Little Things
by SosoChoo
Summary: Sadie's life wasn't an easy one, and it goes from horrible to unbearable when she arrives at the Dumping Ground, with an ex-housemate who tries to cause her time there hell and a nosy care worker who tries to make her open up. But when a odd friendship arises in the lovable Liam, will things go smoothly?
Pairings: LiamxOC
Disclaimer: I own nothing, except for OC, Sadie.
Notes: Set between series 2 and 3 of Tracy Beaker Returns, so no Toby and no Burnywood kids. Chapters are wrote several days ahead of publish date.
Chapter Four: Revelations
Liam and Sadie had met up with Frank and Johnny, who had bought some sunglasses before being kicked out of the store when Johnny accidentally knocked the rack over. They had half an hour left before they had to meet Mike and everybody else. The morning went fast for Liam and Sadie, much to their surprise.
"Anyone got any money left?" Johnny asked the group.
"Nope." Frank shook his head.
"Got a tenner to my name." Liam stated.
"I have money, do you need to borrow some?" Sadie began fishing through her bag for her purse.
"I'll give it you back later. I want to buy something for Tee."
"How much do you need?" She asked Johnny.
"£10."
Sadie pulled the money out of her purse. "Here you go."
"Thanks." Johnny said sheepishly, "You will get it back."
"Okay, no problem."
A sudden wave of moods cascaded through Sadie's body – she felt ill again, like she was going to vomit all over the street.
"Sadie, are you okay?" Liam remembered her odd physical appearance from when she was vomiting in the bathroom the previous day.
"I'm fine, I'm fine." She breathed, trying her hardest to hold back her breakfast.
"You okay, Sadie?" Johnny asked, stopping in their tracks and turning around to face Sadie who was heaving.
"Sit down, Sadie." Frank spotted a free bench on the street and was going to guide her to it, but Liam put his hand in the way to stop him from touching her. Frank looked inquisitively at his friend who was rooting through his bag. He eventually found what he was looking for.
"Sadie, eat this." Liam handed her a chocolate bar. She refused it whilst continuing to heave. "Aw, come on, Sadie, stop playing around - just eat it!"
"Liam, you can't force her." Frank glanced over at Sadie who looked very weak – weaker than yesterday.
"Can we go back now? Everyone'll be going soon." Weakness was clearly evident in her breath.
"Walk in front of me." Liam tried to make sure Sadie stood straight before they walked back to the Café – lucky for them it was only a few minutes away.
Frank and Johnny walked behind Liam, wondering what was up with Liam and Sadie.
"What was all that about with them two?" Johnny whispered to Frank.
"No idea." Frank replied, looking at his friend who was concentrating on the young girl.
"Mike, what's for tea? I'm starving!" Johnny exclaimed, holding his stomach for emphasis.
"It's Friday, we need to have Quiche." Gus stated, setting up for his piano practise.
Johnny rolled his eyes and put his hands in his pockets, when he felt some money in the left pocket. He took it out and realised it was the ten pound note he borrowed off of Sadie.
"Hey, Carmen, where's Sadie?" He asked.
"Who cares?" Carmen walked away into the living room.
Johnny looked at Carmen questioningly before guessing that Sadie was in her room. He ran upstairs to check.
"Sadie?" He opened the door without knocking, and he got a bit of a fright. "What are you doing?"
Johnny had witnessed Sadie injecting something in the side of her stomach, she looked slightly embarrassed.
"Sadie, what're you-"
"Get out!" She screamed, almost on the verge of tears as she grabbed her pillow from her bed ready to lob it at Johnny's head.
Johnny rushed out of Sadie's room, which now had a crowd around it.
"What's going on now?" Carmen sighed.
"It's Sadie, she was doing something strange." Johnny didn't know how to word it as he clearly didn't understand what was going on.
Tracy appeared behind the kids wondering what was happening; she approached Sadie's room.
"Sadie, can I come in? It's Tracy."
"What was she doing?" Tee asked everyone as they were relaxing in the living room.
"She stuck a needle inside her." Johnny answered, feeling really bad for intruding on Sadie.
"Why would someone do that?" Harry asked, holding Jeff tightly.
"Well, she is an attention seeker."
Everyone turned to face Carmen – they couldn't believe what she just said.
"You've changed your tune." Frank stated, sitting on the arm of the sofa.
