Chapter 14

Still a dreamer, wish they were together.

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While waiting to hear any news from the doctors or nurses on Naya's condition Heather agreed to be checked out. She has a bruise on her face from being punched and a concussion from hitting her head on the dresser. Besides feeling a little dizzy when she moves quickly she is fine and is more concerned with Naya. Dianna sits her with in the waiting room, the police have been asking them questions about the incident, as least that's what they are calling it, Heather plain out calls it an attack. They didn't deserve it, they definitely didn't provoke it, and they didn't expect it truthfully. Dianna had texted a few people on the way there to let them know what happened. She thought they could use some support right now. The first person she texted was Kevin, she knew that he and Naya were close and he would want to know she was hurt. She also texted Ashley because she knew how close her and Heather were and thought Heather might need her, especially if something happened to Naya.

"Heather?" Ashley looks at her friend, who has been crying and looks broken just sitting there staring at the wall. Heather turns to acknowledge her roommate, "oh my God Heather, are you alright?" She sees the bruises on Heather's face. She quickly wraps her arms around the blonde, who doesn't even flinch.

Heather remains sitting and without much emotion mumbles, "you didn't have to come."

"I did Hemo, you are my best friend and you're hurt," Ashley touches Heather's cheek softly.

"I'm fine. It's just a bruise."

"And a concussion," Dianna adds.

"Heather you are not fine, and I know you're worried about Naya," she takes Heather's hand and sits beside her. "Any word yet?" Ashley asks as she looks to Dianna.

"No not yet," she responds.

"Hey," Dianna feels a hand on her shoulder and looks up to see Kevin standing there. She gives him a little smile and puts her hand over his. He looks over to Heather who has her head on Ashley's shoulder. "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine just a headache," she answers.

"What happened? Did you know this guy? Is this the guy who was sending Naya those letters?" Kevin wasn't exactly sure what was going on, Naya had told him she was getting weird letters from some guy who wasn't happy about her and Heather's relationship but she never went into too much detail other than saying he kept telling her he knew where she lived, which freaked her out a little. And when Dianna texted him she just said someone broke into Naya's apartment and she was hurt and being taking to the hospital.

Before anyone can explain anything a doctor comes out of the emergency room doors, "Ms. Morris?"

"Yes!" Heather quickly jumps to her feet, grabbing the back of her head as she does, realizing sudden movements cause pain.

"Can you come with me please?" He motions for her to follow him. Heather follows him back through the doors and down the hallway, he points for her to enter a room. As she enters she sees Naya propped up in a bed, awake. "She wanted to see you," he says with a grin.

"Naya," Heather races to the bed and kisses her forehead. Naya winces at the contact. "Oh I'm so sorry." Naya takes Heather's hand.

The doctor clears his throat and as he is looking at Naya's chart begins to speak, "Ms. Morris, your friend here wanted me to inform you of her condition." Heather looks to the doctor. "First she has a severe concussion, she took a nasty blow to the head, she has a lot of swelling on the left side of her face and until the swelling goes down we won't know if there are any broken bones." Naya looks to Heather who is listening to every word the doctor says and now has a single tear running down her cheek. Naya tries to force a smile to let Heather know she is okay. Heather returns the smile. "She will be back to normal soon, but like I said I won't know about the broken bones until I can run some x-rays, hopefully in the morning, and then we will go from there. I will have a nurse in and out throughout the night as well to monitor that concussion, she will be waking you up regularly, so don't plan on sleeping much," he winks at the girls.

Heather nods, "thank you." Before the doctor can even make it out of the room Heather breaks down and starts to sob. "I'm so sorry Naya, I should have protected you."

"Come here," Naya manages to mumble, she motions for Heather to sit with her on the bed. "It's not your fault, are you hurt? Your head?"

"I'm fine….shhh….don't talk, it looks like it hurts." Heather takes Naya's hands in her own and rubs them. Naya nods in agreement. "Dianna, Kevin and Ashley are here. They are in the waiting room, they wanted to be here for you. I still need to call your parents, I just don't know what to say, I told them I would protect you and hours later here we are." Naya tries to talk but Heather cuts her off, "no don't say anything, just rest. I'm gonna get D and them to come sit with you while I call your parents, okay?" Naya again nods as Heather stands and turns to leave. "Um Nay? I need to ask you something, did anything else happen? I mean when I woke up you didn't have any clothes on, please tell me that son of a bitch didn't…"

This time Naya cuts Heather off in mid-sentence knowing what she was going to say and seeing the tears falling again from Heather's eyes. Naya tries to remain strong but she can't help it and she begins to cry as well, she wants to tell Heather everything but it hurts too much to open her mouth that she just can't. "No…he didn't," is all she can say.

"Naya if something happened we need to tell the police and you need to let your doctor know so they can check you out. Its okay, I just need to know," Heather is trying to hold her tears back now knowing she needs to be strong for Naya, if this animal did rape her she will need her to lean on.

