I don't think he knew how bad it was since it had stopped bleeding." both Emma and Amy looked to one another, not believing the story simply because they thought she was defending him for something worse. If only they knew.

"Are you defending him?" Amy asked softly but at that Kara shot off the sofa and screamed pulling at her hair saying,

"Why would I bother to do that when it's the truth! Mary saw me fall! Ask her if you don't believe me!" and trying to head for her bedroom didn't get far because Emma had come up around the sofa to stop her saying to her that she was going to the hospital, end of story.

"I don't need a police escort Sheriff." Kara said with a bite in her voice before stepping around the blond to head for her bedroom, but not before she took a long shower and scrubbed her skin raw.

"Let her go Emma, she would only need one stitch and isn't too deep. I only said it to help her." Amy said walking over to the woman and once beside her asked,

"Do you believe her?"

"Not at all, but if what she says is true than Mary should be able to tell me. If she saw different, I can finally charge the bastard with something." Emma replied as she headed for the door as Amy followed, both of them hearing the water upstairs turn on.

"Something must have happened, she normally fights to take showers." Amy said with worry in her voice but Emma placed a hand on her shoulder saying,

"I'll ask her to talk after I speak to Mary. For now, I gotta run." and so she left the house towards her yellow bug leaving Amy to head back inside. Upstairs Kara was washing her hair and skin to the point of bleeding unable to get the slimy feeling off her skin. Mr. Gold had kissed her, he was twice her age and he had kissed her! Shaking her wet head she stayed a while longer before stepping out, grabbed a towel and wrapped it around herself. Hearing footsteps on the stairs she groaned and made sure the bathroom door was locked before going about drying her hair.

"Honey, are you alright?" Amy asked but her words were cut off by the sound of a hairdryer. She sighed and leaned her shoulder against the door waiting for it to unlock, she was sure her daughter had locked it. Back inside the bathroom Kara had dressed into a new change of clothes and was just about finished with her hair when she spotted someone outside the window on the sidewalk, it was the man who had carried her out of Mr. Gold's shop. She didn't know his name but she knew is face from only two other times around town. As she shut the blinds so he couldn't look in she remembered brief snippets of what had happened after Mr. Gold kissed her. Part of them were being in that man's arms and burying her face in his neck. He had smelt so good; had he seen her get dressed? Going back over to the window she peeked behind the blinds to see him gone and hoped he had only been walking by and hadn't stopped. What she didn't know was that he had come purposely to see if she was alright and seeing her in the window drying her hair had stopped frozen in his spot. She was just like he remembers especially those topaz eyes.

"Honey are you ever going to open the door?" Kara's mom called and jumping at the voice Kara went over and unlocking the door said,

"I'm fine mom."

"I just hope you didn't wash away any evidence against him." Amy said taking her daughter into her arms but she pushed out shouting,

"MOM!" and headed for her bedroom where she flopped down on the bed face first. Amy followed and took a seat beside her on the bed placing a hand on her shoulder saying,

"If he did something you'd tell me, right?" it was such a simple question Kara thought but if only she knew.

"Of course I would mom. Why wouldn't I?" Kara asked sitting up and turning to see her mother who sighed saying,

"Because a lot of girls don't."

"I'm not like 'a lot of girls'." Kara snapped but then wished she hadn't because the look on her mother's face was heartbreaking. Feeling tears in her eyes, Kara hugged her mother saying softly,

"I'm sorry mom." Amy hugged her daughter back rubbing her back as she said,

"It's alright now," and pulling back forced a smile saying,

"How about we just stay in tonight?" knowing that no matter how hard she begged she'd never get to go to Stardust tonight Kara nodded and smiled. For the rest of the night the night they had dinner, watched two movies before Kara called it a night. It was only when she was in her room did she heard her cell phone ringing and picking it up asked,

"Who is it?" she hadn't recognized the number on the screen but had picked it up anyway.

"Sorry, I didn't think you'd answer." the voice on the other end said honestly; it was Jefferson at home in his lavish prison watching through a newly set up telescope aimed at Kara's home. Though he couldn't see her just hearing her voice was enough for him.

"Who is this?" Kara asked again feeling tired and wishing to simply go to bed.

"My name's Jefferson, I sort of helped you today." the voice said and Kara gasped before demanding,

"How'd you get this number?!"

"Mary Margaret, she was worried and so wanted me to check on you since she said she'd be busy talking to the Sheriff." Jefferson way lying, he had no idea where Mary was nor if she was talking to Emma but he was sure enough that this may be truth. Kara twirled a bit of hair around her finger as she said,

"Well, thank you for caring Jefferson. I'm fine though really Mary shouldn't have bothered you."

"It wasn't a bother Krissy." Jefferson said but then froze; he had called her by her nickname! She would surly know something was wrong now! But instead of her saying anything about it she said,

"I'm going to go to bed. Thanks again for checking on me." Jefferson sighed deeply breathing out,

"Anytime Krissy." and as Kara hung up he groaned wishing he could hold her for a minute more.