A\N Thanj you so, so much to everyone who has been reading and reviewing this story! :D I hope everyone likes this chapter! :D
Warnings: Some disturbing images.
First Encounters Part Two
Spike and Marianne rushed into the ER entrance of the hospital where Annie had been taken. Obviously in a frantic state and physically not hurt a doctor finished checking her charts and walked towards them. "I'm Dr. Smith can I help you?" She asked politely.
"My fourteen year old daughter Anna-Maria Bufona was brought in here early she was beaten and raped and I would really like to see her! Is she ok? Marianne spoke quickly obviously worried about her daughter.
The doctor nodded her head as she motioned for Marianne and Spike to follow her towards the front desk, "Henry, page Dr. Stern and tell her Anna-Maria Bufona's mother and…" Dr. Smith looked towards Spike.
"Uncle," Spike quickly told her.
"Right," The doctor nodded her head, "Henry page Dr. Stern and tell her that Anna-Maria Bufona's Mother and Uncle are here to see her, you got that? She asked the desk clerk who was still writing the page down on a sticky note.
"Yes, Doctor Smith." Came the reply of the young desk clerk as Doctor Smith nodded her head once more.
"If your excuse me I have patients to see." Doctor Smith told Spike and Marianne as she proceeded to walk further into the ER.
"If you don't mind waiting over there I just paged Dr. Stern so she should be here in a few minutes." The desk clerk told Marianne and Spike as he pointed to chairs against a wall.
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"Dad," Jules continued to hug her father as he finally placed her on the ground. "You have no idea how much I've missed you." She smiled brightly as she turned to Lucy. "I've missed you too Lucy." She hugged her step-mother tightly.
"I've missed you too sweetheart." Lucy smiled brightly as she caught sight of Jules engagement ring. "Where's the man of the hour?" She asked smiling.
"He was right-" Jules turned around and saw that Sam had taken a few steps back, "Sammy!" She sighed as she caught her fiancé's attention and used her pinky finger to indicate that she wanted him to come over. Sighing he picked up both of their bags again and walked over to where Jules was standing with her father and step-mother. "Sam this is my father Jack and my step-mother Lucy." Jules told Sam smiling, "Dad, Lucy this is my fiancé Sam Braddock."
"It's a pleasure to meet you sir," Sam said politely as he shook Jules father's hand.
"It's nice to meet you too, Jules has told us a lot about you." Jack told Sam, "From what I hear you're a very hear you're a very honorable man."
"Thank you sir," Sam smiled a little bit more.
"Don't think me thank Julianna and your father, he called me yesterday." Jack told Sam.
:"My father sir?" Sam asked as he shared a surprised look with Jules. "My father called you? He asked again for clarification.
"Yes," Jack responded obviously unaware of the relationship between Sam and his father. "He just wanted to make sure I wasn't going to hurt his only son." He chuckled lightly. "Where are your parents?" He wondered.
"Oh, they're waiting back there sir." Sam told Jules father as he pointed to the seats in the boarding area of the plane that they had just gotten off of.
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Dr. Stern walked quickly towards the front desk, "You paged my Henry?" She asked the desk clerk in a rushed voice.
"Yeah, Anna-Maria Bufona's Mother and Uncle are here." Henry told her as he nodded his head towards the chairs that he had told Spike and Marianne to sit in.
"Thanks," Dr. Stern told Henry as she walked towards Spike and Marianne, "Mrs. Bufona," She said politely as Marianne lifted her head to look at her, "My names Jessica Stern I'm a Pediatric Resident here in the ER. Dr. Stern began, "Your daughter was very badly beaten when she was brought here we were able to sustain her minor injuries and she's going to be admitted into the Pediatrics unit after she has surgery to fix her broken rib. I'd be happy to take you see her."
"Yes, thank you doctor." Marianne said quickly as she stood up and followed Dr, Stern towards her daughter's room. "She must be terrified."
"She hasn't said anything since she was brought in here and the only reason we knew who she was, was because the Police Officer who brought her in here identified her and knew her. He's still in her room with her waiting."
Spike nodded his head smiling, "Yeah I'm a SRU Constable, my friend Lou was one of the ones that found Annie so he offered to stay with her until we got here." Spike explained.
Dr. Stern nodded her head as she led them into the room they had put Anna-Maria into. "She's sleeping now the medicine we gave her to help with her pain made her pretty tired."