"No," Naya says again, scrunching her face up at the amount of pain that shoots through her body every time she says anything. Heather sees the pain her girlfriend is in and decides to wait and talk to her about it tomorrow.

"Okay then, no more talking, I'm going to get D to sit with you while I let your family know." Heather turns and walks out. Naya closes her eyes trying to keep the water from spilling out anymore.

When Heather walks back in to the waiting room Dianna and Ashley both stand suddenly and face Heather, Ashley hugs her roommate seeing the tears still on her face.

"How is she?" Kevin and Dianna simultaneously ask, "is she okay?

"Her face is badly bruised and she was hit with something and has a bad concussion, the doctor also said she might have broken her jaw or have broken bones around her eye socket but they can't tell yet because it is swollen so bad. They are going to try tomorrow to do x-rays. You guys can go back, but don't let her talk, she is in a lot of pain and it's hard for her to speak. I've gotta call her parents."

"Um…. Heather, what about the other thing? Did he, you know?" Dianna asks quietly.

"Did he what?" Kevin asks as Ashley looks on confused as well.

"She says no, he didn't, but she is not able to talk so I don't know exactly what happened," Heather responds.

"Heather, do you think he raped her?' Ashley blurts out.

"What?" Kevin shouts "tell me he didn't, oh God, please."

"She says he didn't, but when I woke up she was laying naked on the bed with her hands taped. It just looked bad," The blonde says sadly.

Ashley looks at her best friend and can see she isn't so sure about what happened, "if she was raped the police need to know Heather."

"I know Ash, but I don't know what happened I didn't see and she can barely talk and I did ask her and she said no!" Heather realizes she is now yelling, "I'm sorry."

"It's okay, I can only imagine what you're going through and thinking right now, I'm sorry I will let it go." Ashley takes Heather's hand, "you want me to go with you when you call the Rivera's?"

"Please." Heather and Ashley walk towards the emergency room doors to go outside and make a call, while Dianna and Kevin start towards Naya's room.

After a few minutes Heather and Ashley enter the room and see Naya fast asleep and Kevin sitting holding Dianna. Heather sees the tears on both Dianna's and Kevin's faces. "Hey," she says softly announcing their presence in the room, she walks over and hugs her friends. "She's tough she will be alright."

"My God Hemo, she looks so….so broken," Kevin answers back.

"We didn't want to leave until you came back, I didn't want to leave her alone," Dianna announces standing up facing her best friend. "Heather I am sorry but I have to go, I can't….I just can't…"

Ashley wraps her arms around Dianna who begins to sob uncontrollably. "Come on, Dianna, let's go for a walk and get some air."

"Hey Hemo I am here for you whatever you need, both of you, you know that," Kevin adds as he walks towards the door. Heather just nods her head. As Kevin exits the room he sees Ashley and Dianna at the end of the hall talking. "Hey D, I am leaving too you want me to walk you to your car?"

Dianna a lot calmer now answers "actually Kev, I'm going to sit with Heather for a while, I need to be there for them." Ashley gives the girl a big smile.

"But you can walk me to my car if you wouldn't mind?" Ashley chimes in.

"Of course, D you will call?" Kevin says.

"Yes, I will call you and let you know what's going on, both of you."

Dianna walks back down to Naya's room and sees Heather sitting next to the bed holding Naya's hand. "Heather?"

"Yeah?" Heather answers never taking her eyes off the beaten girl in front of her.

"You want someone to stay with you tonight?"

"I'm not leaving D," Heather interjects.

"I didn't figure you would, but you also have a concussion and someone should look after you," Dianna says rubbing Heather's shoulder.

"It's ok D, you don't have to, I'm fine and besides I know you can't stand to even be in this room."

"I know you say you're fine and no I can't stand seeing her like this or you like that," she says pointing to the bruise on Heather's face, "but you guys are my best friends and you need me, so I am going to be here. So do you want some company?"

Heather drops her head into her hands and begins to weep, "please stay."

Dianna lets her hands drop around Heather and holds her while she finally let's her emotions go. After letting Heather cry for a little while Dianna breaks the silence.

"Did you get a hold of her parents?"

"Yeah, they are coming first thing in the morning, I told them to sleep for a while because she needed to rest anyways." After a slight pause she says "they probably hate me."

"What? Why would you say that?" Dianna asks walking around in front of Heather so that she was face to face with the other blonde.

"I told them earlier I would protect her, I told them she was safe with me," Heather says angrily "it was my fault. I couldn't keep her safe."

Dianna places her hands on Heather's face looking her straight in the eye "You are not to blame for any of this, you understand. You did try and protect her, Jesus, Heather he knocked you out. It's his fault, that nut case who was obsessed with hurting her, it had nothing to do with you, you hear me?"

Heather nods slightly and stands and climbs into bed with her girlfriend, pulling her close to her and kissing her goodnight.

"Goodnight Heather," Dianna calls out as she walks over to the chair and sits down.

"Goodnight."