Where's Lauren?

"Daddy"

Max's heart dropped at the sight in front of him, he wanted nothing more to break every bone in those boys body but right now his little girl needed him.

Lauren whimpered on the floor she couldn't move, if she thought she was in pain before; that was nothing.

Max was at his daughters side in an instant "where is everyone Lauren?" "They went to check on uncle jack" Lauren sobbed as max got on the phone to an ambulance.

He put the phone own and furrowed his eyebrows together "where's joey?" He asked. "We fell out and he left.. Again" she sobbed.

"What happened?" He asked Lauren, annoyed joey had left her again. "We argued about the adoption thing and he wanted to find you to see if you were okay" she told him.

"Then what?" He asked. "He only cared how you were feeling and not me, I told him not to come back if he walks out that door" Lauren sighed.

"And he walked out?" Max asked. Lauren nodded her response at him "he keeps breaking his promises, he promised me he wouldn't let Blake or Arran touch me" Lauren said, her voice breaking.

"Ey, it's okay.. Look the police are here" max said moving to the window. Max watched the two boys being forced into the police car, a slight smirk on his face; it dropping when he saw the smirk on Blake's face.

His attention turned to his daughter who was still lying on the the floor and let out a yelp of pain in attempt to move.

"Lauren!" He panicked rushing over to her. "Stay still for me please" he told her. He wanted to hold her so bad but at the moment it caused her a tremendous amount if pain just to breath.

"Daddy.. It hurts" Lauren sobbed. "I know babe, the ambulance will be here any second I can hear the sirens" max told her.

Max let his eyes wander from Lauren's face, there were bruises already forming, blood running down her face from the cuts and her lip was busted.

Her face looked worse than it would of because she still had a cut lip and bruises from the car accident.

She couldn't move her body at all, it didn't help that it had already been hard enough to move after she got hit by the car.

Max then looked at her neck seeing the redness turn darker. Lauren watched her dad watching him and decided truth was the best policy.

"I don't blame you, your still my dad it was just a shock" she told him. Max smiled at his daughter, a weight lifted off his shoulders.

"They tried to rape me dad" Lauren blurted out. Max's eyes shot up to Lauren's. "it's all okay now sweetheart" he reassured her.

The ambulance came into the room and put Lauren on a stretcher, Lauren crying out in pain as they did.

"Joeys on his way, I just got a text" max told Lauren as she was being put into the ambulance. "He broke his promise dad.. He promised me he wouldn't let them hurt me" Lauren sobbed.

Max smiled at her sympathetically before being bombarded with questions by jack, Tanya and Abi as they sprinted over to the ambulance.

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Max decided to stay behind and wait for joey together here while the others went to the hospital. Ten minutes later joey walked into the kitchen.

He saw max and sighed "I've been looking for you everywhere max" joey told him. "I just got your voicemails, you left Lauren?" He asked.

"Yeah but only to see if you were okay" he told him. "What about Lauren joey? Was Lauren okay?" Max snapped.

"No but she had everyone else here" joey told him. "I've spoke to Lauren" max sighed. "Ill go in and see her now" joey said, turning around.

"She's not there" max told him. Joey turned around to look at max "I believe you promised her earlier that you'd never leave her again?" Max asked joey, whiskey in hand.

"Yeah bu-" "oh no buts joey, when you make a promise you keep it" max snapped. "Where's Lauren?" Joey asked, becoming worried.

"She doesn't want to see you" max told him. "You promised her you wouldn't leave and yet you did?" Max asked.

"This whole thing is my fault" joey said. "No this whole thing is my fault joey, anything you said to Arran wasn't your fault" max sighed, seeing how upset joey was.

"I thought that maybe if I left then she wouldn't get hurt no more, Blake and Arran would leave her alone" joey sighed.

"Well that's were your wrong joey" max told him. Joeys eyes searched Max's for anything, he didn't know if he was just using a figure of speech or if she had been hurt.

"What do you mean?" Joey asked him. "I believe you also promised Lauren you wouldn't let Blake or Arran touch Lauren?" Max asked him.

"Yes and I won't" joey told him, not believing max could ask him something like that. "Has something happened, where's Lauren?" Joey snapped now.

"Was Lauren scared when she thought they might come back and get their own revenge on her?" Max asked.

"Max.." Joey sighed "was she?" He snapped. "Yeah she was, she was really scared" joey told him. "So you can imagine how scared my little girl was when they did actually come back for her" max said calmly.

Joeys face paled considerably "WHEN SHE WAS IN THE HOUSE BY HERSELF!" Mx shouted. "Has she been hurt.. By Blake and Arran, have they touched her max?" Joey asked.

"Max please come on, you know Lauren's my life and I only went to find you to bring you back so you and Lauren could make amends because I felt like I was to blame, you know how much I love her max.. Please" joey begged, tears filling up his eyes.

Max stood there shocked, he wasn't expecting joey of all people to stand there and beg and cry, he was expecting him to get defensive and storm out.

He actually felt guilty now, he knew how much joey loved Lauren, he was just angry. "Yeah.. They hurt her" max sighed, his own tears forming.

I came back to the house and Arran was practically pulling her hair out while kissing her and Blake he was pinching her face so hard it drew blood while he was touching her and Lauren.." Max fell into a sob.

"Lauren, she.. She was on the floor crying trying to get away" he told him. Joey just let the tears freely run down his cheeks as he stared at max, not saying a word just staring.

"Did they do anything else?" He asked. "She couldn't move of the floor at all, when the ambulance took her I saw a base ball bat by the sofa.. I think they used that" max said.

"Oh my.." Joey began, he was cut off and jumped for the sink throwing up. "The ambulance said she suffered several blows to the ribs and one, maybe two to the face" max told him.

Joey turned hysterical, face down in the sink. "Joe.." Max sighed. "This is all my fault" joey cried "if I'd kept my mouth shut, this would never of happened, If I hadn't humiliated Arran in front of the whole vic, this wouldn't of happened" he cried.

"They are sick people joey, this isn't your fault" max told him, shaking his shoulder. "Now come on we're going to the hospital and your going to see Lauren" max told him firmly.

"She won't want to see me" joey sighed. "Quite frankly, I'm not giving her much choice" max said leading joey out of the house.

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