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Mike pulled up outside of the apartment building after Stef called the station and said the youngest one of her kids was missing. She said she had tracked his address to here. I got out of the car at the same time that she jumped out. A loud shriek came from inside the apartments and Stef took off. Mike grabbed her.

"No, you can't get involved you'll lose your badge. Stay I got it." He yelled.

Mike ran up and tried the door to apartment 7B and found it locked. But as close as he was he could hear the crying from inside. He slammed his shoulder into it and it broke open. He was the first in with his three comrades following. The first thing he saw was a perpetrator on top of the figure on the bed. He ran and yanked him off but, the man grabbed what appeared to be a glass figure of the dresser and threw it onto the bed where Jude was. The officer behind him quickly cuffed him along with the other two suspects. While they drug out the suspects. He went to the bed and his breath caught in his throat. Mike shook Jude's shoulder but there was no response. He ran to the door.

"Call an ambulance." He yelled down to Stef.

He ran back over to Jude and untied his wrists from the bed. He grabbed the sheet from the bed and wrapped him in it. He heard the sirens so he grabbed the kid and headed down the steps. His first thought was 'Jesus this kid is light, don't they feed him'. Then he saw the stretcher and set him down. He went to Stef and pulled her in for a hug.

"Listen Stef he is really hurt. You need to go get the family and meet us at the hospital. You will not be able to hold yourself together if you ride with him."

He pulled her in again and then ran to catch the ambulance.

"We need to get oxygen on him now!" The male paramedic said urgently. "His oxygen stats are too low. If we get them up he should regain consciousness."

"Is there anything blocking his airway?" The other female paramedic asked.

"No, but it looks as if he took a blow to the chest. It seems he has a few fractured ribs pushing on his lungs." The younger male paramedic responded.

"He did receive a blow to the chest, when we were hauling out the suspects, the first suspect struck him with a large glass object from the dresser beside him." Mike said pushing against the side of the ambulance to give them room.

The female paramedic grabbed the oxygen mask from the shelf and twisted the source on. She put the strap around Jude's head and they watched as after a few moments a low groan escaped his lips. His eyes cracked open and tears rolled from the corners.

"Hey buddy, you're okay." Mike said looking down at his panicked face.

Jude tried to talk but it was muffled by the oxygen mask. He tried to reach his hands up to take it off but Mike reached down and took his hand.

"No bud you need to leave that on. It's okay, that is helping you breathe." Mike said softly.

"We need to unwrap the blanket from around him to make sure nothing else is in need of immediate attention." The male paramedic whispered to Mike. "We need you to keep him calm and keep his heart rate down."

"Hey, Jude my name is Aaron." The male paramedic said kindly making eye contact with the scared boy. "This is my partner Abby. We just want to help you okay? You are safe now."

"We are going to need to unwrap your blanket Jude. We are just going to make sure that you are going to be okay until we reach the hospital. The closest hospital that is equipped to deal with this is still a half hour away." Abby said in a low voice to the trembling boy.

Just then the ambulance hit a pothole causing the back of the ambulance the jump. Jude yelped as his bottom hit onto the stretcher.

"Can't you give him anything for the pain?" Mike pleaded.

"We can't give him anything because when we do get to the hospital he must be fully aware during the rape kit or it could be thrown out in court if he decides to press charges." Aaron whispered to Mike.

Jude reached up and lifted the oxygen mask slightly with his left hand.

"I'm sorry." Jude said, his voice rough, starting to sob again. "Tell moms I'm sorry. I didn't mean too."

"No, buddy don't be sorry it's not your fault. You will be okay, we don't blame you." Mike said gruffly.

"It hurts so much." Jude continued to sob.

"Jude, we are going to unwrap the blanket now. We need to check to make sure you are okay." Aaron said softly.

He reached under Jude and untucked the blanket from his side and Abby did the same from her side. The began by pulling the blanket down to his waist. They quickly went about checking out his ribs and the various bitemarks, scratches, and bruises littering his torso.

"When we arrive let them know that they are a couple ribs that are possibly fractured." Abby noted.

Mike looked at Jude's bare skin with clenched teeth. He realized it was a good thing that Stef wasn't the one to ride along with the state that Jude was in. Aaron looked at me as he pulled the sheet back over Jude's torso. He grabbed the bottom of the sheet and nodded at me.

"Jude, buddy they are going to take a look now okay? Just look right at me." Mike said leaning to Jude.

