Sorry it's been a while- I'm hoping to make this chapter more intense and more serious. So please read and review and check out my latest House Fanfic- Love is a Battlefield3
Right then just to remind you,
Mac and Jo are now a couple, Ellie and Tyler are fine about the news- it's just Russ who is the problem. Jo has just warned Mac about Russ and revealed that he had been violent toward her in the past…
"What did he do?" Mac asked, harbouring great concern with his words.
She shook her head, trying to downplay what she had revealed, but it was too late as she had already got her self in too deep.
"Jo, I asked you a question", he said.
"I heard, I'm just not answering you- it's useless talking to you when you're in this mood", she replied.
"For god sake, I just meant that he had said things to me in the past- it's nothing", she lied.
He didn't stop with his questions and carried on bombarding her with his inquisitiveness towards what she had unintentionally revealed.
"You just took what I said out of context", she informed him, hoping that that would satisfy him or at least stop him prying further into the situation.
But he still continued asking her until she snapped and turned to face him.
"Fine, would it make you happy to know that Russ was an Alcoholic and would beat me most days after work. Would it satisfy you to know that he would beat me within inches of my life? That he made me have an abortion!" she yelled.
He stared at her in shock. He did not expect all those intimate details to be spilled from her mouth.
He stayed silent, wishing he hadn't pressured her into reliving all those painful memories.
He thought back to what she had just told him and realized how much physical and emotional abuse she had endured. He knew Russ was quite manipulating but he had no idea at exactly how much of a manipulator he could be.
"Did you tell anyone?" Mac asked, daring to speak.
She shook her head.
"No, I was a coward", she replied.
He grabbed her hand and held it producing comfort towards her.
"You were not a coward, Jo you were scared- there's a huge difference". He said.
"Mac I nearly killed him once", she revealed.
"When?" he asked, surprised at what she had admitted.
"When we first got divorced, I had had a bit to drink and he was just sat there watching me from across the street on a bench, and I nearly marched over there and blew his brains out, I was on duty at the time and I'd had a few drinks over a dinner, the drink gave me to confidence I needed, but it was the thought of Tyler that had stopped me", she breathed.
He hugged her tight; telling her that it was all okay and that he was here now and Russ would never hurt her again.
"I'll help you over come you're bottled up emotions and we can get you the right closure that you need", he said calmly and soothingly. She nodded and was so eternally grateful that she had Mac there every step of the way…
