This chapter was inspired by four songs by Trevor Morris, all of them composed in 2009 for the TV show 'The Tudors':
Jane Seymour's Theme (Composer's Sketch)
Henry Marries Jane Seymour
Jane Washes Her Hair
A Howling Wilderness/The Death of Jane Seymour

10 – A HOWLING WILDERNESS

In the early hours of the next morning Lucy lay wide awake, unable to sleep. The drug was still in her system and she hated it! She could hear muffled voices and footsteps every now and again and she felt uncomfortable because she wasn't in her own bed. It made it worse that Alex wasn't there to comfort her. Lucy was in the hospital and she felt completely numb, distant from the world. Alex was at the police station undergoing questioning.

She had lost her baby, and the police figured Alex had done something to her so they'd taken him. They didn't know what had caused her miscarriage, but the doctor's put it down as stress. She became more alert when she heard familiar voices outside, seemingly arguing with one of the nurses. Carefully she slipped out of the hospital bed and walked out into the hallway.

"But I'm her brother!" She heard Pete argue. Georgina saw her first and she looked at Lucy sorrowfully.
"Is there a problem miss?" Lucy asked the nurse, "I'd like to see my brother if that's alright." The nurse turned around, shocked.
"Miss Hallam!" She reprimanded, "You really shouldn't be out of bed!"
"I'd just like the comfort of my family if you don't mind." Lucy managed to say. It was very hard for her to do anything at that moment.

The nurse relented, letting Pete and Georgina go into Lucy's room with her. Pete helped his little sister get back into her bed and tucked her in.
"Lu, are you alright?" He asked, highly concerned.
"No." She answered honestly, "I just want to see Alex, but the police won't speak to me until later on in the day."

She felt incredibly weary; she was distraught, fragile and insecure. She had lost the most precious thing to her and Alex and she felt it was all her fault. The fact that Alex had been taken by the police only made everything worse. The loss of their baby, who had been revealed as a girl, hurt her on so many levels; it felt like a part of her had been lost too. She was grateful that Pete and Georgina were there, she needed her family with her.

"You don't have to put on a brave face for me Lucy." Pete told her quietly, still by her side, "I know you and I know you're holding back." Her lip trembled until finally she let everything go and started sobbing. She felt Pete hug her tightly.
"It's all my fault." She cried, "I've ruined everything."
"It's not your fault Lucy." He assured her, "Don't think that."

She continued to cry and Pete and Georgina continued to comfort her. Georgina eventually went to go and find some tea to soothe Lucy, but Pete didn't leave her side. He was a good brother in that sense; he'd never left her side when she was in trouble, even when they were kids and she'd annoy him to no end, he was always there when she needed him. Eventually Pee and Em arrived, having heard the news. Em was very worried and said she'd been to the police station, but they wouldn't let her and Pee see Alex and they wouldn't let him go until they'd spoken to Lucy.

Em had bought her some regular breakfast so Lucy wouldn't have to eat the food from the hospital. Lucy had calmed down by that time and took great comfort in having them all there.
"How are you feeling dear?" Em asked, fretting over her.
"I'm sure I'll be fine eventually." Lucy told her, to stop her worrying. Yet she wasn't entirely sure that she would be, because she was hurting so much.

She wished her own parents were there, no matter how much they'd hurt her, it only hurt her more that they weren't there for her at a time like that. She ate the food Em had bought her absentmindedly, lost in her own thoughts. She prayed Alex was alright, because she knew she wasn't and he would be as upset as she was.

"What did you do to her DeLarge?" The officer asked for the billionth time. Alex was on the floor, beaten and emotionless. He remembered his last trip to the police station, when they had beaten him, but this time he wasn't giving them any cheek. He was too caught up in his own thoughts; thoughts of Lucy and their lost baby. He'd never felt this way before; so full of grief and pain. He thought maybe it was Bog's way of punishing him for all of his sins against other people, a lesson of some sort.

He figured he deserved it, but what made him angry was that Lucy didn't deserve it. He worried about her, all alone in a hospital somewhere without him. He was brought back to reality when he felt another blow to his face. Wiping the blood off his mouth, he looked up furiously into the officer's eyes.
"I didn't do anything to my fiancée" He fumed, spitting some blood onto the floor.

"Fiancée?" The officer laughed, the others joining in too, "Why would a girl like her marry the devil?" They were really pushing Alex's buttons.
"I didn't touch her." He said, frustrated, "I just lost my child" This only made them laugh more which made Alex feel sick, the fact that they were laughing over something so horrible.
"Don't lie to me you sick bastard! What'd you do? Follow her home, have it off with her?"
"Don't govoreet about her like that!" Alex yelled, absolutely furious, "I just want to viddy her."

"You're twisted." The officer hissed, leaning down to Alex's level, "We're going to see her, and when she tells us what you did you'll be going straight back to where scum like you belong. Locked away in a prison cell." Alex found the strength to smirk before spitting more blood, straight into the officer's face. This angered the policeman and he glared at Alex, giving him another nasty punch in the face.

A/N: Lucy would be in hospital recovering from a D&E that was performed after her miscarriage. I would also like to apologise, as I hadn't read gildedbutterfly16's story 'Love Makes You Crazy' until after writing this story. I wrote this part of the story as a way of coping with recent events that happened to me and didn't mean to have a similar plot point as another writer. It was very hard for me to write this chapter, so I hope no one gets upset over it.