Jude turned his head to look at Mike. Arron lifted the sheet back to Jude's stomach. Abby gasped and Aaron quickly turned and began to gather supplies.

"We are going to have to stop the bleeding down here buddy. You are losing quite a bit of blood. You are going to feel some pressure, but it is just gauze to soak up the blood." Aaron said

Jude felt a hand brush his thigh and began to panic. His hand shot out to Mike and Mike grabbed his hand and held it close to him. Aaron grabbed a gauze pad and took a deep breath before setting it on Jude's bleeding hole. Then he pushed. Jude's eyes widened and his breath quickened into a scream. Mike jumped up and gently raised Jude up so that he was curled on his side and held him tight.

"Shhhh buddy, it's okay. It'll be okay just breathe with me." Mike said rubbing his back.

Jude's hands curled up into the shirt of Mikes uniform and he continued to sob. Mike looked in alarm at his heart monitor seeing his oxygen getting low and his heart rate getting too high.

"Hey, Jude buddy, would it be better if Abby did this?" Aaron called to him.

Jude's head moved, nodding against Mikes chest. Mike repositioned the oxygen mask onto Jude's mouth and held him tight while Abbys hands slid into gloves and replaced Aarons. Aaron moved around the stretcher and crouched in front of Jude.

"Is that better buddy?" Aaron asked him.

Jude nodded into Mikes chest again, his breathing slowing to a normal pace.

"Okay we are only 3 minutes to the hospital. They will get you all fixed up buddy. Be strong you'll be okay. Abby is just going to exchange the gauze and place a piece of tape to hold it." Aaron said patting Jude's shoulder. "I am going to need Mike to lay you back down now so we can wheel you in."

Mike gently moved out from under him and laid him onto the stretcher. Abby pulled his blood-stained sheet back over his legs. Mike continued to grasp his hand. They threw open the ambulance door yanking up the side rails on the bed. They pulled the stretcher out and Mike hopped down out of the ambulance. He ran in beside the stretcher, going through the waiting room he saw Stef and Lena with the family, but when they got to the doors to go back into the emergency room nurses stopped Mike. Jude tried get up when Mikes hand was ripped away.

"Mike!" He screamed.

"No, leave me alone." He yelled when the nurses tried to get him to lay back against the stretcher.

Mike pushed through the nurses as Jude shrieked for him. They let him pass through this time and he ran to catch up to the stretcher. He caught up and reclaimed the hand that was reaching out to him. They moved him into an emergency bay room.

"On three transfer beds." Aaron said. "One..." Aaron, Abby, and Mike slid their arms under him. "Two..." they all shifted their weight. "Three..." They lifted and swung him onto the hospital bed.

He drug air through his clenched teeth as he hit the bed. Mike transferred himself to the other side of the bed and held tight to Jude's hand.

"Okay buddy, the doctors are going to take care of you from here." Aaron said as he laid a hand on Jude's shoulder.

"Good luck buddy, you keep your head high." Abby said before they both turned and walked from the room.

Jude began to cry again and Mike sat on the edge of the bed.

"Come on buddy it's okay." Mike said gently. "Talk to me."

Jude moved the mask off his mouth.

"I didn't mean to… I tried to leave… It hurt so bad…" Jude said whimpering.

Mike moved the mask back to his mouth.

"I know you didn't bud, it will be okay, they will make you feel better here." Mike said.

"Don't let them touch me?" Jude pleaded hoarsely raising the mask.

"They have to so that you can go home. They are gonna get you fixed up then you can go home." Mike said comforting the small shaking boy.

A male nurse walked in with a table of supplies. Jude's breathing hitched.

"This can't be right, I am here to administer a rape kit on a victim?" the nurse inquired.

"You have the right room." Mike said.

"But he is a male." The nurse said condescendingly.

"Your point is what exactly sir." Mike said with a threatening tone in his voice.

"Fine, my name is Stewart and I will be performing your rape kit tonight. You are going to remove your blanket and put on this gown. Then you are going to put your feet in these stirrups to start the exam, that is if you still want to do it." He said harshly.

Then he turned to Mike and said, "And you sir will have to leave, the nurses may have let you back but I do not break policy and I do not appreciate an audience."

"He needs me here so I will stay." Mike said flatly.

"If he is old enough to have sex then he is old enough to deal with the consequences." Stewart shot back at him.