Marianne nodded her head as she tired to hold back her tears as she saw her daughter with two black eyes scratches all over her face and arms and a bandage on her neck. "I can't believe this happened to you." She whispered quietly as she walked towards her daughter's bed and sat in a chair placed beside it.
"I have more patients to see but here's my pager number if you need anything page me." She told them as she handed Spike her page number and left the room.
"Thank you," Spike said as she passed him.
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"Are you sure I'm too young to play?" A five year old boy with light brown hair and brown eyes asked his seven year old brother and eight year old cousin as he watched them play football.
"Yes," both older boys said at the same time making the younger one sigh but as he saw two cars come down the dirt road he jumped up a huge smile on his face.
"Auntie Jules!" He immediately forgot he wanted to play football and ran to the end of the long dirt driveway and waited for his Grandfather's truck to stop and for his aunt to get out of the truck as soon as she did he jumped into her arms, "Auntie Jules!" He hugged her tightly, "Guess who I am?" He challenged.
Jules looked at her young nephew and pretended to think about who he could be, even though there was no doubt in Jules mind who he was because of pictures she had been sent and because he looked exactly like his father Jules third oldest brother. "I don't know," She finally spoke, "You're not Kevin are you?" Jules asked the young boy giving him no time to respond as she said, "No you can't be Kevin the last time I saw him he was little." She smiled.
"It's me Auntie Jules!" Kevin smiled brightly as Jules smiled and placed him gently on the ground again and turned to Kevin's older brother and older cousin.
"You're not getting to big to hug your aunt are you?" She asked them as she bent down to their level so they could hug her.
Both boys looked at each other, "No," The younger of the two shook his head as he hugged Jules "But wait until you see Matt he's twelve and he has a girlfriend and he's this tall." He stood on his tip-toes and reached high above his head.
"Yeah that's who he's with now and I heard him tell his friend Johnny that she's se-" The older boy began but his Grandfather interrupted him.
"Elliot I don't want to hear you use the word that you heard your brother use until you're my age understood?" Jack asked his Grandson.
"Which word?" Elliot challenged.
"All of them." Jack told him making a mental note to talk to his oldest Grandson about words he should and shouldn't be using.
"Robbie, is he Auntie Jules' fiancé?' Kevin asked his older brother as he looked at Sam.
"I don't know," Robbie shrugged his shoulders, "Why don't you go and find out?"
"Ok," Kevin agreed as he walked up to Sam gently pulling on Sam's jeans he got his attention and asked, "Are you Auntie Jules fiancé?
Sam smiled as he bent down to the young boy's level, "Yeah," He nodded his head, "My names Sam, and you're Kevin right?" He asked as Kevin nodded his head.
Kevin opened his mouth and was about to say something when Robbie whispered something into Elliot's ear and they both started laughing.
"What's so funny?" Jules asked them as she put her carryon bag around her shoulder.
"Nothing," Both boys answered at the same time still laughing.
"Well something's obviously funny if you're both laughing." Jules observed, "Just tell us what it is."
Elliot looked at Robbie who sighed and managed to stop laughing long enough to say, "There's a girl in my class named Sam."
"Sam can be a girls name and a boy's name." Sam told the young boy noticing the football he held tightly in his arms, "You play football?" He asked.
"Yeah," Robbie smiled proudly, "Just like my dad, he played professional."
Sam nodded his head, "I used to play too." He said. "Can I see it for a minute?" He asked. "I promise to give it back," He told the young boy as Robbie passed him the football.
"Uncle Sam, can you teach me how to play?" Kevin asked suddenly, "Robbie and Elliot don't want to."
"Of course I can buddy, do you have another football?" He asked as he passed Robbie's football back to him.
"How fair can you throw?" Robbie suddenly asked knowing by the speed and power that Sam threw with that he must be a really good player or was a once a good player and still had a great throwing arm. "If you throw really, really fair, I'll let you play with us and Kevin can play too." He promised
"I don't know," Sam shrugged his shoulders as he looked back quickly at Jules who just smiled.
"Please," Robbie pleaded, "Please," He pleaded again.
"Ok," Sam finally nodded his head as Robbie smiled and passed him the football, and watched in amazement as Sam threw the football across the long driveway and onto the lawn of Elliot's house where it landed inches away from the front steps.
