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"Alec stop it! Please, stop, no!" In her mind Bree was screaming, she could feel each punch, each slap and each kick as she heard herself begging him to stop – but he wouldn't.

"Bree its okay, you're safe." Lynette jumped straight to her friend's side as she began thrashing around her hospital bed in a fit of fear. "Shh, you're safe." She comforted, gently stroking Bree's hair until she calmed down.

"What…where…" Bree attempted to speak but her voice was hoarse from her dry throat and she felt very disorientated, she was also trying to get her eyes to adjust to the unnaturally bright light in the unknown room. She felt cool water reach her lips as a cup was held to them and she allowed the liquid to soothingly run down her throat.

"That's it." Bree could hear a familiar voice and as the cup was taken away her eyes finally adjusted to the room and she realised that it was Lynette's voice.

"Lynette." She managed.

"Yes it's me, Susan and Gabby are here but they just popped out to get some coffee."

"Where am I?"

"Bree you're in hospital."

"What happened?"

"I was hoping you would tell us that." Lynette smiled but it didn't reach her eyes, she was still worried about her friend even though the doctor had said that Bree was out of the woods.

"I don't know, I…can't remember, I…" Bree was becoming agitated again, frustrated at herself for not being able to remember clearly. Thoughts and images were flashing through her mind but she couldn't piece them together and trying to, was giving her a headache, still, she desperately wanted to understand them and couldn't.

"Bree its okay," Lynette assured as she could see Bree was getting worked up again and she didn't want that, "you've been through a lot and the doctors have got you on a lot of medication right now, you'll have plenty of time to think about what happened later. For now I just want you to rest."

"She's awake!" Susan's voice could be heard as she entered Bree's hospital room holding the coffee's in a container. Gabby entered just behind her with a selection of the women's favourite chocolates from a vending machine. Putting the items down on the bedside table the two women were soon lovingly at Bree's bedside along with Lynette.

"I'm so glad you're okay, how are you feeling?" Asked Susan as she took hold of Bree's hand, grateful that it had noticeable warmth to it compared to hours ago when she had been urgently searching for a pulse.

"Jesus Bree you scared the hell out of us!" Gabby added. It seemed she was back to her normal self after the long, nervous and silent wait that she had endured with Susan and Lynette whilst they had waited for news about their friend.

"Please remember that my patient needs rest ladies." A doctor interrupted as he came to examine Bree after noticing that she was now conscience.

"Sorry doctor." Susan apologised as she, Lynette and Gabby reluctantly returned to the seats in the room that they had been confined to for the past hours that had felt like an eternity.

"Now Mrs –"

"Bree's fine doctor, please, can you tell me what happened to me, am I going to be alright?"

Lynette couldn't help but smile as Bree spoke, it was the first in such a long time that she had seen her friend become her usual bossy self and she had missed it, even if it had taken this extreme to get her back.

"Bree then, you suffered a deep wound to the back of your head and you lost a lot of blood but there is no internal damage just a large external bruise and may endure some severe headaches in the near future. Also, you have a lot of external bruising and we noticed other areas where it seems you are recovering from similar attacks particularly on your wrists, neck, back and abdomen so -"

"Oh my God!" The doctor stopped at Bree's outburst as she began to cry.

Lynette was quickly at her side again, "Bree it's okay, the doctor can explain later if it's upsetting you this much but we really need to know how this happened –"

"It's not… It's" Bree could barely speak through her tears so Lynette just waited patiently for her friend to regain some composure as she looked on with a concerned yet comforting face whilst stroking the back of her hand.

"I am…I was – pregnant. Doctor, the baby…what…" She finally got the words out before breaking down in another flood of tears.

The simultaneous gasp that escaped Lynette, Gabby and Susan's mouths at Bree's revelation was audible, they had known nothing about this and had never seen Bree so openly vulnerable. Even at the lowest points in her life, Bree had always kept the bravest face on in front of other people. Now her friends felt guilty that they hadn't realised just how bad things had got.

"Bree there were no notes on your record to suggest you were pregnant are you certain?"

"For God's sakes does she look like she's lying to you?" Gabby barked at the doctor since Bree was in no fit state to answer questions as she sobbed into Susan who had wrapped her arms around her in comfort.

"No well umm, we haven't done the specific tests, so I'll get a nurse straight away." The doctor quickly exited the room to find a nurse. The four women in silence except for Bree's sniffling.

It took some time and a few tissues until Bree finally calmed down enough to have the nurse take the appropriate tests, but now the women were simply quietly waiting for the results.

"What's taking them so long?" Enquired Gabby as a way to break not only the silence but the atmosphere.

"Why didn't you tell us Bree?" Lynette took the opportunity to speak now that Gabby had but ignored her conversation starter to ask the deeper question that had of course been on the tip of all their tongues.

Bree only stared at the blank wall in front of her with a vacant expression upon her face, she heard Lynette's question but couldn't bear to answer because it had all come flooding back. Once she had remembered about the baby she had remembered every other horrible detail that came with that and now she knew what had happened to her, and she was scared all over again.

"Bree?" Lynette spoke a little forcefully, she wanted to help Bree but there was an anger inside of her now or more of a hurt, because her friend had not come to her when she had clearly needed help.

"Alec –" Bree started, but then hesitated as if not being able to find the right words.

"Bree was it not his baby?" Susan asked softly.

"No it was his." Bree stated.

Nobody spoke as they all waited for Bree to expand.

"He didn't know about the baby but he was hitting me and I was scared he was going to hurt it so I told him, I just wanted to make him stop but he didn't believe me and… and…" The outburst which had sounded more like a confession was cut short as Bree was overtaken by yet another wave of emotion. The tears ran down her face in a blur making her unable to see the shocked faces of her dearest friends.

As unusual as it may seem, Lynette, Susan and Gabby were speechless – even though they had one hell of a lot to say, when the time was right.

Probably not the most exciting chapter but I hope it was okay, just my disclaimer that I don't own these characters.

More soon! M