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Chapter Thirteen

"We need to talk to her before she tells anyone," Lily whispered as they crossed reception in complete darkness.

Lily hoped that no one would ask them about the torch that they'd gone to find, as they still hadn't got one. Iain nodded at her in agreement and gave her back a subtle rub to try and comfort her, but she just nudged him away.

"Iain!" The sound of Sam's voice caused them both to jump away from each other and turn round. "Hey," she said, more to Iain than Lily. "How was your weekend away?"

"Um…" Iain gulped and turned to Iain. "Sorry, Sam. Lily and I kind of need to try and find a torch for Charlie, because of the power and stuff. We did promise him."

"Does it really take two people?" Sam questioned suspiciously, looking between the two of them.

"No," Lily spoke up first. "It doesn't. You stay here Iain and talk to Sam. I'll find the torch."

"Are you sure?" Iain asked her.

With a small and subtle wink, Lily nodded and said, "Positive. I'll deal with this, don't worry."

Lily felt sick.

She sat cross-legged on the sofa of the ambulance office, arms folded across her chest. She couldn't believe that Gem had just walked in on them. They should have been more careful. Why on earth had they been stupid enough to make out in the ED, where anyone was able to see them? It was their fault. She needed to find Gem but firstly, she just needed to take some time to compose herself and think about what she was going to say.

When she'd taken some time, she stood up and went in search of Iain's little sister. It didn't take too long to find her. She was stood on the roof, arms folded across the edge, looking out into the big wide world.

"How'd you find me here?" She mumbled.

"I sometimes come here myself when I need some time," Lily sighed and went to stand beside her.

"So?" Gem sighed back. "How long has it been going on for?"

"I guess it started with Iain noticing a mark on my face," Lily said, tears pricking her eyes at memory. "Henry is great, but he can lose his temper sometimes. There just seemed to be some spark between Iain and I. There always was I guess, even when I was living in Hong Kong."

Gem thought about seeing her brother with Sam and realised that he never actually looked happy with her. Not really.

"If that's the case," she said. "Then why have you never left Henry, and why hasn't Iain left Sam?"

"Honestly." Lily shrugged her shoulders. "I'm scared. Then there's all of that added pressure with my mum. She loves Henry, she thinks he's perfect, and she wants me to stay with him. I'm sure my dad would feel the same if he was still here. Henry isn't the guy that my mother thinks he is though. He's never called me beautiful, complimented me in any way, and he's hit me a few times as well."

"Really?" Gem's eyes widened in shock, and her lower lip wobbled slightly.

Lily nodded faintly and hung her head in shame.

"You need to follow your heart, Lily," Gem said. "No one else's. I'm not saying that I agree with cheating or anything, but I'm secretly pleased. I really like you Lily, you're the best friend I've ever had, and I was gutted to hear that you'd left. You and Iain are perfect together and you really belong with each other."

"Do you mean that?" Lily whispered.

"Every word," Gem said.

"You know you can always talk to me, right?" Lily smiled down at her. "Do you still have my number?"

Lily patted her pockets to try and find her mobile, but found that she didn't have it on her.

"I must have left it at home," Lily sighed, realising that she hadn't actually used it all day. "I'll text you when I get home though, just in case you don't have it anymore."

"I don't think you'll need to do that anyway," Gem laughed. "I always knew you'd come back eventually."

"I'm home," Lily called, as she stepped into the hallway and shut the door behind her.

Silence.

"Henry!" She called even louder, knowing that her mum was currently at work. "Today was different," she sighed and threw her keys onto the table. "We had a power cut."

Whilst searching the whole of downstairs, she heard a clatter from the bedroom.

"Henry," she called again with a small sigh.

She climbed the stairs and opened the door to the bedroom, where she saw Henry standing in the middle of the room with her mobile in his left hand.

"What's going on?" She asked anxiously, as she stepped further into the room.

"What's going on?" He repeated her question in an aggressive manner. "Why on earth have you been messaging this Iain guy? I thought things were over between the two of you."

Lily folded her arms protectively across her chest and gulped, before talking in a soft whisper.

"You've been going through my phone."

"Answer me!" He screamed, causing the entire house to shake.

"It's just friendly," Lily began to cry, her small anxiety now turning to utter fear. "We're just friends, Henry. I swear!"

"It doesn't look like that though, does it?" Suddenly, he unlocked Lily's phone with a swipe of a finger and began to read them out loud. "When are we meeting up? I'm looking forward to seeing you! I love you too!" Turning back to Lily, his voice grew louder. "You disgusting, fat, ugly, lying, little slut!"

Lily flinched at every word that he threw at her, and her tears began to fall even faster.

"I thought you loved me," she whispered.

"Are you kidding?" He scoffed. "I'm only in it for the money and the house. As soon as we were married, I was going to shove your batty, nosey, old mother in a home, take the money, and ship you back to Hong Kong for good! I don't love you Lily, I never have done, and I can't believe that you were stupid enough to think that I did either. You need to stop living in a fantasy world. No man will ever love you. I bet Iain doesn't even love you, he just feels sorry for you."

As he spoke, he stepped closer towards Lily. She felt his breathing on her neck, and it scared her. Why couldn't he stop? Why couldn't he stop and just leave? It was her fault though, wasn't it? Gem knew and now Henry knew, and everything was going wrong. She and Iain should have never even had an affair in the first place. They'd caused this.

She'd caused this.

"I don't want to leave Holby, Henry," she sobbed. "This is my home and it always has been my home. I…I'm sorry. I…I love Iain, I love him so much, and Mrs Beauchamp has offered me my old job back in the ED."

"So?" He hissed between gritted teeth. "What are you saying?"

The strong smell of booze poured off of him, and Lily felt sick to her stomach.

"I'm sorry," she apologised through her tears.

Within seconds, Henry raised a hand and slapped her hard across the face. The slap was so hard that it caused her to fall straight to the floor and onto her arm. She felt a crack as she landed straight onto her wrist and let out an agonizing scream.

"You deserved that," Henry said and kicked her hard in the stomach. "Just like you deserved everything else."

He chucked her phone onto the floor beside her and gave her another hard kick, before leaving the room.

Lily remained on the floor in a ball, her arms across her sore stomach. She was too scared to look at the injuries, but she could feel blood trickling down her skin and she was struggling to breathe. She needed to ring someone, but she wasn't sure who to ring.

She didn't really want to talk to Connie.

Her mum was at work, and probably wouldn't even believe her.

Iain was with Sam.

The first person that came to mind was Gem.

Henry Kellerman wasn't the nicest of people.

That night after he'd downed two whole bottles of alcohol at the pub, and whilst Lily and Li Na were both asleep, he came home and walked towards the car that sat on the driveway.

Sorry that it's taken so long. Let me know what you think x