"That was so cool!" Kevin smiled brightly as Robbie and Elliot just started open mouthed at each other.
"That's farther then my Dad can throw and he used to play professional." Robbie finally said, "You have to play with us! He told Sam excitedly, "You have to teach us how to do that!" He told Sam as Elliot and Kevin both nodded there heads in agreement. "Please Uncle Sam?" He asked.
"Of course I can show you and teach you." He told the young boys as ally three of them smiled.
"Sammy you really-" Jules began to tell Sam but he cut in.
"I want to Jules," He told her as he kissed her softly on the lips and turned back to Robbie, Elliot and Kevin.
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Spike parked his car in his driveway and climbed out of his car. Annie's surgery had been successful and she the doctors were almost positive that she was going to make it. She hadn't woken up when Spike had left the hospital but her parents had promised to call him as soon as she did and he had no reason not to believe them. Snapping out of his thoughts he saw Aileen sitting on his front porch hands on her knees, "Aileen what-what are you doing here?" He asked as he walked quickly onto his small front porch and opened the door into his townhouse.
"I wanted to apologize for early and I wanted to make sure that Annie was ok, I tried calling your cell phone but you can't have cell phones turned on in the hospital so-" She trailed off rambling on again.
Spike smiled brightly as he helped her stand up and kissed her passionately on the lips, "Have I told you how cute you are when you ramble?" He asked against her lips as he gently ran his fingers through her hair.
Aileen blushed as they pulled out of the kiss, "How's Annie?" She asked again as Spike led her into his apartment.
"She'll live but-" Spike began not wanting to bother Aileen with the things he was worried, "It's just, she hasn't said a word all day hasn't eaten, smiled all she does is cry and when anybody gets anywhere near her she starts shaking and hitting them." Spike sighed as he fell onto his couch sighing. "I don't know who hurt her but if I ever find out…" Spike's clenched his hands together in the shape of a fist.
"She'll be fine Spike, she'll get help and she'll be fine." Aileen told him as she sat down beside him, "I just feel so bad because she hates me I knew I should have called first."
"No Aileen this isn't your fault." Spike told her again.
"It's not your fault either." Aileen told him back.
"I know I just wish there was more I could do to help her," Spike sighed, "She really is a sweet girl I know it doesn't seem like it now but she really is.
"Know I know she's a sweet girl, she's just going through a rough time." Aileen told him, "I'll go and visit her tomorrow I'll try and talk to her I know it probably won't help but I'll feel bad if I didn't try." She told him.
Spike smiled as he pulled her gently into his arms, "You don't have a bad bone in your body." He told her as he gently kissed her hair, "I have no idea how you're a Marine."
"Former and I can probably beat you up." She smiled.
"Oh I know you could." Spike laughed as he held her close, "I know you could," He whispered again.
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"Uncle Sam like this?" Kevin asked as he showed Sam how he was holding the football but he dropped it as soon as he saw his father's car pull up into the driveway "Daddy!" He yelled happily as he and Robbie ran to their father's car to greet him, "Daddy! Daddy!" Kevin jumped into his father's arms, "Daddy Uncle Sam has been playing football with us."
"Yeah Dad he can throw almost as fair as you can." Robbie told his father excitedly, "He used to play too-" He began but Elliot cut him off.
"Yeah Uncle Andy, Uncle Sam used to play in Military school and when he was in the army and he played in high-school."
"Really?" Andy asked smiling at how much the three young boy's already loved Jules fiancé.
"Yeah!" All three boys answered at the same time still smiling brightly.
"Ok, it's getting dark go wash up for dinner." He told his two sons' and nephew as they ran towards Elliot's house to play inside for a little while until dinner was ready.
"So I'm guessing you must be Sam," Andy smiled as he stuck out his hand for Sam to shake, "I'm Andy" He said.
Sam nodded his head, "You're the lawyer right?" He asked as he followed Andy into the main farm house on the lot.
"That's right Jules must have quizzed you hard." He smiled, "I'm guessing I don't need to tell you that if you hurt my sister I'll kill you?" He asked.
Sam shook his head, "I have no attention of ever hurting Jules, I love her and I don't know what I'd do without her.
"I knew I liked you." Andy smiled as he led him into the kitchen where dinner was being made.
TBC
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