Jude hung his head and tried to hide the tears seeping from his eyes.

Mike marched to the door, "Somebody get me the head nurse."

An older woman came in looking alarmed.

"Hello, My name is Nala and I am the head nurse." She said cautiously.

"Do your nurses make a habit of coming in and saying that there must be a mistake because a victim is male, or trying to talk them out of a rape kit. How about then blaming the victim themselves by saying that if he was old enough to have sex then he can deal with it without his family, because if that is the case then I would like him transferred to a different hospital." Mike ranted angrily.

"No sir, thank you for bringing this to my attention excuse me for one moment please." She said sweetly before gesturing for Stewart to follow her.

Mike looked over at Jude but Jude wouldn't look him in the eye's.

"Hey, don't listen to him he doesn't know anything about you." Mike said softly taking his hand.

"He's right." Jude said. "I went there for sex but then I got scared and wanted to leave. That is why I went though." Jude admitted looking down.

"Why, don't you have a boyfriend you could have asked, if you wanted to have sex." Mike said in a non-judgmental tone.

"That's why I did it. I wanted to have sex with him but I don't know how. I know how straight kids have sex because that's what they teach in school. They don't say how we are supposed to. I didn't want to be bad at it when me and Noah did it." Jude said his voice breaking.

"Why didn't you talk to someone? Ask questions?" Mike asked.

"Ask who? It's bad enough that everyone knows that I am gay. At school you would be surprised how many people are homophobic, but who am I going to ask about having gay sex? It is not a topic that just pops-up." Jude said. "How am I supposed to tell Noah I cheated on him?" Jude said barely keeping his breathing steady.

"I know bud, it's not fair and it's not your fault. You're going to get through this because you're not going to go it alone." Mike said. "I can talk to Noah before you do. I can explain it so that he will understand. It definitely wasn't cheating." Mike said reassuring the shaking boy.

Jude nodded his head and his eye's started to leak again and he put his head down. Mike saw the tears and sat on the edge of the bed before pulling him in for a hug.

"Please don't leave me alone for this." Jude whimpered.

Mike knew he was talking about the exam so he looked back at Jude and said, "I won't leave you anytime you want me here."

Just then Nala walked back into the room.

"I am so sorry about that guys, he has been spoken to and after hearing the full story we agreed that he is not a fit for this hospital and terminated his position. I know this is a troublesome process as it is so if you want I can perform the rape kit myself." Nala offered.

Jude nodded at her attempting a smile. She sat down on the edge of the bed.

"I am going to explain the process to you so that you know what to expect. Feel free to ask questions at any time now or during the exam. The first thing that will happen is you will need to put on this gown for me. From there we will take pictures of all your injuries. That part may seem a little embarrassing to you but it will be key evidence in any case you may pursue. We will also take some blood from you for some routine tests. The next part will be that hardest, as I will ask you to lay your legs in the stirrups. I will collect evidence from your lower regions. I am not going to lie to you though, this part will be somewhat painful. However, throughout the whole process you can be covered with a blanket on whatever part of the body is not being examined. Once that is done you can be give some pain medication and will be able to sleep while we wait for your bloodwork. Once that comes in you will be able to go home. You can have one person with you during this exam."

"Do you want me to get one of your moms?" Mike asked gently.

"Will… would you stay for this part?" Jude asked hesitantly.

"Of course bud." Mike said realizing that it is probably for the best that his moms don't see him like this, because he needs to be calm.

"Okay great, then I am going to ask you put this gown on but do not tie it in the back please." Nala instructed. "I will give you a moment."

Jude reached for the gown but when tried to sit up a sharp pain went from his tailbone up his spine and he cried out.

"Can I help you?" Mike offered standing up.

Jude just nodded ashamed.

"Don't worry about it we all need help sometimes. Here just lift your arms straight up."

Jude lifted his arms and Mike slid the arms of the gown on. Then he laid the gown over the blanked and pulled the blanket from the bottom so that he remained decent at all times. Then he recovered Jude with the blanket so he wouldn't get cold. However, Jude was still trembling and Mike doubted it was from the cold.

"I know that you are feeling vulnerable right now so how about if I share my biggest insecurity with you so we are both open." Mike said taking a deep breath.

"Okay." Jude said assessing Mike.

