Hope you love it. Lots is revealed about Charity
Sean was woken early that morning by crying. He was confused for a second before jumping out of bed and running across to Charity's room.
She lay there, tears streaming down her face in her sleep.
"Charity!" Sean shook her, "Charity wake up!"
She woke with a sob and screamed as she saw him and bolted across the room.
"Charity it's me, it's Sean." He said holding his hands up so that she could see that he wasn't going to hurt her.
She stared at him sobbing, cuddling the Teddy that Nick had gotten her.
"Sean!" She ran into his arms, clutching him tightly, "Oh no!"
"Shh, Chari." Sean whispered, wrapping his arms around her, running a hand against her hair, "Your safe, I'm here."
She cried and cried, he sat up on the bed and rubbed her back soothingly until she fell asleep again.
He laid her back under the covers and continued to rub her back until he fell asleep himself.
Sean woke the next morning laying on his back in Charity's small bed with the little girl curled up beside him fast asleep.
He got up quietly and had a quick shower before going out into the kitchen to make a cup of coffee.
He looked up as he heard the patter of little feet and saw Charity standing in the doorway clutching her Teddy and rubbing sleep out of her eyes.
"Morning gorgeous." Sean smiled, "You feeling better?"
She nodded and walked across the lounge and into the kitchen, Sean help her up into one of the stools and made her some toast.
She nibbled at a piece and nearly ate half of it but it still wasn't enough to keep her healthy. Sean suddenly remembered Nick giving him some of her medicine the night before.
"Charity, do you want to take something that will make you feel better?" Sean asked.
"Ok." She said nervously.
"Now it might taste a bit disgusting." Sean told her as he measured the correct amount in a syringe.
"It's green." She said, "Icky."
Sean smiled, "You only have to take it once today."
She grimaced but opened her mouth like he told her too and swallowed the disgusting concoction.
"Eww!" She shouted afterward making Sean laugh.
"You have to take a different one now." He told her finding the little bottle full in red liquid.
"Ready?" He asked as he hovered it about her mouth.
"Go!" She giggled. He squirted the content into her mouth.
"I like that one." She smiled licking her lips.
"And you have to suck on this lolly, it tastes like Oranges."
"Do oranges taste like that green one?" She asked staring at the orange tablet.
"No, Oranges taste good." Sean told her and she stuck in her mouth, humming at the nice taste.
Sean smiled at the child like antics and clapped his hands together, "Come on then let's get you dressed, which dress do you want to wear?"
"One that Nicky brought me." She answered.
Sean laughed, "Nicky brought you all of your dresses."
"The blue one." She said.
Sean nodded, "Do you want to go get it?"
He helped her off the stool and she ran back to her room and came out with her clothes.
Sean helped her out of her shirt and untied the back of her dress as she changed into clean underwear, respecting her privacy. The little blue dress she had picked reached her knees and was sleeveless but had a thick strap; the back had a crossed ribbon that tightened the middle.
Sean helped get put her hands through and tugged it down, swiftly tying the ribbon into a cute blue bow. He brushed her hair and placed her little blue head band just before her bangs.
She once again tried to pull on her socks on the couch as he went clean her mess from breakfast up and she bruised her other knee and hurt the other one more, he kissed them both better and helped her pull on her socks and the little grey sneakers Nick had brought her.
Charity followed Sean into his bed room as he went to get up his suit jacket and tie.
She looked over his closet and tugged at a blue scarf, "It matches my dress." She stated.
He took it down from the hook and wrapped it around her neck, "It'll keep you warm."
He quickly tied his tie perfectly and pulled on his jacket.
"Ready to go?" He asked.
She nodded before frowning and running into her room, she grabbed her Teddy and met him at the door. He smiled as he led her down stairs and she grabbed his hand as they waked across the lobby to the door in which the parking lot was behind.
She quickly buckled herself into the car and Sean drove them over to the Precinct. She took his hand again as they walked up into the building, Charity hid away from behind him as they walked through the building towards Sean's office. She smiled as he closed his door behind him and she jumped up onto the chair in front of his desk and sat her teddy on her lap, "Is Nicky here?" She asked.
Sean nodded, "He's out at his desk if you want to see him." He told her, sitting behind his desk and opening his laptop and grabbing the paperwork out of his draw.
The door opened and Hank and Nick entered.
"Morning, gentlemen." Renard nodded.
"Hi, Nicky!" Charity smiled.
Nick smiled back, "Morning, beautiful."
She jumped up so Nick could take her seat and Hank took the other. Charity went around to sit on Sean's lap who easily picked her up and set her on his knee.
"I see she's warmed up to you?" Hank asked Renard, looking at Charity who stuck closer to Sean as he stared.
Sean nodded, "Yes, I suppose you could say that."
"Did you get her eating?" Nick asked.
"She ate half of her toast this morning but didn't want to eat anything else; she was more excited about seeing you." Sean told Nick who smiled, "Anything on the case?"
"Yes." Hank said, "We have a lead on a partner of Joseph Porter who was our dead body."
"Joseph Porter." Charity murmured, "Lucas and Melanie Jones, death of Maria Parker and Leaha Dee."
They all looked at her, "What did you say, Chari?" Renard asked, who had already grown accustom to calling her by her nickname, even though it had been only two days, one in which he didn't know her in person.
