I'm baaaaaack! Not the best chapter and a little rushed too. Next chapter will probably be the same scene but from Sam's POV.
Jules froze. Her instincts had been taken over by pure fear. The first few punches she could control but this wasn't a subject, he wasn't some maniac…this was Sam; her Sam. He didn't mean what he was doing, he was asleep. So, she hesitated but was forced to let her guard down. She covered her face but that was all she could do. He had to stop eventually right?
As she felt lighter and the pain stopped she had realised that Sam had stopped hitting her. She opened her eyes to see Sam's face staring back at her from the end of his bed.
"Jules?" The voice was so soft she could barely here him.
She tried to sit up before the pain finally crashed down on her. She clenched tightly at her stomach as she fought as hard as she could to stop tears from running down her cheeks.
To choose one word to describe how Sam was feeling at this moment is impossible. He couldn't move, couldn't speak, he could no longer look at Jules.
He raced over to the bathroom where he spent most of his time looking at his reflection in the toilet bowl. He was physically ill with what he had done.
Jules still laid on the bed in agonizing pain and complete shock. What the hell had just happened?
Sam walked out of the bathroom where he looked over at a pale Jules, looking down at her body in sheer disbelief.
He took a few steps closer to her but Jules crawled back. Never in his wildest dreams did Sam ever believe that Jules; his Jules, would be scared of him.
"I…I should take you to the hospital" Sam spoke again in the soft almost silent voice. He walked over to pick her up before she held up her hand motioning for him to stop.
"No…no it's ok. I can handle it. I'll go myself" And with those words Sam knew it, he was no longer needed nor was he wanted. Where he was hoping to help and support Jules, the only things he had done had hurt her in more ways than one.
"But…" He tried protesting, he just wanted to be there for her.
"It's fine…really Sam. You just go back to sleep" She dropped her feat to the ground whilst biting her lip in agony, trying not to let the pain noticeable.
Jules slowly made her way down the stairs before grabbing her coat and heading out the door. She could see Sam's car there but she wasn't in the mood to drive. With each step she took it seemed the pain increased. However, she was too busy processing everything that had happened that night to even notice.
I made this happen. If I had just left the drugs there this wouldn't have happened.
Jules had dealt with numerous subjects who were battered women, abused by their husbands/boyfriends and she could never fully understand why they blamed themselves. Until now.
This is different. Sam didn't abuse me, it was just a one off thing.
She'd heard many women say that before and it never was.
No…just shut up! It was a mistake, Sam loves me and he would never intentionally hurt me.
It's amazing the things a human body can do when you're not thinking. Jules didn't want to go to the hospital but she didn't want to go home so she just walked.
She walked down a small street. She hadn't seen anybody walk by in a while and the traffic had quietened down.
It was almost as if she was in a trance but she was soon awoken by the noise of a trash can lid. She looked over to her left where Greg was standing next to the curb. Somehow her brain had led her to Greg's house. It was probably one of the smartest things she had done all night.
"Jules?" He took one look at her face.
"Get inside…now" He sounded angry but Jules knew it wasn't at her. He needed to make sure she was safe.
Jules didn't say a word. She was cold and in pain and felt that maybe this was the best thing for her.
She walked through the door running over the story in her head. Her lie involved some sort of a fight at a bar but when she looked up to see Dr Luria in the room too she quickly realised that lying to a fully trained negotiator and shrink wasn't going to go well.
Greg and Dr Luria had a close friendship, it was never anything more but he enjoyed her company. Jules picked one hell of a night to rock up here.
Dr Luria jumped out of her seat and walked over to Jules examining her face and noticing the large bruises forming on her neck. As Greg took Jules' coat off, the large hand prints on her arms could be seen.
Jules remained silent as Greg asked her to sit down. She let out a large breath as she sat down and grabbed her stomach in agony. A rib or two had to be injured.
Dr Luria didn't waste any time and immediately gently lifted up Jules' shirt a little to see the worst of the damage.
Dr Luria looked over at Greg with that face of concern that all of Team One hated seeing on her. They knew it was never a good thing.
"Who did this to you Jules?" Greg asked in his calm almost fatherly tone.
"Really…I'm fine. It was nothing" Jules tried reassuring them…even herself but she couldn't.
"It's not nothing Jules. Your body is covered in bruises; you were out walking the cold streets by yourself. This isn't you. I thought you had recovered."
The fact that he had implied she had used sent a chill down her spine. Is this what it had come to? Any mistake she ever made was going to be blamed on drugs?
"I have not taken anything" She tried to say in a calm voice.
Her phone could be heard vibrating throughout their conversation and Greg took it upon himself to pick it up from her jacket pocket.
39 missed calls from Sam.
"He's probably worried sick about you Jules. You should talk to him" Greg hadn't quite put two and two together yet.
She looked away and took the phone from his hands. She looked down at it clearly hesitant as to what to do.
Dr Luria didn't need to see anymore. She could read Jules' body language and see what she was feeling.
"Did he do this to you?" She asked. Greg obviously stunned that she would even consider such a notion.
As Jules failed to think of a response she allowed herself to shed her first tear, wiping it away quickly.
"No…he wouldn't. Not Sam?"
"It's not what it looks like, I don't even know if he knew it was me"
"But he hit you?" Greg was still having a hard time believing it. He never asked for Sam to join his team and whilst at the start he was a little hesitant of believing that he could become a negotiator, Sam had proved himself and Greg was fully accepting of him as a member of Team One.
Jules nodded.
"What do you mean by he didn't know it was you?" Dr Luria was trying to speak to Jules as a friend and not as a psychiatrist but it was hard to tear the two apart in a situation like this.
"He was asleep" No matter what questions were asked she refused to tell them about his drug problem. That was none of their business and she wasn't going to jeopardize his career like she did her own.
"Look, it's been a weird night but I'm fine, he's fine and we'll both be good for work tomorrow. Please just don't judge him on this. It was an accident…a horrible mistake that I'm sure he already feels guilty about"
"I'd still like to speak to him about it. Maybe we can stop this from happening again" The words from Dr Luria's mouth scared the hell out of Jules.
"Again?" She wasn't supposed to say it out loud but she couldn't stop herself.
"Jules…" Dr Luria held onto Jules' hands and looked her in the eyes.
"Yes, it was an honest mistake but there is no saying how often this could happen. I understand that he didn't mean to hurt you but you've got to put your needs before his. If this happens again, you've got to promise us that you will come and see somebody. Greg or myself, you know we're always here for you"
Jules nodded. Yet she was absolutely addiment that this would never happen again.
"Why don't I drive you to the hospital, we'll get you checked out" Greg finally spoke up.
"I don't think that's a good idea…"
"Jules your hurt, your in pain, you've got to get checked out" There he goes again; Greg was amazing at getting what he wanted.
"So they can just give me some pain killers? I'm not going through that again" She slowly stood up trying once again to cover up the pain she was in.
"Well at least let me drive you home"
She looked up at Greg.
"Please?" He insisted
"Fine" She sounded annoyed but she couldn't help but give in to Greg.
"I best be off too then. Don't hesitate to drop in Jules" Dr Luria left before Jules grabbed her coat and the last thing she remembers was crawling into Greg's car before falling asleep.
Hope it was worth the wait lol. I felt really wierd calling Dr Luria - Amanda so i just kept calling her Dr Luria over and over again.