Hi there, I am sooooo sorry for not updating in ages..I have had some commission work to do for a bakery doing posters and little name tags for all the different foods and it has taken up a lot more time than I thought it would. But that is out of the way now so I have been able to write another chapter. Hope you still enjoy it, I struggled a bit with how to go on from what has happened...I get really excited when I think up an idea and start writing it but a couple of chapters in I get stuck and don't know where to take the story. But I am going to try real hard to continue with this so I can say I have completed one.
Chapter 7
A little while later there was a knock on the door which woke both me and Sookie. Dr Crane came back in and behind him was a policeman. He introduced himself as Officer Bellefleur and came to sit down on the chair that was pushed up against the wall. He pulled it forwards so he was closer to the bed and started asking Sookie questions.
"So Miss Stackhouse, can you tell me what you remember?"
"I remember getting home from work and rushing to get ready; I was running a bit later than usual but didn't think I would need to text or ring Eric to let him know since I knew I would still be at the restaurant earlier than him." She looked over at me and smiled a tiny smile and squeezed onto my hand. "Then I left my apartment and was walking down my street when I felt a sharp pain on my head and then everything went black."
"So nothing else?"
"I'm sorry no."
It made me angry that Officer Bellefleur seemed to put out that she couldn't remember anything. It wasn't her fault she had this done to her, she shouldn't be the one saying sorry!
"Okay well I have my colleges looking over the footage from the CCTV cameras in and around your building to see if they have picked anything up. We are also looking for witnesses that were out on the streets to see if they saw what happened and if they recognised who did this to you."
Sookie just nodded and then he excused himself.
"How are you feeling?" I asked her as I stroked her arm. I wanted to stroke her face but I was too scared in case I hurt her.
"Very sore and uncomfortable."
"I'll go get a nurse to come give you some more pain medication," I started to get up but Sookie pulled hard on my hand.
"No Eric, don't leave me!" her eyes were panic stricken. Her heart monitor started beeped faster.
"Shh, shh!" I sat back down and this time I did stroke her face. "I am just going to get the nurse; I will be back straight away I promise. I can't let you be sitting here in pain." I explained but she was already shaking her head.
"No, no, please Eric. Don't leave, what if someone comes in here? You can't leave me on my own!" Tears were falling down her face rapidly and her breathing was coming out harsh and fast.
"Shh, Sookie. Darlin' I am not going anywhere okay? I will stay right here. I'm not going anywhere," I wrapped my arms around her as she did the same for me and I sat and rocked us back and forwards until she was moaning in pain. Shit!
"I will look for a call button okay? I am staying in the room with you," I added when her eyes went wide. I found one on the wall by her bed and a nurse came in a minute later with her medication.
As soon as she had been given it she fell back into a deep sleep.
I had never seen her look so panicked before. I was only leaving the room, but after what she had been through, whether she remembered it or not she was going to have a lot to deal with and I knew that she was going to need a lot of help to get through this.
I sat back and watched her sleep for what felt like hours. Hell it could have been. I had no idea how much time had passed. I felt numb like this was some fucked up dream. I hoped it was.
A light knock on the door startled me and Pam walked through.
"She's fast asleep; they had to give her some more medication because of the pain." She just nodded and came and sat on the arm of the chair I was occupying. She didn't say a word, she just sat ad stared at her best friend.
It dawned on my then that Sookie wasn't the only one that was going to need help. Pam finding Sookie in that situation has got to have done some damage. She wasn't going to forget it easily. We are all going to have to help each other and seek help as well.
I started rubbing circles on Pam's back and then suddenly she started crying again. I wrapped my arm round her hips and pulled her onto my lap. She rested her head on my shoulder and just cried all the tears she had left. I had never seen Pam like this before and it scared me.
Growing up we had both been tough, unemotional people who never let other get us down. We have always been fiercely protective of each other and those we loved. We have always been all each other has had until Pam met Sookie. At first Pam thought Sookie's bright and bubbly character was hilarious; she didn't believe she was always that happy. She thought she was fun though to have around and eventually despite the two of them being complete opposites they became the best of friends. That lead to me being introduced and I knew as soon as I saw her that she was something special.
She was beautiful, she was confident; she didn't take no sass from anybody. She was extremely interesting and I couldn't get enough of her.
Unfortunately she had a boyfriend at the time. Boring Bill. I couldn't understand what she saw in him, he was boring and a jerk. I hated him and so did Pam. We told her often enough but it just got her upset since she said she loved him. We stopped poking fun at him to keep her happy. But then one night she came home and admitted that we were right. She said she couldn't stand him and that he gave her the creeps. She had stayed with him for years because she knew he wouldn't just let her go and she thought it was just easier to stay with him. She didn't have many friends because of Bill and he hated the fact that she had grown so close to myself and Pam. Sookie told us that since she had the support of the both of us she felt like she was strong enough to leave him. She had new friends, a good job and a great apartment. The only thing wrong in her life was him.
Of course he didn't take it very well at all. He was furious and accused her of cheating on him with me. He took out all his anger and started insulting Sookie calling her fat and ugly and worthless.
Me and Pam could hear him screaming at her from up in Pam's apartment. We were both furious and rushed down to kick him out. I gave him an extra hard punch in the face and was extremely happy with the sound of his nose breaking.
He called her a bitch and left. She never heard from him again, even though she was spooked for a while after that thinking that he was going to come back. She had thought she had seen him a couple of times out on the streets but it was either too busy for her to check or she was driving past so she couldn't stop.
That had all happened about 3 years ago now. Shortly after that me and her had grown closer and we eventually started dating. We were so good together and were so happy. You know when you are just so happy it feels wrong? Like you were never meant to be this happy and are terrified of something coming along and tearing it all apart? That's how we both felt.
Sookie had often told me she can't believe Bill went that easily in the end. She was scared in case one day he came back to haunt her. She had known him since they were both 16 and he had always been obsessed with her.
Fuck...
Surely not, but...what if it had been Bill? He knows where she lives, he did used to have a key to her apartment and I always got a creepy vibe from him.
Fuck fuck fuck!
Whatcha' think?