"Joseph Porter was partners with Lucas and Melanie Jones and they killed Maria Parker and Leaha Dee, they were two of the girls that lived in the Compound with me. Joseph was in charge of the transport of us kids." She said speaking beyond the vocabulary of a 5 year old.
"How do you know this, Charity?" Sean asked, "That they killed these girls?"
"I was in Master Lucas' room when he called Maria and Leaha to his room. He said they were trying to run because the Buster got hold of them, I don't like the Buster he does things that Maria says are very wrong, she called it sometint like . . . abuse but there was another word in front of it, I think it started with an s." She said innocently, "I think I got locked in the cell with him two times when I served Mistress Melanie's tea cold."
Nick, Hank and Sean shared a look, Sean looked a Charity with sad eyes, "That word was sexual, was it?" He asked.
"That's it!" She exclaimed happily.
"How old was this Maria?"
"Maria was the youngest after me, she was 13, she was the one that helped me when I first came to the Compound but I don't remember." Charity told them.
"Is Maria and Leaha dead?" Hank asked.
She froze looking at him but nodded, moving closer to Sean again.
"How long ago did he kill them, Chari?" Nick asked.
"Not long." Charity played with her teddy's ears.
"Is there anyone else at the Compound, Chari?" Sean asked.
"Well, Master Lucas, Master Joseph and then Mistress Melanie, the Buster and then there the Boss, I've only ever attended to him once, he made me call him Master Lawrence but when Master Lucas spoke to him he called him Doug." Charity explained.
"And were there any children?" Nick asked.
"Me, Maria and Leaha, Jacob, Lachlan, Jessica, Michael, Nikita, Maddy, Isabella, Josephine and Justice." Charity said simply, "Nikita hugged me a lot, said that I shouldn't worry about what was happening when They scared me."
Sean frowned, "Chari, what do you know of your past?"
"I came to the Compound when I was 3, a woman was put on duty to take care of me, she wasn't very nice, she used to hit me when I did something wrong and she used to like to pull my hair out and try to braid it into her hat, it hurt." Charity frowned as she remember, "I got food like all the other kids. Kids left and more came, there hasn't been any in a while."
"How much food were you given?" Nick asked.
"A piece of bread the size of our hand." She held up her incredibly small hand and all the men in the room grimaced.
"Keep going, Chari."
"I heard the stories about the Buster but I didn't believe them until I first got in there, I'd been at the Compound for a month or two, Mistress Melanie didn't like the way my hair was done. I was stuck with the Buster for a day!" Charity exclaimed, "When I got back, Maria and Leaha were crying over the fact I got stuck in there, even Lachlan was."
The men cringed, she didn't know what she was talking about, she thought all of this was just a ordinary life, she didn't remember her life, her good life, before she had been taken as a slave.
"Why did Joseph take you out into the forest?" Hank asked.
Charity looked up at Sean who nodded, "It's ok, Hanks a friend of mine, he won't hurt you."
Charity nodded, "He looks like Master Lucas." She whispered to him.
Sean hugged her for a second, "That's ok, he's not going to hurt you like Lucas did."
Charity nodded, "Master Joseph took me out into the Forest to meet with a man, everyone started crying when he said that I was to give my belongings to one of the girls, everybody looked really sad and I didn't know why. Michael came up to me and told me that I was going to be taken away but I didn't understand, it was very scary. I didn't want to leave then and Master Joseph decided that if I wasn't going to come on foot he dragged me by the hair, then out of nowhere Master Lawrence appeared and said sometint and shot Master Joseph."
"So we've solved that part of the case." Nick murmured.
"But right now I'm more concerned about these children." Sean said.
Meanwhile Charity had grabbed a pen and started drawing on the back of Sean's paperwork.
"I want backgrounds on all of the names mentioned." Sean said, "This has to happened soon, these children's life could be in danger, and I won't have sexual abuse running around my city."
Nick nodded, he and Hank stood and went to exit the room when Nick caught a glimpse of what Charity was drawing.
"Charity." Nick said, "What are you drawing?"
They all automatically looked at the drawing and frowned.
"My room at the compound." She said.
She was an incredible drawer, everything very intricate it would have been a lovely drawing had it not even drawn in the direness of the situations. It was a picture of a small room, which cages lining the walls, some stacked on each other, they looked like they were made out of barb wire and something else that made it stable. There were people in these cages too, teenagers with scared faces, some seemed emotionless, others angry.
"That's mine." Charity said pointing to one of the ones on top of the another.
This made Sean and Nick increasingly angry. Charity had many scars up her arms and legs and all over her body, little stab wounds, this must of came from the barb wire.
"Do you know what the outside of the building looks like, Chari?" Sean asked.
She shook her head, "I was never aloud out but I know the general area."
"How, if you weren't allowed out?" Hank asked.
"I was in charge of sorting my Masters paperwork, it had heaps of different things in it."
"You know how to read?"
She nodded.
"I'll go do the background checks." Nick said, "Chari, if you could draw anymore pictures of the Compound that would be very helpful . . . just not on the Captains paper work."
If there was any spelling mistakes please tell me, I don't have time to read through it now, sorry.
I hope you liked it. I'm up to writing Chapter 14 now, just to let you know :)
Love all the lovely comments thanks.