"I missed out on pretty much all of Brandon's milestones. I should have been there and now there is so much that I won't be able to make up." Mikes eyes started to water. "The truth is I was so mad at Stef that I let it ruin what me and Brandon had." Jude grabbed Mikes hand. "If you would let me Jude I would like to be there anytime you need to get away and just have guy time. I want to be there for you too because sometimes you just need a guy in your life. I'm not trying to discredit either of your mom's because they are both amazing people but I want you to have a guy to come to as well." Mike said gruffly tears clouding his eyes.

"I would like that." Jude said seeming a little calmer.

"I am going to clue your family in on what's going on. They won't touch you until I'm here okay?" Mike said standing.

Jude nodded laying his head back against the bed. Mike went out to the waiting room and it wasn't until then he realized how much of a mess he was. His uniform was covered in blood from carrying Jude and he knew his eyes were red and watering. He took a deep breath and walked towards Lena and Stef.

The kids jumped up but Mike said, "Let me talk to your moms please."

They sat back down and Lena and Stef followed him across the room.

"How bad is it?" Lena said appraising the state that Mike was in.

"It's… it's not good. Right now I got him calm but they are about to start a rape kit. When I walked into the apartment I pulled one man off him and it was pretty obvious that the other two were not just an audience." Mike said trying to put it delicately.

Lena started crying and turned into Stef letting her hold her.

"Lena can you go reassure the kids. I don't want them scared." Stef asked. The when she walked away Stef asked, "Is he going to be okay?"

"I think it is going to depend more on how the rape kit goes. He was struck with a glass object in the chest and they are afraid that it fractures some of his ribs. His face is pretty roughed up to. He has a split lip and what looks like a broken nose. When he panic's he can't breathe so if he stays calm through the exam then it will not be as hard on him but he is very anxious. Those guys did a real number on him in the ambulance he was bleeding pretty badly from… from his assault. I don't know what all they did yet but he is like a scared puppy." Mike said running his fingers through his hair.

Stef turned away from Lena and the kids and Mike wrapped an arm around her shoulders. Stef finally let go of being the strong one and let her tears fall.

"Why would he go there?" Stef asked.

"He didn't know who to turn to for advice about sex. The straight kids get taught but LGBT kids don't. He did what he thought he had to do. He didn't want to be inexperienced to Noah when they have sex." Mike said sighing.

"I have to get back in there but the reality is this is not just going to go away overnight. It is going to be a fight but I am here to fight with you guys." Mike said turning away.

"Wait I should be with him for this." Stef said grabbing his arm.

"Stef, we have both been with rape victims for this part. Do you honestly think you can sit there and watch your son go through it? I can honestly tell you that watching it this far has killed me and I'm not his parents." Mike said. "Though honestly I feel a bond with that boy now. I do want to be involved in his life if it is okay with you guys."

Stef nodded and said, "Of course it's okay Mike." Before she turned and sat back down in her chair. She grabbed Lena's hand and looked around the room at their children. Then Mike noticed that Noah was there too.

"Hey Noah can you come with me for a second?" Mike asked.

Noah looked nervous but got up and followed Mike into the hall.

"What have Stef and Lena told you guys?" Mike asked awkwardly.

"Just that they found Jude and that's all they know… but we saw him when you guys came in there was a lot of blood." Noah said.

"I think you have the right to know and Jude wanted you to know but he was afraid to tell you himself though. I don't really know how to put this gently so I am just going to say it. He was raped. I don't know all the details yet but he thinks you'll be mad at him." Mike said quietly so the other kids wouldn't overhear.

Noah slid down the wall he was leaning on and put his head on his knees. When he looked up tears were streaming down his face.

"Why could I possibly be mad at him? He didn't want it." Noah said devastated.

"That's the thing he went there to have sex. He didn't want to be inexperienced for you when you two get intimate. He didn't want to disappoint you so he thought he could pick up some advice and tips but once he was there he knew it was a mistake and tried to leave. He thinks you are going to say he cheated."

Noah stood up and threw his hands in the air.

"I told him I didn't care that he was a virgin. He is so insecure though. Now he's hurt and it's my fault. I shouldn't even have suggested sex that day. Of course he didn't cheat. He just wanted information. I knew he wanted that." Noah said pacing back and forth.

"No, you can't blame yourself and neither can he. The only person responsible are the people that hurt him." Mike said shaking Noah by the shoulders bringing him back to the present.

"People?" Noah asked taken aback. "How many."

