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It was an unusually rainy day outside of the hotel, so Patrick and Melody lay on her bed and listened to the rain falling against the windows. The pair of them stayed silent as they lay contentedly, with him stroking her hair as she rested her head on his chest. Nobody had heard any news from Dee or Dixie yet, since they had both flown to Houston in order to view an identity parade of suspects for the attack on the younger brunette.
"Do you think she'll come back?" Melody asked suddenly.
"Why do you ask?" Patrick asked in reply.
"I just, feel like she might not come back." The blonde replied.
"I think she'll come back." Patrick nodded.
"What makes you think that?" Melody asked him, propping herself up on her elbows.
"I think she'd rather be here with us than back home with all those memories." He replied.
"You're probably right." She nodded.
"So are you speaking to your brother again?" Patrick asked her.
"Not quite." The blonde sighed.
"You should make it up with him." The Gun reasoned with her.
"I know, but I want to make him wait a little more." Melody replied.
"Promise me you'll make it before your title match next week." The brunette man looked her in the eyes.
"Ok, I promise." The blonde sighed.
"Good." He smiled, leaning in to give her a quick kiss on the lips.
Josh had been training in the hotel gym and was making his way down the hotel corridor to the room that he shared with Patrick, when a pair of hands grabbed his shoulders from behind. The Gun turned to see that it was Jesse, who was dressed down in a vest and cargo pants with his trademark Mohawk flattened underneath a black baseball cap.
"Hey, what's up?" Josh asked him.
"I could ask you the same thing!" Jesse replied with a grin.
"What?" the Gun frowned confusedly.
"You and Jamie? Word travels fast!" Jesse added.
"Probably could have kept it quiet for longer if Pat and Melody hadn't walked in on us!" Josh chuckled.
"Walked in on you? While you were…?" the tattooed man raised a brow.
"No, we weren't doing anything at the time, although we weren't dressed." Josh shook his head.
"Good timing!" Jesse laughed.
"Where's Shannon?" Josh asked, wanting to turn the attention away from his love life.
"Probably still in the hotel room. Dee won't speak to him and Julie's threatening divorce." The Ink Inc. member shrugged and sighed.
"Oh, that doesn't sound too good…" Josh frowned.
"Yeah, he's a really fun roommate!" Jesse added sarcastically.
"Well, hopefully when Dee comes back he'll cheer up." Josh replied as he approached the door of his and Patrick's room.
"I hope so, man!" Jesse added and patted Josh on the shoulder as he continued to walk down the corridor.
It was just after three in the afternoon, or two and a half minutes past three for anyone who was watching the clock. Dee had been watching the clock for the whole fifteen minutes that she and her aunt Dixie had been sitting on two brown plastic chairs outside of the detective's office that was dealing with Dee's case. It had just gone five minutes past three when the door in front of them opened and a middle aged man walked out, extending his hand towards her.
"Sorry for the wait, you must be Dee?" he asked.
"Yes, Dee Carter. And this is my aunt Dixie." She motioned to her left.
"Pleased to meet you. My name's Detective Brenner and I've been assigned your case." The man smiled.
"So, what happens now?" Dee sighed.
"Well, I've asked you here today to view a line-up of possible suspects. You'll be behind a glass screen and they won't be able to see you. You can walk along the line-up and take your time to look at everybody. If you want a closer look at someone, then we'll ask him to step forward. Does that sound ok?" Brenner asked her.
"I guess so." Dee replied, taking a deep breath.
"If you want to stop at any time, you just say and I'll halt the process, ok?" Brenner asked her.
"Yeah." Dee nodded, grasping her aunt's hand as they followed Brenner into a room.
The room was average size and had a glass screen running along most of the left hand side as you walked in. A desk and three chairs were in the centre of the room, while another officer sat in the corner at another desk with a microphone attached to a computer device. "That's Officer Johnson, and he'll be relaying instructions to the line-up." Brenner explained to them.
"Ok, I'm ready." Dee nodded.
"Enter line-up." Johnson said over the speakers.
There was the sound of a door opening and some footsteps before the door closed again. The screen lifted to reveal a white room with six men standing in a line.
"Take your time." Brenner reminded her.
Dee took a couple of steps closer to the screen, starting at the men's feet. She was almost too afraid to look at their faces and see the man who had raped her all those years ago. Looking up at the first man, her instinct told her that it wasn't him. He looked old, and completely different from her attacker, so she moved onto the next man. He was shorter than the first and looked Hispanic. After double-checking his appearance, Dee shook her head and moved along the line=up of suspects.
"You still ok?" Brenner asked her.
"Yeah." She nodded.
Dee looked at the next two guys and was content that neither of them were her attacker. Starting at the fifth guy's feet, the brunette tensed her body in fear. The man was wearing work boots, like a builder, and just like her attacker had worn. Taking a couple of deep breaths to compose herself, Dee looked up and paused before looking at the man's face. Whimpering in fear, seven years of emotions took the young brunette by surprise. Tears fell from her eyes and she felt afraid, but more than that, she felt angry. How dare he do that to her, and let her live with it for seven years.
"You wanna take a break, Dee?" Brenner asked her.
"It's him." She replied.
"He's in the line-up? Are you sure?" Brenner asked her.
"Number five." She nodded.
"And you're absolutely certain?" Brenner asked her again.
"I can almost smell the cigarettes." Dee nodded, looking her attacker in the face.
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