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It had been three days since John had sent Abi the plane tickets and she was yet to hear anything from him. It was the first time in ten years that she actually wanted to see him and of course now she couldn't get hold of him. She had no idea where he was staying and she had no number for him. It wasn't as if she could rock up to the police station asking if they knew his whereabouts. They'd think she was crazy. How was she supposed to get out of this if she couldn't even contact him? She couldn't just not turn up, he'd come after her, she was sure of it. She needed to get her point across once and for all.
The flight was for the following day and Abi knew exactly what he wanted. They'd spent over a year of her childhood planning it. She had to meet him there. That's when they'd get on the plane and leave. That way nobody would see them together. Nobody would suspect what he was up to, what they were up to. They'd think they were just a normal couple and not a sexual predator forcing a girl he once sexually abused to move to another country with him.
Abi sat staring at the blank space of wall in front of her from her bed. She'd been up there for the last two hours, since she'd got in from work, contemplating what to do the next day. A small part of her wanted to go. She wanted to go back to Costa Rica. It had been so amazing the first time round when she went for her scholarship back when she was sixteen but she hadn't been able to embrace it properly when she was spending half of her time worrying if Jay would want her back after she'd left him when she returned to Walford after those two months. If she left Walford, she could pursue her dreams. She could get hold of the people that she done the scholarship with and she could become a vet, a proper one, and finally do what she had always wanted to do. She'd be away from everything and everyone. She wouldn't have to walk around the square with memories from every corner of the place. She wouldn't have to think about her relationship with Ben or Jay whenever she saw them and she could leave behind the guilt she felt every time she saw the Beales for what her dad had done to them. She could meet somebody else, a boy, start her life again, fall in love and be happy. It had been such a long time since she'd been happy.
But she knew none of that could ever happen. John would find her in the airport no matter how hard she tried to escape from his grasp and she couldn't go with him. She knew that he loved her but it was nothing but a pervert's sick fantasy of a ten year old girl. She wasn't that little girl anymore and she had to set the record straight. She had to tell him the truth once and for all, and he wasn't going to like it.