"Well, she's doing my head in now." Carmen sighed, sitting down next to Elektra, "I don't want to get involved in her attention seeking plans."
"Carmen, are you mental?" Liam was getting fed up of the girl's attitude, "You were best friends with her this morning, and now all of a sudden you're sick of her?"
"Well, I didn't know her properly this morning." Carmen defended, not being able to look Liam in the eye.
"Well how is sticking a needle in yourself attention seeking?" Tee asked in a confused manner.
"It's just weird." Johnny stated, a grimaced look in his face appeared after he imagined sticking a needle inside of him on purpose.
"Yeah, well maybe she has to do that!" Liam defended the absent girl.
"Why would you have to do it?" Tee asked.
Liam sighed, "Because if she doesn't she'll die."
"I've always tried to keep it from everyone," Sadie cried, "When they find out, they think I'm weird. That's why I do it when no one's around." A huge sigh escaped her lips, "I never told anyone until today."
"Who did you tell?" Tracy asked the upset teen.
"Liam, when we were walking back from the music store. He saw the pen in my bag when I was getting my money out of my purse." She paused, "He and Carmen have been nice to me. I could trust him. And he wasn't ashamed or anything."
"Do you inject your insulin regularly?" Tracy asked, trying to calm down the upset teen.
Sadie frowned, "Only after I've eaten, but I never have an appetite, I struggle to take it."
"It'll make you more ill, though," Tracy sighed sympathetically, "You need to eat to gain weight and you need to take your insulin to regulate your blood sugars. You know what'll happen if you don't."
Sadie wiped some tears away from her eyes, "I can't eat when I'm not hungry."
Tracy sighed, "You can try?" There was no response from Sadie, "Come on, Sadie, you need to do this. For your own sake." There was a slow pause until Tracy spoke again, "Why don't you come down and explain to the others what you were doing? They may understand more then?"
Sadie nodded and exited the room with Tracy. The two made their way down the stairs to the living room where she knew everyone would begin to bombard her with questions about the injection.
When she got there, that's exactly what happened.
"Is it true that you inject because you'll die if you don't?" Gus was the first to ask the questions.
"Does it hurt sticking a needle inside yourself?"
Sadie took a deep breath as she readied herself to explain, "I'm diabetic, meaning I have to inject insulin in my body fat to keep my sugar levels normal, otherwise they can cause problems."
Before she could continue she was interrupted by Tee, "Is that why you always faint? Do you not take it often?"
"No she won't handle herself like a normal girl," All eyes turned to Elektra who was resisting saying something from the beginning, "She has to be dramatic and try and kill herself so people will notice her."
"Shut it, you!" Sadie spat, glaring at her.
"Well, you're not denying it." Carmen added, and Tracy and Sadie looked at her in a surprised manner.
"Carmen?!" Tracy sounded shocked, "What's got into you?"
"I'm not sharing a room with someone who'll cause me trouble!" She stormed out of the room, a huge smirk grew on Elektra's face.
"Elektra, what've you been saying?" Tracy looked over at Elektra who was striding over to Sadie.
"I just told her what she needed to know," Her face was centimetres away from Sadie's, "How a sneaky little rat like you can't be trusted."
"Why, what did she do?" Johnny was interested in what Elektra was saying, and like the majority of the kids he wanted to know more.
"Are you gonna tell 'em, or shall I?" Elektra's taunting tone made Sadie's heart beat fast.
"Elektra, don't!" Sadie pleaded.
"Don't what? Don't tell them how you got people arrested and separated?!"
"I told you countless times that wasn't my fault!" Sadie cried, not liking the reaction from the other kids.
"How wasn't it?!" Elektra was screeching at the top of her voice; the entire room was quiet. "It was your fault! Being too friendly with him! Or don't you remember that time when I heard you in-"
"Not another word, Elektra," Mike had hushed the angry teen, "I mean it."
"Well because of that, I got made to look heartless, had my things nicked, got Tony arrested and got us all separated! And you wonder why I battered you?"
"Elektra for the last time, it wasn't my fault!" Sadie was pouring with tears, "You don't know what happened!"
"Well tell us then?" Elektra challenged the purple haired teen. "Go on! Tell us all what happened that night!"
"You really wanna know?" Sadie sniffed, looking around the room.
"Sadie, are you sure?" Mike asked her worryingly.
She nodded once, and proceeded, "Allen raped me."
