Story: The Aftermath
Fandom: Law and Order: SVU
Author: hippolover1326
Chapter: 7 (Speak)
All characters belong to Dick Wolf.
On a totally unrelated side note, I just realized in real life Mariska Hargitay is married to the guy who plays Trevor Langan. That's crazy! How did I not know that!?
When we had some free time to walk around the hospital, I did a little investigating and found Kelsey's hospital records and room number. As it turned out, she suffered from severe PTSD and had a flashback with almost every mention of, well anything pretty much.
I went up to her room to talk to her when her schedule said no nurses would be there for the next hour. I guessed that she was on suicide watch.
"Hi," I said, not wanting to seem too weird, "I'm-"
"Amanda, I remember. From therapy."
"Yeah. First off, I'm real sorry. My sister died, as you know, and I've been feeling really aggressive."
Unconsciously, she ran her fingers along the torn skin on her knuckles. "Me too. God, I hate how they treat us here, like we're time bombs about to go off. I swear, we're probably all on suicide watch anyway."
I didn't say anything.
"So, what brings you here?"
"I think we both need to talk."
"Yeah, you're right," Kelsey smiled, "because I'm sure as hell not going to talk to that psycho lady Claudia. I think she makes my PTSD worse than it is... How did she even become a therapist?"
Anyway we laughed and talked and it was just nice to forget that we were in a hospital.
When I returned to my room, I heard voices that sounded almost as if they were debating whether to go in and see me. I smiled when I realized Nick was one of them. He stepped into my hospital room.
"Hey, Nick."
"Hey, Amanda, how are they treating you?"
I forced a smile. "Okay."
"Listen Amanda, I have something important to tell you..."
