Guys I want to say a massive thank you for all your support and your help with ideas. I've decided Ros isn't coming around as easily as I first thought

Chapter 10

The entire room was complete silence after Harry told the team what Davey King had done to Connie. Harry scanned the faces of his team. Jo looked like she wanted to evaporate, Malcolm was sitting silently waiting for everyones reactions. Lucas looked like he wanted to kill someone and Ros, Harry couldn't tell what she was thinking. She looked completely unfazed by the whole thing. It was almost as though she didn't care about what she had just heard.

"Shouldn't someone go after her." Lucas asked.

"Oh for god sake Lucas." Ros growled.

"What the hell is wrong with you. Harry tells us something like that and you still couldn't give a damn."

"What the hell do you expect. She gets raped and we should suddenly start offering our support. I'm sorry Lucas but it doesn't change what she did. Don't you dare expect me to start showing any kind of sympathy towards her."

Lucas stood up in anger, pushing his chair hard against the wall behind him, before heading for the door.

"Where are you going Lucas." Harry asked.

"I'm going to see if she's alright. Someone sure as hell has too."

"You're unbelievable." Ros muttered.

"Excuse me."

"It's not enough that you rescue a bloody traitor from a bomb but now you feel the need to go and check on her, make sure she's alright. Do we even know she was raped. She could be lying, playing on our sympathy."

"She's not lying Ros." Malcolm spoke up.

"I'm sorry Malcolm but how can you be absolutely sure of that."

"I'm the one who was with her 30 years ago when he raped her. I went with her to the hospital, I stayed by her side when the Doctors checked her over. They wanted her to go to the Police at the time but she wouldn't. He'd threatened to hurt her again if she did that. I'm sorry Harry but she made me promise never to tell you."

"It's alright old chap, I understand."

"She wasn't lying Ros. Not even Connie could lie about something like that."

The room fell silent once more and Lucas went to open the door.

"You're still going after her then."

"Yes Ros, I am. You don't like it, then that's just too bad." He replied, storming out.

"Right you lot, we still have a job to be getting on with. We need to find out how those explosives we stolen and who could be involved. So get too it." Harry instructed.

Everyone got up from their seat and made their way back to their desks. Malcolm stayed back to have a quick word with Harry.

"Do you think Connie will be okay." Malcolm asked.

"I do hope so. Perhaps Lucas can get her to talk about it. It might help having someone who wasn't there at the time."

"I never thought Lucas would be on team Connie."

"He did save her. I know it was only for his on purpose but did you see his face when I told them about the rape. He looked so angry, I think if he ever came face to face with Davey King, he might actually kill him."

"That makes 3 of us then. I'd better make a start on that voice recognition."

"Talk later."

Lucas had been walking along the road for a good 10 minutes when he finally spotted Connie sitting on a bench in the park across the road. He crossed the road and make his way over to her. Connie was lost in her own thoughts when she felt a presence beside her. She looked up and saw Lucas staring down at her.

"Can I join you." He asked, softly.

"I'm surprised that you'd want to be seen with me."

"Are you okay. That couldn't have been easy for you back there. How's your face."

"Stings a little but nothing more than I deserve I dare say."

"Harry told us what you were trying to tell us about King."

"Oh I see."

"I am so sorry you went through that."

"If it were to happen now, some might say I deserve it."

"No they wouldn't."

"No. I killed our colleague, even I think I'd deserve it."

"Then stop thinking like that. You know it probably would have been so much simpler if they'd just imprisoned you for killing Ben. It might have been a hell of a lot easier than what you're going through now but I know Harry wouldn't have it, despite everything he obviously still cares about you."

"I didn't want to come back today. I've never been so terrified to come back to a place."

"Ros."

"Mainly. I know how angry she is, how much she would rather I was dead. I knew I'd have to talk you all today but I hadn't plannned on King coming up in the conversation."

"The 2 weeks he held you captive, how often did he…"

"Everyday."

"Oh my god."

Lucas head sunk down unable to think about it.

"I tried to block out what he was doing to me, block out the pain. I kept telling myself it would be over soon. At the end of the second week I was near ready to give up, take my own life. I couldn't bare it anymore and then all of a sudden when I had the knife pressed against my wrist, these armed response men came running in waving guns around. I dropped the knife as one of the men rushed over to help me. King managed to escape through the back and we never heard from him again, well until all this business started up, Sugarhorse and what have you."

"I'm glad they got to you in time. I know you weren't always like this, hence why Harry wanted you back. All those years ago, hell even when I returned, you are still the formiddable Connie James. The woman everyone looked upto."

"More down too now."

"You need to come back with me to the Thames House. You need to show your strength."

"I'm not sure I have any left Lucas."

"Ofcourse you do. Don't let the likes of Davey King and Qualtrough beat you. Fight them and show Ros that you can change."

"Why do you care what happens to me."

"I care because I want the woman I looked upto all those years ago back and I want you to show King that he can't get away with what he did to you. We'll get him, together. Deal."

"Deal."

Lucas stood up from the bench and extended his hand to Connie which she accepted and they made their way back to MI5.

To Be Continued….