"It looks like three." Mike sighed "Listen I have to go back in but collect yourself and don't tell the others. You gonna be okay?"

"Yeah I just need a minute." Noah said leaning against the wall with tears falling down his face.

Mike tuned and went back through the double doors. He walked through the halls and into the room. He saw Jude laying there with wide eye, shaking. Mike followed his eyes to the equipment for the rape kit and swallowed hard.

"Hey bud, so your plan of action for this is to just focus on me, when it hurts squeeze my hand. It'll be over before you know it." Mike said upbeat trying to get him calmed down.

Jude broke his gaze from the equipment and looked right at Mike, "Thank you." he said with a raw voice.

Nala walked back in and smiled at Jude.

"Okay so we are going to get this show on the road, so that we can get you home." She said kindly.

She pulled up the gown but left the blanket covering him from the waist down. She began her work taking pictures of all the cuts and bit marks. She paid special attention to the bruises where his wrists were tied. Then she went about taking pictures of his face and all of those injuries.

When she was done with all of that she looked up at him and said, "I'm going to wrap up your ribs. It doesn't look like any fractures but it sees they are bruised which may make it feel hard to breathe. When that happens just take deep breaths through the pressure."

"Assuming that you were forced into oral sex I'm going to need you to open wide so that I can get a swab of your throat.

Jude just opened his mouth in response and Gagged as she swabbed his throat.

She then went about taking his blood and sending it down to the lab. When that was finished she took a breath.

"Okay, so this is going to be the hard part. I need you to place your feel in the stirrups." She said in a controlled voice pulling the stirrups up on the exam bed.

She stepped out of the room giving him the privacy. Jude tried to lift his left leg to put it in the stirrup and found that he couldn't lift his leg nearly that high.

"I need help." Jude said humiliated.

"Okay bud. I'm gonna get Nala so that we can do it at once okay?" Mike said laying a hand on Jude' s shoulder.

Nala and Mike walked back in and they each went to a side and placed a hand on each foot.

"Ready… Go!" Nala said.

They both lifted and set his legs in the stirrups. Jude cried out in pain and whole body shook as he felt all the blood that had begun to dry crack apart and as his tear's began to bleed again. Mike moved up by his head and grabbed his hand.

"It's okay buddy, this part will be over quickly." Mike whispered.

Nala took that as her sign and began by removing the tape holding the gauze in place causing another cry out from Jude. Nala began snapping her pictures of her lower injuries while Mike sat on the edge or the bed letting Jude cry into his lap. Nala began to take the external swabs she could. She reached over onto the lower level of the cart and grabbed a tool commonly known as a speculum. She began by applying lube to the tool and then to her fingers.

Mike help Jude tightly on his lap before saying, "Don't look but you're going to feel something go in okay?"

Jude nodded and took a deep breath. Nala lubed around his anal hole and entered the end of the speculum. Jude's hips immediately moved away. Nala place on hand on his hips to hold them into place and continued to enter the tool into him as he cried harder.

"It is completely in Jude, you are doing great! I am going to open it now and when I do I know it doesn't feel great but deep breaths." Nala informed him.

Mike wrapped him in a hug against his chest knowing this was going to be the hardest part. Nala clicked open the tool and Jude's eyes widened as he let out a gut wrenching scream. His breathing quickened to hyperventilation as he began to choke on his own sobs.

"Put the oxygen mask back on him!" Nala instructed Mike. "I'm going to get this done so we can get him pain meds."

She went about getting her swabs quickly. She looked up at Mike and said, "There some tears that are going to require stitches. He is losing to much blood."

When she began to stitch Jude's heart rate skyrocketed higher as he felt the tugging in a place he should never have had to. She finally pulled out the tool after snapping a few more pictures. She pulled her gloves off and threw them away.

She grabbed his feet from the stirrups and gently lifted them down to the bed. She then pulled his cover down over his legs and went to the drawer beside the bed. She pulled out a syringe and setting up and IV of morphine and a blood transfusion. She walked over to where he still laid on Mike sniffling and crouched next to him.

"You did great bud. That will help you sleep and make the pain go away for you. You will be okay. Go ahead and relax we are done." Nala said before getting up and walking out with the rape kit.


Wow okay so that happened. Come on guys review and let me known what you think. This part was hard to write. I wanted to show him having a bond with mike because that will come in handy later in the story. The rest of the family will re appear next chapter.