Abi waited nervously inside the airport just by the entrance so she would spot John when he came in. She was still yet to hear from him and assumed that he would meet her at the gates as she had both of their tickets, an obvious ploy from him so that she knew he wouldn't go without her. She looked around the airport trying to catch sight of him but had no luck. Abi checked her watch for the one hundredth time since she'd been there and saw it was coming up to three in the afternoon. Their flight was in under two hours. He had to show his face soon to get through security in time for their plane.
Abi began to panic, thinking that she'd got the whole thing wrong. Maybe it was a test, a trap to see if she would turn up so John could see her feelings for him. Maybe he was watching her from a dark corner where she couldn't see him. The only reassurance she had was that she was in a crowded place where people could see them if anything were to happen, if he were to turn on her suddenly.
Abi jumped when there was a tap on her shoulder and she spun around to face John once and for all.
He was wearing a black jumper with the hood up to hide his face but that didn't stop her from recognising him. She'd be able to recognise him at a crowded football stadium. She'd never be able to erase that face from her nightmares.
"I didn't think you'd come." His voice was dark and hoarse. He sounded ill and it was completely different to what she was expecting. "Come on, we don't want to miss the flight."
He went to grab Abi's hand but she pulled away before he could get a tight grip on her.
"No." Her voice sounded a lot stronger and much more confident than she actually felt. Inside she was scared for her life with nobody around who she could trust.
"No?" he repeated. "Abi, we haven't got time for this. We have to go."
"I'm not coming with you."
John narrowed his eyes. "Then why the hell are you here?"
"To tell you to leave me alone. I meant what I said, I don't want anything to do with you. I know what you are. I know the truth."
"Look Abi," John began. "Whatever you parents have said to you, you can't believe it. It's just a load of lies to keep us from each other. We can't let them win. They already split us up once, we can't let them do it again."
Abi took a deep breath. "It wasn't them."
"What wasn't them?"
"I went to the police and I gave my own statement. My mum never found out because she'd been spying on us or whatever shit you came up with. I told her the truth."
John took a step back from Abi as the information settled in and she couldn't be more relieved for the space between them, even if it was only a few feet.
"I know what you are."
"Abi, no. You've let them come between us. I knew this would happen."
Abi shook her head quickly. "You are a paedophile. You abused your position and took advantage of a little girl who didn't know any better."
"Don't say things like that-"
"Stop it!" Abi held her hand up, her voice raising slightly. She quickly regained her posture noticing that people were beginning to stare. "Stop trying to win me round. I'm not scared of you anymore. You are a vile, disgusting man and I don't want anything more to do with you."
"You're coming with me, Abi."
"No I'm not, and you can't force me to either because I'll tell them the truth. I'll tell everybody what you're doing. I'll scream and I'll shout and you won't be able to stop me."
"What happened to you? What happened to the sweet little girl-"
"I'm not a little girl anymore and I'm not naive and innocent either. You've been away for ten years and I'm not the same person you left."
"So why are you here?" John sneered. "To give me your freedom speech? It won't change anything. I'll just come back to Walford and find you."
"That's just it, you won't. I came here to make sure you get on that plane and never come back."
"What?" he asked confused, although he had little reason to be so.
"I want you to leave. I want you to go so that I never see you again, and I know you won't be able to get any money for a plane trip back. I don't even know how you got the money in the first place. Who would want to employ a paedophile? Drugs, was it?."
"I had to take special measures, didn't I? I risked it all to be with you so no, I'm not just gonna leave because you told me to."
Abi pulled her phone out of her pocket. "Fine," she shrugged. "I guess I'll just have to give the police a call. Let them know what you've really been up to while you've been out. I'm sure they'd love to let you finish your sentence."
"You don't need to do that," he told her quickly, beginning to panic. "I'll go, okay? I'll get out of here."
"Really?" Abi said slightly surprised at how easy it had been. She was half expecting to make a phone call to the police.
"I just said I would, didn't I?"
"You can't come back. If I ever see you again I'll be right on the phone to the police."
John nodded. "Fine. You win, but I want you to know that I only ever done this because I loved you." He put a hand to her cheek and she turned her face to the side, not wanting to look him in the eye any longer and flinching back from his touch.
"I loved you from the day I saw you and I never stopped loving you, Abigail Branning."

Two hours later Abi finally got back in her car after watching John get on the plane.
She let out a massive sigh of relief which she'd been holding in from the moment she'd reached the airport and put her head in her hands.
She'd done it. She'd finally stood up to John for the first time in her life and it felt so good to know that he would soon be on the other side of the world. She'd finally got through to him and he understood. Abi hopped he felt bad for what he'd put her through over the last ten years. She didn't believe for a second that he loved her, not anymore. He was a sick man that had taken advantage of a little girl and now he was just using her like he had done all those years ago.
She was free.

Jay waited anxiously for somebody to open the door. He figured that Abi wasn't in or she had seen it was him and didn't want to answer. He was just about to turn around and give up when he heard the door open.
"Oh hello, Jay," he heard Dot say. "What a lovely surprise! What can I do for you?"
"Is Abi in?" he asked. "I was hoping to catch her."
"Sorry, Jay. She's been out all day. She said she was going for a spa day with her friend, what's her name? Beatrice?"
"Bernadette," Jay corrected her. "She'd never mentioned anything about a spa to me."
Jay had a nagging feeling that something wasn't quite right. He knew Abi and he was positive that if she was going on a spa day then she wouldn't have shut up about it when he'd seen her last. She'd always been into all that girly stuff. He couldn't help but think that she was with John, that their argument had turned her crazy and she'd gone back into his arms because she felt she had nobody else. Something had happened, he knew it but then it had been a few days since he'd seen her last and Bernadette could have called her since then. Deep down he knew he was being paranoid but that didn't stop his mind from wandering.
"It was a last minute thing I think," Dot explained. "Somebody dropped out. Do you want me to give her a message?"
Jay shook his head. "No. I'll give her a call. Thanks anyway, Dot."
Jay waited as Dot smiled and closed the door behind him. Dot had always been good to him, believing in him along with Patrick when nobody else would.
He pulled out his phone, listening to the shrilling ring of it while he waited for her to pick up but instead it went straight to voicemail.
"Abi, what the hell is going on?"